Diamanda Galas with amazing red eyeshadow and intense winged eyeliner, via last.fm

Diamanda Galas with amazing red eyeshadow and intense winged eyeliner, via last.fm

[Description: Photo of a young Asian woman wearing elaborate makeup. She wears flakes of gold leaf on her eyebrows and lips, along with red eyeshadow, false lashes on her bottom lids, and red-orange lipstick.]

[Description: Photo of a young Asian woman wearing elaborate makeup. She wears flakes of gold leaf on her eyebrows and lips, along with red eyeshadow, false lashes on her bottom lids, and red-orange lipstick.]

(via nova-bright)

[Description: Image of Annaham, a young white woman with dark blond hair pulled back in a bun, standing in an outside environment and looking off to the side. She is wearing a black t-shirt, sunglasses with red frames and bright magenta-purple lipstick.] GPOY, with MAC Rebel lipstick and fancy sunglasses.

[Description: Image of Annaham, a young white woman with dark blond hair pulled back in a bun, standing in an outside environment and looking off to the side. She is wearing a black t-shirt, sunglasses with red frames and bright magenta-purple lipstick.]

GPOY, with MAC Rebel lipstick and fancy sunglasses.

[Description: Close-up of an eye with elaborate “rainbow”-style eyeshadow.] I am of the opinion that rainbow eyeshadow can be REALLY hard to do well, but this is gorgeous.

[Description: Close-up of an eye with elaborate “rainbow”-style eyeshadow.]

I am of the opinion that rainbow eyeshadow can be REALLY hard to do well, but this is gorgeous.

(via iamthecrime)

abbyjean: Cindy Sherman has collaborated with MAC to create her own limited edition costume make-up line (launch date September 29th). (via Cindy Sherman On Your Face) SO EXCITED. SO. EXCITED.

abbyjean:

Cindy Sherman has collaborated with MAC to create her own limited edition costume make-up line (launch date September 29th). (via Cindy Sherman On Your Face)

SO EXCITED. SO. EXCITED.

temptalia: New Urban Decay Lip Pencils - review coming soon! The review [Description: Photo of a set of five Urban Decay lipstick/gloss pencils in varying shades of red, orange and pink.]

temptalia:

New Urban Decay Lip Pencils - review coming soon!

The review

[Description: Photo of a set of five Urban Decay lipstick/gloss pencils in varying shades of red, orange and pink.]

Concert night by annaham featuring low rise skinny jeans Betsey Johnson jacket, $278Keen footwear, 45 CADH&M low rise skinny jeans, £15Deux Lux satchel shoulder bag, $58Pamela Love sterling silver jewelry, $115Oversized sunglasses, $32M·A·C Cosmetics | Lipstick plumful, $15“Mister Mittens’ Big Adventure” - Threadless.com - Best t-shirts in…, $20Korres Lip Butter, $10Dirty Solid Perfume Lush, £4.50 T-shirt + blazer + colorful sneakers + odd piece of jewelry = concert outfit for life
Concert night by annaham featuring low rise skinny jeans

Betsey Johnson jacket, $278
Keen footwear, 45 CAD
H&M low rise skinny jeans, £15
Deux Lux satchel shoulder bag, $58
Pamela Love sterling silver jewelry, $115
Oversized sunglasses, $32
M·A·C Cosmetics | Lipstick plumful, $15
“Mister Mittens’ Big Adventure” - Threadless.com - Best t-shirts in…, $20
Korres Lip Butter, $10
Dirty Solid Perfume Lush, £4.50

T-shirt + blazer + colorful sneakers + odd piece of jewelry = concert outfit for life

I need to take a moment to rave about Urban Decay’s 24/7 Shadow Pencils ($20 US) and how fantastic they are. These are basically eyeshadows in pencil form, and I’ve found them extremely useful, but perhaps not for the reasons you’d imagine. As most readers of this Tumblog know, I have moderate to severe chronic pain and fatigue issues due to fibromyalgia. Cosmetics, for me, are usually not an “everyday” thing (save for lipgloss or lipstick, because those take about 15 seconds to apply if I’m not doing anything fancy) because of the time that it takes me to do a “nice” makeup job. More often than not, the time it takes for me to do “nice” makeup translates into lost energy and/or more pain. Pain due to repetitive motion is one of those things that is outside the realm of most abled peoples’ experience, but on my bad days, putting cosmetics on—and screwing it up, and more often than not having to start all over again—can be physically painful. And yes, some people may be thinking, “Yeah, RIGHT, putting on eyeshadow can’t be that painful!” For me, though, it can be, and I’m sure a lot of people with fibro would say something similar. Just try putting on makeup when your arm feels like it’s been weighted down with a huge piece of iron. After a certain point, it just doesn’t feel worth it anymore, particularly if you’re in a lot of pain and yet you keep making mistakes with makeup application because you are in pain. Parts of it seem very chicken/egg. Enter the UD 24/7 pencils. One or two swipes of the pencil is all it takes, and the actual shadow component of the pencil is large enough that it’ll cover your entire lid (downside: can lead to some imprecision). Granted, these aren’t going to completely prevent pain from repetitive motion, but the one or two swipes and you’re done thing is a huge improvement over having to apply eyeshadow primer, then apply shadow with a brush, then do it again if you screw up, then clean the brush(es) after you use them, et cetera. I haven’t tried blending these yet (and once I do, I’ll write about the results), but I will probably end up getting a few of these because they are awesome. I have the one in Sin (a very shimmery pink champagne/beige shade), and would like to try Barracuda (black with silver shimmer), Delinquent (shimmery eggplant purple), and Mercury (gunmetal gray). If you have chemical sensitivity issues, I am not sure if these would be appropriate given the list of ingredients (scroll down the page for ingredient lists; each pencil may contain different pigments and such). [Cross-posted at my blog]

I need to take a moment to rave about Urban Decay’s 24/7 Shadow Pencils ($20 US) and how fantastic they are. These are basically eyeshadows in pencil form, and I’ve found them extremely useful, but perhaps not for the reasons you’d imagine.

As most readers of this Tumblog know, I have moderate to severe chronic pain and fatigue issues due to fibromyalgia. Cosmetics, for me, are usually not an “everyday” thing (save for lipgloss or lipstick, because those take about 15 seconds to apply if I’m not doing anything fancy) because of the time that it takes me to do a “nice” makeup job. More often than not, the time it takes for me to do “nice” makeup translates into lost energy and/or more pain. Pain due to repetitive motion is one of those things that is outside the realm of most abled peoples’ experience, but on my bad days, putting cosmetics on—and screwing it up, and more often than not having to start all over again—can be physically painful. And yes, some people may be thinking, “Yeah, RIGHT, putting on eyeshadow can’t be that painful!” For me, though, it can be, and I’m sure a lot of people with fibro would say something similar. Just try putting on makeup when your arm feels like it’s been weighted down with a huge piece of iron. After a certain point, it just doesn’t feel worth it anymore, particularly if you’re in a lot of pain and yet you keep making mistakes with makeup application because you are in pain. Parts of it seem very chicken/egg.

Enter the UD 24/7 pencils. One or two swipes of the pencil is all it takes, and the actual shadow component of the pencil is large enough that it’ll cover your entire lid (downside: can lead to some imprecision). Granted, these aren’t going to completely prevent pain from repetitive motion, but the one or two swipes and you’re done thing is a huge improvement over having to apply eyeshadow primer, then apply shadow with a brush, then do it again if you screw up, then clean the brush(es) after you use them, et cetera. I haven’t tried blending these yet (and once I do, I’ll write about the results), but I will probably end up getting a few of these because they are awesome. I have the one in Sin (a very shimmery pink champagne/beige shade), and would like to try Barracuda (black with silver shimmer), Delinquent (shimmery eggplant purple), and Mercury (gunmetal gray). If you have chemical sensitivity issues, I am not sure if these would be appropriate given the list of ingredients (scroll down the page for ingredient lists; each pencil may contain different pigments and such).

[Cross-posted at my blog]

temptalia: Giorgio Armani #8 Eyes to Kill Intense [Description: Photo of a pot of silver-pink eyeshadow.]

temptalia:

Giorgio Armani #8 Eyes to Kill Intense

[Description: Photo of a pot of silver-pink eyeshadow.]

[Description: Photo of a nude white woman looking at herself in the mirror. She has elaborately dyed hair and wears yellow and green eye makeup, red nail polish, and red lipstick.]

[Description: Photo of a nude white woman looking at herself in the mirror. She has elaborately dyed hair and wears yellow and green eye makeup, red nail polish, and red lipstick.]

(Source: yasuumiyagi, via makeupchicken)