I have done quite a few looks for Valentine’s Day this year and wanted to do one that would be a little on the dramatic side but definitely wearable. I settled on a smokin’ red lip look with easy to achieve smoky eyes using majority of drug store products. I am happy with how the look came out and I hope you like it too. 😉
I am working on my Valentine’s Day Fashion Look book and if the rain lets up here I’ll have it up before the end of the week. With this look I wanted to be flirty but simplistic. I paired it with an off the shoulder slouchy blouse and a black maxi skirt. I decided it would be fun to keep it simple but still sexy and black tends to do very well with my very plus sized voluptuous figure. lol For my footwear I am using my Leopard print heels and gold jewelry for accessories. Since my hair is normally long and very curly, I opted for a wig (for a completely different look). I apologize as I was the only person home when I took my makeup photos and didn’t have any help to set up my camera and take my outfit photos so I do not have any to show. But I will be adding this look to my Look book if I can remember.
Check out my Makeup Tutorial on YouTube for this look. It is so easy to recreate and very quick to do as well so if you are in a rush you can certainly use this look for date night with your love.
I hope you all enjoyed this look. Please check out some of my other makeup tutorials I posted for Valentine’s Day this year.
When I first set my eyes on this palette I didn’t think that I “needed” to have it. But, let’s face it – I say that about every single makeup item I own and after waiting a week, sometimes two… I feel the “need to have it” fever come over me and I splurge. There’s no secret that I am a huge Too Faced Cosmetics fan – Shadow insurance is my go-to HG (holy grail) product. I use it consistently and have bought new ones many times. So when Too Faced came out with this palette and it was filled with neutrals with a purple in there, I got over my “I don’t need it attitude” quickly and asked the hubby if I could get it.
The packaging wass probably one of the biggest selling points for me with regard to this palette. It’s cute and not only represents the palette and the contents, but the theme itself is very prominent through out. The palette is fairly sturdy, though I wish that it had a stronger magnetic closure. The palette is a metal type / tin material that is a tad bit bulky – but nearly as bulky as palettes that Too Faced has come out with in the past. I think this palette would be perfect for travel and should hold up well with packing in your carry-on or checked baggage.
Toofaced.com has this palette for sale for $49.00 (currently sold out on the site). You can also purchase this on Sephora.com (that’s where I got mine) and Ulta.com as well as the freestanding stores for the same price. There are 16 shades included in a variety of textures… matte and shimmer. What I love so much about this palette is that it currently has what my other neutral palettes does not – it includes a purple. While I would have hoped for a more matte purple shade, this sparkly purple will suffice and I love the palette’s color selection in a whole. The palette comes with a Signature Too Faced Glamour Guide with three looks to get you started in using your palette and I love that the larger shades (White Chocolate & Champagne Truffle) are bigger so that you can use them both as an all over the lid shade or highlight.
The matte shades actually work really nicely. They blend nicely which I like a lot – because mattes are not always easy to work with. The shimmer shades that have micro-glitters in them tend to have a kind of gritty texture (Black Forest Truffle, Candied Violet and Cherry Cordial), but while it feels gritty on the fingers, when using on a brush and applying to the lid – it doesn’t feel gritty at all. I love the colors regardless because it really holds the shimmer after applying.
I have included all of the swatches for each color in the palette. All swatches are done on bare/dry skin without a base or primer and photographed in natural lighting – no flash was used.
The mattes in this palette are nicely pigmented which I like. I really enjoy having a matte highlight shade in any palette so I love that it is offered here in the Chocolate Bar. You can certainly create a wide range of looks from a daytime/work look to something worn at night or more on the smoky side. If you are a “color addict” then this palette doesn’t offer you much selection with regard to colors (bright and bold ones) – but I think this is a great neutral palette for anyone, especially since it includes that purple shade I have been wanting in other neutrals in the past.
Strawberry Bon bon – while a nice shade to have in a palette of neutrals was probably not my favorite matte shade. I felt like every time I tried to use it – it lightened to an almost white shade so it lost the color impact you see in the palette. I would definitely suggest using Strawberry Bon bon over a pink base to intensify the shade so that you can see its true color.
Creme Brulee is probably one of my favorite shades… it applies easily like most metallic/shimmer shades do and the color impact is nice and bold with minimal fall out. I found myself using the bottom row of shades a lot more than the rest of the palette (with exception to Champagne Truffle which I haven’t used much) because they seem to be easy to work with but also shades I gravitate to a lot in other palettes as well.
The 16 shadows are made with antioxidant-rich cocoa powder and the palette was inspired by their Chocolate Soleil Bronzer. The shadows have a pretty good amount of product:
14 Eye Shadows Net Wt. 0.95 g / 0.03 Oz. Total Net Wt. 13.3 g / 0.42 Oz. (Gilded Ganache, Milk Chocolate, Black Forest Truffle, Triple Fudge, Salted Caramel, Marzipan, Semi-Sweet, Strawberry Bon Bon, Candied Violet, Amaretto, Hazelnut, Creme Brulee, Haute Chocolate & Cherry Cordial)
2 Eye Shadows Net Wt. 2.8 g / 0.10 Oz. Total Net Wt. 5.6 g / 0.20 Oz. (White Chocolate & Champagne Truffle)
For the look I have pictured, I used Champagne Truffle, Cherry Cordial, Creme Brulee, Haute Chocolate, Triple Fudge and White Chocolate.
While I am very much in love with this palette for what it offers as I mention in my Video Review I was not stoked or happy about the fact that the plastic sheet with the names on it was something I had to hold on to since the names are not printed on the palette itself. It’s a pain in my butt and in the past with other palettes, I have always thrown that out – so it nags me a lot! When creating looks – it drives me nuts to have to stop and look at the sheet so that I can write out the list of colors I used… this is a major fail to me and I may have to figure out a way to fix this myself. The rest of the palette I think is showstopping… attention to detail was taken on every other aspect – including the scent of the shadows… yummy!
Check out my Video review below as I talk about the palette first hand with all of you.
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So – tell me… are you a Chocolate lover? Have you splurged and picked up the Too Faced Chocolate Bar palette and if not… will you? I would love to know your thoughts 😉
As many know, I am a huge supporter and addict of The Body Shop’s products. Their Special Edition Blueberry Body Butter is no exception and I am absolutely…
Valentine’s Day is just a few short weeks away. Most you know – I have a huge crush on anything that has to do with “being in love” and this Holiday is no exception. Since I came up short with doing any Valentine’s Day tutorials last year (I only posted looks), I decided that it would be best to start early this year. I am also entering this look into the Ipsy January Look Challenge since I was able to utilize products from the January Ipsy Bag. This will also be the first tutorial using the Smashbox Full Exposure Palette (review coming soon).
So have you put any thought into what you are going to be doing this Valentine’s Day? My husband will be working the night shift so my sons and I will be having a nice little dinner at home. While I’ll miss my husband tremendously (I’m one of those gushy romantics), I know that everyday is Valentine’s Day for us and I’m lucky that he makes me feel special each and every day!
Check out the list of products used as well as a video tutorial embedded below. You can also watch the video directly on YouTube here.
Products used:
Face Moisturizer: Nourish Organic Moisturizer from Ipsy
Pop of color: Elizabeth Mott’s Smooth Shadow pencil in Penny (inner corners of the eye for pop of color & highlight) – Ipsy
Liner: Jordana 12 Hour Made to Last pencil in Espresso Last (waterline/tightline), Jesse’s Girl Waterproof Liquid Liner (winged liner – upper lash line), Smashbox Stay Sharp & Shimmer On 3D Liner in 3D Sparks (lower lash line)
I wanted this look to be very easy to recreate and wearable. While the liner is a bit on the bold and dramatic side, this look will offer a bit of sexy and sultry but without all the effort. You can surely add blush/bronzer if you wanted to – but I decided to opt out of that in this look. I promise to have at least one more Valentine’s Day tutorial posted in the next two weeks, so be sure to keep an eye out for that.
If you are interested in signing up for Ipsy or learning more about it – click on my link here: http://www.ipsy.com/r/1o41 For just $10 a month you get a cosmetic bag filled with 4-5 products. In the past I have gotten goodies from Urban Decay, Sexy Hair, NYX, and so much more.
Wishing you all a wonderful Valentine’s Day – whether you are Single or In-Love… make it an awesome day!
Happy Day Loves! So, as most of you know Pantone released their color of the year a few months ago and I have been so stoked since it is a purple shade. We all know purple is my favorite color so I was super excited when my friend Beth and I decided that we were going to do a Makeup Collaboration. This will be my first makeup collab with her and I must say – I love how it all turned out. This look was fairly simple to create (as is Beth’s) and it could even double as a makeup look you could sport for Valentine’s Day!
Eye shadow primer/base: Tarte’s Smooth Operator Eye Shadow Base
Eye Shadows: Tarte’s Gossip (transition), Bubble Bath (brow high light), Bellini (inner third of eye lid), Canary Diamond (middle of eye lid), Velvet (outer v and crease as well as lower lash line)
Yay Yay! First let me start by saying I hope that my discount went through accordingly because I forgot what the date was and rushed to order earlier today. lol But, those of you that love Zoya, now is your chance to stock up on 3 polishes and only pay for shipping.
Starting 1/7/14 – you can pick out 3 Zoya Nail Polishes (any color) and get them for free… you just have to pay the shipping and handling fee. Now – shipping to Hawaii is about $12-16 depending on the order size, but that’s still an awesome deal considering each polish starts at $9.00 and goes up in price from there… so you are getting an awesome deal. Update: I just confirmed shipping is $12.00 (yay!)
Here’s what I did – I chose my free polishes (a total of 3) and added another 3 to my cart (I couldn’t help it – I have been making my list to shop for over a month). If you order $25.00 or more, you qualify for Free Shipping (woohoo!) so I paid $29.00 for 6 polishes (one of which is a Pixi). A total steal! If I averaged them out… that means each polish costs me $4.83. Yay Me!
So jump on this opportunity while you can. This discount will run from 1/7/14 – 1/13/14 at zoya.com. I can’t wait to see what all of you got. I picked up a gorgeous shade from the Touch Collection – I’m so excited! Happy Shopping my friends!
