I am a sucker. I have to try everything, even if I expect it to be horrible, I just have to try it. This season the drugstore brands are all coming out with supposed long lasting cream eyeshadows. Now, I don't know about you but I have never found a cream eyeshadow from the drugstore that wasn't complete and total crap. They always end up a sloppy mess in my crease 5 minutes after applying, primer or no primer. Even high end cream shadows usually turn out to be horrible. So when Maybelline came out with supposed 24 hour cream eyeshadow you know I was allll over that.

I picked up the color Tenacious Teal, it just looked so awesome on the model. Here is one swipe and two swipes swatched on my wrist...














Maybelline Color Tattoo comes in a little glass jar similar to MAC Paint Pots and almost exactly like Benefit's Creaseless Cream (which are totally not creaseless). On first swipe it feels similar to a Paint Pot, silky and not greasy. Color payoff is pretty good although I did need more than one swipe to get the look I desired. I will say it is not as pretty as the advertising makes it, but how often is it?

The first application I only wore a couple of hours, but the next time I wore it was for a nine hour work shift. I was surprised to find that it held up perfectly all day! Not even a hint of creasing and the color was still vivid.


My one complaint is about creams in general, I find them a little difficult to blend with regular eyeshadow which limits the use. I find them much easier to use as an all over lid color but I did wear it blended with MAC Bright Fuchsia pigment. This photo is after about 5 hours of wear...


Based on this color I will most likely be trying a couple others! They have a gorgeous purple and a rich gold I may have to pick up. They sell for $6.99 and can be found at most drugstores including Walgreens & CVS.

 Wet n Wild came out with a palette during the holidays called I <3 Matte. I picked this palette up solely in hope that the purple in it would be decent. I could almost see the disappointment but in search of the perfect purple, I just had to try. This is the first of the new 8 style palettes that I picked up. The 8 pan palettes sell for $4.99, which makes them a pretty great value. However, half of the I <3 Matte palette is basic brown matte shades that I have from a previous Wet n Wild palette. I would have liked to see more brights instead.
Products used:
UDPP
Wet N Wild I <3 Matte palette
MUFE Aqua Liner liquid in 8
L'oreal False Fiber Lashes

I've been bad. Really bad. I have barely updated in months. Honestly, I got massively overwhelmed trying to keep up with the new job, family, friends and it being summer. And then when I tried to get back on track, my netbook died. Now I have a fancy new laptop (that I got lucky with and got for $100 or I wouldn't be here typing) but with the number of posts I had built up I'm a little lost. I lost track of what I had already posted and most of what I used is no longer fresh in my mind. So here's what I'm going to do. All the posts I have built up (most are FOTDs because I've been horrible at swatching polish) I'm just going to do no-frills posts. I'll write the products I remember, if you want to know something specific I'll try to recall but no promises. No other writing, just pictures until I have all my back log cleaned out.

So here is your first no-frills FOTD post.



Products used: Fyrinnae Looking Glass, Fyrinnae Bali Mynah, Make Up Forever Aqualiner #9


And while we're here...
I would like to thank all my readers for sticking around. I really appreciate everyone who visits my blog and I hope I can manage to keep it interesting for you guys!

Products used which I remember:

Products used:

I'll update this later with products used...Apollo is being too cuddly to get up right now and I can't remember the names of anything D: But the eyeliner is Wet n Wild and the lipstick is one of the Milani lip flash pencils. I do remember the blush is MAC My Highland Honey.