Summery neutrals with some sparkle!

I really wanted to use Makeup Geek's "New Year's Eve" pigment in a look.  I was trying to figure out how and I thought it would look really great in the center of your lid.  So I went with that feeling and did this look with that as my inspiration.

I recently reviewed the Makeup Geek pigments but if you missed it, here's what New Year's Eve looks like:

The left is a dry swatch and the right is a wet swatch

It's a beautiful light gold glittery color.

And here is the look I came up with!  I tried to create depth within my bone structure.

I really need to take glitter photography lessons.  This was the best I could get it to show up on camera and in person, I have glitter everywhere haha.

And here's a "paint by number" type diagram to show you color placement:

Color codes

(all colors by Makeup Geek)

1- "New Year's Eve" pigment

2- "Glamorous" shadow

3- "Frappe" shadow

4- "Brown Sugar" shadow

5- "Cocoa Bear" shadow

6- "Beaches and Cream" shadow

I used Milani Liquid Eye Eyeliner in "Black", which I set with Makeup Geek shadow in "Corrupt."  My mascara is Rimmel Scandaleyes Mascara in "Extreme Black."  On my lips, I have a new (well, new to me) lipstick.  It's Rimmel's Lasting Finish by Kate in 101.  It's a super pretty natural pink color.  I topped that with MAC "Right Image" Cremesheen Glass.

I hope you like this look!  It's so easy to wear and the golds and bronze colors are great for summer (plus, if you have blue eyes, it really makes them stand out!!)!  I hope you all are having a great week and I hope you do something fun this weekend!!

A Holiday Party look... with rhinestones!

Yay!  I did a look I actually like!!  I've been pondering about what look to do to enter in the Makeupbee Holiday Party look contest.  So when I was at the craft store the other night I picked up some rhinestones to use because I knew they'd be good for a holiday look.  But I was having a really hard time deciding how I was going to place them and what color to use them with.  Every color I was thinking of didn't excite me.  Until this morning when I thought of turquoise.

So I did this look and I'm very pleased with how it turned out.

My husband was laughing at me because you can't really see the rhinestones when my eyes are open but when I blink, there they are haha.  I kinda feel a bit like a Christmas ornament but that's ok with me sometimes haha.

What I used:

TFSI

NYX JEP "milk"

NYX Ultra Pearl Mania "Turquoise"

MAC "Teal" Pigment

Inglot 395 P

TIJI Bed Head "White" shadow

MAC Blacktrack fluidline

Maybelline the Falsies Volum' Express

lash glue 

rhinestones

Halloween lashes

Lips:

MAC "Myth" lipstick

MAC "Pink Friday" lipstick

MAC "Boy Bait" cremesheen glass

I think it's a good look and it'd be perfect to wear for a holiday party.  I think that holidays are a time where you can go all out and do whatever you want and people really can't say anything (haha I love the holidays!)!  

You guys should head over to makeupbee and post a look of your own!  And if you wouldn't mind voting for mine (which is here, your support would be greatly appreciated!  The grand prize is a $500 gift certificate for Sephora.

I hope you guys like this look as much as I do!  Thanks guys!

MAC "Sea & Sky" Mineralized Eye Shadow and a few Daytona pictures

When I went to the Cosmetic Company Outlet, I was browsing through their MAC collection and I saw this shadow and knew I had to have it.  I have not seen a royal blue like this before and it's so beautiful.  I know blue eyed girls aren't "supposed" to wear blue eyeshadow but that doesn't stop me haha.  I love blues and this is such a beautiful color I couldn't pass it up.  Just take a look...

All the way to the left is what I'm assuming to be "Sea" and the middle is "Sky" and all the way to the right is them mixed together

 These shadows are super pigmented with like a metallic finish.  I love them.  Here are 2 different looks I did using them.

The first is a smokey eye

Obviously this is heavily edited but I think it's a cool picture since I really don't have that many of the hubby and myself together
In this look, I have MAC "Myth" with my new "Right Image" Cremesheen glass on top on my lips

The second is a simple look using the shadows on my waterline and under my eye

And in this look I have MAC "Pink Friday" with "Right Image" Cremesheen glass on top on my lips.  Can you tell that I like that lipgloss?  Because I totally do.

On the MAC website, these shadows retail for $20.  At the CCO I paid $13.75.  If you can find this color and you like blues, I'd say scoop it up.  It's a pretty original color and it's so pigmented that I definitely think it's worth it.

Now on to some pictures from our mini vacation to Daytona this past weekend.  We were only there for a couple of days but it was fun.  It was my daughter's first time at the ocean and I just love everything about the ocean so it was like a dream trip for me.

 It started raining at Daytona Beach so we drove up the coast probably 3 miles to Ormand Beach and the weather was perfect there so that's primarily where we hung out.

I am in love with this picture. 

Aren't they cute?

Haha I took a picture of us together because I'm the photographer and I'm not usually in any pictures but I wanted a picture to show that I was there too!

It was a good (though short) trip to go on before my baby girl goes to school (tomorrow!!!)!  Thanks everyone for checking this out!  I hope you guys are having a great week!!!

Another day without eyeliner. Plus a new MAC Cremesheen lipgloss!!

I don't know what's wrong with me.  I have not been wanting to wear eyeliner.  It feels too fussy some days.  Oh well.  So today was another eyeliner free day.

Haha rockin my new trucker hat (my first!)!

So you can see the awesomeness that is my eye makeup (just kidding!)

So as you can see, my makeup was pretty boring.  I just used 4 Inglot shadows (351 M on lid, 379 M in crease, 376 M in outer v, and 393 P as a highlight).  Then I finished it off with L'oreal Extreme Volume Collagen mascara in Blackest Black.  Pretty exciting, huh?

The other day when my mom was here we decided to go to an outlet mall that isn't too terribly far from my house.  I was super excited when I saw a Cosmetic's Company Outlet there.  That means I have 2 CCO's within an hour of my house.  Nice.  

So I checked out what they had and if I had all the money in the world, I would have bought WAY more stuff.  Sometimes I need to take a step back and think, 'do I really need this?' haha and most of the time I answer 'yes' strictly because I don't have it yet.  But I grabbed a MAC mineralized eyeshadow (which I'll show you in another post, but it's GORGEOUS!), and MAC's "Right Image" cremesheen glass. 

I had a lipglass from MAC (the color was "Underage") a long time ago but I hardly ever wore it because of how sticky it was.  I don't know if they're all like that, but I haven't bought another one because I didn't like my lips sticking together.  But this cremesheen glass is another story.  It is not sticky.  I mean, your hair would probably stick if it was blown into it but I think that would happen with any lipcolor with any kind of sheen but your not going to have that uncomfortable feeling of wondering if you have a bug stuck in your gloss haha.  

So here's that color

Initially I had picked up a light nude color but the sales lady immediately said, "that'll wash you out" and I got intimidated and put the color back (I'm still kinda regretting it haha).  But after I had bought this one, I was worried that it would be too close in color to another lipgloss I recently bought, which is Revlon's super lustrous gloss in "Pink Pop".  Luckily after I got them next to one another, I saw that they are quite different.

When I first got the Revlon gloss, it didn't seem sticky to me but after wearing the Cremesheen gloss, in comparison, now it feels sticky.  Nothing like the lipglass, but it's more sticky than the cremesheen glass.  So since I'm comparing them anyways, I'll show you swatches of the Revlon one.

I'm pretty impressed with the pigmentation of both, I think the Revlon is a bit more opaque than the MAC one but whatever.  I like them both and would definitely recommend them.  The Cremesheen glass was $13 (they sell for $18.50 online, I just checked and "Right Image" is still available there) and the Revlon lipgloss I paid $3 for (because they were having a 40% off sale and I had a coupon).

I have yet to find a good drugstore (other than NYX) light pink non sparkle-filled lipgloss.  If anyone has any suggestions, please let me know!  I'm always on the hunt for good light nude-pink lip colors (like I don't have enough, right? haha).

If you've been following me for a bit, you might recall that on one of our trips to New York, we came home with 41 snapping turtle eggs.  They decided they were going to hatch this week.  So now I have a million baby snapping turtles swimming around in a tank upstairs.  Luckily enough for my husband there's a huge reptile show in Daytona, Florida so take a wild guess where we're going this weekend.  Yup.  He already talked to a guy who's going to be there who will buy the snapping turtle babies from us.  And we're going to go to the beach, it's going to be a short family vacation before my baby girl starts kindergarten (Thursday!)! 

And here's a picture that makes me laugh, just to end the post.  Thanks everyone so much for checking this out and sorry this is such a lengthy post!

Haha he has to make you laugh!