Winter Wonderland Holiday Look Tutorial

I recently got some new products and was playing around with them. This is what I came up with and thought this was the perfect icy wintery look.

Eyes

• NYX Jumbo pencil
• Michael Todd Long wear cream shadow, Pirate Island
• Obsessive Compulsive Cosmetics, Obscure, & Jubilee 
• NYX eyeshadow, Taupe 
• Inglot eyeshadow, whit shimmer 
• Physicians Formula 2 in 1 eye booster eyeliner 
• Maybelline Falsies mascara

Lips

• CoverGirl Natureluxe gloss balm 250 Cabernet

Face

• Maybelline Fit me Foundation
• NYX blush, Red

NOTD Pool Boy With Snowflakes

OCC Pool Boy

 So I recently got my order from OCC's black friday sale so I decided to try it out. Wow what a color! It will be a great color for summer by the pool but it's also a great winter baby blue. I had seen a tutorial on how to do snow flakes and wanted to try them out and they make the perfect combo. The polish is so opaque and would be fine with one thick coat. I think I found a new favorite color!

 Here is the video that inspired the snow flakes. Thanks Iris for such an easy nail art tutorial that even the nail art challenged (me) can do.

Review: E.L.F Studio Mascara Primer

Lengthen and volumize eyelashes instantly with this Mascara Primer. Revitalize lashes with Pro-Vitamin B5, Hydrolyzed Wheat and Soy Protein-enriched formula. An excellent conditioning base for mascara. Coat each lash with this nourishing primer for lashes that appear naturally thicker, longer and stronger! 

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Left: E.L.F Studio mascara primer and Maybelline falsies mascara. Right: Maybelline falsies mascara alone.

Left: E.L.F Studio mascara primer and Maybelline falsies mascara. Right: Maybelline falsies mascara alone.

I really like this mascara primer. It helps pump up the volume and length of lashes with just one coat of primer and one coat of mascara. When normally it would take multiple coats of mascara to make lashes look thicker and longer with the primer it only needed one. The primer makes my lashes feel soft even with the mascara on. Normally mascara make my lashes feel crunchy. The brush on the wand is the perfect size coating all the lashes. I"m also digging the packaging. The handle of the wand is nice and long making it easy to handle. Like all E.L.F products it’s very inexpensive at only $3, well worth the price.

November Favorites, Things I'm Digging.

Some of the products and tools I really liked during November.

1. CoverGirl Naturlux Mousse Mascara
2. Maybelline Eyestudio Color Explosion Luminizing Eyeshadow (10 amethyst ablaze)
3. Incoco Nail Applique 
4. E.L.F Studio Stipple Brush
5. Conair Natural Boar Bristle Hair Brush

Review: E.L.F Studio Stipple Brush

This new antibacterial, synthetic haired Taklon brush is softer and more absorbent and can be used with wet or dry products. Be a professional makeup artist and create a flawless look with this e.l.f. Studio brush!
The layered bristles create a soft airbrushed look that's perfect for applying foundation or adding color definition to cheekbones or highlighting with soft layers. Use this brush with any liquid or powder face product such as foundation, blush or bronzer to build your coverage from sheer to heavy.

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This brush is great bang for your buck! The synthetic bristles are supper soft. The brush has a nice feel in the hand the handle is just the right length neither to long nor to short. It applies liquid foundation flawlessly with no streaks. The synthetic bristles dry completely in about 3 hours after washing with soap and water. At just $3 the E.L.F. stipple brush is a great deal.

Review E.L.F. Studio Complete Coverage Concealer

 Savvy beauty shoppers rejoice—now there is no need to buy new concealer from season to season for meeting the different needs your skin tone may have. e.l.f. introduces a sleek quad compact filled with four brilliant, customizable concealers ranging from light, medium and dark shades. A must have for anyone’s makeup kit these highly pigmented, professionally formulated concealers offer ultimate coverage to disguise a range of boo-boos and flaws including blemishes, dark circles, redness and uneven skin-tone for a flawless, makeup artist finish!
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I bought this concealer compact because I have trouble finding the right shade, and thought it would be great for mixing. But I was greatly disappointed in it. The concealers are extremely waxy and hard to get out of the pan with a brush and even when I used my finger to warm it up it barley came out. The colors were also poorly pigmented. When applied to the skin the concealer went straight into the cracks and fine lines on the skin, which is not a good look and makes you look older.  This concealer pallet is defiantly a regret buy and I don’t think I’ll get any use out of it.

Monday Blog Hop

Monday Blog Hop

If your looking for a way to find new blogs to read or a way so people can find your blog? Try checking out the Monday blog Hop Hosted by Nykki at Nykki's Mane Blog. I have found so may great blogs that I would of never of known about without the Monday Blog Hop.The great thing is they are not limited to just beauty. I have found some great blogs dedicated to sewing, and cooking which is right up my ally.

All you have to do is leave your name and the link to your blog (make sure the url is correct I have found there are some that don't go to any site).  And don't forget to leave a comment when your done. If your just looking to find a new blog be sure to leave a comment saying the Monday Blog Hop sent you.

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