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EOTD: Violet and Lime

Thursday, September 23, 2010

I realized that I haven't posted any EOTD pictures of any looks that I did with the Avon quads that Lipglossjunkee gave me for my birthday. *hangs head* I'm a bad, bad blogger! Anyways, here it is.
Brows: Maybelline Define A Brow
Eyes: UDPP, MAC Blacktrack, Kiss Me Heroine Long+Curl, Avon Electric Purple Quad

My internet is being weird again so I'm keeping this short, hope to post again soon!

FOTD: Coral Shadow and Double Wings

Tuesday, June 22, 2010

I'm using the Avon Aquadelic Quad today for my FOTD, but I am ashamed to say that I'm not including the gorgeous robin's blue shade that absolutely makes the quad one of the prettiest ones I've ever seen. (I'm scared of blues, but one of these days I'll over come it and do a FOTD with it, I swear). I wanted to play with the matte coral eyeshadow, because it's a shade I've never used for the eyes.

My chief concern is that with red, coral and pink eyeshadow is that it'll go horribly wrong and make my eyes look puffy and inflamed, like a horrible case of pink eye. I tried to keep the color really strong and below the crease to sort of 'contain' it instead of blending it out, but due to the creasing of my eyelids, you can't even see the color when my eyes are open! Fail! In addition, to keep my face from looking overly warm, I went with a nude glowy blush.
Face: Monistat Anti Chafe Gel, L'oreal Magic Perfecting Base, NARS Concealer Ginger/Custard, MUFE HD, e.l.f. Complexion Perfection and Hard Candy Pin Up Blush.

Eyes: UDPP, NYX Milk Jumbo Eye Pencil, Avon Aquadelic Quad, Wet'n'Wild Cream Liner and Rimmel Sexy Curves Mascara
Lips: Rimmel Smooch
Brows: NYX Brow Powder in Taupe/Ash

I've been on a 'soft and dainty' look kick lately, can you tell?

Avon Eye Brushes

Monday, June 7, 2010

The lovely and gracious LipGlossJunkee included a couple brushes in my birthday present, and I want to briefly talk about 'em before I go to bed.
They're both made with sturdy plastic handles molded into an interesting "ergonomic" handle with really soft and dense bristles. I say ergonomic in quotations because to me, it just looks like the bottoms of handles flare out, fancy lookin' and all, but of no real help to me when applying eye makeup.

The first one is called the Rounded Shadow Brush, that's the one that with the ahem, rounded tip. Though initially I thought I'd be using it as a pencil brush, to smudge eyeliner into eyeshadow, I found that the bristles where too long, and gave way when pushed- not so good for precision control. However, it made a really great crease brush, letting me tuck dark colors into my crease with ease.

The second brush is the flat Eye Liner Brush and I am really loving this one! It's absolutely amazing when used as a 'push brush' (used for pushing liner into the lash line for tightlining). The bristle fibers are much softer than my synthetic Sephora brush, but firm enough to manipulate easily.
I've had a few weeks to test them both out, and they're really well made for how cheap they are! Neither one of them bled or shed, nor did the ferrules come loose or anything like that. Good job, Avon!

Have any Avon brushes?

Products shown were given to me as gift, for my own use.