barrym pinks

I hope everybody is doing well! Firstly as Google Reader is closing down in a couple of weeks, I would appreciate it if you were able to follow me through Bloglovin so you can keep updated! It sucks how hard everybody has worked to gain followers to have it taken away! Anyhow, let me know if you have followed & I will make sure I have followed you.

In a previous post I showed one of my newer purchases, the Caviar & Bubbles (AKA Champagne & Caviar) palette from Nyx, so I've been playing around with it in the past couple of weeks and here's what I think of it!

The Palette
Packaging: In a sturdy compact palette with a large mirror, perfect for traveling.
Colours: 5 matte & 5 shimmery neutral eyeshadows which mostly leans towards a cool tone. Most of the light shimmery colours are very similar to each other in the swatches/ pan but come out different on the eyes.
Pigmentation: Fairly pigmented with one swipe but I'd still recommend a base to make the most of the colours. The matte colours can come off a little bit chalky & not as pigmented so a base would prevent that.

Swatches done without base & one swipe

Longevity: I always use a primer anyway so I find these last well on me but I think they would fade easily without one!
Price: $10 from Cherry Culture but prices depend on where you're buying from.

FOTD
 Face | Rimmel Wake Me Up & Stay Matte powder, Nars Laguna & MAC Lightscapade, Nyx Angel blush
Eyes | Nyx Caviar & Bubbles palette: Lid: 1 Crease: 2 Blending: 3 Outer V/ Slightly under eyes: 4 Highlight: 5
Sleek Gel liner, Nyx Wonder Pencil, Maybelline One by One mascara
Lips | Sleek Pout Paints in Pinkini & Peachykeen


Overall I really like this palette, but I'm uhmming & ahhing over whether I really need any more neutral colours that I can easily get from my Naked 2 & Day & Night palette, but for the price the quality is pretty good, so I would definitely recommend this. 

Have you tried any of the Runway palettes from Nyx before?
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 Hey beauties!

This is an older FOTD that has a subtle sexy 60's vibe with a slightly defined but more blended crease, and a small cat eye that extends all the way into the inner eye corner, creating a sexier feline shape for those ladies who have rounder eyes. This is a very cool toned look so you can use warmer crease colours if you would prefer, but I've also kept the cheeks & lips cool toned as well. I really adore this look & I hope you all like it!
Products
Face: Unsure of the foundation/ concealer combination as it is a bit heavier then what I have been wearing lately, but I think I used Nyx Pinky Blush, this was before I had Laguna so bronzer would have been a Christian Dior sample I had at the time & Nude by Nature Eye Definer to contour with Mac Lightscapade as a highlight.
Eyes: UD Naked 2 Palette: Foxy & Bootycall Applied together all over the lid with Bootycall as a highlight on the browbone & inner corner
Tease Blended into the crease with a fluffy brush so there are no harsh lines
Snakebite blended just above Tease & also on the lower lash line.
Blackout Added definition in the crease by using a bullet brush and then blended out again with Tease
UD liner in 'Whiskey' to line the waterline & lower lash line.
Maybelline Master Precise eyeliner starting from the middle of the lash line to draw outwards and a slight wing to meet the crease colour, and then going right into the inner corner, accentuating it by going onto the lower lashline slightly.
 Max Factor False Lash Effect
Lips: Revlon Lip Butter in Sweet Tart mixed with a purple lipstick from Inglot


The 60's is one of my favourite eras for makeup inspiration, tell me about yours!
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Orange lips with light neutral eyes was a favourite look of mine a few weeks ago, sometimes I would even incorporate blue eyeliner into the look as well. I haven't been using my Stila In The Light palette too much lately but at this time I was getting good use out of it.

Look 1

~Products
Face: Bourjois Healthy Mix & Rimmel Wake Me Up Fdtn, Model's Prefer Illuminator, NARS Laguna, MAC Lightscapade, Nyx Stick Blush in Orchid, Bourjois Blush #16.
Eyes: MAC Painterly Paintpot, Stila In The Light: Champagne [Lid], Bliss [Blending], Sandstone [Outer V, Lower Lash Line]. Maybelline Master Precise Eyeliner, Maybelline One By One mascara + Max Factor False Lash Effect.
Lips: Bourjois Levres Lip Liner #11, BYS Neon Orange eyeliner [Used as lip liner, cannot remember name!], MAC Morange Lipstick.

Look 2
I muted the orange lip down by mixing 2 lipsticks together & made the cheeks a little bit bolder, and added a pop of blue into the inner waterline. I've also done a very similar recent look with the Urban Decay Naked 1 Palette. For this look I used pretty much the same shades as in the first look but they looked really intensified here.
~Products
Face: Same foundation/ bronzer/ highlighter mix as above. Jordana blush in Redwood.
Eyes: MAC Painterly Paintpot. Nyx Jumbo Eye Pencil in Cottage Cheese. Stila In the Light: Champagne [lid], Kitten [inner corner over top of Champagne], Bliss [blending], Sandstone [crease] Gilded Gold [lower lashline]. Make Up Store eyeliner pencil in Crazy Lazy [Bright blue, waterline & inner lashline. Maybelline Master Precise. Unsure of mascara combo.
Lips: MAC Morange mixed with Maybelline Coral Crush


Here is my very similar eyelook using Urban Decay Naked 1: Half Baked, Darkhorse, Buck, Smog, Virgin. On the lower lashline I used Sugarpill's pigment in Darling. Both extremely similar but slightly different makeup looks.

As per usual thank you for looking, what are your favourite eye and lip combo's at the moment, or your favourite makeup palette?
xx

Hey beauties!
As I've mentioned previously, I've changed my hair colour, I have gone darker & more in the violet family rather than red, and I think now my makeup options have been opened up to something entirely better. Not that it mattered to me before about how my eyeshadow/lipstick/blush colours looked against my hair before, but now certain things look a whole lot different. For instance, this bright blue eyeshadow never stood out this much to me on my eyes before. I have also worn red lips and I <3 it a lot more now!




 ..Come & find me dancing all alone, to the sound of an enemy's song, I'll be lost until, you find me, fighting on my own...

 ~Products
Face: Base: Rimmel Wake Me Up Foundation; Physicians Formula Gentle Cover Concealer Stick; Maybelline Age Rewind Eraser Dark Circles; Rimmel Stay Matte Powder
Highlight/ Contour: MAC CCB Pearl; MAC Lightscapade; Nars Laguna
Blush: Milani Baked Blush in Luminoso
Eyes: NYX E/S Base in White, Sleek Eye Dust in Jet Set [All over lid, lower lash line]; NYX Chrome E/S in Pearl White [Applied wet to center of lid, highlight]; UD Naked- Naked [Failed to blend out crease lol, didn't want it overly blended anyway]
Maybelline Master Precise Eyeliner [top lashline]; Sleek Gel liner [waterline]; Bourjois Kohl & Contour pencil e/l in 72 [to apply gel liner]; Maybelline The Falsies & One By One mascara. NYX Cake Brow Powder in Dark Brown/ Brown.
Lips: MAC Myth, Revlon Lip Butter in Sweet Tart [Myth is a bit... IDK.. stark on me so I like to apply the lighter pink on top to add a bit of colour].

A proper pic of the hair;I had an inch taken off the ends & more of the layers so it sits 100x better now, and feels much more healthier!

So here is a comparison of Sleeks Eye Dust in Jet Set compared to Sugarpill's Darling. Although the lighting is different, and I definitely used a white base under Jet Set and a white shimmer on top, when I'm unsure about Darling, but JS looks way more vibrant & has a foiled effect. So I'm glad I bought it even though they are still similar!

L-R: Sleek, Sugarpill

So of course while I still have heaps of older FOTD's lined up, you probably wont see this hair for a while haha. But I am just so in love I had to post it earlier ;) I hope you like this bright teal eye makeup, one of my fave colours to wear on the eyes for sure!

Would you wear this teal colour?

Hey gals <3
Both of these FOTD's are so old it is not funny! The first look is from back when I bought the Maybelline Color Tattoo in Edgy Emerald & I wanted to test it out, but I love the whole look together and still wanted to post these.

Look 1

Pretty much just wanted to show off my good hair day :P Didn't do anything to it!

I love wearing light greens with pink cheeks & lips so I kept the hues similar! I know yet again these are spring makeup looks.... that I had probably done last spring, way too long ago. Oh and while I'm lovin my hair in these pictures, yesterday I changed my hair, after having the same colour & style for soo long.
~Products~
Face: The foundation at the time was a whole lotta mixture so there's probably no point mentioning it, but for the rest I used a Dior Bronzer Sample, MAC Lightscapade, Nyx Stick Blush in Tulip, Jordana Blush in Coral Sandy Reef. This combination was quite random as I usually match both the cream & powder blushes to each other.
Eyes: Maybelline Color Tattoo in Edgy Emerald, Bh Cosmetics Day & Night palette [pictured, light aqua on lid, green in crease]. Tan colour to blend out crease. Maybelline Master Precise eyeliner
Lips: Revlon Balm Stain in Lovesick

Look 2
This was inspired by Shaaanxo on youtube from a GRWM (Get Ready With Me video) where she did the same colour placement. Excuse that the eyes are not symmetrical, especially with the eyeliner! If you ever feel afraid to rock bright eyeshadow, stick it to the lid or lower lashline only and use neutral colours everywhere else :) My under eye highlight looks way too bright, went a bit crazy with the lilac concealer! Oh and I am enjoying the light waterline with the darker lower lash line, kind of feels a bit more mod to me!

 ~Products~
Face: Same thing about the foundation, Nyx Cream Blush in Glow, Face of Australia blush in Outback Primrose (before I gave it away obviously lol), (same bronzer & highlighter as always)
Eyes: Day & Night palette; Reddish Brown [crease], Dark brown [lower lashline], Same light green as FOTD above [lid], Pixie Epoxy & then random ebay pigment over lid [pictured]. Nyx JEP in Milk [waterline], Maybelline Master Precise eyeliner + NP Set liquid eyeliner.
Lips: Nyx Lipstick in Narcissus, Nyx lipgloss in LaLa
I'm glad I can finally get this post out of my drafts haha, so good to clean that part up! And although once again this type of look is posted in the 'wrong' season, it's nice to be inspired by / inspire others! For those of you in the spring time, I definitely would recommend Edgy Emerald as a lid or lower lashline colour! As you can see I think different shades of pink compliment green nicely.

And I'm sorry for the messy/ jumbled pictures, Nowadays I am trying to keep them more consistent. :)

Thanks for looking xx

Do you ever have the days when you do your eyeliner thicker on one eye, so you go back in the other eye but over compensate on that and it just gets bigger and bigger? Yeah, I had that problem. But I ended up liking it in the end and thought it went with the eyeshadow & the lipstick look. Probably definitely a bit too much for daytime makeup but I work in a salon, not an office! Although I def. would love to wear this makeup look on a night out.

Just being silly, my lipstick seemed to match my nail more IRL.

~Products
Face: Bourjois Healthy Mix, Rimmel Wake Me Up in Soft Beige
Nars Laguna, MAC Lightscapade. ELF HD Blush in Headliner, Bourjois Blusher #54
Eyes: MAC Painterly, Urban Decay Naked 2 palette: Verve [silvery-white, lid,], Pistol [grey, inner & outer corner of eyes], Tease [taupey-mauve, crease], Bootycall, [shimmery skin tone, middle of verve, highlight], Foxy, [blending, skin tone]. Maybelline Master Precise Eyeliner, NP Set Black Liquid eyeliner.
Lips: Nyx lipliner in Dolly, Wet N Wild Mega Last lipstick in Dollhouse Pink

Wet n Wild Mega Last Lipstick



This was another recent buy from Cherry Culture, and my first WnW lipstick. It is meant to be a dupe for MAC's St Germain but from what I've seen St Germain is lighter. None the less it is still a really pretty cool toned lipstick. It has a satin finish and the lipstick itself is amazingly pigmented & as it claims, long lasting. Great quality for $2.75! They have a huge colour selection & Pinkerbell is meant to be a dupe for MAC's Viva Glam Nicki , I should buy it just to test it :)

Thanks all for looking!
Have you tried any Wet n Wild Mega last lipsticks and what did you think of them?
xx