Intensify the Eyes

I just wanted to write a blog about my favorite liquid eye liner. Liquid eye liner can be really tricky and I have found very few that I truly like and that are easy to apply. I work in a cosmetics store and I have very few there that I like. Most of the pricier brands tend to have a brush-like applicator and those are really hard to use. The brush tip is really soft and I just have a really hard time applying a nice, clean line and liquid liner is tricky enough! My favorite is Revlon Liquid Liner. The applicator is like a sharpie pen so it's a stiffer and easier to get a really clean line. It's the only one I will use!! Even if I'm doing makeup at the store I work at or other places, I always bring that with me, it's a must!!

The way I apply liquid liner is this:
First I use a black eye shadow or powder liner on the lash line where I want the liquid liner to go.
Next I apply a pencil liner exactly where I applied the powder liner. This will help fill in the tiny areas between the lash and the skin that sometimes gets missed when applying liquid liner alone. There are a few things that drive me crazy with makeup and having uneven lined eyes drives me nuts!! Doing the powder liner and pencil liner will cover all the areas that need to be lined and it makes your application much easier. I know adding more steps seems annoying but doing these 2 steps before applying liquid liner will help you not have to touch up or fix anything after. I usually line the inner rims of my eyes with the pencil as well. I always line the upper rim if you want drama then line the bottom rim as well.
After using the pencil I apply the liquid liner. I'll make a video on how to apply the liquid liner as well! I line my eyes in sections. Instead of trying to do one swift sweep of liner it's easier to really focus on inner, middle and ends of the eye and just connect the lines together.

I hope this suggestion of liquid liner will suit you and I hope my pointers on getting the perfect lined eyes helps!!!

Quick, Cheap Nail Tip!

So, I have a major bad habit. I bite my nails and pick at the skin around them, I know that is so gross and such a bad habit but I have done it since I was 5. I am continually trying new ways to stop biting and picking at my nails but the only thing that helps is getting my nails done and I just don't do that. I don't have time and when I'm going to spend money I'm going to buy some Lululemon clothing or something like that. So, I have come to deal with pretty unsightly nails with really dry cuticles and just all around ugly fingernails...I've come to deal with it. But-I have a little, cheap trick for your nails that I love and it has really helped!!



Yep. It's that little baby right there, Neosproin. I keep it in my nightstand and I put it on my cuticles and all the skin around my nails. Even if I have picked them like crazy and they are sore and look ungodly, by the time I wake up my nails have already healed greatly! I was really impressed at the HUGE results and how cheap it is!! I use it every night and it really does help hydrate and heal your nails! Go buy some and try it out!! You'll love it!

Everyday Lips!

I hope everyone had great holidays! A happy New Year to you too! I had a wonderful Christmas with my awesome family in Indiana, went too fast for sure!! Most of the time we spend up in Indiana is eating and chatting around the kitchen table as well as reading up on tons of magazines! So since I got stuck over the holidays reading TONS of magazines so I pretty much went through every single magazine and made a list of magazine makeup suggestions sold in drugstores. I started first with a lip liner and gloss. I am always looking for a perfect, glossy lip that really pops. I like a natural pop most of the time. Natural pop to me is a nice neutral liner with a pretty, shiny, sheer gloss and I think I've found it!! The lip liner I tried was L'Oreal Infallible Lip Liner in Rose. The liner is great because it's one of those liners that you just twist instead of sharpen which I really love! The liner goes on really smooth and creamy so that means you will get a flawless liner and no mess-ups! I really like the color I think it will be really universal for everyone and any color you use!! It's only around $7.00 you definitely need to go out and get it!!! I paired it with the Rimmel Stay Gloss in Non-Stop Glamour. It'll set you back about $8.00. It goes on so creamy and not sticky at all!! I hate goopy, sticky gloss....gross!!! This one is a beautiful neutral gloss with a tiny splash of color and lots of shimmer which I love!!! I feel like the gloss has a multi-faceted look like there are bits of shimmer throughout the gloss so that really makes your lips pop without looking like you're trying too hard. This is my recipe for a neutral pop-slightly darker than lip color lip liner and a nice shimmery lip gloss and viola!! Try these two out together as a pair they are amazing!!!

Hair Raising Secrets!

Hi!! Ok I want to write about hair! Here are a few little supplements and treatments I do to keep my hair strong. I really love long, beautiful, strong hair and that's what I want myself so here are a few little tips and tricks.

Phyto Phytophanere Dietary Supplements-These little beauties will help fortify your hair. Two of these little natural elements will provide you with nourishing vitamins, essential fatty acids and antioxidants to help your hair grow, strengthen nails, help your skin look radiant, and lengthen your lashes! Not only do these pills add density and shine to your hair, but your overall health will be great!
These little babies you take once a day and I truly believe these have helped my hair a ton! I take two in the morning as well as taking folic acid. Now, I have no idea if folic acid really helps your hair but my grandpa, Pops, takes folic acid every day he told me if I wanted thick, strong hair when I get older then I needed to take folic acid every day. So, like I said I don't know if it does anything but my grandpa has an amazing head of hair so I'm going to take it! Not to mention, if it doesn't really help your hair who cares it's still good for your health! So I take those 2 in the morning. I also take a swig of Carlson's Cod Liver Oil. I get the lemon flavored because let's be honest, you just need to cover up the cod liver oil flavor. So I take a very small sip of that, that's all you need anyways.Cod Liver Oil gives a ton of health benefits as well as gives you great skin and hair. At night I take Biotin which is really great for your hair as well. I think these supplements really help keep your hair and skin tip-top.

Another thing I do is use Phyto's Phytoplleine Universal Elixir. This is a blend of 100% essential oils that will help stimulate and purify the scalp. This blend of essential oils will help energize the hair and will balance your scalp so I truly believe this product is great for everyone. If you have oily hair, this will balance the oil production in your hair, dry hair-this will help produce more oil to balance, itchy, dry scalp-it helps for that, this product helps with it all! This product also helps with thinning hair if that's what you're worried about! All you have to do is put this in your hair, which this bottle has a very easy applicator, leave it on for 20 minutes and then wash your hair like normal. Your hair will smell amazing as well!!!

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The good and the bad, in products that is

It has been a while since I have written. The holiday season just rolled up so quickly and I haven't had a moment to even relax and breathe let alone blog! But-I have been trying products out the whole time even though I haven't been blogging lately. Lately I've tried a few things here are two, one is great one is not so great. We will start off with the not so great one so we can end the blog on a positive note!--i dont know what i did to make this blue and underlined!!! oy!

I usually use a yellow concealer to help lighten the dark circles and redness around my nose. I have tried and LOVED the Cover Girl Simply Ageless Anti-aging yellow corrector. I really love it! But it can be a little pricey for drug store brands, it usually runs around $10 or so. But it goes on really creamy and smooth and doesn't dry out your skin and really gives a flawless look to your makeup application. I ran out so I went without the yellow corrector for quite a while but I realized I really needed the yellow corrector. I just didn't have that flawless complexion that I was going for without it. So-I tried this one out: Maybelline Cover Stick Concealer in Yellow. It's about $3.50 and it's really not that great. :( I wish a $3.50 concealer stick was amazing but it's just too drying. I have to do a lot of maneuvering to make my application not look too drying. I really like a flawless finish on the concealer and foundation and this does not cover, conceal or give an even finish that I like. So pass on this one! The concealer that I do use is amazing though! I have written about it before it's the Maybelline Fit Concealer. It is amazing!!!

The other product I tried out lately was the N.Y.C. brow powder and gel. It's called Browser Brush-on Brow kit and it's only about $3.95. It has the brow powder and a gel to hold your brows in place and the color looks amazing on and the gel keeps everything in place.

I have tired a few different brow pencils and I just can't do pencils. I am too heavy-handed and the brows don't look natural. I think it is so much easier to use a brow powder, I know it seems like it's more intimidating to use a powder over a pencil but it's so much easier! Powders last a lot longer and it gives more of a natural brow look! A lot of the other colors I use drugstore brand or higher-end brands are hard to find a good color to match your brows but this one isn't too red or orange and it really is a beautiful natural look! Try it out it's so cheap, will last a long time, give you the pop you need for your face and will keep your brows in place!

New Mascara of the Month!

So, I have decided to start writing about a mascara of the month because mascara is definitely my favorite beauty product so I really love trying new mascaras out! I have written so many blogs and reviews on mascaras I don't even want to go back and look through my blogs and see how many times I've reviewed them. I have a few that I have loved, L'Oreal Voluminous but it's one of those that when you first open it the mascara is really thick and gooey and it's kinda hard to apply but once you get a little air in the tube it thickens up the mixture and helps it not go on as clumpy. That's kinda the same with the Tarte Lights, Camera, Lashes and the Too Faced Lash Injection so that's just a little warning. Once there is a little air that gets in the tube it applies much better!! This mascara that I just tried was amazing from the get-go! Right when you open it the application is so amazing from the first try! I was really amazed at the length that the mascara adds as well! It doesn't smudge, doesn't flake all over the place, doens't make your eyes itch, it looks good all day long as well! I am so obsessed with this mascara and for $6 you can't beat it! Everything that I want in a mascara (length, definition, no clumps, volume, curl) is in this tube of mascara. Love it, love it, love it!

Brows!

Ok. It has been a long time since I have written but I'm back and ready to blog! I went on my honeymoon finally, 9 months delayed but so worth the wait!! I packed all my makeup from my last blog that I wrote about, the 5 minute makeup, I used all that makeup because all those light, cream-based pieces are the best to use in the hot, beachy weather. The Nars Multiples I used for my cheeks, lips and eyes stayed on amazingly and didn't weigh me down in that hot, humid weather. If you ever have to fly or you're going somewhere where you don't want to have to bring a ton of makeup then that 5 minute makeup blog is a guide for you. You will still have a full makeup look but it's just a few pieces. The one makeup piece I forgot was my brow pencil!!! How could I do that??? Brows are huge for me and I forgot a brow pencil! I ran out to the nearest Walgreens and grabbed a brow pencil from Maybeline. This is Maybeline Expert Eyes Brow pencil. You get 2 in each pack the only problem is the color is awful!!! The pencil is so hard you can barely even draw this on and it just looks really fake. I purchased the brunette one and it looked red almost. So, let's no
t waste our money on that one ok?

Now I'm back to my beloved Vanity Mark Dark Chocolate Brow Powder. I really like powders more. They are so much easier to apply and they last a very long time. These are about $18 but I have had mine for at least a year, if not longer.

Here is a good cheap find for you! Everyone loves the Maybeline Great Lash Mascara, that hot pink and green tube. I had to try it because it really is a huge favorite among a lot of different magazines and I just don't get it. I might need to try it again but I just really didn't like it. But-I did notice that the Maybeline Great Lash has a clear mascara that they just came out with and I LOVE it!! I don't use it for my lashes though. I use it as a brow gel to keep my little caterpillars in place. I wax and shape brows for a living so I know those suckers don't grow exactly how you need them to. Some people's brows grow down in certain sections, sideways, straight up, they grow all over the place and you usually do not need to wax off that area because it will completely mess up the great, full brow arch that you have so I always suggest buying a brow gel. I hate having to sell a gel that they are only going to use on their brows because it usually runs about $14-$16 dollars but this one doesn't! It was about $5 and I can deal with that! I will pencil in my brows with my Vanity Mark brow powder then I will use the Maybeline Great Lash Clear Mascara and just brush it right over my brows in the shape and arch that I want. This will keep all the brows tame and almost act like a little brow hairspray for you. It's amazing!