Saturday, August 20, 2011

FOTD: Toned Down Natural

Hello Ladies! I wanted to just put up a little picture/blog post of my "no makeup" look. Obviously I have makeup on and I always like to wear eyeliner but this is pretty minimal on colors and contouring for me. There are just days when you want to wear makeup but you don't feel like doing an elaborate mix of colors and winged liner. This is a pretty simple look that I wear a lot to work or just out for a casual lunch. How I achieve it:
Face:
Hard Candy Sheer Envy Primer
MAC Studio Fix Fluid in NW20
MAC MSF Natural in Medium
Hard Candy Glamoflauge Concealer in Light
Wet N Wild Blush in Earthly Sheer
NYC Bronzer in Sunny
MAC Fix+

Eyes:
Taupe Brown from the Coastal Scents Mental Mania Palette on eyelid
Matte White from Estee Lauder Quad from Gift with Purchase highlight
Maybelline Line Stiletto Black Liquid Liner (top lash line)
Covergirl Pencil Liner in Black dipped into
ELF Cream Liner in Black applied to tight and water line
Lo'Real Voluminious Mascara in Carbon Black with one coat of waterproof over top

Eye Brows:
Maybelline brow powder in Dark Brown

Lips:
EOS Summer fruit lip balm

Hopefully this gives you ladies an idea for something to do that is a little "toned" down for those lazy days that doesn't involve a lot of blending or color mixing. Have a great day ladies!! Enjoy =)

Thursday, August 18, 2011

Review: MAC Mineralize Skinfinish Natural


Hello Ladies!! I am back with another review this time of MAC's MSF Natural. I have had this product in my makeup stash for I don't even know how long probably a good 1.5 years. The first time I purchased it was in a duo with a highliter shade that I totally hated. I have a blog post on that, but I am not going to link it because well it is untrue now. I actually now love the highliter but I did find it to shimmery when I first purchased the product. Anyways, I am now on my fourth compact of MSF Natural. Here is the review:


How much?
$27.00 online @ maccosmetics.com or in-store

What color am I?
I wear Medium in the Winter and Medium Plus in the Summer. I am NW20 in MAC's color selection or in Revlon Colorstay I wear 200 Nude.

What it claims to do?
"A luxurious domed face powder with minerals, slowly backed to provide a dimensional yet natural-matte finish. Provides perfect low coverage. Use to set and fix foundation or as a touch-up" From MAC's website.

How I use it?
I like to wear this with just concealer to work or to set my foundation for a perfect matte finish and a flawless finish at all times. I also love to throw this into my purse to touch up after work before I go out to eat or hang with friends. I apply it with a powder brush from ELF cosmetics.

Why I love it?
I love this product because it honestly is the best setting powder or just a powder to throw on to give you an all over flawless perfect skin at any time. I love that it feels light on the skin and doesn't make my face look "cakey" no matter how much I put on.

Would I recommend this product?
Of course! Honestly, this is one of the best "powders" I have tried ever.


Hopefully you ladies love this product as much as I do! Another side note about MAC I recently ordered a new MSF and it came in the mail broken =( seriously I was heartbroken I called the 800 number and graciously without questions asked the lady sent me a brand new one!!!! They are awesome, and with having the nearest MAC over 3 hours away online is the only way for me to order anything from MAC.

Saturday, August 13, 2011

TAG: Would you rather...?


Hey ladies! I have been seeing this tag going around the youtube beauty world and figured why not do it for myself! I have been really busy lately and haven’t had much time to make up any blog posts, don’t you hate when that happens. I haven’t even read any new ones in like 2 weeks. BAD, BAD blogger. Hopefully you ladies enjoy

random iPod picture from at work =)

Would you rather lose all of your mascara, eyeliner, lipsticks, lip glosses or all of your palettes and eye shadows?

I think I honestly could do without eye shadows and palettes. I need need need mascara and eyeliner everyday I honestly don’t go a day without it unless I know I am not leaving my house… shame.

Would you rather chop off all your hair or never be able to cut it again?

This is tough…Never being able to cut it again would get really gross and my hair would be like nast-i-ly long and damaged. I would probably go with chop off all my hair because that way atleast it will grow back and I can try out some new styles while it does grow back that normally I wouldn’t do.

Would you rather a coral or pink cheek?

Until recently I would of totally picked coral cheek, I recently tried a super hot pink blush by elf in pink passion and I am totally in love with it until now I have been wearing coral coral and more coral everything. I even steered clear from pink lips.

Would you rather spend 1000 dollars on clothes or makeup?

This is easy for me I am not a fashionista by any means I like what I like and I wear it whenever I want even if it is out of style. Simple as that my money would be towards makeup all the way

Would you rather wear lipstick as eyeliner or eyeliner as lipstick?

To me this question is almost the same thing really because lipstick and eyeliner now come in every color out there so honestly wouldn’t make a difference but I guess if I have to pick one I would say eyeliner as lipstick.

Would you rather only shop at Sephora or MAC?

If you follow my blog you know that I have little MAC or Sephora items. I like to stick with drugstore makeup and throw in a few high end items. I do however love MAC products but I think I would rather have the brand selection that Sephora has to offer. So I pick Sephora. Maybe one day they will sell MAC ad Sephora how cool would that be =)

Would you rather wear only one lip color or only one eye shadow for the rest of your life?

Totally only one lip color I am honestly not that great at remembering to even wear lip products. I mean I carry them in my purse and I have them with all my makeup in the bathroom but I always forget to put them on. So I would pick one lip color and it would probably have to be like a light coralish nude.

Would you rather wear winter clothes in summer or summer clothes in winter?

So I am always freezing like literally always freezing. My wardrobe honestly doesn’t change that much during the seasons because at work I wear long sleeves because it is either freezing outside or the AC is on. So I wear winter clothes year around at work so why not outside too? I don’t get out much anyways, stupid work.

Would you rather have dark nails or bright nails year round?

I would rather wear pastel nails but since that isn’t an option I will go with dark nails. I have long natural nails and sometimes when I wear bright colors they look really fake and it is very annoying when people are always asking if I have fake nails.

Would you rather give up your favorite lip product or eye product?

Like I said above I really do love lipstick and lip glosses but I always forget to wear them… so obviously I would ditch my favorite lip product over my favorite eye product.

Would you rather only wear your hair in a pony tail or messy bun?

This is a tough one for me I rarely wear my hair up in a pony tail bun or anything. I love wearing my hair down all the time. BUT since I have to choose one I guess I would go with pony tail because you can wear a pony tail a lot of different ways and a messy bun is just a messy bun.

Would you rather shave your eyebrows or sharpie your eyebrows everyday?

Tough, I would really hate to go without eye brows I love my eyebrows I have really dark bold brows already and it would be so weird to have nothing left. Although sharpie-ing your brows everyday would be old but atleast you would be able to make different shapes? Oh boy I guess I would sharpie mine in even though it is ungodly tacky.

Would you rather live without makeup or without nail polish?

Easy, live without nail polish.

Enjoy =)