Priceline Sale Haul and a Few Bits and Bobs

Hey all, hope everyone is doing well. I've started to hit a lot at the moment so I haven't really felt like blogging but haul posts are super simple so I chucked some photos up. I always feel a massive lack of inspiration when I sit down to the keyboard. Anyway, drop a comment below if there's anything you really like to see that might give me some inspiration for what to post. Maybe I'm just not into blogging any more :P


Moving on! Priceline had a 40% off sale for a few days this week so obviously I couldn't resist the urge to grab some stuff...More than I planned bu luckily I got a bit of extra work so it doesn't matter haha.

Haul!

 'cause you can never have enough green eyeliner, right? :P

This has so much hype, we'll see how it goes.

 The word 'butter' in the title kind'a got me



The next item is from a cute company actually in my region (or there abouts) called Kook Collars

 Green wrapping paper - how did she know?! :D

 Obviously wouldn't wear it with this outfit but you get the idea :P I really like it.

 Someone on reddit photoshopped some eyebrows on me:P Whadda you all think? :P

 

The MomenT in dusty green - eeee!

 I'm so in love!

Trying out some of the new make up acquisituions. Forgive my lack of foundation - eek :P


That's all for today - did any of my fellow Aussies pick up anything at Priceline in their sale?


Over and out

The Green Fairy
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Look What the Bat's Dragged in...to My Mail Box

I'm very fortunate to be friends with the very generous Kierra of Look What the Bats Dragged In, who sweetly grabs a few things from the Sydney Illamasqua store for me once in a while (if you ever happen to read this, Kierra, thank you so much!). She recently picked up some things from the Illamasqua 'Once' collection which I think came out some time nearing the end of August.


(Apologies for the even-crapper-than-usual photo quality)

 Cute :P

 Love the wrapping paper!

 

This is a cream eyeshadow - I've been slowly getting more and more into cream products lately and this one has just an amazing formula.

 

 I love layering this over the Taupe Maybelline Colour tattoo cream shadow. I'm seriously thinking of investing in the other cream shadows from the Once collection.

 Love the packaging too.

 So smooth

 Now this polish...Oh man. It's to die for. Illamasqua make my favourite polishes in the world but this colour is just breathtaking.

 The colour is called 'Melange', sorry it may be hard to see in the photo

 

 Kierra also managed to grab me the 'Elope' tester from the Illa store - the colour is my fav of all time and is now discontinued :(


 I also got some bonus samples, I'm so spoilt :D

 

All the Illa products have pretty much become permenant members of my make up/nail routine. I may need to get a back up of Melange if they ever decide to discontinue it, which apparently Illamasqua love doing to things I regularly purchase from them. Sigh, anyway that's all I have for now.


Over and out lovelies!


The Green Fairy
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First Sleek Purchase

Today I took the plunge and made my first purchase of a Sleek eyeshadow palette. The online cosmetic-obsessed community seems to have nothing but good things to say about their products and at such low prices it seemed time to take the plunge.

The one I have ordered in the one pictured above, Ultra Matte VS - lots of dark, cool toned colours, plus I prefer matte everything to be honest.

Can't wait for it to arrive!

What have your experiences with this brand been? I'd love to know.

That's all for now,


Over and out

The Green Fairy
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I'm Not Dead...Yet (Mecca Haul)

Sorry for the break in posting lovelies, things had a little bout of furious activity round these here parts and then there was nanowrimo and even social endeavours - phew, stuff...Tiring.

Anyway I thought I'd post a small haul I got from Mecca a few days ago because they're easy posts and people seem to like to see what other people buy for some reason :P (I do too, I don't understand it but I do). Anyway, here we go.

 I ordered a few things I've had my eye on for ages

 Nars velvet matte lip pencil in Train Bleu

 

 Hourglass Ambient Lighting Blush in 'Ethereal Glow'

 Purdy packaging

 Reminds me of ice cream or something, I kinda wanna eat it haha. I already have the ALP in Ethereal Light and loved it. I tried this blush last night for the first time and it's so pretty and subtle, just the way I like blush to be.

 

 Samples! The perfume sample - holy shit! So nice! I'm really, really fussy about perfume and rarely wear it but something made make choose this sample....The name reminded me of Fallout New Vegas and the scent is just the kind of thing that I like. I'm not good at describing scents but it is sweet, I can tell you that much. The images it conjured were a Black Widow type character, roving the wastes of the post apocolyptic Mojave - someone who watches you through her scope as she plans what to do with the things she loots from your corpse, purposefully positioning herself up-wind from you so that the last thing you notice before you die is a sickly sweet scent upon the gentle desert breeze..Ahhh. I think the only thing holding me back from purchasing a full size is the price :-/

Moving on..

 Hourglass Femme Rouge Velvet Creme lipstick deluxe sample in 'Grace'

It's a pretty pinky nude colour but unfortunately I don't think it'd suit me because it has a peachiness to it and I can't wear anything peachy as it pulls very orange on my skin.




I haven't tried the other samples yet but hopefully will in the next few days...I love freebies.



Anyway that's all for now, have you done any recent purchasing? If so what? I wanna knowwwww


Over and out


The Green Fairy

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MAC Meets Rick Baker

So I've never really been blown away by MAC products, I've always been drawn more towards brands like Illamasqua which seem to want to harness creativity and individuality. However the latest collection brought out by MAC for Halloween had me do a double take. So most of the items I was all yeah, cool but I'll pass..but then, what's this? FACE AND BODY IN WHITE?! BUY BUY BUY!

I know it's available any time in macpro, but I can't be bothered faking being a professional make up artist or getting a professional friend to get it and you never really know for sure buying elsewhere whether you're getting a fake product. Honestly, why isn't it just a standard product? I mean, surely there are some pale non-goths who would want to mix their custom foundation colour? Silly companies, you can pretend all you want that pale people don't exist but it won't make it true.

So yeah...Now I'mma be poor for a while but I regret nothing.

Look Out it's Another Outfit Post

 So yesterday...Well actually it's after 12 so I suppose the day before yesterday I had lunch with my good chums Kelly and Luke and I decided I was in the mood to actually put some effort into my make up that day. And as a result cue the neutral eye make up/ I suppose you could sort of call it a smokey eye. Done with the awesome naked palette by Urban Decay.

 

Outfit flatlay

  

 Make up close up

ME N7 leggings and PVC skater skirt by Black Milk Clothing
Black shirt and grey militaria jacket by Saxony
Jabot by FanPlusFriend
Boots are from Big W

Ergh I really need to do something with my hair. I want a job and I guess I just need to suck it up and dye my hair a non-'offensive' colour :( I was thinking maybe all black with some pure white in the fringe but I dunno...I just wish people would get over this inbuilt prejudice they have whereby they assume someone with oddly coloured hair is a drug addict, high school drop out who murders kittens and worships Satan. The truth is in my experience with the positions of employment I've held in customer service that my education, diction, intellect and general morals is of much better quality than the average Neanderthal philistine that lives in my area.

And on another note I have no idea what's going on with this blog any more. I barely have anything to post about let alone to say. The outfit things are an easy way to make sure there's not large breaks in posting but I guess it's gets pretty dull but what else can I contribute? Anything I'm vaguely knowledgeable on has been done before to a standard I couldn't muster the energy to repeat let alone surpass. People have suggested starting afresh but I just feel it'd be the same problem, with attention slightly detracted from it for a few moments by change only to fall back in the same rut again and in the mean time losing all (if any) readers.

Sigh, sorry I guess I'm just thinking out aloud...or whatever the term would be.

I'mma go now and continue to watch Dead Like Me episodes for a while before retiring to a book and a chai. I've been reading a lot of Poe the last few days. Ha, I started reading the Raven out aloud to my mother who'd hadn't heard it before and my extremist christian grandmother left the room faster than the speeding bullet himself. So freakin' hilarious. Poe is now Satanic mantra apparently. So don't give a shit! If it means she leaves a room and I get to read Poe aloud what the fuck is there to lose hahaha. Also about the start the Hobbit again with my two friends Luke and Kelly in expectation for the film that shouldn't be too far off. EMMERRGERRD CERRBERRBERRTCHH AS THUURR NERCROOMERRNCURRR!

...*dies*


Speaking of Cumberbatch I picked up the new the dvd Star Trek film...Think I might wait and open it this weekend with the chums ^_^


Anyway I should head off

Nighty night readers


The Green Fairy
xx

Make Up Geek Haul

Sorry for the delay in posting readers, it's been a little bit drama-ee around these here parts and I can't say I really felt up to it. But I had nothing to do tonight so I thought I'd show you my mini haul from Make up Geek.

 

Angled contouring brush, smudging brush, two matte eyeshadows, 2 NYX pencil eyeshadows and a sample of Ben Nye eyeshadow which silly me released I actually already owned :P

 

NYX pencil eyeshadows in Black Bean and Rocky Mountain Green

 

 

 Corrupt; a matte black eyeshadow 

 Frappe; a matte medium brown

And a look inspired by Bows and Curtseys Secret Garden.Obviously her look is much more polished but I loved it so much I wanted to make something similar. I used quite a few of the same products..
Products used include;
NYX eyeshadow pencil in black bean
Ben Nye eyeshadow in Chartreuse
Medusa's Make up loose pigment in big bird
Make Up Geek eyeshadow in Corrupt
Make Up Geek eyeshadow in Frappe
Lime Crime eyeshadow in Nymph
Medusa's Make Up Shadow Primer 'Stick It'
Illamasqua liquid eyeliner in Abyss
Illamasqua pencil eyeliner in Sophie


That's all for now

Over and Out


The Green Fairy

xx

Pre-Surgery Cosmetics and Skincare Haul

So a few days before I went under the knife I must admit my trepidation was at an all time high and so to distract myself I went on a little spending spree. Having formed a small obsession with watching Grav3yard Girl videos, I seemed to have rekindled my make up obsession as I think I mentioned in a post not too long ago and retail therapy was a perfect way to find some new things to add to an ever-growing collection of beauty products.

 

Whoops :P

Clean and Clear Deep Action Cleansing Wipes

(These I actually bought a few days ago but I thought I'd include them in this post anyway)
Now that I'm not longer using medication to control my skin I am extremely paranoid about breaking out. I decided to try these because they were the only wipes I could find (I literally spent like an hour in the supermarket reading the ingredients list on the back of every brand/variety of facial wipe they had) to see if any had salicylic acid in them. Supposedly this ingredient is good for curving breakouts and helps to diminish black heads.
I've only used them once so far and they are very drying so I do recommend using a good quality moisturiser afterwards if your skin is prone to dry patches. I can't speak for their effectiveness so early in my use of them but they are rather expensive ($10 for 46 wipes that are about a tenth of the size of a normal wipe as opposed to the $4 I pay for 30 wipes for my usual brand). I would also like to add that 46 seems like a strange amount to give...Normally I would expect increments of 5 or 10 and it kind'a weirds me out a little...Is that a weird thing to be weirded out by? Probably :P

 

Models Prefer Lipstain in 'Tutti Fruiti'

I'm actually really fond of this product surprisingly! I bought it on a whim because I liked the name tutti-fruiti and I find it's a really cute colour and very moisturising. You have to be careful not to apply too much as it will bleed/feather outside of the lip line but otherwise I've found it exceeds expectations.

 Revlon Just Bitten Lipstain in 'Gothic'

I haven't really used this product since I bought it and tried it on once getting home. It consists of a colour-filled pen on one end and a clear balm on the other.

 

These seem to be all the rage at the moment, making sock buns and what not. I thought perhaps it would help me to make a top-knot sort'a asian noble look seeing as my hair is too thin to make one on it's own.

Joico K-PAK hair reconstructor. 

I normally use a treatment for my hair by Juuice in a pink bottle but I was recommended this by a saleswoman in Price Attack; here's hoping it helps my severely damaged hair.

Ecotools Bamboo Powder brush

Not much to say really, my old powder brush is falling apart and it kind of rough on the skin. This one is lovely and soft, eco-friendly and pretty to look at.

Maxfactor Lasting Performance Liquod Foundation in 102 'Pastelle'

So far I haven't really been pleased with this 'lasting performance' they speak of. I applied it once getting home and only about an hour or 2 later in was oxidising and sliding off my nose. Although I did set it with my Illamasqua powder foundation, I didn't prepare my skin in any way (clean or prime beforehand) so I'm hoping this is why I didn't recieve the results promised.
It is also disappointing that this foundation is a lot darker than I anticipated. As you can see in the swatch below it is very orange/brown on my skin despite that I compared it to my skin in the store. Applying my white powder did remove some of the ridiculous orange tone is added but it still didn't leave me looking as pale as I would like. 

Maxfactor Lasting Performance in 102 'Pastelle' swatch (I swear it didn't look this bad in the store!)

 

 

Maxfactor Lasting Performance foundation set with Illamasqua powder foundation in 100 'Pure White' along with Revlon Just Bitten lip stain in 'Gothic'

Box of freebies!

Spending over a certain amount, Priceline gave me this box of free items. I'm probably only going to use the nailpolish but..free stuff is awesome, right?

Models Prefer Nail Polish in 'Wanna Be Royal'

I'm actually really happy with this colour, I'm really into wine/plums and deep blackish reds right now and was on the look out for a nice nail polish that fit.

Models Prefer Runway Shine Lipgloss in 'Angel Wings'

 

Models Prefer lipstick in 'Picture Perfect'

It also came with a bronzer, but..LOL yeah right :P

Also, completely not related to cosmetics but yay for my first Dragons Maze Magic cards! Do any of you play?


Anyway that's about all I got for today

Over and out!


The Green Fairy
xx