May 2011 Beauty Favorites

 

 

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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!

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

 

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

 

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.

Zacky Vengeance Inspired Look

 

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Items Mentioned:

Eyes:
Painterly Paint Pot
Red Base
Cranberry e/s
Sketch e/s
Carbon e/s
Wedge e/s
Accent Red Pigment
MAC Engraved eyeliner
Sephora Atomic Volume Mascara

Face & Lips:
NARS Laguna Bronzer
Physicians Formula Beige Pearl Powder
MAC Viva Glam V

***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***

Small Beauty Haul: March 2011

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Items Mentioned:
NARS Copacabana Illumintaor
NARS Night Flight Eye Shadow
Wet’ n Wild Eye Shadow Trio in I Got Good Jeans
Wet n’ Wild Crème Eyeliner
Wet n’ Wild Eye Shadow in Lagoon
88 Shimmer Palette
Embellished Barrettes
Physicians Formula Happy Booster Powder

For high quality pics of the Sephora 500 Point Perk:
http://nancyvalentino.com/2011/02/another-sephora-500-point-perk/

My FOTD Blog Post:
http://nancyvalentino.com/2011/03/outfit-makeup-hair-of-the-day/

***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***

Outfit, Makeup & Hair of the Day


Spring is just a mere 7 days away! Today I decided to bust out of the new short sleeved cardie’s from my Spring wardrobe. It’s comfortable, casual & yet–you can glam it up at the same time. What really made me fall in love with this cardie were the princess puffed sleeves. I pair it with a cream colored lacy cami, jeans & tan knee high boots. I kept the jewelry somewhat simple. I adore the emerald cut faux sapphire lever back earrings! I only wish I had a pair in white.

 

For hair, I’ve been obsessed with the side swept updo! It’s chic and takes NO time at all–it’s very simple to do! Gotta love looks that are simplistic and glam at the same time. I threw in a little golden colored embellished barrette–to give it that “little something”.
For makeup, I kept the eyes a golden walnut color–smokey, of course! I can’t tell you how much I’ve been diggin’ loose pearl eye shadow from NYX and pigments in general. I found MAC’s Jardin Aires pigment paired nicely with NYX’s Walnut Pearl. I finished it off with a little of NARS Mekong. I kept the lips very soft & simple-MAC’s Underage lipglass & a little of Bonne Bell’s Sugar Crystals to soften out that opaqueness in the lipglass.
Overall-I’d say it was a fab makeup, outfit & hair day! We took a drive to a place we’d never been before and LOOK! It’s a Waffle House! I thought they only had these down South?! And look at the horse & buggy!!! Because that’s something you see everyday! ;)

NARS Lip Gloss (Swatches & Dupes)

 

 

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February 2011 Beauty Favorites

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Items Mentioned:
OPI Teenage Dream
Booth’s Bath & Body Oil
L’Oreal Everstrong Hair Treatment
Yves Rocher Chocolate Orange Perfume
Sigma 219 brush
MAC 226 brush
Stila Smudge Pot in Kitten
NYX Nude Pearl Loose Eye Shadow
MAC Espresso e/s
MAC Sketch e/s
NARS Mekong e/s
Physicians Formula Mineral Glow
MAC Myth Lipstick
MAC Dreamy Lipglass

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Mocha Smokey Eyes with a hint of Plum

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Eyes:

Stila Kitten Smudge Pot

Cover Girl Champagne Eye Shadow

NYX Mocha Pearl

MAC Sunnydaze Pigment

MAC Espresso

MAC Beauty Marked

MAC Coffee Eye Liner

Sephora Atomic Volume Mascara

Face:

NARS Laguna Bronzer

Physicians Formula Mineral Glow in Beige Pearl

Lips:

MAC Myth Lipstick

MAC Dreamy Lipglass

***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***