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Twenty-Two Days of Taupe: Day 5

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Two words-Taupe overload! In a tasteful way that is :)

I recently bought this shirt from Forever 21–it’s a cook toned taupe shirt with silvery sequins on it. For some reason I think this shirt looks fabulous with brown knee high boots.

Here is a breakdown of day 5 in the taupe series:

EYES:
-MAC Painterly Paint Pot
-Silver Eye Shadow Base
-Bare Minerals Glisten Pigment
-MAC Concrete e/s
-MAC Show Stopper e/s
-NYX Black Bean Jumbo e/s Pencil
-MAC Carbon e/s
-MUFE Smokey Lash
-Cover Girl Lash Blast
-MAC Vanilla e/s (to highlight inner corner)
-Cover Girl French Vanilla e/s (brow highlight)
-MAC Feline Kohl Power

FACE:
-NARS Laguna Bronzer
-MAC Cream Colour Base in Luna
-NARS New Order Blush
-Mally Finishing Powder

LIPS:
-MAC Playing Koi Lipstick
-Sleek Baby Doll Lipstick

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!!

Twenty-Two Days of Taupe-Look #3

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I’ve been having a blast doing this taupe blog series! it’s enabling me to pair colors that I wouldn’t normally pair together–lots of mixing and matching–it’s been a lot of fun.

Do you ever work super hard to get that effortless “bed head/ chic, sexy” hair? Haha–I totally manipulated my hair to look messy, piecey and voluminous today. I wish I could just throw it in a side pony and have it look chic in 2.5 seconds–but no. *lol*

Today’s look is a smokey look (surprise, surprise!) Here is the breakdown of the look

EYES-

-LORAC Boudoir Eye Shadow
-MAC Painterly Paint Pot
-NYX Pots & Pan e/s Pencil
-MAC Carbon Eye Shadow
-MAC Black Tied Eye Shadow
-MAC Silver Ring Eye Shadow
-MAC Feline Kohl Power Eye Liner
-MUFE Smoky Lash
-Cover Girl Lash Blast
-MAC Vanilla Eye Shadow
-MAC Wedge Eye Shadow

FACE-
-NARS Laguna Bronzer
-Hard Candy Pin Up Blush
-MAC Vanilla Eye Shadow (to highlight)
-Coty Airspun

LIPS-
-MAC Myth Lipstick
-Sleek Baby Doll Lipstick

Drugstore Makeup & Nail Polish Haul

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I’m still kinda new to ELF Cosmetics–I’m really excited to play around with these new makeup goodies that I picked up recently!

 

L-R: ELF Cream Eye Shadow in Dawn & Smoke

 

L-R: ELF Cream Eye Shadow in Dawn & Smoke (Swatches)

 

ELF Cream Eye Shadow in Pewter

ELF Cream Eye Shadow Pewter (Swatched)

ELF Shimmer Palette

Swatched

ELF Mineral Blush in Joy

ELF Lip Stain in Red Carpet

ELF Mineral Eyeshadow (L-R) Elegant, Celebrity, Caffeinated & Socialite

ELF Nail Polishes: Bubblegum Pink, Desert Haze, Navy, Mango Madness & Fire Coral

Revlon Nail Polishes: Lilac Pastelle, Blue Lagoon, Minted, Dumure & Midnight Affair


Twenty-Two Days of Taupe: Day #1

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I feel like it’s been forever since I’ve done a beauty video or a beauty post!  I’ve REALLY been into taupe colors lately. I thought it would be fun to come up with a little challenge for myself–”Twenty-Two Days of Taupe”! There’s no real significance behind the number twenty-two; I thought it just sounded cute *lol* Since there are SO many variations of taupe out on the beauty market, I thought it’d be fun to come out with as many taupe makeup looks as possible and my goal is to get to 22!


Day #1 starts off with the most obvious, Satin Taupe. It was literally the second eye shadow that I bought from MAC and I loved it because it went with everything I wore. This look is VERY versatile–you can wear Satin Taupe alone for a day look & smokey it out with a darker dramatic color for the evening.

I’m very big on coordinating eye makeup & outfits. Taupe is very versatile because it there are so many colors of it–dark, light, metallic, sheer, cool tones, warm tones and the list goes on…

Today’s Face of the Day:

EYES:
-NYX Pots & Pans Jumbo Eye Pencil
-MAC Satin Taupe e/s
-MAC Smut e/s
-MAC Brun e/s
-MAC Coffee Liner
-MAC Feline Kohl Power
-Makeup Forever Smoky Lash Mascara
-Cover Girl Lash Blast
-MAC Vanilla e/s

FACE:
-Benefit Hoola Bronzer (becoming my go to bronzer)
-Benefit High Beam
-Hard Candy Doll Face Luminizer
-ELF Joy Mineral Blush
-Coty Air Spun

LIPS:
MAC Fleshpot
L’Oreal Color Riche Lip Gloss in Baby Blossom

Understated Elegance

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“She was a woman who, between courses, could be graceful with her elbows on the table.”

-Henry James

Rockin’ the bold lip has become almost daily for me.  Today’s bold lip? Revlon’s Cherries in the Snow-again :) A simple unstated elegant eye look and a pop of color in the lips–perfection!

 


The Red Lip Series: CHANEL Rouge Coco in Gabrielle

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*sigh* I REALLY wanted to love this lipstick. I paid about $35 for it so as I said, I REALLY WANTED TO LOVE THIS LIPSTICK. It doesn’t work for me. Out of all my red lippy’s, this is the ONLY ONE that doesn’t work for me. I was hoping this lipstick would be a bit deeper than MAC’s Russian Red. I swatched this at the Chanel counter and I loved it but putting it on my lips… it looked so much different.  Gabrielle is a blue based red but it’s a bit brighter than I would have  hoped. I literally only used it once and I immediately put it on my blog sale page. I think this is a beautiful color but just not the color I wanted it to be. Bummer.

Taken with my iPhone, not the best quality photo


Small Drugstore Beauty Haul

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The Red Lip Series: Revlon Wine Not Matte Lipstick

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Today’s red lip post is on Revlon’s Wine Not lipstick. This is a true matte lipstick which I find can be very drying on the lips. I had exfoliated before applying this lipstick and it still looks horrible after I applied.

 

This lipstick is acquired taste for sure. To me, it’s very “silent-film-esque” –a very deep brown/ red color. It’s super intense and kinda takes on a “gothic” feel on my NW20 skin tone. I remember being quite fond of this color last year but swatching it and trying it on for today’s blog post–I’m sot so sure about it now. I think it would look better on a darker skin tone for sure!

I thought it’d be funny to include this photo of me wearing Revlon’s Wine Not lipstick in black & white–see?! It’s very Silent Film-esque! Now all I need is a short bob hair cut & a finger wave! *lol* xoxo

The Red Lip Series: MAC Russian Red

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I’m going to start with my very first red lipstick obsession, MAC’s
Russian Red. MAC describes this color as an intense bluish-red. This
lipstick has a matte finish and it’s what I’d call the perfect ”stereotypical” red.

My swatch of Russian Red

 

I feel that it looks quite flattering on my NW20
skin however, (as with most bold lippys), sometimes I feel as though I
look a bit pale. I like to put a little bronzer on to warm up my
face-no contour just a little dusting of NARS Laguna blended into my
cheekbone area. Perfection!

 

In the pic below–I’m rockin’ MAC Russian Red lipstick. How cute is the Mini?!