Wednesday, June 29, 2011

IMATS Los Angeles: Pic Heavy!

You guys.. T^T
I feel so bad that I have not updated this whole month.
I had things to post but just too much going on.
But here is something for everyone to enjoy.
Also YAY I got my weave finally. Photos at the end.

This past weekend I attended the International Make Up Artist Trade Show(IMATS) in Los Angeles
at the Pasadena Convention center. A convention that is open to the public. Many well known make up brands attend selling their products at discounted prices (20%,30%, 40%, Buy one get one, buy this as a set for a discount price etc etc) My friend Mama Cass and Jen kindly offered their home to me so I could spend the night and ride together with them. It literally was like.. we had a battle plan.
I mean for IMATS you have to have a plan because things sell out fast!. Luckly there was three of us so we can invade 3 booths!

Our battle plan?
Wake up 5.am
Camp for at least 1 hour.

Cass- Make Up For Ever
Jen- M.A.C
Me- Obsessive Compulsive Cosmetics
Discount from brands. If you can remember any please tell me so I can add it. 

MAC- 
30% Off
Make Up For Ever- 20% Off unless you buy a certain amount then you can receive PRO price
Obsessive Compulsive Cosmetics- Each lip tar was $10
Sugarpill- 30% off
Too Faced- 40% off
Smashbox- 40% off
Anatasia- about $40% off
Model in a Bottle- 1 bottle for $15 or 2 for $25

Now onto the photos!!!
Shrinkle from Sugarpill
Yume Ninja and Chubby Bunny as Booth Babes~

Make Up For Ever(Crazyness)
Make Up Forever was.. just full of crazyness... so we send in our tallest solider Mama Cass to acquire the make up from them. She did a good job!

Jen @ Model in a Bottle.
These ladies were so nice! With our bottle of Model in a Bottle setting spray they gave
us a free bottle of their eye make up remover! So nice!!!!

Cute chick from Make Up For Ever. I just had to have a photo with her.

The Namie's Beauty Booth Section.






JulieG, Koren, Me and Elessa Vovan from Pursebuzz 

ElessaI went over to the Anatasia Beverly Hills booth to grab a Brow Wiz pencil. Ended up getting my eye brows done in the process.



Left to Right: Before and After.
Both very unflattering.
The lady did an AWESOME jobbbb. Their products are great quality and easy to use. And thats coming from a person who really doesn't know how to properly fill in my eyebrows. Well now I do cause of the Brow Wiz.



Morphe Brushes.

Cute asian girl who had the cutest expression when i asked to take a photo of her. She couldn't speak English so we broke out the sign language.


Doe Deere from Lime Crime



Mama Cass @ Ardell Lashes


Ardell Lashes.



M.A.C Cosmetics.




Crown Brush
EyeKandy Glitter



Cass and her Sugar Daddy~



Me and my friends~ I never have photos with them. Our friendship is now confirmed with this picture.
All is well.


OCC booth babe! He made this bow with Duct Tape. I want.
Why do I have so many photos of her?!

YAY my HAUL! So for my first IMATS I did good and im proud of myself. I only bought things that I needed or was going to buy from Sephora anyways. 

I got
2 M.A.C Carbon Pro Palettes.
1 HD Foundation Make Up For Ever
2 Duo Fiber Brushes large and small.
1 Bullet Brush
1. Kabuki Brush.
1. OCC Lip Tar in Interlace.
1 Anatasia Beveral Hills Bro Wiz
2 Sugar Pill loose shadows in Tiara and Darling.
1 NYX jumbo eye pencil in Milk Mei Mei Beauty blog uses this a lot.
1 Model in a Bottle Setting spray Matte Finish.
1 Too Faced Primed and Poreless loose powder.

SWAG
This is all the freebies I got from IMATS.
A cute gift bag from Pursebuzz with products from Crown Brush!
Travel size Blending Blush from Sigma Beauty
Bow from Pursebuzz
Sample of Too Faced Primed and Poreless liquid.
Eyemake up remover from Model in a Bottle.
Napoleon Perdis Lipgloss, They also gave me a $50 gift card to any of their Concept Stores!!!
Sadly.. there are only 2 concept stores luckily 1 of them was near me in the valley

Afterwards I couldn't wait to get into my make up!!! Here is a look I did using
Sugar Pill Tiara and Darling
M.A.C Carbon
NYX Jumbo Eye Pencil "Milk"
Zuzu Luxe Liquid Eyeliner.
Anatasia Beverly Hills Brow Wiz
Make Up For Ever HD Foundation.






Sadly it looks a bit melted and not blended well.

Well thanks for reading this whole ridiculously long post. I wanted to give more photos than words because each photo is 10,000 words on its own.
How do you like my weave you guys? Fabulous? Yes, No Maybe so??
Happy summer to you all!!!
I'm currently in Vegas right now so there will be more photos to come!
Thanks for reading.