February 2012
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“If you are having trouble sharpening a really creamy eyeliner pencil, stick it...”
– A tip I got from the forums at BeautyHeaven.
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EOTD: Purples and Silver
This is one of my go-to night-time looks, initially inspired by Marlena at Makeup Geek and then actually attempted following a video tutorial on Youtube for makeup for hooded eyes. Several months of practice later and I’ve almost nailed it, but there’s clearly still room for improvement! The eyeliner can be black gel liner if I feel like going a bit darker, otherwise I’ll go with...
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Makeup in a Hot, Australian Summer
Let me clarify precisely what I mean by “hot, Australian summer.” In Western Australia, at the height of summer, temperatures average at the 39-41 degrees Celsius level. With low humidity, this is surprisingly bearable as long as you are not trying to walk barefoot on the beach. However, this year (the year I began PROJECT: GIRLY) was surprisingly humid, resulting in sticky, sweating...
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How I Would Restart My Eyeshadow Collection
Those of you who have been reading this blog know that my eyeshadow collection is, for a beginner, substantial. I own an Urban Decay Naked palette (which I LOVE), a number of NYX single eyeshadows, and now a growing number of Makeup Geek eyeshadows. Embarrassingly, however, I also have a stack of palettes that I honestly don’t use very much anymore as their quality is far inferior to what...
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“Just because a product is very popular or has a lot of hype around it...”
– Good tip to remember.
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The Many Finishes of Eyeshadows
Thanks in large part to Marlena from Makeup Geek, who has admitted to being an eyeshadow freak, I find myself completely obsessed with eyeshadows and doing my damnedest to wear them properly. Hundreds (well, okay, more like dozens, but it feels like hundreds) of tutorials later, I still struggle a bit with making the stuff work for me or look like I know what I’m doing, but I do have a much...
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How I Take Care of My Makeup Brushes
Those of you who’ve read my brush collection posts will know that I have a substantial number of makeup brushes. Given that number, there are plenty of other beauty enthusiasts and makeup artists who have quadruple that amount. Soooooo… yeah. I don’t feel too bad, but it can be hard not to look at your brushes and just see dollar signs.
That said, it makes sense that if...
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Solid Saints 2012 →
tynic:
Solid Saints is nearly upon us once again!
For those who don’t know, Solid Saints began as a communal effort by the Penny Arcade forumers to raise money for the children’s charity, Child’s Play. The members auctioned off their time, talent, energy, or unique skills/access/possessions and collectively raised almost $12,000 in 2011.
This year promises to be even bigger. Solid saints now...
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My Makeup Dictionary: Face Edition
As I had done for the eyes version of this dictionary, I picked out terms that I’d never heard of (or completely misunderstood) prior to doing my research into the beauty world. Some of these may seem pretty obvious or self-explanatory, but they’re included here because, at least at first, they mystified me from the get-go and had me googling left and right to find out what these...
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How I Learned to Always Set My Makeup
Okay let me paint you guys a brain-picture here. I’ve put on a nice primer, my foundation looks great, I’ve contoured my face perfectly, but in my rush to get out the door I didn’t use a setting spray or setting powder.
2 hours later, in a warm nightclub, I walk into the ladies’ room to do lady things and I look in the mirror and I freeze in abject horror.
My foundation,...
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Unmasking Mascara
Yeah, I groaned a little when I typed out that post title, too. But I couldn’t help myself.
Anyway, this post is a pretty straightforward one that talks a bit about how I got to know and am still struggling to learn about using mascara.
Application was the easiest thing to learn. Hundreds of Youtube videos demonstrate largely the same technique: scrape off excess on the edges of the tube,...
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My Makeup Dictionary: Eyes Edition
Over the last few months, I’ve encountered an entirely new vocabulary that, frankly, confused and confounded me. I thought it might be fun to list some of these new words alongside my interpretation of them, mostly so that you can tell me if I got them right. It may also serve as a handy resource for those of you stuck in situations like mine, where people just use these words and I’m...
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Bringing My Mug Together
So, the previous three posts covered the basic 3-step facial cleansing process: cleanse, tone, and moisturize. In this final post of the “My Mug” series, I thought it might be useful to “wrap it up” and basically summarize how all these steps work together now that I know what they are individually. Some of this will rehash what’s just been covered, but it might be...
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Moisturizing My Mug
Part 3 of the “My Mug” series (as I have begun calling it in my mind) will cover a bit about the thing almost everyone knows about: moisturizer. Now, I’m almost 99% sure that you, the reader, already know what moisturizer does, not least because it’s built right into the name. So I probably won’t go on about the basics. Rather, I’ll cover a little bit of the new...
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Toning My Mug
Following along with my skincare routine series, after cleanser (morning and night!) comes toner.
I first used toner when I was about 13 or 14 and my mother was getting a bit concerned about the acne on my face. She showed me how to apply it and told me to do it twice a day, every day. However, I had absolutely no clue what toner was doing for my skin and, unsurprisingly, stopped doing it after a...
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Cleaning My Mug
Prior to this journey (do I use this word too much?), all I ever did was wash my face in the shower and leave it at that. No moisturizer, no toner, nothing. Now that I’m a bit more familiar with the right ways to take care of my face, I have a secure and simple skincare routine that works. It’ll probably keep changing, sure, but I figured I’d do up a series of posts about each...
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EOTD: Simple Aqua Liner
PRODUCTS USED
NYX Slide-One Eye Pencil - Azure
Makeup Geek Eyeshadow - Poolside
Makeup Geek Eyeshadow - Corrupt
Maybelline Falsies Mascara
As a note, this photo was taken after about 12 hours of wear (because I ran out of time that morning and had to rush to work)!
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How I Built My Brush Collection: Eyes Edition
As I mentioned in an earlier post, my initial foray into eye makeup (namely, eyeshadow) began with a cheap but good quality brush set that did not work out very well for me. The brushes just weren’t right for the jobs they needed to do and as a beginner, it made me ready to give up on eyeshadow all together. Then, as my research continued (and my makeup brush shopping spree gained momentum),...