Aromaleigh v.2 "Starry Night" purple look

Hello,
In this look, I'm using izar, a free sample from the Starry Night limited edition collection that I received in my last order.  What a pleasant surprise.  I paired it with Pink Portent, a pale sparkly lavender/pink from Aromaleigh v1's Wonderstruck collection, which is still available on the site.

According to the site description, izar is a "deep amethyst purple frost with a muted lowlight, shimmering with brilliant rose pink sparks."

On my face I used Meow Cosmetics pampered puss mineral powder foundation in a mix of Frisky and Naughty Abyssinian followed by Aromaleigh ultra resolution finishing powder in Clear.  On my cheeks, is Aromaleigh rocks! sonic rouge in Candy-o.  And I am wearing Rimmel moisture renew cream lipgloss (spf 15, collagen, vitamins a, c & e, and no funky smell or taste) in #115 Rose Cocoon. . . I love this gloss!  The other eyeshadow colors referenced in this diagram and Aromaleigh v1 colors. 

Click here to check out more of the Starry Night collection.

If you've done a look using the Starry Night collection, please feel free to leave a link in the comments section.  I'd love to see it.

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Gilded holiday fotd and photo tutorial

Hi Nesters,

Here is my first look using Meow's holiday collection "Holiday Wishes." In this look, I also used a blush from their holiday collection "Sugarplums," as well as a glow powder from yet another holiday collection "Ghost Stories." Click here to check out all of Meow's beautiful limited edition holiday collections (there are quite a few).

1. Prior to beginning my eyeshadow application, I apply my moisturizing sunscreen and let it soak in. Then I apply my mineral foundation. After that, I start off all of my eyeshadow looks with a very light application of Aromaleigh's shadow base in medium. A little of this base goes a very long way so (like with most shadow primers). All you have to do is lightly pat-pat-pat your ring finger into the container a few times and then lightly pat-pat-pat again all over your eyelid from lashes to brows. This step is a must for applying loose mineral powder shadows so they will stick to your skin well and last all day.

2. Apply Love to inner to inner corner of lid overlapping into the center 1/3 of the lid. I used Target's large shadow brush for this step.

3. Apply Wonder to center of lid in a patting motion slightly overlapping into the outer 1/3 of the lid. I used Target's large shadow brush for this step.

4. Apply Holiday Spirit to outer corner using a patting motion (I used Target's small shadow brush). Then sweep it into the crease using a back and forth motion making the shape of a filled in "v." If you hear people talking about the "outer v," this is what they are referring to. I used a pointed silk fiber brush for this step.

5. Apply Serenity just slightly above crease color to blend and soften.

6. Apply Oyster underneath brows and in the inner corner area to soften all of the edges. I used a crease/shader brush from ecoTools for this step.

7. Apply Chocolate Mousse gel liner to top and bottom lash lines. I used Target's smudger brush so my line would be soft. You can use a thin liner brush if you want a more defined look.

8. Here I applied a soft black pencil to my waterline, mascara and brow powder to complete the look.

I used Meow's Sugarplum blush on my cheeks and Present glow powder on my cheekbones.


My outfit of the day: heathered brown wrap sweater, boot cut jeans and a scarf.

*Samples of Meow's holiday collections were gifted to me for objective review purposes.

Aromaleigh Astronomical Look III and my first step-by-step photo tutorial

Hi Nesters!

For my third look using Aromaleigh's limited edition collection "Astronomical," I decided to do a quintessential gradated neutral eye. And to show you how I accomplished this look, I took a photo after every step of my application process. For those of you who are new to makeup or those who are looking for an application technique that might be different from what you usually do, I hope you find this photo tutorial helpful. In the future, I might attempt a video tutorial but I'm not making any promises. ;)

Color Descriptions:

Neutrino (Astronomical) - borealis twinkles in a base of warm milk-chocolatey brown plush
Ephemeris (Astronomical) - semi-metallic cool taupe exhibits pinky-gold highlight and aurora borealis twinkles
Milky Way (Astronomical) - cream-coloured velvet adorned w/soft golden highlight and subtle blue glimmer
Oyster (Carolina Summer Matte) - matte pale cream/yellow
Umber (Pure Eyes Matte) - matte deepest brown

What I used on the rest of my face. . .

Foundation - Meow Flawless Feline in Frisky Manx (this is a little light for me but I wanted to use up some samples I had)
Finishing Powder - Aromaleigh Ultra Resolution Finishing Powder in Clear
Cheeks - Aromaleigh Perle Powders in Incandesce on cheekbones and Whisper on apples
Lips - Aromaleigh Shortcake
Lashes - Covergirl Professional WP mascara in Very Black


1. Prior to beginning my eyeshadow application, I apply my moisturizing sunscreen and let it soak in. Then I apply my mineral foundation. After that, I start off all of my eyeshadow looks with a very light application of Aromaleigh's shadow base in medium. A little of this base goes a very long way so (like with most shadow primers). All you have to do is lightly pat-pat-pat your ring finger into the container a few times and then lightly pat-pat-pat again all over your eyelid from lashes to brows. This step is a must for applying loose mineral powder shadows so they will stick to your skin well and last all day.



2. Apply Neutrino to outer corner and slightly into the crease using a back and forth motion making the shape of a filled in "v." If you hear people talking about the "outer v," this is what they are referring to. I used a pointed silk fiber brush for this step.



3. Apply Ephemeris to lid in a patting motion slightly overlapping the crease color. I used Target's large shadow brush for this step.



4. Apply Milky Way to inner corner of lid overlapping slightly into the lid color. I used a crease/shader brush from ecoTools for this step.



5. Apply Oyster all over the area between crease and brows. I used the same brush from step #3.



6. For this step, I used a thin liner brush dipped in water and then into Umber and lined the entire upper lash line winging out slightly at the outer corner. I used my ring finger to slightly smudge the edge of the liner closest to the inner corner to soften.


7. In this photo, I added a brown gel liner 3/4 of the way underneath my lower lashes using the same thin liner brush that I used in step #6 and I softened it using a natural hair smudger brush. I curled my lashes and added some brow powder and mascara. I cleaned up any loose mineral eyeshadow that happened to fall underneath my eyes or in my cheek area using a flocked sponge dipped in my mineral foundation. After that, I applied my blush and lipstick.






Photos are unretouched.




Click here to view a post about my favorite brushes.

* Aromaleigh Astronomical eyeshadow descriptions courtesy of Tanya at Easily Distracted blog.

Diagram tutorials in FOTD posts

Hi Nesters!

In the past, I've posted a few FOTDs in which I've diagrammed out the placement of the colors I used in the look directly on the closeup photo. For some reason, I stopped doing it. The subject came up recently in a discussion on the iPhyrra forum and it got me thinking about using this feature again in my FOTDs.

I don't do videos or step-by-step photo tutorials like some bloggers do (waaay too time consuming for this busy mom), but I think diagramming is something I could do on a regular basis.

Is this a feature you would find useful? I'd appreciate your feedback.

Links to posts that included diagram tutorials:
http://robynsnestblog.blogspot.com/2010/01/my-first-fotd-of-new-year.html
http://robynsnestblog.blogspot.com/2009/07/soft-green-purple-fotd-aromaleigh-hot.html