more Vixoden goodies

In a previous post, I mentioned something about big news from Vixoden cosmetics...well, big on my part, anyways. Kim was looking for promoters for her company, to help her get her company's name out there a bit more. I chatted with her a bit, sent her a link to this lovely blog here, and opened my mailbox Friday to find a promoter package waiting for me. I was expecting a few different samples/colors, so what I got blew me away. Kim's idea of a promoter package is the entire Cyber Goth collection! Five different colors in 5 g jars. I was soooo excited when I saw it :) In addition to the promoter package, I also recieved the samples I ordered previously. She is trying to clear out old colors, so there's a massive clearance sale running on them right now. The samples are ENORMOUS. I got 5 of them, and they filled 10g jars, no sweat. Kim was sweet enough to throw in a bonus 5g jar of Ecstasy- my absolute favorite color she sells- as well. I can't wait to get pictures up so you guys can see how amaazing the colors are..not to mention how generous the samples are! Hope everyone had a good Thanksgiving..I'll try to get the color swatches up ater...I just switched computers, so I've been trying to get everything situated on this new one..

so a little about my day..

tuesday morning, I was woken up at around 6 am by a throbbing tooth. i've had this once before, and let me tell you, it's not fun. I would rather smash my fingers repeatedly with a hammer than go through the torture of a toothache.
I ended up in the er around 8 last night, and ended up with prescriptions for  Penicillan, Tramadol, and Ibueprofin/ perscription stregth Motrin. I also ended up with a headache thanks to the assholes at Walmart, but that's neither here nor there.
Anyways, I got my shit filled at around 11 that night. Woke up this morning to a face that was half swollen, and still ranking kinda high on the pain scale. Made it to a dental clinic at 7a.m...Long story short, they extracted the tooth- apparently, I had broken it sometime in the past- , I gave them $150, and I am now sitting at home with an even more swollen face than before. Fingers crossed that shit goes down noticeably by tomorrow...
I took a few pictures of stuff while I was out and about today. I'll try to post them later.

Happy Thanksgiving, everybody!!

Ugh

I was at Walmart the other night and picked up a new charger for my camera batteries. I figured it was a good buy at only $10 , hell, it even came with batteries. Got it home to find out that not only are 2 of the batteries triple a, not double, but the batteries don't work in my camera...Which is something I don't GET at all. So now I get to try and find the reciept from the purchase and try to return the piee of junk. It's disappointing, because my other ones are almost dead, so I really don't know what to do at this point. Sucks.
On the plus side...in addition to makeup, another love of mine is cooking...and baking. And coming up, I get to bake! We're going to my bf's family for Thanksgiving this year... They're planning on having about 20 people this year, so it's bigger than normal. And of course, the day after Thanksgiving is Black Friday. Whoooot. Still debating on going to Sephora before I head in...But let's stay on topic...my work is having a potluck for all us lucky people who get to work 1100 hours that day, so I'm going to make a giant batch of dark chocolate creme de menthe cookies ^.^ Hopefully they turn out well, I haven't done them before. I was going to make mnm cookies, but I forgot to ...get...mnm's...0.0

So that's really all for today. I'll try to get a look up, but I can't make any promises... :(

Vixoden Cosmetics (Kim's Kreations)

Kim's Kreations/ Vixoden Cosmetics is a company I first heard of over the summer. They were offering a special on their Facebook page -I believe it was 8samples for $2 dollars-. I ordered and was overall very pleased with the colors I recieved, in particular Ecstasy and Cryogenic.
So when Kim put up another offer for her fB fans, I couldn't resist. This one was even better- the first 30 people to email with a list of ther favorite shades,would get sample packs FREE.Of course, I had to get in on this! ( When I sent in my color picks, my email was kind enough to bounce the message back to me, not Kim. I re-sent, and she was kind enough to respond immediately. The communication here is really excellent. That's important to me. I like when a company sees its'customers as people, not just payments.)


Onto swatches! The left color in each pic is over NYX base camp primer; the right swatch is bare skin.

Sex n Candy: this is a gorgeous shimmery pink with tons of sparkles. I'm not normally a pink girl, but this one leapt off the website at me. I knew I had to have it.

Ecstasy: This is my reason for returning to Vixoden Cosmetics. Ecstasy is the most gorgeous shade of blue ever invented. This is in my top 5 eyeshadows. The blue immediately draws your eye in, but it's only after that, you realize HOLY CRAP THERE'S MEGA SILVER SPARKLES IN THIS. It's PERFECT.

Ecstasy some more, just because I can.

Cryogenic: This one didn't swatch on bare skin too well, but you can see the mega pigmentation on the left /primer swatch. Another bright color with rediculous amounts of sparkle.

L-R: Rave, MR. Frog, Hulk Smash.
I'm not even sure why I uploaded this picture. The colors are WAY off. Damn flash. In reality, Rave is a turquoise, Mr. Frog is a summery green with beautiful emerald glitter, and Hulk Smash is a sparkly dark green. What's also interesting about Hulk is that in the container, it appeared a matte grayed green. I'm so glad it wasn't.

Speaking of packaging, Kim sends her samples in plain envelopes. In the envelopes are small baggies with a handwritten sticker label on each. Sadly, when I opened my envelope, Sex n Candy's baggie had stuck to Ecstasy's (see? Even other shadows love Ecstasy) and when I tried to peel them apart, I realized there was also a hole in Sex n Candy :( Luckily, I was able to find this:

Bead storage containers! They were on sale, 40% off at Michaels. I grabbed two- one for this order, and one for my next, which is due to arrive in the next couple weeks or so... I just carefully transferred the shadows from their mini baggies to the bead containers. (btw, I love that the stickers on the baggies were the PERFECT size to transfer onto the containers as well. That was a stroke of luck on my part.)

My overall thought of Vixoden Cosmetics/ Kim's Kreations?
Wonderful. Colors to die for, excellent commnication, decently sixed samples- especially when, hello, they're free-. overall very, very satisfactory experience. I get the feeling these ladies  really do care about their customers, and not just about making a quick buck.

Find kim's kreations FB here, and their storenvy here Go check them out, and let them know I sent ya :)

LOTD- Sparklies ^-^

Don't say you weren't warned.
I used Wet n Wild holographic glitter in Glitz, and Rimmel Stand Out creamy eye pencil

Lol @ Mike E Clark and the Birthday Massacre in the background

Look at the sparklies! LOOK AT THEM.

slightly more close up view of said sparklies.

I also forgot to mention..

Miss Holly is also giving away a NARS prize package...Go check it out, and read her blog while you're at it...
She has great reviews and giveaways; this is definitely a blog to check out ^.^
http://fashion-beautyx.blogspot.com/

Again, highlight the section above to get to the link...happy reading!

just a mini-update..

Couple things, just because I can. First off, I am waiting for my sample pack from Vixoden Cosmetics, which should be coming any day now. ( I may have some other news soon, too...waiting on confirmation from the store owner). So new swatches will be coming very very soon!
Secondly, Miss Holly is doing a giveaway that everyone should go enter, now. This giveaway is to celebrate her surpassing 1200 followers! Actually, she's surpassed 1300 now,lol. (sorry, the link is right below, but Blogger is acting special, so you'll have to highlight the ''black'' area right below this part :/ )

http://fashion-beautyx.blogspot.com/2011/10/giveaway-1200-followers-25-mac-gift.html


The giveaway ends tomorrow morning, so don't forget to enter!