My Halloween Look

      Yes, I so totally wore this all day. Even to my sons party at school, and he is in 2nd grade. 

It's how I roll haha!

Face:

Rimmel Stay Matte Liquid Mousse foundation (will review soon)

NYC Sunny Bronzer

Rimmel blush in Pink Sorbet

ELF blush in Peachy Keen

Eyes:

MAC Painterly paint pot

LA Colors jumbo pencil in purple (lid only)

theBalm Meet Matte Nude palette:

Matt Singe (buffer color)

Matt Malloy (brow)

Wet n Wild Fergie Desert Festival palette:

 Matte orange (crease)

LA Colors Holiday palette:

Bright purple (lid & lower lash line)

Shimmery white (inner corner)

Rimmel ScandalEyes liner in Black (smudged on upper & lower lash line)

Benefit They're Real mascara

I hope you all had a wonderful and safe Halloween!! 🎃👻

My Look: Purple & Teal (Vice Palette)

    Not too much to say today, I have to run out the door in a minute to drop my little guy off at Grandma's house. I have to get to school to help out with my son's Halloween Party this afternoon. 

Happy Halloween everyone!! 🎃👻

Eyes:

MAc Painterly Paint Pot

Maybelline Color Tattoo - Tenacious Teal

Urban Decay Vice Palette:

Junkie (lid)

Maybelline Cinnamon Spice (crease)

Anonymous (brow)

Echo Beach (blender)

Milani Shadow Eyez - Champagne Toast

24/7 liner - Ransom

Vice & Rapture (lower lash line)

Wet n Wild Fergie gel liner - Gunmetal Grape

Rimmel ScandalEyes liner in Black

Benefit They're Real mascara

Smashbox Full Exposure mascara

Face:

L'Oreal True Match Lumi foundation

Rimmel Wake Me Up concealer

Maybelline Dream Matte powder

NYC Sunny bronzer

ELF Candid Coral blush

Lips:

NYX gloss in Nude Peach

My Look: Pink and Grey

     I am seriously loving my original Vice palette lately! I really hope I get the Vice 2 for my birthday, because these palette are AWESOME! It's just a lazy Sunday afternoon here, but that never stops me from glamming it up ;-)

Eyes:

MAC Painterly paint pot

Maybelline Color Tattoo - Inked in Pink (lid only)

Urban Decay Vice palette:

Anonymous - brow highlight

Laced - blender color

Desperation - outer corner and crease

Freebird - lid

Ulta liner in grey on upper and lower lash line

Desperation to blend lower liner

Benefit They're Real mascara

Face:

NYC Sunny bronzer

Milani blush in Dolce Pink

My Look: Blue, and Green and Gold.... Oh My!

    I don't really have any clever stories to tell today. Just that I am back in love with my Urban Decay Vice Palette lately. I've been searching tons of YouTube tutorials for different ways to use it, and have been finding good looks. I got this particular look from ThatGirlShaexo . 

Eyes: 

MAC Painterly paint pot

Maybelline Color Tattoo in Gold Shimmer (lid only)

Urban Decay Vice Palette:

Blitz - inner lid

Jagged - outer lid

Junkie - blend between both colors

Chaos - over top of Jagged on outer corner

Muse - crease

Anonymous - brow highlight

Lined lower lashes with UD Junkie eyeliner, smudge out with Chaos

Line water line with black liner

Smashbox mascara + Maybelline Rocket mascara

Face:

NYC Sunny Bronzer

Tarte blush - Dollface

My Look: Selfie Queen

 

 

Do you take a lot of selfies on days you feel super sexy? I do. I probably took 20 pictures of myself today, just because I feel so good about myself I guess I needed to document it LOL.

I did my bangs super side swept today, and threw a couple extension tracks in to give me a real good side bun. I'm totally digging it, and feel rather sassy today. 

Face:

L'Oreal True Match Lumi

Rimmel Wake Me Up concealer

Rimmel Stay Matte powder

Milani Berry Amore blush

Lorac Spotlight highlighter

Eyes:

MAC Painterly paint pot

LA Colors jumbo pencil in purple (lid only)

Urban Decay Naked Basics palette:

W.O.S + Naked 2 in crease

Faint to deepen crease

Venus at brow bone

Crave on outer corner

Sephora Outrageous Metallic Lilac on lid & lower lash line

Rimmel ScandalEyes in black on waterline

Clump Crusher + Get Up & Grow mascara

Lips:

ELF Matte Lip Color in Coral

Have a fabulous day loves!

My Look: Guru Inspiration - Leighann Says

I watched this awesome eye tutorial by Leighann Says on youtube the other day. She did a fun summer look incorporating orange, and I thought that would be fun to try out. Do you ever recreate a look you see on youtube? How often? I find myself doing it a lot, it's always really fun to play around and see if I can make my makeup look half as good as theirs lol. I will link Leighann's video below if you want to see exactly how to accomplish this look. :)

Face:

Wet n Wild Coverall foundation

Mary Kay mineral powder (t zone)

Maybelline Dream Matte powder (under eyes)

LA Colors concealer

NYC Sunny bronzer

NYX blush - Summer Peach

NYX eyeshadow - Sahara (highlight)

Eyes:

Maybelline Bold Gold color tattoo

theBalm Meet Matte Nude palette:

white + yellow: inner lid & brow highlight

Matte Singh (peachy shade) : crease

Wet n Wild Fergie "Desert Festival" palette:

orange: outer half of lid

dark brown + orange: darken crease

Essence liner - Bling Bling (lower lash line)

dark brown shade to blend that out

Almay Get Up & Grow mascara

Lips:

L'Oreal Balm - Laze in the Maze

Leighann's video:

Pictorial: Wet n Wild 'Going in the Wild' palette

Quick pictorial today using one of the new Wet n Wild LE palettes. I used the more colorful one, called Going in the Wild (obviously Amanda, you named this post lol). Keep reading and I will explain what each step is.

Enjoy!!

1.) Apply NYX Milk to lid

2.) Apply WnW Brûlée single in crease area (for blending)

3.) Apply brown Crease shade as shown

4.) Apply purple Crease shade to lid

5.) Apply dark purple Definer shade to outer corner

6.) Smudge dark purple on lower lash line

7.) Finish with black gel liner on top and bottom waterlines. Thin line of black liner to upper lashline. Curl lashes, add mascara.

Rest of Face:

L'Oreal True Match & L'Oreal Lumi (mixed) foundation

Maybelline Mineral Power concealer

Maybelline Instant Age Rewind Brightener

NYX Stay Matte powder

NYC Sunny bronzer

Milani blush in Berry Amore

My Look: Inspired by ShadesofKassie

I know this picture is funny, but I like it ;-)

Todays look is inspired by ShadesofKassie on YouTube. She is one of my favorite people to watch, and she did this look for a Valentines Day idea. I just loved how it turned out, so I tried it out myself. I love it still! I did record a get Ready With Me video on this look, and that will be up in the next day or so, so be sure to subscribe to my YouTube channel so you don't miss it (link!)

Face:

L'Oreal True Match Lumi foundation

Maybelline Mineral Power concealer

Maybelline Instant Age Rewind powder

NYC Smooth Skin Bronzer in Sunny

Victoria's Secret blush in Flutter

Tarte highlight in Angelic

(brows) PF brown cream liner + Wet n Wild brow kit

Eyes:

MAC paint pot in Painterly

(Urban Decay Naked palette)

Naked

Buck

Toasted

Hustle

Creep

(Urban Decay Naked Basics palette)

Walk of Shame

Foxy

Venus

Maybelline Color Tattoo - Inked in Pink

L'Oreal Infallible - Amber Rush

Jordana FabuLiner in Brown

CoverGirl Clump Crusher mascara

Brushes used were by Real Techniques, and also my handy dandy Sigma E25 (link!)

My Look: Golden Holiday

Merry Christmas to all my readers out there! 

      I meant to get this up yesterday, but I just haven't had anytime. Lots of holiday happenings around here, and today I just wanted to spend time with my family. 

     This was the look I wore on Sunday for my family Christmas gathering, and I wanted to share it with you all. I think it could be amped up a bit for a New Years look too.

Products Used:

Revlon Colorstay Whipped foundation

Maybelline Mineral Power concealer

NARS Laguna Bronzer

Tarte blush in Exposed

Maybelline Color Tattoo in Gold Rush

Wet n Wild single in Brulee'

Too Faced Natural Eye palette:

Velvet Revolver (crease)

Heaven (brow)

Honey Pot (lid)

Sexpresso + Cocoa Puff (outer corner)

Milani Liquif'Eye in Gold (lower lash line)

Milani Liquif'Eye in Black (waterline)

Milani Eye Tech liquid liner (upper lashline)

Milani mascara

Wet n Wild lipstick in Cherry Picking

Revlon Lip Butter in Cherry Tart

Review: NYC New York Color Individual Eyes Custom Compact

Hi my loves! How goes it? 

    I have to start off by saying I'm not a huge fan of the NYC IndividualEyes palettes. I used to have the one for brown eyes (Union Square) before I really got into makeup and understood things like: pigmentation, creasing, and lasting power. I do think these palettes are a good idea for beginners because they are pretty fool-proof, but they just don't do it for me. 

You can see the whole line of compacts at the NYC New York Color website, and they are available in basically every drugstore around. These palettes retail for $4.99 each. 

via NYC New York Color:

NYC New York Color's all-in-one compact gives you everything you need for a complete eye look: primer, illuminator, applicator and complementing shadows. With four vibrant colors designed for your eye color, you can create a look as individual as you are!

As stated; these palettes come with 4 shades: lid, crease, definer and brow. It also comes with a primer and illuminator, which are cream products. While in theory it's nice having an all-in-one compact, powder gets into the cream products. The cream products themselves are basically junk. They don't work. The primer creases like crazy. The shadows themselves are not overly powdery, but they lack in pigmentation. I received the compact in Dark Shadows, and I think the other palette I owned (Union Square) had better color payoff. 

    This particular palette, called Dark Shadows, is LE so I'm not sure when it came out or if it's even still available. This palette contains all shimmery shades. There is a white, silver, grey and a black.

    These compacts are not a bad deal for what you get, but like I said before: they just don't turn my crank. I much prefer my Wet n Wild palettes. I do have a NYC duo called Brighton Peach that I absolutely love, but these compacts just aren't at the same level. Have you tried these before? What did you think about them?

FTC: This product was provided by NYC and Influenster for review purposes. All opinions are my own, I receive no compensation for this review.

My Look: Crazy Hair... Don't Care

   

When I sat down this morning to do my makeup, I had a palette in mind to use. I sat there staring at at for a few minutes, then just closed it up and put it away. Next I pulled out my UD Vice Palette (love, love, love!) and I got to work! I can always come up with a good look with that palette, it's just so awesome!

    I actually got the idea for this look from Rachel on YouTube (icallitambrosia), she came up with look to represent her favorite Starbucks drink. I just like the dark brown colors for fall, so I went with it. I have done this look before, so I just went from memory this time, as it is fairly simple.

My Look: Kim K's Smokey Eye

Hi loves!

I watched a video on youtube this morning of Kim Kardashian & her makeup artist doing her makeup and creating her smokey eye look. The MA used MAC's Contrast, and even though I have a similar color, I choose to go with another. I used the same technique however, and love how the eyes turned out. If you want to see exactly how to do this, search the youtube channel "MakeupCoutureTV" and you will see it. 

My Look: Neutral Smokey Eye

Hi dolls! I've been using my new Nude'Tude palette for the last 2 days now, and I must say I am IN LOVE. Such a great palette. I love the color selection, and the products themselves are just impeccable. Today I tried my hand at a smokey eye look, so if you want to see what I did, keep reading!

My Look: Blue Cat Liner

Ugh... I'm such a blogging slacker. I wish I could devote as much time as I would like to my blog and youtube channel, but I have 4 children. It's summer vacation, and my husband is on swing shift. It's stressful here, I hope you all understand, and forgive me. =)

For this look, I decided I didn't want to do a bold eye shadow look. Sometimes I get frustrated at my blending abilities (stupid hooded lids!) I decided I'd do a bold eye liner instead, and you're going bold, you better go big or go home. So I chose blue liner instead of black. Enjoy!

My Look: Date Night

  Last night my husband and I celebrated (belatedly) our 7th Anniversary. Our anniversary was actually on the 21st. We had a lot of fun. We had a great dinner at Mancy's Italian restaurant, then we checked out the new casino here in Toledo. It was SO cool. The theme is old Hollywood (right up my alley!) I had a great night, it's nice to spend time together without all the little ones sometimes.

Taupe & Blue: Pinterest Inspired Look

    For today's look I have another Pinterest inspiration look. I've been looking at this picture in my board for about a month now, but didn't have the right color blue eyeliner to pull it off. Thanks to Ulta and their sales and coupons, I picked one up for about $1.37 yesterday. Score!!

For the inspiration picture I used, click HERE.