What's on trend

Vampy. With America's recent obsession with all things vampire and werewolf Bella #TeamEdward or #TeamJacob we've seen some new fashions come out and that includes makeup. Vampy is the look for the winter season dark eyes and/or deep berry lips. I've always been a fan of a good smokey eye and the darker lips are growing on me. It's a look that can be done by everyone from the cat walk to the sidewalk.

Kelly Rowland



Im Drawing the Line

I picked up up this set of eye liners by Sephora during the Christmas holidays. It was in the gift section and was only $11. I was interested in Sephora liners so this was a great way for me to try them out and have a great variety of colors. It gets my stamp of approval!

Fragrance Lust

Paris Amour from Bath and Body Works is my favorite fragrance right now. If you don't have it, you are depriving yourself. (Note I may or may not have threatened a B&BW employee over this fragrance. lol)

Kit progression

I finally ordered some of the essential for my professional kit, one more step in the freelancing direction. I originally said I would order from camerareadycosmetics.com but ended up ordering from makeupmania.com instead. (I will do a post on the reason and my experience later on) I picked up a couple of unimportant utensils mascara wands, spatula, mixing palette etc. Lets get to the makeup!

I decided to go with Graftobian HD  color palette for my foundation because I saw a lot of great reviews for the product and loved the coverage it gave in the videos I saw. I got the warm palette to start off with because I felt it provided the colors I would use most, but I do plan to purchase the cool and neutral palettes as well.

I purchased La Femme blushes because of the great reviews I had seen on them as well. Also La Femme is a company that makes products for higher end brands as well. So why not get the high end product for a fraction of the price. The Z-palette was purchased to provide a safe home for those La Femme blushes. This palette is so sturdy a much better version of the original that was released a few years ago, it will become my go to for all pan products.

(l to r: Peach, Mandarin Red, Red, Mulberry, Dusty Rose, Cinnabar, Framboesia, Purple Passion, Sienna and Magenta)

B'Day makeup

I didn't take many pictures but here's a glance at my birthday makeup. #capricornseason

This picture will not rotate and I will not fight. Any who later on that night I added a bright pink lip.

Love, Lust and Lies of 2011

*Shout out to Michael Baisden for the title. :)

Products I loved during 2011.

Lancome Bienfait Multi-Vital spf 30 sunscreen. It's a great moisturizer and spf 30 what more can you ask for?

It's not quite lipstick and it's not quite gloss.... It's perfection.

Im kind of upset that I only started using these at the end of the year.

Black Radiance is one of those brands you don't really think about much but since buying these blushes I'll be keeping them in mind more often. (warm berry on the left toasted almond on the right)

Sephora's Mattifying foundation on the left does just that love it and MAC's mineralize skinfinish natural in dark deep is a great finishing powder it has a wonderful glow.

For as long as I can remember Wet n' Wild was a brand I looked over as but they have certainly improved and these palettes are definitely proof of that. the colors are so rich and are so easy to work with you could easily mistake them for a higher end product.

My favorite lashes only $2 I went a little over board but they are so good I couldn't help myself.

Lies
These products were not so hot in my book. When I don't like a product I usually throw it away so I don't have many pictures.

This eye liner had a tendency to look "wrinkled" once it dried.

MAC's mineralize spf 15 foundation. Where to start nw50 in not my color (and I was matched by an artist) and this formula is certainly not my favorite.

Revlon's Not Just Nudes cream shaddows. I really had a hard time getting them not to crease.

I looooooooooooove NYX megashine lipglosses. Plush Red is just not my color... and that made me mad.

Lust
Products I couldn't quite get my hands on
NARS Danmari all about cheeks palette
Makeup Forever HD foundation
Urban Decay Naked palettes
NYX Xtreme Lip Creams
Sugarpill Cosmetics Burning Heart palette
YSL lip colors