Summer Roots

Mornin' ya'll! Aren't Saturdays the best?! I wish it were Saturday everyday. I haven't done a makeup look in a while and today I'm sharing a few Bare Escentuals eye shadows and a lip gloss.

I used BE Summer for the inner eye and BE Root for the outter eye. Summer is a golden sand color with gold shimmer. Root is a dark mud brown with the same golden shimmer as Summer. Both these eye shadows work best when patted on rather then brushed on or rubbed in.. when it's rubbed in the gorgeous gold shimmer glitter almost completely disappears. Since you sorta have to smudge in order to blend, I went back after I finished blending and patted on some extra eye shadow so that the golden shimmer glitter would be much more obvious.

 

 

Zena is a light pink lip gloss with very subtle and small light pink shimmer. It's pretty and pretty neutral on my skin tone, however, it's not very unique compared to other (especially other BE) lip glosses. My mom gave this lip gloss to me for Christmas. She got it in a kit from the BE outlet so I'm not too sure how hard or easy it is to find. The eye shadows however are sold at all BE boutiques.

Also used were Maybelline Falsies mascara in Black, Revlon Color Stay eyeliner in Black, BE eyebrow powder in Dark Blond/Medium Brown.

~Dori

Scotch Tape Mani Revamped

 

Same mani as earlier this morning just revamped. I really like this a lot better. Look at the sparkly holoness in that last pic!! This sparkles like crazy in the sun, I love it. So proud of myself :0)

~Dori

Scotch Tape Design

Gooooood morning! Happy Friday to you all! Boy, am I glad that I don't have classes on Friday this quarter. I hate Friday classes and I love me a 3 day weekend on the regular. Today i decided to try something different and very new to me. On the Nail Board there's a lovely MUAer named Ericka who does these absolutely amazing mani designs using scotch tape. She made a scotch tape funky french tutorial a while back that I tried to copy and my lines came out all out of whack. Well a couple days ago she posted a really cool design and tutorial with scotch tape on the board and on her blog and I thought it was so amazing, I just had to give it a shot! On the blue nails I used Zoya Kotori topped with Color Club Sexy Siren. The design nails are Wet N Wild Black Creme topped with Color Club Sexy Siren. Pretty cool, huh!? I think this time I had better success with scotch tape because I used a thicker non-shiny type of scotch tape which adhered better to my nails making crisper, cleaner lines. I quite like this a lot so I think I'm going to have to experiment more with scotch tape nail art designs.

It's Friday; smile!
~Dori

Pink Glitter Gradient

Too early to start the Valentine's Day manis? Not for me!! I used Color Club Lazer Pink as the tip color and then did 4 different layers of Sinful Pinky Glitter in a gradient from the tips to the base of my nails. I wish my nails weren't so stained and that the glitter was a bit more opaque. I didn't turn out exactly how I wanted so I might have to try this again. Yay for Valentine's Day manis!!

It's a warm day in So Cal :0)
~Dori

OPI Silver Belles

 

OPI Silver Belles is from the Holiday 2009 ULTA Exclusive Tiny Tinsels Collection. It's still mighty cold here in So Cal so dark grays and silvers just seem to fit. Silver Belles is a medium gunmetal silver. It's foil-like dark silver shimmer from one angle but as soon as the light hits it, the light silver becomes much more apparent. I really love this color. Another perfect dark silver for this So Cal weather. At least it's not raining anymore. Actually, I quite like the rain.. but only really when I'm inside, not outside getting soaked in it.

It's a beautiful day!!

~Dori

Winter Snow

I really wanted to do these nails before Christmas but I was always crunched on time and had a red vibe going on so I figured I could put these off until after Christmas. I used 3 coats of Sally Hansen Lavender Envy (I got this polish as a Christmas present 3 years ago from my bff and unfortunately it's been long discontinued), 1 coat China Glaze Fairy Dust, and I used China Glaze Millennium as the snowflakes. The rhinestones are Lamour Crystal AB (Aurora Borealis) Rhinestones that I got from a Nail Polish Beauty store.

Brrrr, it's cold outside!
~Dori

OPI Brand New Skates

 

Sorry I've been MIA the past two days, I'm back in LA again and school starts today so this next week is going to be a bit hectic too. It's a cold, wet, and gray day here in So Cal and OPI Brand New Skates is the perfect polish that reminds me this kind of weather. Dark silver gray with gold flake shimmer. Amazing. This is one of my all time favorite polishes and definitely my favorite polish to wear for this kind of weather.

Hope you all had a great NYE and New Years Day. My New Year's Eve was really low key. I went out to dinner at the Cheesecake Factory, had a few sip's of champagne at my brother's house, went to my BFF Kim's house to play Let's Dance on the Wii, and got home with 15 mins to spare to ring in the New Year by watching the ball drop in New Yprk with mymom while eating frozen yogurt. My kind of NYE. What did you do?

~Dori