Too Faced Makes it Easy to Create Smoky Eyes

Creating a smoky eye is probably one of the requests I hear most often. Everyone wants to know how to do it well, without being over the top. Creating smoke really isn't that hard, and Too Faced has made it even easier with their Smoky Eye Kit.

Included are printed instructions for three different looks: day smoke, fashion smoke, and classic smoke. Day smoke is made up of neutrals, fashion smoke is bright shades of blue and green with a neutral all over lid color, and cassic smoke is your typical gray background with a matte black and a micro-glitter black shade.

Too Faced makes brilliant shadows - they have always been super easy to use, heavily pigmented, and the colors are bright; this palette is no exception. All the looks are easy to create and turn out wonderfully - I only took this palette with me when I attended New York Fashion Week in September. It was just that versatile!

If you're looking for ways to incorporate more smoky eyes into your daily looks, you will not be disappointed with Too Faced's Smoky Eye Kit. Also makes a great gift for that one girlfriend you have who would look so good with a bit of color on her eyes, but who doesn't have the confidence to pull it off.

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Too Faced Shines the Light on the Lash Situation

You might think that this is just another mascara like all the others packaged in a super cute bottle that has a light on it. But you'd be wrong - this does have super awesome packaging that includes two blue LED's to illuminate all your lashes, but that's not what makes this mascara so unique.

Too Faced has added liquid crystalline particles to Too Faced LashLight mascara that act like microscopic mirrors. These actually help bounce light off and around lashes, which can make the eyes look brighter. It also delivers thickness, length, and conditioning with ingredients like Helicone, red algae, pantheol, and vitamins C and E.

Too Faced LashLight mascara retails for $25.

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I Love Products That Come With Instructions

I was browsing around today thinking about how I was doing quite a bit of traveling lately, and avoiding checking bags. I think it's pretty absurd to check a bag every time I get on an airplane, so I've gotten into the habit of rolling and folding everything down into the smallest possible square that I can, and only taking exactly what I need to get through a trip. Ordinarily, I'd just throw everything and the kitchen sink in there, thinking that it's always best to have too much.

At any rate, I'm wandering through and I came across this great little kit. Now, I love me some palettes. They are so easy to travel with, and if I can find one with just about everything in it, I'm thrilled. But eye palettes are especially valuable because I don't have to pack all my eyeshadow singles. But the best part about the Smoky Eye Kit by Too Faced are the three instruction cards they throw in there.

There are three looks: Day Smoke, Fashion Smoke, and Classic Smoke. The day smoke shades are primarily neutral. I've swatched them for you:

There really are three shades there, it's just that one almost exactly matches my skin tone. Nifty!

Fashion smoke isn't breaking any new ground, but it combines blue, green, and taupe. Might want to follow instructions carefully here if you don't want to look like someone punched you in the eye:

Again, nothing shocking, but really quite pretty.

Finally, classic smoke is your gray and black colors.

There are two shades of black here - one is more matte, one has shimmer.

The benefit to this kit is ease of travel. I'm thinking of taking mine with me to NYFW and calling it good in terms of eye makeup. I'd pretty much have everything I need. Except my mascara. The other benefit is the instruction cards. They aren't incredibly detailed, but they give you a direction in which to go. Plus pictures, which is handy.

Grab yours at Ulta for $34.00.

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What I Want Now: Too Faced LockDown Ultimate Creaseless Cream Eye Shadow

Too Faced's LockDown cream shadow makes some promises that are just too good for me to pass up. Touted as a primer and eyeshadow in one, that alone is enough to make me want to run to the makeup counter to give it a try. But then to tell me that it's creaseless? And give me these amazing shades?
Sign me up. Right now. Especially the I'm Guilty shade. How fun is that?

Here are some tips from Jerrod Blandino, founder and Creative Director of Too Faced:

• Squeeze a tiny pearl size drop of Lockdown to your finger and apply directly to the eye. You will have about 60 seconds to smooth out your look before it magically locks down!
• Use any Lockdown as a base to one of your favorite eye colors.
• Use any Lockdown color as an instant eyeliner! Using a flat tipped brush, push color down across the lash line and onto the lid. Complete your look by applying Lash Injection Mascara for full glam lash potential!

Lockdown is available for about $18.50 at Sephora and TooFaced.com.

Have you tried Lockdown? Do you love it? Tell me about it, so I can head to the counter with confidence.

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Have You Heard About Too Faced's Lip of Luxury?

While I've tried lots of Too Faced eye shadow combos (and loved them all), I only just recently found out about their lip product called Lip Of Luxury.

This formula contains shea butter and claims to help smooth out fine lines in and around the lips. The neat thing about it? It has fizzy and tasty champagne essences in it.

Comes in eight gorgeous shades, from shimmer to matte, so there is something for everyone.

Have you tried it? Is it really fabulous? I haven't seen it in my local Sephora, but I'll be looking for it.

Too Faced Lip Of Luxury, $18.

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Holiday 2008: Kipling Loves Too Faced

How cute is this bag? And yes, that is a monkey wearing a bustier. You know you want it.

At any rate, I know I do. This gorgeous Kipling bag holds Lash Injection, Starry Eyed liner, Shadow Insurance and eyeshadow duo. And it has a monkey wearing a bustier! All of this for $29.50. The makeup inside is worth over $60, and how can you put a price on a monkey wearing a pink bustier and red lipstick?

Beginning in October, the Kipling Loves Too Faced collection will be available at www.kipling-usa.com; Kipling® stores in Miami, Fla.; Garden City, N.Y.; Rockaway, N.J.; San Francisco, C.A.; and Los Angeles, C.A.; in addition to select Macy’s and Dillard’s department stores. The signature “Too Faced Loves Kipling” bag will only be available at Sephora, Sephora.com, Ulta stores and toofaced.com.

If I'm on your shopping list, I think I have made it clear what I want in my stocking, and it includes a monkey wearing a bustier!

PS: you can read what I think about Lash Injection if you have any doubts about the greatness of this set.

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There is a New Kit in Town: Tricks of the Trade by Too Faced

I think Too Faced makes some fantastic cosmetics. They are consistently easy to use, reasonably priced, and always do exactly what they say they are going to do. Their Magic Wand Illuminating Foundation in New York Light is a daily use for me.

Recently, they released a great collection, especially for anyone new to the brand. The Too Faced Tricks of The Trade Makeup Collection comes with some excellent basics such as Too Faced Lash Injection Mini, Absolutely Invisible Pressed Powder, Shadow Insurance, Lip of Luxury in Totally Nude and Duo Eyeshadow in Totally Toasted.
Shadow Insurance is an excellent alternative to Urban Decay's Eyeshadow Primer Potion. Does exactly the same thing and is a bit cheaper, especially given the packaging problem. Totally Toasted is a beautiful shimmery neutral duo that you will find yourself wearing often. I've actually hit pan on mine. And my love for Lash Injection is well documented here.

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The Bare Minimum: Liner and Mascara

I'm feeling very lazy today. I'm not sure if it's just an overall "I just want to lay in bed" thing or if I'm having allergy issues. It very well could be both.

At any rate, lying in bed is not an option today, so I've managed to get myself going. All I have on is my Benefit Cosmetics Miss Popularity in the corner of the eyes, a quick swipe of Too Faced Lash Injection, and L'Oreal's Bare Naturale Mineral Eye Liner that I'm going to talk about in detail later today.

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Today's Eye: MAC's Silversmith Mineralize Duo

I was looking around to see if this particular Mineralize was still available from MAC, and when it wasn't, I remembered that I grabbed it from the Cosmetics Company Store when I was at the outlet mall recently. If you haven't been to a Cosmetics Company Store, what are you waiting for? Amazing deals on Estee Lauder, MAC, Bobbi Brown and Origins. I loved it.

Anyway, I used only those two shades, plus my Chanel eye pencil in Blue Jean, which, unfortunately, was also a limited edition this past spring. Because I'm lazy, all that is on my lashes is a couple of swipes of Lash Injection by Too Faced.

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Inky, Dramatic Lashes Your Thing? Too Faced Lash Injection to the Rescue

If you like inky, dramatic lashes, then you will love Too Faced Lash Injection. One coat will give you a fantastic coat, and you can build it to develop lashes that look just as plush as false ones. One caveat: there is a learning curve with this mascara. It's not your typical formula, and requires a bit of getting used to. If you're not careful, it can clump and turn into a bit of a mess, but keep working with it. You will eventually get the hang of it and love the end result.

I don't need to use my Make Up For Ever Lash Fibers with this mascara, and it does come off a bit oddly. Like Blinc's Kiss Me Mascara, it seems to form "tubes" on your lashes and comes off in little ball-looking glops. Make sure you use a good eye makeup remover.

If you don't want to invest in a great big huge tube, check out the Too Faced Lash Injection Mini. It's a perfect sample size, and goes great in your travel bag.

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Experiments with Emerald Coast

I'm really having fun playing around with the new Max Factor Vivid Impact Eye Shadow Duos. This one is Emerald Coast, and it's a bright blue/green combo.

I started with MAC Paint Pot in Groundworks, and used the blue from the Eyeshadow Duo. In the inner corner of each eye I brushed the green in, blending it well with the blue. Then I took my blending brush and lightly went around the entire eye, going underneath to pull it all together. I decided I needed some sort of highlighter towards the brow bone, so I used my new MAC Colour Forms Richmetal Highlighter in Rose Boullion. I did a very thin black line around the entire line with Too Faced Lava Gloss Eye Liner just because my day isn't complete without some sort of actual eyeliner. And because I was just feeling this whole blue/green combo, I did one coat of Make Up For Ever Lash Fibers then added my under-used Chanel Inimitable Waterproof Mascara in a teal color that is no longer available, unfortunately. Then I finished off the eyebrows with my Urban Decay Brow Box. Love that thing.

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Yesterday's FOTD, Because I'm Behind

I'm kind of embarrassed to admit that I don't really remember what I had going on here. But how about those lashes? That is Too Faced Lash Injection, which I am still loving. I've also got Benefit Cosmetics Miss Popularity on the browbone and in the corner of the eyes, which I'll be writing more about later.

I'm also still completely in love with my Urban Decay Brow Box, and think that everyone should own this product, or something like it. Ideally, though, you should have this one, because it comes with a decent amount of wax, more than other products that I've seen. And it's the wax that helps keep everything in line.

I'm using Too Faced Magic Wand Illuminating Foundation on my face with Make Up For Ever HD Microfinish Powder on top. I skipped the bronzer, and used Make Up For Ever Fascinating Lip Gloss in Pearly Coral Red.

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