Mini Haul:Makeup Geek

So super happy I got a package in the mail today.Seriously.This week has been hell.This little treasure trove in my mailbox made me freaking smile.First time MUG orderer (is that a word? O.o) Long time make-up addict. *raises hand* Hi my name is....At any rate I plan on grabbing hauls from them whenever the Money Tree ripens.Was a very good experience.I placed my order on July 24,2011 and it was super fast going through everything.The site is very easy to navigate and everything is pretty cut and dry.The sale at the time was a 99 cent sale which had me all like (O.O) *runs....sock slides across floor BUY BUY BUY BUY* I should have spent more.Looking at my little box I'm having non buyers remorse *le sigh* At any rate I ended up buying two NYX shadows and a MUG brush.(not 99 cents but hey effective advertising...sell the cheap stuff people look BAM purchase a non sale item v.v) It was packaged good and came with packing peanuts.I got my invoice and shipment verification same day which was AWESOME and it arrived today so six days (God it felt longer).Great experience I plan on doing again once I rob a bank...Umm I mean...work hard for my moneh v.v


First up is my NYX shadow in 'Summer Green' or ES51A.It comes in a nice 2.5 gram pat.Cruelty Free Hypoallergenic.The color is gorgeous sorta of like a summery....green....<.<......>.>...,No no really haha it's a very clean green.I'd say like the lovely part at the bottom of a grass sprig.The yellowish golden limey green. Heres some piccys and swatches for ya.

                                                                    Closed *sexy aura*

                                                 Open *Hallelujah!Ahhhohhhhahhhhohhhahhhh*

Ok so heres some swatches starting from well the left.Like you are looking at the screen that left.I laid some black down and put the green over it and it turned into a very sexy sexy deep green.In the middle is the Summer Green over my Pixi primer.The color seems richer and more golden to me and of course to the far right the color by itself on fresh skin (Mmmm fresh skin nom nom nom) in which cause the color is still strong and lovely.


The second shade I got was NYX 'Redhead' or ES73.Again you get it in a nice 2.5 gram pat.Cruelty Free (Paint yaself not puppies!) Hypoallergenic (not gonna fuck ya face up...well we hope) I don't have alot of red shades yet (bad Digi!) So I have been trying to expand on that.This red is about as close to 'TRUE RED' as I think I could get.I mean it's red.Not dark red not light red.Just in the middle bright red.Ronald McDonald would be so proud *tear* I love it.Am looking forward to using it in one of my upcoming Winnie The Pooh looks.So here ya go some piccys and swatches.

                                                             Closed *quiet seduction*

                                                        Open *IN YO FACE SUCKA!*

So heres the swatches.Far Left is the Red Head over black which was very nice and brim stoney like to me.Felt very volcano.In the middle is it over my Pixi eye primer and the color just wow popped.Love that red. *sings about red bawoons* On the end is the Red Head on just my skin and it was a very matte soft red look.Yeah definitely love these.CAN"T WAIT to try them!


Last thing I got was a new brush Squee >(^.^)<!! This was NOT 99 cents but again it's like a grocery store.You put all the stuff people need (NEED *snorts*) on sale and people swarm in and end up spending their cash on regular priced items too.As I was going through all the 99 cents shades I was Oooooo and Ahhhhing and thinking of the hot makeup lusty painting *pants pants* I could do with my new colors and of course my fingers were itching and crying 'Mommy but how shall you follow your muse with the tools you have you need more!' So I had to get a brush v.v and I did.The MUG Chisel Brush C408.I love this brush already and imagine everything with be more precise using it.I washed it just like the packaging said and had a little bit of fall out but most of my new brushes do that.After a little gentle wash and pluck it was perfect and I used it to do the swatches.Heres some piccys!

All and all I have to say my experience with Makeup Geek was orgasmic and I even felt she cuddled me after.*lights up a smoke* Highly recommend doing business with this lady and now I'm spent!
*slaps a wrist to her forehead and makes a dramatic exit*


~Digi

Hooo.....Hooooo....You? Hooo.....Owl Inspired Look (o)(o)

Sooo I have been wanting to watch Winnie The Pooh for agesssssss...ya know the new one that they keep showing previews that makes you inner child dance around and go 'Oh you silly old bear!' Yeah just the music they chose for most of the advertising hang me longing to be back in the days of Pooh and and icecream and just being memorized by these characters.Oi.To think Eeyore was pretty much the first 'emo' I ever met hahaha.At any rate the colors in that movie popped and just played with eachother (Get ya heads out the gutter ladies >.O) in ways I hadn't thought of.Decided it'd be fun to do a few looks inspired by those characters I hold so close to me wittle heart.So first up is our favorite know it all Owl!

See? I did a good job right? I mean Look how OWL like I made myself OMFGSQUEEE!!!!!! Wait that's not me? *squints* >.< Oh yeah...Hahaha Not me but yeah that's Owl....freaking know it all of the Hundred Acre Wood yo.I really loved the browns on him.I rarely if ever use brown so it was nice getting into my unused shades.I started with my normal face.Washed then prepped with my perfecting base (love it) concealer to foundation foundation to powder powder to my Pixi eye primer :) Covered my eye with my Wet n Wild white pencil and flared it up in the corners to my browbone.Followed with white shadow from my 120 palette and then brought in my brown eyeliner to start stipling in the white to mimic those lovely plumes on owls chest.

Like I said in general I dont have alot of browns v.v I fail.Epic failure.String me up now v.v But I did have a brown palette I've never used so I dipped into that.So I laid a beige color all over the lid and into the white up my browbone even over the brown stipling.Next a darker more mahoghany color mid lid and blended in.I used the darkest brown on my inner corner and swooped it into the other color.I really just wanted everything to 'feel' soft like feathers cause I'm odd like that and I touch myself alot v.v

Blend blend blend blend and then I lined my upper lid and bottom lashline with a straight forward brown pencil.A little mascara and poof. Owl.My version of Owl.I like how it turned out I was a tad surprised actually haha.I had an idea and i ran with it and woot!

Hope you enjoyed! Much love check the vid and my Facebook.I enjoy meeting new people :)

Digi

FOTD 'Chromlit'

So my lovekins when I was getting ready to start this I was going to say that it was ONLY Thursday and then was like *blink blink* It's Thursday!!!!! We are almost there! Weekend woooooo!!!!!! But seriously it has been a long week for me.A loooong emotional week.I was 'relieved' of my job for making a phone call to Netflix from a company phone haha but they had been looking for a long time for me to make a mistake.I've come to the conclusion that I need to stop chasing deskjobs and find me a job where I can sparkle.....maybe massage so I can molest people or a make-up artist so I can smear paint all over people or a tattoo artist if ya know...People trust me with a needle v.v At any rate your massage theRAPIST artist tattooer decided to use her freetime to set some things up.Got my channel on! And made my first youtube video! Squee so excited!!!! Check it out...its so noob but hey lol I tried.At any rate proud of the things I have going on right now.I also have a Facebbok page now please check the links at the end of this posting to check them out and show some love.

I hate to start the rest of this on a depressing note BUT on that more sober note some close friends of mine had a tragedy happen to their newly developing family yesterday and whatever spiritualness you may have I'd appreciate a bit of it thrown in their direction.I know I'll be praying for them.Now on to the lighter stuff.




So for this look I did my normal face.Nicely washed.I skipped my Loreal Skin Genesis today...it was so super hot out and I wanted a lighter face the whole I'm meeeelting....meeeeelting thing just didn't feel like the appropriate direction to go for today.So washed face straight into my Perfecting Base then foundation and some face powder.Now the fun part! My eyes I primed with some Pixi Lustrous Eye Primer.I really should do a review on that stuff cause even by itself it gives you like a shimmery glow....Super love it! So ja eye primer and then I took a Wet n Wild White Kohl Liner and lined my lower lashline and filled in my upper lid to the crease just to give my shadow something to stick to.I made sure to kind smudge this in with a finger gently.( I like poking myself in the eye >.O)With my fav brush (it's a smudge brush but I use it for everything) I laid just a taupe pinky color on my brow bones as a highlighter blending above the white and blurring the line a tad.Next up with a slightly bigger brush I laid down just a bright white shadow to make the upcoming colors a bit brighter.

By the way any colors I use OTHER than my sample of Sugar Pill came out of my 120 Palette that I got for five bucks at Walgreens hahaha.Crayon licker on a budget v.v

I recently in the past month bought me some Sugar Pill and if you haven't tried her shadows yet you don't know what you're missing out on lol.I got Darling for my wedding cause my colors were kinda similiar but she also sent me a sample of Tipsy which is like a really cool lime green color.Super pigmented! So I used my little sample of Tipsy (I say little but honestly she sends you a little baggy and it'll probably last me a good while....*snorts* A baggy....with green stuff....eeeehehehe) and laid it into the corners of my eyes...from my tear ducts to just about the middle of my lid with a thin brush.I just laid the color until it was at the intensity I wanted it.Next up with my smudge brush I laid a bright carribean blue at the mid section of my lids blending slightly into the Tipsy.Outer corners I came in and pressed a bright violet into the corners blending in along the crease with long swoops of the brush.

I finished up with a dark turquoise color just pulled down at the corners of my lower lashline.My waterline I filled in with  Maybelline New York Unstoppable Liner in Onyx and tightlined as well with it.I curled my lashes and swooped on some Maybelline New York Lash Stiletto then curled AGAIN cause I really like the better swoop you get curling with wet mascara on it.A quick glide of some Plumper Wet N Wild Pink lip gloss and poof....Chromlit! I really enjoyed doing this and wearing it out.Got lots of compliments on how sparkly I was today haha! Did wonders for my self esteem...Booyaka!

Check out the video here http://youtu.be/WKOb_FBAyMQ and check out my new Facebook page The Make-Up Helmet



Love Always,
Digi <3

Contest Entry For Beauty by Melissa

Okie dokie so Beauty by Melissa has an awesome contest going right now.She has four wonderful sponsors and I am very much looking forward to seeing everyones ideas for this.See below for details and entry.
Go head and like everyone they all deserve it!
  
         "CONTEST TIME!! Beauty By Melissa

I have reached 150likes and now at 162. WHOA:D So this contest is to say Thank You for all the support and all who has liked my page. It1really means alot knowing that people all around the world has a great deal of passion for makeup and beauty like I do.

So time to announce the THEME for my first makeup contest......Cirque Du Soleil

We have 4 amazing sponsors right now and if there are any other companies who would like to be apart of my first contest please feel free to contest me at melissa_ramirez43@yahoo.com or on my personal facebook page.


So here are the Rules:

1. Must be 18 years or older
2. Open to U.S only
3. Must like my makeup page
4.Must like each sponsor AND tell them thank you for being a sponser  (when you thank them make sure you tag @beauty by melissa) so i know that you thanked them and liked their page!)
Korpse Cosmetics: http://www.facebook.com/KorpseKosmetics
MySweet Escape: http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100002456591699
RagDolls Bath & Beauty: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Rag-Dolls-Bath-Beauty/198719500149381
Dark & Light Creations: http://www.facebook.com/Dark.and.Light.accessories
Moi Cosmetics: http://www.facebook.com/moiminerals
5. 2 entries per person
6. Must hold a sign saying Beauty By Melissa, I must see you holding a sign or written on body so i know it is an original look made for this contest.
7. This will be a judging contest
8. Most of all have fun :D

Make sure you dont miss any of the rules. If you skip a rule your enties will be disqualified.

Email the looks to melissa_ramirez43@yahoo.com and send me your fb link also so i know who you are and i will put them in a album on my page. Their will only be one winner.
Contest will end: August 10th at 12pm pacific time

Here is 2 pictures to give you some inspiration:

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And a drum roll please!

Heres my first entry ^.^

FOTD!!!! Summery Look

I recently went to the beach...in jeans...Yeah epic fail v.v I mean ya know sometimes there is a lovely breeze and it's all beautiful tropical comfortable but this time it was just hot.The heat was rolling off the sand,the sun was glinting off the buildings and slapping me repeatedly in the face.I mean I am wondering if that day was like let's see if we can melt Digi day wouldn't that be fun?! Squee!!! >.< At any rate I ended up frolicking into one of those little shops on the boardwalk for some A/C and decided I just could not go on.I spent an astronomical amount on a beach dress supposedly made in India.Now while my general opinion on these types of dress is 'Blech! I look pregnant with triplets!' this one actually grew on me.It makes me feel breezy and summery and al that jazz and I put it on today and decided HEY! I think I'll do some summery make-up to rock this shit.So here ya go my Face Of The Day.

So here's my face with nothing on it.All I did was wash up with my St. Ives Invigorating Apricot Scrub. I love my scrub. I only use it three-four times a week like the bottle suggest but when I do I love how smooth it makes myself.I like starting with a nice washed face cause my pores tend to be smaller immediately after washing.

So! I started out prepping my face by first applying my Soap and Glory Super Eyes Instant-Action Moisturizing Eye Gel. I love Soap and Glory products but alas they are only available in the UK and you might get lucky to find some online.Also I don't think they make the Super Eyes anymore but I LOVE how it tightens up the whole area of my lids and under-eyes.Next up was my Loreal Paris Ideal Skin Genesis Pore Minimizer Serum .Now I bought this off of All Cosmetics Wholesale (Love this site).I mean it was a good price and I'll try anything once for my mammoth pores.I can't say I see a major difference but in my mind it says 'Pore Minimizer' on it so imma paint that stuff all OVER my face every chance I get haha.So at any rate I let that set on my face for a few minutes just so it had time to absorb and moved into applying my moisturizer.I personally use Clean & Clear Finishes Mattifying Moisturizer. It is pretty light oil free and leaves me with not alot of shine throughout the day.Again, I let it sit just so it can sink into my skin before applying anything else.I don't like to cake things.

Woot! So after all of that haha...I go in with my concealer brush and apply my magic in a jar Loreal Paris Studio Secrets Magic Perfecting Base.If you have huge pores or just pores that bug you this stuff is for you.Its like and fluffy and really just gives you a buffed look to start with.Once I have that on I went in with my concealer. I use a few but for this I used my Revlon Age Defying Concealer just to cover up any redness I had or spots.Blend blend blend! For foundation lately I've been loving Markwins Beauty Products  853 Cover Oil Free Liquid.It provides good coverage and feels cooling when I put it on my face.It's also really light weight and has lasting power for me.Once I'm nice and covered I finish up with some powder I use Maybelline new York Loose Powder Shine Free in Light.This is what I end up with after foundation and what not.

 

I really like how dewy my skin looks and with everything on my face it still feels like there is nothing there.One my eyes I went in and lined my water line and filled in my lid with Wet N Wild Kohl Eyeliner in White.Using one of my generic shadows compacts I picked up at Walgreens I went in with my smudge brush and brushed a lime green color all over my lid and blended it up into the crease.For the corners I smudged a carribean type blue and kept laying it in to darken it before pulling it in my crease and blending blending blending.The corners of my eyes I took a lighter turquoise color and pulled it towards the blue at my outer corners just making sure they all blended in with one another.I tight lined my eyes with Maybelline New York Unstoppable eyeliner in Onyx and finished off my eyes with some eye lash curling and Lash Stilleto mascara.i wanted to keep it light so my lips I used just a light pink gloss I had.Hope you like! I was really happy with how this turned out and I liek that it's not as dark and dramatic as I usually do my make-up.I felt like all I needed was a pool side an umbrella and one of those fruity drinks.Booyaka!

Took all these pictures in natural light.

Yay!!! I finally did it!

Oh where to start...where to start? I guess that is always the question when coming to the beginning of something.It is easy to end something (hypothetically) cause there is already something there to end but a beginning is like birth.It has to be created and nurtured to get the results.I suppose the best thing to do is just be myself...inherently that is exactly why I wanted to start this blog page so I can start recording things that just make me go 'Yay!' or 'Hmm' You know when you just feel like SHARING something with someone.

So you can call me whatever you want I prefer Digi after my gamer tag (DigitalSxKitten) Yessss I do game...lightly.....my husband makes me v.v No really he doesn't but I got into it because he's hardcore awesomesauce and I wanted to lick his wounds (If ever someone gets lucky to give him some) Plus I'm addicted to Netflix v.v I am twenty-eight years old (so old!) and live in Florida (Please don't stalk me...I'm over that part of my life.) I am the mother of a handsome eight year old boy and the husband (as stated above) to a growling Canadian (oi le purr) We are a mixed family as my son is the only wonderful thing I got out of a bad relationship before meeting my soul mate.I suffer from Generalized Anxiety Disorder,Depression (I don't agree with this but it's on my medical chart) OCD,Polycystic Ovarian Disease and a hormone imbalance that pretty much gives me a psuedo cock to think with (Seriously,I produce more testosterone then the average woman...makes me psycho O.o) I also am probably the most paranoid person you will ever come in contact with in your life.Give me something to do and I can probably give you five scenarios on why not to v.v I suppose I am telling you all this just so you get a taste of who I am and why I am the way I am.It's a nice to meet you this is me post before all the fun stuff haha.I assure you I am fun...if only to watch like a curious species under a microscope.I have a really big mouth (le ahhhhh) and I enjoy flappin' my gums about damn near everything.Again.I think a blog is perfect for me.I don't plan on making any apologies for the way I am or things I write if they offend people.I curse like a sailor and I have an inappropriate sense of humor but I am by no means a hurtful person.I pretty much love everyone until they mess me over and even then I give so many chances so yeah.

So, to continue on this long yawning post of mine I'll tell you how I got to this juncture of my internet existence.It all started with a cat.One day on one of my friends Facebooks I noticed a cat in her likes.It was a most precocious looking cat and I found myself drawn to it.I needed to pet it (click it) So I did and pooof AHHHOHHHHHAHHHHOHHHHAHHHHH (halleluiah sound) Sugarpill.Oh Sugarpill how I love thee let me counts the ways.....one my Darling....Two my Burning Heart....Three my Junebug. BEST eyeshadows I have ever seen.Now,I've been a long time user (make-up) but to be honest this was like finding the holy grail of make-up.I immediately liked them and through them the wonderful community of make-up opened up to me.Not only did Sugarpill open up the world of rich pigments but their posts on Facebooks with other peoples tutorials were awesome and soon came a deeper interest into the awesome coloring that was make-up time.On came Chris Chaos ( I fuckin' love his 'stache), BunnyThunder (She has SUCH good ideas),Tynea Tyghtline (The epitome of lovely), Queen Frostine (Amazing Accessories), Pink Sith (I'd have her babies if she had a penis...also we are birthday sisters >^.^<) and the list goes on and on and on.I was amazed at how many people were into make-up and the beautiful things they came up with.From there I ended up buying my first bit of SugarPill (Darling...LOVE IT!) and then moved on to entering my first contest.I've entered two so far now and it's great fun.


And now....We have my blog.I finally ventured into maybe doing some tutorials and reviews of my own.I don't claim to be a guru or even that good but I do enjoy me some make-up and taking pictures of myself.I just hope that in all the mess I am sure I post on here that someone gets inspired to have some fun of their own.In the words of Chris Chaos "Freaking Love Yourself!" I know I am on the road of doing so >^.^< Looking forward to it all loves!




                                                                                                                      ~Digi

Loreal Paris Studio Secrets Magic Perfecting Base

"Meg: The moon. There's a reason no one goes there. It's cold. And it's ugly. And it's surface is plagued with deep craters and jagged peaks. Wait a minute, that's not the moon! It's Digi's face!"

Meg knew what she was talking about in that oh so titillating episode of  Family Guy....Ok ok...so she was talking about Neil Goldman but she could have very well been talking about me.I had/have/will always have bad skin.When I was a kid I didn't listen to my parents (Nooooooo really,Digi?) They constantly tried to get me into some kinda skin care program but to be honest I was just far too lazy.I regret it now as I look in a mirror at the pores I can hold loose change in------> "I'd actually like a pore-maximizer. Sometimes I'd just like to store stuff in there ... like loose change." (Janeane Garofalo, Truth About Cats & Dogs) Oh Janeane if only you knew the errors of your wishes.So yeah huge pores see below.

Horrifying aint it? So on my never ending quest to do something about the holes on my face i found myself perusing the shelves at Wal-Mart.For $14.99 (Found it for like 8 something on Amazon v.v) and a heart full of dreams I went home with my Loreal Paris Studio Secrets Magic Perfecting Base otherwise known as LPSSMPB *snickers* So with my concealer brush I slapped this magic potion onto my face...Mostly my checks between my eyebrows and chin where my pores are most noticeable.And THIS ladies is what I came up with:

 I mean do you see that?!

Yeah yeah....I thought it was epic too.Now add some foundation and some setting powder and Voila!

While I haven't noticed any long term effects from using ie My pores are still huge when I wash my face,I can say as far as a quick fix is concerned this worked beyond my wildest dreams! I hope you enjoyed this little review and please keep checking in.Booyaka!

                                                                                                                        ~Digi