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Genuine Sweetheart – Valentine’s Day Makeup Tutorial feat. Too Faced

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Roses, candy, kisses and love… sweet nothings and candle light are all things that remind me of Valentine’s day.  Each year I look forward to creating a new look for this day of love and this year I am creating a Valentine’s Day Makeup tutorial in collaboration with my friend Beth. I bring to you a quick look featuring Too Faced and the semi-sweet Chocolate bar palette and Beth will be creating a look using the chocolate bar Palette. Her look will be for daytime,mine for nighttime.

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I went with a soft smoky, wearable look that can easily be created.  The reason behind this look is that I wanted it to showcase the lips and soften the eyes.  I’m 35 (as of January) and wanted to create a look that beauties in their 30s and 40s could wear easily and apply quickly.  Check out the Video Tutorial embedded below or click here to watch it directly on YouTube.

To create this look, I am using the following products:

  • Too Faced Shadow Insurance – eye primer
  • Too Faced Semi Sweet Chocolate Bar Palette – eye shadows (Peanut butter – transition shade, Coconut Creme (browbone highlight), Truffled (applied into the crease), Bon bon (lid shade), Peanut butter / truffled (lower lash line), Caramel (inner corner highlight)
  • Jordana 12 Hour Made to Last Waterproof Gel Pencil in Black Point – tightline and waterline
  • Jordana 12 Hour Made to Last Waterproof Gel Pencil in Espresso Last – upper lash line
  • Benefit They’re Real Mascara and L’Oreal Voluminous Miss Manga mascara
  • Benefit Hoola Bronzer (light bronze, all over warmth)
  • Too Faced Sweetheart Blush in Candy Glow
  • Hourglass Dim Light Ambient Lighting Powder for a light highlight glow
  • Jordana Easy Liner Lip Liner in Rock n Rose
  • Too Faced Melted Liquid Lipstick in Peony
  • Too Faced Melted Liquid Lipstick in Nude
  • Chrislie Formulations Brow Gel in Caramel (swept over the brows for a natural look)

Too Faced Valentine's Day Makeup Tutorial

If you are looking to bump up this look a bit for some extra drama, add a pair of whispies or dramatic lashes to the eyes and a bold berry or even bright pink lip.  A red lip can work with this look as well.

Beth’s Daytime look feat. the Too Faced Chocolate Bar Palette can be found here.

I hope you enjoyed this Sweetheart makeup look for Valentine’s Day.  Don’t forget to head on over to my friend Beth’s channel to check out her tutorial as well.  Stay tuned as I’ll be having another Valentine’s Day look coming your way in the next week.  Happy Day!

xo

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HOLIDAY MAKEUP – Winterberry & Sugar Plum Faeries feat. Colour Pop

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Oh boy, it’s getting a lot colder here in Hawaii (which I do love) and it’s beginning to feel a lot like Christmas.  I am so excited to share with you looks I have planned and hope that my website gets back to normal and fixed promptly so I can share with all of you.  Today I bring to you a makeup look that is super easy to create.  I’m using goodies from Colour Pop that arrived in the mail box the other day.  Let me just stay – I’m totally loving this holiday set.  I’ll be sharing a little of that in another post.  Check out my holiday makeup tutorial and tell me what you think.

holiday makeup tutorial feat. colour pop

We all know my favorite color is purple and I love purple lippies, but this one here that I’m wearing… I am utterly in love with it.  Be Still My Heart… as I swoon and lust over those purple lips. lol  Check out my video tutorial below or click here to watch directly on YouTube.

holiday makeup tutorial feat. colour pop

Here is a list of products I used to create this look:

Eye Shadow Primer – Coastal Scents Step One Primer

Eye Shadows – Borghese Palette: Veil (transition shade) and Bask (browbone highlight)

Colour Pop Eyeshadows – Desert (transition shade), Drift (lid shade and inner third of lower lash line), Doe-A-Deer (outer v, crease and lower lash line shade), Partidge (crease shade), Girly (inner corner highlight)

Liner – Jordana 12 Hour Made to Last Liquid Eyeliner Pencil in Black Point and New York Color Liquid Eye liner for winged liner, Laura Mercier Caviar Stick in Plum (lower lash line base and pop of color)

Mascara / Lashes – Jordana Best Lash Extreme Mascara and KISS 11 EZ Lashes

Lips – NYX Lip liner in Prune and Colour Pop’s Leather Lippy Stix

Cheeks – Hourglass Ambient Lighting Blush in Mood Exposure

Highlight – Hourglass Ambient Lighting Powder in Radiant Light

holiday makeup tutorial feat. colour pop

 

Hope you enjoyed this look! xo

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Halloween Makeup – Dark Gothic Alice In Wonderland

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“I can’t go back to yesterday because I was a different person then.” – Alice in Wonderland

I bring to you my final Halloween Makeup tutorial for the year.  This one is in collaboration with some of my favorite beauty bloggers (you can check out their links below).  We wanted to have a little fun and create looks inspired by fairy tales.  I chose to do Alice in Wonderland but decided instead of a standard Alice, I would embrace the Halloween spirit and create a “Dark Alice” – a little sultry, sexy and gothic, I wanted to create an Alice that would fit with the Halloween theme.  I hope you enjoy the tutorial and I wish you all a safe and fun Happy Halloween.  And without further adieu, here is my Gothic Alice in Wonderland makeup look.

Dark Alice in Wonderland

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Click here to watch my tutorial directly on YouTube – or scroll down to watch the embedded video.

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Dark Alice in Wonderland
Products used to create this look:
  • Coastal Scents Step One Eye Primer – applied to my lid from lash line to brow bone as well as lower lash line.
  • Tarte Smolder Eyes Shadow Pencil in Brown – applied to lid blended from lid into crease.  Also applied to lower lash line as a base.
  • The Balm’s Nude Tude Palette – Sultry (transition and blended onto lower lash line), Sleek (lid shade blended on lid and into the crease and also applied to lower lash line), Sexy (blended into transition shade and crease and also applied to lower lash line to smoke out the line)
  • Milani Bella Eyes in Bella Ivory – Brow bone highlight
  • BH Party Girl Palette – Red Shade (applied above crease and blended as part of transition shade to deepen the red hue, also applied to lower lash line to add the similar hue)
  • Jordana 12 Hour Made to Last Pencil in Black Point to line the lower lash line, waterline and tightline.  This was also used to line my lips.
  • Milani Bella Eyes in Bella Chiffon – inner corner highlight
  • MAC Sunbasque blush – applied to cheeks and blended to cheek bones to create a more defined cheek look without contouring.
  • Wet n Wild Fergie Lipstick in Pagan Angel – applied to lips.  This lipstick is creamy but can sink into the cracks of the lips, so be sure to exfoliate and moisturize lips first.
  • Lashes – Kiss 11 Lashes (whispie lashes) and Benefit They’re Real Mascara applied to lower lash line and to blend false lashes with real ones.
Gothic Alice in Wonderland
Accessories:
  • Wig was purchased from local costume store – Alter Ego Wigs
  • Necklace from Shoplately
  • Black Rose Stud Earrings – Handmade by me
  • Headband – basic black ribbon tied into bow (craft store)
Dark Alice in Wonderland
If you don’t have a white wig, a blond one will work as well.  I figured a white one would add to that “gothic” dark look so I chose to use it in this look.  Since I didn’t have a similar dress or top to what Alice wears in the movie and story books, I opted for a black dress.  Simple but still a bit dressy.  I definitely suggest keeping with the dark theme and wearing something black if you have it.
Dark Alice in Wonderland
I hope you enjoyed my makeup look.  I think this will be an easy one to create – simply create a dark and bold smoky eye with a dark bold lip or black lipstick.  Don’t forget to stop on by my friends’ links below and see their versions of fairy tale recreations.  Wishing you all a fabulous Halloween – be safe but have fun.  Smooches!
xo
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HALLOWEEN MAKEUP – Twilight the Autumn Woodland Faerie

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As the sun sets and creates a beautiful array of colors that light the soon to be night sky a magical mystical creature is born.  Twilight, an Autumn faerie born from true love’s kiss roams the Woodland Forest to sprinkle her fairy dust of happiness and wishes over those who find themselves wondering her forest.  She can be spotted only as the sun sets illuminating the sky with beautiful hues of purples, blues, oranges, yellows and reds.  Twilight is a good faerie spreading her pixie dust in hopes to find her true love waiting for her at dusk.
Twilight Autumn Woodland Faerie

I love faeries, which we’ve established in my Queen of the Forest Nymph tutorial and I stated that I would be using Faeries as a base for this year’s Halloween Makeup Tutorials.  Just as with the first creation I did last week, I couldn’t figure out what or how I wanted to create Twilight, but knew the colors I had in mind.  This look is easy to create as it is simply about blending shades to create a whimsical sultry look.  I hope you enjoy my Woodland Fairy Makeup tutorial.

Check out my video tutorial on this look here or scroll down to watch the embedded version.

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As I mentioned before, this makeup tutorial is pretty simple – especially in that I really didn’t have a plan when I created Twilight and decided as I was going along what I wanted to do.  The thought process behind Twilight is that I wanted this to be a part of my imagination, let my creative juices fly at the moment and I also wanted it to be something you could turn to if you were looking for simplicity.

Twilight Autumn Woodland Faerie

I used the products I had on hand to create this and I did what I could with what I had to conceal my natural brows.  If you wanted this to be a bit more elaborate, I suggested scarring wax to flatten your natural brows and then latex over to create an even canvas.  Of course, a good liquid foundation over your concealed brows will work well too.

Twilight Autumn Woodland Faerie

Products used:

  • Maybelline Baby Skin
  • Coastal Scents Eclipse Concealer Palette
  • L’Oreal True Match Powder in Warm
  • Coastal Scents Step One Eye Primer
  • BH Party Girl  Palette – Purple, Yellow, Orange and Orange/Red, Matte Brown, shimmering cream/champagne and Khaki Green Brown shadow shades
  • Jordana 12 Hour Made to Last Eyeshadow Pencil in Tenacious Brown
  • NYC HD Liquid Liner – in the video I said I used my Jordana Fabuliner but they look the same so I made a mistake.
  • Jordana 12 Hour Made to Last Liquid Eyeliner Pencil in Black Point
  • MAC’s Blue Brown & Fuchsia Pigment – a little of it was mixed with some water to create the effect using a spooly that you see in the video.  The two shades were mixed with water separately and applied to the face.
  • Colour Pop Lippy Stix liner in Grind
  • J.Cat Queen of Hearts Wonder Lip Paint
  • Red Cherry Lashes in 45
  • Tarte Lights, Camera, Lashes Mascara
  • MAC Reflects Antique Gold

HALLOWEEN MAKEUP - Twilight the Autumn Woodland Faerie

My wings were purchased from the local Costume shop

My hair color was created using the Redken Color Rebel Hair Makeup in Rebel without a Coral and Purple Riot

Twilight Autumn Woodland Faerie

The key in my opinion to this look is creativity, but also to just use your imagination.  An original Woodland fairy normally has hues of browns and greens but fairies are mystical beings and who says that there can’t be one sporting shades.  I am very happy with how Twilight came out, considering I really didn’t have a thought in mind when I started my tutorial and “winged” it.  Wishing you all a safe, fun and Happy Halloween and stay tuned for next week’s Halloween tutorial.

HALLOWEEN MAKEUP - Twilight the Autumn Woodland Faerie

HALLOWEEN MAKEUP - Twilight the Autumn Woodland Faerie

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Bella Beauty – Fall Inspired Makeup Look feat. Milani Cosmetics

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Bella Beauty

I am absolutely ecstatic that Fall is just about here.  I know, I know… I love Summer, but honestly – I look forward to every season as it makes its way and Fall is one of my favorites because I love the makeup and fashion trends.  In collaboration with my friend Beth (Pearlznlacebybethk), I am bringing to you another makeup tutorial.  This is my first fall inspired makeup tutorial – however, we also decided that we would use Milani’s Bella Navy as a common factor in our makeup looks.  She will be creating a Day Time look using the shade as well as other drug store priced items and I have created the Night look.  For years now, I’ve been quite fascinated with adding the “Pop of Color” on the lower lash line, but didn’t think about using a dark blue until I seen Kendra from Citizen’s of Beauty post a look.  Needless to say, I was inspired by her to use a rich blue as she did (you can see her look here), so I hope that I was able to pull it off.  Check out the makeup tutorial I created for this look, pictures and a list of products used below.  If you would like to watch the tutorial directly on YouTube, click here.

I hope you enjoyed my video.  Don’t forget to subscribe for more…
Bella Beauty Fall Makeup Look

Products used to create this look 

Too Faced Shadow Insurance

Eye shadows used in the look

  • Milani Brow & Eye Highlight – Vanilla
  • Milani Bella Cappuccino shadow
  • Milani Bella Espresso shadow
  • Milani Bella Bronze shadow
  • Milani Bella Charcoal shadow
  • Milani Bella Ivory shadow
  • Milani Bella Navy shadow
  • Milani Bella Chiffon shadow

Urban Decay 24/7 Pencil liner in Binge

Jordana Fabuliner in Black

Jordana 12 Hour Made to Last Liquid Eyeliner in Black Point

L’Oreal Voluminous Miss Manga and Too Faced Better Than Sex Mascara

KISS 11 Lashes

Milani Color Statement Lip Liner in All Natural

Milani Color Statement Lipstick in Nude Creme

NYX Butter Gloss in Angel Food Cake

Bella Beauty

On my face, I used a few products to warm up my complexion as well as blush and highlight but I did not mention it in the video.  Those products are:

  • Milani Matte Baked Bronzer in Sienna
  • Milani Luminoso Baked Blush
  • Milani Mosaic Face Powder in Amber Nectar
  • On my brows I am using the Milani Brow & Shape Wax and Milani Bella Cappuccino Shadow to color my brows in

Milani Bella Navy

As you can see from the tutorial, this look is simple to create but definitely has a statement.  I can’t wait to try out the lid shades I used with a purple as my pop of color on the lower lash line.  I think that while it can be a bit bold and edgy – it’s still very wearable and can be worn day or night.  You can deepen the lid shade and use a black or darker brown to create a more sultry and sexy night look as well.

Milani Bella Navy

Fall Inspired Makeup

Fall inspired makeup

Hope you enjoyed this look.  Don’t forget to head over to Beth’s blog to check out her day look also using Bella Navy from Milani in a different way.

Day and Night Makeup Look

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