The school year starting up. Yes, I remember that madness...been out of the rush for a while, but certain things still affect me, especially as I live in a college town:

• no decent apartments available; and LOTS of new neighbors (doesn't affect me quite so much now that I own a place)
• long lines at Target and Costco, as students stock up on basics
• more crowding in the busses and parking lots
• more traffic downtown - especially of the 'confused' variety, as students learn and re-learn their way from point A to point B

I did - or, well, tried to do - a smoky eye using gold and purple, the local university's colors. I don't often do a smoky eye, and I tried something today, so I'm not altogether happy with the result. Still...why should the university students be the only ones learning something?

Face

• Everyday Minerals' mint corrector
• Meow Cosmetics' Sleek Himalayan foundation
• Bare Escentuals' Compassion blush, lightly dabbed on apples of cheeks only
• Bare Escentuals' Blushing Beauty blush, swept from apples back to temple

Eyes

• MAC Soft Ochre Paint Pot, lash to crease
• Everyday Minerals' Mystic Night, hard line from outer lash line upward along crease / smudged on lower lash line / blended, outer crease, over Queen Linda
• Bare Escentuals' Queen Linda, applied dry lash to crease and blended over the hard line of Mystic Night
• MAC Macroviolet fluidline, upper lash line outer edge to center of eye
• Bare Escentuals' Flawless Lash mascara in black, upper and lower lashes

Lips

• TSS' Outer Fringe lip balm, all over
• Bare Escentuals' Gabby sheer buxom polish, all over

I was pleased with how the blush looked, because Compassion is a lovely color but too dark for regular use - unless I do what I tried out, which was lightly dabbing Compassion on the apples of my cheeks and then going over it using a lighter color (Blushing Beauty, in this case.) The lips looked good, too: I originally was concerned that I would only be able to use Gabby over pink or nude lips; but I've been able to use that sheer wine-mauve to add depth to neutral (but not nude) lip colors. The eye didn't work out like I intended. I think maybe next time I need to use a wider, and less intense, "hard line" of color as the underpainting. I used the mini quickie brush, which is great and portable and versatile - but not right for this particular task, I think.

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