BeautyJudy

I really, really wanted to interview Andrea of Evil Shades Cosmetics before I did this post. But I’ve been holding onto it for too long and I just placed a new order the other day to try some of her Mythology Collection, so I’m hoping to do a more in-depth post about the company and the entreprenaur behind it once I’ve got looks/swatches done from my latest order

Anyway! Evil Shades is one of those new-to-me makeup brands. I placed my first order a couple months ago. I couldn’t be happier with the eye shadows, lip glosses and lipsticks that I’ve tried. The lipsticks are not only pigmented, but soft and balmy – so moisturizing!

The shadows are pigmented and easy to use. I love the colors and especially the names of her products. Soul’s Torment is one of the prettiest shadows I own!

Onto swatches!

For my first look, I chose Chusi, Phyrra’s Fantasy and Neritic. I also used MAC pigment in Your Ladyship as a highlighter and Urban Decay Liquid Liner in Minx – oh! - and 100% Pure Mascara in Blackberry:

In the first face shot I was also wearing Evil Shades Deviant Lipstick in Bane, but I switched to NARS Orgasm lip gloss because I think it softened my face with such bright shadow! But isn’t Bane gorgeous, too?! I am also wearing NARS Orgasm blush and Bobbi Brown Foundation Stick in Warm Sands.

Next look: My Fourth of July FOTD using Evil Shades’ Wistful, with Bare Escentual Exotic Pearl, and red liquid eyeliner from Hot Topic (used UDPP and NYX Milk as a base):

Also used: 100% Pure Mascara in Blackberry, Bobbi Brown Foundation Stick in Warm Sand, MUFE Aqua Cream #5 (for cheeks) and Tarte Natural Lip Stain Pencil in Lust. Please excuse the weird pose with my hand all in my hair that I’m making in that last photo LOL

The last two looks were kind of bold and unblended. The next two are a bit more like what I wear on a daily basis!

Here’s a look with Zombie and Neritic:

I know I also used MAC Liquid Liner in Coco Bar and 100% Pure Mascara in Blackberry. These colors really bring the blue out of my eyes!

And one using Soul’s Torment and Phyrra’s Fantasy:

I also used MAC Penultimate liquid liner pen for this look, but I can’t remember what else I used See, I shouldn’t have waited so long to write this post

Anyway, Evil Shades eye shadows are reasonably priced at $3.50 per 3G jar, or $1 for sample baggies. The lipstick is 4.75 per tube, and the lip glosses I mentioned, but didn’t feature, are $3 for a pot – the same one the shadows come in!

Can’t wait to share my new goodies with you when they arrive

Have you tried Evil Shades? What do you think?!

Zoya has enjoyed its relationship with you. But the company wants to get a little closer, maybe spoon a little.

Hahaha!

Zoya has release the new Color Spoon. For 50 cents a pop, you can purchase a little teardrop-shaped spoon painted in any one of Zoya’s more than 300, Big-3-Free shades, to see if the color you’re lemming will actually look good on you!

Watch the YouTube video: Zoya Color Spoon

According to the press release, this is for the online nail polish consumer and salon and spa buyers alike who previously only had online color representations or printed color charts as a guide. You can see every subtle detail of the color and hold it up to your nail to see exactly how it will look. Plus, the amount you pay for the spoons will be added to your account in the form of code that will be available for use on a future Zoya purchase and BONUS: Zoya will ship the spoons to you at no charge.
  
Zoya Nail Spoons will be available at www.zoya.com starting TODAY!
 
Here’s how it works…

Simply visit www.zoya.com, select a color(s) to try, click on the coordinating Zoya Color Spoon option in the product ordering area to add the color spoon to your shopping cart. Order as many as you would like. After your order has been approved and processed, zoya.com will ship your selected color spoons out for you to try and email you a confirmation along with your spoon value code (code will also be available under the “my account” section of www.zoya.com so you never have to worry about losing it).
 
All Zoya Color Spoon sales are final. One time personalized spoon value code. Zoya Color Spoon value code can be applied to any polish or treatment item at www.zoya.com. Code cannot be used to purchase additional spoons.

So what do you think of this, friends? Is it something you’ll be trying out?

Wow, so this is about a week or two overdue! This contest ended a couple weeks ago! But things have been a bit nutty in the BeautyJudy world.

I’m trying to figure out how to balance a suddenly packed weekend schedule week after week, regular trips to the gym, work hours, down time and my blog. Please bear with me while I figure out how to manage my time all over again as life changes ! The biggest change is adding the gym to my schedule. I’m doing it to get healthy, but also to help improve my spirits. Thing is, I get home and I’m exhausted. I don’t want to go on the computer, I want to go on the couch!

Speaking of couches…Mike and I just completed week 2, day 3 of a 9-week Couch to 5K program! I’m going to run a 5K on Oct. 9! I’ve done this particular 5K two or three times in the past and enjoyed it because it runs through my hometown and honors firefighters who passed away fighting a fire one July 4th. The Couch to 5K program is an app on my iPhone that plays my music and tells me when to walk, run and cool down. It has you do a running workout three times a week and at the end of it, wah-la! 5K ready!

Tonight’s workout was tough, because we let a week go by before finishing week 2. But I love it, I missed running.

Anyway! I have lots to catch up on here. I mentioned the other day some of the stuff I have coming! I have a new product announcement, Barielle’s Style in Argyle fall collection, Orly’s Cosmic FX collection (and a Compare and Save post related to it), some makeup posts…OH! And yes, as I mentioned the other day, MAC Jin Soon F/W 2010 Nail Trend polishes! Along with lots of other goodies! I’m supposed to get samples of Color Club’s Untamed Luxury Collection but it hasn’t arrived yet, I’m a bit worried as I see everyone else is posting their swatches! So hopefully soon!

It’s also Ovarian Cancer Awareness Month, and I promised Carey of Teal Toes I’d do some teal pic spam!!! (I’m painting my teal toes with Zoya Charla tonight )

Anyway, now that I’ve rambled on and on…

And the winner of this Ms. Manicure, Tips & Toes set is…

I tossed all the names in my 2009 Phillies National League Championship hat and drew Amy’s!

Amy – I promise your prize is going in the mail soon!! I was supposed to go to the post office yesterday and I didn’t make it. I’m planning to go tomorrow after work!

Thank you to all who participated! Thank you to all who follow, read and share a love of color, polish and makeup!!! XO

Hi all! I have lots to share with you soon including Barielle’s fall collection and the MAC F/W Trend polishes! I swatched a bit this weekend but haven’t written the reviews yet! I wore MAC Jade Dragon on Friday last week…but more on all that later! Oh and I need to announce the Ms Manicure prize winner and get her prize mailed off!!! But for right now a quickie to let you know that WowSoCool is having a sale! WowSoCool is offering a free product valued at $6.99 for orders over $30. 

The $6.99 will be deducted from the total order after entering the code “promo699″ This code will expire on 9/30/10 and is effective immediately!!!

Yay for Konad sales! You can get to WowSoCool in the right hand side bar of the BeautyJudy homepage!

Have fun shopping!

Today I simply have some NOTDs – and a pedi – with some of the Maybelline Express Finish polishes I scored when my local Dollar Tree had tons of good ones! Just some brief pic spam!

Matte Gold:

Five Pocket:

Aqua Shock:

Purple Passion:

Thanks for stopping by! TGIF! Hope you all enjoy the weekend. The next to last weekend before summer’s end.

I’ve been sharing a few EOTDs and FOTDs in recent weeks as I continue experimenting with some of my new-to-me makeup company finds. I’ve mostly purchased eye shadows, and I’ve fallen in love with Aromaleigh (RIP ), Fyrinnae and Meow Cosmetics!

Many of the Fyrinnae shadows I’ve purchased are mostly bold when I apply them over Pixie Epoxy, so I tend to save these looks for the weekend as there’s a limit to how much color and pizzazz I can experiment with during the work week! So over this past weekend, when I wasn’t plagued by an upset stomach and headache, I played around with the Fyrinnae shadow Wicked. Fyrinnae is so pigmented! I have loved the shadows I’ve tried so far. But the shimmer and color in this particular EOTD is neat, so I wanted to share! Here’s the pics:

Eyes:

• UDPP
• Fyrinnae Pixie Epoxy
• Fyrinnae Wicked all over lid and outer crease, also lower lash line from outer corner to middle of eye
• Natural Beauty Lavendar in the inner corner of lid, and inner corner lashline and lower lash line to middle of eye
• Aromaleigh Candytuft for a bit of a darker highlight above and to blend.
• Essence liquid eyeliner on upper lashline in Hang Loose
• 100% Pure Mascara in Blackberry.

Face:

• Bobbi Brown Foundation Stick in Warm Sands
• MAC Mineralize Skinfinish in Petticoat.

Lips:

• Lipstick Queen in Sigh.

So have you made any Fyrinnae purchases? Did you get any Aromaleigh shadows before it closed (although it will reopen in September to clear out leftover inventory!)? Have you tried Meow Cosmetics?

My eyes weren’t too busy focusing on the plethora of old school Maybelline’s at the Dollar Tree that I missed a plethora of duochrome polishes that I’d never heard of – Pro 10 Nail Care.

So I interrupted my mission to find old school mattes and denim polishes in order to pick up one of each duochrome – this was a couple months ago, possibly May, even, but it’s taken me a while to post my swatches!

Changling:

Changling is a cool reddish-sienna base with green duo shimmer.

Montage:

Montage is a pinky-orange base with golden shimmer.

Morph:

Morph is a light pink/lavendar base with light green shimmer.

Prism:

Prism is a light blue/light purple base with a pink duo shimmer.

Spectrum is a purple base with a metallic purple/white duo shimmer.

Cameleon:

Cameleon is a light orangey-yellow with pink duo shimmer.

I don’t know how old these polishes are, or where they were originally sold, although one has a pricetag on it from “Duckwall-Alco,” a store I’ve never heard of. The tag says $3.49. But it was packaged up and retailing for $1 at the Dollar Tree! The application was pretty decent, considering that they’re probably older than the polishes on store shelves like Rite Aid and Walmart today.

What do you think of these duochromes?! They’re neat, I’m glad I tore my eyes away from the Maybelline’s long enough to check these girls out!

My mom and I stopped by our local Sally’s to use our coupons, and found a full Finger Paints Seduced by Fall display, near a much-picked over China Glazed Vintage Vixen display.

There could be reasons why it wasn’t as picked over – it had just gone out, for example – but honestly, the polishes just aren’t that exciting.

They’re been there, done that colors and the colors in the collection are kicked up a notch in other collections. For example, Autumn Moonlight vs. China Glaze Midnight Mission – ChG wins that battle, to me!)

I debated what to do. Buy the collection, or just a few? Or any at all? This was the first time I made a purchase with the idea of posting for my blog. I usually pick up polishes because they appeal to me, and I like them, but I was only moved to pick these ones up because I wanted to swatch them here. Good thing I had an amazing coupon!!!

Autumn Moonlight:

Autumn Moonlight is a less glittery version of China Glaze’s Midnight Mission. It’s an inky vamp.

Autumn Allure:

Autumn Allure is a frosty taupe. A step behind the gre-iolet trend?

Autumn Blaze:

Autumn Blaze is a wine red shimmer. It looks brighter than wine in my photos, I think that’s a subtle pink glow from the polish that I am sitting here searching for in the bottle as I write!

I left behind three of the six colors – Harvest Hues, which was a green shimmer, a plum creme and another frosty color I can’t remember.

I guess I shouldn’t knock the collection. These are nice fall colors. They just don’t jump out at me like some of fall’s other offerings do.

Regardless, application was fine, and coverage – all opaque in two coats for me. I believe they are $4.49 a piece at Sally’s.

What do you think of these? Taking them all or taking a pass?

A couple weeks ago, I stopped by the Lancome counter to see if they had any new lacquer for fall. The customer service associate told me that they had the samples in but not the actual product. She took my name and number and said she’d call when they came in.

Five minutes later, I got the call.

Turns out, they did get the shipment in, and the samples were actual representations of the size of the polish bottles!

It’s a cute little set. Onto swatches!

This is a peachy gold is a nice fall color – unexpected (I usually think of spring or summer with peach), but I picture it pairing nicely with my brown suit!

This color reminds me of a cranberry creme. Eh.

This berry has white or silver shimmer with touches of pink shimmer that are noticable in the bottle. This is the only color I was interested in buying before I knew it came as part of a trio.

Overall, nothing too exciting. Nice portable colors with nice application. The shape of the smaller bottles was good; I didn’t find it awkward like I sometimes find OPI minis to be.

I could have sworn I paid $25 for this, but it’s listed for $29 on the Nordstrom site here.

What do you think of this fall offering from Lancome?

Hi all!
Things have been a lil nutty! So I haven’t had time to post. Or answer comments – I will soon!
Hope everyone’s having a good week! I will be back very soon! Coming: Lancome fall… More Dollar Tree finds…
Brb!