Beauty Product Junkie

This post is a quicky, but more will be coming in the future (and hopefully not months apart!). I have a ton of new products that I need to review! Ack!

I acquired this trio from a lovely popple as well, and use the shimmery bronze a lot in everyday wear. This is just one look I like to create:

After applying UD's Eyeprimer Potion, I applied the golden tone on the inner corner of my eyelid using a regular eyeshadow brush. Then I applied it on my inner, lower lash-line using a smudge brush.

Next, I use a crease brush to fill in the rest of my lid with the shimmery brown shadow. Then I take the regular shadow brush and blend the two so there isn't such an obvious line between the shadows. I now finish lining the lower lash-line with the smudge brush and brown shadow.

To make the brown cream liner softer so that it glides easier across my eyelid, I like to stick my finger (clean of course!) on top and just hold it there for about 30 seconds. This warms it and makes it much easier to apply! I used an angled-liner brush to line just my upper lash-line.

Cap it off with two coats of black mascara (Benefit's BadGal Lash) and done!

It's been forever since I've done a post! Darn life! Here are a couple of quick reviews of some Smashbox eyeshadow trios I've come to own.

The first trio is 'Hot Date.' I acquired this eyeshadow from a wonderful popple who was doing some spring cleaning :D This trio contains a shimmery golden champagne, a light eggplant with microglitter, and a dark eggplant cream liner. I use this trio all the time, but the following picture isn't of my eyes. One of my darling friends let me do her eyeshadow, and this trio went perfect with her eye color and skin tone. However, I thought the golden champagne didn't match her skin as well as the champagne shadow 'Sin' by Urban Decay. After covering her entire lid in eye-primer potion and a light layer of Sin, I used a crease brush to slowly start layering the light eggplant on her outer crease. As I added more color, I kept blending it towards the middle of her eye - just a little bit at a time. Once I had the desired color, I used an angled liner brush to line her eyes with the cream eggplant liner.

Falling in love with this trio [and another that was sent, which I'll post about later :) ] I just had to purchase another! The 'Twilight' trio caught my eye because of the shimmery silver, but actually use the matte black to line my eyes with every day! In the following pictures, I started off with eye primer potion and  light layer of the shimmery silver over the entire lid. To make the black shimmery, I lightly swirled my crease brush in the silver before swirling it in the black. I applied this at the outer corner of my eye and blended inward. Then I used a smudge brush to apply a light, silver lining on my lower lash line. To finish off, I lined with a liquid liner and two coats of mascara!