Whats in my Z-Palette?!

Last Wednesday, after school and my grad night class, I went to Sephora to return my ambient lighting palette. I got 48$ back since I bought it in the VIB sale. I also had my $20 dollar off $50 coupon so you know I had to get something. I wanted to maybe get a Becca highlighter, but I really didn’t feel like driving all the way to the location near me that carries that line. I also didn't feel like spending my whole refund on one item! Those highlighters are HELLA expensive, especially if you factor in cost per wear, which I always do. If I pay $50 dollars for a foundation, I’m ok with that because I can use it every time I wear makeup, however I’m a middle school teacher so my everyday makeup routine does not usually call for highlighter. (Definitely not a 40+ dollar one). I just can't justify it. 

But that was a tangent!

I ended up using my coupon on a First Aid Beauty Skin Rescue Deep Cleanser, a Small Sephora Z Palette, and a (gotcha item from the travel section) the Kat Von D Lip Love Set.

I took all my new goodies home and re-did my Z palette! I have my Original Naked Palette in here, my UD Smoked palette that I de-potted that night, 4 MAC shades and my contour color that cracked horribly when I de-potted it. She's a beaut aint she!

what's in my z palette

I love it! It gives me so much variety and I can see everything I have at once. And now that I also have the smaller Z palette it gives me more options to mix and match for my travel makeup bag.

Hope you enjoyed!

Love, 

Jess 

Weekly Makeup Basket #1 WOC edition

I'm starting a project pan for 2015! I have a whole post on why I made the decision coming up tomorrow. But my first step is starting up doing weekly makeup baskets! The purpose of this is to challenge myself to focus on particular products and find awesome go-to looks that will come in handy when my panning challenge actually gets started.

I also noticed that every morning my tiny vanity table ends up a mess! It’s because I have too much crammed on to it. So in deciding what I will be using for a week or two I can pack my other products away and cut down on clutter.

So here are the shadows I'll be working with.

And the eye bases, the third one is MAC Indianwood

 Finally, my foundations.

NC45

Since this is my first time doing this I wanted to just focus on eyes and face  products. I didn't do a full face for a few reasons: 1. I don't own multiples of everything (ex. I own 1 face primer) 2. I still need to figure out what blushes and lippies look best with the eyeshadow  3. Since I'm new at this I didn't want to make it impossibly restricted. 

All the best, 

Jess

De-potting Adventures

I decided to take the plunge (or spatula) and de-pot my Urban Decay Smoked Palette. I got this one back when it came out in 2012 because I was on the “buy everything” bandwagon. When I did use it I mostly lived on Barlust because it’s like a more intense version of Smog from my original Naked Palette. Other than that I used the blue (Evidence), green Loaded) and purple (Rockstar) shades a handful of times. I decided to depot this palette because I realized that it’s not the perfect travel palette for me. The shades are mostly dark and smoky and when I travel I'm more likely to wear minimal or neutral eye shadow and I’ll wear a bright lip for going out. It just made more sense to get rid of the packaging and have easier access to the actual eye shadows on a daily basis.

Here are the results!

It was a super easy process I used the spatula provided in the Sephora Z palettes and used the no-heat  method from this video 

Stay tuned for my Full Z- Palette! 

Much love, 

Jess

Face of Yesterday

Face

black radiance bb cream in cafe

nars radiant creamy concealer in amande 

ben nye luxury powder in topaz 

mac msf natural in deep dark 

nars blush in liberte

Eyes

too faced shadow insurance

maybelline color tattoo in inked in pink

naked 1 buck (crease) toasted (lid) sidecar (inner corner)

mac swiss chocolate (crease) brown script (lower lash line)

urban decay smoked palette loaded (lower lash line)

Lips 

sephora nano liner in chic coco

milani power lip gloss stain in creamy cafe

I went with a lighter makeup look to see how it would go. I learned that the Ben Nye powders DO NOT control oil. I was oily on my nose after a few hours...and I have dry skin. I have been experimenting with some eyeshadows I had been neglecting, because I am thinking about doing a project pan with some of my naked palette shades. I also bought the lip color on Monday at CVS because I have no will power... Its a long wearing lip gloss from Milani  in a pretty pinkish nude color. I think it looks good. Its hard to pair lippies with pinky toned eyeshadows!

On the teaching side, I was told I looked happier while teaching today. I think I am. 

Nuff Love, 

Jess

Naked Palette 2 Update!!

Lovlies,

Apparently this is a pic of the NEW naked palette. Again taken form the UD facebook. It's BEAUTIFUL. And I was wrong, its not cool toned! Here are the shades and my descriptions, based on the picture.

1. Foxy- Buttery Vanilla highlight
2. Half Baked- high shine yellow gold
3. BootyCall- light champagne-ish highlight
4. Chopper- bronze
5. Tease- Teak medium brown (matte)
6. Snakebite?- looks like smog, medium brown shimmer
7. Suspect- lighter peachier med-brown
8. Pistol- interestng grey/brown/ silver...kinda taupe-ish
9. Verve- white silver
10. YDK- looks like sidecar
11. Busted??- purple brown
12. Blackout - black-black (matte)

It looks like 12 shades (WITH A BLACK!!!) with AT LEAST 2 re-promotes.

Im Juiced :)

Do you think you'll buy??

******UPDATE AGAIN******
more swatches on the UB facebook

NAKED PALETTE 2???

Lovelies!

I saw yesterday on Urban Decay's Facebook  that they are releasing a new Naked palette. As of now there is no official name for it . But I'm guessing Naked Palette 2. No one know much about it but they did release 3 swatches. I speculate that this palette will contain 12 or so COOL TONED shades, since the original palette was mostly warmer colors. How FUN! 

Are you into cool toned eyeshadow? Will you be the first to pick this up?

Click the link above for more info on their FB page.  

-jess 

Fotd going to the theatre with naked palette

Naked on lid

Buck in crease

Prestige red lip liner

Elf gloss, which I highly recommend!