Palette Challenge: 1 Girl, 3 Makeup Palettes, 7 Looks

April 19, 2013

Talk to any of my friends (and especially my mother) and you’ll hear numerous complaints about my cluttered, messy room. It’s kind of a disaster zone, with my clothes, beauty products, jewelry, magazines, and books scattered everywhere. I’m the first to admit I have a (slight) hoarder problem. So, to simplify at least one part of my life — my beauty routine — I volunteered to do the palette challenge.

What’s the palette challenge, you ask? Instead of using a gazillion different blushes, highlighters, concealers, glosses, lipsticks, and eyeshadows, I was restricted to three purse-sized but very complete sets: Pixi Fake Awake Kit, $28, Pixi Eye Glow Cube, $28, and NP Set Glam Set, $24, all available at Target. (Minor confession: There’s no way I could give up my go-to foundation, eyeliner, or mascara, so I also snuck those along for this week’s ride.)

Keep reading to find out more about the products in the palette challenge.

Rumors surrounding my demise have been mostly false. After a brief sojourn out into a strange world-- a world of big green things, and small fuzzy things, and no wireless fidelity to be found! --I have triumphantly returned, lusting for any sort of contact with the interwebz. Lolcats pictures are making me giggle, I'm posting trolling messages on bulletin boards, and I am even-- yes, it shames me to say this --watching AMVs on youtube.

Hopefully I'll get my electronic addiction back under control, and be at baseline nerdiness once again.

So I'm Kevin. I like to play videogames, and make snarky commentary about said videogames. My general approach to games tends to be a more pragmatic one, eschewing scholarly examinations in favor of simple questions like "is it fun?". When not playing videogames, I tend to browse craigslist in some effort to fill the aching hole in my heart. Thus far, nothing on the "free stuff" section has managed to do it, but I still hold onto hope!