July Make-up Bag

Everything that I have been using this last month it doesn't seem like much but I have been not using a lot makeup in the summer time. I love summer and keeping things very simple and easy for an everyday look.

 For my everyday face I have been using the NARS creamy concealer and I am in love with it. I was worried about how it wouldn't be as amazing as many people say it is and I can not believe how much I do love this stuff. I have the shade in vanilla which is light 2 and it matches perfectly. I have been using the the bronze booster this summer a lot it looks so easy with the tan I picked up from working outside all summer and it just great things for my skin. I have been using a Benefit blush as well but it gets mixed up daily depending on how I feel. I also have been using the Urban Decay setting powder that it is good but I have a favorite from the drug store.

 I have been feeling bad for my Naked 3 Palette because I have not been reaching for it so I have been getting back into using it. I have been in love with the Two Faced natural palette since the new one came out and I need to share the love with my other palettes. Along with the Naked 3 eyeliner and a brown Urban Decay liner.

I love to feel up my make up bag with things that haven't had love in awhile and I think it is good to try and use the things I have in my collection!

Naked Palettes!

Last night I was surprised by my husband to make a trip to Ulta and what girl who loves makeup going to say no. Early in the day I had sent him a link for a palette from Urban Decay that was on sale. That is what lead stuff to Ulta to begin with. Once we got there they didn't have it anymore and it was one of those moment that my heart drops and I shouldn't have waited so long to break down and get it. Once I said it wasn't there anymore he look at me and said well is there something else you want and I questioned him. He let me pick out something that I want as a early birthday gift since his order plans fell though. I was excited because they had the Naked 3 in stock and I could not help myself! I had talked myself into thinking I wasn't getting it and that I didn't need it but, come on if you loved any of the other palettes you know you wanted to get your hands on it! Last night after we got home I was think about the palettes and what I went though getting the others and what would go though someones head looking at the palettes. I was thinking back to when I first bought a palette from them and not knowing if I was going to love it or not.

 I did not buy the first Naked palette I started getting into Urban Decay when the Basics palette came out and I am glad I got this one first. It was an opening into the company and it wasn't a break the bank palette and for a person starting into higher end makeup this was a great start for me. I used the crap out of this palette but it doesn't seem to look like it. The colors Naked 2 and Faint I love out of this palette and they make great crease colors for me. After loving this I started looking into Naked 1 and 2.

(Yes that is a cat in the mirror. she likes to get in pictures anyway she can.)

 I ended up going with Naked 2! For me I love to play around with warm and cool colors together and the first one was warm and I already had a lot of warm colors in my make up collection and wanted to go with something that was a little different. It makes lots of different looks and what is great about the palettes is you can use and mix them all together. I loved this palette so much that I bought my mom and gave it to her as I love you gift. She loves it and uses it everyday. Some of my favorite colors are half baked which is almost been hit plan on. I like to mix it with chopper to make a great lid color and in the crease I like to use tease and YDK in the outer area.

 The new palette I have not used yet because, I wanted to take pictures of it. I think this amazing and beautiful. Just looking at it I get excited about it. I love the rose gold ish tones of this and this can look good in different ways. It all depends on how you use it. Just by looking at it I love how trick looks, along with buzz and nooner is a amazing matte color. Blackheart will look great as a liner. For blue eyes purples and pick can help make them pop so, just playing and working with the palette is going to be the fun part.

 I know some people have been talking about how they gave out samples like this with the third palette. I have to kind of agree the others cam with travel sized stuff which was nice to use when traveling. Now do we really buy the palettes for the extra stuff that it comes with. It is nice to get something else along with the palette and it can be still used for travel or whenever I run out of primer and forget to get more it nice to have.  

  In the end I love the Urban Decay brand and when I want to buy something special for myself or get gifts I am very happy to get from this brand. Also when looking at the palettes I missed the eye liners that go with the palettes!!! I like that idea because I am an eyeliner lover and I really want to get my hands on one or two of them! Just has a heads up!!!

Almay Favs and Misses

One of my favorite brands from the drugstore is Almay. I don't see a lot people take about it or use it but I think it is a great brand. Even though they don't have a lot of stuff in the line they are growing. It has been something that I have been using since I started using make up and will keep on using it.

Starting with their eye shadow trios they make them for each eye color and I think that is a great thing when starting out in makeup. I think when starting it should be easy and learning to do something that looks great with your eyes and makes them pop. I have two of the three or four they have I like the golds and brown one for everyday. It is a very natural eye look. The blue and grey are great for doing a smokey eye. I have blue eyes and this makes a smokey eye look good and pop better then black would.

 These are two new concealers from Almay the cream ones are not my favorite. I don't know if it is just me and I am not a fan of cream concealers even though they are good for covering up zip. This also has a brightener in it and I am not a fan of putting creams under my eyes it cakes up and it doesn't look good. The other one has been my new go to and I love this stuff it has stuff in it to help clear up zips on your face and it does a great job.

 I also picked up the CC cream. Everyone is coming out with different CC creams and I like this one it doesn't break me out and it has light to medium coverage and it builds with is nice. I have only used it for a week or two so I am still finding out if I like it or not.

 So far my favorite think that has come out in the last year has been the lip glosses and this is in an apple a day and it is a great everyday color and it has been great for the holidays. Its red without being weird on my skin thone.

 The last two things are the eye liners they are both in a grey color but the one that is still in the package has glitter in it and I thought it was a cool idea to use for a going out look or holiday. These are okay eye liners I have other ones I reach for more then the normal one but it is still a good one.

Makeup Favs of 2013!

Getting back in the game of writing a blog. Hopefully this year wont be as crazy! Starting with my favorite new hair product is Garnier Fructis Style 48hr straight finish hair heat protection. This makes my hair straight and it is hard for my hair to stay that way for more then like two hours. This stuff really works and I love it!

 For eyes I have been in love with these two palettes and the Maybelline color tattoo in Barely Branded. I wear the color tattoo everyday. I like to change up my eye look almost daily but these two palettes were used the most though out the year.

 For the rest of my eyes I use the Covergirl Clump Crusher and I love using this one first and then use the Maybelline the rocket on top of that to make my eye lashes look nice and full. The two eye liners are Covergirl liquilinenblast and Rimmel waterproof and these have been used everyday since I got them this year. The last thing that has helped with my puff eyes has been the Garnier anit-puff eye roller. Its cold when it touches the skin and helps with my puff eyes.

 For my face I loved using these three. To set my foundation I use the L'oreal true match powder and I have hit pan on it and will get another once this is gone. The blush I have been wearing a lot since it came out is the Rockatour blush by Benefit. It is the perfect everyday color. For bronzer I have been loving the Chocolate Soleil Bronzer by Two Faced.

 I love this nail combo for fall and into winter. The berry color with the pink rose gold color looks amazing on the nails in the colder seasons.

 This is my go to lip color. I love nude colors and this is the perfect one for my skin tone. They are both Revlon then lip stick is in pink cognito and the gloss is pango peach and they look amazing together.

It has been along and crazy year and getting back in the into blogging is the goal for 2014 and keeping up with it!

Bronzer!

When I was first starting in makeup in middle school they only thing I cared about was making sure my eyes were as dark as they could be. I think everyone goes though that when they are starting in makeup or maybe it was the time. I also though it was if you had blush on you would look like a clown but things have changed. I am in love with bronzer now and I love my drug store ones I only have three that I use and change them out every once in awhile.

The first one is an ELF one. It is the blush and bronzer set. This is great for traveling because it is a two in one kind of thing. This one is a little dark for me in the winter time but in the summer it is prefect color. The down side is that it does have a little shimmer in it I feel like and I love matte bronzers.

 This is another one from ELF and this is an all shimmer bronzer but it is great from doing high light and I will use this in the summer and not a blush it makes a nice pretty shimmer look look for summer.

 This is a new one in my bronzer family and it has what I have been wearing most of the month. It is a good matte bronzer and I got it on cut prices at Target and it is good but I would not pay full price for it.

 My favorite bronzer is the NYC bronzer in sunny. I have had it for awhile and I use it all the time and I love it. Out of all of them it is the one I was go for when doing my makeup.

 

October Makeup and Favorites!

I have been so busy with my wedding i haven't had much time to work on this blog as much as I would like to but I have found a new way I have been doing my makeup that I have been loving this month. I have been taking the time to try new things but I still keep somethings the same. This is a look of what makeup I have been using all month and I now have some new favorites!

 The new Maybelline fit me shine free foundation stick has been my new favorite because, it is very bendable and has great coverage. You can also build it up to do as much or as little as you want.

 The new bronzer I have been using is the Physicians Formula bronze booster. I have in the medium/dark to me it comes off the same as my NYC bronzer in Sunny. I have been using it for about a week and it is going to take me a little more time till I know if I like it or not.

 This is another new thing that I been loving for my under eyes. It is for puff eyes and this has been working great for my under eye area.

 The blush I can not stop using is the Benefit blush in Rockateur. It is the perfect rose gold color and I love using the brush that came with it because, it hits the cheek bones just right and in the morning I pull this one out everyday.

 I love the Naked 2 palette! I normally like warmer colors but I have been using this palette more trying to play with the cooler colds. Lately I have been using foxy as the highlight, half baked all over the lid, chopper in the crease, and snakebite in the outer V.  I have also been using a navy blue liner to line my eyes and taking a mix or chopper and half baked on the lower lash line.

The Start!

Many people have a start to their journeys and mine was not to long ago. I started working at a Boy Scout Day Camp when I was 14 years old and it was the things that made me who I am today. The people I worked with showed me it was okay to be who I am and not to hind from that. Fast forward to the summer when I was 16. I was one of the guys. They wanted to hang out with me and they all treated me like a little sister. That wasn't the bad part though that summer I was wearing one of my friends who was a guys name tag and my hair was pulled back into a pony tail and we all had to wear the scout clothes that made us all look like guys. Well a little boy came up to me and asked if I was a girl or a boy and from there it became a joke that I was a guy. I had it at the end of the summer and i wanted to do something that made me look like a girl and make my natural beauty come out so, I started playing with make up and hair. I would spend hours on YouTube watching video after video of girls doing make up and hair till I knew how to do it. That next summer I would do my hair. I would on a Shooting Sports range and I could get away with curling or doing whatever I wanted to my hair and I would do very little make up and it made a difference. Not only was I a girl who worked in a pretty much boys only club but when I put the extra time into the girls who would come on family days would want to be like me. I wasn't afraid of getting dirty but I did it in away that I still could keep the girlyness to it and show that even though I was working in a camp I could still look like a girl with out over doing it or getting mistaken for a boy in the clothes. It seems like a strange story but it what helped me find one of my many loves in life and hopefully I can start making videos and putting them up as well as my blog.