Collective Shopping Spree

I’ve picked up a few things here and there lately that I wanted to share with you guys. I haven’t really had the chance to use them enough for a review, but I’ll get on it!

Eyes/Brows:

Maybelline Color Tattoo in Painted Purple, Tenacious Teal and Tough as Taupe

Maybelline Master Precise eyeliner

Maybelline Master Shape brow definer in soft brown

Face/Cheeks:

MAC Studio Careblend Pressed Powder in medium deep

NYX Bronzer & Blusher Combo in Sunrise in Bali

NYC Sun 'n’ Bronze Powder in Coney Island Glow

Sephora Harmony Trio Bronzer in Apricot

Maybelline Dream Bouncy Blush in Peach Satin

e.l.f Makeup Mist & Set

Lips:

Wet n Wild Lipstick in Don’t Blink Pink and Dollhouse Pink

essence Stay with me lipgloss in Me & My Icecream and Candy Bar

L-R: Don’t Blink Pink, Dollhouse Pink, Me & My Icecream, Candy Bar

Nail:

Sinful Colors polish in Zeus

Fragrance:

Victoria’s Secret Pink with a splash body mist in sweet & flirty and fresh & clean

Hair:

Organix Moroccan Argan Oil Conditioner

I’ll be posting pictures and completing reviews soon!

Love and hugs,

Jae

Haulin’ with the Homies!

Actually, I wasn’t with the homies, but Clueless was stuck in my head for some reason. I recently picked up a few things and received a couple of things free and wanted to show you guys my goodies-not the goodies that Ciara sings about, but the one’s from ULTA and Sephora. Ok, ok, enough with my corny jokes and on to the good stuff!

NYX Studio Liquid Liner in Extreme Blue and Plum Purple – I couldn’t resist it, I needed to use my ULTA $3.50 off of $10 coupon. They weren’t lying when they said extreme blue.

Benefit Powderflage – I’ve heard a lot about this product from youtubers, but didn’t want to spend $28 on it so I wanted until and used my ULTA rewards points for $9 off.

Real Techniques Stippling Brush – I bought this brush because I was looking for a smaller stippling brush as I feel that I don’t have any control with regular stippling brush. *sorry its dirty, I use it daily!*

Benefit the Porefessional, Posie tint and BAD gal lash - were all part of a free gift for my Benefit purchase.

e.l.f Makeup Remover Cleansing Wipes – I decided to pick these up from Target since they were so cheap.

Carol’s Daughter Hair Milk – I saw this at the check out area and decided to pick it up since it was only $10.

SEPHORA hydrating & smoothing foundation in D40 – I’ve been on the search for the perfect liquid foundation and this was only $6 bucks so I couldn’t resist it. So far so good…a full review will be coming soon.

Benefit Coralista face powder – I received this free as my 100 point gift at Sephora and I LOVE it. It just makes my cheeks glow.

Benefit Stay Don’t Stray, Erase Paste in Medium and R.S.V.P Cream Shadow – I’ve been wanting to try the Stay Don’t Stray and Erase Paste and this was another one of those items at the register that I couldn’t turn my back on.

Philosophy happy birthday beautiful – this was my birthday gift from Sephora and it smells so freaking good.

Make sure to drop me a note if you have any of these products.

Love and hugs,

Jae

FOTN:: Flirty 30!

On June 6th at 3:03 I officially left my 20's behind! Yes...I'm officially in the 30 and over club. A couple friends and I went to happy hour/dinner at BarCode in DC to celebrate the occasion. I'm sorry that I don't remember all of the products I used, but I thought I would post the pictures and the eye products I remember.

Eyes:

Jesse's Girls Eyeshadow Primer

NYX Jumbo Pencil - French Fries

MAC Pigment - Copperized

ULTA Eyeshadow - Cognac

MAC Eyeshadow - Vanilla



The end of the night!

Love and Hugs,
Jae

 



Failed FOTN…

They say sharing means caring so here goes. My pictures of this look sucked, but I still want to post the highlight of it for me…my lips. I’m so sorry the pictures of my eyes didn’t come out well.

Products Used:

Wet ‘n Wild 907CP

NYX Purple Rain Lipliner

MAC Viva Glam VI Special Edition Lipglass

Better luck next time…

Jae

Got Brows!

I didn't have any plans last night which normally results in playing in makeup and watching a little TV. Since practice can make close to perfect, I figured I'd keep at one of the things I'm trying to perfect. I've been trying different things on my brows lately and trying to make them look like sisters that like each other instead of sisters that hate each other! Basically, I know they won't look perfect, but I want to make them look as close to perfect as I can.

I have so many items for my brows and a couple of eyeliners that I used for my brows and after I ran out of my trusty Maybelline Line Stylist in Espresso I knew it was time to try other products. I also have the Maybelline Define-A-Brow in medium brown for days when I want a lighter color to my brows as well as the NYX and NYC brow kits. As you can see, I have lots of product already and it was definitely time to start using them! 

I've also started trying new techniques lately like using a brush to make sure the product is distributed evenly (which I've noticed uses a lot less product as well) and I'm sure that has been the difference in the way they look. I also started using 2 different colors which really made them look really natural with the darker color toward the tail and the lighter toward the front. The arch in my left brow is a little higher which always shows when I clean them up with concealer. That particular night it clicked to me to put a little more powder or use the pencil to draw a little under the arch to bring it down a little bit and much to my surprise it really worked. I had an ah-ha moment and was so happy that I did. I am now even happier with my brows right now and can't wait to play around with them more. I was so excited I took picture for you. Let me know what you think. The pictures below are from different days, but I decided to share both!

How do you do your brows? Let me in on your tricks and tips.

Love and hugs,
Jae

My First Live Tutorial

So…I finally recorded a live tutorial! I was in a rut and decided a needed to get up, get out and do something…actually that’s a song, but its true in the since that I needed to get up! I couldn’t decide what to do so I settled on makeup, something that always makes me happy. I also used this as a perfect time to play with my webcam to see if it was good enough for videos. I hope you enjoy this rough first live makeup look *whispers* I don’t like calling them tutorials.

 

What I Used:

Face:

Maybelline Fit Me Liquid Foundation 315 and 355

Covergirl Queen Collection Brown Bronzer

MAC Skinfinish Natural Medium Dark

Elf Bronzing Quad

Sephora Blush

Eyes:

120 palette – black

Ulta – Truffle

Ulta – Cognac

MAC – mauvement pigment

NYX Pearl Mania – Nude

WnW Crème Liner – black

Prestige Kohl Liner – brown

Kiss Lashes

Lips:

Milani Lipliner – Natural

NYX Lipstick – Pumpkin Pie

MAC Lipgloss – Love Nectar

Enjoy,

Jae