I Lava Coming Back.

Today is a big day.

I'm moving back into my house.  Okay, it's not my house- I rent it from my grandmother, but it is the home that she grew up in.  My mom was here all the time because she grew up 3 houses down.  I was here all the time to visit my great grandmother.

It's a BFD of a house.

Last night I also came home in another way.  It's kinda superficial but lets face it, we love it that way too.

I pulled my hair back to blonde.  Or something like that.  It's actually this really golden orange.  I was gonna put some "normal" blonde dye over it but decided I like looking like Princess Peach right now.  It's a futhermuckin goal of mine.

Check that off yo' bucket list!

So without further ado (and because I'm gonna get bitchcrazy about the house in a later blog I'm sure) here's the hair.  And my makeup.  Shit, like I'd forget that!

First of all, the before.  I made it small.  It's so last week. Psssh!

 I used Color Oops to get the red out, and it worked pretty well for not being super harsh.  My hair feels a little dry but not completely traumatized- the box even says you can turn right around and dye your hair the same day, so that's kinda badass.  It didn't remove all of the dye, but it's way better than dark freakin' red meets superblonde roots.  I panicked because my roommate told me I looked his age- my roots looked gray not blonde!  Panic, right? I can't be THAT OLD.  

I'm hoping he reads this and knows I'm being a total dick about his age right now.  It's out of love, I'm sure.

Anyway, leave the stuff on your hair for 20 minutes, rinse for 20 minutes.  That's right.  Hold your head under the stream of water for 20 minutes.  Talk about an arduous task.  I am a big fan of splash and go showers, I don't like to use more water than I need and I'm a mom.  Any shower taking more than 7 minutes is a shower that opens up too much opportunity for toddlers to ruin everything.  

Apparently Color Oops does something that makes the molecules that hold color clear (uh, what?) and while it's in and when you rinse it it just washes away. Okay.  

It works, I'm happy. And I'm back to normal.  Ish.  

WIWT Makeup

Benefit Hello Flawless

Cover Girl brow pencil (someday i'm gonna do something about my brows.  Promise.)

Tokidoki Momobella blush

Eyes

Urban Decay Primer Potion in Sin

Urban Decay Ransom, Graffiti and Peace

Sugarpill Dollipop (just in the inside corners)

Tokidoki Candycane everywhere.  I love the stuff!

Cargo HD blu_ray Mascara

Lips

Lined with Sugarpill Dollipop

A dab of Lime Crime Airborne Unicorn

Slathered with LORAC Multiplex 4D (You can get this and another pretty color for $28 here.  One usually goes for $22.)

I Lava Sugarpill!

I've really wanted a great orange color for my eyes.

Something that will say "Yo, I have orange freakin' eyelids, jackass!"

I don't know if you've noticed, but orange is a hard color to come by.  In the Sephora in our JCPenneys the only orange I've found is by Make Up Forever... and I'm pretty sure we only just got it in this week.

Anywho, Sugarpill has been getting a ton of good buzz all over the internet, and really gorgeous people with amazing makeup skillz have been just churning out tutorial after pretty tutorial using Sugarpill.  I don't like to miss out on anything and I noticed that there was a pretty badass looking orange eyeshadow called "flamepoint" so I was sold. It officially was time to woman up, order some and see for myself what's so great about this stuff.

I ordered two other colors- to complete my "my eyes look like a sunset" trifecta- Dollipop and Buttercupcake.  With names like those how could I go wrong?  Answer is: I couldn't.  Holy crap.

I'm a sucker for packaging and Sugarpill had me at "OH HELL YES!" with the whole free sticker, free sample, omg a-cat-cuddling-a-pill thing going on.

I figured I'd do a few different looks.  I'm not a makeup expert, I'm just a really easily exciteable girl, so both of my looks look... similar.  But the sentiment is there.  The first run was all three.  So was the second. Shut up.  So here's what we have:

I used Urban Decay's Sin Primer Potion underneath and the colors popped beautifully and dramatically.

I swept Dollipop into the crease, brought some Flamepoint in at the middle because I love yellow and need it to stand out as much as possible, I did the inner corner with Buttercupcake.  The colors blended really well, I didn't have any trouble getting it to feel like a cohesive work of art, and I lined the lower lid with Flamepoint and Buttercupcake layered one over the other with really delightful results.  Overall I loved the application.

But then the day wore on.

We all know how completely unstable I am, this is no surprise.  So when I fuh-lipped out on my poor roommate and quickly dissolved into tears (to his pleading voice saying "No!  Don't cry, your pretty makeupppppppp!") I figured my first time around the block with Sugarpill was doomed to end up a neon river down my face, and if it was a really good tantrum, maybe cascading down onto my chest too.

When I looked in the mirror though post breakdown my mascara was gunky and gross, but holy cow- the Sugarpill survived.

/maiden voyage.


My second look I wanted was the one I initially needed orange for- baseball season.  This is my first attempt at SF Giants' Rally Eyes!

Once again I used Urban Decay Sin Primer, and then I just started brushing copious amounts of orange onto my whole lid.  I really love how Sugarpill layers and it got really intense where I wanted it to.  I then threw Buttercupcake into the inside corners because I just really love that, and I swept a teensy bit of Dollipop in the creases just to make the orange pop a little more.  The only non-sugarpill part of the look is the bit of Urban Decay Zero that I lightly lined the upper lid with (Gotta have orange AND black!  Go Giants!) and Tokidoki Candycane that I used to highlight the brow.  And you know, duh, the mascara (Cargo blu_ray).

So it was time for a game-face test drive.

OMG IS THAT TIM LINCECUM!?!?!?!?1?!?!?!?1!!

 Yeah, It's official.  I really LAVA Sugarpill.

I Lava Sephora in JCP.

Okay, so I work at JC Penneys which has the RAD-ASS PERK of an associate discount.

Um, yeah.

So I spend a LOT of time in the Sephora we have in store (even though there is another one on the mall elsewhere).

So uh, today I made BFF's with my new eye makeup brush set.

tokidoki.  Awesome.  The last one there.  I've lusted after it for months and now it's mine.  MINE!

It's all part of my plan to buy rewards for myself every two weeks I keep with my calorie tracking in hopes of getting my ass less terrifying and more tight.  I'm in major lava with eye makeups right now, why not make that my non-food reward?  Having these cute brushes will just make it that much more enticing to eat right so I can justify buying all of the limecrime and sugarpill I can stomach.  Within reason, of course.