Fell in Love with a Lightning Bug

In the Summer/Fall Colourpop released a new collection, but really they release a new collection practically every week lol but in the Summer Solstice super shock quad there is a gorgeous shade called Lightning Bug and honestly it's one of my favorite shades. It's a golden copper color with silver and pink sparkles and it's so bright and sparkly.

Another shade I have been loving is called Crossing Lines and it's from the What Went Down quad, it's a matte warm peach shade which I used in this look along with Dynasty, a  matte blackened red that I used as a liner

For my lip color I used a matte shade Top 8, which is a really pretty rose brown shade.



 Here's my look:

Here's what I used:

EYES

• Base- Tarte Shape Tape with Rimmel powder
• Lid- Colourpop Super Shock in Lightening Bug
• Crease- Colourpop Super Shock in Crossing Lines and Summer Side
• Highlight- I used the Rimmel Powder
• Liner- Colourpop Super Shock in Dynasty, with Crossing Lines on the bottom and using Summer Side with an angled brush as a liner on the lower lash. I used You Had Me At Hello palette in The Knot
• Mascara- L'O'real Lash Paradise

CHEEKS

• Primer- Smashbox Primer (purple)
• Foundation- Maybelline Matte and Poreless
• Concealer- Tarte Shape Tape
• Blush- Colourpop Weirdough
• Highlight- Flower Beauty
• Bronze- Physician's Formula Butter Bronzer

 LIPS

• Colourpop Ultra Matte Lip in Top 8

Colour Pop Fall Edit

 We are already into November and I am once again so behind on my posts, I recently got full time at my other job so things have been gotten delayed, but never fear I am back with some more looks that scream fall. Colour Pop came out with their new fall line and they surprised people with a whole slew of new products. This look is inspired by the Fall edit #1 which is dusty plums and purples. Tang is one of my favorite colors in this collection and it goes perfect with the new Anastasia Modern Renaissance palette and I have to say it's a pretty nice dupe for the shade Buon Fresco, if you couldn't get your hands on this palette. I also used Stereo which is a pretty darkened burgundy with bronze and
 pinky sparkles, this shade was a re-release from the 90's collection from last fall.  For the lippie I used Dukes, which is a gorgeous matte blackened berry shade.

Another new product I used was the Tarte Shape Tape concealer, which took me forever to get, this little bugger was sold out constantly.. and I can see why. It's amazing! Very pigmented but not thick, and covers areas like a dream.


Here's my look:

Here's what I used:

EYES

• Base-Cargo HD Picture Perfect Primer
• Lid- Colour Pop Tang
• Crease- Colour Pop Tang and Anastasia Beverly Hills Modern Renaissance Palette in Buon Fresco
• Highlight- ABH Modern Renaissance in Tempura
• Liner- On the top I used CP Stereo and on the lower lash line I used Antique Bronze from the ABH Modern Renaissance palette and Vemeer in the inner portion and inner corner
• Mascara-Urban Decay Perversion 

CHEEKS

• Primer- Too Faced Hangover RX 
• Foundation- Maybelline Fit Me Matte and Poreless
• Concealer- Tarte Shape Tape
• Blush- Colour pop Pegacorn 
• Highlight- Makeup Geek X Kathleen Lights palette in Starlight

LIPS

• Colour Pop Lippie Stix in Dukes

Rose Gold Foiled Look

OMG you guys this is it! We are into the last few months coming up to Christmas.. I can not believe how fast this year has flown by! Working in retail is such a funny thing around the holidays because it's not even Halloween yet and already we have Halloween stuff, then one other section of Thanksgiving themed items and then in the back we already have the Christmas trees!  haha  Well with the anticipation of Christmas ahead, we have already started getting in all of our holiday makeup sets... LORAC was one of the first to be received and OMG the packaging is beautiful!! All of their packing and compacts are a beautiful rose gold finish, which makes them look luxurious and expensive and just some really nice pieces that look fancy on a vanity or desk.

Now this first item is the Lorac Pro Metal Palette, it is not new but it's been re promoted for the holidays in a gorgeous rose gold metallic packaging! I picked this up because our store did not receive the original metal palette when it was originally launched in stores. The shades on this palette are stunning, just like all Lorac shadows they can be worn wet or dry,  I usually wet mine with a setting spray to give it that extra bit of metallic sheen.


Also a new product from Pur that is knocking my socks off is their Elevation Highlight Palette... seriously... I mean look at that..   This I believe is a Kohl's exclusive because I could not find any information on the official Pur site, and I know that Pur has no idea who I am but please make Altitude a permanent shade because it is gorgeous!! If you could just make the whole palette permanent that would be even more fantastic!!! 

Another new item that is also a Kohl's exclusive, is the Social Affair Alter Ego Lip Stick set which includes 5 unreleased colors, and I am obsessed with them already!! The color I chose today is Fashionista with a beautiful rose brown shade.


Here's my look:

EYES

Base- Cargo HD
Lid- The Balm Batter Up Shadow stick in Moon Shot  , Pro Metal Palette in Rose Gold, Quartz, Gilded
Crease- Lorac Pro 3, in Pink Nude, Clay, Cool Brown, Dark Brown
Highlight- Canvas
Liner-
Mascara- Lorac Pro Lash Pomade

CHEEKS
Foundation- Bliss Exglowsion in Porcelain
Concealer- Bliss Secret Undercover
Bronzer- Lorac baked bronzer in Matte Tan
Contour- Lorac Pro Contour Palette
Highlight- Pur Elevation palette in Upgrade and Altitude
Blush- Lorac Spectre

LIPS

• Lorac Alter Ego Lip Stick in Fashionista 

Look at the glow!!

Love Your Selfie 2

Another awesome palette arrived at work and I have been waiting to get my hands on this palette for a while now, dang all those persuasive Youtubers, I'm talking about the Love Your Selfie 2 palette by Pur Cosmetics.  What's really convenient about this palette is you not only get eye shadow but like the original Love Your Selfie palette it comes with a powder, bronzer, and highlight. It also comes with a lip gloss and a mascara. Except now you also get a velvet matte lip pencil in the newest palette.

I really enjoy the colors in this palette, mainly Mega Pixel and Abstract. In the palette you get 3 mattes and 5 shimmers. The shade in Overexposed is confusing to me because they say it's a "Baking Powder" but I guess I would classify this as a more natural glowy sheen to the face then a baking powder. I always think of a baking powder being more like a loose powder.   The bronzer shade Composition is very orange on me, I have to use very light hand, or use it as a blush. Then we get to Photogenic which is claiming to be a highlight.. which is way too dark for my skin so I've been using it as a blush topper, it's a very pretty shade though.

L to R: Headshot, Statuesque, Panorama, Abstract.

R to L: Pose, Sketch, Megapixel, Paparazzi 

R to L: Overexposed,Photogenic and Composition 

There's also a mini fully charged mascara, which I love the full size, this one is okay.. I feel like the brush is different, but the formula is awesome. A lip gloss in Silhouette, which is a nice berry shade and a Velvet Lip Pencil in Focal Point. which pairs nicely with the gloss and feels nice on the lips.

This look reminded me of the changing of the leaves because Fall is here!!! :) 

Here's the look:

EYES

• Base- Cargo HD
• Lid- Megapixel, and Sketch
• Crease- Statuesque with Sketch 
• Highlight- Headshot
• Liner- Kat Von D Tattoo Liner in Trooper, On the lower lash line I used Sketch and Abstract. I also used Cargo Swimmables liner in Dorado Beach in the water line
• Mascara- Pur Fully Charged Mascara

CHEEKS

• Primer- Lorac Porefection Mattifying Face Primer
• Foundation- Bliss Exglowsion Foundation
• Concealer- Bliss Secret Under Cover 
• Contour- Lorac Pro Contour Palette
• Highlight- Pur Elevation Palette in Boost
• Blush- Lorac Tinge with Photogenic on top
• Bronzer- Composition

 LIPS

• Pur Lip Gloss in Silhouette
• Pur Velvet Lip Pencil in Focal Point 

Sookie

Can I just say the minute I found out that there was a lip color called Sookie, as a True Blood fan I had to have it... Any makeup that is named after any tv show or tv show characters that I love I am sold. Please take my money!!  I just bough a Catrice shadow on the Ulta website because it was called Satina Van Der Woodsen... come on! I needed that in my life!!

Getting back to the look, Sookie is a beautiful berry shade and it worked nicely while I paired it with the shades in the ABH palette. I just adore these fall shades!

Here's my look:

Here's what I used:

EYES

• Base- Cargo HD Picture Perfect Primer
• Lid- Colour Pop in Stereo
• Crease- ABH in Buon Fresco and Red Ochre
• Highlight- ABH in Tempera
• Liner- On the lower lash line I used Buon Fresco and Red Ochre with Stero on top
• Mascara- Urban Decay Perversion

 CHEEKS

• Primer-Becca Backlight Priming Filter
• Foundation- Maybellline Fit Me Matte and Poreless
• Concealer- Too Faced Born This Way
• Blush- Milani in Red Vino
• Highlight- Makeup Geek X Kathleen Lights Highlight Palette in Night Light

 LIPS

• Colour Pop Ultra Glossy Lips in Sookie

Taylor inspired? Berry lip

 I was not expecting to be inspired by Taylor's Met Gala look, subconsciously I was I guess.. lol   I really wanted to use one of the new Colour Pop colors from the first Fall Edit collection. Hutch was such a beautiful fall shade, definitely vampy but I didn't want to have a heavy eye look with a dark, almost black lip so I used a lot of light lavender shades to balance out the look and when I was looking at the final product I thought "this looks kinda like Taylor Swift's Met Gala look" so yeah I can see where the inspiration came from... I have also been loving the Anastasia Modern Renaissance Palette, it is just so good you guys! Most of the shades are warmer but you can also get some cool looks with Buon Fresco which is one of my favorite shades to use.



Inspired by:

Here's my look:

Here's what I used:

EYES

• Base- Cargo HD Picture Perfect Primer
• Lid- Colour Pop in Birthday Boy and ABH Modern Renaissance in Antique Bronze in the outer portion
• Crease- ABH Modern Renaissance Palette in Buon Fresco, with Colour Pop Tang  
• Highlight- ABH Modern Renaissance Palette in Tempera
• Liner- On the lower lash line I used Buon Fresco with Tang and Antique Bronze in the outer portion. Vermeer is in the inner corner. 
• Mascara- L'oreal Voluminous Mascara

CHEEKS

• Primer- Becca Backlight Priming Filter
• Foundation- Maybelline Fit Me Matte and Poreless
• Concealer- Too Faced Born This Way Concealer
• Highlight- Colour Pop in Hippo
• Blush- Too Faced Love Flush blush in Your Love Is King
• Contour- Elf Contour Palette

 LIPS

• Colour Pop Ultra Satin Lips in Hutch