163. more avon and NYX

so ho ho. more of my makeup came today :) just waiting for my urban decay one.

let me just say.. NYX's packaging.. is freaking INTENSE. i don't think i've ever seen ANYTHING this well wrapped! don't understand? can't comprehend? here's pics!

by the way, the order might be a little confusing. i wish i could upload ALL of my pictures in a certain order (the way i upload flips the other way when i'm posting.. stupid uploader!) then add text after but.. i keep forgetting.. and.. i'm too lazy. so there'll be lots of AVON.. NYX.. AVON.. NYX.. etc. but i'm sure you gals can figure it out ;)

looks like a normal box..

first thought: aw, crap. i have to dig through all that to find my little ES cases??

NOPE! wrapped in HUGEbubble bubble wrap.. wrapped again in the thing you see near my hand.. then finally you get a peak of what's inside.. you can see my three little cases there.

and inbetween EACH case is a little bubble wrap thing, taped. these babies are SECURE.

you can see the little divider pieces a little better here. 

now compare it to the avon packaging

simple box, simple packaging. i think it's just as effective. but, who knows.. that's just my opinion.

ON TO THE HAUL!

NYX colors! with and without flash :)

(eggplant, rust, black, algae, atlantic and rust.)

AVON's quadcolor palettes. dang i wish i had rotated these.. 

(blushing raisins and fresh cut greens.)

RANDOM

i have to say.. since i'm going to photography school and all.. you'd think i'd be decent with a point and shoot camera. NEGATIVE. i suck! i don't know what it is! i just can't handle on-camera flash. i just can't take those swatch pictures w/ flash.. and.. i don't know how to take them. slow synchro sucks, lowering my exposure sucks. i'm just hopeless with easy equipment :(

RANDOM 2

i feel like i bit the inside of my cheek.. it hurts, man! i can't stop messing with it, which probably doesn't help me at all. maybe it's more of a sore.. feels like there's a chunk missing :( it's not fun.

RANDOM 3

i am SO STUPID when it comes to checking something out at school. this is the SECOND time that i've booked things for the WRONG DAY! i honestly don't know how i do it. i even double checked this time but.. nope.. it's still for tomorrow. which is just as well because ALL of my models can't make it. original one got sick.. back up has to shoot.. back up's friend has class.. other friend is busy.. GAH. so i went in and tried to cancel as bryant was checking in and don tells me that it's for tomorrow. but STILL. i feel absurdly retarded! i probably had the most classic expression on my face after he told me i didn't have a reservation for today. "i DON'T?!" i'm sure my voice cracked or some other embarrassing thing like that! :( ugh.

AVON l/s (sparkling rich ruby) and l/g (darling pink)

the lovely patrick dempsey catalog.. jk. the avon one. i though it was primarily a MU place? so why is his face on there? who knows :|

SWISS WATCHES! aka swatches :)
NYX colors.. i rEALLY love the bottom three! love love :)

applied with sponge tip brush of my own. dunno the brand, generic drugstore one.. 

AVON swatches.. so pretty.. but.. they just don't show up! maybe it's just because my arms are fairly tan (wtf? i don't know how! i never go out!) so we'll see later when i apply it on my eyelids :) oh oh but isn't the top one look so pretty?? i think so! but sadly.. the bottom one doesn't look quite as promising. ah, well. we'll see. 

gotta go run some errands so i haven't swatched the lip stuff yet :| pic uploader failed on me twice and i was running through bryant and my schedules for upper division (we have to schedule our own classes! fancy that. i was enjoying being a lazyass where the only classes i could take were pre-req's.. hey that looks like a palindrome!). so i stuck us together in 6 out of 10 classes, sweet. he was lazy and did his all wrong.. so.. i got OCD and decided to fix it for him. and i better ruuuun to go turn these in and go pick him up from studio! :(