Review: J.Cat Beauty The Big Eye Pencils

Yes! I'm back with the review that was originally intended for Sunday. There were a lot of emotions yesterday at work, but I'm doing okay, one day at a time.

Anyway! I was very fortunate enough to receive some products from J.Cat Beauty. Of course, I didn't actually want to open anything because of neatly package everything was! Haha. But I finally did.

First up to the review table are The Big Eye Pencils. I actually featured two of these in my Despicable Me 2 Minion Inspired Pictorial.

On to the review!

Eyes of the Day: Naked 2 Venus

I'm back with my eyes of the day or eye of the day, whichever works better! 

I can happily say that I have in my possession the Urban Decay Naked Basics palette now! Huge, huge thanks goes to nuclear_beauty on instagram who held the giveaway!

Going to work on Saturday, I knew that I wanted to do a nice smokey eye, but a neutral smokey eye. Normally I go for the metallics, shimmers and glitters type of smokey eyes, but due to the fact that Saturday was going to be rather crazy at work, I wanted to tone it down. 

I apologize in advance for not doing a pictorial for this look, I was in a rush having to be at work by 4:30pm :x

Products Used

• Milani Eyeshadow Primer
• Urban Decay Naked Basics
• Urban Decay 24/7 Glide-On Eye Pencil in Rockstar
• Studio Gear Impactfull Pro T.L.S. Mascara

Step 1. I primed the lids using Milani's Eyeshadow Primer (review on this tomorrow!). Waited 30 seconds for the primer to set.

Step 2. After the primer set, I tight lined (using the Q-Tip method) my upper lash line with Urban Decay 24/7 Eye Pencil in Rockstar. Normally I just shut the eye and smudge, but I've come to notice that this is the cause of the flaking I've been experiencing. And here I was blaming my mascaras!

Step 3. I then took Venus from the palette and used that as my inner corner highlight.

Step 4. Then taking Faint all over the lid leaving a small space between Faint and Venus because I wanted a blending color between the two. I also took Faint above the crease slightly.

Step 5. The blending color between Venus and Faint, I used Naked 2. It comes across as a light color but is easily buildable, perfect bridge between the two.

Step 6. Getting that smokiness. Using Crave, I slowly blended it into Faint going towards the center of the lid, trying to get it as close to the lash line as possible, and then taking it into the crease.

Step 7. For the brow bone and to blend the remaining Faint above the crease, I used Walk of Shame.

Step 8. Lined the lower lash line to mimic my lid, then used Rockstar on the lower water line.

Step 9. Curl the lashes!

Step 10. Added two coats of Studio Gear Impactfull Pro T.L.S. Mascara.

End result?

Of course I can't get away without my mascara TRYING to act like eye liner. Sigh. This happens when I'm in a hurry ;x

Tutorial: My Everyday Eye Make-Up for Work

 

 

Ok! This one is going to be a little different. Just slightly. While I don't have a tripod that isn't broke, well I have one, it's just MIA at the moment... I decided to do a video of the products that I used. It's a little silly maybe, but it's my first go at it! It's a bit shaky (or shake worthy as I put it), but I tried my best to keep the camera as still as possible. HOPEFULLY... I can get the video to work in the post.

And of course, AFTER I've uploaded the video, I notice a spelling mistake... WITH URBAN! GAH! I slapped an annotation over it with the proper spelling, but how embarrassing. I think I was just so excited with doing this, I didn't rightfully notice.

Should I redo the video? Or just leave it as is?

Plus, I'm working on a new layout, I'll probably put it up after this post, but I'm still working on the buttons to make everything look a bit more neat around here.

Video and still photo tutorial after the break! (Note, I do make an appearance ;x)