Finding make up

Are you one of those girls who has TONS of unused makeup? I know for years I was. I have a tackle box that is full of different brands. Some I love some I hate. I am always looking for the perfect mascara or liquid eyeliner. Then in my line of business trying to find that perfect eye shadow! What I hate most is to find a great shade only to put it on and it disappears. I honestly cant think of anything more frustrating. I had a competition last weekend (I placed second) The theme of the show was Mardi-gras. We had to do a mardi gras mask on our model. My model was a Mardi-gras queen. So trying to find these perfect colors that did not turn into a bruise became a nightmare for me! I literary spent over 100 dollars on different new eye shadow's. Not to mention the several hundred dollars that I had already spent over the past year on eye shadow that was already living in my kit. The night before the show I was re-drawing my mask with new colors because the colors I had just did not work. I was over tired and stressed to the hilt. My husband came home and said hey this guy at works wife makes make up....ok side note I am a name junkie. If it does not have a name brand on it dont talk to me. I will post a whole other blog as to why I am a brand junkie. Anyway! at this point I was like what could it hurt, I needed these colors! So we drove to this persons house and I was stressing and then thinking what if this stuff is just dirt with food coloring in it how to I tell this person that I would not use their make up because I had never herd of it, or because it would not do what I needed. Little did I know! so I walk in to the home and this woman gives me the best hug I have ever had and said stop stressing if I dont have it I can make it. In my head I am thinking yeah right. She takes me back to this room where it was wall to wall pigment! My eyes were overwhelmed. I was still skeptical. Ok so you have pigments but what can you do with it....so she and I started speaking about my mask and the colors I wanted. She keeps pulling all these colors out and again I am overwhelmed...The quality of these pigments was by far the best I had ever played with! And I have been in this industry for over 20 years! We finally settled on three colors and a glitter my cost...20.00!!!!!! For the best pigment I have ever had my hands on. Needless to say I slept well that night knowing that I would do well because the makeup was going to do all the work! I am now in the process of working with this wonderful woman to replace EVERYTHING!!!! in my kit to her product and her product alone. If you would like to check her out it her website is Cory Cosmetics! She has these great little samples of her shadow! they are only .47 cents! If I had to choose a few new colors for spring summer it would be Willow(a shade of blue), Frog( a shade of green), and Cleopatra(a shade of yellow)! These look great as a rainbow on the lid! she also has an amazing glitter called Love! Please understand I am not here to sell anything I am here to tell you as a professional that I would not have even placed second with the makeup I had...My talent alone may have got me third or fourth but the colors from Cory Cosmetics hands down won me the spot! Also please understand the make up in my kit is not from the drug store. We are talking high dollar makeup that I paid through the nose for. So now I have found a makeup that meets my needs does what is says it will do and the price point is so unbelievable that for about 200-300 dollars I will be able to change everything in my kit to Cory Cosmetics and have MORE then what I have now! So am I still a brand junkie...Yes! but I have now found a brand that does it all for me!