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Eyeshadow surgery

By Amber, on June 26, 2011, at 10:07 pm

Eyeshadow space was becoming an issue.

I decided it was time to join this century and buy a palette for all of those MAC shadows. I resisted for years because I love those little pots, but after dropping and breaking a partial pan for the zillionth time, I decided it was time for something less hockey puck-shaped. I figured if 6,000 teenagers could de-pot their MAC shadows and post tutorials about it on YouTube, I could manage to de-pot a few shadows, too. I assembled my work station.

Friends, that was the scariest thing I’ve ever done with $180 worth of eye shadow. Especially the ones I just got Friday, which are limited edition from the MAC Bloggers’ Obsessions collection. I am too lazy to go look right now, but I know at least one of them is sold out. But I saved those for last, and though I may have shortened the natural lives of a couple of the first ones I did, I got them all into the palette!

Top, l-r: Jealousy Wakes, Sumptuous Olive. Middle, l-r: Carbon, Meet the Fleet, Parisian Skies, Copperplate, Vex. Bottom, l-r: Mystery, Cork, Coquette, Shroom, Mylar.

For an encore, I decided to use the alcohol method to repair an Urban Decay shadow that had crumbled to bits in its pan (most likely precipitated by dropping…do we see a pattern?). Observe the sad state of affairs:

And later, ta-da!

Then I got bold. I decided I would put my three most used Urban Decay shadows into the empty spaces of my MAC palette. The purist in me said I should buy three of the MAC shadows that I want, but the optimist in me said I can just buy another palette when I need to. ;)

Remember my old school Urban Decay pots? Two of those made the cut. For a few seconds it made me kind of sad to get rid of those cute tins, but my assistant reminded me that I am learning to practice non-attachment.

Wait, what is that on my assistant’s face? Did she get into my eyeshadows when I wasn’t looking?

Nope, I guess the stress of all the eyeshadow surgery got to her and she had to blow off some steam:

Oh well. I got my shadows in order — no thanks to her — and I am excited to have more colors right at my fingertips every morning. This week I guess I’ll find out if I made a big mistake!

Last three shadows of top row, l-r: UD Plague, UD Asphyxia, UD X

Savoring Sunday

By Amber, on December 19, 2010, at 10:38 pm

Today was delicious! It started with pomegranate:

And progressed to chocolate:

After breakfast I took my photo for MAC Me Over (did you enter?) and then did a whole lot of Christmas baking. Today was cheesecake day. I learned that making two cheesecakes in the mixer at once is not advisable — I’m a little surprised that my beater blade survived 64 oz of cream cheese at once, but it did! I have some other treats to make, but there weren’t enough hours today.

Of course, I got plenty of help from the Pea. When I’m cooking and she goes missing, I usually know where to look for her:

I don’t know what is so fun about getting trapped in small, dark spaces, but I guess we all need hobbies.

Magic, Mirth, and Mischief

By Amber, on November 12, 2009, at 9:16 pm

We were strolling through the Forum Shops at Caesars when we spied ahead of us, in the middle of a large crowd, two men in plastic bubbles, dancing to loud music:

bubble

After watching curiously from behind the crowd for a bit, I realized that it was a promotion for MAC’s Magic, Mirth, and Mischief! holiday collection. Slender blonde women in bouffants, pink space-couture dresses and impossibly high heels teetered around the fountain, blowing bubbles and offering ‘truth or dare’ cards to onlookers.

hooping