Maiden Voyage

Here goes nothing guys! As soon as I set this thing up I froze up trying to decide what to review first! I finally decided to show my "minimal" makeup, meaning the very bare minimum that I put on even when I don't leave the house. Which is most days, as we know. I'm totally preoccupied with eye makeup, I think because my eyebrows can completely change my face from a reasonable, professional woman to a crazy cat hoarder (as in, a person who hoards cats, not a cat who hoards). That is to say, they get out of control very easily. Plus, as Kyle M. knows firsthand (?) they grow at two entirely different rates, so they need extensive individual attention. They're also SUPER WIRY so even if they're totally groomed they sort of choose what direction they will go on a daily basis. Sort of like when Junebug wakes up on the wrong side of the bed and her whiskers are bent all day. All the magazines telling me to get a brow pencil or shadow have clearly never met my eyebrows. Brow pencil does not work on steel wool. So I marched into Bluemercury and asked for something that would help define my eyebrows without making look like 80s Madonna. The salesgirl managed to find me a sort of brow tinted mascara type thing that I am now completely obsessed with, the Bobbi Brown Natural Brow Shaper. I seriously wear it on a daily basis.

 

In addition, I've had sort of a complex about dark circles ever since a [former] friend asked me, "How did you get those black eyes?!" Hrrmph. I've been using Maybelline's Instant Age Rewind Eraser in Brightener. I do like it, and it sort of tingles when I put it on so I like to imagine it's zapping away potential wrinkles, but it doesn't particularly stand out in the scheme of concealers. It's cheap and I like that the brightener has pink undertones to it, but I'd pay more if something better came along.

 
Lastly I just recently bought Benefit's "They're Real" Push Up Eyeliner. BECAUSE ALLURE TOLD ME TO.

I've ALMOST mastered liquid eyeliner and this one is definitely easier. It says it's gel but it feels more like an almost soft crayon type texture. But I've never used a gel pen before so maybe that's what they're all like. It's way easier to do a sort of cat eye, because I don't care what Lauren Conrad says (#byefelicia), it's NOT as easy as just doing a little wrist flick at the corner of your eye with liquid liner. To be clear though, I don't wear this stuff every day. It definitely takes some practice to not fall into the eyeliner struggle spiral:

 

Here, I even took a picture of my own eye with all three products. Do you guys understand how hard it is to take a decent picture OF YOUR OWN EYE? I hope you appreciate everything I do for you!