Haul/Review, Etc

Here are a couple things I've purchased over the last 2 weeks or so.

Nail polishes up top: Atomic(green) clear, Nuclear Energy(purple), Nyx jumbo eye pencils which I swatched in the next picture, cuticle oil by Haken, I love this stuff in between nail fills. It smells like strawberries and leaves my cuticles soft. It was in the range of $2-$5 at Sallys.

Nyx jumbo eyepencils left to right, Lavender, Slate, Cottage Cheese. I think I own just about all Nyx eyepencils. They are a cheaper alternative to Mac shadesticks. I like Mac shadesticks but not at $14+ a piece. I get my Nyx pencils For $2.99 at my local beauty supply store, but they can be ordered at nyxcosmetics.com or cherryculture.com

I got this order from makeupgeek.com(will review experience later)

Ben Nye & Mac pigment samples, Nyx glitter liners & Nyx eye palette for brown eyes.

Top: Nyx glitter liner gold (left), glitter liner Disco Ball (right)

Bottom: Ben Nye pigment Ice (white) Ben Nye pigment Starry Night (black sparkle) Mac pigment Fuschia

I really like this palette. This is a great idea for beginners. It's a palette that is designed to enhance eye colors. Mine is for brown eyes but there was a few others on the site as well.

Revlon finally got some true matte lipsticks. I really like this one in Nude Attitude. Very neutral and truly matte.

A few things I picked up at Walmart. At the very top Revlon matte eyeshadow in Venetian Blue. Walmart has picked up a new line called Hard Candy and I love the packaging. It's almost an Ed Hardy-esq feel. Anyway I purchased Walk the line liquid liner in black, Lash call lengthening mascara Night Owl it's black (don't like the wand on it) book of eyeshadow-Rocker Chick (comes with a sample black kohl eyeliner that's really soft and creamy) Nobody's Perfect Concealer palette in Medium

Rimmel natural bronzer in Sunlight, L'oreal de-crease primer (great cheaper alternative to Urban Decay and Too faced shadow insureance) Revlon Colorstay foundation in Toast w/ SPF12 for Normal to Dry Skin. I really like this foundation and am going to do a separate review on it.

If you like to play with lashes, right now is the time to get plenty of variety. You can find all sizes and colors since it's halloween time. Same for wigs. The 3 up top are all Halloween lashes, the Revlon fantasy lashes I got in Flirty. My own lashes are rather full and long so I don't play with lashes often. But they are fun to be creative with and use on photoshoots.

This is a look I did a couple days ago. I used the Coastal Scents 88 regular palette. The colors look a bit powdery in the pictures but not IRL. They actually were quite vibrant but its not a look I think I would do again.

My new glasses. Makeup can be worn with glasses. The pictures above I have on 1 contact and couldn't wait to get the other one out. lol Sad thing is I'm too blind to do my makeup without contacts.

I think thats all I got for now. This post is getting a bit long.

Time to catch up

I have so many things I want to update about on the blog. Honestly, I just formed a habit of not blogging, not you tubing,etc and it's so easy to NOT do any of it. Truth is I enjoy doing both. I'm in limbo about the you tube channel though. I enjoy making tutorials but the editing of them bad boys is just not what that is! It's part of the reason I haven't done any tutorials recently. I don't like windows movie maker much and I don't like the wait time it takes to upload. So I've really been wrecking my brain trying to come up with a happy medium. I'm going to experiment a little bit I think before I just give it up all together. As for the blog, I'm going to start updating regularly. At least that's what I'm shooting for. I finally was able to just play in makeup and create some looks as I wait for my cosmetologists license to get here so I can work. So I have a few looks I'm going to be posting in the next couple of days. I also have a few hauls/reviews I want to get to. I'm also waiting on 2 packages in the mail. One order I just placed last night and one order is going on 2 weeks now and I'm trying to give it a chance to get here before I say anything but I'm starting to get a little antsy about it. So if it's not here by tomorrow depending on how I feel, I'm going to go ahead a write up a sight-unseen review to be posted by Friday, based on research and my own personal feelings regarding MY order.

Anyway, I want to revamp the blog. I was looking at some past post and I see where some of them are not what I want to see on my beauty related blog, so some post might be going bye-bye. Going forward, I'm going to be posting any and everything beauty related that I think will be of use to myself any one who still reads or comes across this old blog, every now and then I might purchase something none beauty related like an electronic or something and it might get sprinkled here and there. :)

With that said, if I can get these pictures to load correctly up next will be some random makeup pics that I want to get up.

That's all I got for now.

Some New Looks

I don't know if anyone still reads this blog, but if so, I had some time on my hands the other day so I created 2 tutorials on the tube. Check them out if you want, but for now here is some pics.

My Everyday/Go To look: This is a look I gravitate toward when I'm feeling lazy or uninspired. It's really quick to throw together and very simple. Doesn't take department store brands or Mac. You can certainly use that if you want but I had to be sensible with spending while I was in school.

This look can definitely be taken from a simple day look for work, school or errands, etc. To a smokey gorgeous evening look for a girls night out, date night,etc. For an evening look I would darken the outer V with a black shadow, I would line the lips and use a darker lipstick or gloss, maybe a red or plum. Whatever you like..

For this look I used the following:

Face:
Revlon Custom Creation foundation in Deep (shade #2)
Mac Studio Finish Concealer in NW35
Milani even tone powder in Caramel

Eyes:
Covergirl eyeshadow in Golden Shimmer (all over the eye stopping a little above the crease)
Nyx Dark Brown (in the crease and outer corner of the eye)
Nyx Nude (for browbone)

Lips:
Studio Gear Ambition (lipstick)
Mac Dazzleglass Miss Dynamite (lipgloss)

For this look, I like the purple but not a fan of the glitter. I was trying something different because I had gotten the idea in my head and I had also picked up the glitter at Walmart. It is by Mary Kate and Ashley and it was around $2.84. The glitter of course is messy and I didn't like seeing little specks of glitter show up everywhere.

For this look I used the following:

Face:

Revlon Custom Creation in Deep (shade #2)

Mac Studio Finish Concealer in NW35

Milani even tone powder in Caramel

Eyes:

Lavender (Coastal Scents 88 Matte palette)

Fishnet (Urban Decay)

Stars n' Rockets (Mac)

Dark Purple (Coastal Scents 88 Matte palette)

Midnight Black (Smashbox to set eyeliner on waterline)

Loreal Intense Linuer(sp) (liquid in Carbon Black)

Maybelline Colassal Volume mascara (carbon black)

Mac eye kohl liner (Engraved)

Lips:

Mac Angel (lipstick)

Rimmel Eastend Snob (lipgloss)

I really enjoyed doing these tutorials. Reminded me of how I missed doing tutorials. I don't miss the editing process though. It's very tedious. I'm brainstorming some other ideas and we'll see how it all goes.

In other news, today this blog is a year old. When I started it last year I had all these ideas in my head but school and life took over and I didn't have the time to devote to it like I wanted. I thought about deleting it but I don't want to. So I'm making an active effort to update alot more often than I did before even if noone still reads.

Oh and how could I forget..I finally graduated from cosmetology school. I took my first test and passed. So I have one more test to take and I thought I could take them back to back but of course that would be too much like right. So my next and final test is in 2 weeks. I need to repack my bag. By this time next month, God willing, I will be a licensed cosmetologists.

So I think thats all and if you still read thanks for stopping by and checking me out.

Peace

3 months later...

Wooowwwwwwww...I can't believe 3 months have passed since my last post. Let's see what I can sum up...Still in cosmetology school. This is my last full week of school. I will be graduating next Thursday morning (Aug. 6) Now that its coming to an end it seems like I just started. I'm ready to move on with my life. I've been in school 10 months. Graduating a week early and the first one of 26 people that started with me to actually graduate. I'm very proud.

Let's see what else, my baby turned 9 last Tuesday (the 21st) That was emotional for me. He's growing up. We had a party the Sat. before and there was 9 kids that came out to celebrate with him. They bowled, did laser tag and had pizza, cake and drinks. He got TONS of toys, games and money. Then on Tuesday, he took cupcakes to school to share with everyone that he couldn't invite. He is such a thoughtful kid. Always thinking of others. I hope its a trait he'll never lose.
He will be starting 4th grade at the end of August and he is so ready. We bought all school supplies over the last couple of weeks and it has just made him a little bit excited. I think shopping for school clothes is going to probably send him over the top. lol

That about sums up the last 3 months. Nothing major, school, work and rest is about it. I'm hoping to go on a family vacation when I graduate. If my husband can get off. If not, we'll just go to Six Flags are something.

I am the luckiest woman alive...

who else would let me sleep in til after 1pm, then lay in bed all day. Make a grocery list AND go grocery shopping. Come back, put away all groceries then make me a SHRIMP & CHICKEN FRIED RICE.


I LOVE MY HUSBAND! And this fried rice combo was THE BOMB!

Now I didn't get too lucky cause I gotta go do laundry but man...I'm well rested and full so I won't complain! LOL

5 YEARS AGO TODAY

I married my best friend!

Happy Anniversary to us! I look forward to the next 50 years. To kick start our day we're on our way to see Obsessed w/ Beyonce and Idris Elba.

School related and some other stuff (PIC HEAVY)

First, I never posted after I got my new baby gadget. I posted about dropping by ipod classic at school and sending her to ipod heaven. A few weeks later I got my new baby.

The 16g Ipod touch...I love this little piece of technology. The only thing I hate is 1) it's only 16g(was not about to shell out $400 for the 32g) 2) Can't instantly get on the internet. But I love ALL the apps I've gotten. They have kept me pretty sane during some boring times at school. I also like that when watching movies,etc they play pretty much the length of the screen and also you tube plays VERY clear. I bought the clear case at Walmart cause I'm always dropping stuff. lol But overall, I'm very satisfied with this ipod.

On to some school related stuff, this is one of my favorite clients. When she first started coming to me her hair was brittle,dry, broken off all over and above her ears. I took this picture this past Saturday. She was so excited to see the progress.

These pictures were taken Easter weekend. We have been rollersetting her hair every week to keep her from having to do her hair every morning and adding heat and/or products. I trim her ends every 6 to 8 weeks to make sure she is clear of split ends and we relax when we need to. This particular weekend she wanted something fun, cute and girly for Easter. So I gave her the ever so popular little hump in the front and on each sides we just put up some fun twists and pinned them in place with bobby pins. This do was seriously so easy to do. The hair was already molded and curly so the hump didn't even have to be teased, just pinned into place. Same thing with the twists. For the curls, I just put a little style wax on my fingertips and finger combed through the curls. To finish, I used a little bit of spray shine by Paul Mitchell. Mind you, she is only 13-years-old, so she was ECSTATIC when I finished. I was pretty pleased myself. :)

This is an updo I created on a mannequin about 2 months ago. All I did was a classic rollerset, then took some holding spray and started pincurling all the pieces into place whereever they fell. This was actually busy work one day I wasn't real busy, but I actually liked the finish look.

This is actually a classmate. We were suppose to pick an Era(50's,60's,etc) and recreate a look from that time. Me being such a rebel, just gave her a look I was feeling and it turned out really good. So they labeled it as 80's rock. (whatever floats your boat, lol)

I gave her a really smokey eye, a lipstick that was a dead-on match for the tone of her lips. As for the hair, alot of teasing and alot of hair spray. Then we went on a photo spree around the building. lol

This is one of my favorite pics taken that day. The wind was insane but worked perfectly.

Another favorite cause it really conveys the message..I guess. At least that's what the teacher said.

This one was just for fun. lol

I think that's enough catching up for the night. lol