Chromaticity Obsession: July 2012

IMATS Los Angeles 2012 Part 3

IMATS Los Angeles Part 3 - Well for my first IMATS I would have to say WOW! It was an amazing experience and I would definetly do it again! So many familiar faces from YouTube and Blogs. I got to take pictures with a few familiar faces Amy from Sugarpill Cosmetics, Amelia Arsenic, Amelia Nightmare, Josh Misty Maven/ Petrilude, Lauren Queen of Blending and Leesha xSparkage. Everyone looked so awesome at IMATS! Hope to see you guys next year! :)

xSparkage-Queen of Blending-Chromaticity Obsession

Chromaticity Obsession-Amy Sugarpill

Amelia Nightmare-Chromaticity Obsession-Amelia Arsenic

Chromaticity Obsession-Petrilude

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Chromaticity Obsession

IMATS Los Angeles 2012 Part 2

IMATS Los Angeles Part 2 - Passing through the aisles lots of flyers and info getting handed to you for certain booths to receive free gifts. I stopped by Shany entered my email address into i think was a iPad and boom instant goodie bag handed to you. The ladies were sweet complimented me on my blue smokey eyes and asked how I did it, Thank you Shany Cosmetics! The goodie bag included 2 eyeshadows dark brown-champagne, 3 eyeliners purple-black-bronze, nail care filers and a key chain.

Now on to the good stuff! My first stop was Ben Nye booth which I have been longing to buy products from them.When they told me they were not selling items at their booth i was kind of bummed out and asked if she knew anyone selling Ben Nye at IMATS and she points across the away to another booth and told me to try them. The booth she pointed at was called Norcostco. I wasn't so bummed out after all and walked right on over and was looking around to see what they had. I ended up purchasing Ben Nye Lumiere Cream Stacks in Brilliant, Ben Nye Neutral Set translucent powder and picked up a Lumiere Grande color refill in Tangerine.

I wanted to try Bdellium Tools so I bought 3 brushes. I got 780 Pencil brush, 777 Shadow brush and 776 Blending brush. Very excited on trying these out, you can never have too many brushes.

Then I ended up at Nigel's Beauty Emporium. That is where I bought my Beauty Blender. Very excited on using this product. I wanted to buy a empty 12 pallet from them but they didn't bring them. So maybe next time? ;)

In the end I got some of the things I have been lusting over for a while now. Maybe next time I will go to the more busy booths and wait in line and finish my list off. I will hopefully be back next year in 2013 *crosses fingers*.

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Chromaticity Obsession

IMATS Los Angeles 2012 Part 1

Day 1 of IMATS Los Angeles June 23,2012 started off my day a little late but still got there on time but didn't realize how long the line was going to be, until I drove by when I was looking for a parking structure to park my car. The line to get into IMATS wrapped around the Pasadena Convention Center and the wait was about 40 minutes to an hour. I met a few other beauty enthusiasts in line and chatted it up with them, they were so sweet (Annie, Jazzlyn and Samantha). Getting to the inside of the convention center I was getting more and more excited and when I finally got my wristband to go inside it was official, the feeling of walking into the convention center was surreal.

I first walked into the double doors of the convention center and was like hey I am here what to do first? Since being me I had already planned what side I wanted to start on and chose to start on the further left hand side of the convention center and work my way to the other side and to the museum and special fx. I walked around first then pulled out a list I made prior to going to IMATS to start finding the deals and booths. Since the trade show was sold out it was just a tad bit hard to maneuver around I know I didn't get to all of booths I wanted to buy from cause those lines were very long and I told myself I would go back. When I did it still looked the same so I just moved on and said maybe next time.

In between shopping, walking and talking I also managed to check out some of the educators on the Open Forum Stage. I got some great educational tips on digital make-up from Stan Edmonds from Vancouver Film School. Dominick Briguglio from Stila Cosmetics gave great tips and tricks on the upcoming fall fashion make-up. They had beautiful models walking the runway with some intense creative make-up looks absolutely fierce.Just a side note to Stila they had amazing male models roaming around The Model Mark, not to mention when they had to sweep the runway from the confetti of their show. The last show i caught was the Battle of the Brushes! Amazing artwork from many artists congrats to the winner of Battle of the Brushes and everyone that made it there. :)

Stila