So, the foundation I found in my bags doesn't give all that great coverage, unless I put it on really heavy. And then I end up with the line around my face and I hate that. So while I was out today, I picked up TruBlend .... I got the second lightest cause I'm a little tanned from the summer still. It was soooooooooo dark on my face. It didn't look anything like it did in the bottle. I don't know if I can return it or not, or if I'm out the money. It'd be nice if I could find foundation that gave me good coverage that blended with my skin tone. Any of the light, light, lightest foundations I find are either too pink or too yellow on me and the next colour up is way too dark.
The hunt continues!
Wednesday, October 21, 2009
Thursday, October 15, 2009
New toys
So, while I was out picking some stuff up at the Wal-Mart for halloween, I saw a little thing in their art area. I picked it up and I'll be going back for others. There's a small pallet and a bunch of different brushes. Angled, small point, long points, etc. I don't know the names of them all. But since all I had before for brushes was the little brush you get in the waterpaint colouring books, it's great. What I really wanted was the pastels though. I remember playing with those in school and loving the texture and how easily the colours blended. So I'll be going back for them for sure, hopefully tomorrow.
In the meantime, I have to work tomorrow, I don't want to go in, I don't feel good, but I'm excited about playing with colours. :)
In the meantime, I have to work tomorrow, I don't want to go in, I don't feel good, but I'm excited about playing with colours. :)
Ok, so I didn't get to play with very much today. Or yesterday... I think...
I'm on some pretty heavy medication because of a back problem and I have a hard time with remembering stuff when I take them. On top of that, my boyfriend gave me a headcold. :( So now I feel like crap and my head feels like it's 8 sizes too big.
Also, and this is kind of weird. My eyelids have hurt a lot since playing around the other day. I don't know if I just rubbed them too much, or if it's something chemical. I did use a lot of different products. So, I'm going to be more gentle when rubbing my face and I'm going to try the products one at a time and see if it's something along those lines.
Make it a great day!
Kimmie
I'm on some pretty heavy medication because of a back problem and I have a hard time with remembering stuff when I take them. On top of that, my boyfriend gave me a headcold. :( So now I feel like crap and my head feels like it's 8 sizes too big.
Also, and this is kind of weird. My eyelids have hurt a lot since playing around the other day. I don't know if I just rubbed them too much, or if it's something chemical. I did use a lot of different products. So, I'm going to be more gentle when rubbing my face and I'm going to try the products one at a time and see if it's something along those lines.
Make it a great day!
Kimmie
Tuesday, October 13, 2009
Pin-up attempt #1
Well, I did manage to play a bit again, thanks to the easy makeup remover and disposable face cloths and stuff. So I decided to play a bit. I loaded up Kandee's pin up tutorial and listened to it a few times more. Then I started copying. Yay for the pause button. I don't have the same quality of eye shadows and I don't have the same colours, but I just went for more the same type of colour. Highlighting, greyish, dark, etc.
I have fairly heavy eyelids and they fold over to nearly touching my lash line, so I did have a bit of an issue with the wing tip. The one worked out really well, but the other... not so much, and it ended up in the right shape, but quite a bit larger than the first. It also doesn't help that when I don't have so much weight on my eyelids, they actually fold in different shapes, so I've always had an issue getting my eyes to look the same.
So, yeah. It's my first attempt at anything that isn't my kids halloween make up or my daily make up which is normally mascara, a bit of light shadow and a neutral lip colour. I think all in all, it came out much better than I expected.
Make it a great day!
Kimmie
Well, I did get to play a little bit today. And I may play again some more, later on. I realized something I had forgotten a long time ago.
A while ago, I had gone with a friend to a bridal show (she was getting married in a few months time at that point) and we both put our name in to win a free makeup basket from Mary Kay. Neither of us won, but we did get a Mary Kay beauty consultant calling to schedule a session with us. Well, we got it scheduled and worked out, and the lady came to my house to play makeup with us. My two girls of course loved this completely. Long story short, I signed up to be a Mary Kay consultant and purchased their beginning kit. Long story even shorter, I went to one meeting, found out that I couldn't wear pants (all consultants had to wear knee-length skirts) and that I had to be 100% made up every moment of every day, even if I was just running to the corner store for milk and decided that this wasn't for me. I enjoy my jeans very much and I break out far too easily to be caked in make up every waking moment, on top of the fact that I'm a working mother and don't have the time to be continuously touching up. I'm just not the perfect type.
Anyway... That was a long story. To the point! I got my make up. :D And I promptly put it away and forgot about it. Today, I was going through more of Kandee's videos as well as Michelle Phan's and upset and bothered by the fact that I don't have foundation.
I haven't worn foundation in years. Like I mentioned above, I break out really easily, my pores show up horribly with foundation and I can *never* find the right colour for my skin tone. It's always too pink or too dark. Well, I remembered today that I had the Mary Kay makeup stored away and I pulled that sucker out. I found a bunch of foundations, some mascara, hand cleansers and moisturizers and face cleansers. Well that was like hitting the jackpot! My daughters so thoughtfully emptied my *brand new* face cleanser and I found a foundation that is very, very close to my skin tone, but doesn't give very much coverage, so my pores still show through a lot. I'll have to pick up more another day, but this gives me something to play with in the meantime. :D
Also, I found an eye makeup remover (I *just* ran out of mine a few days ago) and disposable face cloths for doing sessions. Well, I painted my eyes up as dark as I could, 4 or 5 layers of mascara, dark eyeliner, dark shadow, dark brows, etc. and I used some of the eye makeup remover with a disposable face cloth to test how good the remover is. WOW! The face cloth was super soft, I'm glad I've got 50 of them, and they're huge! And the remover? Double WOW! It didn't irritate my eyes at all, and it removed EVERYTHING! My normal remover would always leave a bit of the eyeliner and mascara on, just the thinnest layer, but enough that it wasn't completely gone. I'm totally happy with my finds!
Make it a great day!
Kimmie
A while ago, I had gone with a friend to a bridal show (she was getting married in a few months time at that point) and we both put our name in to win a free makeup basket from Mary Kay. Neither of us won, but we did get a Mary Kay beauty consultant calling to schedule a session with us. Well, we got it scheduled and worked out, and the lady came to my house to play makeup with us. My two girls of course loved this completely. Long story short, I signed up to be a Mary Kay consultant and purchased their beginning kit. Long story even shorter, I went to one meeting, found out that I couldn't wear pants (all consultants had to wear knee-length skirts) and that I had to be 100% made up every moment of every day, even if I was just running to the corner store for milk and decided that this wasn't for me. I enjoy my jeans very much and I break out far too easily to be caked in make up every waking moment, on top of the fact that I'm a working mother and don't have the time to be continuously touching up. I'm just not the perfect type.
Anyway... That was a long story. To the point! I got my make up. :D And I promptly put it away and forgot about it. Today, I was going through more of Kandee's videos as well as Michelle Phan's and upset and bothered by the fact that I don't have foundation.
I haven't worn foundation in years. Like I mentioned above, I break out really easily, my pores show up horribly with foundation and I can *never* find the right colour for my skin tone. It's always too pink or too dark. Well, I remembered today that I had the Mary Kay makeup stored away and I pulled that sucker out. I found a bunch of foundations, some mascara, hand cleansers and moisturizers and face cleansers. Well that was like hitting the jackpot! My daughters so thoughtfully emptied my *brand new* face cleanser and I found a foundation that is very, very close to my skin tone, but doesn't give very much coverage, so my pores still show through a lot. I'll have to pick up more another day, but this gives me something to play with in the meantime. :D
Also, I found an eye makeup remover (I *just* ran out of mine a few days ago) and disposable face cloths for doing sessions. Well, I painted my eyes up as dark as I could, 4 or 5 layers of mascara, dark eyeliner, dark shadow, dark brows, etc. and I used some of the eye makeup remover with a disposable face cloth to test how good the remover is. WOW! The face cloth was super soft, I'm glad I've got 50 of them, and they're huge! And the remover? Double WOW! It didn't irritate my eyes at all, and it removed EVERYTHING! My normal remover would always leave a bit of the eyeliner and mascara on, just the thinnest layer, but enough that it wasn't completely gone. I'm totally happy with my finds!
Make it a great day!
Kimmie
Ewwwww
So, not sure how much playtime I'm going to get today. Bri woke up this morning getting sick all over the place and we're all having a hard time not doing the same ourselves, so it's kind of a relax and don't move the stomach too much kind of day. I'll probably spend the day researching stuff online, looking at pictures, that kind of thing.
Poor girl, hopefully this doesn't last too long.
Poor girl, hopefully this doesn't last too long.
Monday, October 12, 2009
Chalk and paint
I got to play with paints and chalk today. My girls were in the back of the apartment playing with their toys, so I pulled out our craft box and pulled out the tempra paints and the boxes of sidewalk chalk.
First I started out trying to stay neat and tidy (for once!) I got a little paint on my brush and made a few lines on the paper. Then I started mixing the colours. So far so good, no mess! But the colours weren't mixing right. Sure, if I mixed red and yellow, I got orange. But they weren't blending the way I wanted them to. So I went for the chalk. And there's my mess. lol
The sidewalk chalk we have is in large, thick sticks, and my girls have used them well. I took a box cutter and shaved a bunch of the colour off the chalks (we have pink, blue, yellow, purple and green) and dipped the (now cleaned) brush in to the water to get it slightly wet. Putting that in the powdered chalk gave me a clumpy mess to paint with, but wow did that work better.
The colours all blended really nicely, they dried really quickly and I was really pleased with how well it worked. I played around with using a lot of water and a little powder, a little bit of water and a lot of powder and everything in between. I mixed colours directly, I blended them, and it was so much fun!
When I've got the money for it, I'm going to pick up some powdered water colour paints and some pastels.
Now, you read this and you think "Oh, she's learning how to paint." but no. I'm actually dreaming of becoming a TV/movie/photography makeup artist. But, since I'm having to wait a full year before I can look at going to makeup school, I figured I'd learn everything I can about colours, using colours, colour blending, colour saturation and anything else you can think of. It can only help, right? And it gives me something to do. :D
For now, the eggless oatmeal cookies I just made from scratch with Harley are calling and I'm going to have one. :)
Make it a great day!! <3
Kimmie
First I started out trying to stay neat and tidy (for once!) I got a little paint on my brush and made a few lines on the paper. Then I started mixing the colours. So far so good, no mess! But the colours weren't mixing right. Sure, if I mixed red and yellow, I got orange. But they weren't blending the way I wanted them to. So I went for the chalk. And there's my mess. lol
The sidewalk chalk we have is in large, thick sticks, and my girls have used them well. I took a box cutter and shaved a bunch of the colour off the chalks (we have pink, blue, yellow, purple and green) and dipped the (now cleaned) brush in to the water to get it slightly wet. Putting that in the powdered chalk gave me a clumpy mess to paint with, but wow did that work better.
The colours all blended really nicely, they dried really quickly and I was really pleased with how well it worked. I played around with using a lot of water and a little powder, a little bit of water and a lot of powder and everything in between. I mixed colours directly, I blended them, and it was so much fun!
When I've got the money for it, I'm going to pick up some powdered water colour paints and some pastels.
Now, you read this and you think "Oh, she's learning how to paint." but no. I'm actually dreaming of becoming a TV/movie/photography makeup artist. But, since I'm having to wait a full year before I can look at going to makeup school, I figured I'd learn everything I can about colours, using colours, colour blending, colour saturation and anything else you can think of. It can only help, right? And it gives me something to do. :D
For now, the eggless oatmeal cookies I just made from scratch with Harley are calling and I'm going to have one. :)
Make it a great day!! <3
Kimmie
Welcome to my Mess!!
Hi! Welcome to my colourful mess. I've been watching Kandee the makeup artist and she's inspired me to walk my own path of dreams. I figured I have a Google account already, so I'd start blogging. And have fun with it!!
I named it my colourful mess because one of the things that I've been inspired to start doing again is playing with colours and makeup. When I was younger, I was always doing makeup on my sister, on my friends, any time I could. And I always used a lot of colours. When I was a teenager, my mom taught me her way of doing makeup and what she taught me was that the first rule was that the most perfect makeup enhances what's already there without looking like you're wearing makeup. I took that to mean the absence of colour and my makeup has been a lot of neutrals since then.
Looking at what people are wearing now, it's a lot different than what I've been taught and the few times that I've let myself play, I've had a lot of fun with it.
The mess comes in because I always make a mess. lol Whether it's from the powdered makeup, playing with chalk and paint and making a mess with that, or if it's just clumsy spills, there's always a mess to clean up at the end. And I wouldn't have it any other way.
So, welcome to my mess. I'll be having a lot of fun and I hope you'll join me for the ride!!
Kimmie
I named it my colourful mess because one of the things that I've been inspired to start doing again is playing with colours and makeup. When I was younger, I was always doing makeup on my sister, on my friends, any time I could. And I always used a lot of colours. When I was a teenager, my mom taught me her way of doing makeup and what she taught me was that the first rule was that the most perfect makeup enhances what's already there without looking like you're wearing makeup. I took that to mean the absence of colour and my makeup has been a lot of neutrals since then.
Looking at what people are wearing now, it's a lot different than what I've been taught and the few times that I've let myself play, I've had a lot of fun with it.
The mess comes in because I always make a mess. lol Whether it's from the powdered makeup, playing with chalk and paint and making a mess with that, or if it's just clumsy spills, there's always a mess to clean up at the end. And I wouldn't have it any other way.
So, welcome to my mess. I'll be having a lot of fun and I hope you'll join me for the ride!!
Kimmie
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