I finally got mine today, yay! I got an assortment of stuff, including the lining gel and a lining brush, foundation, shadows, lip colors. The colors are all so pretty!
I'm stuck at work, but just couldn't resist playing a little. Fortunately I had a little lip brush with me from my Estee lauder Lip Vinyl (in Plastique Pink, which is my one of my all-time faves).
So I put on some of the Lippie Illegal sample, a purplish color that was gorgeous but maybe a bit wild for the hospital. So I dipped my lip brush into my Lip Wand Lust (glittery magenta-rose)sample, and applied some over the purple Illegal, calming it into a slightly more acceptable glittery purplish magenta-rose. The lip colors dried nicely, and are comfortable on my lips. Not greasy, if a strand of hair went on my lips, it wouldn't get stuck (don't you hate when that happens!!), but not dreid out either. Though I can't tell you if its the "lippie" stuff or the "lip wand" stuff, since they're kind of mixed together, lol.
So of course, then i just HAD to try eye stuff. Since I had nothing to apply the loose eye shadow with (can I use my finger, or would that look awful?), I had to just try one of the Eye Creme samples, I chose Fairy Wings, a pale pearly pinkish color, I like it, though I think I could have applied a little more though.
Okay, so eyeliner time. I brought the Liner Gel, the teensy tipped liner brush and the sampe of Flashcube Magic (blue-green-purple glittery) into the bathroom (I did the lip stuff at my desk, but felt the eye liner needed a bit more serious attention to application, especially being new at this).
I had briefly looked at the instructions online, and followed them, dipping the brush into the Liner Gel, then into the powder, then mixing them on a suface before applying. Except it came out kind of clumpy, but I persisted, and found that it worked better if I just did the gel and powder, but didn't mix them and just applied them. I ended up with a slightly clumpy, but pretty, glittery blue-green line, not perfect, but so what, it still looked nice.
Of course when I get back to my desk and re-looked at the directions, those instructions were for regular eye liner powder, not glitter. Glitter required two liner brushes, one to first apply a line of just the gel, and another to put the glitter on top of the gel (then let them dry). Oh well.
I was about to say, okay enough, but then my eyes lit upon the Kaliedoscope Oasis sample, a light aqua-ish color-changing shimmer dust. I thought, okay, this might work for the non-glitter instructions. It did work, and I applied a not-perfectly-straight line of it on top of the blue-green glitter, and some under my lower lashes as well. Very nice! And because it was a lightish color, my wobbly line didn't look bad at all, in fact kind of nice, with just a hint of the darker glitter below.
The problem is, I don't have makeup remover at work, so I just have to make do, lol.
And I have almost 4 more hours here at work, so who knows what kind of creature I'll become before the day is through!