Snow Blue Beauty

The Electric palette was something I "had to have" and "would die without" but I actually don't reach for it too often.  I'm not sure why.  Maybe because I need to pull a skin tone from another palette, and also a black if I feel like I need a black.  It's a palette of brights and I love it, but you do need some other shades.  I mean, maybe you don't.  But I do.  So I'm challenging myself to use it every day for a full work week, which is five days. Day One : Going outside my comfort zone with lime green.  Green is just kind of not my color.  I think I can pull it off, but it's hard.  And if you compare with other looks, it's really not the most flattering on me.  Note that I have a new phone, and the camera is a zillion times better than my old one.  This is a blessing and a curse.  I've aged a bit since my last pretty good phone camera.  Also experimenting with Essence Extreme Crazy Volume mascara, and I'm not sure how I fee

Details on this round of Project Pan here .  Basically, I announced my intention to avoid buying certain types of products until specific products I already own have been used up.  So how's that going for me? I think the day after I posted that, I was buying the Sugarpill Feline Fancy palette from a destash group!  I justified it.  I wanted that palette when it came out but couldn't justify the cost when I already had the (at the time) full Modern Renaissance palette, among others.  I was going to hold out for the release of singles.  They still could come out with singles but they haven't yet.  I saw my opportunity, and I went for it.  Then I remembered I wasn't meant to be buying any makeup!   The next thing I know, ColourPop is re-releasing their She palette .  Another gorgeous palette of reds.  I love reds.  It was like $16, which is next to nothing as far as eye palettes go.  I signed up for the newsletter to get a $5 off code, which made the whole thing o

I have a lot of allergies.  They're not fatal; I'm just not going to feel good.  If I get exposed to dust, I'll have hay fever symptoms and my skin will itch and burn.  I might end up with tonsillitis or a sinus infection.  I have been known to pass out in Wonder Woman pajamas from Walmart on the bathroom floor.  I refuse to die in cheap Walmart pajamas, in the damn bathroom.  I refuse!  This isn't happening!  That was a combination of dust, soy, and probably the plant extracts in all the makeup I was depotting that day.  I passed out, hit my head, and injured my stretched ears.  Probably should have been more concerned about the possibility of concussion, but...my ears?! When you pass out and incur injury, it's harder to pretend this isn't happening.  It's real, y'all.  So I have to take my allergies a little more seriously.  I can't say "Oh, there's probably not enough chamomile in that lotion to bother me" while completely acceptin

From what I've seen of project pans, it's a challenge in which you decide on a number of products or on specific products to use up before you buy anything else.  You are generally allowed to buy things you actually run out of if you don't already have a reasonable dupe for it.  The ban is on makeup in general but I'm doing it a little differently and making it about types of products specifically.  This will be made more clear as we go on.  Also, I'm saying this is for fall and winter of 2017 but it ends when the stuff is gone. First up is my contour powders.  I am not the tiniest person in the world but I am under 5' and my face size is proportionate to my height.  I also only add contour powders below cheekbones.  I don't do a full face.  So I'm not burning through this stuff as quickly as I might if I was 6' tall and contouring my forehead, nose, and jawline daily too.  I have LunatiCK's original contour palette that I've been using nea

Favorites, rejects, and panned products for the month of August.  Spoiler alert: I hit pan on nothing!  I did finish up a few things, and those are going to count.  I don't have enough for a separate empties post. Hits: The same Ofra Napa Valley liquid lipstick   as last month.  I actually bought a new tube because I burned through the whole thing.    CHS Curl Keeper .  I've been sandwiching it in between Kenra CC cream and the GVP version of Kenra volumizing mousse.  I generally save this for humidity because if you use glycerin in your hair in a dry climate, you might have regrets.  Glycerin draws moisture from the air and if there's no moisture in the air, it draws it from your hair instead.  But so far, so good.  Curl Keeper ingredients:  Water/Eua, VP/VA Copolymer, Propylene Glycol, Hydroxyethylcellulose, Laureth-23, Glycerin, DMDM Hydantoin, Fragrance/Parfum, Polyquaternium-10 Misses: Perfectly Posh Sunny and Share Coconut Oil .  Purchased before I wa