You Light Up My Life

Hello everyone,

I think I may have finally fixed the issue with my camera so hopefully I will have videos up again soon, I know I said it last week, but I'm pretty sure this week I have it fixed.


As the title may imply highlights light you up, they give you that glow, that illusion that your healthy, and well rested even if you aren't. The etherial qualities and softening of the light around the contours of your face can give you that model fresh look.

There are really two different types of highlighting products: creams and powders. Creams are the easiest to apply, as you can generally apply them with your fingers, they have a more pronounced appearence and oftentimes are more pearlized or shimmery than powders. Powders do require a brush, however, they result in a more natural look.

I have a variety of different highlights some pallets, some singles, matte highlights and more shimmery ones, I actually unfortunatly do not have any matte creams, but would totally be open to suggestions on which ones to get.

Powders:

Too Faced Candlelight Powder, M.A.C. Pearlmatte Powders in Flatter Me

Both are multi use highlights, Candlelight can be used as a translucent face powder, and Flatter Me can also be used as a blush.

 

 

Bobbi Brown Shimmer Brick in Bronze:

 

 

You've seen it before and you see it again, the top shade of this brick is the most amazing highlight, EVER. soft golden buttery glow, you almost don't even need the rest of the brick.

 

 

 

 

 



 

 

 

 

 

 

Sephora Sun Disk:

 

 

A complete contouring set, the highlight is a little chalky but overall still a good set.

 

 

 



 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Coastal Scents 6 Blush Contour Pallet:

 

Love this pallet, complete matte highlights, very,very natural.

 

 

 

 



 

 

 

 

 

M.A.C. Paint Pots Chilled on Ice:

 

I do not like Paint Pots for their original purpose, as an eye primer. On the other hand as a shimmery cream highlight? Definatly. Be aware some of the Paint Pots have chunky glitter in them.

 

 

 

 



 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Benefit Cream Highlighting Products

 

Left to Right: Girl Meets Pearl, What's Up, High Beam, Moon Beam, Sun Beam.

 

 

 

 

Girl Meets Pearl: Sheer pink pearl not as pigmented as High Beam, can be used mixed with foundation.

 

What's Up: A "Soft focus highlight" Very natural, easily blendable, stick highlighter

 

Sun Beam: Golden Bronze cream, great for summer

 

Moon Beam: beautiful soft pink gold highlight

 

High Beam: Pearlized pink

 

 

So which ever way you decide to go with your highlight choices, cream or powder, don't be afraid to get your glow on!

 

 

 

 

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Stain Alive!

Hey everyone,


I'm having a few issues right now with my camera, and my laptop right now ans that is why I have  as of yet been unable to post any pictures or videos, I'm really sorry about that, but I'm hoping to have it fixed soon.


Last week on one of my weekly trips to my local Sephora I finally decided to try a product I've been a little leery of, Lip and Cheek stains.

I'm sure that there are a lot of you who are in the same place that I was before, completely put off by the word "stain". I have to say that although you have to be careful about how you apply stains and not applying them too often then they will become permanent.

I decided to try out the Benefit Lip and Cheek stains, as I had heard they were the best (and there were sample sets of them), and they are both extremely easy to use and they look amazing.

Benetint:

 

The Original Benefit Lip and Cheek Stain a deep red rose colour, applies very sheer so for more noticeable colour you may have to apply more than once. One major downfall to the Benetint is that it is scented, and not in a nice vanilla or soft floral scent. It smells like you broke a bottle of your grandmothers favourite perfume.

 

Posie Tint:

 

Posie Tint is a very light almost baby pink it has a creamy formula as opposed to the liquid Benetint. It is far more pigmented and is unscented overall a great choice if your just trying them out for the first time.

 

 

Cha Cha Tint:

 

Cha Cha Tint is an orange coral great for a nice warm glow, apply directly to the apples of your cheeks after your tinted moisturiser and your powder, and you need nothing else. Again it is a creamy style formula and is also unscented.


A couple of things to note, when applying as a cheek stain only apply to one cheek at a time. If left for more than a few seconds it will stain in the shape that you have applied with the brush. Also the lip stains are not flavoured, like a lip gloss, as a matter of fact they taste terrible, in order to avoid this apply your stain to your lips and rub it onto your lips continue to work the stain into your lips until it drys, and any nasty taste will be avoided.


So if there is one thing I can say, DON'T FEAR THE STAIN, unless you apply it to your bare skin everyday, it really isn't permanent.


Like I said hopefully I'll get the issues worked out with my camera soon, and I am really looking forward to some tutorials for you guys, as a sneak peek I will actually be starting with a four part series called "Makeup of the Ancient World". So tune in for that.


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Travelin' Light

Hey Everybody,




Just recently I went on a trip and naturally I wanted to take some makeup with me, but when your travelling, How much makeup do you take with you? What should you take? and Do you take brushes or not? Are probably some of the most difficult questions related to makeup and travel.

The First Question: How much makeup do you take with you?

The amount of makeup you take with you should be directly proportionate to the length of your trip, if your going for one or two days you don't need as many products as you would if you were going for a whole week. Remember though Pack Light.

Question Number Two: What should you take with you?

Regardless of if your going on a two day trip or a two week vacation, try to only pack your basics first, then add your frills, it doesn't do any good if you fill up your makeup case with eyeshadows and don't leave any room for your face products. While I do love foundation, when I travel I do prefer to take a tinted moisturiser, they usually come in smaller tubes, and having an added SPF helps with all the time you"ll hopefully be spending in the sun. Also if you've ever recieved a sample product before like a tube of lip gloss or mascara this is the perfect place to use them (just make sure you like the formula first), however, most liquid and pencil liners are already perfectly sized for travel are they are fairly small and slim.

The Final: Do you take brushes or not?

If your taking a short trip take maybe only one or two travel sized brushes that you may really need like a powder brush or a lip brush. If your taking a longer vacation, taking a small brush roll is probaly a good idea, some makeup bags even have small sections to store brushes.

Here are the products and tools I took on my recent trip, and a few alternate suggestions:

  

 

 

Also I go a little more in depth in my video review:

 

 

 

 

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Wet & What?

Hey Everybody,


So I think that a lot of people have been wondering about some drugstore products, as lately I've been mostly talking about higher end products or products that have to be ordered online. I know that these aren't necessarily the easiest beauty products to obtain, as you may live in a smaller town or you don't have a payment method to have these products shipped to you.

One drugstore product that I cannot live with out is defiantly Wet & Wild eyeshadows. These are hands down my favourite shadows ever. Super pigmented, soft, blendable shadows that prove that you don't have to spend alot of money in order to get amazing products. Here I've swatched Spoiled Brat and I'm Feeling Retro just to show you.

The first time I tried Wet & Wild shadows I was unsure how good they were going to be as they were very inexpensive and I hadn't heard of them before, but being on a starving student's budget I thought that at the price it couldn't hurt. I was AMAZED as soon as I was able I had to go back and buy more.
In order to get the best value I would defiantly say to get the trios or the pallet depending on how easy or complicated you like to have your makeup.

Some of my favourite trios are: Sweet as Candy, Silent Treatment & Walking on Eggshells

Sweet as Candy and Walking on Eggshells are very similar in colour choice, except that the brow in the Sweet as Candy and the pink are a bit darker, however, both give just a great neutral eye. Sometimes with either trio I will just apply the top shadow marked "Browbone" all over my eye, from lid to brow and then take the crease colour and apply directly to the crease, for a simple, retro almost 1940's look. Silent Treatment gives a great almost smokey eye with the taupe eyelid shade dark brown crease that has some glitter, not overly noticeable when applied but does lend a shimmer to the shadow, and a light pink browbone highlight.

Some more fun trios: I'm Feeling Retro, Spoiled Brat & Don't Steal my Thunder

Some days you feel fun and adventurous and Wet & Wild makes trios for those days as well. I'm Feeling Retro, defiantly makes me feel retro, to be honest I think that the feel that they were trying to attain with this trio was for the 1980's, however I can definitively say that the colours are far more 1960's, which I personally love. Spoiled Brat has a really dramatic colour pallet a hot pink eyelid a glittery black crease and stunning sliver highlight make it a really fun different. Don't Steal My Thunder is the epitome of a smokey eye a slightly less metallic silver than the one in Spoiled Brat, a frosted black for the crease and a matte white highlight.

The eight pallets allow for even more freedom with your eyeshadow, because you can mix and match any shades you want.

Three really great ones are: Blue Had Me at Hello, Petal Pusher & Comfort Zone

 

 

Blue Had Me at Hello, has a good selection of matte shimmer and glitter, as well as balance of colour, a big pet peeve of mine are eyeshadow pallets that don't have at least a couple of neutral colour to ground the whole pallet whether it be black, brown, white, navy or plum, Wet & Wild has great balance. The pallet has a fantastic shimmery white, two great navys a silver, an amazing teal a light silver and two blacks one matte one glittery, the whole pallet is great if there only one reason for you to get this pallet it is the matte black, it is the blackest black you can get. I have tried so many black eyeshadows this is the best I have found.

Petal Pusher is pretty much all purples and plums, on the right side of the pallet the plums some matte some glittery, as well as a fantastic gunmetally charcoal, with glitter fantastic to get a great plum smokey eye. On the left side of the pallet the purples a beautiful matte white highlight all the way down to fantastic blue purple. If your afraid or unsure of colour this is a great place to start, plums are super flattering for everyone.

Comfort Zone is a nice neutral pallet a great place to start any makeup collection, everything here from a taupe's and great browns, a pale spring green adds interest, however, probably my most favourite shade in the whole pallet is the lower right definer a dark copper brown, that has a blue iridescence to it, makes it so amazing. The only shadow I don't care for in this whole pallet is the left browbone highlight its chalky and not overly pigmented.

If you are looking for Wet & Wild shadows there used to be two places that I know of that you could buy them, one used to be at Zeller's which if you are Canadian, you know is impossible, the other place where I know you can still get them is at Walmart, trios are roughly 2.99$ Canadian and eight pallets are about 3.99$ Canadian.



On a side note as of next week I will be doing Vlog Reviews on Tuesdays and tutorials on either Thursdays or Fridays. Check out my latest Review on Bobbi Browns book Beauty Rules here:

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