Old Haul: NYX & Red Cherry

Ive been planning on doing a makeup blog for quite sometime now, months before I even started this one. I guess I got discouraged because I'm not a professional makeup artist and I didn't have nearly as much makeup as the other beauty bloggers I read. The day I admitted to myself that I was addicted to makeup was the day I started this blog lol. I noticed myself buying tons and tons of makeup thinking, "Oh I need this" or "If I just get this set I wont have to buy makeup again for a long long time" Did I live up to that? Heck No! I still catch myself saying those things then turning around and buying makeup again. I just bought from Cherry culture like one week ago hoping that would be my makeup budget for the month and what did I do last night? I ordered the 88 Warm Palette. Granted the things I buy aren't ridiculously expensive, but that's still no reason to go haul crazy like I do almost every month. I'm so impulsive sometimes it makes me sick. Having a makeup blog makes me feel like I didn't completely waste all my money on items that's I'm only gonna use once then banish into my endless makeup drawer.

Anyhoo, as I was saying...Ive played with the idea of creating my own makeup blog long before I started this one. I even took pictures of my makeup and hauls. Luckily I saved them and now they can be put to good use! Here's an old haul I did last year

Row 1 NYX eye shadows: Ultimatum/Red Bean Pie/Exotic Green
Row 2 NYX eye shadows: Skin Tight/Morocco/Smoke Mountain

Same 2 rows as mentioned above but with the NYX stick concealer in beige & Red Cherry lashes #49 (falsies for your lower lash line).
(don't know why I took 2 of the same pictures switching out the lashes in concealer :/)


Swatches for the eye shadows and concealer


These shadows as w/ mostly all NYX shadows break really easy. Either than that, the pigmentation is great. I never used the lashes though. They were a little to long for my taste. I don't think I have enough patience to work with lower falsies anyway. I also did some EOTD with the Red Bean Pie and Exotic Green that I will post next

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random ramblings...opinions please?

So lately Ive been thinking about changing the name of my blog and/or blogger address. I cant think of anything catchy though. Nothing cool rhymes with "Leah" lol. My current blogger address is jetleah.blogspot.com and I picked that name because I'm a HUGE fan of Jet Li (and of course because my name is Leah :)). I love old china kung fu. Im not a big fan of Jet Li's or Jackie Chan's american movies like Romeo Must Die or Rush Hour. I prefer when Jet Li was Fong Sai Yuk and when Jackie Chan was the Drunken Master. Anyways, I better stop before I start trailing off into to my complete and boring 2 cents about kung fu. The point I'm trying to make is Jet Li has nothing to do with this makeup! I really need to change that address.

My blog title sucks too. It was the first thing I thought about and just stuck with it cuz I wanted to start posting shit already. Prior to this being a makeup blog it was a random blog about my life called "The New Deep" I got that from a John Mayer song that I love. I could change it back to that but it still has nothing to do with makeup.

I also wanted this to be a makeup and poker blog but I don't really write about poker as much as I'd like to. I don't think there is really much to write about my poker experiences anyway. You win some, you lose some. Although I love poker more than makeup, I think makeup is just more fun to write about :)

In other news, I think my cbox is working now. When I first created one I clicked "lock" and then forgot to "unlock" it. Hopefully that solves the problem.

Any ideas of what I could change my blog name to would be much appreciated. Also, I would really love if you have any suggestions on what I should post more of or if there is anything you would like me to change, add, or remove on this blog.

And please let me know if you are a follower that I am not following already. I really appreciate you taking interest in my blog and I would love if I could return the favor.

♥ Leah

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