Products that make you glowowowowoow! Part 2

Cosmetics that give you that fresh faced, dewy, I got my nine hours of sleep last night look.

Which doesn't happen during finals week.

Benefit High Beam.

Perfect for highlighting and creating a beautiful angelic pink glow to your skin!  In a to-go size as well.

Benefit Moon Beam.

With such a warm glow, it's like holding a whole dang candelabra to your face!

NARS Body Glow

Bare Escentuals High Shine Eyecolor

Makes your eyes pop with it's shimmery finish and pretty wash of color!

Dew Me Moisturizing Setting Spray

Sets your makeup and preventing it from melting like the Wicked Witch of the West while still providing a dewy look.

Yves Saint Laurent Touche Eclat

A concealor-highlighter hybrid that's a cult classic.

Physician's Formula Powder Palette Mineral Glow Pearls

A quick sweep of this over the cheekbones and temples will give your skin a multi dimensional glow.

Cheap ways to look radiant:

Rub vaseline over your blush for a little extra dew

Crush a little shimmery eyeshadow into your lotion for legs like the Vicky's Models (welp...we can all dream)

For an at home mask to make your skin all happy, mash a banana with some oatmeal and a dollop of honey.  

...and it actually tastes good. So if you have extra, I mean I'm not judging...




WHEN WILL IT STOP RAINING HERE?:(

It was Ms. Scarlett, in the bedroom, with a pipe

And this is how her lips looked when she committed the crime!

All you need:

Red Lip Liner- I used Nars Velvet Lip Pencil in Cruella (I found it! I found it! I found it under my desk while rearranging my room! Are you confused?  You could read this and this and maybe it will help ya.)

Red Lipstick of the same/similar color- like Jemma Kidd Classic Couture Lip Color in Siren.

A Kleenex!

Translucent Powder- Or if you have any powder on hand like Mineral Power by Maybelline

A makeup brush to apply the powder with- like Ecotools Recyclable Retractable Kabuki Brush

1. Outline your lips with ze liner.

2. Fill in those lippies with the liner

Ho dang!

3. Apply the lipstick over the liner. 

4. Now here goes the money shot that makes this how-to worth while...blot cho dang lips!  Grandmas across the nation are really onto something here.

5. Then, put a kleenex over your lips a-la SARS mask.  Dip your brush in powder and sweep this over your pout.  The absorbancizimic (I'm proud of that made up word) quality of the kleenex and the powder will help take away the lipstick that rubs off easily.

 like onto other people's shirts when you hug them!

 Do you tell people when that happens?  I mean its quite awkward.

6. While you're at it, just put another coat on for good measure.

7.  Blot that baby again.  Now you have 3 layers of red goodness that will last for longtime!

Work it, Miss Scarlet.

This is not okay!

Why must makeup follow me into my every realm of life, especially when I'm trying to cut corners in my Shakespeare class.

There is a NARS advertisement on Sparknotes!  Why is this?!

This is the karmatic way of telling me I will get nothing accomplished when trying to cut corners possibly?

I'm not sure, but the NARS Spring Collection is quite lovely.

And I want this lipgloss very much

It's such a happy color!  Weeeee

I hope everyone's Monday is off to a good start and that you didn't use the imperfect instead of the conditional on a Spanish test and fail!

Mad/Sad/Stressed

The awful trifecta.

When any of the three or all three decide to pop up in my life,

I apply makeup.

I'm working on putting some eyeliner on my face right now, and I should be hopping into bed.

The habitual actions make you feel like your life is more normal I'm guessing.

But I've discovered...writing about makeup helps a lot too!

 One of the most wonderful people I know, and my dearest friend Anne Marie came to visit for Snowball last weekend!

  She's not a big makeup wearer at all, but she allowed me the honor and let me do her makeup.  Quite to my pleasant surprise, she wanted some red lips.

OF COURSE I WAS MORE THAN HAPPY TO OBLIGE! I used Cruella, by the way.  

I have an obsession with this stuff.

Anne Marie in a nutshell.  I can't wait until she wears a Mickey Mouse costume to my wedding.




I decided to wear a berry lip for the dance.  My weapon of choice: 


Sephora Collection Rouge Cream Lipstick in Crush 23


It may seem a bit intimidating in the tube, but when applied, its a beautiful bright fuchsia berry.
And you can control the brightness of the color depending on the amount of layers your apply.  But of course I wanted my lips to be super colorful.

 That's uglyworm up above.  Our suite's mascot.




Snowball was a lot of fun, in part because it didn't get shut down this year and I did not run into a fridge.


  My friends are the best.  A few pictures from the night to show all of the awesomeness they exude:

 

Cruella

Remember her from 101 Dalmations? 

Of course you do.  

She was the saucy villain in that movie.  

She's pretty much a boss, except for the fact that she likes fur and wants to kill the dalmations.

But I do give her some credit for her daring hair and nice red lips.

Last Friday when I was in Sephora, I picked up the Nars velvet matte lip pencil in Cruella.

The lip pencil is awesome because it has a ton of pigment in it and goes on really smoothly.

Typically if you want a bold red lip, you have to apply liner and then lipstick and blah de dah, but this is basically a one stop shop for all of that.

So for me, it's well worth the money.

Cruella will get you noticed in a good way (unless you have lipstick on your teeth, but that can be fixed if you put your index finger in your mouth and close your lips around it and then pull your finger out, because that gets off the lipstick on the insides of your lips that would have otherwise have been found on your teeth)!

And isn't the name the icing on the cake?  It makes me feel sultry and kind of mysterious.

And whenever you do a bold lip, please don't do a smokey eye with it.  That is just too much going on and your beautiful face will look like a mask.  Then people will see your makeup, and not you.

I'd recommend just doing a coat or two of mascara (curl the lashes too!) and maybe a little bit of blush on top of your base (which would be like concealor, powder, etc...more on that next post)

Have fun being a saucy minx with an awesome red lip!