Lavender Shimmer Eyeshadow

For your listening pleasure

Piano Solo Lavender Blue by Robin Spielberg

Last week I made a beautiful new Lavender mineral eye shadow shade with a subtle pearlescent shimmer.

Lavender Shimmer Mineral Eye Shadow*

Christine sat patiently while I did a subtle smoky eye using Lavender Shimmer on her.  Christine had already applied her eyeliner and mascara.  To begin, I used the Lavender Shimmer as the base shadow, applied over the entire eye lid. Very nice for day/work.  Then we added Peony Pink Shimmer just in the center of the lid to add highlight. We then added dimension with Violet Pearls in the outer corner of the eye, drawn up into the crease and also pressed gently below the bottom eye lashes.  We tapped the extra powder off the brush before pressing the eye shadow powder into place. The powder stays in place better and there are fewer fly-aways.  We used a flat oval brush for the Lavender and Peony, an angled brush for the Violet Pearls and a fluffy brush for blending.  Hmmm... we could have added a brow highlighter & brought the color up to the brow bone, but we were going for 'subtle' after all~

Allure Magazine May 2011:  Fresh Picks Page 172:  ALLOVER LAVENDER article suggests:

MAKE THE EYES SMOKY use 3 shades in the same color family for a gradation in color.  Apply the lightest color on the lid, the medium color from lid to crease and the richest color near the lashes.
TRANSPARENCY IS KEY for the sheerest application, use a fluffy blending brush to meld colors together.
CREATE COLOR HARMONY pink blush and lilac lip colrs work well with smoky purple eyes.

Please see my Facebook Page with a link to an excellent video [not by me] on creating a smoky eye.
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Please see our shimmering mineral eye shadows on our website.
Shimmering Classic Mineral Eye Shadows

*Ingredients may include: Sericite, mica, titanium dioxide, zinc oxide, tin oxide, boron nitride, magnesium myristate, chromium oxide, ultra marines, magnesium stearate, carmine & iron oxides.


On a personal note, I am going to try to post to my blog once a week.  As I learn how to do this I will try adding different content in varying ways. I will try not to bore you. I hope to make the blog interesting & informative, yet entertaining. Please post your suggestions.  ~ Nancy 

Progress, Problems & Procrastination

Sitting here with a cup of Bengal Spice herbal tea, relaxing for a bit after a busy day.

Progress.... Thanks to the suggestion from Tienne, I contacted my website's support team and they were able to place a link to both my Facebook Page and Blog in the left nav area of my main page under Information.  I wish I had the icons, but for now this will work.  Also, I have begun entering products in my Facebook Payvment app. & hope the products will be available for purchase directly from my Facebook Page soon.

Problems....The United States Postal Service had a rate increase take effect today.  Their website Shipping Assistant is where I print my combination customs/shipping labels for 1st Class International mail packages  I had 5 orders packaged and ready to ship overseas to Russia & Poland and their website would not calculate postage or print. If there are still problems tomorrow morning, I will have to do the labels & customs forms manually.  Thankfully the shipments within the USA were printed using Paypal Shipping Labels and there were no problems.  In the morning I tried to send out a 15% discount on a $15 order to my Facebook Fans in celebration of Earthday, but I don't think it worked.  Tomorrow I will try it again.

Procrastination....The ArtFire Social Network Bootcamp post today was about Blogging!  Maybe I should have read it before writing this.  For now my I am channeling the blogging knowledge I obtained from watching the movie Julie & Julia!

~Nancy
www.FaceValueCosmetics.com

Just Starting Out Blogging

This is a test to see how this blog works and how itconnects with my Facebook Page.
If all goes well, I hope to replace my Blog/Newsletter on my website with this blog.

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