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Best of Beauty 2011

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Now that 2012 is just WEEKS away, I thought it would be appropriate to do a blog post on my favorite beauty products from this past year. Tastes change season to season, but most of these products are things I found myself using frequently throughout the year.

Most Used High End Makeup Brand: MAC & NARS
Most Used Drugstore Makeup Brand: Wet n’ Wild, Revlon & Cover Girl

Best High End Eye Shadow: NARS
Best Drugstore Eye Shadow: Wet n’ Wild (great pigmentation)

Best/Most Used High End Lip Gloss: MAC Underage Lipglass & MAC Fashion Fanatic Plushglass
Best/ Most Used Drugstore Lip Gloss: L’Oreal Colour Riche in Baby Blossom, NYX Lipgloss

Best High End Lipstick: MAC Runaway Red & MAC Fleshpot
Best Drugstore Lipstick: Revlon Fire & Ice Lipstick

Best High End Mascara & Eye Liner: Makeup Forever Smoky Lash Mascara & MAC Feline Kohl Power
Best Drugstore Mascara: Cover Girl Lash Blast (Waterproof)

Best High End Makeup Base/ Primer: MAC Paint Pots, Urban Decay Primer Potion
Best Drugstore Base/ Primer: NYX Jumbo Eye Shadow Pencils, ELF Cream Eye Liner

Most Used High End Eye Shadows: MAC Espresso, MAC Carbon, MAC Carbonized, MAC Wedge, MAC Coquette, NARS Coconut Grove, NARS Mekong

Most Used Drugstore Eye Shadows: Cover Girl Champagne, Cover Girl French Vanilla, Wet n’ Wild Envy, Wet n’ Wild Sugar, Cover Girl Brown Smolder

Most Used High End Palette: Too Faced Natural Eye Palette, Too Faced New Smokey Palette

Most Used Drugstore Palette: Wet n’ Wild Lust & Wet n’ Wild Vanity

Best Face Products: Coty Airspun, NARS Laguna Bronzer, Benefit Hoola Bronzer & Chanel Bronze Universal, NYX Blush in Natural

Best High End Face Highlighter: NARS Copacabana, MAC MSF in Soft & Gentle
Best Drugstore Face Highlighter: Hard Candy Doll Face, Cover Girl Champagne Eye Shadow, Physicians Formula Happy Booster Powder

Most Used Makeup Brushes- MAC 217, MAC 219, MAC 109, Lowe-Cornell Maxine Mop Brush, Target Brand Medium Shader Brush

Best High End Concealer: MAC Studio Sculpt
Best Drugstore Concealer: Hard Candy

New makeup brands I’ve tried this past year: Chanel, Laura Mericer, Wet n’ Wild, LUSH

Best Fragrances:
Fall/ Winter–Boyfriend by Kate Walsh
Spring/ Summer–Chloe, Daisy by Marc Jacobs, Pearberry Body Mist by BBW

High End Makeup Brands I became a HUGE fan of: MAC, NARS, Chanel
Drugstore Makeup Brands I became a HUGE fan of: Revlon, Wet & Wild, NYX

 

 

Makeup Brands that disappointed:
Certain Chanel products–for the money,pigmentation should be up to par.
Urban Decay: more along the lines of how they promoted Naked 2-it was shady and rubbed me the wrong way.
Sigma: advertising whores. I’d rather pay double for MAC brushes in the future.

I can’t wait to see what new & exciting beauty items catch my eye in 2012!!

November Beauty & Foodie Ramblings

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Yes! It’s that time of the month again! I’m going to be doing a separate blog post on some products that I haven’t  used yet but have been drawn to these last few weeks. I’m taking an interest in a lot of non winter items lately! I think I’m ready for Spring already! *lol*

Witches Brew Inspired Makeup

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I’m not really a person that likes to dress up in costumes and go to Halloween parties but I still like to show my Halloween pride. Here is a look you can rock that’s Halloween appropriate –a nice change from your traditional black or brown smokey eyes!

Here’s how you can get the look:

 

An Autumn Inspired Makeup Tutorial

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Bittersweet October. The mellow, messy, leaf-kicking, perfect pause between the opposing miseries of summer and winter.

–Carol Bishop Hipps

An Autumn inspired makeup tutorial that’s very wearable day or night. Thanks for watching.


 

Small Drugstore Beauty Haul

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***All products mentioned in this video were purchased personally by myself, unless otherwise stated.  I am in no way affiliated or sponsored by the makers of these products***

 

Spoiled Brat w/ A Pop of Pink

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“Beneath the makeup and behind the smile I am just a girl who wishes for the world.”
— Marilyn Monroe

Yesterday I decided to give the Wet n’ Wild’s trio in Spoiled Brat a try. I haven’t really had a bad experience with any of the Wet n’ Wild eye shadows. This particular set of colors really caught my eye. I have this hot pink sleeveless shirt (shown below) and while I love this shirt, I often find it hard coordinating it with my eye makeup. So when I saw the WnW Spoiled Brat trio, I thought these colors would really coordinate with my hot pink shirt!

 

iPhone piccy–*lol*

 

I consider myself someone who is “safe” when it comes to makeup, so there was NO way I was going to rock a hot pink eye–that’s just not my style! *lol* however, I thought that hot pink on the lower lash line would give it a nice pop of color and still try something new at the same time.
I was quite surprised because these eye shadows did not preform as I would have hoped. I found them to be very dry and “lustre-like”. The silver color was nice and pigmented but the black and pink were hard to work with. In order to get any color to show up under my eye, I had to apply the hot pink wet. I was disappointed. I’m not too crestfallen over it thought, it was on sale for less than $3.00. Now that I know that silver, black and hot pink coordinate well together, perhaps I’ll stop by MAC to find a similar hot pink color.

 

Here are a few pics of my OOTD:

 

Mega Dupes

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Recently I went a little crazy and bought a bunch of Cover Girl Eye Enhancing Eye Shadows. I was excited because just from looking at them,  I could tell that some of the colors could be potential MAC dupes!

Let’s see how I did…

 

Cover Girl Eye Enhancing Eye Shadows & MAC Eye Shadow in: R-L:

CG Shimmering Onyx- MAC Carbon

CG Swiss Chocolate- MAC Mulch

CG Brown Smolder- MAC Espresso

CG Mink- MAC All That Glitters

CG French Vanilla- MAC Brule

CG Snow Blossoms- MAC Filament

 

More dupes…

 

Starting clockwise, upper left corner

Wet n’ Wild Lust Palette: Light Matte Pink- MAC Yogurt

Wet n’ Wild Lust Palette: Shimmering Deepened Blackened Red- MAC Beauty Marked

Wet n’Wild Vanity Palette: Deep Reddish Brown Matte Color- MAC Handwritten

Wet n’Wild Vanity Palette: Gold Plum Bronze- MAC Sable

Wet n’ Wild Nutty- MAC Satin Taupe

Cover Girl Tapestry Taupe-MAC Era

Wet n’ Wild Envy- MAC Humid

Various shots of dupes:

 

 

 

 

 

 

Paint Pots/ Bases

L-R:

MAC Bare Study Paint Pot & Stila Smudge Pot in Kitten

 

 

Highlighters/ Illuminators/ Luminizers

 

Clockwise, L-R

Hard Candy Glow Moon Glow

NARS Hungry Heart Duo

MAC Cream Colour Base in Pearl

 

L-R: NARS Copacabana Illuminator & ELF Facial Whip in Lilac Petal

^They look very different but swatch similarly. ^

 

Above & Below: Benefit High Beam & Hard Candy Glow All The Way in Doll Face

 

All items purchased by me. I’m not affiliated with any of the companies mentioned.

Review: got2B Smooth Operator Hair Products

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Items Reviewed:
got2B Smooth Operator Smoothing Lustre Lotion
got2B Smooth Operator Smoothing Satin Drops
got2B Smooth Operator Smoothing Finishing Hairspray
***Any products mentioned in this post were purchased personally by myself, and I am in no way affiliated or sponsored by the makers of these products***

Favorite Drugstore Lip Products

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Items Mentioned:

Bonne Bell Lip Lites in Sugar Crystals
Bonne Bell Lip Lites in Cappuccino
Bonne Bell Lip Lites in Pink Candy Cane
Lip Smackers in Vanilla Frosting
Lip Smackers Ice Creamies in Cookie Dough
Lip Smackers Ice Creamies in Cake Batter
Lip Smackers Roll On in Cookie Dough
Lip Smackers Roll On in Pink Vanilla Frosting
Lip Smackers Lip Frosting in Whipped Cream
Lip Smackers Lip Frosting in Pink Vanilla Mint
Bonne Bell Lip Lites Lip Tint in Cappuccino
Bonne Bell Lip Lites Lip Tint in Sweet Sugar
Bonne Bell Lip Shake in Whipped Vanilla Cream
Revlon Matte Lipstick in Nude Attitude
NYC Lipstick in Chiffon
NYC Lipstick in Retro Red

***Any products mentioned in this post were purchased personally by myself, and I am in no way affiliated or sponsored by the makers of these products***