EOTD: Complementary colors.

February 3rd, 2010

I don’t even know what possessed me to do this.  Yes, I did the orange on purpose, but I tried something weird with the crease, and it actually worked.  Just eyes today; my skin is feeling really dull, so I didn’t want to deal with foundation, and I had a dentist appointment, so I didn’t bother with lipstick.

I’ve been applying my Paintpot more lightly lately, so it’s not getting cakey, but I think I need to find a different happy medium, because I think I’ve been erring on the side of too lightly.  Look!  Capillaries!

And open (dear lord, I need a brow wax):

• Painterly Paintpot on the lid.
• (You can’t see this, because I decided to put on more orange, but…) Fyrinnae’s Finnegan’s Wake on the lid.
• Sassy Minerals Solar Flare on the inner corner, and I ended up expanding it farther out onto the lid than I’d originally intended, so you can’t see the Finnegan’s Wake anyway.
• On the crease and outer corner, Fyrinnae’s Arcane Magic: Mystic.  This is the part with the “I can’t believe I did that” because in the pot, this is blue.  I applied it fairly lightly, though, so it’s reading as more gray than blue.  This color would be amazing in a smokey eye.  I put some along my lower lash line, too.
• Fyrinnae’s Nijiro on the brow bone, as usual.  You can’t really see it, though, since I had to crop out my eyebrows in order to crop my bangs out of the picture.  I need to trim them.
• New mascara!  I picked up some Cover Girl Lash Blast volume last night.  So far I like it, but I think I’m going to get more volume once the tube dries a bit.  Freshly opened, it’s really quite wet.  I also hate the tube.  It tapers so small at the bottom that it doesn’t stand up very well.

I need to mess with my skin care routine and start drinking more water.  I’ve been breaking out a lot recently (well, a lot for me), and though my skin feels okay to the touch (soft, not dry, not greasy), it looks dull and blotchy, and my pores are more visible lately.