Recent content by stickles

First a background, I maintain a huge Excel file that tracks everything about my makeup spending habits. Price, date, weight, description, where I bought it etc etc. I feed all this "raw data" into a pivot table that gives me some interesting stats about my stash I thought you might enjoy...

This look was for my company's Christmas dinner, whose theme was Shanghai Nights. I made the birdcage veil by hand one evening, and the hair took two hours at the salon, which was crusted SOLID by the combo of mousse, gel, and hairspray! Makeup-wise I kept it simple so it wouldn't compete with...

Just adding to the attempts here at the Face Charts! Face Chart: My gimpy version: well, that was fun, if not completely successful. I wasn't happy with how thick the brows were at the end, and if you looked closely at the teeth, they were painted onto my bottom lip and since my lip...

This is another online etailer like Coastal Scents. These are more like pigment ingredients than pigments themselves, but I plan to mix these up to make my own pressed shadows. For $1.5 a tablespoon, they're worth a go! I started off with a few sampler sets: Cosmetic Pigment Sampler (mattes)...

I've found that I have barely touched my Sunspill loose beauty powder. In the mornings, like most loose products, I find it a bit hard to use without making a mess as I rush to not be late for work! I was thinking though of trying to press it into a blush pan, and maybe then I'd be able to use...

Oooh, what could this be? As I had promised when I posted some sloppy Fafi swatches earlier this week, I wanted to do some nice natural daylight ones. Get sucked into the vortex of color.... In natural light With flash Left half in detail Right half in detail One more artistic...

April 20, 2009 I've gone on a mica rampage and added about 60+ baggies of loose pigment to my collection! I've already posted them on the Swatch pages, here: http://www.specktra.net/forum/f217/t...atches-137058/ http://www.specktra.net/forum/f217/c...0/#post1601147 March 6, 2009: It's been...

Just had a peek at the 'book' at a counter and noticed there'll be a new Asia-only collection called Prep + Prime Enhance. Basically it'll be three new makeup primers: Enhance (pink) Neutralize (yellow) Illuminate (lavender) They may also be repromoting the SPF 50 primer as well. It's a...

Yup, got to play with it all the fun stuff tonight, even Don't Be Shy! (no glimmershimmers, nail polish, barbie accessories, or liquidlasts tho) All by my lonesome no less. Surprise, though, didn't buy anything! Will go back tomorrow for Don't Be Shy and Pearl Blossom, so won't post the MAC...

I've been reading specktra religiously, but never had the courage to post. Thought I might start with my collection that most of which I really started to get into in Oct 06 when I moved to Singapore. Let's just say that China markups are wayyy too high. Everything mushed in together. Brushes...