I'm a huge fan of iridescent and duochrome effects. When I first noticed TKB Trading's Interplanetary Traveller micas, I bought the whole set. And then, on a recent visit to TKB's site, I noticed something new: Moon Dust powders.
Just a collection of interesting stuff I read / heard of / found out this past week. Some weeks this may be chock full of stuff, other weeks I may have tumbleweeds blowing across the screen. But I'd like to summarize things that I find interesting and share them on a regular basis. I know several times I've surfed through several successive sidebar links, made a comment on a blog I'd never visited before...and then promptly forget the blog's URL or even its name! (This is what happens when you have far too many browser windows open at a time.) Hopefully by keeping a running weekly log of these sites I find I can find myself some new regular reads as well...
On December 30th, I was sounding off that I needed to get back to work because I was creating too many blog projects for myself...and CydonianMU (she did purples) said that I could join her, KimmieKarmaLove (she did blues), jadecarver (she did blacks/greys), RobynHeartsSlap (she did greens), and Raerae (she did reds and oranges) in an eyeshadow swatching collaboration. ("Oh, I'm not helping, am I?" LOL) The general plan was that to start off, each person would pick a color and would make a list of their 10/15/20 favorite shades of that color...and then swatch them all. Since I was planning to do this for my entire collection anyway, this seemed a good way to get started! I've already begun adding the montages to some of my colors - several older, and some of the newer ones that I bought this winter but hadn't catalogued yet. I started with yellows and golds...and then just continued slowly swatching my way through my collection.
Going through my own collection, I've done:
So the burst of energy I had yesterday? Yep, used up rebuilding the site. (Hey, at least I got some good out of it. I also got the laundry done - so yay, productivity. Also - clean socks.) I’ve almost got something resembling a system in place, and should have all of the site entries back up…oh, by the middle of September, if not before. (That’s reposting a dozen or so entries a day, including any comments…all of which have to be tweaked in the database to show their proper posting time.)
Part of the One Year Eyecolor Challenge (new colors used: 6)
There’s another convulsion circling through the beauty blogosphere, regarding Bitchslap Cosmetics. Long story short, they were reselling items from Lady Burd and marking them up enormously. Apparently, according to one video I saw, people somehow were under the impression that BSC claimed to have made all of the items themselves. I never purchased items from Bitchslap Cosmetics, nor was I interested in doing so ($16 to $18 for one of those four-color shadow palettes that they call “paint wheels”? $12 for a pigment? And the names…to some, they say “fearless” and “edgy”. To me, they say “look, we found this theme in the gutter, and so we brought it back and cleaned it off a little (but not too much, because we want the grit) and we’re using it! Yayz!”) This all sounds oh so very much like the LimeCrime scenario of last year, and the Ginger + Liz dealio rocking the nail polish blogging world, that I just had to speak up.
There are a few terms everyone should know, a few things everyone should keep in mind, and a few sites everyone should probably bookmark. Let’s define them together, shall we?
Purple and gold today - because 1) I’ve got purples to use up; and 2) I was getting kind of tired of greens. The crease color turned out a bit lighter than I wanted, but that’s because I applied it without a primer and so everything blended…perhaps a bit too well.
Part of the One Year Eyecolor Challenge (new colors used: 5)
Part of the One Year Eyecolor Challenge (new colors used: 5)
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