I usually try to keep my posts to a strict two a day maximum... but I had to do it.

There are about five hundred million or so deals starting to brew in preparation for the holidays. I don't know if I can keep up with all of them, but I will surely give you a heads up on the ones I find most important! Click through the links to see the deals from Zoya, Shu Uemura, and Urban Decay!

Shu Uemura is on sale on Hautelook! Remember that you get a $10 credit when you sign up with this link!


Urban Decay is having a friends and family sale. Just go to their site and enter code FNFW1 to get 30% off your ENTIRE order - 11/9 - 11/20.

Korres 30% off
Code: MYOWNJUDGE

Hey y'all

So as my contest comes to an end (is your entry in yet?!) I decide to show some love and enter someone's contest as well.

Here's my entry for Whitz Gold Digger Contest:

Don't mix that silver and goooold :)~

As a last minute entry to Rai's Celebrity inspired makeup contest, I decided to do a black smokey eye a la Eva Mendes.

the outcome:

the numerous outtakes:

what I used:

So I've finally gotten down to organization again as my shopping rises and my belongings multiply. After a trip to Pearl, Staples, and eBay, I think I'm ready to take on the task.

• from Pearl: pack of 12 storage cups (they're for paint but they are also perfect for storing pigments, etc.), various sized containers (for powders/mixing)
• from Staples: labeling tape, magnetic tape (w/a dispenser how efficient!)
• from eBay: two 28 pan eyeshadow palettes (this is good for depotting and pressing pigments, plus this is the generic size that fits the Urban Decay, Milani, and MAC shadows and it's cheaper than the MAC pro palettes $6 before s/h). This is the seller I got it from: jolieeeee

Here's how I did (click on images for larger pictures):

First I started with the Milani.

This was fairly easy to do. Only thing was that you had to push really hard with the thumb tack. I used Vanessa's advice (Nessassary Makeup) and reused the label stickers from the e/s packaging to put on the top flap of my palette so that I wouldn't be confused about the colors or color names. So far I am organizing them by the shadow number that comes on the packaging. Once I fill up the whole palette, I might have to redo it by color. Stay tuned!



and then the Urban! Man I had so much trouble with this one. It snapped my box cutter, and I cracked my shadow twice - thankfully only at the top though so it can still be used.

This is basically the same as depotting the MAC e/s pans and the directions are the same as well. I didn't have much luck finding too many other videos on Urban Decay e/s. The video that I saw tells you to use snippers to cut away at the pot once you separate it from the packaging, whereas most other ones tell you to use a flame - after I tried to snip away, I used a flame and realized I like that much much better.

And this is the end result:

I went a little crazy with the labeling - my labeler had a candy wrapper option!

I decided to keep these two palettes as brand specific, and will probably buy another palette to load in the rest of my shadow stragglers.

And you? Have you done any depotting/organizing recently? How did it go?

Check out the poll at the side - I want to know what ya guys think I should do about my hauls. I've been on a shopping frenzy this month and the Swag Attack end of month entry might be a million pages long.

Beauty and the Blog posted about Urban Decay Pocket Rocket lipgloss, and I just had to follow in suit. See here for the post.

The lip glosses are flat so as not to create a bulge in your pocket (unless you're just happy to see someone) though I will have to see about that. Ladies have a certain tightness to their pants/jeans that I don't know how flat something needs to be to become undetectable. I mean - my Metrocard (NY mass transit whoo!) is a flat card and I can almost always see it peeking out of my pocket.

Another notable tidbit of the glossy you might have noticed? The semi nude men prancing around in the lip gloss cap (and the glosses are male names)!

Sephora will be selling these suckers (which kind of remind me of the Lorac Mocktail glossies) soon, and neither Sephora nor Urban Decay have the product listed on their sites. For shame!

Found an authorized reseller though if your obsessive hands are itchin' ya. Look Fantastic got it for ya.