Sour Apple Eyes with Lime Crime

So yesterday I was asked by a friend to dress femme at school. my school has uniforms so it didn't get too interesting, but I did wear some pretty cool eyeshadow! 

This look was NYX milk over the lid, Lime Crime's seahorse discourse over the lid, atlanteal in outer corner, Sugarpill poison plum in the crease, buttercupcake in the inner corner, and a NYX matte white on the browbone.

I hope this is presentable,

Alex

Fashion and the femme boi: sheer black, stockings, and chains

Today I'm going to a friend's show at a local coffee shop. It's going to be great. I thought I share my femme-fit for the day. I don't dress like this often, but when I do, I go all out.

Today's femme-fit features a hi-low sheer black dress, red garterbelt, cherry stockings, and my trusty black boots (you'll see them again, I'm sure.) 

When I dress femme, I like to wear a femme sign necklace a dear friend of my made me. I have a transmasculine symbol as well.

I hope this wasn't rage inducing

-alex

Expressing gender through nail polish?

A lot of people would knock me for creating a beauty blog, a sign of sure femininity, and being FtM transgender. However, I don't think this makes me any less trans* than anyone else. I'm pre-everything and in the closet to most of my family. I present more genderqueer than anything else, and maybe that's a label I should stick to, but I don't feel comfortable being called a she. In general I'm pretty confused about my gender. All I'm sure of is that female is not the sex I should be. 

That being said, I express my confusion through my nail polish by painting my left hand. Many people have asked my why I do this, and I usually answer with "I'm confused". Those who know that I'm trans* understand. Supposedly, your left side is feminine. So that's why I do that. 

I love color, I always have. My favorite nail polish of all time came out earlier this year. It's China Glaze Riveting, and it is gorgeous.

Riveting is a fiery orange with stunning gold shimmer. that simple description doesn't really describe this polish well enough for me. It's like a radical femme glitterized pumpkin in 12 o'clock sunlight- f a b u l o u s. 

Pictures don't do it justice at all!

Moonlit rose eyes with sugarpill

The other day I did a simple eye look using sugarpill's love+. I love this eye shadow!

Here are the three main shadows I used-

Products used:

Too Faced shadow insurance

MAC cream color base in Black

Sugarpill eyeshadow in Love+

Wet N wild eyeshadow trio in Don't Steal My Thunder

Wet N wild Comfort Zone palette

In the future, I'll probably use a white base with sugarpill's colors. It was difficult to build this color to full opacity over the black base I used.

I hope this was interesting, I'll be posting more today~

ACW haul, Limecrime aquataenia swatches, Sugarpill burning heart swatches

 On august 18th, I placed an order with All Cosmetics Wholesale AKA Suite 7 beauty. Today it arived, carrying

 a limecrime palette, a sugarpill palette, and a nyx jumbo pencil. I also got a free gift- beauty Fixation makeup

remover saturated q-tips in a neat case.

the entire thing was packaged very well. I’m happy that the eyeshadows survived the trip all the way from

Washington to North Carolina- I was worried when I saw how far they had to go! The entire order was wrapped

in thick bubblewrap and secured with tape. 

The LC palette was a little bent out of shape though!

The palette had a nice decorated plastic covering on it protecting the shadows.

Here’s the palette, a little yellowed on my camera. The colors are as follows-

• Nautilus prime, a sassy navy blue

• Coral of the story, a peach that ain’t messin around

• Seahorse discourse, a granny-smith green with blue sheen 

• Pearl-ple, a moonlit pastel lilac

• and Atlanteal, the a sky turquoise that could make the summer jealous

All of the colors have a silver/white sparkle to them- Limecrime claims they sparkle like a mermaid’s tail. I 

wouldn't disagree!

The sugarpill palette came in it’s famous gorgeous packaging, looking just as lovely as one would imagine.

 The box has all sorts of different finishes on it which gives the art a lot of depth. I love miss kika and I love

her work on this box!

The palettes are very different sizes and you get more bang for your buck with the sugarpill colors. As you can

 see, LC’s shadows are about half the size. Weight wise, you get 1.5 grams with LC and 4 grams with sugarpill

at the same price. Interesting.

All swatches are applied with a MAC 239 brush for practicality.

here are the swatches! my camera does not do either of these palettes justice. The LC is much more neon and

 the sugarpill is much less dusty looking. I found that the sugarpill colors get darker as you layer them- 

something no one has called out in my experience reading reviews of sugarpill palettes. Also, THESE COLORS 

ARE NOT MATTE. Buttercupcake has a golden sheen to it and all the colors have a bit of silver sparkle to them.

 When applied, the sparkles aren't very noticeable, but they’re there.

I hope this first post was helpful to someone!