I wrote a few days back that I had gone to Sephora and decided on treating myself to a Lauren Luke palette in “My Fierce Violets”. I have to say that overall I am very happy and pleased with my purchase because well, the color payoff is fabulous and the color matching is all done for you. This is a super easy, pick it up and go kind of makeup kit and you have all you need right in the palette, from eye primer to lipstick, and eyeliner to blush. It’s all included. I would have to say that acquiring all of these would be a good investment especially if you are someone who does not have a lot of time to apply their makeup either because of your schedule or because you don’t want to have to do a lot of thinking about which colors would be best suited with each other.

I’ve loved watching all of Lauren’s YouTube videos since I discovered her on Facebook last year. She is who inspired me to try to wear more daring makeup. I mean I’ve always loved color but I would never really be all that daring and put it on my face, let alone my eyes.

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Sometimes I just don’t really feel like dying my roots with a touch up kit because it’s too messy or too time consuming. I came across this product in CVS a couple of weeks ago and thought it was a nice and convenient way to keep my gray roots hidden while I am in between touch ups. Ideally I would like to dye my hair about every six weeks but with the amount of growth I get, that is hardly ever the case. When you have such light roots like gray or blonde because you might like dying your hair a darker color, this can be a major time drain and if you get it done professionally, well then that can end up being pretty costly. So I figured this would be a good time saver and money saver all in one and if I need to do run out real quick but don’t have the time to really fuss with my hair I can apply this, throw my hair up and be out the door and everything looks good.

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For those of us who have brown eyes, various shade of purples are often used to bring out the most of the brown hue of our irises. I am very fond of doing pink and purple looks and this was a variation of one where instead of using purple on the entire lid and then using pink in the crease, I stuck with concentrating the pretty amethyst color on the outer corner of my eye and swept a very light sparkly pink onto most of my lid. Keeping colors concentrated on the lid is ideal if you have a heavily folded crease, or very little crease as I do. Even still, sometimes I like to wear my makeup a bit higher onto the upper crease as well. There are no do or die rules when it comes to makeup, just enjoy it and have fun!

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I just realized that I haven’t really posted very much here since before Christmas. If anyone has read my blog for a while but not followed me on youtube, the reason I guess this was so, was because I was having really bad allergic reaction to something. Enormous hives which I am still having but they are more under control now. I was also experiencing a direct allergic reaction to some make up remover wipes that I was using to remove my eye makeup and resulted in huge swollen puffy eyes for days.  So now that I’ve started feeling better and feel good enough to post some pictures and videos I thought I would add all of the videos of stuff that I’ve done since that time.

I did a Christmas haul, and a couple of hauls since then. I did a video talking about my experience with Calypso Minerals and how they just kind of ripped a lot of people off. She caused a major ripple of anger through youtube and beauty communities because she just disappeared with a lot of people’s money. In that video I have pictures of a Lisa Frank inspired eye look that I did from one of the gurus that I’m subscribed to on youtube.

Finally I have some pictures that I am adding of a makeup mask look that I did the other day for Mardi Gras. I have been meaning to push myself outside my comfort zone for some time and this is the look that I came up with. I would have liked to try a Venetian Mask but I felt that was a little too intricate for my skill level so I started simple first. I was pleased with the results for my first time trying my hand at creating a mask with all makeup. I used to be able to draw but that takes a lot of practice and guidance for me (I learned to draw from an instructional book). So as a result shapes and such were not exactly even and there were some mistakes that I just could not remove because I had used paint pot on my face for the base of the makeup. Anyway, enjoy!

Christmas Haul


Part 2

Calypso Mineral’s Bad Business Practices & Lisa Frank Inspired eyes

NYX, Orglamix & Drug Store Haul

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Hey gals! I just wanted to take a minute to add a few of my favorite YouTubers in a post today because I watched them all do some amazingly cute nail tutorials this week inspired by New Year’s Eve glitz and glam. So here you go, enjoy them, they are all from great makeup gurus who you may or may not watch but I thought they were so cute.

First is:

1. Jenisse Makeup – she has a great sparkly glitter acrylic nail tutorial
2. Of course then there is Purse Buzz who also had a really cute, fun and simple New Years Eve inspired Nails
3. Queen of Blending Easy Glitter Nails for New Years

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