It should come to no surprise that I'm absolutely highlighter crazy and whenever a new highlighter from any brand comes out I need to try it. Too Faced just came out with a new highlighter that instantly caught my eye for an array of reasons called the "Diamond Highlighter", made with real Diamond powder. I tried it out for a couple days before purchasing it my self and I've got a few thoughts.
Today Fenty Beauty released their Mattemoiselle Plush Matte lipstick and I had the opportunity to play around with them in store while I worked today. Of course, I had to get my hands on a couple of my favorite colors, who would I be if I didn't?
December 26, 2017
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I'm sure you've heard of the beauty brand Gossier, to be quite frank if you haven't I'd be pretty surprised. In fact, the founders are very involved in the beauty blogging world as that's pretty much how they started. They're based on natural beauty, enhancing what you have and giving life to your products, not "products breathing life into you" as they say. Glossier gets a lot of hype in the beauty blogging world so, naturally, I decided to put the brand to the test starting with their makeup line.
So, what's so appealing about Glossier? I guess I could name a few things off the top of my head immediately. They market themselves quite well, their packaging and graphic design team are on top of things, they're up to date with social media. Their website and social media accounts are enough to draw me in to be honest. But are the products themselves worth it? As mentioned before, their products are meant to give you an all natural look, but is it worth spending the amount of money it costs to get that all natural look the Glossier way?
December 06, 2017
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I'm the type of beauty lover that's willing to try just about anything, from any brand, of any type, and is constantly trying to expand my horizons in regards to the products that I use and try out. Because of this, I'm consistently finding different products that I would personally call top-tier that don't get enough hype in the beauty community. Here I've put together a small collection of products that I don't see talked about much, that totally deserve the recognition that I love and use regularly.
December 05, 2017
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For the holidays Fenty Beauty had another small release, being the Stunna liquid lipstick in "Uncensored". It comes in beautiful chrome rose gold octogonal pyramid packaging. The packaging is actually ever so slightly reminiscent of the Louboutin lipsticks to me, making it seem luxurious and expensive (though only retails for $24, being fairly standard for a reasonable liquid lip of this size in my opinion.)
November 30, 2017
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Before my birthday I hauled a good amount of Pat McGrath products, one of them being the new LiquiLUST 007 kit in "Skin Show". The LiquiLUST 007 kits consist of 3 brand new liquid lipsticks, a micro-fine pigment, and the clear vinyl gloss. They come in two color collections, "Skin Show" and "Colour Blitz". Considering my liking for out-there lip colors one might think I would've bought the "Colour Blitz" kit but this time around I decided to go the more nude route.
November 30, 2017
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On the 25th I will be turning 24 years old and decided to treat myself this year with some luxury makeup purchases. It wasn't intentional from the start but I ended up hauling in all Pat McGrath products. Though I've had the opportunity to use a couple of her eyeshadow palettes before when a client brought them to me to try out on her, up until this point I've only purchased the first Lust 004 Flesh kit, so this haul was particularly exciting.
November 23, 2017
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Truth be told I've been stocking up on a few eyeshadow palettes for the past few weeks that have caught my eye and have been excited to swatch and review them, but I'm somehow only just now getting around to it. I had originally planned on starting with another product, but since I waited for so long to start writing these blogs I figured I'd start out with possibly my favorite palettes I've purchased during this haul of mine. Luck had it that the new Natasha Denona Holiday Eyeshadow 5 Palettes arrived at my store and you know I had to grab them up immediately. What originally caught my eye was the astonishing colors but, to no surprise knowing Natasha Denona, the quality has made me fall further in love.
November 05, 2017
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It's become an annual tradition for me to celebrate Halloween by doing a full week of Halloween makeup looks. I don't mean a spider web wing with an orange accented lower lash line and black lip. I don't mean a dark smoky eye with a vampy red lip. I'm talking full-faced Halloween makeup, the type you could pull off as a costume. This year makes it the third year in a row I've celebrated this way. Unfortunately, this season has been rough for me mentally and emotionally and I couldn't pull through for the whole week, but I was able to pull together three pretty solid looks and I'm proud of each of them for different reasons. With each look I challenged myself in different ways that I haven't before and this year I was able to learn new things and grow artistically.
November 04, 2017
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It's virtually impossible to have a passion for makeup without understanding the importance of skincare. If there's anything I'll shamelessly splurge on in life outside of makeup, it's a new product for my skincare regime. I have my fair share of holy grail and irreplaceable products I use in my skincare routine but that doesn't stop me from occasionally trying new things. I recently tried out the Korres Golden Krocus Ageless Saffron Elixir, and the results I've seen in just a short period of time have had me wondering where this has been my whole life.
October 16, 2017
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We all have a favorite foundation, I happen to have a handful or two of them. Depending on time of the year, state of my skin, desired finish I want from my makeup—I like to switch my foundation up from time to time. Finding your perfect foundation can be a long journey so I'm lucky to have been able to find the ones that I have, though it took extensive trial and error. I happen to consider myself to be a little bit of a foundation junky and like to learn about others favorites, so here are a few of mine!
September 12, 2017
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On September 8th Rihanna launched her very own makeup brand, Fenty Beauty. Her, her team, and any and everyone involved in the creation or launch of this brand kept it top secret and confidential. In my opinion, that was a smart move. Today, a brand can't release anything without having the success or failure of it based solely on whether or not the Youtube beauty gurus with millions of subscriber enjoys the product. This way, everything was kept a mystery and unbiased. If you wanted to find out if you'd like something, you actually had to go out and see for yourself. Being the makeup lover that I am, and having the huge crush on Rihanna that I've had since I was young, I was one of those that jumped out on launch day to get what I could.
September 12, 2017
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I recently picked up another beauty product that I had listed in my spring releases wishlist, the Jeffree Star Cosmetics Androgyny palette. After hearing a lot of mixed reviews on his first eyeshadow palette, Beauty Killer, I didn't think I'd ever be so fixed on getting my hands on one of this brand's palettes. But when I saw the reveal of the shades and swatches, I knew it was something I'd have to add to my collection.
March 27, 2017
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I'm officially beginning to get my hands on the items I had listed on my new spring releases wishlist and it's starting off with this new glow kit collaboration with Anastasia Beverly Hills and Nicole Guerriero.
February 28, 2017
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If you've been subscribed to my youtube channel for a while (shameless plug: here's my youtube!) you'd know that I went through this short phase of making review videos on different foundations in search of that perfect one for me. Finding the perfect foundation is one hell of a journey. Needless to say, at this point I do have a couple of holy grails but I've become somewhat of a foundation addict.
February 28, 2017
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I'm a little behind on getting this review out, truth be told I purchased this the day it was released in stores. Kat Von D recently released two new absolute hit palettes, one of them being the Pastel Goth eye palette.
February 24, 2017
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Spring is just around the corner which means all of our favorite brands will be releasing new products and lines. No really, nearly all the products I've been eyeing up are releasing in the same week so I'm going to officially apologize to my bank account right here and now. But if you're anything like me you've been keeping close tabs on all the gossip about what's to be expected for this coming season and marking your calendars to be sure you don't miss out on anything. I've come up with a small list of things that I've concluded are dire I get my hands on.
February 22, 2017
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Often times at work a client will come to me looking for a new foundation for their dry skin. They'll follow up with the usual complaints, saying that their foundation gets cakey, sticks to dry patches, feels like cement, looks crepey, etc. To my horror, I'll ask about their skincare routine and find out that they either don't have one or will at most stick any ol' moisturizer on their face and go right in with the foundation. Boo, honey, my friends, my dears, my loves, get your skincare routine on lock. As someone that personally has dry skin (lemme tell ya... sometimes I feel like I'm one of those characters from animorphs and I'm shifting into a crocodile) I've spent a lot of time coming up with a bomb routine to get my skin in tip top shape. So I'm here to give you some tips, as well as show you some of my favorite products that I've used or currently use in my morning-nightly rotation.
February 21, 2017
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I've noticed that I tend to really stick to my ways when it comes to foundation. I find one that I see as flattering and don't bother thinking that there could be something even better out there for me. I've recently decided to try to broaden my foundation horizons and step out of my Tarte Amazonian Clay box. There's a good list of foundations that I'd like to try out, but I decided to start with Marc Jacobs Genius Gel Super-Charged Oil-Free Foundation.
February 21, 2017
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I truly never thought there'd come a day where I'd be more disappointed in a foundation than I was with the Marc Jacobs Genius Gel, let alone a foundation by one of my favorite makeup brands.
Ever since I heard about the Becca Aqua Luminous Perfecting Foundation, my hopes have been high. Becca being one of my favorite brands and just look at that name. "Aqua Luminous Perfecting"? It sounds like perfection in a bottle. It sounds like everything I could ever ask for. It sounds like something only found in dreams. Today I realized that something that good really can only happen in a dream, and this foundation was just too good to be true.
February 21, 2017
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