Crashing Waves

 Two looks two days in a row? What's this? Very strange... 

Well, this look is for the Makeupbee Inglot tropical looks competition, and I'd really appreciate a vote, so if you want to you can right here.  This look was obviously inspired by the ocean, and I tried to make the liner look kind of like a wave. It only sort of worked, but I think that it looks okay, regardless of it's lack of resemblance to an actual wave.  Be your own judge for that, though. 

 

So, my face looks sort of weird in this picture... But I thought that the eyes 

looked good, so I put it in anyway.

Eyes:

• Too Faced Shadow Insurance
• Urban Decay Clash shadow pencil
• Urban Decay Zero eyeliner
• MAC Climate Blue eyeshadow
• Urban Decay Hijack from the Book of Shadows IV palette
• MAC Surf the Ocean Crushed Pigment Stack (navy shade)
• Wet 'n Wild Blue Had Me at Hello
• Urban Decay Moonshine cream eyeshadow
• Sephora pearl eyeshadow
• Urban Decay Perversion eyeliner
• Clinique mascara
• Urban Decay mascara

Cheeks:

• Benefit Hoola bronzer
• Estee Lauder Peach Nuance blush
• Elf Candid Coral blush

Lips:

• MAC Lush Amber

 I hope you liked how this turned out! Not exactly wearable, but if you just took off the eyeliner, then it's a really pretty smoky eye. Very, very metallic.  Usually I hate frosty colors on the brow bone, but they're growing more and more on me.

If you have any look requests, I'm kind of on a kick with them right now, so feel free to ask! Oh, and I want to start doing a series, because they're really fun, so if you have any ideas for those, that would be great too. Talk to you soon!

Used up Product: Clinique Toner

So, in the month of April, I used up a lot of products, so I decided that I would review some of them! Given that I used this product for the last two months or so, I consider myself rather well-versed in it. This is the Clinique toner from the 3 step system, level 3 for combination skin.

I consider myself to have combination, acne-prone skin, but I found this entire line, cleanser, toner, and moisturizer very drying. First of all, the entire line, and a lot of Clinique products smell like alcohol.  Alcohol is known for being drying, so it isn't entirely unprecedented.  You may think that oily or combination skin would benefit from drying products, but I strongly believe that you need to moisturize your skin regularly, whether you have oily skin or dry skin.  Okay, I'm going to end this rant before I really go on a tangent, but bottom line, this is very drying.

People think that toner helps with getting smaller pores, acne scars, and things of that nature, but really, all that I've noticed any toners doing is acting as another cleanser.  I kinda think that it's even better though, because toners get off all of my makeup.  When you put it on a cotton ball, it removes everything, and you can see it doing so.  That's what I love most; that it gets everything off. But I've noticed that other toners do the exact same thing.  

It's a good product, and it is less drying when you don't pair it with other Clinique products, and and I love using when I don't have time to do the other parts of removing my makeup, but I don't think that this product is any better than any other toners.  It's fine buying it in a mini set, like I did, but I would not splurge on it, because it doesn't do anything miraculous.  I'm not giving it a thumbs down, but I would not repurchase it.

Toners are holy grail products for some people, are they for you?