EOTD: Boyfriend-requested green

February 19th, 2010

I got mail today!  My sample pack from Detrivore arrived today, so I had a rainbow of 50 new samples to play with.  Now, when faced with that many choices I never know what I want to do.  I decided to try an experiment: after I got out of the shower, I asked my boyfriend what color eyeshadow to wear.  After sputtering for a bit about not knowing anything about makeup and what looks good on people, I finally got a color out of him.  Green.  Okay, I don’t wear green often because I have green eyes, but why not?  Here’s what I came up with, 5 hours after putting it on:

Note that it’s a bit creased, and also that my eyeliner didn’t last at all.  I was going to take a picture right after I was done putting on the makeup, as usual, but our friends that we were going out with tonight chose that moment to show up at the door.  The picture is a little washed out too; the shadow may have creased a little, but it hasn’t faded nearly as much as my picture shows.  I’m going to reserve judgment on the Detrivore primer; I really want to like it, because the shadow stuck to it nicely but also blended well, but my skin has been a lot more oily than usual lately, and I think that’s a contributor to the early creasing.  I’ll have to experiment with quantity, since it’s a different texture than I’m used it.  It’s a lot firmer than Paintpot.  (I don’t have a decent open-eyed picture.  The eyeliner had already disappeared from my lower lash line.)

Here’s what I used:

• Detrivore primer on the lid
• Detrivore Ectoplasma (bright green) on the inner two-thirds of my lid and slightly into the crease
• Detrivore Amazon (bright deep emerald green) on the outer half of my lid, blended with the Ectoplasma, and swept into the crease a bit
• Fyrinnae Nijiro on the brow bone, blended down onto the greens
• A touch of Urban Decay 24/7 liner in Zero on the outer bit of my upper lash line and smudged onto my lower lashline.  I should have done the waterline, but I was already running a bit late and my waterline can be a pain in the ass to get right.
• Cover Girl Lash Blast Volume mascara.  I really should have combed my lashes, but whatever.

For lipstick today, I wore NYX Lips in Thalia, and I was right about it.  It’s an excellent my-lips-but-better color.  Oily Mexican food wore it off in the middle, though, and I didn’t really want to put any more on just to hang out on the couch and watch the Olympics in my pajamas.  Trust me, it’s excellent.  I think it may have replaced my Bare MAC Slimshine as my go-to color.

Also, I’m looking for a new black eyeliner pencil that’s waterline-safe.  If anyone has any recommendations (bonus points if they’re drugstore, since I’m probably going to Walmart and/or Target tomorrow), please leave a comment!