Ancient Egyptian Series: Nut

The next choice or my Ancient Egyptian Series is the Goddess Nut. Nut was the goddess of the sky. Originally it was just the night time sky but eventually she became known just as the goddess of the sky in general. She was the wife of Geb and the mother of Isis, Osiris, Seth and Nepthys.

Since she is the goddess of the sky, I chose to use blues and black. So here is the look....

Ancient Egyptian Series: Anubis

Hello all! Sorry, I've been constantly busy with work and health issues so I haven't been able to post much, I am so behind on the amount that I have wanted to post. Though I haven't done many looks in my downtime anyway. I guess I will just post when I have the chance and not give myself deadlines...

Anywho...This is the look that I came up with to represent Anubis. He was one of the God's of the dead and lead the recently deceased on there journey through the underworld, he was also known as the God of death or God of the Dead. Anubis was represented as a jackal or a man with a jackal's head. His statues in his jackal form were black and parts were gilded in gold and the images of him when he had the body of a man his body was gold and his head black. Black represented death and the night and yellow was the color of gold and the sun and represented the eternal, the indestructible and the imperishable. With this look I used mostly golds, black and brown.

Red Soldier Look using Sugarpill, MUFE and MAC Smoked Ruby

So, I went to the club Friday night and did a look using my red based eyeshadows(not enough companies make true reds!).  Most people may not dig the look because it isn't for everybody, to clarify, I go to goth and industrial clubs and in this case I was going to an industrial club out here in L.A. called Das Bunker, it is very well known and is the longest running industrial club in the US. I decided to put on my red and black soldier outfit, I don't know why, but I think it has to do with it being a little more than a year since the passing of my grandfather to whom I was very attached. Anyhow, I will go on and show you the look and this time there are three different full face pictures, I was having a little too much fun with this look and trying to photograph it.

Semi-Precious Look: Rare Find

I went to the MAC Pro store here in L.A. the day the Semi-Collection launched to pick up some items that I put on hold from the collection, but played with some of the other shadows to see what else I might want. I ended up getting quite a few, minus one of the items that was on "hold"(I don't think that they really put it on hold or they "lost" my hold, but it made me miss out on Golden Gaze, which is now being shipped to me from another pro store, so pissed but I digress). I ended up walking away with Rare Find, Mineral Mode, Dark Indulgence, Blue Sheen, Clarity and Smoked Ruby). I think I may pick up Faux Gold on Thursday because it was very pretty, I just didn't have the money for it. I also got Semi-Precious Rose Quartz but that is it.

I really like the mineral eyeshadows (MES) from M.A.C. but I know that they are either a product that you love or hate. I am in the LOV category with them. From this collection, I am in love with all of the MES' that I picked up. I skipped Jade's Fortune and Unsurpassible because depending on the veining they look close to Clarity, well, at least on my skin, there were just levels of darkness between them and I made sure that the clarity I got was veined diversely and nicely. I will post pictures of the MES' that I got maybe on Tuesday after work because depending on the veining the color can be totally different from another person's MES or the testers that you play with. I asked to look at each one so that I could pick the one that I liked the veining on. Though my Mineral Mode has very little veining because I got the last one that they had :(

With Rare Find, I knew that I wanted to pair with Rani (I picked it up at a CCO and just love it). I thought that they would look nice together and I believe that I was right in that assumption. So, here is the look that I came up with for it. Sorry for the long post!

Bloggers' Obsessions - Sparkle Neely Sparkle and All My Purple Life

Today I used Sparkle, Neely, Sparkle for my next Bloggers' Obsession look. I kept it pretty neutral but I think it would be fitting for work, which is where I wore it too. I was in a bit of a rush, so my eyeliner isn't dead on and is a little sloppy and for this  I apologize. I even think I forgot to put on my mascara!

I put the LA Splash sealer/bas on the lid area where I was going to apply SNS because it is pretty good for glitter applications and SNS is a VERY sparkley eyeshadow and I wanted it to show as much as possible. I think that this shadow would be good for everyday looks. It's such a pretty shadow. I really enjoyed it's texture and that surprised me because due to the glitter, I thought that it would be gritty, but it was not at all. 

I like All My Purple Life and was surprised that it didn't look freakishly weird on me and I think that it may be my favorite purple gloss. I also really like how it looks when it rubs off a bit, it is this really pretty stain and I am not sure if I like that more than when I first apply it. it took about two and a half applications for me to get it at an opacity that I was happy with.

Bloggers' Obsessions - Hocus Pocus

The following is a look that I used with the eyeshadow, Hocus Pocus. I wasn't sure at first how I wanted to run with this one because this color can be used in so many ways. It, like the other eyeshadows from this collection, is very smooth and easy to work with. It is an awesome crease color and it could be used for really nice smokey eyes or any other dark looks that you can think of.

Bloggers' Obsessions - Jealousy Wakes and Nitro:licious 2046

So, I bought all of the eyeshadows and two of the glosses from the Bloggers' Obsessions collection form MAC. The first look I did was with Jealousy Wakes and Nitro:licious 2046

Ancient Egyptian Series: The Nile

The Next item up in my ancient Egyptian series is the Nile River.

The Nile played an extremely important role in the lives of the ancient Egyptians. It gave life to their civilization with it's fertility. The Nile gave them the water to irrigate their crops, water to drink, a means of travel, which helped in politics.  It even played a large role in the life of their Gods and Goddesses. The Nile is believed to what gave the ancient Egyptians the basis of their Religion. Osiris' phallus basically caused the Nile to be Fertile. I am sure everyone learned about the Nile in school so there is no reason to really talk about it.

This is the look that I created for it:

Ancient Egyptian Series

So, I have decided to start a series based off of Ancient Egyptian Gods, Goddesses, icons, symbols, etc. I decided a long time ago that I wanted to do such a series because ever since I was a little child I was obsessed with the Ancient Egyptian culture and mythology. I will not try to make looks exactly like the hieroglyphs, statues or artwork but instead the looks will be inspired by whomever and whatever I am choosing at that moment. 

So, without further ado, we shall start the series. I am going to start with Isis.

Isis was considered the patron saint of women, mothers and children. She was also a goddess of magic. Isis is also a moon goddess, yet gives birth to the sun, creates and sustains all life. She is wife to Osiris and mother to Horus. I could go on and on, but you could look her up.

Here is the look that I came up with for her, nothing too elaborate:

My Belated Valentine's Day Look

I am posting my Valentine's Day look a bit early because my boyfriend and I didn't get a chance to go out until yesterday. I did a orange type look. So, here it goes.

Brazen and Bronzed Look

So, I did a brass and bronze look yesterday well, not on me on my friend because she was going out (again, lol), but here's how it turned out:

Carshow Time - Look with neutrals

A view without my glasses, this one actually allows you to see the Blue Brown pigment better.

Purrr-ple: Look done with purples

I did this for a friend because she was going out for a party and asked and I obliged.

This is the first close up shot, sorry, she was standing at an angle so it's not dead on.

Blue Moon: Look done with pretty blues

This is the look I wore while being out and about today.