Lashes & Lingerie Project with Adore Me!

Good evening, everyone!  I'm excited to share a collaboration I did with NY based lingerie company, Adore Me!  I did a few makeup looks inspired by their newly released lingerie sets.  There are many beautiful sets on their website to choose from, and I ended up choosing the two darker ones, as that's more my personal style.  They recently launched a new Spring line as well, with very colorful and spring-y colored styles.  I was originally going to do one look per set, but the second one was classic enough to inspire two.

Spring Midnight

Spring Midnight look featuring: 

Notoriously Morbid Cosmetics' 7 Years Shattered (inner corner)

Notoriously Morbid Cosmetics' Annataz (lid)

Notoriously Morbid Cosmetics' Hallow's Eve (outer corner and crease)

Notoriously Morbid Cosmetics' Famine (outer corner)

ELF Cosmetics' Peachy Keen (blush)

Victoria's Secret Intensity (lipstick)

Lorraine

Lorraine look featuring:

Notoriously Morbid Cosmetics So Goes My Nation (lid)

Notoriously Morbid Cosmetics 5 by 5 (outer corner and crease) 

ELF Peachy Keen (blush)

Guerlain Garconne (lipstick)

Lorraine 2 look featuring:

Innocent and Twisted Alchemy's Face Hugger (inner corner)

Innocent + Twisted Alchemy's Ripley (lid)

Innocent + Twisted Alchemy's Drone (outer corner and crease)

Fyrinnae's Mystify (blush)

Limnit Lipsticks' Extraterrestrial (lipstick)

I had a lot of fun doing these looks and enjoyed my collaboration with Adore Me!  Please check out their collection of sexy lingerie and you'll definitely find a set that suits you.  The sets I chose were darker and classic because that's more my style, but there are plenty of sets for bright lovers as well.  Also, if you liked any of the makeup, feel free to check out the shops I linked.  Most of them are small independent companies with great products and customer service!

Until next time,

- Jolie ♥

E.L.F. EX-tra Lip Gloss - Swatches and Review

Hi everyone!  I'm actually really excited to review this product from ELF Cosmetics.  It's one of their new lip glosses from their Essential line.  The Ex-tra Lip Gloss is $2/each and has six colors in the collection.  They are supposed to be inspired by ex-boyfriends, thus are all named after men.  I initially bought one color from my local Target to try out and fell in love with the pigmentation; I ended up ordering the rest of the collection.

As a person who isn't fond of lip glosses, I really like these!  They all have great pigmentation (which you will see in the swatches below) and are not sticky at all.

Pictures and swatches after the jump

ELF Haul!

It's been such a long time since I've made an ELF order!  If you didn't read my blog in the early stages, I bought from ELF Cosmetics so much.  I only stopped because I discovered the greatness that is indie companies.  However, I was running out of some products and needed some new brushes, so here goes my haul :)

Yay brushes :D

Weekend FOTD

I went to IKEA with my friends last weekend and decided to do a full-face makeup.  My skin's always been pretty nice so I didn't feel the need to use foundation.  However, I have bought a bottle of foundation from ELF to try out just in case I ever need to use it for special occasions.

These pictures are taken in daylight; the card I'm holding up is for white balance.

Face: 

ELF Acne Fighting Foundation (Buff)

ELF Tone Correcting Concealer (Light Beige)

ELF Clarifying Pressed Powder (Apricot Beige)

NYC Bronzer (Sunny)

ELF Blush & Bronzer Duo (Turks & Caicos)

Shiro Doge for highlighter

Eyes:

ELF 144 Eyeshadow Palette (Neutral) for brows

ELF Eyelid Primer

Wet n Wild eyeshadow (Brulee)

MSB (Fern) on lid

MSB (Navy) in crease

MSB (Wintergreen) inner corner

MSB (Black Orchid) for tightline and lower lashline

ELF Liquid Eyeliner (Black)

Jordana Best Lash Extreme Volumizing Mascara (Black)

Lips:

Jordana Easy Liner for Lips (Baby Berry)

Wet n Wild MegaLast lipstick (In the Flesh)

ELF Shimmer Lip Gloss (Believe)

I was so not used to having that much makeup on my face.  It felt very caked on and uncomfortable; I could NOT wait to get home and shower.  I do admit how nice my skin looked though, but it definitely was not a good trade-off.  

Overall, the ELF foundation had a very nice texture, it applied and blended very well.  The pressed powder also mattified my skin very well, but in hindsight, I should have used the translucent pressed powder instead.  I'll try to do more EOTD/FOTDs in the future since my blog is being riddled with reviews haha.  Until next time!

- Jolie ♥