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Smokey Brown Bedroom Eyes

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Don’t take the name of this post too seriously–when I finished up the look, it seemed like the best title! I created this look using ALL brown eyeshadows and bases and I didn’t think it would come out as good as it did. I even got a compliment from the sales lady at Ulta!

Here is a breakdown of the look-

-UDPP
-MAC Painterly Paint Pot
-L’Oreal HIP Cream Eye Shadow in Brown
-NYX Jumbo Eye Shadow Pencil in Iced Mocha
-MAC All That Glitters
-MAC Mulch
-MAC Carbonized
-NARS Coconut Grove
-MUFE Smoky Lash Mascara
-Cover Girl Last Blast Mascara
-Cover Girl French Vanilla Eye Shadow (to highlight)
-MAC Coffee Eyeliner

 

 

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

Outfit of the Day: Bold Florals

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The world always looks brighter from behind a smile.

-Author Unknown

 

~ White Cami w/ floral lace

~ XXI High Waisted Floral Skirt

~ Berry Wedges

~ Vintage Tan Clutch

~Oversized Sunnies

~ Medium Faux Diamond Studs

~Antiqued Faux Diamond Bib Necklace

 

~MAC Patina & Mulch

~NARS Mekong

~ Cover Girl French Vanilla (brow highlight)

~MAC Universal Mix Pigment (inner corner)

~Cover Girl Champagne (face highlight)

~ Bonne Bell Petal Pink Blush

~ Hard Candy Glamazon Bronze & NARS Laguna

~ MAC MSF  Medium Natural

~ Lips: MAC Fleshpot & NYX Sweetheart Gloss

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.

May 2011 Beauty Favorites

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My eBook, Embracing The Change & Fitness Video will be available June 10th, 2011!

These are beauty/ makeup items that I found myself using a lot in the month of May. May Foodie Favorites to come in a few days!

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

Makeup Haul: MAC PRO, CCO, NARS & More!

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Here is a quick shot of yesterday’s outfit of the day. It was nice enough to wear shorts & a halter top when I filmed this video. Just last week I was wearing my sweater & pea coat! Insanity.

 

Here is the Makeup Haul! I hope you enjoy!!

 

 

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

Softwash Smokey Eyes

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PS–This pic looks SO photo shopped but it wasn’t. Just a little overexposed due to horrible lighting!

I recently discovered the amazingness that is the CCO and went on a little spree (haul coming soon!!). I picked up a lot of things that I missed out on back in the Holiday 2010 collection, specifically, the Tartan collection’s Cool Seekers Pigments. Today I used Softwash Gray Pigment with NARS Night Breed & MAC’s Black Tied and came up with this look. I paired it with a baby pink lip. I really like this pigment–I used it with MAC Fix + and it still came out a very subtle gray color. I imagine when applied to the lid dry that it’s even lighter.

 

What I used:

…and here is a quick OOTD! I will be filming a hair tutorial on this side swept updo tomorrow!

 

 

***All of the items mentioned in this post were personally purchased by myself. I am in no way affiliated with said company***

Playing with NARS’ Night Flight

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It is my mission in life to own all the colors in the NARS Night Series(I NEED Night Fever in my life). To date, I own Night Breed, Night Star & Night Flight. Night Flight is described as black with cobalt blue pearls. I think it’s the most beautiful and unique color-ever, however, I find that it’s a little hard for me to pull off. Not sure if it’s my skin tone (I find that this shade looks fabulous on ladies with a darker skin tone). It’s a very hard shade to pair with other colors. I’ve seen tutorials were people often pair NF with Surabaya–beautiful combo but again, I think it would look silly on my NW20 skin tone.

I’ve been trying to work with Night Flight because I *really* want to wear it to the Avenged Sevenfold concert I’m going to in a few weeks. Typically I’ve been trying to work with itall over the lid as a more deep, dramatic smokey eye rather than putting it only on my crease/ outer corner. Besides, not sure what other colors I could put on the lid that would compliment NF in the outer crease. The fact that it has cobalt blue pearls makes it harder to pair but I love the shade so much.

Today I paired it with Wet n’ Wild’s Lagoon. It seems like a very complimenting shade! Not sure how it would look with Lagoon on the lid and Night Flight in the crease-perhaps I’ll try to play around with it like that one day. But I think Night Flight works better on the entire lid with a lighter complimenting shade in the crease. What do you think?

**The products mentioned in this post were personally purchased by myself. I am in no way sponsored or affiliated with said company.