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Tips and Tricks: Loose Powder Shadow

So I talked about this blog with a couple of friends and the conversation got around to how I've been using loose powder shadows for the last year and a half with a fair amount of success, and that is how you got this tutorial. Tips and tricks, even though it's a start-to-finish sort of a guide because they're all bullet pointed and I don't actually pretend to know what I'm doing here. Photos to be included once I can get home and edit them in! I finally took photos. I finally found my damn camera. Do your eyeshadow first, before everything except washing your face. Do it even before you prime the rest of your face; if you use the same primer for your eyes as for the rest of your face, just dab a little onto your eyelids and work it in extending out to where you'll blend it with the rest of your primer later. Even with experience there's a lot of fallout from loose powder shadows, some more than others, and trying to clean up after you've put on your

Fashion Blogging for the Apocalypse

This was meant to be a joke. I go through phases for my personal style. Sometimes Wild Weird West Hexslinger, soemtimes it's Faerie Queen Is Very Pissed Off with a touch of Urban Fantasy, sometimes it's Mad Max: Fury Road. Fashion blogging for the apocalypse started out when I was in one of the more Furiosa Will Kick Your Ass In These Boots phases. At some point I did realize that since we are in the beginning throes of at least an apocalyptic time in history if not an actual apocalypse (probably not) and I figured, well. Might as well get this into an actual blog! If nothing else because it will help me organize my own thoughts as to how I want to look and present myself. Let's start with some basics. Your Essential Bag Whenever possible, go hands free. This may mean a hip pouch (I wear the  Blaster 4.0  by Jungle Tribe, they're a bit spendy at the $250-350 range but mine is very durable and fits everything I need) or it may mean a stylish mini-backpack. Bonus roa