Product Review : Merle Norman Nude Inner Eyeliner and OPI Glitter Off

Last week and this week I hinted at that I acquired some new product to try out.

First from my instagram I tried out the new Merle Norman inner eyeliner in nude. I had gone in looking for a new lip pencil plus in a lighter nude than what I already have and this was suggested because its a mechanical liner.

• I normally hate mechanical liners, they seem to dry out faster because they don't have the wood around keeping in the moisture, but this one so far is super creamy.
• It went along my waterline really well. I didn't have to go back and forth to get that colour going through.
• Its more natural looking rather than a white.

The only con was offering this as a replacement for a lipstick, it will be awesome for blanking out my lip line to draw a new one on but its so small it would take too much to 
fill my lips.

a clearer view of the makeup

The Next Product was OPI's glitter off base coat. It works as a stretchy base coat that you can peel off from underneath so you don't have to struggle filing and using a ton of nail polish remover to get those sparkles off.

I also had wanted to try doing some butterfly nail art, so I used some different glitters(small pieces, large pieces, thick and thinner ones) on my toes. Once again when I first try stuff, I shouldn't be watching a movie at the same time(this time it was the Watchmen).

So that's the outcome with the OPI glitter off. 

• The glitter off goes on white but dries clear.
• when you do peel it off it doesn't pull your nail with it.
• most pieces come off in big chunks, not that messy.

The only con is that it takes a while to dry, probably a extra minute.

 xoxox Scotia-leigh.

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Playing Dress Up

Over the last few weeks I have just been going full out dressing up to leave the house, for no actual reason, maybe just one is due to my shopping addiction of dresses. 
So here's just a quick what I've been doing with my style lately, which if you follow me on my instagram or facebook then you've already seen them.

The day I had to go do a wedding cake tasting and make reno plans at home depot, I wanted to wear a new dress(not shown) which is a retro style halter dress that has a vintage circus print on it. I paired my Johnny Cash cardigan with it. 
I have actually never done my hair up all in rolls before, and I was totally out of hairspray. I think it turned out really good. 
All neutral makeup minus my "Pink to be" Lime Crime lipstick. 
Which usually I find it a bit hard to wear cause its sooo pink but it works good with this retro, neutral look.

Then yesterday I decided that I wanted to be Freddy Krueger. I went out to friend's business' downtown to ask for shag prizes. 

I wore my new wig from pleasure wigs(though I always end up cutting the bangs). 

For coverage surprisingly all I used was some Merle Norman loose mineral powder and some matte cover girl mouse foundation on my lips: as I don't have a super nude lipstick (well I do now.. keep an eye out for my review) I used a dark brown, black, darkest purple and the darkest red eye shaddows to blend out on the outer corner.

The socks are from halloween town, I found the sweater, fedora and the little vest harness at value village. And of course I didn't wear out my Freddy glove, but it is a numbered special edition replica.  

I also used the Marc Jacob's silver nail polish I grabbed from Sephora.

The necklace is from Hot Topic(6 years ago)

and Unfortunately I wasn't with anyone who could of taken a pic of me with my Elm Street sign: yes I live on Elm street!

 

Another dress (up) that I did was my new R2D2 dress and (you can't see it in the pic) I wore with it my galaxy leggings. Lipstick is "Mint to be" by Lime Crime












Last but not least, for the drag show of my friend Fantasia 10 year anniversary of doing drag, I dressed up with inspiration from Sharron Needles though everyone thought I was Lady Gaga. Both are acceptable.

Lady Gaga :World Icon. not a drag queen(technically)

Sharon Needles: World Champion Drag queen

Either way Needles or Gagging on Gaga: people at the show wanted to take pics with me, which was a first. I was very flattered by that. It probably also helped that other than the other Drag Queens I was the only one super dressed up.

. xoxox Scotia-leigh.

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Happy Holidays!

Well with 'tis the season... for me to try my new prosthetics I got!

I love the Hobbit and everything in the realm of middle earth. Kyle and I are going to be seeing the Hobbit: the Desolation of Smaug for our second time tonight.

The theme of this year's Christmas is definitely Elves: Santa's elves, elves from middle earth, elves in general!

I had gotten these from a website after halloween so I wanted to use them finally. the tips are backless so they can fit to almost any ear type, and aren't heavy at all.

I added earrings to match my colour scheme(white and red). I was really surprised that they didn't rip, but the foam is pretty thick, and moveable. You can't even see the hole up close either after I took them out. Very happy I didn't ruin them.

For my makeup I used a water based cream white for an under glow.

then used my powder mineral foundation from Merle Norman for over top and blend it really well.

I used red eye shaddow to match my eyebrows to my hair.

My eyes I used white eyeliner around the outer corners. I used a base of light gold and mixed in a shimmery brown and a medium light grey. I smudged the back eyeliner only on the outer side of my eye, and only used mascara on the outside edge.

My lips I had whited out before and made a bit smaller, using my lip pencil plus "hussy" from Merle Norman. Making the lips smaller I find gives you a cuter but more serious look.

The headpiece is actually just a necklace I had and I used bobby pins on the ends to run the chain through my hair.

for my nails I got this new OPI polisj by Mariah Caery called "Pure" it is a 18k white gold and silver flake top coat. I was under the impression when I got it that it was a matte solid but it turned out it looks like expensive snow flakes so I'm okay with it.

I hope everyone had a wonderful christmas!

 xoxox Scotia-leigh.

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Hop Hop Bunny to the Art Show

I hope everyone had a really good easter weekend: I know I did. It was my first time with the kids so their dad and me made a giant trail of candy and toys all over the house. Watching my little girl was so cute, though she was still more interested where her cat was the whole time.

So we had saturday night off, and my friends were back home too for easter with their families. It was great, we all went downtown to go do the annual art crawl called Urban Infill put on by definitely superior art gallery

here`s a video from last year to get the idea:

DefSup's Urban Infill filmed and edited by Piotr and Andrea Skowronski from Definitely Superior Art Gallery on Vimeo.

Because it was easter, which is 2 holidays in itself (the christian resurrection and a pagan fertility festival) I wore my cross shirt from hot topic and my kid`s bunny ears.

I really something different planned as a whole art fashion piece but value village had almost no white clothes(other then plain tshirts) ..not even a white slip. I wanted to go super white goth, but I liked what I ended up doing, and my makeup plan stayed the same. I paired my flowy cross shirt with half and half black and white tights from hot topic as well.

I wore my Manson white and black wig from Pleasure Wigs, ordered through Karen @ Dolls With Toys.

For my makeup I did what I like to call "the anti scotia" makeup where I did a bit of my normal makeup but all in whites.  I used my lightest foundation and a pretty bright pink blush, that I only put on really lightly. The main focus of my makeup was to show off my "Mint to be" lipstick that I got from Lime Crime.I also used Lime Crime "Lunar Sea" uniliner as eyeliner and mascara, tried out Lush's "Focus" cream eye shadow which I was super surprised by it looking just silver but having a nice mint green tinge to it as well, this was used as my eyeliner! I got to use my young blood "Azurite" eye shadow as well(another new product) which I used as my dark  low lighter in my crease. The rest of my eye is just different intensities of white blended together.

Of course I ended covering it up for a good portion of the night with my awesome glasses but when I did take it off, everyone either really liked it, or my friends who are used to my black and dark based makeup got freaked out by it.

I had another toned down easter look, that unfortunately I don't have photos of it, but it was based in light pinks on the highlighter blending into a soft yellow and green mixture on the lid. I had bright green and pink flowers in my hair.

did anyone else do anything nice or fun for easter?

Hoppy Easter!

xoxox Mamma S.

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First Time Lime Crime

It's finally here! I ordered from Lime Crime makeup finally. I have been eyeing up their photos and following their models and facebook for a while now. I also follow it's founder Doe Deere. My favorite model for lime crime is Rose Shock. 

so what I actually ordered is a poster, 3 lipsticks and a uniliner.

I was so happy when I came home from work today: which by the way was the best day at work ever. We were demonstrating facial massage to our students so I was the one who got to get a full facial, neck and decollete massage from my boss who has been a esthetician for 20+ years. Man am I ever stealing some moves from her hehe. I haven't had a facial or a spa massage since I was in school minus ones I do on myself but it's not the same.

 Anyways, I came home to my love and a little purple box with a white unicorn on it! 

I had gotten the poster tube in the mail 2 days before and was sad and confused at where all my new makeup was.

What I actually got:

Great Pink planet lipstick: I am happy that I finally have a light pink lipstick. it(and the others) go on very smoothly and don't taste weird(sometimes lipsticks taste weird to me). 

My beautiful Rocket lipstick : this and the Mint to be I think I will try again with blotting out my lips with concelar first to see how bright they can get but I am very sure that this awesome orange lipstick is going to be making it into my weekly rotation for everyday wear.

Mint to Be Lipstick: as I said above it goes on very well but I think would look better if I had blanked out my lips first. I can't wait to wear this with my white and black wig!

Lunar Sea uniliner: this will help so much with making my eyes even bigger, the photo is just me quickly playing it with.

and my snow white inspired poster which is getting framed and going either in my room or bathroom.

I am so happy with my purchase and can't wait to make another one soon!

xoxo Mamma S.

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Getting Ready for Xmas

By which I mean I really want to watch "The Nightmare Before Christmas".

This isn't a full nail art tribute or anything, but just the inspiration for why I did these nails. I also wanted to try a different technique, but it failed.

I first did a base coat of Seporah "What's a Tire Jack?" and on the ring finger did my base coat of Julep's "Kate".
Now the technique I wanted to try was making stripes using tape. I didn't end up taking a pic because the lines were weird and not straight and the black Silk Line nail art polish got underneath. The photo below is of the other hand where I hand bombed the lines and they turned out way better. 

I put the OPI "Man With the Golden Gun" gold flake top coat over top later on because I just like it so much over black.

I think for my next nails, and for  our staff xmas parties I will do a deep red with  a gold touch.

Pics and VLOGs to come!

-xoxo Mamma S.

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Warrior Royalty Colouring

Today I was going through my Pintrest photos looking for inspiration. I found two photos, side by side surprisingly of a nice purple combination. One was nail art and one was some elaborate makeup. I've been itching to do both so here they are! I have also been itching to wear my new wig(which isn't itchy at all).

First I did my nails, I used OPI's "Overexposed in South Beach" and "Rising Star", with a plain black nail art pen.

To do the leopard print I put my base coat, then flat coat of the "Rising Star" on. I used the black nail art pen to make little dots that cluster together. I then used my fine tip nail art brush to take the "Overexposed in South Beach" to fill in the dots to make the art nail match the rest.

I also did my eyes, the theme from pintrest was called "Japanese Warrior inspired". I love the white swipe along the water line. I haven't ever really played with the contours of my waterline, usually just stick to the plain black dramatic eye. Or add to the ends for the gothic look.

 I first started out with highlighting my eye with a white shadow. I went over my crease of my lid with first a light pink, then a dark pink/purple colour. I went over the main part of my lid with a matte black, then added a sparkle black. I did the same layering under my eye a bit I then took some ivory cream eye shadow and a small angled brush to create the white line and brought it up a bit along my water line. The last main step was to use liquid black eyeliner to follow along the white and finish off with black mascara.

I love mixing dark pinks, purples and blacks. And I love black and white, which I also decided to add my new white and black wig that I got from Karen from Dolls with Toys so it would match the water line art.

So hope you like my look for tonight(the Rock Truck/Bottom Rockers/Speedway Detectives show @  the Black Pirates Pub)

Keep a eye out on ShawTV my new VLOGS should be out soon!

-xox Mamma S

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