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Friday, August 12, 2011
Wet n Wild eyeshadow palette review and swatches
Hi everyone! So I want to mention first and foremost that i've used this brand before years ago and the quality was meh.. the selection was very limited and packaging sucked... therefore, I didn't use this brand much and for very long. About a year ago I started hearing rave reviews about wet n wild products and I just figured it was the same and I didn't want to bother. The more I kept hearing about em, the better attention I paid to it and have found out they reformulated, redesigned and sort of relaunched this brand. Although I still shy'd away from it.. for awhile, after many times of passing by that section, I finally caved and bought the vanity palette. I get home and open it up, swatch it and gasped! The shadows were buttery silky smooth... the colors were even more beautiful than in the pan... so the next day i went back and bought the 3 remaining palettes that they had in the 6 shadow ones. So in total I now have 4.
PROS : The eyeshadows are definitely pigmented (see pics below), super buttery silky smooth, color payoff looks better than in pan, super affordable $4.99 a palette. (even cheaper with BOGO). Sleek packaging, slim so it makes it easy to travel with or fit into small spaces. Palettes have both matte and shimmer colors.
CONS: Although very pigmented, there tends to be a lot of fall outs on the darker colors. The shadows are not powdery, but more... not as pressed as for example mac shadows. The blending for this is pretty good for a drugstore brand, but it can easily be shadow overload when picking up the products with a brush and going directly on the eye so i'd suggest tapping off the excess before applying. Although the colors are pigmented and buttery smooth, like with every brand theres always a couple that wont be as good as the rest and between these 4 palettes i'd say maybe 3 of the colors i had to re-swatch a couple times to get the color to show up vibrantly.
Overall I would give these palettes 4 out of 5 stars, I knocked off one star due to heavy fallouts on some of the shadows. I would definitely repurchase if I ever run out. I highly recommend any of these palettes, seems like it would fit well with any skintone too. They're cheap and easily accessible, available at fred meyers, rite aids, walgreens, cvs, and I believe walmart as well. And if you can't get to a store... its also sold on www.drugstore.com
Hope this review was helpful and not too painfully long. If you have any questions feel free to ask! I will also be using these palettes in the futures for FOTD or looks or on my models for my portfolio so stay tuned for those!
PROS : The eyeshadows are definitely pigmented (see pics below), super buttery silky smooth, color payoff looks better than in pan, super affordable $4.99 a palette. (even cheaper with BOGO). Sleek packaging, slim so it makes it easy to travel with or fit into small spaces. Palettes have both matte and shimmer colors.
CONS: Although very pigmented, there tends to be a lot of fall outs on the darker colors. The shadows are not powdery, but more... not as pressed as for example mac shadows. The blending for this is pretty good for a drugstore brand, but it can easily be shadow overload when picking up the products with a brush and going directly on the eye so i'd suggest tapping off the excess before applying. Although the colors are pigmented and buttery smooth, like with every brand theres always a couple that wont be as good as the rest and between these 4 palettes i'd say maybe 3 of the colors i had to re-swatch a couple times to get the color to show up vibrantly.
Overall I would give these palettes 4 out of 5 stars, I knocked off one star due to heavy fallouts on some of the shadows. I would definitely repurchase if I ever run out. I highly recommend any of these palettes, seems like it would fit well with any skintone too. They're cheap and easily accessible, available at fred meyers, rite aids, walgreens, cvs, and I believe walmart as well. And if you can't get to a store... its also sold on www.drugstore.com
Hope this review was helpful and not too painfully long. If you have any questions feel free to ask! I will also be using these palettes in the futures for FOTD or looks or on my models for my portfolio so stay tuned for those!
TOP ROW "VANITY" // BOTTOM ROW "GREED"
TOP ROW "LUST" // BOTTOM ROW "PRIDE"
Thursday, August 11, 2011
Amateur photo sessions!
So this is a little project I've been working on to add to my portfolio. I am a freelance makeup artist but not doing it as often as I'd like... I have some projects coming up with a very established photographer by the name of Amy Kiel and she is absolutely amazing and what she does. I will leave her website below if your interested in seeing her work. So in the meantime while thats in process, finding other photographers to work with is currently slim pickings. With that problem going on, I decided to improvise and get things started on my own :D. I've asked a couple of gal friends of mine to volunteer their face for me to get my portfolio up and running and decided to do a home made photo session that actually turned out pretty awesome!! (pics below).
The whole "theme" I guess you can say, is something simple, sweet but still eye catching. I decided to do a simple white backdrop, with them wearing white. The reason for the white backdrop is that i feel it catches light better and really enhances the center of attention which is my "models" :P. After a couple of photos I realized this would be an absolutely doable solution to my lack of portfolio. I love the idea of no background distraction and main focus being the model and the makeup. I will definitely continue to do shoots like this.. even if its not super professional, it still looks awesome! It was so much fun and am so grateful for the ladies who participated and the future lovelies who will be participating.
A little disclaimer. The only editing done to the photos (since I don't have photoshop) was cropping of the pictures and brightening. That was pretty much all that was done due to my lack of editing. So what you see, is pretty much what you get :D. Please enjoy and if you have ANY questions at all please feel free to ask away!
mentions: www.Amykielphotography.com
also find me on Facebook! www.facebook.com/makeupbymey
Items used was mostly MAC, if not, it is noted.
Face: graftobian cream fdnt palette, mac f&b, maybelline dream matte powder
Cheeks: mac msfn light, mac refined golden bronzer, mocha blush
Eyes: (mac) wedge, sketch, deep truth, nyx JEP in milk, brown script, shadowy lady, orb, crystal avalanche, espresso (brows)
Lips: mac angel l/s, cellopink lip gelee
Face: Graftobian cream fdnt, mac f&b, maybelline dream matte powder
Cheeks: mac msfn light, refined golden bronzer, melba blush
Eyes: woodwinked, orb, sketch, handwritten, wedge, brown script, espresso
Lips: chatterbox l/s mix with myth ls, jellybabe lip gelee
Face: Graftobian cream fdnt, mac f&b, msfn medium dark
Cheeks: msfn light, blunt blush, mocha blush
Eyes: folie, handwritten, hepcat, wedge, brown script, sketch, orb, black ben nye shadow, nyx pearl pigment (the bright purple one)
Lips: angle l/s mix with craving l/s, pink poodle l/s
Face: Graftobian cream fdnt, mac f&b, msfn medium dark
Cheeks: msfn light, refined golden bronzer, cubic blush
Eyes: shroom, crystal avalanche, orb, wedge, brown script, jest, handwritten
Lips: chatterbox ls, angel ls
Face: Graftobian cream fdnt, mac f&b, maybelline dream matte powder
Cheeks: msfn light, melba blush, refined golden bronzer
Eyes: gray color from wnw lust palette, sketch, wedge, cork, orb, crystal avalance, black from ben nye, handwritten
Lips: myth ls mix with angel ls
The whole "theme" I guess you can say, is something simple, sweet but still eye catching. I decided to do a simple white backdrop, with them wearing white. The reason for the white backdrop is that i feel it catches light better and really enhances the center of attention which is my "models" :P. After a couple of photos I realized this would be an absolutely doable solution to my lack of portfolio. I love the idea of no background distraction and main focus being the model and the makeup. I will definitely continue to do shoots like this.. even if its not super professional, it still looks awesome! It was so much fun and am so grateful for the ladies who participated and the future lovelies who will be participating.
A little disclaimer. The only editing done to the photos (since I don't have photoshop) was cropping of the pictures and brightening. That was pretty much all that was done due to my lack of editing. So what you see, is pretty much what you get :D. Please enjoy and if you have ANY questions at all please feel free to ask away!
mentions: www.Amykielphotography.com
also find me on Facebook! www.facebook.com/makeupbymey
Items used was mostly MAC, if not, it is noted.
Face: graftobian cream fdnt palette, mac f&b, maybelline dream matte powder
Cheeks: mac msfn light, mac refined golden bronzer, mocha blush
Eyes: (mac) wedge, sketch, deep truth, nyx JEP in milk, brown script, shadowy lady, orb, crystal avalanche, espresso (brows)
Lips: mac angel l/s, cellopink lip gelee
Face: Graftobian cream fdnt, mac f&b, maybelline dream matte powder
Cheeks: mac msfn light, refined golden bronzer, melba blush
Eyes: woodwinked, orb, sketch, handwritten, wedge, brown script, espresso
Lips: chatterbox l/s mix with myth ls, jellybabe lip gelee
Face: Graftobian cream fdnt, mac f&b, msfn medium dark
Cheeks: msfn light, blunt blush, mocha blush
Eyes: folie, handwritten, hepcat, wedge, brown script, sketch, orb, black ben nye shadow, nyx pearl pigment (the bright purple one)
Lips: angle l/s mix with craving l/s, pink poodle l/s
Face: Graftobian cream fdnt, mac f&b, msfn medium dark
Cheeks: msfn light, refined golden bronzer, cubic blush
Eyes: shroom, crystal avalanche, orb, wedge, brown script, jest, handwritten
Lips: chatterbox ls, angel ls
Cheeks: msfn light, melba blush, refined golden bronzer
Eyes: gray color from wnw lust palette, sketch, wedge, cork, orb, crystal avalance, black from ben nye, handwritten
Lips: myth ls mix with angel ls
First post!
Hi everyone! So if you've been following me from my other page.. THANK YOU! and if your a new follower?.. WELCOME :D. Pretty much an introduction to this makeup blog. I will be featuring makeup, reviews, a little bit of hair, a little bit of fashion. A little bit of this and a little bit of that :). Stay tuned for more to come! If you have any questions then please feel free to ask and i will respond in the comment section. Now lets get this relationship we got going on started!
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