It's been a long, hot minute since I've done makeup posts and since I've acquired some new makeup, I'm going to spend this week talking about my new makeup! Are you ready? Let's goooooo!
Just as a warning, I might be posting the same photos since I'm wearing two new makeup purchases on my face, namely my blush and foundation. The focus of these photos are my lips. Muah!
Let's start
Tag: makeup
Boy, that was a wordy title.
So, I love Ulta. It's actually one of my favorite stores. And because it's one of my favorite stores, I really can't shop there very much. It's one of those stores where it's like Target in a sense; you go in there for just one thing and you come back with a cart full of crap you probably don't need but you really want?
I
I love NARS. I love NARS. I love NARS. I love NARS. I'm not entirely sure how it was I discovered NARS (I think a Sephora rep gave me their product to try and I was hooked, or at least that's the urban legend I put together in my head), but it doesn't matter.
I love NARS. It's very rare I find a product from them I hate. Well, hate
Okay, so I'm dedicated to my old faithful of Clinique, though it's becoming harder to locate in stores now. So, I'm opting to try out other cleansers and hoping they do the same or better job.
Enter MAC.
Retail price is $16.00 and pretty much available everywhere. I got this at Macy's.
Now we know the player, let's play the game:
I wet my brushes and poured the cleanser on them. I rubbed
So, mattes and bold colors are trending this year. Kinda odd if you think about it? Two shades that are on the opposite spectrums are trending and in a big way!
Recently, I had the honor to have enough money to do some splurging (and believe me, both colors were splurges) to go drop some cash at the local Sephora. Let's check out NARS first.
I'm a huge NARS fan. I
As you can tell by my latest blog posts, I love wearing makeup. I love experimenting with my look and coming up with all sorts of cool things. I never wore a lot of makeup in the past so a part of me does feel I'm making up for lost time but you're never too old to explore, right?
The side effect of wearing makeup is the dirty deed of
I've meant to use this meme for a while and finally found the reason for it.
Anyway, this post is about BlackUp Cosmetics. While it's catered to women of color, it's unclear if it's actually Black-owned (I heard it was and then I heard it wasn't). Recently, I test-drove their Lipshine in 08.
Here's my review:
Price:
It's pricey. It's $19. This is a splurge.
Smell:
Doesn't smell like anything and that's a great thing!
Consistency:
It
As I've been experimenting more with my lips, I found that I have a small penchant for the nude lippy. The barely-there-but-we-can-all-tell-you're-wearing-something-on-your- lips-and-OMG-I-so-want-that-look color.
So, there are three nude-ish colors in my arsenal that I like. Let's start -
NYX Praline
It gives a shimmer color and it goes on very smooth. I like this because it has brown undertones that highlight the golden ones in my skin.
NYX Rome
This is a new
This past weekend, I decided to play with my makeup a tad. So let's start off with the first product review, which is the Raizin blush by MAC.
Now, I've never really been partial to blushes. Not that I love or hate them, but I've been been pretty indifferent to them. It's one of those things I don't have to have in my makeup harmony. But it's okay. I can't
Let me start this review by stating something that may not be important to you, but it is to me. I have a milk chocolate skin tone. That means I either match or am close to a Hershey bar (I use to match it but now I'm a tad bit lighter than it). I also have gold undertones. That being said, sometimes makeup and/or hairstyles that would look amazing