Top 10 Highest-Rated Products | May 25th through May 31st

Skin tone: Under my name.
Favorite look this week: It would be my colourful adaptation of Tammy’s gorgeous rainbow eye look. I didn’t have the same shades as Tammy and no where near her eye lid space but it was fun to play with brighter shades and many at the same time on my little lid. My only con was that I wasn’t sure what to use to blend it all out together. In any event, it has resulted in my purchasing the Coy palette, or I will this week. My base was my usual for recently, Smashbox Primerizer, Becca Backlight Priming Filter, Armani Luminous Silk foundation and concealer, Huda powder and Guerlain Meteorites with MAC FIX +. For the e/s I used the Emme Cosmetics Flower Garden palette, (I keep calling it Spring Garden and have done it so many times I can’t remember which it is!). I used all four of the matte shades in the palette. I started with the golden yellow and applied that to the inner 1/4 of my mobile and up into and slightly above the crease. I then added the peach shade, the purple shade and the green shade blending all together and up above the crease. Then I took the similar shimmery shade and applied that over the matte but just over the mobile lid area. I used Tuscany over the yellow/gold, Cotton Candy over the peach shade, Wild Flower over the purple and Venice over the green. I used Amaranthine on the lower lash line. I used Chantecaille Save the Coral blush and for the lips Charlotte Tilbury PIllow Talk lip cheat and L’Oreal Colour Riche Shine in 918. I enjoyed the look a lot and received several compliments while grocery shopping and also a few what the “F” was she thinking kind of looks, too! As I have said before, small town, no one wears makeup except me and very conservative. I didn’t care though. Not wearing makeup for them!!
One thing to note about the Emme Cosmetics palette. I have only worn the shadows on the upper lid and this is my first time using on the lower lid. They traveled quite a lot and I had that deep teal/green down into my tear troughs, which are actually more like raging river beds, by the end of the night. I don’t know if that was from another product I used in my skin care or what but I wasn’t thrilled with that although I still love the palette, overall.

Most used product this week: Not a specific colour but I am back to my L’Oreal Colour Riche Shine lippies and still loving them. Can’t wait for the shade extension to hit the stores. They are just so comfortable to wear.

Beauty discoveries: Rather more like a beauty disaster. I was feeling particularly annoyed at my hyper-pigmentation on my upper cheek area on both sides. So, I decided to put a really tacky eye shadow primer down and let it sit while I did my eye makeup. Then I added concealer over the primer and then foundation and another dollop of concealer, tapped on some finishing powder, I mentioned my e/s migrating, well it migrated onto the hyper-pigmentation and stuck there like embossing powder an an embossing pad. So, when I took my makeup off that night and looked in the mirror there were these perfectly formed, pigmentation shaped teal/green lakes. I can only think that the people who complimented me on my makeup thought that I had done it purposefully. You know, avant garde makeup on the tops of my cheeks.
I have a little tiny area, about the size of a grain of rice, on my right eye lid that no amount or type of makeup sticks there. It is small enough that it isn’t readily noticeable but I know it is there and always feel like people must think I am crazy for putting e/s every where except in that little area. Well, that is exactly what happens with my hyper-pigmentation. No amount of makeup is going to stick there or if it does, it migrates off pretty quickly. Given the above disaster, what about glitter glue as a base?, LOL!!