This is an old standby for me, but I haven't done it yet this year. It was done using my favorite Urban Decay palette, which (gasp!) is NOT one of the Naked palettes. I got this from my friend Britt as a birthday gift about four years ago. Still using it, still love it, and I've only hit silver in two of the pans.



Products used:

Lorac Behind the Scenes Eye Primer
Urban Decay Deluxe Shadow Box (Shades: Graffiti, Peace, Fishnet)
Make Up For Ever Aqua Eyes 0L
Eyeko Curvy Brush Mascara

I've been a bit obsessed with color lately. I may go neutral tomorrow in order to wear some bright lips and cheeks (I'm going to be doing a review on Sephora + Pantone's Color of the Year collection tomorrow!) But, for now, enjoy my cool blues and greens...




Products used:

Lorac Behind the Scenes Eye Primer
Manly Palette 91, 100, 101, 105, 43, 48
Make Up For Ever Aqua Eyes 0L
Urban Decay Lush Lash Mascara

I have a shoebox filled with magazine clippings and a folder on my computer full of inspiration photos for eye makeup; I've gotten away from them lately, but yesterday I went through and picked one to try out. It was labeled a Valentine's eye. All I could think of after completing it, though, was a guy who my friend used to crush on and his favorite shirt. I'm still laughing as I look at it.



Products used:

Lorac Behind the Scenes Eye Primer
Manly Palette 48, 81, 82, 83, 84
Urban Decay Eyeshadow in Flash and Woodstock
Make Up For Ever Aqua Eyes in 11L
Lorac Front of the Line PRO in Black
Stila Major Lash Mascara

I wanted to do something bright and fun today, so I used some blue and purple:



Products used:

Lorac Behind the Scenes Eye Primer
Manly Palette 81, 86, 99, 48, 22, 43
Make Up For Ever Aqua Black
Stila Major Lash Mascara

Purple and green aren't colors one would normally think to put together, but I'm going to have to combine all sorts of colors in order to keep this challenge going!




Products used:

Lorac Behind the Scenes Eye Primer
Many Palette #37
Too Faced Eyeshadow in In the Buff, Party Girl, Nice Stems, First Dance
Make Up For Ever Aqua Eyes in 0L
Stila Major Lash Mascara

This took me the better part of an hour; I love when I have time to sit and play in the morning and I'm not in a rush to get out the door!



Products used:

Lorac Behind the Scenes Eye Primer
NARS Eyeshadow in Silent Night
Cargo Eyeshadow Quad in Tahiti
Make Up For Ever Aqua Liner in 0L
Sephora Nano Liner in Pure White and Azur Blue
NARS Larger than Life Long-Wear Eyeliner in Campo de Fiori

Yes, it's St. Patrick's Day and I'm not wearing green! I should have; I've got a bit of Irish ancestry, and my best friend Kellie and I have a crush on all things from Ireland. I had big plans for my eyes, but I REALLY wanted to wear my brand-new floral flats today, and bright emerald eyes just wouldn't match them very well.



Products used:

Lancome Sensational Effects Eye Shadow in Exhibition, Off The Rack and Ciel du Soir
Manly Palette 74 and 79
BareMinerals Eyecolor in Skyline
Make Up For Ever Aqua Eyes in 18L
Stila Major Lash Mascara

Today's eye was quick and simple with the help of eyeshadow pencils from NARS.



Lorac Behind the Scenes Eye Primer
NARS Shadow Pencil in Hollywoodland, Skorpios, and Dark Rush
Make Up For Ever 3L, 1L
Stila Major Lash Mascara

Before March fades away, I thought I'd devote a day to the birthstone of March, which is aquamarine.



Products used:

Lorac Behind the Scenes Eye Primer
Manly Palette 19, 20, 21, 22, 36, 98, 99
Stila Eyeshadow in Aquamarine
Make Up For Ever Aqua Eyes in 0L
Stila Major Lash Mascara

More Philip Pullman books! This is the third in the series featuring Sally Lockhart. I'm sort of twitching over here because I didn't do them in order...



Products used:

Lorac Behind the Scenes Eye Primer
Too Faced Eyeshadow in Label Whore and Lovey Dovey
Bare Minerals Eyecolor in Pure Spice
Make Up For Ever Aqua Eyes in 12L
NARS Soft Touch Eyeshadow Pencil in Skorpios
Stila Major Lash Mascara


 

My bookshelf sits right next to my vanity. This morning, I decided to pick a random title and let it inspire my eye makeup. The book I chose was Ruby in the Smoke by Philip Pullman, which was one of my absolute favorites as a child.





Products used:


Lorac Behind the Scenes Eye Primer
Urban Decay Eyeshadow in Last Call and Oil Slick
Make Up For Ever Aqua Black
Stila Major Lash Mascara

Outside, the little bit of snow we had is melting; temperatures are reaching the 50s and maybe even 60s next week. Brown covers the ground now; soon green will take its place.



Products used:

Bare Escentuals Prime Time Shadow Primer in Sundance, Racing Green, and Gunmetal
Make Up For Ever Aqua Eyes in 20L
Stila Lush Lash Mascara

Hello! Today was all about Benefit on my face. I wore the Benetint (favorite cheek stain ever!) with the Watt's Up highlighter and Hoola bronzer (which is second only to Cargo's bronzers, in my opinion.) I also wore these cream shadows:




Products used:

Benefit Stay Don't Stray Primer
Benefit Creaseless Cream Shadow in RSVP, Flatter Me, Get Figgy and Stiletto
Make Up For Ever Aqua Eyes 0L, 18L
Stila Major Lash Mascara

My old high school made it to the State Tournament in hockey! They had their first game today, so I rocked the school colors of purple and white:



Products used:

Lorac Behind the Scenes Eye Primer
Bare Minerals Eyecolor in Soul Sister
Lorac Private Affair Palette
Too Faced Eyeshadow in First Dance, Party Girl, and In the Buff
Make Up For Ever Kohl Liner in 2K
Make Up For Ever Aqua Eyes in 4L
Stila Major Lash Mascara

I've done a lot of royal and bright blues lately, so I decided to do something softer today using BareMinerals.



Lorac Behind the Scenes Eye Primer
BareMinerals High Shine Eyecolor in Frost, Vapor
BareMinerals Eyecolor in Skyline
Make Up For Ever Aqua Eyes in 3L
Urban Decay Lush Lash Mascara

I've saved the best for last! This is my absolute favorite car, the Bugatti Veyron EB 16.4. Just look at this beautiful machine:



I was in a rush this morning, and didn't have time to give a proper tribute, but this is what I came up with.



Products used:

Lorac Behind the Scenes Eye Primer
Manly Palette 48, 43, 44, 45, 77
Make Up For Ever Aqua Eyes #0L
Stila Major Lash Mascara

Clearly, I like cars. This interest was actually spawned when my husband and I started watching Top Gear (the UK version). Up until then, I had no concern with the motoring world, and couldn't tell you the difference between a Ford and a Chevrolet (no matter how much the kids in my hometown debated over the two).

Now, there have been a lot of cars featured on Top Gear over the years, but this one deserves a special mention, and a day in my theme week.



The Top Gear guys traveled to Botswana for a special. For these international challenges, they're usually each given a sum of money to buy a car for the duration of their time in the country. Richard Hammond bought a 1963 Opel Kadett, promptly declared it "the happiest car in the world," and named it Oliver. The car performed incredibly through all of the challenges, and remained nearly unscathed... until they got to the river. Hammond then had it shipped back to the UK and restored.

My Opel eyes, simple and light:



Products used:

Urban Decay Primer Potion in Eden
Lancome Color Design Sensational Effects Eye Shadow in Ciel du Soir
Colorevolution Trio in white, gray, and black
Too Faced Eyeshadow in Honeymoon
Make Up For Ever Aqua Liner in 0L
Stila Major Lash Mascara

Clearly, I love small European cars. Today's is the Mini. If I had to pick a (realistic) option from my list of dream cars, this would be it.



To create the look, I started with a base of Make Up For Ever Aqua Cream mixed with Make Up For Ever Primer and a bit of Smashbox Artificial Light. Over that, for a richer blue, I layered Buxom Stay There Eyeshadow in Bulldog, stacked Sheepdog above that, and blended. Then I made the stripes with my Sephora Nano Liner.



Products used:

Lorac Behind the Scenes Primer
Make Up For Ever Aqua Cream #20
Smashbox Artificial Light in Diffuse
Make Up For Ever Primer #0
Buxom Stay There Eyeshadow in Bulldog and Sheepdog
Sephora Nano Eyeliner in Pure White
Urban Decay 24/7 Liner in Deviant
Stila Major Lash Mascara

I've loved Fiats for a while. I don't know if it's the amazing car chase in The Bourne Identity that got me, or the fact that I've had a red one painted on me... but that's another story. My favorite one, though, is this version:



So, for today's eye look, I decided to incorporate those stripes. May I present: my first double cut crease!



To create the cut crease, I first drew a line with my eyeliner in my crease. To help guide me, I half-closed my eyes and put three dots along the crease, then just connected the dots to make a line. After that, I used a Sephora smudge brush to smudge out the harsh line toward the eyebrow, and then applied the Lancome Ciel du Soir over that. Then, I filled in with yellows and whites, lined the eye, and added mascara.

Products used:

Lorac Behind the Scenes Eye Primer
Lancome Color Design Sensational Effects Eye Shadow in Ciel du Soir
Manly Palette 2, 3, 5, 48
Make Up For Ever Aqua Eyes #1L
Stila Major Lash Mascara

Today kicks off another theme week! This time, it's cars: cars I've owned, and cars I love. I'm going to knock out the two cars I've owned first, starting with the 1994 Geo Metro.

I learned to drive in my parents' blue Metro hatchback when I was 15. I loved it because it was great on gas mileage, it had no blind spots, and I could actually manage to parallel park in the thing ;)

When I turned 16, my parents took me to buy a car, and I picked out another '94 Metro, a carbon copy of the one my parents owned, except this one was purple. It lasted precisely twenty miles and died in the main intersection of my hometown.

So, for the year I spent driving the blue Metro, and the half an hour I spent driving the purple Metro, I've got a mostly blue lid... with a speck of purple.



Products used:

Lorac Behind the Scenes Eye Primer
Manly Palette 48, 80, 88
Urban Decay 24/7 Liner in Deviant
Make Up For Ever Aqua Liner #7
Stila Major Lash Mascara