Thursday, 24 April 2014

The RR Review: Smashbox's Hydrating Photo Finish Foundation Primer

With now wearing foundation comes with wanting a foundation primer and with that came revisiting an old favourite of mine: Smashbox's Hydrating Photo Finish Foundation Primer! I used to use the lighter version (the white one) under all my stage makeup when I was younger and still danced and I remembered thinking it was the best thing ever and so I asked my mother to pick me up a new one! This time, I have the hydrating formula, but I don't mind since my skin has taken on a lot of dryness this year! 

Smashbox Hydrating Photo Finish Foundation Primer

LOTD: April 23rd, 2014

Only one word could describe yesterday morning: hectic. I was all hyped to do this look and then I got booted out of the bathroom halfway through doing my makeup and everything went downhill from there so I'm not happy at all with how it turned out, but hey, we all have our good days as well as our bad ones, right? 

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LOTD: April 21st, 2014

I was very rushed to do my makeup today (because I don't plan my time well and apparently love making Momo wait for me) and it did not turn out how I wanted at all, but I love Hi-Def Cyan and holy moly my new Ardell lashes are long!

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The RR Review: Stila Cosmetics In the Light Palette

As a kid, my aunt often sent me one of Stila's "travelling palettes" for Christmas. I'm not sure if they still do them, but they used to base a small palette on a city. I can't remember which ones I had, but both had four eyeshadows and a blush. I used to think they were the coolest things on earth. Since then, I haven't owned any Stila eyeshadows... until now. I just got the In the Light palette and I like it! 

Stila In The Light Palette
Stila In The Light Palette including 10 eyeshadows and a Smudge Stick Waterproof Eyeliner

Sunday, 20 April 2014

LOTD: April 20th, 2014

Happy Easter, everyone! I'm celebrating with my new In the Light palette from Stila and a neon lip, how are you guys celebrating today? 

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Saturday, 19 April 2014

New Babies! Pigments and Chromagraphic Eyeliners from the MAC Playland Collection and MAC Dynamo Lip Liner!

Yesterday, I headed on over to MAC to pick up my goodies from the Playland Collection and their Pro Longwear Dynamo lip liner! I AM IN LOVE WITH THE PLAYLAND COLLECTION! The colors are super bright and so perfect for Spring! Also, the Dynamo lip liner is gorgeous. 

MAC Ever So Yellow Pigment

Friday, 18 April 2014

LOTD: April 18th, 2014 (Revamped!)

I took a little (little meaning an hour and a half) trip to my favourite MAC counter today at Park Royal to pick up from things from the Playland collection and Lilia decided to play with my face again! Yay! I love her so much, she's so beautiful and her makeup is always very fun and colorful! If you want to know what I originally had on my eyes, check out my original post on this look, but here's what she added to my eyes! 

MAC Designer Purple PearlGlide eyeliner, Hi-Def Cyan Chromaline, Hi-Def Cyan Pigment, Ever So Yellow Pigment, and Violet Pigment

LOTD: April 18th, 2014

Today was a pretty amazing day! I woke up to a beautiful sunny morning, got a lot done, did a big haul at MAC, and have some exciting news! I can't share just yet, but I hope I will be able to soon! Being as I woke up in a great mood, I was really motivated to do something nice and fun with my makeup this morning so here's my look of the day! 

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LOTD: April 17th, 2014

Didn't do much today so I'll just keep it short and sweet!

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Crazy Colorful LOTD: April 15th, 2014

Earlier this week, I was home sick and after being in bed for three days straight, I can promise you it gets extremely boring. I was itching to do something wild and crazy and wear some makeup so once I was feeling well enough to stand on my feet, I got my makeup together and did played with three of my favourite colors: Blue, purple, and hot pink. This is what it resulted in: 

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Sunday, 13 April 2014

Sneak Peek: MAC Studio Sculpt Shade and Line Three in One Palettes (Ebony Blend)

That awkward moment when you go from thinking a product has been released to being told it hasn't to having it secretely brought out to you to use to having three makeup artists work on you at once. 

That was basically the summed up version of my adventure at MAC yesterday! I thought their new Studio Sculpt Shade and Line had been released, but turns out it isn't coming out until April 26th. Fortunately, my forever favourite, Stephanie, brought the product out for me to play with anyways! Me being totally all over the place, I completely forgot it was Fashion Forward week at the Park Royal counter! Despite being super duper busy with the event and having all the other artists there, Steph started out doing a cut crease on me using the Ebony Blend from the collection. 

MAC Studio Sculpt Shade and Line: Ebony Blend

Saturday, 12 April 2014

New Babies/The RR Review! Tory Burch Lipsticks!

A few months back, I saw Tory Burch had released a line of lipsticks and I have wanted to try them ever since! Unfortunately, they are only available in the states right now. Lucky for me though, my mom got one of her friends to pick me up not one, but two shades to try while she was down there on a trip!

If I'm being totally honest, even though I really wanted to give these lipsticks a try, I wasn't expecting much from them at all. They're supposed to be sheer lipsticks with a hint of color. In my mind that translated to not long lasting, not matte, barely pigmented. But boy was I wrong! 

Before I even get to the actual lipsticks though, CAN I JUST MENTION WHAT ADORABLE LITTLE BAGGIES THEY CAME IN?!! I mean, look at these!


AREN'T THESE CUTE?!

LOTD: April 12th, 2014

My two main goals for today's makeup:
1. Wear one of my new Tory Burch lipsticks
2. Match my beautiful new scarf from Kiss and Makeup
I believe the two were most definitely accomplished in today's look! Enjoy!

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Friday, 11 April 2014

The RR Review: Urban Decay's Tools of Perversion

When Urban Decay released all their new Spring/Summer product on their website mid March last month, they released four new "tools of Perversion". Perversion is their blacker than black eyeliner shade. Previously, they had Perversion available as their 24/7 Glide On eye pencil, but now they have reformulated it into a cream eyeliner, a liquid felt tip eyeliner, and a twist up pencil eyeliner! I picked up all three to try and this is what I have to say about them! 

Super Saturated Ultra Intense Waterproof Cream Eyeliner in Perversion


UD Super Saturated Ultra Intense Waterproof Cream Eyeliner


LOTD: April 11th, 2014

Just wanted to go easy on the makeup today, but I realized I haven't worn my newly purchased Filme Noir lipstick yet so I decided to throw that into the mix before heading out! 

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The RR Review: Stila's Color Correcting Cream

I decided to try out Stila's Color Correcting cream today in the shade Fair 01! I have to say, it was weird rubbing green cream into my skin this morning, but the fair shade—after it had color adjusted— seemed to match my oh so white skin color so all was well! 

Stila Color Correcting Cream

Tuesday, 8 April 2014

Update: Social Media Changes

Hi guys! Hope you all had a fabulous day! I just wanted to let you know I changed my Instagram username from @sydyxoxo to @sydneymdrapkin! So if you go searching for my Instagram, it's now @sydneymdrapkin

That is my personal Instagram account, but 90% of the time now my photos revolve around makeup and this blog! 

Xoxo,
Russian Red. 

The RR Review: MAC Cosmetic's Patent Polish Lip Pencils

On April 3rd, MAC Cosmetics released a brand new product in 12 different shades called the Patent Polish lip pencils. Think of them as MAC's take on chubby sticks. These twist up pencils are moisterizing like a balm, long lasting like a lipstick, and glossy like a lipgloss. Can anyone say triple threat, please? MAC managed to cover all the bases with these 12 "chubby sticks" including a plethora of colors like pinks, reds, berry colored shades, a nude, a purple, and a coral! 

After swatching every single one of the twelve at the store and then trying on more than half, I settled on Go for Girlie (a light, semi shimmery pink) and Teen Dream (a coral shade). 

MAC Patent Polish in Teen Dream

LOTD: April 7th, 2014

Tried to bring Spring to Vancouver again with my makeup yesterday! I had roughly 10 minutes to do my makeup and was working with new eyeliner to test the products out and it was a little hectic, but it turned out alright! I have two reviews coming up for sure soon! 

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Sunday, 6 April 2014

Update: Tutorials, Questions, Requests, and Thank Yous!

I hope everyone had a good weekend! Mine was pretty busy as I was working the entire time. The past two days have just flown by! I'm pretty happy with how work went today; I made a ton of sales, got to share my knowledge/love of makeup with a couple of customers, and I even sold a 730$ pair of Anine Bing boots to a customer! So it's safe to say today has been a pretty successful day, if I do say so myself! 

Quite a few people have been asking me to do video and picture tutorials lately. As of right now, I think video tutorials are a little out of reach for me, but I'm totally up for the idea of doing picture tutorials! When I do start on tutorials, please bare with me, I already struggle with the "techiness" of writing blog posts—despite being born and raised in a generation of technology—, but I promise to try to make them as great as possible! 

On that note, I'll probably only do a tutorial if someone asks for one. Going out and need help with how to do your makeup? Can't quite seem to get that perfect eyeshadow look down? Having troubles lining your lips? I'm pretty much up for doing a pictorial on anything you guys have in mind so please don't hesitate to comment on a post, email  me (russianred.maskeddiva@gmail.com), Facebook me (www.facebook.com/redmaskeddiva),  tweet me (@RedMaskedDiva), or comment on my Instagram (@sydyxoxo) with your request! I really like hearing from y'all! Additionally, you can always ask me to do a certain look if it's just something you want to see or whatnot. 

Always feel free to ask me questions! I have had four people recently contact me asking about a certain product or looking for a reccommedation. It really makes me happy to be able to help and it brings a smile to my face when people reach out to me for my opinion! So to those people, you know who you are, a huge thank you for contacting me and I hope I was able to help! 

Xoxo,
Russian Red. 

LOTD: April 6th, 2014

Hi everyone! I felt like a little asian anime doll today and I loved it! Big doe-eyed anime eyes and pretty, purple doll cheeks! I was playing around with white eyeliner today and I really like it so this is what I came up with! Also, I used Urban Decay's new gel formula eyeliner and new All Nighter eyeliner pencil in their classic black Perversion and I'll be posting a review of that along with two others of their newly formulated tools of Perversion! 

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Saturday, 5 April 2014

New Babies! 3 New MAC Products + A Pigment & Filme Noire Lipstick, Stila's Paradise Pink Stay All Day Waterproof Liquid Eyeliner, & A Nyx Eyeliner in White!

If you haven't already seen on Instagram/Twitter/Facebook, I did a huge makeup shop yesterday with my best friend Momo! I had only planned to pick up three of MAC's new products that I had sitting on hold for me, but then I went a little wild... 


LOTD: April 5th, 2014

Wow! It feels like it has been forever since I posted! Sorry about that, everyone! The past week has just been crazy hectic what with the wedding, my boyfriend heading back to New York City for school, and me going back to school, too! 

Speaking of my boyfriend, he has a food blog (www.vancouverfoodie.blogspot.com) and has received a huge amount of local recognition so far even though he's had his blog for a shorter amount of time than I have had mine—which is really short! Two weeks in a row now, two of our local newspapers have posted his photos and I couldn't be more proud of him! I'd love it if you could check his blog out, it's great! Thank you! 

Now for my LOTD! 

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