Pretty in Pink

Chanel, Chanel, ohhhhh, how I love thee Chanel.  I'm not a label snob, believe me, but Chanel just makes me happy sometimes with how classic and amazing it is.  When I went shopping with mi mama a couple days ago, I said I got some new Chanel makeup and here it is, complete with an entire look made with these purchases that were exclusively given to Nordstrom for distribution.  

 Chanel Powder Blush in St. Rose Tourbillon, Chanel Luminous Lip Colour in Joyeuse, and Chanel Quadra Eye Shadow in Rose Envolee

 The blush is actually waaaaay more pink, I just couldn't get the best picture.  It's a perfect pink and smells like heaven, literally.  The smell is all rosy and wonderful.

 I really love the eyeshadow colors.  Apparently when the quad is comprised of circles, it's European and  only in America are the quads square.  The colors are very pretty and I used them all in this eye.  I used the lighter colors on my brow bone, the brighter pink on my lid and kind of lined my lid with the burgundy dead rose. Oh, I also used MAC's Brow Set in Show-off to tint my eyebrows and groom them into place.  I swear by this tint and a little goes a long way.  It has a mascara-like brush and I always wipe off a ton of the product inside the bottle and just gently run it through my brows.  It looks so much more natural than pencil and stays on all day.

 European...other side of the world Quad! I do have to say I like the cute little circles :)

 Eyes, the color was a little more intense in real-life, but you get the gist.  

The lipstick was a little lighter than I typically go for, but it was such a cute pink I had to have it.  For a pale pink I really like it and it looked really cute because I was wearing kind of matching pink and blue pastels.  This collection was apparently originally released in Japan so I wore my Baby, the Stars Shine Bright Necklace, a Japanese Lolita brand.  I never dress Lolita, but some of their things are very cute and not over the top little girl for me.  It's just not a look that works for me, haha.  I really love all of these products and am glad my mother was so nice to give me an early birthday present.  Another birthday present is....I'm going to New York this Thursday! I'm so excited, I haven't been there in forever and I get to see the Alexander McQueen Exhibit at the Met, which I've been ready to sell my soul to see.  Ah! So much excitement for my upcoming birthday (July 18th)! 

~Shannon

Wings So Long I'll Likely Take Flight

This day (Thursday) I went shopping with mi mama at Nordstom for the Anniversary Sale, so of course I had to go all dramatic with the winged eyeliner :) This is just my basic look pretty much: Benefit's Posietint, Urban Decay Liquid Liner in Perversion, Makeup Forever Lipstick in 205, and the base eyeshadow color was Covergirl Eye Enhancer in Golden Sunrise.  I used Urban Decay 24/7 Glide-on Eye Pencil in Lucky on my waterline, above my black liner to clean it up and finally, I swooped it from my waterline underneath the black.  It's a different take on the "popular" double winged cat's eye and I really loved the way this turned out.

 Not to be going on about how great I look, haha, jk, jk, I used Benefit's That Gal Primer all over my face under my foundation to give myself a rosier glow.

Closeup on my eye, *twilight zone music cue*

 Because I was at le mall of AMERICA! I stopped at Sephora and got some new fun purchases and restocks.  For instance, I was out of my UD De-Slick, which works wonders for touching up and de-slicking excess day face oil.  I had my old one since they invented the stuff and it has lasted that long.  A fab product for sure! I really wanted to try Makeup Forever's new Aqua Liners.  I tested them out today and the liner literally stays on though everything.  I'm talking excessive sweating from learning how to ride a bike (true story) and a dance party with extreme interpretive dancing to Bohemian Rhapsody.  The only downfall is that the brush is a little hard to control, so my lines weren't as precise as I like them to be.  I think with practice, this aspect will improve.

TOKIDOKI lipgloss! I really like Tokidoki makeup products.  I loved their handbags since their invention and I feel like their makeup really fits their overall brand.  It seems like not a ton of people use their makeup though...
   OHHHHH, and I got some really cool new Chanel makeup, which will be posted about later, so be prepared.  AND I'm thinking once I hit 50 followers I'll have a lovely little giveaway for all the fab and beautiful and talented followers of my blog.  Thanks so much for the support and lovely comments.  I read them all and really appreciate everything, so hopefully a giveaway will be an acceptable token of my appreciation :)
~Shannon

Memoirs of a Geisha...esque

Yesterday was Friday (it's Friday, Friday, gotta get down on Friday!) and I therefore decided to do something more fun than the black liner, lipstick, go! I'd been doing for work as of late.  It's beeeeeeen ssooooooooo hot these past few days I'm lucky my makeup didn't just melt off the second I walked out the door.  This look is an everyday...wearable? take on geisha makeup.  Ever since I was a child I've had a fascination with Japanese culture, just everything! The food, the fashion, literature, music, traditions-- the list goes on.  And fittingly, my darling mother and I went out for sushi this night, haha.

 I chose to use white shadow and liner instead of painting my entire face white :).  I used Urban Decay's Primer Potion and then some  UD Cream Shadow in Moonshine [it's a sparkly-white color and stays on like none other eyeshadow without primer] and lined my lids with Tokidoki's Perfetto Eyeliner in Rondine Love.  Tokidoki's liner has some nice, very pigmented colors.  Sometimes it seems to snag a little if I'm trying to do a really straight line, but otherwise I have no real complaints. The white liner I drew a little above my lash-line to keep room for my black liner.  The black I did in one fatal swoop with UD's Liquid Liner in Perversion and matched the wing so it would settle above the white a little, giving a layered cat's eye.  I lined my waterline/bottom with Hot Topic's Red Eye/Lip Pencil.  I also filled in my lips with the same color :) After filling my lips in with a pencil, I covered them in MAC Lipstick in Russian Red and then added a dab of uber sparkly Too Faced Sparkler Gloss in Diamond Dust. Blush was MAC Creme Color Base in Movie Star Red-- again, for that Geisha blush inspiration.

Totes starring in Memoirs of Shannon right now :P

Closeup on my eye.  Oh, and I forgot to mention that the Chanel necklace I'm wearing is, in reality, a belt that my friend Lucas, when he worked at the Chanel boutique at Nordstrom, had artfully displayed as a necklace a couple of years ago.  It was on sale and so I got it and looooove it.  Throughout the day people were trying to figure out what it spelled, haha.

 H&M Glasses, obsessed with the retro-feel and the fact that they were six dollars

IN SPEAKING OF Chanel necklaces!! Today I went to Nordstrom with my mom after dim sum and got some new polishes (like I needed them) this Chanel polish is from the new Fall 2011 Collection and I am loving the green-gold-teal reflection.  It's constantly changing color on me and is distractingly pretty. A great, super unique color.  They also have some new cream eyeshadows that were lovely colors, but I'll have to wait to see if I want to shell out $36...

 Butter is a newish brand that I now keep on seeing.  The colors are super pretty and different and all of their advertisement stands and product artwork is super cute.  Apparently it's supposed to be very environmentally friendly and all that jazz.  I was sampling colors on my mom and after she took them off with their remover, the remover legit smelled like English Roses, it was so pleasant for remover.  I ended up getting two colors to try out this polish.

Royal Navy and Primrose Hill Picnic

As I'm writing this post, I have been listening to a bunch of my Japanese music I haven't listened to in a while.  Back in the day I practically wore out some of my Utada Hikaru cds.  On another note, I've also been obsessing over the actor Ron Perlman, so after I finish watching "The Boys From Brazil" (a fab movie about Mengle and Nazi Hunters and plans to clone Hitler.  The book was written by Ira Levin, look him up too, he's a wonderful author) I'm Netflixing a couple movies with him for certain.  For a reference point, Perlman was in that corny, albeit addicting show from the 80's, "Beauty and the Beast," where he had that lion face, bwhaha....I will not admit I started watching it....oh, and he was in Hellboy and does a ton of voiceovers.  I'm in love with his voice.  Looks like my other love, Jeremy Irons has competition.  Wow, this was a long...random...post.  I most have a lot on my mind, eeek!

~Shannon