Tutorial: I Dream of Greenie

Ever since I purchased Wet N Wild's Spoiled Brat eyeshadow trio and was very impressed by the color and quality, I've been eyeing the other trios as well.  Seeing as how green has always been a flattering shade against my skin tone, I decided on I Dream of Greenie:

This trio comes with a shimmery, pale, mint green, a medium kelly green, and a bright kiwi green.  Each of the shades has been conveniently labeled per suggested use.  To begin, I apply the kiwi green eyelid shade to my primed eyelid:

Immediately, I am blown away by how dense and pigmented this color is!  Next, I enhance my brow bone with the pale mint shimmer:

This is a very shimmery shade, almost a little too shimmery.  Also, the mint is hard to spot, it looks more like silver.  I'm thinking it's not the best idea for brow bone, but perhaps to enhance the inner corners of my eyes next time.

I continue by lightly applying the kelly green shade to my crease:

Nice, but I wish it were a shade or two darker so that I can deepen the outer corner detail, still, it does stand out enough.  My next step is to line my top and bottom lash line with green eyeliner pencil:

Ideally, I had wanted a very deep, almost black-green eyeliner.  Since I don't have one, however, I'm making due with just a medium-tealish color and I'm hoping to set it with the darkest green eyeshadow I have:

I reach for my Coastal Scents 88 Original Matte palette.  The darkest green still doesn't seem dark enough, but it'll do:

Close enough.

To soften the color on the bottom lash line a little, I smudge a little bit of the kiwi green along the edge of eyeliner:

Curl lashes and apply mascara to finish:

To compliment my dramatic green eye makeup, I'm going to give my cheeks a pretty pink flush by applying WnW's Color Icon Blush in Heather Silk:

Now I get a chance to try out my new WnW Megaslicks Lip Gloss in Rose Gold:

It's quite possibly my new favorite lip color!  First, it's an incredibly beautiful shade.  Just as the name describes, it's a gorgeous bronzy-gold with just the right amount of metallic shimmer and a hint of pink.  Trust me, this color would look flattering on anyone!  Second, the scent is absolutely delightful, like vanilla frosting on a cake, yum!  Third, the formula is whisper-light and not sticky at all!  Love love love it!  The only thing I don't love is the sticker seal on it that I had to remove.  It was hard to peel off and  left an icky, sticky residue all over the handle.  I know that there's going to be lint all over it in the next few days, yuck!  Other than that, I have no complaints about this gloss. :D

So natural and elegant-looking!

Almost done!  All I've got left is hair:

Ok, so this look was a little flamboyant for work this morning.  I'm definitely going to find ways of toning it down and making it a little more wearable for any occasion.  I DID get a lot of compliments today, however, they all went along the lines of: "OMG!   Your eye makeup is gorgeous!  I wish I could pull that off."  The point of me doing this blog in the first place was to create easy, wearable looks for women.  It appears I've gone a little off track, lol.

Overall look:

TGIF everyone!

Hugs,
Cat

Double Product Review: Wet N Wild Mega Liner and Color Icon Blusher

I was at CVS the other day when I noticed that they had an entirely new display of Wet N Wild products.  Being immensely attracted to bright colors, I went in for a look.  I ended up taking these guys home with me that night:

I apologize for the grainy quality of these images, I practically took these in the dark.

I got the Wet N Wild Mega Liner Liquid Eyeliner in Turquoise and Wet N Wild Color Icon Blusher in Heather Silk.  Both were an absolute steal at $2.99 each!

The first thing I noticed was the packaging of the eyeliner.  For me, it's the ideal configuration: long handle, fine brush tip.  I feel that this design allows for the most precise application.  As for the blush, I really like the large surface area, perfect for picking up an even amount on my brush.  It is also a pretty shade of bright pink with a hint of warmth, which is just what I've been looking for.

But it's time to put these products to the test.  What kind of quality would I get for the price?  I started with the eyeliner.  Let me just start by saying that on Wet N Wild's product development team, turquoise must be another word for GREEN.  While it's a lovely, bright shade of jade green, there's no hint of blue in this eyeliner.  Even so, it's still a pretty, wearable shade.  I wore it using a "double eyeliner" technique.  I did this by drawing a winged line with black eyeliner, and then stacking the "turquoise" eyeliner on top of the black line.

The color is richly pigmented and the application was smooth and precise.  After 8 hours of wear there was a little smudging, but not noticeably so.  All in all, I'd say that you get more than what you pay for with this eyeliner.

I think I was most pleasantly surprised with the blush.  In general, I've always had good experiences with Wet N Wild liquid liners.  However, I've had less luck with blush.  Unless I pay an arm and a leg for it, most cheap-o drugstore blushes have little pigmentation.  After throwing away two nearly-new drugstore blushes in the last week, I had little faith that Heather Silk would work out. (also a misnomer, by the way.  heather and silk elude to a pale pink, this shade is quite bold)  I needed only a touch of it on my blush brush to bring a healthy flush to my cheeks.

Looking pretty good on the cheap!  I'd say these products are a win/win! :D