Donna is the Best Friend in the WORLD

Donna is my BFF and pretty much the best friend ever. I got dressed up to get my fiance from the airport today, and had a shitty red lipstick. She offered to let me borrow her Lime Crime Retrofuturistic (WHICH I LOVE) before she left for work. Instead of giving me the one lipstick, she just forked over her MEGABAG of make up and told me not to lose it.


I DIE.

So of course I had to go through allll her goodies with my friend Aurora.  We started to organise by brand and what the make up was, until we ran out of room.

Shiro Cosmetics, and some store brands

I adore the packing on SHIRO!

BareMinerals, LimeCrime, Urban Decay, Too Faced

MAC HEAVEN - and not all her MAC either.

My other fave brand - Urban Decay. LOOK AT ALL HER PALLETS.

So, again, Donna is amazing, I'm jealous of her collection, and one day I'm going to grow up and own her makeups.

[NOT MY] WEDDING UPDATE

SO I'VE been looking through a bunch of different pictures trying to find make up ideas for my friend Kel's wedding. I get to be the maid of honor! I was talking with Donna ( meangirlmakeup.blogspot.com ), and she thought MAC's Parisian Skies would be a good color for Kelsey (who is blonde with blue eyes) and would go well with her colors (blue green and purple). This is a swatch I took from Temptalia of MAC's Parisian Skies

I found a pretty close color from Essence 

Blue Moon by Essence

The middle swatch was with Urban Decay's Greed Primer. Not a bad dupe for a $3 shadow! 

But it definitely needs a primer. 

ALSO look what I made for the wedding!

I got everything at Wal*Mart believe it or not. I'm thinking about adding more beading to the bottom hangy bit but I really love it so far! I have a necklace that my boyfriend gave me a few years back with that same octopus/chtulu guy. 

Three of my favourites I picked up in New York

HEY GUYS!
I'm finally back from New York and I got A LOT of good stuff! Here are three of my favourites.

KISS SALON FRENCH NAILS

I picked these up at the Dollar General for $2.50. I grabbed a couple because I've been wanting to get my nails done professionally, but up here it's too expensive. And my friend is getting married in a week and I'm her maid of honor so I can't have my normal trashed nails. 

AMAZINGLY these have held up for 4 days. Usually when I wear fake nails, they fall off the next day if not sooner, but this is them on day 4.

And everyone keeps asking me where I got them done! I'm really impressed and wish I'd grabbed like 6 packs. At the local stores, fake nails are three times what I paid for these in New York.

URSULA COMPACT MIRROR

She's been my favourite Disney villaness since I was a little girl! My sister actually found this on a clearance rack in the Disney Store for $5.99. I LOVE IT.

FUNKY FINGERS CRACKLE

I picked this up a store I'd never heard of before - 5 Lo. I really wanted to get a crackle polish, but the Chinese Glaze formula seems really hard to use, and I wasn't that in love with it so I didn't want to plop the $7 for it. This crackle was only $1.50. And the formula is just thin enough that you don't have to really worry about putting too much on and having the crackle not crack.

That's the Funky Fingers black Crackle over Sinful Colors Gorgeous. LOVE IT. 

MORE FAVOURITES TO COME!!

ANOTHER GIVE AWAY UPDATE!!

Hey y'all Safira from Love Makeup is having a SECOND GIVE AWAY?!


This pallet is amazing so go quick!

TRAVEL AND CUTENESS

I'M LEAVING tonight for NY to visit my family. I'm so excited! I haven't seen most of my family in over five years. I have pictures of all my must have beautifiers for when you travel but they didn't turn out well... so I'll post them when I get to my granma's.

IN THE MEAN TIME check out my cute travel mani I did last night at work :D

 I used Sally Hansen's Insta-Dry in Blue Me Away which is my new favourite color. And the heart I did in Essie's Aruba Blue using a bent artist's brush. I topped this with Seche Vite which I haven't had the best of luck with, but Donna did point out that I globbed that shit on so... We'll see how long this lasts! It's already lasted me through a few hours of work, packing and shopping.

What other sorts of nail art are you guys interested in?

UPDATE

SO I HAVEN'T posted in a while because I got hit by a drunk driver on my way home from work. I'm okay, just angry and my car is broken. The last 3 weeks have been devoted to getting my life back in order and getting a new car (since mine was totaled).

SOOOO new posts should be here in a bit, I'm going on vacation to see my family in upstate NY, so expect a travel post! I promise I'll have a real post coming up here soon.

HEY YOU GUYS!

I'M A SUPER SHITTY BLOGGER, but in my defense, I haven't had my camera for a week and then I went to Portland after that. 

BUT I HAVE SOME AWESOME NEWS! Safira of  lovemakeup-safira.blogspot.com is having a giveaway here http://lovemakeup-safira.blogspot.com/2011/05/my-fisrt-giveaway-enter-now.html?showComment=1307081147135#c4251280593104969525 

CHECK IT OUT - it's got some REALLY great stuff in there! 

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