Also coming soon to a blog near you...

I've made a few purchases so reviews for those will be coming soon. My camera is gone so FOTDs are on hold until I get a new one :(. If there are any ideas on other things you would like to see just let me know!

Recent purchases:
-NYX soft matte lip cream
-Too Faced lava gloss eye liner
-MAC pro long wear concealer
-Makeup Forever HD foundation #175 and #178 (sample)

She's back...

Sort of. Ok so I neglected to tell you ladies that my computer passed away. RIP Dorothy *cries big thug tears* Anyways Dorothy is now in computer surgery and things are looking good and she will be starting therapy soon. I will be back upon her recovery. And I have LOTS to share!

Im learning

Today I did makeup on one of my classmates and I really learned a lot. Even though I can do makeup on myself and "make it POP" for lack of a better term, I am really self conscious about putting it on other people. I tend to just do a soft everyday natural look on most people. So at first that was the look I did and it looked nice but it wasn't exactly what she was looking for. I started over and with a little coaching from my classmates telling my I could do it (and not to cross contaminate *cough cough*) I did it and in the end everything turned out great I am now more confident and feel like I can step outside of the box more when it comes to doing work on others.

Before

After *the colors don't stand out as much in this photo as they did face to face blame Blackberry*

Update...

Hello again...

I feel like I have been gone forever but it is so good to be back. I am so ready to put up new posts, unfortunatly FOTDs will be limited, can you believe I left some of my makeup behind when I came back from being of town. Imagine how hurt I was but it should be making its way back to me soon (lets hope all in one piece). Let's see I have a little video coming soon (hopefully) on a review for the e.l.f. brushes I ordered a few weeks ago. What else... *tapping chin* I'll try to do a couple of celebrity looks. As well as weekly esthetick class updates. So that's really all I had to say just wanted to let everyone know I'M BACK!

Update....

Ok this is just a quick little update of the week so far.

-I did some waxing on Monday. Loved it, I think waxing may be my thing. I sort of knew when I first started that I would like waxing but after doing it for the first time I know I like it for sure.

-We went on a field trip to Anne Bonny's today. It's a waxing studio in the area it was interesting to see an independent business and how it runs.

-And I made a purchase with eyeslipsface.com since they were having free shipping and everyone on youtube has been going crazy over these products. So I will do a review and let you all know how I like the things I purchased. (I got free shipping on my order but now the promotion is 50% off the studio line everything I bought is 50% percent off. Mad. But you can't win them all. I'm still happy because I hate paying for shipping)

Warning this is totally ran-dumb
-This lady on the new episode of Criminal Minds is loosing her mind!

Anyway blog you later!

This week in esthetics

Where to start so much happened in class this week...

We had not one but two tests and I aced both of them! Yay me!

We also witnessed live and in living color a male Brazilian waxing. Gentiles don't really bother me so it was no biggie. ( : / )I learned that the more wax you put on it relieves the pain for the client, which is still no consolation for me.

But my personal favorite this week was the hands on activities facials, waxing , and brow tenting.

Oh yeah and we learned about machines boring!

Welp that was pretty much the week in review. Bye guys!

Practice makes perfect...

Our class recieved our Dermalogica kits last week and I haven't really practiced too much with it because I am a nerd and like to read about everything before I use it. I even got a little antique shelf that I am refurbishing to store all my products on. So I have finally finished reading about all the products and I'm ready to expirement! So I'm doing my first at home facial tomorrow. I'll let you guys know how it goes.

This Week in Esthetics

Ok so can I just say that I am having soooooo much fun in school right now. Monday we got to give our first facial massages and I did a pretty good job if I do say so myself. Although I really don't know but that's the word according to ClientX (insert evil music and laugh here because ClientX sounds so scary). ClientX was a mature individual with rather dry skin so I used an oil for their massage. We got to practice the five types of different massage techniques on them which are effleurage, petrissage, friction, tapotement and vibration.

Effleurage- soft slow relaxing movements applied with fingers and palms
Petrissage- stimulating the underlying tissue with kneading movements
Friction- rubbing movement
Tapotment- fast tapping movements
Vibration- is exactly what it sounds like

So yeah that's all the technical stuff. Now for the fun stuff. FIELD TRIP TO ULTA FRIDAY!!!!! *and then I hit my dougie*

This Week In Esthetics

Ok so this is the first installment of This Week In Esthetics, as stated above. In these post I will share a weekly posts on something that I learned or experienced in class.

I got my first facial! This may come as a surprise seeing that I am going to school to become an esthetician but have never had a facial. But my first love is makeup, so while skin has always been important it has always come second to makeup. Fortunately I don't have many skin issues so as long as my face is clean and I exfoliate weekly, I'm fine. I do have areas where I feel my skin can improve and hope to see them improve as the weeks go on in class.
-Hyperpigmentation on the cheek area
-Blemishes around the chin
-Oily T-zone
-Dry/flaky eyebrows

I don't have a before picture, but here is an after photo and I will continue to post photos as the weeks progress.

OMdoubleG do my eyes look like they have dark circles? Panic. We'll get rid of those too.

Products used on my face are by Dermalogica.
-Special Cleansing Gel
-Ultra Calming Cleanser
-Daily Microfoliant
-Colloidal Masque Base
-Plankton Masque Base