Here's my first make up look that I created with my new Urban Decay Vice 3 palette. I have been obsessed with this palette. It's got such amazingly buttery, pigmented beautiful colours, it's hard not to love it. I've decided I'm going to try to put this palette to use as fully as I can and not leave it unloved like some of my other palettes. 

And what better way to do that than to create a bunch of looks with it for you guys  !

I wanted to start with something basic and natural. Sure it's got some gorgeous eye-catching colours as well, but what's great about this palette is that it's got some amazing matte shadows as well ! 

So being a matte eyeshadow lover, I created this little neutral number for you guys. 

I love how this look turned out. 

The colours I used for this eye look are : 

Undone

DTF

Defy

Truth

Hope you guys enjoy this look ! If you want to see how I achieved it, you can watch my tutorial down below. 

I recently decided to splurge on the Anastasia Beverly Hills Dipbrow Pomade. I mean, it wasn't all that expensive, think it was $25 at my local sephora. But compared to the $3 Essence eyebrow pencil I was using previously.. I think it's quite a jump. 

But I decided to pick it up because I decided I needed to branch out and try new things as far as eyebrows go, so this gel, mousse, thing seemed like a good idea. 

I have the video posted down below, if you want to watch it, just scroll down a bit, and you'll see it. It's the first one. 

The second video I put on here is my old brow routine. And I thought I was just include that one anyways, incase any of you still love and live by eyebrow pencils.

Okay, now for the pictorial ! 

My first little pictorial! How exciting. This is just me filling them in. None of the setting, or concealor steals that I usually will do after. 

1. So this is my natural brow. It's dark mostly, but it has a few space areas. 

2. The first line I draw with the Dipbrow is on the bottom of my brow, from where the dark part of my brow starts to where the arch is. 

3. Next step is to draw the tail. So this just connects from where I ended off on the first line down to as far as you want your tail to be ! I usually over draw it just a little bit, to make my arch look... archier.. LOL

4. Moving on to the top of my brow. I usually start by taking whatever is left over on the brush and do the same steps as the bottom to kind of lightly trace how I want my arch to be. You should try to follow the natural shape of your brows when doing this. You can over draw it a little bit to make it look a little thicker, or make the arch look curvier, but don't over do it, and don't try changing the shape too much ! After I lightly outline it, I will pick up more product, to solidify that line like you see in the picture. 

5. Using whatever is left on the brush, I fill in the gap that is at the end of the brow, making sure it's nice a opaque. 

6. Then what I like to do is take my brush and slowly start to blend the colour forward to the front of my brow. Usually, where I first drew those two lines , there will be some extra product, so I just take my brush and feather that colour out towards the front. 

7. once again, using whatever is left on your brush, lightly outline where you want the bottom of the front of your brow to end, as well as the top. 

8. Turn your brush 90 degrees, so it is facing vertically instead of horizontally, and start to feather that colour closer and closer to the front. But making sure you are using a lighter hand when dealing with the front of your brow. 

9. and if you think the front of your brow is a little too dark (it's hard to grasp how light of a hand you need to use sometimes), just take your spooly and feather the colour at the very front out even more, to create that ombre effect. 

While I was in Hong Kong I got to pick up one 3 Concept Eyes blush to play around with. 

The one I picked up is called My Muse and is a Carrot Orange shade with a little bit of Coral in it. 

In the picture it is definitely showing up more Coral than orange, but when looking at it in the pan in real life, it definitely is quite a bright, almost neon, orange. 

These blushes are very pigmented. I want to grab a few more but they're quite pricey to buy online, retailing for around $20

They aren't chalky, and have great staying power. 

Although pigmented, you could definitely use this blush with a light hand, and wearing as a flush of orangey coral. But you could also build it up to be a very beautiful orange blush. 

More soon, 

I think I've already talked about this blush once before, but I wanted to give you guys a swatch and review of the my very first MAC blush ; Peony Petal. 

I originally went into the MAC store to purchase their Melba blush. I've been eyeing it down for quite some time now, and it is pretty much the prettiest soft peach colour ever. 

However, the day I went in, they were actually fresh out of the Melba blush in pan form, so I decided I would pick up a different blush for the time being, just because I didn't want to leave the store without a buying something. It was just one of those days.

Peony Petal caught my eye because it looked very bright and daring in the pan, but when swatched, was actually a very soft barbie doll pink blush. One of the MAC girls applied it with a blush brush on the back of my hand and showed me how different it could look when lightly applied and heavily applied. It was definitely not what I went into MAC to buy, AT ALL, but my justification was "why not buy something that's different from all the other blushes you own."

Not a bad justification at all, but the only problem with that, is that I don't reach for this blush very often. 

Here's it swatched on the back of my hand. I really tried to swatch it nice and hard for this photo, so you could see it's true colour on my skin. But usually when I use it, I don't ever apply it so heavy-handedly, so it actually comes off as a soft rosey cool toned pink. 

I think this blush would look even better on someone with fairer skin than me, but even on my very yellow skintone, it gives off a nice soft glow. 

This blush isn't as creamy or as pigmented as some of the other blushes I own, but that's actually fine for the blush that it is. Because it is such a bright colour, it makes it a lot more wearable due to the fact that it's not super pigmented. I would have to be a lot more careful applying it if it was. It is a little on the chalky side, but it isn't something that is hard to deal with, and you can tell that it is still a very high quality blush.

I definitely don't regret buying this blush, but I don't reach for it as often as I would like, when spending 20 something dollars on a blush. 

It works well as a spring time / summer time blush because of it's bright dolly pink nature. Even in the winter, applied lightly to the tops of the apples of your cheek, it could give a very nice "I was just outside in the snow" look. 

More soon, 

Check out this super easy and fun spring look I did ! I only used two eyeshadows to create this simple, go-to spring inspired look (:

This past Christmas, for my student club secret santa event, I received my very first MAC lipstick. Being the makeup obsessed freak that I've become in the last couple of years, it's a big surprise that I never went out and splurged on a MAC lipstick. Yes, I say splurge, even though these lipsticks don't cost nearly as much as some of the higher end lipsticks out there ($18). But still. I live on a very tight, measly little hostess budget. Especially with the taxes and gas price in Vancouver.. I think I'm just going to stick with buying 6 dollar lipstick from Walmart. It's true what they say though, you really can't judge something unless you've tried it. And honestly, I haven't even had the chance to wear this lipstick yet... but just holding the slick black tube in my hand... swatching it over and over, taking photos and admiring it... I've already fallen in love. 

Something about a MAC lipstick just feels so... right. It was pretty much love at first touch. 

The one that I received was MAC's classic matte red lipstick, Ruby Woo. I was absolutely lusting over the Ruby Woo variation that came in the rose gold packaging for Rihanna's line with MAC, but I heard it was pretty much the same lipstick, just in a different tube. 

Usually I don't tend to gravitate towards the matte lipsticks just because I've been cursed with super disgustingly dry and chapped lips most of the time. However, because it is a MAC lipstick (something a little more special and luxurious than my average drugstore lippie) I'm sorta glad I got a matte one. It seems to make it more special, and it's something that I probably won't wear as often.

Which to me, isn't necessarily a bad thing. It just means I'll have this pretty little thing for longer.

Anyways, when I first swatched it, I was actually a little surprised. In the tube, Ruby Woo looks like a very classic blue-toned red. But swatched on my hand (and maybe it's because of my skintone?) it turned out to be a brighter, more warm-toned (almost orangey) red. Like I said, I haven't gotten the chance to wear this lipstick yet, so I don't know what it'll look like on, but from the swatch above, you can see that it doesn't come out as cool-toned as you think it would. 

So what's the first thing I do after swatching this lovely new baby of mine? Try to find a color dupe in my collection.. DUH. 

So here is my little collection of red lipsticks. I don't have that big of a variation in brands, but as you can see, I still have quite a few reds. 

So from left to right in the above pictures I have : 

Wet N' Wild - Red Velvet

Maybelline - On Fire Red

MAC - Ruby Woo

Wet N' Wild - Stoplight Red

Maybelline - Red Revival

So here are the swatches for all the above lipsticks. Please ignore my dry hand. It's going from winter to spring here in Vancouver, and usually when the season changes, my body goes absolutely bonkers and completely dries. Don't ask me why, I have no idea. It just happens. 

So the swatch at the very left is Red Velvet by WnW. I thought that Red Revival (the swatch at the bottom) would be the closest to Ruby Woo when I first glanced at it, but it turns out Red Velvet turned out to be a much closer match than Red Revival. Stoplight Red (the one at the top) also matches pretty well but I still think Red Velvet is the closest. Other than the texture and finish of the lipstick (Red Velvet is creamier, and more moisturizing) it would actually be a pretty good dupe for MAC's infamous Ruby Woo. 

How are you liking the qualities of these pictures by the way? I've been playing around with my friend's T3i and I've been absolutely loving it. I'm planning to take some of my saved up chinese new years money and buy myself one ! I'm going to be using the T3i to film a make video soon too to see how it works in the video department but so far I am adoring this camera. Get ready for some way better quality pictures for this blog.

Hope you guys are having as great of a day as I am.

Talk soon, lovers. 

So I randomly decided I would go for a walk and I just so happened to find my self at the drugstore ! (except the "walk" was only just an excuse for me to pop by the drugstore for makeup..)

BUT ANYWAYS, I picked a few new items to try out and so I thought I would do a mini haul just to show you guys what to be expecting a review about soon ! 

Prestige Mascara | Real technique brushes | Freeman Dead Sea Minerals mask

I was going through the clearance bins and found this little number.. 

TWO MASCARAS IN ONE ! I heard about these prestige mascaras (particularly the my BIGGEST lashes) and that they were quite good. So imagine how excited I got when I saw this two-for-one deal ! Comes with the BIGGEST lashes as well as a WATERPROOF lashes ! the waterproof one will be good for my up-coming after prom since I will definitely be dancing the night away (: I can't wait to try these (even though I have 4 other mascaras open at the moment... uhmmmm) Keep your eyes peeled for a video about them soon !  

The last thing I got was this Freeman Anti-stress Dead Sea Minerals Mask. I've heard a lot about these masks by freeman, and they have such a large selection of them at london drugs (to be honest, I wanted to buy them all). And they're only 5 bucks ! how could I resist ! I definitely will be going back and buying more , (I might ACTUALLY buy all of them.... slight addiction). I tried this one out tonight and it left my skin feeling pretty smooth afterwards. My skin did feel a bit tight immediately afterwards but it went away in a few minutes. I don't LOVE it yet, but it seems to be going good. I'm going to try this out a few more times before giving you guys a better review on them ! 

Anyways, that is all, seriously keep your eyes peeled for reviews ! I have a feeling they're gunna be good ones !!

 

Even though I just bought Revlon Black Cherry today, I couldn't help but put it on. And I absolutely adore it. So dark it's beautiful <3

Just had a little bit of gold on my lids and a nice sharp winged out eyeliner and then of course my bold lip.  Can't not get enough of the bold lips lately. 

What do you think?