Day 4 Sephora + Pantone Universe Precious Metals

Hello glammies!!

I know it's been a long time since I've done a post on Sephora + Pantone Universe Precious Metals collection. I haven't forgotten and I will finish the week of Sephora and Pantone Universe. I want each look to be unique and be it's own look. I want it to stand on it's own. I can't believe it's almost been a whole year since this palette was released. Summer always feels like time passes by too fast.

For this look I really wanted to change it up and do something out of my comfort zone. I wanted to rock an orange cheek and lip with my green eyes look. So please let me know what you think. I think it looks okay but it's definitely not my best look. And the names of the shadows are kind of weird and don't really correspond with how the color looks. To me, anyway maybe I'm blind. I'm also not using the eyeliners from the collection for this look.

This column of color is my Wednesday look and I really wanted to show that the middle day doesn't have to be boring. I hope you like it!

Before we start, I just want to tell you that I've purchased the MAC Veluxe Pearl Fusion Eyeshadow in Greenluxe!! It has such beautiful colors that I'm just dying to try it out. It isn't what would come to mind when one thinks of the word green, but in a really good way. I was also able to find a Chanel Glossimer lipgloss in Seashell that was sold out at the store I had been to. It's part of their summer collection, so they're getting rid of all that to make room for their fall collection that will be released soon in stores. 

And please ignore that my eyebrows are kind of messed up. I only noticed after I took the pics and washed my face. Not doing this over again.


Day 4 Sephora + Pantone Universe Precious Metals: Smokey Deep Greens

As usual, prime your eyes with Too Faced Shadow Insurance. We're using the green column today, from the Sephora + Pantone Universe Precious Metals Eyeshadow palette, and that would be the third from the left. Apply Vanilla all over your eye, from lid to brow. Also apply it to the inner corner, where your tear ducts are on the bottom lid. Then apply Antique Bronze onto your lid. Apply Major Brown to your crease and outer V. Apply Stila Smudge Stick Waterproof Eye Liner in Moray to your top and bottom lash lines.  Also apply it to the bottom waterline. Then go over your top and bottom lash lines with Major Brown to intensify the color. Apply MAC Powerpoint Eye Pencil in Engraved to your top waterline. Finish the eyes with a couple coats of MAC Zoomlash Mascara in Zoomblack. Fill in your brows if needed with Benefit Brow Zings.

Prime your face with Too Faced Primed and Poreless. Apply MAC Select Cover-Up Concealer to your under eye circles. Apply your foundation, Makeup Forever HD Foundation and then to cover your blemishes, apply MAC Studio Finish. Apply Benefit's Cha Cha Tint to your cheeks. Just to warn you, this stuff does stain. Now take Makeup Forever HD Powder to set this all into place. Now apply NARS Orgasm over Cha Cha Tint to intensify the color. The tint is going to make your cheeks and blush appear more orange. Next, contour with Too Faced Bronzed and Poreless. Apply it to the perimeter of the face, down the sides of the nose, and suck in your cheeks as a guide to contour the cheeks. Apply Benefit Watt's Up as a highlight to all the places where the sun naturally hits, like your nose, cheekbones, and your cupid's bow. I like to apply a tiny bit more powder to make sure everything is in place. Don't forget to blend.

For your lips, apply Benefit Cha Cha Tint to give them a nice orange color. Put Stila Lipglaze in Jingle to really give them a nice orange gloss. You can even use NARS Lipgloss in Orgasm if you don't have the Stila one. The Stila Lipglaze is limited edition and it's from the Christmas 2012 lipglaze set.

Eyes:

Too Faced Shadow Insurance
Sephora + Pantone Universe Precious Metals Eyeshadow Palette (LE)

• Vanilla: apply all over eye from lash to brow
• Antique Bronze: apply to lid
• Major Brown: apply to crease and outer V and over Stila Eye Liner in Moray

Stila Smudge Stick Waterproof Eye Liner in Moray: line top and bottom lashes and bottom waterline
MAC Powerpoint Eye Pencil in Engraved: do top waterline
MAC Zoomlash Mascara in Zoomblack

Brows

Benefit Brow Zings in Light

Face:

Too Faced Primed and Poreless
MAC Select Cover-Up Concealer in NW20
MAC Studio Finish Concealer in NW20
MUFE HD Foundation in 110
MUFE HD Powder
Benefit Watt's Up
Benefit Cha Cha Tint
NARS Blush in Orgasm
Too Faced Bronzed and Poreless

Lips:

Benefit Cha Cha Tint
Stila Lipglaze in Jingle (LE)

Products Used:

Sephora + Pantone Universe Precious Metals Eyeshadow palette (LE)

Sephora + Pantone Universe Precious Metals Eyeshadow Palette (LE)

Sephora + Pantone Universe Precious Metals Eyeshadow Palette (LE)

Stila Smudge Stick Waterproof Eye Liner in Moray - 26$CAD

MAC Powerpoint Eye Pencil in Engraved - 19$CAD

MAC Zoomlash Mascara in Zoomblack - 19$CAD

Benefit Brow Zings in Light

Benefit Brow Zings in Light - 36$CAD

Benefit Watt's Up - mini shown, fullsize is 36$CAD

Benefit Cha Cha Tint - mini show, fullsize is 36$CAD

NARS Blush in Orgasm - mini show, fullsize is 32$CAD

Too Faced Bronzed and Poreless

Too Faced Bronzed and Poreless - 38$CAD

Stila Lipglaze in Jingle (LE)

From left to right:
Sephora + Pantone Universe Precious Metals Eyeshadow in: Vanilla, Antique Bronze, Major Brown
Stila Smudge Stick Waterproof Eye Liner in Moray
MAC Powerpoint Eye Pencil in Engraved
Benefit Watt's Up
Benefit Cha Cha Tint
NARS Blush in Orgasm
Too Faced Bronzed and Poreless
Stila Lip Glaze in Jingle

From left to right:
Vanilla, Rattan, Jojoba, Antique Bronze, Major Brown

Thanks for reading and again I'm sorry it took me while to continue with this series!! I hope you liked my look for the green column. I want each look to stand out from the others and each one be amazing. Let me know what you thought of this look. I tried to use different products instead of the same usual stuff I always tend to go for. Orange really put me out of my comfort zone, but the look came together beautifully. Benefit's Cha Cha Tint is actually really soft and it doesn't scream orange when you put it on. Their Watt's Up was also a really nice champagne color highlighter. The Stila lipglaze was the only orange/peach lipgloss that I had. Sorry it was limited edition.

Clue: Day 5 of the Sephora + Pantone Universe Precious Metals series is going to be far right, dude.


Here are links to the previous 3 looks:

Day 1 Sephora + Pantone Universe Precious Metals: Rosey Pink

Day 2 Sephora + Pantone Universe Precious Metals: Light Browns

Day 3 Sephora + Pantone Universe Precious Metals: Sexy Browns

Steph xo.

Olive Green Smokey Eyes using MAC and Stila plus Sephora and Disney Ariel, and MAC Sneak Peak

Hey glamour dolls!!

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Today I was kind of torn between what kind of eyes I wanted to do. I settled on doing a nice olive green smokey eye look using the new MAC eyeshadows that my mom recently got me. For the blush and liploss, I'm using Stila's Positively Pink Set, which is their breast cancer awareness set. It is still available on Stila's website, so if you live in the USA, you can get this duo for 9$US which is a steal. If you live in Canada like me, there are certain sites that sell older makeup. My mom bought the Stila stuff, so I don't know what website she used, but trust me, there are plenty out there with old makeup crazily discounted.

Now before I really get into the makeup, have you all seen the new Sephora and Disney Princess collection? They're doing Ariel, the little mermaid!! The eyeshadow palette looks quite nice, there are a lot of greens and blues obviously, but I think I like this collection the most. This is the last collection from Sephora and Disney's partnership. I thought that Jasmine would be the best on darker women, it definetely would not have looked nice on me. I found Cinderella to be okay, but not my style. It didn't stand out to me. While I do like Ariel's palette more, I don't think this will be something I'll be buying.

And have you seen the new MAC Veluxe Pearl Fusion Shadow for Summer 2013? Obviously, I want the black smokey one!! But I actually like the look of all of them. I think the only one I wouldn't personally buy is the pastel one. I can't wait for these to come out, I am definitely going to try all of them out at the store. Looks like we've got blue, purple, brown, black, and pastel. I think this is a pretty cool idea. Now, when is the release date? I definitely need to be at my local MAC store before these all sell out!

Now, back to my makeup look of the day. I'm pretty excited about the MAC release and I also want to see the Ariel one too. I guess I brought out my inner mermaid by wearing green? Haha I don't think olive green would count though. I'm using Phloof!, Swimming, and Greensmoke on my eyes with a Stila Smudgestick Waterproof Eye Liner in Moray, which is your typical olive green color. I lined my waterlines with MAC Powerpoint Eye Pencil in Engraved and for mascara, I used MAC Zoomlash in Zoomblack as per usual. I decided to change up my face routine a bit. I'm still using Benefit High Beam, but for the cheeks I used the Stila Positively Pink Blush and the Stila Lipglaze in Splendor that came with it. The blush is a very light pink and I'm really liking it. Splendor is a limited edition lipglaze that also came in the Winter 2012 Lipglaze set. Splendor is a darker color than the blush, but is also a lovely pink. For the bronzer, I used Too Faced Bronzed and Poreless, which a matte bronzer that is lighter in color than their other bronzers.

Olive Green Smokey Eyes using MAC and Stila

Eyes:

Too Faced Shadow Insurance

MAC Eyeshadow in Phloof!

MAC Eyeshadow in Swimming

MAC Eyeshadow in Greensmoke

Stila Smudgestick Waterproof Eye Liner in Moray

MAC Powerpoint Eye Pencil in Engraved

MAC Zoomlash in Zoomblack

Face:

Too Faced Primed and Poreless

MAC Select Cover-Up Concealer in NW20

MAC Studio Finish Concealer in NW20

MUFE HD Foundation in 110

MUFE HD Powder

Benefit High Beam

Stila Positively Pink Blush

Too Faced Bronzed and Poreless

Lips:

Stila Lipglaze in Splendor

Products Used:

MAC Eyeshadows (18$CAD each) in:
Phloof!
Swimming
Greensmoke

Stila Smudgestick Waterproof Eye Liner in Moray (limited edition, from the Christmas 2012 Eyeliner Set 42$CAD)

MAC Powerpoint Eye Pencil in Engraved - 19$CAD

MAC Zoomlash in Zoomblack - mini shown, fullsize is 19$CAD

Benefit High Beam - 32$CAD

Stila Positively Pink Set - 9$US
Blush in Positively Pink
Lipglaze in Splendor

Too Faced Bronzed and Poreless

Too Faced Bronzed and Poreless - 38$CAD

From left to right:
MAC Eyeshadow in Phloof!
MAC Eyeshadow in Swimming
MAC Eyeshadow in Greensmoke
Stila Smudgestick Waterproof Eye Liner in Moray
MAC Powerpoint Eye Pencil in Engraved
Benefit High Beam
Stila Positively Pink Blush
Too Faced Bronzed and Poreless
Stila Lipglaze in Splendor

So that's my Olive Green Smokey Eyes look! I hope you liked this look. This is how I would do Olive Green. When I first did an Olive Green look, I didn't think it would look any good on me, but it does! Though it's still not anywhere near being my favorite color. Black and green are my favorite colors, but it would be a green like MAC Steamy. I hope you also liked the news I've given you. I'm pretty excited for these releases, especially the MAC one. So let me know which item or collection you're excited for and which product you're looking forward to buying or trying out!

When it comes to my look, did you like? And what did you like or not like about it? Please let me know what products you loved and which ones you didn't. Did you like the MAC eyeshadows? Did you like the Stila Smudgestick in Moray? Did you like the Stila blush and lipglaze? And did you like the Too Faced Bronzed and Poreless bronzer? Feel free to leave a comment on anything.

Steph xo.

P.S. New posts coming up:

I'm working on a couple things, so you'll see some dupes and similar products for the Too Faced Loves Sephora palette.

I'm thinking of doing a week of Sephora + Pantone Universe Foiled Eyeshadow Palette looks. That's the palette with the bronze lid that's in the shape of an Ipad lol. I know it's a little old, but I like the palette and I haven't used it in a while so... hence the week of it. A look for each column :) I also have the eyeliner set that compliments it.

I also want to do some looks using the Sephora Smokey Studio 2. So if you have a particular trio from that palette that you want to see a look made around, let me know.

You're also going to see that Stila Christmas 2012 palette, the one that looks like a star.

And new nails should be coming soon, I got annoyed of the Nails Inc Bling It On: Rebel because all the jewels would get caught on my hair. And it was a biotch to get the glue off. I still have nail polish and glue on my thumbs. Gonna have to soak my thumbs in acetone for a while again. Really pretty nails, but a pain to get off. Lesson for next time, use less glue!!

And if you have any suggestions or whatever, let me know.

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