Certainly Red

Here's my first blog post wearing a red lip! Ta-da! Really trying to break out of my shell and wear some bolder lips. I have a bunch of reds but rarely use them--need to change that habit!

Tried winging it out a little further than usual!

Bare Escentuals Summer all over lid, Urban Decay Buck in Crease, Nars Galapagos in Crease, Nars Mekong in Outer V, a little Urban Decay Half Baked on middle of lid 

Face:
Laura Mercier Oil-Free Tinted Moisturizer in Nude & Sand (mixed)
Laura Mercier Secret Camouflage
Mac Mineralized Skin Finish
Laura Mercier Translucent powder
Mac Refined Golden Bronzer
Nars Madly & Illamasqua Lover Blush
TheBalm Mary-Lou Manizer
Anastasia Brow Powder in Brunette

Eyes:
Bare Study Paint Pot
Bare Escentuals Summer
Urban Decay Half Baked, Buck
Nars Galapagos, Mekong
Rock & Republic Skintight (highlight)
Covergirl Lashblast
Bobbi Brown Gel Eyeliner

Lips:
Revlon Certainly Red Lipstick
A little bit of clear gloss and Mac Melon Pigment

What do you think of the red lips? I always shy away from them! What's your favorite red lippie!?Thanks for looking!

EOTD: Katy Perry Grammy’s 2011 makeup & Sleek Monaco palette

Hey everyone!

Did this look today after seeing this picture from Katy Perry at the 2011 Grammy awards. I loved the purple and green combination with the glitter and decided to recreate it.

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For eyeshadows I mainly used the Monaco eyeshadow palette from Sleek from their Mediterranean collection.

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Here’s a list of all the products I used and how I used them:

- Urban Decay Primer Potion: all over the lid up to the brow, blended out with my finger.

- MAC Brun: to fill in my brows, with an angled brush (MAC 268).

- Sleek Bamboo (Monaco palette): as a browbone highlight, applied with a flat shader brush (MAC 239)

- Sleek Martini (Curaçao palette): inner corner highlight, applied with a pencil brush (MAC 219)

- Sleek Sand Walker (Monaco palette): applied with a blending brush (MAC 217) right above the crease, as a transition colour between the purple and the brow highlight.

- Sleek Lotus Flower (Monaco palette): on the lid and blended into the crease, applied with a flat shader brush (MAC 239).

- Sleek Midnight Garden ( Monaco palette): softly applied with a tapered blending brush (MAC 226) in the outer corner over the purple to make it a little darker and add some depth. Also on the outer forth of the lower lashline over the lime green with a pencil brush (MAC 219).

- Sleek Kiwi Zest (Monaco palette): on the lower lashline with a short bristle shader brush (MAC 214).

- Urban Decay 24/7 eyeliner in Mildew: on the lower waterline and smudges between the lashes.

- NYX cream glitter (Paradise palette): applied over the purple with my finger.

- L’Oreal Super Liner: along the upper lashes.

- Max Factor False Lash Effect mascara: few coats on the top lashes, one coat on bottom lashes.

- False Eyelashes from Claire’s (no name or number) with Duo lash glue.

Hope you like it and thanks for stopping by!

X

Tanja

Sleek Oh So Special and Curaçao I-Divine Palettes

Hello folks!

Sleek makeup recently came out with a new collection: The Caribbean collection. The collection consists of an eyeshadow palette, a blush and a tinted lipbalm. I only picked up the eyeshadow palette. After I bought their Storm palette when I was in London, I started collecting their palettes. I think the quality of the eyeshadows is amazing for the prize (around £7 or €9 or $12).

This palette from the Caribbean collection is called "Curaçao" and is filled with bright and fun colours.
Lets have a look:

Sleek Curaçao palette (click for larger view)

Like all the Sleek palettes, these eyeshadows are nicely pigmented. The matte shadows are usually a little less pigmented than the shimmery/metalic ones. The darker matte colours usually show up better I find. Over a base or primer they work great though.

I swatched each row on bare skin and over Urban Decay's Primer potion.

Top row, bare skin, flash

Top row, over UDPP, flash

Bottom row, bare skin, flash

Bottom row, over UDPP, flash

My favorites of this palette are Green Iguana, Purple Haze, Green Martini and Singapore Sling.
Not all the palettes I have from Sleek have names for the colours but I'm glad all these new palettes do.



Sleek also came out with another palette, with more neutral colours, which is called "Oh So Special". I believe this is part of their permanent line since it isn't part of a collection.
This palette has got some great shadows to create any kind of neutral look with. It has some matte and some shimmery colours, going from really light to black so you could do an every day eye look with this but also a really dark smokey eye. If you can't get your hands on the Urban Decay Naked palette or it's too expensive, definitely check out this palette!

Sleek Oh So Special palette (click for larger view)

Here are the swatches, with and without primer.

Top row, bare skin, flash

Top row, over UDPP, fash

Bottom row, bare skin, flash

Bottom row, over UDPP, flash

My favorites: Glitz, Celebrate, Boxed and Wrapped Up.
I'm not too crazy about the matte pinks in this palette. Not as eyeshadows anyway, but I've found they work nicely as blushes.
I love how pigmented the matte black (Noir) that comes with a lot of these palettes is. I won't have to buy a matte black in a looong time, haha.


I'll probably do some eye looks with these palettes in the future, so look out for that!


x
Tanja