I’ve been on holidays the last couple of days, Yay! That’s why I haven’t posted a new entry in a little while. But I have been reading and catching up on the message boards, getting new ideas on how to spend my money. Today we took a trip to the city and ended up buying the much touted Urban Decay Primer Potion, (I must say that this stuff had better be good because it sure isn’t cheap!) and some cute shoes for $20 (I love a bargain!).I had some really good intentions to get get a lot done this weekend, although I procrastinated on a lot of chores I did end up formulating a new eyeshadow/liner colour in a dark blue-brown-purple colour and a pretty pinky mauvy blush that goes on pinkish-red.I still can’t get over how much different product you can get from just a few colours. I think that formulating my own colours have slowed down my spending on MMU a (teeny-tiny) little bit. Now when I see a great colour I try to dupe it before I buy, some times I don’t quite get it and some times I get pretty close, but even if I get it wrong I still come out with a wearble colour. Now most of my spending is on lipgloss, and trying to find my HG foundation.

On another note, I am really liking wet n’ wild lipglosses, I find that they have pretty good colour payoff for the price and they smell pleasant (vanilla maybe? it’s definately a sweet smell). Some people might find the gloss a bit sparkly but I like a bit of sparkle for the summer, my fav colour so far is Mega slicks in Rose Gold. I also tried N.Y.C. lipglosses they also have nice colour, and are shimmery but don’t smell as nice. You definately can’t beat the price!

Last week I went a bit loco. I was surfing TKB trading, drooling over their selection of micas,and thought to myself

“Surely I could make my own mineral makeup, It can’t be too hard.” Fast forward to last Friday, and what did arrive in my little back mailbox, but a huge envelope stuffed with makeup making ingredients. I’ve spent this weekend mixing up batches of eyeshadows and blushes.To make my colours I used TKB’s Matte Eyeshadow Base , TKB’s Softcolours (pre-mixed iron oxides, so that you don;t have to use a shearer) and various micas.

Making the eyeshadows and blushes are pretty easy (simply mix up various micas and iron oxides to create your colour and add some eyeshadow base, see this link for info on using the base: link ). The problem was with mixing the colours. It’s way too easy to just keep adding colours, and end up with a muddy mess (I like to call them neutrals). I had to keep reminding myself to stick to mostly two primary colours to get the truest colours.

I really had a lot of fun making makeup, and if you’ve been thinking about trying it I’d really urge you to take the plunge. Now I’ve just got to find a cheap jar supplier (I’m almost out already).