Mascara Review #3...

L'Oreal Telescopic Explosion

The idea of this mascara brush looked interesting. A round brush with spikes all round. Very black color. This worked really well getting in the corners of the my eye, on those itty bitty little lashes. Also worked well geting the topside of my lashes. I have the most difficult time getting the tops with a big long brush, gets all over my lid and gets smeary. Since I usually have a lot of fallout from eyeshadows the tops of my lashes don't have good mascara coverage. This does the trick! Stayed put all day, no flakes. Washed off well. Really, really liked this product. Was a bit pricey for drugstore mascara at about $9.00. L'Oreal is on the highend for drugstore brands. This was worth the money for sure.

Mascara Review #2...

L'Oreal voluminous curved brush


Wore the L'oreal voluminous mascara on new years eye. I was going to wear false eyelashes, which I usually do when I go out, but didn't need to. I love the curved brush! Gets all the lashes. Very nice dark black color, not tarry or sticky. No funny smell. Made my lashes look 10 times bigger at least. Stayed on all night with no problems, no smears or flakes. Also, big plus for me, came off really easy with remover. No scrubbing at all. Loved this mascasara!!! Great price for such a lush mascara. Reg price is 6.99 but on sale for about 4.99 at Ulta right now. Available at drugstores. Will rebuy for sure.

Mascara Review #1...

Maybelline LASH STILETTO
   This has an average size brush, and went on very smooth. It has a kind of funky smell, but nothing bad or horrible. The color is a nice dark black. I got the regular and not the waterproof, as I'm not a fan of scrubbing at my lashes at night to get mascara off. The lashes looked fine, nothing extraordinary. Looked like regular made up lashes. It wore ok for most of the day but then toward the end of my night it started flaking really bad. Like, really bad. It was in black flakey bits all over my face and got in my eyes. Thought maybe It was just a long day or something and tryed again the next day...same problem. So, I'd have to say, this is not my holy grail mascara. The package is so cute and looks like the heal to a stiletto and is black and shiney red. The price is great at like 6 bucks or something. With coupons less. So, I won't buy this again. The search continues...

New title...

me with bffs at NYE/birthday party

Decided to make a change to the blog with the new year. I WILL be making videos soon to post. I was going to make one last night on my 40th birthday but was a bit drunkity drunk drunk and decided better not. I want to start vlogging more for myself than anything. I was freaked out a little bit about turning 40 and I think this blog and a vlog will be fun to look back at. Anyway, Happy New Year to all!!!

Coming soon...

I just bought about 10 different mascaras from Ulta. There was a huge buy 2 get 2 free deal and had a coupon and gift card and blah, blah, blah. Like I need an excuse to buy makeup, right? Anyway, I will be doing a bunch of mascara reviews. I will be reviewing drugstore as well as highend products. I really hate spending money on mascara, so lets see if those drugstore brands are just as good as the expensive ones...I may finally even do a video! I have a new little pink laptop and I need to try the webcam out.

The next round of reviews will be foundations.

NARS the multiple coffert-so cute!

These are tiny (and I mean tiny!) verions of the multilpe by NARS. Very cute, nice for travel and a great way to try them. It was $40 for the set which isn't too bad as they are normally $37 each. The product is used on eyes,lips or checks, hence the name. I really only like it as a cheek highlighter/blush. It's way too light for me to use as a eyeshadow. Maybe as a shadow base? Hmmm, I'll have to try that. Anyway, also don't really like as a lip product either. So, I know the question is...is it worth the money if you only use it for one thing? I really like this as a cheek highlighter, so for me this tiny set was great. I don't think I would buy the full size product. The colors are as follows:

- Orgasm (peachy pink shimmer)- South Beach (shimmering apricot)- Copacabana (glistening pearl)

Santa Please!

I am so in love with this coach bag!!! I need a new one, my summer orange and hot pink one really needs to be put away. I love the deep purple for winter. So gorgous!

Sick Shopping

So, I'm sick from the swine flu and have been in the house for days. My sweet hubby gave me a Sephora egift card so I could shop from home and possibly have a little cheer. I haven't worn makeup in at least 5 days, maybe some kind of record for me. Anyway, imagine my wonderful surprise when I find out Sephora has friends and family discount going on right now!
Enter code

FF2009 to save 20% on anything and everything you buy!!!

www.sephora.com

What an amazing deal! I got a cool Urban Decay liner set, a NARS the multiple set and Bare Minerals Matte foundation. Very excited to try all of these. The liner set has a bunch of new colors in the 24/7 that I've never tried. My staple is zero, a very black eyeliner that I use daily. I will do reviews on all these new items as soon as I try them out.

Also, I think I have finally settled on a vanity that will hold all my makeup and I can move it off the bookshelf!!! I am hoping to order this in the next few days and get it up and running. Will take photos and may ask for help organizing because that is not my strong point.

So yes, the swine flu sucks!!! But shopping online is fun and I have had loads of time to do it!
cough, cough...

I think everyone should have this...

This is a sculpt and shape product. The dark part you apply to places you want to hide, like the hollows of your cheeks, a double chin, the side of a large nose. The light side is the highlighter, so that is the part you would put on your cheek bones, your forehead, down the side of your nose. The highlighter makes parts you want to show off stand out. It's like plastic surgery without the surgery part!!! I like this little compact because its together in one place. I have these from the pro store as two separate blush pans in my blush palette. This is nice to try for someone who has never sculpted before. It makes a HUGE difference to your face. It can literally make your face look 10 pounds lighter. I use a small angled brush (MAC 168) to do the sculpting (darker color). And then use a contour brush (MAC 109 I believe) to highlight. The contour brush is recommended to use as sculpt or contour (hence the name), but I really like the angled brush for that. It really gets into the hollows of the cheeks and makes you look like you have fabulous cheek bones. If you don't have access to a MAC store, most other lines have products similar to this, or you can just buy a really dark blush or bronzer. I think every makeup company has a highlighter product. So if you weren't born with good bone structure, get out there and do it yourself!

MAC brushes. My first tutorial. It will get better, I promise!

I made this awhile ago and just posted it to youtube. Wanted to see what it all looked like posted. I will be making better tutorials. I need to figure out the whole lighting issue, it has been keeping me from making more. I want them to look better than this one!

M∙A∙C STYLE BLACK

I'm really excited about this collection. It's pretty different from anything else that MAC has put out. I'm not sure what I want to get yet. I think I'll have to see it in person before I decide.

I LOVE these!

Martini Glasses by Lolita. I collect these and they are so girly and cute. The recipe for the martini is on the bottom of the glass. I need to get this one next- The PMS-tini!

Quad swatches

top pic- In the gallery (purple quad)

bottom pic- Photo realism (green quad)

pigment swatches

bold and brash pigment and on the edge pigment- no base so not so vibrant

photo realism quad

swatches from the photo realism quad pallete.

Fall collection items I bought

This is what I ended up getting from the fall collection. I love all the shadows, really bright and pretty. I will swatch these later. Now just waiting for the black on black collection later this month.

I'm so creative! brush holder.

I needed a place to put my brushes and the crummy cup thing I was using wasn't cutting it. It kept falling over. I was happy to find a large enough glass jar to hold them all and can hold even more as I get them. I decorated the jar with cute glittery pink stickers and a fun puffy one. So cute and functional as well!

glitter!

This looked really fun! I love glitter!!! These I guess can be used anywhere on the face or body. I will have to play with them a bit and get back to you on the quality and color payoff.

NYC jumbo pencils

The silver is pots and pan and the yellow green is lemon. I use these over a eye primer, not as the primer cause these will crease if on their own. These really make similar shadow colors POP!

M∙A∙C Make-Up Art Cosmetics. A Video.

This video shows the artists vision with these beautiful colors and some really fun abtract makeup choices.