My Scion Rock Fest 2011 look & UD Eyeshadow Primer Potion Review/lovefest...

First of all, please forgive the HORRIBLE picture quality but I had to share this look because it looked so neat...it's too bad the picture didn't do it justice =/

This year, we went to the Scion Rock Fest in Pomona (aka Scion A/V Metal).  Never heard of it before but my fiance's brother really wanted to go so we decided to check it out.  I pretty much left my metal days behind in high school so I wasn't altogether looking forward to going but in the end, it was a fun time.  

Dressing up was definitely fun because I'd had a cut up Pantera t-shirt sitting in my closet for years and no place to wear it to until Saturday.  Unfortunately, I forgot to take pictures of the outfit and the makeup early BECAUSE I am the type of goober who always has a camera phone and a regular camera in her purse, but rarely remembers to use either of them.  I could kick myself too because I really wanted to get a pic of me and my hubby at the festival but I forgot to do that too, dumb.  The festival was an ALL day thing so by the time I got around to taking at least 1 picture, it was at 2am, with an iPhone, and literally about 5 minutes before I passed out into a mild coma.  And here it is...

I did what I could to bring out the colors but this is the best it's going to get for now. For anybody interested, the product list is as follows:

Face

Foundation: Bare Minerals 2G Golden Medium Matte
MAC Blush: Coppertone and Peaches
Highlight: NARS Illuminator in Orgasm
All over: MAC Fix+ Spray

Eyes
Primer: Urban Decay Eyeshadow Primer Potion
MAC Pigment:  Golden Lemon

MAC ES: Vanilla, Saddle, Goldenrod, Gesso, and Carbon

Urban Decay 24/7 eyeliners: Zero, Bourbon, and Honey

MAC Fluidline gel liner: Blacktrack

Lashes: MAC Prep+Prime Lash, Blinc tube mascara

Lips

Softlips Vanilla chapstick...which they made me throw away at the Fox Theatre so I'm glad I didn't bring anything expensive.

On to the review/lovefest.  Like I said at the beginning of the post, this picture was taken around 2am AFTER spending nearly the entire day outside, queueing in the sun and walking from venue to venue. Not to mention sweating inside the dank stuffy venues themselves.  I finsihed applying my makeup at noon and we didn't get home till after 1am.  Bad picture quality aside, there was little to no fading, no greasy creasing, and no smudging.  I was so exhausted I didn't even wash my face before bed (yuck I know), and most of the eyeshadow was still in place when I woke up late the next day.  If you need any more proof that Urban Decay's Eyeshadow Primer Potion is everything they claim it is, then I don't know what to tell you.  

I'm off, errands await.

Purple, just because...

BeneThese are the pictures from the last post that I finally got around to posting.

I had the impulse to play with makeup the other night, as I often do.  And I indulged the impulse, as I too often don't.  I felt like using some dark and vivid purple because I rarely have occasion to wear it.  Despite being a makeup addict, I am not now nor have I ever been, the type that goes out of her way to wear makeup every single day.  In fact, I haven't worn makeup daily since the late 90's.  I only wear it when I'm going out with my fiance, parties, special occasions, etc.  There have been months at a time where I went without anything other than chapstick haha.  Yet here I sit with a fairly massive collection of makeup...especially eyeshadow, my grand weakness.  It's so terribly hard to resist the magnetic pull of the colors.  All laid out so pretty and inviting, just waiting for you to swatch them on your wrist and realize you can't walk away without at least one. Uhhg, it's so that I literally can't go near one of my usual makeup haunts unless I've got a little spare cash or I've got empty eyeshadow pots to trade in for free stuff.

Anyways, back to the look of the day.  The pictures are not great.  I'm hardly a photographer and my camera is old by new tech standards.  I did this at night so the lighting was bad, and I was cooking dinner so I blurred the sweat off my face with Photoshop in the last 2 pictures haha.  It was prettier than it looks here since the colors are not all that distinguishable in the pictures.

In case any other makeup fiends, geeks, and addicts come across my humble little blog, and happen to be curious...the products used are as follows:

Face
Foundation: Bare Minerals 2G Golden Medium Matte
MAC Blush: Coppertone and Peaches
Highlight: NARS Illuminator in Orgasm
All over: MAC Fix+ Spray

Eyes
Base: MAC Greasepaint Stick B & NYX Jumbo ES Pencil in Milk
MAC Pigments: Heritage Rouge, Push the Edge, Cornflower Blue, Full Force Violet, and Grape
MAC ES: Manila Paper, Samoa Silk, and Off the Page
Urban Decay 24/7 eyeliners: Zero and Rockstar
Lashes: MAC Prep+Prime Lash, Blinc tube mascara, and a half set of (brand unknown) falsies applied with Duo darktone glue

Lips
Benefit lipstick: I do, I do, I do
MAC Lipglass: Gold Rebel

And that's it for makeup talk babble.  I have another regular update post but I will save it for tomorrow I thinkg and go do some more damage on Project Purge...will explain later =)