Beauty Blitz

So, every day on my blog you see me with generally one of two hair styles and no makeup. This is an accurate representation, to be sure, but it hides from you the fact that I'm actually quite obsessed with experimenting with hair and makeup products. I can spend hours in an Ulta and end up justifying buying way too much. In fact, there's an Ulta about twenty feet from my second job...and I need to be careful not to blow my paychecks there.

In any case, most of my experimentation comes from inspiration. Last night we went out for Christine's birthday (yay 20!), and I decided to try out some makeup that I saw on Project Runway (I caught up on about three episodes on Friday night).



For those of you who watch, you probably remember that this is Seth Aaron's former model. The makeup artist gave her an extreme smoky eye that extended all the way up to her eyebrows. I thought that was pretty sick. Erin took pictures of me attempting it.





The end result.

I decided to give my look a little more dimension by layering the smoky color over a funky purple. I used L'Oreal High Intensity Pigments Bright Shadow Duo in Reckless, using the brighter shade, and layered Urban Decay Eyeshadow in Gunmetal Over it. Instead of using eyeliner I lined my bottom lashes with the same bright purple, and then used Cover Girl Lash Blast Luxe mascara. I was pretty pleased with it.

In case you were wondering, the messy pony is on purpose, I used a liberal amount of Sexy Hair's Soya Want Full Hair, hairspray, teased it, and pulled it back.



Baker's sequined leggings. F21 white tank. Calvin Klein black tank. Hot Kiss Booties.

Kept the outfit simple and let my makeup do the talking. Though I got several comments about the leggings. Someone called them "Lady Gaga pants" (YES!), a friend of mine said she couldn't stop staring at my butt (awkward), and a random frat brother gave me the shiniest pants of the night award. Win.



Me and friend J.R. being cute. Hope your Saturday night was fun too!