Edyta is a smokey green with gold and green shimmer and it was released with the Wicked and Wonderful Collection not too long ago.



I wish I could have captured a better picture to show off the shimmer of this but it's so rainy and murky out today that it's just not happening. It really is a beautiful colour though and the application was excellent.

I finally got my Viva Glam lipglasses in the mail today so here are some quick swatches:


Cyndi, Gaga

Welcome to my monthly favourites series where I discuss my most used/most loved products of that month.

I've also decided to add a little something extra to my monthly favourites each month - I'm going to add in something completely non-beauty related that I have been into that month. So, whether it be a book I'm reading, a TV show I'm into or a pair of socks I really like, I'll discuss that as well.

Sigma E55 Eye Shading Brush

This is the brush that is supposed to compare to the MAC 239 brush but I have to say, they're in a pretty close race in my opinion. I'm not actually going to compare the two brushes, I'm just going to discuss what I like about the Sigma brush and why it's in my favourites this month.

I like that the Sigma brush has a pretty large brush head so it's able to deposit a good amount of colour - this is great if you're doing one colour all over the lid. As well, it's slightly fluffy which means that you're able to blend with it as you're depositing colour. It's also very inexpensive; if bought individually it only costs a little more than $9.00 CND. It can also be bought in a kit with either brushes, either the Sigma Complete Brush Kit, Eyes Kit, Face and Eyes Kit or you can use their Build Your Own Kit function and add this brush to your own customized kit. Lastly, one of my favourite things about the Sigma brush is that the brush hairs are dark so they don't stain easily.

Price: $9.00 US (which equals out to able $9.35 CND)
Where to buy: Sigma

MAC Blot Powder

I don't have much to say about this product besides that if you have oily skin, this is a life saver, especially during the summer months.

I usually use MAC's Prep & Prime Transparent Finishing Powder as my after foundation setting powder but during the hot summer months, I switch to the Blot Powder as an extra shine control measure and it really does keep shine at bay all day long. This is definitely the oily-skinned-girl's best friend.

Price: $27 CND
Where to buy: MAC

Sterilite Shoe Drawers

Yes, simple plastic drawers are in my monthly favourites. Why? Because I recently re-organized/expanded my makeup/nail station and these drawers have been crucial to my organization scheme.
I now have 13 of these babies at my station and I think they're absolutely perfect for storing makeup/nail polish. Plus, they're dirt cheap which is always a plus! I'm going to be posting pictures (or possibly a video) of my entire setup/collection in the very near future so you'll be able to see just how useful these drawers have been.

Price: About $4 each
Where to buy: Wal-Mart

Criminal Minds

Here's my not-at-all guilty pleasure of the moment - the TV crime-drama Criminal Minds.

I've always been a big fan of crime shows so it should come as no surprise that I love this one as well. However, this one is different and it has very quickly become my all time favourite crime-drama (sorry CSI!).

I love the characters, I love the intensity and I love the story lines but I think that the reason this show in particular means a little something more to me is maybe because it's relative to my field of study. Since I'm (very happily) studying Sociology, Psychology and Criminology, it only seems fitting that I would love a crime show that instead of looking only at hard scientific evidence, actually uses behavioural analysis to solve crimes. Oh I just love it!

If you're into crime-drama at all, I definitely recommend this show.

Price: I got the majority of the full season DVD boxsets for about $25 CND
Where to buy: Wal-Mart
(You can also watch full episodes online on sites such as sidereel or tvduck

That's it for this month.
Have a great day everyone. :)

I sat down last night with absolutely no ideas of what to do on my nails. I was even pressuring the boyfriend to come up with something for me! I ended up wasting too much time trying to come up with something that I just got frustrated and decided to do the simplest thing I could come up with: dominoes.


Products:

• China Glaze Strong Adhesion Base Coat
• China Glaze - Liquid Leather
• L.A. Colors Art Deco - White
• China Glaze - White On White
• Seche Vite Top Coat

As promised, here are the swatches of the products I purchased from the MAC Fabulous Felines Collection.

I didn't get any of the eyeshadow quads nor did I get any of the new Superslick Liquid Eyeliners but I will definitely be ordering a few of those with my next MAC purchase.

Lipsticks:
Cunning, Aristo-cat, Of Royalty, Kittenish


Lipglasses:
Lap of Luxury, Spree


Pigments:
Antique Green, Bloodline, Old Gold

Enjoy. :)

Welcome to Volume 10 of Haul Saturdays - a weekly post chronicling whatever beauty related purchases I made throughout that week.

Shopper's Drug Mart:
• Beyonce Heat Perfume
• Revlon - Slipper glitter top coat

eBay:
• OPI - Lucerne-tainly Look Marvelous, Ski Teal We Drop, and Glitzerland polishes

Wal-Mart:
• Hard Candy - Licorice, Lucky, Fuschia and Dream Girl Walk The Line Liquid Eyeliners
• Revlon - Back up of my Colorstay foundation

Oh, and ignore the bottle of acetone in the corner of the picture. :P
And as always, if anyone would like to see any swatches of anything listed above, just let me know.

I decided to continue with the Back to School theme and try a design that someone suggested to me on the Makeup Geek forums (thanks EdenBlue!). This is once again not my design but I like it a lot better than the pencil design since it goes much better with my skin colour.



Products:

• China Glaze Strong Adhesion Base Coat
• China Glaze - White on White (paper)
• L.A. Colors Art Deco - Baby Pink (the side margin)
• L.A. Colors Art Deco - Sky Blue (lines)
• L.A. Colors Art Deco - Red (grades)
• China Glaze - Liquid Leather (paper holes)
• China Glaze Matte Magic Top Coat (all over to give the paper a flat finish)
• Seche Vite Top Coat (I used this only on the letters to give those a little shine as if they had actually been written with a pen)

Alright, here's the start of my attempt to catch up on all the swatching I need to do. The first batch of swatches I started with is the Orly Plastix Collection.

This collection is a bit of a different take on the matte craze that's happening right now; they're satin finish polishes that have only a semi-gloss to them.

Viridian Vinyl

Purple Pleather

Old School Orange

Retro Red
These dry very fast and are meant to be worn without a top coat (although if you're not into the finish on these but still like the colours, you can always just add a shiny top coat). The formula was good on all of these and each of my swatches is 3 coats. My only problem with these polishes is that because they dry so quickly, unless you work relatively fast in between coats, you can end up with some bubbling.

My favourite of the bunch was surprisingly Old School Orange. I would have thought it would be Viridian Vinyl or Purple Pleather but Old School Orange is just the perfect shade of true orange.

On another note, here's a list of swatches to look forward to from me in the coming days/weeks:

Orly Cosmic FX Collection
MAC Fabulous Felines Collection
Zoya Wicked and Wonderful Collection
OPI Swiss Collection
MAC Viva Glam Lipglasses