Snow Blue Beauty

The palette: Urban Decay Heavy Metals . Purchased with points at Ulta.  I probably would not have paid cash money for this palette because it looked beautiful but also annoying.  I am tired of depotting awkward palettes.  For free, what the heck?  Note that I'm probably judging a free palette less harshly than I'd just a palette I paid cash for. I'm not going to post swatches.  I think there are plenty of swatches already out there if you just want to see the shades outside the palette.  I'm going to post some of the first looks I got from playing around.  General thoughts on the palette will be at the end.  We begin with a full work week of looks, dumb expressions and all.  I'm not a model.  I mean, obviously.  Just playing around with makeup here. Look 1: Transition/crease shades are Buon Fresco and Venetian Red from ABH Modern Renaissance.  From Heavy Metals, I used Punk Rock all over the lids, Glamrock on the inner co...

I have been feeling unmotivated to branch out from a default daily red look lately, but I branched out slightly this morning.  It began with the usual primer, then Buon Fresco from Modern Renaissance in what I'm calling my crease.  I put down a base of Nyx Jumbo Pencil in Rust on my lids.  Went over Rust with Venetian Red from Modern Renaissance.  These are all common components of my default look but here is where it started deviating from my norm.  I just started looking around at my stash and seeing things I love but don't use.  And then I used them. Blended out Venetian Red into Buon Fresco with the dark purple from Urban Decay's Tenant palette .  I didn't commit the shade names to memory and I can't get the damn picture to enlarge so it's purple, okay?  I used the palest pink from Tenant on the browbones, and the darker pink in the crease area, just adding depth by using some different shades and blending them together.  I used a sli...

Stuff I've been loving, hating, and finishing off.  Ingredients at the end, because there are so many times I realize I'm reacting to something and then I try to think back to what products I've used that had that thing in it.  But I can't turn the information up because the ingredients aren't online, or they've changed, or whatever.  Hits: Cotz Face Non-Tinted SPF 40.  My heritage is Scottish, Irish, English, and Danish.  I'm paler than any human should be in this life.  I fry in the sun and never turn any shade of brown.  I do go yellow on occasion, like an old book.  That's the effect the sun has on me.  I fry, and I turn yellow, and look older.  I reject this.  Chemical sunscreens bother my eyes.   I'd been using La Roche-Posay mineral sunscreen but it was making me a little itchy.  That's when I discovered the cassia alata in it.  I Googled and found out this plant is supposed to cure all kinds of things i...