Requested :: My Vanity Set-Up

So this had been requested by a few moms from worldformoms.com, as well as a few friends of mine.. so don't think i'm just trying to 'show-off'. because i'm not. i have worked hard to get what i want :)

it's taken me SO long to do this, because i haven't had time to organize my stuff lol.. my vanity/drawers.. my whole set up is in my husband and my 'office'.. the current corner that it's stationed might actually change.. and i'm real excited to do the change - this week!

anywho, here's a quick overview of my vanity, my set-up and my mirror.. i will have another blog (with video) on my Vanity Girl Hollywood broadway mirror that everyone has been asking about! :) 

I remember I have a post of ALL my eyeshadows (click here) need to update it though.. i'm not going to do this here, but will update that post as soon as i can.. as i've acquired more eyeshadows over time from purchasing them myself.. or swapping them with other beauty junkies :D

anywho.. here we go.. 

My Mirror, with my brushes, and the eyeshadow rack on the left

How it looks at a glance..

brushes in the middle

MAC eyeshadow (and 2 blush) Palette rack

this is on the left of my mirror

my smaller lighted mirror

and flat iron holder on the right 

side of my mirror

 

close up of my brushes!

and then the items inside the vanity table

Mainly MAC blushes/MSF's (an NYC sunny bronzer lol)

Other blushes: NARS, milani, NYX, Tarte, benefit, korres & UD

Eyeliners (top are colored & bottom are black)

Top: mascaras

Bottom: eyebrow stuff & eyeshadow primers/bases

Now, for the tall drawers on the left of the vanity:

On top: some jewelry, my other eyeshadow palettes

(elf 100 palette, bh cosmetics 120 palette, and no name 88 palette)

and body sprays (not all of them - the others are in my bathroom)

First drawer: drugstore eyeshadows

second drawer: MAC eyeshadows, pigments, PaintPots

UD palettes, and eyeshadows

1 smashbox eyeshadow & 1 lancome eyeshadow lol

Third Drawer: Nail polish/remover

Hair sprays/Hair Products (the ones i use when i style my hair)

back up wipes/nail file.

Fourth drawer: MAC Lipsticks, Drugstore Lipsticks,

Lip Balms, chapsticks, random lip stuff, and random back-up/extras

Fifth Drawer: facial moisturizers, eye gels/creams

Face foundation (liquid, cream, powders)

Concealers. and in the back are my brush soaps 

and back-up make up bags

sixth drawer: Hair brushes/combs

Hair Styling tools (curling iron, flat iron, hair dryer)

Hair accessories (hair ties, clips and bobby pins

This is the opposite side (like right in front of my vanity)

my side and hubbies :)

had to sneak this picture of my daughter's vanity

theres a stool but she was using it while doing her sister's hair LOL

i'm going to be updating the eyeshadow collection post, like i mentioned.. when i get a chance.. i'm also going to do a video on the vanity girl mirror when i get a chance.. so keep an eye out for that! let me know if you have any other requests for my next blog/video! :) 

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VIDEO :: MAC Dare to Wear haul/swatches

So I went to the mall the saturday after this collection was released just to check out the collection itself and ended up getting these shadows:

• Going Bananas
• Sassy Grass
• Shock-A-Holic
• Atlantic Blue

Here is my really quick haul of what i purchased and some swatches :) 

Shock-A-Holic

Sassy Grass

Atlantic Blue

Going Bananas

I think i'll skip the lipglasses for now.. but i'm happy with my choices.. 

Did you pick anything up from this collection?

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My Complete List of MAC Eyeshadows, Pigments & Paintpots/Paints

08/01/10 -This is an updated post on ALL my MAC Eyeshadows, Pigments, Paint pots & Paints

(the pictures below of the actual colors inside the palettes are old) the DVD rack with the palettes is how i have them right now :)

All That Glitters
Amber Lights
Antiqued

Atlantic Blue
Aquavert
Bang on Blue
Beauty Marked
Birds & Berries
Blackberry
Blanc Type
Black Tied
Black Tulip
Beautiful Iris
Bold & Brazen
Bough Grey

Brash
Bravado

Bright Future
Bronze
Brown Down

Bruised Plum
Carbon
Chrome Yellow
Cinders
Circa Plum (Pressed Pigment)
Clarity

Climate Blue
Club
Contrast
Cool Heat
Coppering

Coral
Cork
Courage
Cranberry
Creme De Violet
Da Bling
Daisychain
Dame's Desire
Dark Edge
Dear Cupcake
Deep Truth
Electra 
Electric sky

Embark 
Endless Love
Espresso
Expensive Pink

Eye Popping
Femme Noir
Fab & Flashy

Fig 1

Firecracker
Firespot
Flip
Flourishing
Folie
Fresh Approach
Freshwater 

Gentle Fume

Gentle Heat
Glamour check!
Gingersoft
Girlie
Girl Meets Boy
Goldmine

Going Bananas
Gorgeous Gold

Grand Entrance
Greensmoke
Grey Range
Handwritten
Hard to Please
Haux
Hepcat
Honest + Tan Pigment (Pressed)
Honey Lust
Hot Hot Hot
Humid
Image Maker
Jest

Juiced
Jungle Moon
Juxt
Knight Divine
Lavender Sky
Lotusland
Memorabilia
Mink Pink
Modelette
Mulch
Mythology
Naked Lunch

Nanogold
Next to Nothing

Nile
Nocturnelle
Nylon

Off the Page

One-Off
Orb

Paradisco
Parfait Amour

Parrot
Passionate

Patina
Pearl of the earth
Photo Realism
Pleasurepurr
Plum
Plumage
Plum dressing
Post Haste
Print

Real Drama
Restless
Retrospeck
Romp
Romping
Rondelle

Rose
Sable

Sassy Grass
Satellite Dreams
Satin Taupe
Shale
Sharp

Shock-a-Holic
Shroom
Signed, Sealed
Silver Ring
Sketch
Smoke & Diamonds
Soft brown
Soulsong

Spiced Chocolate

Springtime Skipper
Star Violet
Stars N Rockets
Steamy

Style Influencer MES

Sumptuous Olive
Sushi Flower

Sweet Joy

Sweet & Punchy

Sweet Chestnut
Swimming
Swiss Chocolate
Take Wing

Talent Pool
Tease N Teal
Tempting
Tickles
Tilt

Togetherness MES

Top Hat
Trax
Twinks

Unreally Blue
Up-Do
Vanilla
Vellum
Velvet moss
Vex
Vibrant Grape
Waft

Warm Chill

Warm Suede
Well-Plumed

Well Spiced

Wondergrass
Woodwinked
Young Punk MES

Some of the eyeshadows above, used to be in pre-made MAC Quads/palettes etc - here are where they are from:

MAC Delights: 6 Eye/Trend (have not depotted yet)

Gingersoft

Pearl of the Earth

Satin Taupe

Gorgeous Gold

Tease 'N Teal

MAC Suedette:  6 Intense Eyes (have not depotted yet)

Phloof!

With a Twist

Till Daybreak

Nightbird

Smut

Gallant

MAC Intriguing Scarlet : 6 Warm Eyes (have not depooted yet)

SweetJoy

Warm Suede

Well Spiced 

Gentle Heat

Real Drama

Grand Entrance

MAC Quads: (these are all depotted)

MAC Spring Colour 3 Forecaste : Colour 3 Eyeshadow Quad

Mink Pink

Bruised Plum

Black Tulip

Jungle Moon

Take Wing Eyes:

Restless

Take Wing

Tickles

Bravada

Photo Realism:

Photo Realism

Fresh Approach

Image Maker

Grey Range

Tempt Me:

Girl Meets Boy

Hard to Please

Modelette

Pleasurepurr

Gentle Fume eyes:

Rondelle

Waft

Gentle Fume

Carbon

Tempting:

Next to Nothing

Tempting

Sharp

Dark Edge

Diana Eyes: 1:

Vex

Up-Do

Endless Love

Soulsong

Well-Plumed Eyes:

Well-Plumed

Shroom

Espresso

Courage

Spiced Chocolate:

Nanogold

Brash

Spiced Chocolate

Sweet Chestnut

Paint Pots:

Artifact

Constructivist

Delft

Fresco Rose

Greenstroke

Indianwood (sample)

Painterly

Rubenesque

Soft Ochre

Paints:

Bare Canvas

Chartru

Pigments:

Blonde's Gold (sample)

Chocolate Brown (sample)

Gold Mode (sample)

Golden Lemon (sample)

Heritage Rouge (sample)

Jardin Aires (sample)

Later (new style jar)

Partylicious (new style jar)

Sweet Sienna (old style jar full & sample)

Vanilla (sample)

My pre-made LE MAC palettes

My MAC Palettes ALL filled finally! 

Bronze/Brown Palette

Highlight/Neutral Palette

Pinks & Browns lol (need to organize)

Greens (Had too many browns lol)

Greys/Silvers/Blacks (supposed to be my Smokey Palette)

Yellows/Golds (the others just didn't have anywhere to put)

Dark Purples

Lighter/Brighter Purples (the brown i had no where else to put lol)

Teal/Aquas/Blues (didnt have room for the other two)

I will update the pictures of my palettes as the pictures above are not updated and since then i have been able to reorganize and all my shadows are in palettes ('cept some pots)

because it was requested, I will post an updated blog on my collection/vanity since i've moved into my own house :) yay!

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MAC :: Dare to Wear Collection

MAC Cosmetics Dare To Wear collection

Release Dates:

29 July 2010 [US/Canada]

August 2010 [International]

(bottom left missing Shock-a-holic & crazy cool)

not sure which lipglass is missing (customer had it)

Dare To Wear Lipglass:

• Ban This! - Deep purple with multi-pearl
• Bold & Brash - Bright red with multi-pearl
• Dare to Dare - Light blue pink with multi-pearl
• Gimme That! - Bright fuchsia pink with pink pearl
• So Bad -Mid-tone coral orange with pink and gold pearl
• Wind me Up - Dirty bronze with pink and gold pearl

Eyeshadow

• Aqua -Subdued, pale greyed aqua (Matte) (Permanent, PRO)
• Atlantic Blue - Bright violet blue (Matte) (Permanent)
• Crazy Cool - Mid-tone lavender (Limited Edition)
• Louder Please - Bright fuchsia pink (Matte) (Limited Edition)
• Sassy Grass - Bright pale green (Matte) (Limited Edition)
• Shock-a-holic - Bright purple (Limited Edition)
• Free to Be - Bright true coral (Matte) (Permanent)
• Going Bananas - Soft lemon yellow (Frost) (Repromote)
• Lime -Lime green (Matte) (Permanent, PRO)
• Sky Blue - Sky blue (Frost) (Permanent, PRO)
• Winkle - Mid-tone cornflower blue (Satin) (Permanent)
• Zingy -Bright blue (Matte) (Limited Edition)

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So, I know I have way too many eyeshadows.. so this one i'm probably only going to get one or two eyeshadows.. Most likely Going Bananas & Zingy .. but we'll see depending on the swatches!

Not too sure on the Lipglasses just yet though.. as of right now this moment, i'm not going to get any lip products from this collection.

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MAC Haul/Swatches :: In the Groove Collection

So I was able to get my mittens on Stereo Rose MSF and see what all the hype was about. It truly is a nice coral color. It looks amazing on the skin either alone as a blush for a nice healthy looking glow, or layered on top of blush to give the blush some pizzazz! lol..

From this collection, I originally said (in previous post here) I was going to get:
•Stereo Rose MSF

•By Candlelight MSF
•Hang Loose Mineralize Blush
•Jazzed Lipstick

But after going there (and actually being the first one to swatch and actually see the collection) and swatching all colors.. I Skipped Hang Loose blush because I felt like it was too similar to MAC Well Dressed. I also thought of getting another blush I think Band of Roses or something, but it was too similar to MAC Dollymix (after reading Temptalia).. so I just skipped out on all the blushes in general. I might go back for it, might not..

I ended up getting these:

• Stereo Rose MSF
• By Candlelight MSF
• Togetherness MES
• Style Influencer MES
• Jazzed L/S

So I was pretty pleased with my selections. I read on temptalia's blog and from other sources on Specktra.net that Petticoat MSF mixed with Comfort MSF comes extremely close to Stereo Rose MSF.. so I know if I do run out and if I ever run out of Stereo Rose, i'll just pick up comfort MSF lol! (since I have Petticoat MSF)

I did a quick video on my haul and just so that you could see them. And here are also some pictures too! :)




Stereo Rose MSFCoral with golden/bronze shimmering nuances (Frost) (Limited Edition) (Repromote)

By Candlelight MSF

Golden pink (Frost) (Limited Edition) (Repromote)

Petticoat MSF

Pale rose with gold and amber veining (Frost) (Limited Edition) (Repromote)

Comfort MSFGolden bronze (Frost) (Limited Edition) (Repromote)**This is not my photo, credit to:   anniepop.blogspot.com **found from searching on google.com

Comfort left, By Candlelight Right

Jazzed Lipstick

Bright coral pink (Cremesheen) (Limited Edition)

Swatches on NC25 Skin Outdoors

(sorry, i'm still a newb at swatching these on my arm haha! and working my new cam)

Style Influencer MES

Style Influencer - Satin silver/Pearly deep blue/Satin deep mauve brown (Limited Edition)

Togetherness MES

Togetherness - Satin lavender/Pearly purple/Satin grey (Limited Edition)

I will have some swatches of these eyeshadows momentarily.

The cool thing I like about the eyeshadows are that you can use them both dry and wet.. (looks more amazing/vivid wet though) and it's not like the older MES that came out like Young Punk MES - tons of fall out when Dry and really bad payoff.. these texture of the new ones are amazing, silky, soft.. minimal fallout to none compared to previous MES.. 

Did you end up getting anything from this collection?

I was bummed out that the MAC counter (in Macy's) that I went to didn't have the Alice + Olivia collection.. and I couldn't drive the 25 minutes to another location.. But luckily someone from Specktra was extremely nice and did a CP for me for two pigments (Partylicious & Later pigments).. i hope to get them on Monday/Tuesday.

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