Friday, November 16, 2012

Cranberry Eyeshadow

This season cranberry/oxblood/burgundy/whatever you wanna call it is really "in" & I had been freaking out over getting the perfect cranberry eyeshadow. So I spent a lot of my free time looking up dupe videos and blog reviews. Judge me all you want.

In an attempt to be thrifty I bought the NYX eyeshadow in "Rust" which is supposed to be a dupe for MAC's "Cranberry" and I was ultimately pretty happy with my purchase. NYX has great pigmentation in everything I've ever bought from them (blushes, eyeliners, lipsticks, eyeshadows) and this was no exception. But when I went to the MAC Glamour Daze event a few weeks ago I couldn't resist picking up "Cranberry" while I was there.

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As I drove home I was so mad at myself since having two eyeshadows that are exactly the same seems really ridiculous to me. But low and behold when I got home I realized that they really aren't that similar.

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Left: MAC "Cranberry" // Right: NYX "Rust"

In the pan they look nearly identical but once they hit skin they look pretty different. "Cranberry" is definitely less orange and rusty and more of a true cranberry/burgundy/oxblood color. But I will definitely still be using "Rust" regularly this fall. Both are great eyeshadows that I'm thrilled to be adding to my super small eyeshadow collection (I literally have five eyeshadows-- including these two).

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Here are a few ways to wear cranberry eyeshadow from around the web & a few of my own ideas:

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& here's a tutorial pixiwoo did of this look!

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The above are two different looks worn by Karen Gillan-- one using the cranberry dusted just under the eye and the other complimenting the copper tone blended along the outer corner of the eye

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This is the way I've most often used it. I normally use my normal liquid liner and then go back over it with the cranberry eyeshadow. It creates a subtle look that's pretty but not as intense as Kristen Stewart's look.

Hope you enjoyed this! Finding different cranberry eye looks was fun and more challenging than I thought it would be.

Have you jumped on the metaphorical oxblood/cranberry bandwagon?

love,
becca

Wednesday, November 14, 2012

Denton

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denton courthouse on the square (photo by me)

After seeing a few friends post this article on fb I thought I would post it here.
Recently the town I live in (Denton, TX) was voted #1 Best Small Town in America by Business Insider!

In other news, Baltimore was voted #48 in "Most Dangerous Cities in The World" by the same website. Can't say I'm surprised seeing as I lived there for 3 months and it was what brought my Generalized Anxiety Disorder to a head.

But anyways, yay Denton!

Autumn & Winter Makeup Wishlist

Wednesday, November 7, 2012

MAC Glamour Daze

A few weeks ago I attended a MAC event with my friends Taylor & Katy. The invitation said it was to be an unveiling of a new line of products by MAC (the Glamour Daze Holiday Collection) --the night would include cocktails, food and entertainment.

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Our MAC is honestly too small to have housed the amount of people that RSVPed so we had to stand in line and go into the store in shifts. There really wasn't that much alcohol or food and while the collection was really pretty--most of it came in really expensive sets or you couldn't get around the groups of people in order to even see the displays.

Ultimately it will probably be my last "event" I go to unless it's something I'm really looking forward to but these are the things I bought from the Glamour Daze collection:

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MAC "Girl Trouble" Nail Lacquer & MAC "Pink Freeze" Eyeshadow


"Girl Trouble" Nail Lacquer

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"Pink Freeze" Eyeshadow

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(No pictures of me wearing it yet--I'm still a little perplexed by how to wear it)

Strangely enough, I normally really hate anything that looks "frosted", haha never mind both items I bought are frosty as hell. Most of the pieces from the Glamour Daze collection weren't frosted, these just happened to be the two things I thought looked really pretty on. Plus I love metallic pink for winter so I guess that's why I was drawn to them. I don't know really. All I know is that I like 'em.

So I guess go check it out before the collection sells out!

-Becca