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[BrokefromMAC]

I was wondering if you guys could help me with an overrich question?

I can't make it to the store to see them in person. I was wondering how close Sumptious Olive is to Vintage Gold. And how close is Bronze eyeshadow to the Museum Bronze piggie.


Opps, I didn't see the reply that was left in the overrich thread till now. My laptop is being a pain lol. I can't decide if I should get the piggies or not. I have sumptious olive and bronze shadows already. I dont wanna buy them if they are too close to what I have. But they look soooo pretty. Someone tell me what to do lol.

 

[maclove1]

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Originally Posted by purrtykitty Holy crap - I almost forgot... I PASSED THE BAR EXAM!!!!

you go girl lol

 

[coachkitten]

Woo-hoo Karin!!

I knew you would pass with flying colors! All of your hard work paid off! Are you doing anything fun this weekend to celebrate?

Thanks Nora for the birthday shout out! Only 13 more days until my birthday!

I am just checking in for a bit since I am at my sisters house warming party. A glass of merlot is calling my name downstairs!!

 

[KikiB]

Okay ladies, you are officially going to hate my store now:

THEY ARE MANDATING MY LIP COLOUR FOR THREE WEEKS! Yes, that is right, they're making us all wear this crappy plum lip lacquer that is going to be a GWP. The closest I get to purple is Funtabulous DG, or Plumful lipstick! Any suggestions on how to misplace the one I get? I was going to be doing bright red lips, ya know Port Red with Cult of Cherry, Oh Garnet and Rich & Ripe, and then get one of the darker Mattenes and have Cult of Cherry over that...or potentially get the red Lustre Twin.

 

[darkishstar]

^^ That really sucks!!!!! Hmm.. maybe instead.. you can try and get that plum lip lacquer to work for you and experiment with other eye-looks or combinations instead?

It could be fun and you can definitely discover other looks and those kind of things.


Anwhoo...

It's really unusual for me to say this, but recently I started being really frustrated with the shape of my eyes. The whole... Asian monolid thing. This isn't to say that I don't embrace my heritage or race or anything (I LOVE being Asian!), but it's kind of been building up inside me how frustrating my eyeshape really is in terms of applying makeup. I see all these gorgeous looks done by other girls in the FOTDs section and I can't even do maybe 90% of the looks. I want to use more than 3 colors.. but I just can't. It just never shows up! Maybe I could if I had more skills, but I don't and hard as I try, I can't get it to look good at all!

And reading around online or seeing youtube videos shows that pretty much one color on the lid.. in a gradient towards the brow is basically the only thing that can be done on our eyes or the only thing that looks good. And it has to be a dark brown color or something. Even seeing make-up on Asian popstars and stuff, unless it's the smoky brown or dark grey or black eyeshadow look, it's usually just eyeliner and mascara. Or maybe one color on the lid. (I KNOW this isn't the case because of the amazing looks we see from Snowkei, but I'm nowhere near as good as she is.) Oh right, and let's not forget the rule where you much use dark colors around your eyes and smoke it up to a light color, never light colors around your eyes...

Makes me want to throw away all of my make up except for the dark colors, neutrals, and teals. All my brights I just want to get rid of. :/ I look at all my past FOTDs and just think how awful it all looks.

And don't get me started on my short sparse lashes that refuse to curl no matter what I do.

Sorry for the long rant, but I had to get that off my chest. I just hate my eyes so much right now.

 

[kobri]

Well Katie I'm gona Tim Gunn ya "Make it work" use different lip pencils or lipsticks underneath to make the colour work for you, I mean you're still wearing it and you are showing people who might think the colour is not for them that it is changeable right?

Elaine I understand your frustration. I've studied around for looks for my cousin and friends, but there aren't alot of options presented out there! I would say that Snokei definitely shows that it is possible to do fun bright looks and while you may not feel that you have the skills now it is all just practice.

 

[purrtykitty]

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Originally Posted by maclove1 you go girl lol

Lol!! When I called one of my bosses, she held the phone up and her two sons said that exact same thing to me! It was really cute!

I'm not celebrating too hard - I had a little too much fun Friday night (maybe I subliminally knew my results would arrive the next day), so I spent all yesterday hungover...and I don't usually get hangovers. We're heading down to the lake today and we're camping overnight. So it will be an evening filled with fun and friends. Stay tuned for a haul - DH and I will be in the Boston area starting Wednesday, and I've got 4 outlet malls mapped out, plus a really nice shopping mall complete with a Nordies and Anthropologie! I'll probably be hauling from MAC online once I see what I can nab from CCOs.

Elaine - I totally hear you on the textbooks. My Law ones were freakin' ridiculously expensive - and of course, they came out with new editions it seemed like every year, too. I think my most expensive semester was my first one since that was the year I had the most classes, but it was mitigated by the fact that the books were used for two semesters. Otherwise, I used Amazon.com religiously and was usually able to cut my book bill in at least half. Don't worry - it will be all worth it in the end, even if you don't see it now.

 

[Sanayhs]

Elaine, have you tried faking a crease? Looking up ideas on the net, via youtube and whatnot? It's certainly a common issue. I mean, for example, if you look at YouTube - Find and Fake a crease on Asian monolids! it shows a girl creating a crease. Yes, it's super neutral, but you can always translate that into colours. It would certainly take practise, but can absolutely be done. Another is YouTube - Neutral Defined Fake Crease Tutorial , and she appears to have a bunch of looks up.

You can also simply look into eye carving. I know MissCheivous posted a video on it a while ago (even though I wasn't super fond of the overall result, but hey, I know it exists), and a number of girls who even have creases do it. It's all the same idea, really. Eye 'carving' simply emphasizes and defines the shape for those who have it naturally, or can create it for those who are lacking it.

Even if you find examples in neutrals, you can translate that to colours! I'm really sorry you're so down about this, and I know this stuff is difficult, but it could be worth trying.

Have you tried a lash primer? I have really long lashes, but they're super straight. They don't like to curl. Or stay curled. At all. So, I investigated a bit: I find a lot of people are huge fans of Shisheido's lash primer, say it actually holds a curl, etc. Rave reviews. HOWEVER, it's pricey. Yuck. There's a South Korean brand called Missha that makes a lash primer in a white tube. You can nab it off of ebay for about $10. It has the fibrey stuff to add length to your lashes, and it's supposed to hold a curl pretty damn well too. It makes my lashes stupidly long, to the point that they hit the bottom of my brows if I curl them. Stupidly long. Doesn't really hold a curl super well for me, but it helps some. The other thing is to use a heated lash curler, preferably one designed to be heated, but plenty of people just blast their standard ones with hair dryers to warm them up. The heat, of course, makes your lash take the curling better.

How much of this you're already aware of and/or have tried, I don't know, but that's what I've got for suggestions.

 

[coachkitten]

Hi Everyone! Wow it is quiet around this board today. Hope everyone is having a good weekend!

 

[BrokefromMAC]

Hi Katie, and everyone else of course. I am looking at swatches of the overrich colllection. They have me drooling

. I didn't even want anything from the collection and now I want them all lol.

 

[darkishstar]

Kelly and Samantha, thanks for all of the suggestions, I've actually seen those videos, but yeah... it still frustrating. I think I'll check that Shiseido primer out, it seems worth a shot. And yeah.. the whole faking a crease thing.. I dunno, it just never ends up looking like a crease you know? So I usually don't do that at all, I don't think Snowkei does either, it just ends up looking like you're trying too hard or something.

I dunno, I guess I'll give it another try, I've done it before.

Oh well. I think for now I'll stick to neutrals and try and get that down perfect before I head to other colors again. Or neutrals with bright pops of color here and there.

 

[kobri]

I think this has been the quietest weekend in Bimbo history

 

[stv578]

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Originally Posted by kobri I think this has been the quietest weekend in Bimbo history

It really is. I guess everyone's busy with long weekend festivities!

We ended up going with the kids to a picnic today with friends. I have to say, it was by far the nicest day in terms of weather all summer here in TO. It was hot, but not really humid with a decent breeze going. A great time was had by everyone, except my 2 year old daughter's little boyfriend went a little overboard trying to kiss her and ended up pushing her over and she hit her head on the playground.

He then continued kissing her and was pretty much mauling her even though she was screaming at this point until I could get up the ladder to pull him off. Oh the joys of parenting!

So what is everyone looking forward to after CoC?

 

[Krasevayadancer]

I am around! I have just been popping on from time to time in between relaxing at the boyfriend's

 

[BrokefromMAC]

Hi Ladies

. I hope you all are enjoying the long weekend.

I was wondering if anybody thinks that Sunpepper piggie might look anything like the Copperbeam in the Overrich collection? I have to rely on online swatches so any help would be great

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[coachkitten]

We are nearing the 200 page mark my dear bimbos!

I am going to a local music festival tomorrow and I am SOOOOO excited! I just pray that it doesn't rain on me while I am there.

I am looking forward to the October collections and the MSFs!!! Sorry Elaine I know I sound like a broken record but I CAN'T WAIT!!

I am so happy I can get a b/u of petticoat without having to pay a small fortune. I am going to try and put most of my birthday money away for October so I can splurge on those collections.

 

[BrokefromMAC]

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Originally Posted by stv578 It really is. I guess everyone's busy with long weekend festivities! We ended up going with the kids to a picnic today with friends. I have to say, it was by far the nicest day in terms of weather all summer here in TO. It was hot, but not really humid with a decent breeze going. A great time was had by everyone, except my 2 year old daughter's little boyfriend went a little overboard trying to kiss her and ended up pushing her over and she hit her head on the playground. He then continued kissing her and was pretty much mauling her even though she was screaming at this point until I could get up the ladder to pull him off. Oh the joys of parenting! So what is everyone looking forward to after CoC?

Life after COC, so sad to let the collection go soon. Is it me or is anybody else surprised that only one lipgloss has sold out? I thought for sure that almost everything would be gone with all this buzz about COC. I am now trying to narrow down the Overrich piggies since I have to pay so much for school books in 2 days. *sigh*. I think I need to take a MAC break for a while after this though. Nothing for like 2 months. I need a MAC detox.

 

[stv578]

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Originally Posted by coachkitten We are nearing the 200 page mark my dear bimbos! I am going to a local music festival tomorrow and I am SOOOOO excited! I just pray that it doesn't rain on me while I am there. I am looking forward to the October collections and the MSFs!!! Sorry Elaine I know I sound like a broken record but I CAN'T WAIT!! I am so happy I can get a b/u of petticoat without having to pay a small fortune. I am going to try and put most of my birthday money away for October so I can splurge on those collections.

Aaaaahhhh! I keep forgetting about Petticoat!!! So it'll be that and a couple Cremesheens for me in October, overall not too bad a month. And I keep changing my list for Ungaro, definitely getting the light pink l/s, Softrose? I used to be so good with names and now even the name of certain colours I've had forever are escaping me. I'm too young to be losing my memory! I also want the coral e/s I think and now I'm thinking of the pink CCB, I'll call it Bougieville as a few people on the discussion thread have been referring to it!
So that's 3 items each for September and October and then I too will be taking a MAC break till the Chill collection. I'm not sure, but read that this may be released the day after Christmas. And I always do a small haul right before the New Year, it's become my own little tradition! (And there was a time that I didn't haul all that often so it did mean something back then!!!)

The music festival sounds interesting.

Okay, my thoughts are way too scattered right now!

 

[stv578]

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Originally Posted by BrokefromMAC Hi Ladies . I hope you all are enjoying the long weekend. I was wondering if anybody thinks that Sunpepper piggie might look anything like the Copperbeam in the Overrich collection? I have to rely on online swatches so any help would be great .

Sorry, can't help you on that one. But if you're trying to decide on a pigment from Overrich, my vote is for Vintage Gold!!! I think i've mentioned this before?! Honestly, I think this is my favourite MAC purchase this year

Sorry again for the multiple posts, but my multi quote function and thanks function both are not functioning again.

I can thank one or two posts and then I get a message when I do it again that I'm not authorized to access that page. WTF? So to all my bimbos, I thank you all!

 

[gigglegirl]

yikes i agree with kelly, it sure is quite quiet here!

so I'm back from the House Bunny--fun, alright, not stellar like I sometimes walk away from some comedies but meh. Then I went there early and FINALLY went to the freestanding mac store in the mall! Wasn't overly impressive considering I have most everything, and it'd be PRO that'd be awesome for more. but its nice to now have an option for my empties for a shadow/lippie/gloss. but its just that I don't know if they take my depots.

But of course I walked away with something!!!---I got Tan pigment (gosh I typed that as tax, lol work on the brain!) it was just too dang pretty with the slight pinkish hue. i wanted to get a full size old gold but the colour, was still a bit....well I don't know if I'd use it much at all. I will totally go search the FOTD thread.

Just wanted to stop by and say hi!!