Bella Swan Make-up.

Hello my wonderfuls,
Teehee that makes me think of these power gems for your tools in Harvest moon Island of happiness. Ahhh~ Anyways. Today I have a make up look inspired by the fall season with red leaves falling AND if you want a very easy Halloween costume. I am experiencing Fall season for the first time and I can still say it is my favorite season of all. Hawaii just is summer/spring all year long, our winters are pretty much summer in Portland. For a small update I've moved to Portland for about a 2 months to network and get a good foot hold in both Animation and Makeup artistry. I hope to have a haul post/video for you all. Now I know I'm not the best at making videos. Mainly because I use my webcam & I have a crap shoot video editing system. Not only that I had a video ready but then my laptop got stolen. I know, it's bad excuse but an honest one is that I just don't feel confident enough just yet.
I digress, so this make up look if you haven't figured it out in the Title post, is a Bella Swan make-up inspired look. (I typed inspired because I did my own twist on it.) Though I never read the books, and didn't really care for the movie line. I did like to watch it with my sister who loved the series. My favorite out of the whole thing was her transformation to an immortal being. Just gorgeous even with the creepy red eyes, I loved how plush her face looks and it's luminescence.  Glowing, absolutely glowing.

Soo... here are photos and a list of products I used. Give or take you can use a similar palette or foundation.


List of Products:

FACE
1. CoolA: Tinted moisturizer rose essence 20spf.
2. Garnier Nutritioniste: Skin renew tinted anti-dark-circle roller.
3. Hourglass: Immaculate liquid powder foundation mattifying oil free - Ivory. (Substitute with Maybelline: Oil control stick foundation in 220.)
4. The face shop: Face it BB face powder - NB23.
5. NYX: Mosaic powder - Silk/MPB05.
6. Benefit: Watt's up! soft focus highlighter.

Eyes
1. Rimmel London: Professional eyebrow pencil - 004 Black brown.
2. Chella: Eyebrow defining gel.
3. Too faced: Shadow insurance.
4. Milani: Shadow eyez 12HR wear eyeshadow - 10 Almond cream. (Substitute with Jordana: Made to last 12HR eyeshadow pencil - Continuous almond.) Used as a base.
5. MAC: Christmas 5 warm eyes palette.
6. Urban decay: 24/7 pencil - Demolition.
7. Maybelline: The falsies volum' express [Flared] waterproof mascara.
8. Pinkyparadise: Venus eye - bright red. (Whatever red contacts you prefer.)

Lip
1. NYX: Water proof retractable lip liner - MPL12/ Dark red.
2. MAC: Viva glam 1 matte lipstick. (You don't have to use this if you are going for the original look.)

Products used.

So in the movie her make up is quite natural looking, she has some deep set eyes which is more genetic I would say. With porcelain skin and such pointed features. Given I didn't really contour my face to be similar to her's only because I wanted this to be the look as if I were a vampire.

*On a side note I got this photo off another website who did their own version of the look. I will link the photo to the website so if you want to check their tutorial out just click on the photo.

Photo used by: stylista86.blogspot.com

Now here is my finished look:

The contacts were pretty comfortable, I wouldn't recommend wearing them for more then 8 hours. I just love how spooky they look. Now if this color is too much they have a darker wine color in these. I will link them as Venus Eye Bright Red and Venus Eye Wine Red. They are my favorite brand and style of contacts from the Pinkyparadise website. Because they don't make my eyes too big like a lot of the other contacts. Plus the colors are so vivid I just love the extra pop of color, even if they do appear unnatural in some lighting.


Eye make-up layout:

MAC 5 warm palette, Urban decay Demolition, and Milani eye pencil.

The MAC Viva glam 1 lipstick lips:

MAC Viva glam1.

Here is my personal Video update:
Paintthatgreen - Youtube

I hope you liked it and were inspired to bring out your own inner immortal. Whether you're late in the game or ahead of the trend do it because it makes you happy.

-Val

Beautiful Creatures Palette by Pürminerals.

Aloha my savvy beauty hunters!
Today I have for you a review on the Beautiful Creature's palette by Pürminerals. They are going for $19.99 at Nordstorm's rack if you have one near you. When I saw this palette I wasn't all that interested even though I loved the movie and even that I didn't read the books I can already tell I'd love them. The reason I didn't by the palatte at first sight was because I did not know about the company. Pürminerals is a cosmetic line that are about paraben free formulas to give you a much more healthy appearance. Their cosmetics are formulated with good for your skin ingredients to help cover and correct. By now you know that I have a ill informed idea in my head about mineral cosmetics. Yet when motivated by reasons to try it, I do, and just end up loving them. This palette was just adorable and versatile. Mainly for the theme of will you be claimed for the dark or the light choose your side. Of course my favorite character is Ridley, and even though a good nature girl by heart deep inside she is a man eating deviant. So lets get on with the fun shall we.



The Pürmineral's Beautiful creatures palette:

This palette comes with a pinky flesh tone sheer gloss, a charcoal black eyeliner included, and you get a shadow brush in the case.

Eyeliner - Black magic
Lipgloss - Lust
 

Purmineral's Beautiful Creature's Palette.

Inside you have 8 different shades all named to the theme.

Ash copper shimmer - Forbidden
Ivory beige shimmer - Supernatural
Olive green shimmer - Siren
Light beige - Spellbound
Ash taupe shimmer - Fate
Warm burgundy shimmer - Fantasy
White matte - Secret
Warm ash gray - Cursed

Beautiful Creature's Palette.

Swatches:

Forbidden, Supernatural, Siren, Spellbound, Fate, Fantasy, Secret, Cursed, Black magic, & Lust.

Forbidden, Supernatural, Siren, Spellbound, Fate, Fantasy, Secret, Cursed, Black magic, & Lust.

Forbidden, Supernatural, Siren, Spellbound, Fate, Fantasy, Secret, Cursed, Black magic, & Lust.

This was actually a great find and buy. I am happy with the outcome of the palette and extra items. So here is the look I made using this palette. Don't mind my brows I am growing them out.

Using the Too faced primer, then a Lime crime base primer. I know it seems over kill but I did not want this look to go anywhere. I started with Fate over the lid area. Then using Cursed in a smoky wing I build it up to a preferred darkness. Then blended the two shadows together using a bit of Fantasy. After I used Supernatural on the arch and tear duct. On the lower lash line I lined it with Black magic and smudged it out with Fantasy.
On the lips I used a Rimmel london lip liner in Smug, then topped it off with Lust. Add demi lashes, then line the top with Physicians Formula eye boosting liner in Ultra black.































So whether your late in the game, or a head of the trend. Do it because you've been chosen for the dark.

-Val

A Tokidoki Haul/Review

Yay it's here! So this is my Haul/Review on the Tokidoki cosmetic line. Grab yours before they sell out completely. I had a very nice time seeing the sale grow bigger and items run out. From the original sale at 40% to a nice 60% off on all products. Grabbed a bunch of palettes for gifts and even got to try a good brand on a fabulous deal. I collected a few more products though after I did this haul too, of the colors I wanted to try. There were surprises and disappointments. Overall I's just glad I was able to grab this amazing sale. Hopefully you can too on the Sephora website (Just type Tokidoki or Sale) and check it out in your local store. So without further excitement.

List of Products from Tokidoki cosmetics:

Eyeshadows -
1. Romeo
2. Skeletrina
3. Bastardino
4. Savana
5. Love from London Palette

Gelato Lip Balm Satin -
1. Carina
2. Mozzarella
3. Donutella

Prisma Lip Gloss -
1. Devil Girl

Nail Polish -
1. Stellina
2. Sandy
3. Latte

Shadows:

These were the single shadow packs that I bought.

Romeo: A nice wine brown color with a light shimmer. Now at $6.00. I love how on the shadow lable they show you the character it is named after. A cute love letter caring sparrow.

Skeletrina: A wonderful colbalt blue shadow with a very little shimmer, almost making it a matte shade. It just sparks some inspiration. Named after a Bluish purple lady kitty with Tokidoki's version of a Louis Vuitton printed design on her.

Bastardino: Oh I've been wanting this shade for a while. A forest green with gold glitter specks in it. My personal kryptonite. Named after a Cactus dog with an cute under bite that reminds me of our first dog Max.

Savana: A bright light gold shimmery glittery shade. I really love the color payoff for this shade. Looks like a foil liquid gold on the lids. Named after a fashionista lioness with blue hair.











Love from London Palette:



The Love from London Palette was a complete surprise for me. I originally bought one online. To use for the Berwick Street shade, dark brown shadow with small blue and purple glitter in it. I eventually ended up falling in love with all of them. Even the blush Parliament Square. Sadly that palette I had depot-ted them to put in my unii Palette that somehow when kicked around the shadows broke apart. So I had to go buy a new one. :(

This Palette is wonderful. They are quite unique, and best used with a base or a primer. Because they can be chalky.










Sloane Square: A cute matte light baby pink, mostly for a highlight shade it is great with warm colors. It is a little hard to pick up and you can build it up.

King's Road: A nice sliver glittery tan color that catches light very well. For a simple everyday look use this color with liner.

Berwick Street: Was the shade that made me talk myself into buying it. A dark red brown with purple and blue glitter in it. When you first dive into it you hardly get any of the glitter but the more you used it the easier it is to work with.

Savile Row: A shimmery bronze that give off a great sensual warmth. Very pigmented not chalky at all and even great on it's own.

Parliament Square: At first sight this blush doesn't seem at all interesting. But after swatching it on and trying it out, soo flattering!  Ravishing coral rose with a gold shimmer.

Baker Street: A matte beige highlight, it is as chalky as Sloane Square and sometimes this shade in a sheer swipe matches my skin too much. This is a great shade to highlight your inner corners.

Park Lane: A pastel yellow shade. I love using this shade as a highlight or a base color for the lid. Although it can look washed out while in sunlight or flash.

The Strand: A light silvery blue a cute flash of color, and just a cute light blue that can be used as a single shade and a brown liner.

Carnaby Street: First sight this blue didn't really pop out to me, crazy right? It is chalky like the others but can be build-ed to a great pastel version of a jet blue color.


















































































 Lips:

L-R: Carina, Mozzarella, Dountella, and Devil Girl.

I gotta say the Lip balms weren't really that great when I first tried them, I felt they were over priced because it's just a sticker design on a case. So the design would sometimes get scratched off in my bag. That and the product wasn't as good as other tinted balms that were cheaper. Originally they were 9 bucks a pop! Now a whoaping 3 dollars. Do I feel cheated or what. But the Gloss was the best! The design the product and the application. Totally divine love for the lips.



























Carina: A cute fuchsia tinted glossy balm. Sweet smelling and tasting. It also taste like wax. This tint is stronger then the other two.


































Mozzarella: A light glossy red tint. Has a different smell to it almost like a cherry flower. Has the same light sweet taste to it also including the wax.
































Donutella: A orange red tint with a glossy finish. Smells the same as Carina. Not really my favorite out of the bunch bust nice natural tinting.

Devil Girl: I LOVE LOVE LOVE this gloss. Even though I hardly wear gloss. The color is a nice sheer glossy red. Literally looks like water on the lips. The smell is amazing! Like candy and the applicator is unreal. It is just a plastic prong that smooths the gloss on like butter.

























  




Nail Polish:

Stellina: One of my favorite glitter polishes out of the line. Has a clear base with little Purple glitters and bigger glitter in fuchsia or pink. Opacity was accomplished after three coats.


































Sandy: An adorable gold and purple  little glitter has slim glitter in gold and blue. With a clear base. This was two coats. I like this color because it's not to thick and can pretty much be matched with a lot of colors.































Latte: A blue small glitter with slim glitter in purple and gold. This glitter polish is great and not as dark as it looks in the bottle.


































Val - Beauty is in anything you put your mind's eye too. Even dirt, if it inspires you to see roses it's worth digging.



Hope you enjoyed this Review/Haul, if you have any questions put it in the comment box below.

A L'Oreal's 2012 Summer (New 24 hour infallible eyeshadow)

Story: L'Oreal Summer of 2012

Lucky me to be in the right place at the right time. There I was at Walgreens hoping to catch the last L'oreal Summer Golden line and here I find even newer 24 infallible eyeshadow. So naturally I bought all the colors at once, it was in my budget for cosmetics plus Walgreens was having a sale on L'oreal products buy 1 get 1 1/2off.  Sadly here in Hawaii sometimes once it's gone... it never comes back, unless you shop e-bay. Even soo, I have to accept that I will never have a Pink Sapphire (The 24 hour shadow kind). But I don't think I could learn to accept the lost of these delights. These are rather interesting and couldn't come at a better time. So here are swatches and reviews.

List of Products:

L'Oreal 24HR infallible eye shadows in...

- Bottomless Java

- Liquid Diamond

- Smoldering Plum

- Glistening Garnet

- Endless Sea

- Golden Emerald

L'Oreal 24 hour infallible eye shadows of Summer 2012:

T-B L-R: Bottomless Java, Liquid Diamond, Smoldering Plum, Glistening Garnet, Endless Sea, & Golden Emerald.

Liquid Diamond: A very nice light sliver base with some glitter like flecks. I always loved sliver shadows and it's nice in a while to go back to what makes you comfortable. That being said if you already have a nice silver shadow like this one there is no point to invest.

Bottomless Java: Oh I really love this one, it's the perfect brown for lining the eyes. It's a warm java bean base with a fascinating golden shine that makes it look like a chocolate orange color. I am so glad about this one it's nothing that I have ever owned before. The photos just don't do it justice.

Smoldering Plum: What are the odds to look for a plum shadow and then suddenly poof, it appears right in front of you. Not high I'll tell yea. A dark plum purple with a violet pink shimmer. I can't wait for the fall to come around with this smoldering smokey eye.

Glistening Garnet: This color is rather interesting, because I would think that this could be a close call to Urban Decay's Woodstock but a L'Oreal touch to it. For this magenta color comes alive when the light touches it, it just springs to life.

Endless Sea: Hmm I kinda wasn't expecting something that looks like a aqua version of teal. Since most of the 24 hour shadows are rather dark or too light. This shadow definitely can surprise you, no matter what light it's in it just seems to pop. I'm interested to see what looks come out with this shade.

Golden Emerald: Yay Emeralds! I was hoping they would make a nice green gold shadow glad they named it Golden emerald - Cuz it is. Darker then Golden sage it has a much more contrast to the golden shimmer making it just complement the entire shadow. This is a color I would enjoy seeing everyday not because green is a favorite color but because it would even be perfect for Christmas season.




Swatches:




So whether your late in the game or a head of the trend do it because it make you happy - Val

A ME day (Mineral Essence Haul/Review)

A ME day - Mineral Essence Haul/Review:

Now I can honestly say I have never really owned a mineral anything for cosmetics. In fact I wasn't even sure I ever wanted to try. I've always thought mineral foundation/shadows/ just cosmetics in general were dully colored and or boring. I felt that if it was good for you it must taste (look) yucky - It's a childish concept I KNOW. Haha but if your not familiar with it, it can be hard to muster up the courage to try something. I was on the prowl as usual looking for a wine colored eye shadow, see I saw Tokidoki's Romeo and wanted that shadow soooo bad but just didn't want to pay 15 bucks for a pretty case and only just one color. Walking into Sears just to look around at the sales I see this sale going on in the ME cosmetic stance. Online they are $16.00 + shipping shadows doesn't muster enough courage to buy. But in Sears, they went from $16.00 to $8.50. Now I've always over looked this because it said MINERAL COSMETICS.I figured to swatch a few of their eye shadows to see if any of them were worth getting. I did a few on my hand and my eyes went  O,O >Boing! One of the colors looked like a dupe for MAC's - Old Gold. I kept going with the swatches and ended up buying six of the shimmer shadows and two of the lipsticks. I am not a make-up artist, but I would like to be some day, please forgive my minor concussion to Mineral Cosmetics.

Here are my swatches and further reviews....

List of Products:

me Shimmer eye shadows in ($16.00 online - $8.50 sears sale)

Merlot

White Zin

Fiji Blue

Jamaican Sunrise

Hawaiian Mai Tai

me Liner eye shadows in  ( $12.00 online - $6.50 sears sale)

Deep Space

me Sheer lipsticks in ($16.00 online - $8.50

Peach Fizz

Popsicle Kiss

Eye shadow swatches:

Deep Space: Deep space was a random buy I'll admit, but I never owned a semi matte black shadow for liner purposes only. These are loose pigments so expect some mess involved. This black lightly shimmered shadow just looks like charcoal that is nice charcoal.

Merlot: Is a cool purple shade that has a sliver-ish simmer to it, It's a nice dark wine color unfortunately I was looking for a wine color more on the warmer side. But this is just stunning! Could you imagine the nice smokey eye with this wine? I'd call it the sultry wine goggles look.

White Zin: I loved this only because it was a pink shadow with gold shimmer, and you know I have a weakness for gold shimmer colors.  After swatching it over and over in the store I had to get it. It's a nice warm golden shimmer color that pops cutie. I love how I have a Merlot & a White Zin, oh how my eye were getting drunk on these colors.

Fiji Blue: I had actually fought on myself for getting this color because I felt I already had a shadow like this. A gray-ish blue hue underneath with a mix of gold/olive shimmer. I couldn't resist after a while because the color felt like it came in a set for the last two colors after this.

Jamaican Sunrise: When I saw this my heart did a flip and my mind did a WTF? I had recently bought a MAC loose pigment in Old gold and yet here for half off was a semi dupe for it. (Kicking myself). This lightly bronzed gold with a green shimmer was a complete stunner for me. I fell in love with Old gold and right here is it's younger version New gold. It was Jamaican me in love. (Corny blah blah.)

Hawaiian Mai Tai: Lastly was the first shadow I bought this one. I put this last because I knew I would just gush about it sooooo much<3 I love this shadow, it is almost another dupe for a MAC pigment I just can't remember what the name was. Mai Tai is just a pretty orange color with a pink shimmer. I don't own anything like this soo it was a definite must have for me. This warm orange color is perfect for summer hues and the shimmer just makes it feel like a vacation on your eyes.



Lipstick swatches:

Peach Fizz:
It was a great color I'll admit, but I felt bad getting it only because I have so many just like it. More of a light mixture of a sheer cream with shimmer it is an everyday color you could wear anywhere. Smooth application all the way, but is smell throws me off a little. Almost like I'm putting sunscreen or mud on my lips. It's not flavored so like a all natural lipstick made of all natural ingredients.

Popsicle Kiss:
I love this color, it's exactly what it is called. This summer for me is about the sheer tint lip colors. I use this more then the Peach fizz because I can do the popsicle lips a lot better with this lipstick. I just put in on the center of my lips to make it look like I've been eating a Popsicle. Even though I sometime wish that was the case. If your into the Asian trend of making your lips look like the popsicle kiss this is the lipstick for you. Same scent though, but a nice smooth application.

You can see here that MAC's Old Gold is darker than ME's Jamacian Sunrise.

(Not an exact Dupe: Swatch on the Left is ME - Jamacian Sunrise Right is MAC - Old Gold)

So whether your late in the game or ahead of the trend do it because it makes you happy. - Val

Physician's Formula Haul/Review

Story: PH Matchmaking Mood boosting goodness.
Physician's Formula has always put me on a roller coaster ride. Sometimes they come out with products that I think are fabulous and sometimes I feel like it's a false advertisement of color. I walked into my Long's drug store (CVS) and passed these but came back around to be utterly amazed. I had no idea this chic black cased blushes, bronze-rs, and gloss were their products. I read about it being PH matching and right away thought about my MGM lipstick. So I grab a few read some more and took some home. What really tickled my fancy was the fact that they have built in lights like a mini vanity mirror. While their I spotted what I thought was blush in a stick form but really it was the Mood Boosting lipsticks. Nearly stopped my heart, I have never really seen an actual tube of lipstick from Physician's formula in fact I had wished last year for them to at least try. Apparently some wishes do come true. SO I got both shades and did a swatch review.

Item List:
1. PH matchmaker blush - Natural
2. PH matchmaker bronzer - Light bronze
3. PH matchmaker lip gloss - Light pink
4. Shimmer Strips Khole liners - For blue eyes
5. Happy Booster Mood boosting lipstick - Rose
6. Happy Booster Mood boosting lipstick - Natural

A very nice blush, the cute shimmer pearls that line the blush will give a nice glowing effect on your cheeks. Not sheer at all but not too pigmented either. (Blush comes in two different colors.)

The light bronzer is great for those fair skin ladies, they also include the nice shimmer pearls lining it to give a glowing effect. Bust this baby out for spring and summer. That's the plan. They also have a darker shade as well. (Bronzer comes in two different shades.)

This is what it looks like with the lights on and the brush that comes with it.

The lip gloss, part of the PH matchmaker line. Has a built in mirror and even a light on the cover of it. For this piece I don't know if it's possible to put a new battery in if it dies. But if I find out I'll let you know. This shade is in Light pink. Around $8 depending where you get it. The brush for the gloss is rather small but rather nice. A light gloss feeling and has a little shimmer glitters in it. (Comes in two different shades.)

The Kohl liners for Blue eyes, I got the blue eyes one because I really like the brown liner out of them. Unfortunately it broke the day I used it so I had to battle with myself for going back to buy another one. Because if it breaks so easily why keep buying it. That just made me sad over all. They are quite nice, maybe the liners would be best instead of these. What I wish they would do sometimes is to sell these separately.














Happy Booster Mood Boosting lipstick from Physician's Formula, I can't believe they actually make lipstick in a lipstick tube form. Ahhhhh<3 Not to mention they have a cute heart on the case as well as the lipstick. It's like three different shades in one to make the ultimate creamy shade. Just like the power ranger's ships.

Rose

Shade:Rose
Coverage of this was just amazeballs, the color and feel of this lipstick does make one happy. It's a great rose pink very flattering on any skin tone. This was my favorite shade out of the two a nice cool pink.

Natural

Shade: Natural
This is the nice natural lipstick with a hint of pink to it that I was looking for. I am soooo happy I bought both shades. These lipsticks are creamy as Alfredo but in a good way. They do last up to three hours to four depending if you have have need to feed like I do.
This is the natural warm peach looking cream lipstick I needed.













If you have anymore questions, or would like me to review anything else let me know. Hope this helps and even makes you as happy as it has me. Whether your late in the game or a head of the trend do it cause it makes you happy.

-Val