I recently read something about mixing your own makeup, and for the life of me I can’t remember where I found it.

If you know, let me know and I’ll link to it.

Anyway, it inspired me to try mixing some of my own colors, so this morning I poured a little Key West Palm shadow, and way too much tootsie shadow (from the now defunct Twisted Fayte) into my trust buff palette.

The Key West Palm is a “gorgeous blue-green shade with gold undertones and a shimmer finish,” while Tootsie looks white with a lot of pink and green iridescence in the sample baggie, but goes on sheer with a pink iridescence.

I wasn’t really sure what I was expecting - I just wanted to lighten the Key West Palm a little because it’s a pretty bold color.

After dumping the excess Tootsie back into the bag it came from, I mixed the two colors together with my MAC 239 brush.

I ended up with a paler version of Key West Palm with a pretty pink iridescence.

The new color looks green on my eyes, but it looks blue in the swatch - unless the light hits it just right - then it looks pink.

My first experiment went pretty well - except for pouring too much shadow from the bag into my palette, but overall I’m excited, and I’ll probably be mixing a few more colors in the future.

Have you ever mixed your makeup to create another color?

What happened?

Do you prefer wild or mild eyeshadows.

I like playing with color, but I don’t usually were overly bright eyeshadow colors, unless I’m using the shadow as liner.

I normally wear light brown or taupe, and pale purple or blue shadows, with a black or silver shadow used wet as liner.

And of course I wear mascara, although I didn’t when I was wearing contacts on a regular basis.

I have been experimenting with more vibrant colors though, but when I wear them in public I feel self-conscious the whole time.

I think part of it is that I’ve been looking at lots of different eye makeup looks for my Eye Shadow and Eye Makeup Tutorials lens, and while some of the looks are great, some of them just don’t look right to me.

I’ve seen a lot where the shadow colors don’t look right with the person’s facial coloring, and I have to wonder if they wear that look out in public :-0 !

And obviously if they’re doing a makeup tutorial for the look, they must think it looks good, so I wonder if what I think looks good on me really doesn’t.

At least when it comes to the wilder looks.

Do your prefer wild eye looks or mild eye looks?

Have you noticed people who’s eye looks don’t seem to go with their facial coloring?

Leave a comment and let me know!

Time for another reader question!

Mary left a comment on Cutting Long Hair that basically said:

Hi, I need a bit of advice. I’m 17, and 5 ft 1 inch tall, with hair that hangs to my knees.

It’s very thin, but also very soft and shiny. I can’t do anything with it. I can’t have have it down, have it up, curled, or even in a ponytail.

Its forever in a bun because it is too thin.

I’ve been begging my mum 4 years to let me get it cut.

Now she’s said yes.

I dont know what to do with it.

I need it cut to about the middle of my back.

Has anyone got any suggestions to make it look good.

It’s a big change for me and I’m scared. Haha, Please help.

Mary I can imagine that such a drastic change would be scary.

I have thin hair, that isn’t as thin as yours, and I would suggest a non layered cut to the middle of your back.

When I had layers my hair always looked layered - it never looked like it was supposed too.

Of course since your hair is different it might be fine.

Self Trimming Instructions for long hair shows pictures of the straight across trim, the U shaped trim, and the V shaped trim that might help you decide what you’d like.

I’d love to hear what you decide to do, and thanks for visiting Mystical Beauty’s Musings.

If you have any suggestions for Mary please leave a comment and let us know about them.

I finally found the Jane Be Pure Mineral Foundation in Walgreens yesterday - it was in a separate display for free after rebate stuff, and not in their Jane display.

I was so disappointed when I got there and didn’t see any liquid foundation at all, but I went about the task of choosing the right formula, and color, which was kind of hard since they didn’t have the sale price marked on the Jane display, and they didn’t say which ones are free after rebate, so I didn’t know which ones I could choose from :-).

I finally decided on the Be Pure Sheer Mineral Powder in Light, which does not look anywhere near as yellow as it does on Jane’s web site.

Of course after finding the foundation I had to decide on a color all over again - I’m pale enough that some foundations don’t have a color that is light enough for me, and if I find a foundation that works, I’m ususally the lightest shade in that foundation.

Of course right now I have a hint of summer sun, so I wavered between the fair and ivory shades because there was no tester.

After carrying the ivory foundation around for a while, I finally decided I better get the fair instead.

I’m glad I did - the fair blends perfectly into my skin - I don’t have any pictures of it for you, because after I put it on my hand I couldn’t find it anymore :-).

I felt silly putting a swatch up that looks just like the back of my hand, so I didn’t.

Forgive me :-).

I always apply liquid foundations with a nonlatex sponge, but I did test the Jane Be Pure Mineral foundation with my fingers.

The foundation applied smoothly, and disappears into my skin.

It provides a hint of coverage, but I don’t think it’s going to be able to cover up the circles under my eyes or the tiny broken capillaries on my nose - of course that’s what concealor is for.

Over all I’m happy with the foundation and at $4.99 or free after rebate I think it’s a great deal for someone who is looking for a liquid foundation with light coverage.

Stay tuned for an update after I’ve used this for a couple of weeks.

If you’ve tried this I’d love to know what you think!

Just click on “leave a comment” and let me know!

You can read my final review at Jane Be Pure Mineral Liquid Foundation Review

I’ve used Walgreens rebates several times in the past, and I’ve always been pleased with them, so I was happy to see Jane Be Pure Mineral Liquid Mineral Foundation, Crushed Powder, Sheer Powder and Mineral Powder Brush for $4.99 with a $4.99 rebate this week.

I’m going to Walgreens to check out the minerals today. I’m planning on gettting the Be Pure Mineral Liquid Mineral Foundation, since it seems like I haven’t used a liquid foundation in years - and since I haven’t found any reviews on it yet :-).

I have light skin, and it’s hard to tell from the color swatches if I think the liquid foundation will work for me, so if it doesn’t look light enough for me I’ll probably get the Crushed Powder.

I did a Jane Cosmetics Kabuki Brush Review several months ago, and I wasn’t impressed with the kabuki brush, so the powder brush doesn’t tempt me at all.

If you’ve tried Jane’s mineral foundation I’d love to know what you think about it - if you haven’t I’d love to know which one you’re planning on getting, or why you won’t be getting it - just click on “leave a comment” and let me know.

I also found a couple of Jane Be Pure Mineral reviews for you to check out if you’re considering getting this while it’s on sale but you’re not sure yet.

Review: Jane Be Pure Minerals, a Good Value Mineral Makeup
I <3 Jane

From what I’ve seen the powders have mixed reviews, and the colorless really is colorless - which some people aren’t too happy about.

Oh - by the way if you’re going to Walgreens anyway, Neutrogena Cosmetics, Almay Face and Eye Cosmetics, and Loreal Cosmetics are buy one get one 50% off.

Maybelline Foundation Powder, Concealor or blush is buy 1 get 1 free.

I’ll definitely be checking them out, and I’ll try to be back with swatches of whatever I buy for tomorrow.

If you’d like to see what I got, and what I think about it, and how the swatches turned out please read:
Jane Be Pure Mineral Natural Foundation - First Thoughts

Jane Be Pure Mineral Liquid Foundation Review

I’ve installed the CommentLuv plugin from wordpress, so when you get leave a comment on posts that were made since I enabled the plugin you will see a checkbox and a message stating:

“Enable CommentLuv which will try and parse your last blog post, please be patient while it finds it for you.”

If you have a blog this will pull the last post from your blog tand display it under your comment.

I think this will be a fun way to get to know you a little bit better.

I’ll leave a comment from another one of my blogs here so you can see how it works, and you can test it for yourself.

Also we just bought 16×16 ceramic tile for our upstairs living room and one of the bedrooms.

The house came with ugly orangish carpet - it you watch Bewitched you can see it on Samantha and Darin’s stairs so it’s a little old.

I can’t wait to get new flooring upstairs.

Any recomendations that you have about laying tile or grout size would be appreciated :-).

Hope you have a great week!

The code is FF08 at Tarte Cosmetics.

Enjoy!

I’m working, so I don’t have time to buy now, but I’d love to hear what you’re getting, or what you recommend!