Just sharing some tips on how I’ve learned to combat racoon eyes at least what works for me with my mascara application and how it wears throughout the day. Also my go to technique for my eyeliner, I do my best to match it to whatever color shadow I am wearing so that I don’t get that big gloppy black mess on the corners of my eyes a lot of the time. That sometimes happens because I have oily lids and throughout the day that ends up happening.

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Just a quick run down of the products that I used on my lips for my previous video that I uploaded the other day.

L’Oreal Color Juices in Bubble Gum
Mabelline Sugar Plum Ice
Some taupe colored lip pencil

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When I really started to take a new focused interest in my beauty as a plus size woman, I drew a lot of inspiration from many of the beauty gurus of YouTube. While I certainly have my down days as far as just being casual and comfortable hanging around my house, when I am out and about I feel it is important to maintain my perception of my own beauty as a plus size gal. There are a lot of odds stacked against us as big women and that is why I feel it is that much more important that we keep on top of our self-image.  When I want to learn new looks I turn to some of the best makeup gurus of YouTube.  So what is plus size beauty? For me it is an expression of myself as a big woman who takes care to dress well, look good, and project an outward image of beauty and confidence while embracing my current size.

For years I had a look that I subscribed to and did not deviate from. Since last year, I have embraced the idea of wearing colored eyeshadow again. There are times when I take risks and sometimes I fail and sometimes I really hit it out of the ballpark but the one thing that is consistent is that I try it. Every one of the people that I mention in my latest video are mentioned because I feel they stand apart in their own way. Most are the most popular makeup artists on YouTube but I feel they each have their own unique presence. If you have unfamiliar with who any of them are, I hope you will subscribe to them and enjoy them as much as I do.

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I thought it would be nice to really give you a good mix of the kinds of videos that I do for the blog and for my youtube channel. So every now and then I am going to pepper the blog with videos like this which are compiled of the top ten best sellers in a particular category. It could be plus size retailers or a particular kind of makeup, or even accessories. I am just trying to keep it fresh and keep you, my readers, interested. Hope you like!

1. Urban Decay Book of Shadows Vol. III
2. Smashbox Eye Wish Palette Holiday 2010
3. Stila Color Wheel Shadow Palette
4. Too Faced Naked Eye Soft & Sexy Palette
5. Kat VonD True Love Palette
6. Kat VonD Ludwig Palette
7. Too Faced Natural Eye Shadow Palette
8. Kat VonD Metal Orchestra Palette
9. Urban Decay The Black Palette
10. Urban Decay Ammo Eyes Palette

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I’m sure by now most of us have seen the newest system that is being tauted all over the TV as being the next best way to conceal thinning hair or new grown roots with color treated hair. So if you just take a few minutes to actually watch what they are doing it is simply the same principle as filling in your eyebrows with shadow. Naturally I thought to myself that I have a brown eyeshadow that would match my hair color and a few makeup brushes laying around that I just don’t use and gave it a shot. Wouldn’t you know it, this actually does the trick.

Now I don’t have thinning hair but I do have color-treated hair for grays and I tend to not want to dye my roots ever tw0-three weeks. I needed to run out to the DMV on Thursday morning and I certainly was not going to dye my hair to run out for one errand. Besides I didn’t have any hair dye on hand so I tried this trick and it blended in perfectly with my hair so that you could not see any of my gray in the front and crown of my head. The rest was camouflaged with me putting the back up in a pony-tail and that was all I needed to do. It took me about 15 minutes and I was out the door. Overall this is a good, quick, tip to use with products that you would have readily available without having to go out and buy a kit to do this or even spend a lot of money. There are some pros and cons about using shadow but I think that comes with most solutions. It is definitely the BEST solution though.

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