12.5.2010 Beauty FOTD

My friend who got me into beauty told me about this British makeup artist named Lisa Eldridge and then I started watching her beauty videos. And then I became inspired. Not only does the makeup she does on editorials look amazing, but she's ridiculously beautiful. And tonight, I'm about to head out for my mom's birthday, and I was inspired by Lisa when I did my makeup. I was going for simple and fresh look and I think I kind of achieved it. Although I'm beginning to have wished I used some eyedrops in this one.

I'm going to attempt a step-by-step approach to how I did this look.

1. Moisturized.

2. Mixed primer and foundation and applied it with a foundation brush.

3. With the same brush, I applied Mac's Joie de Vivre on my cheeks.

4. Dusted my face with a Maybelline powder foundation.

5. Applied a Covergirl lipstain then applied a pink gloss over it, but then it looked like too much so I tried taking it off, but there was still a hint of lipstain, and so I just applied the pinkish lipgloss (man that was a long one.) haha.

6. Used Nyx's eyeliner in Pearl White on my brow bone and a tad on the inner corners of my eyes. Blended that.

7. Applied UDPP. And a taupish-brown generic eyeshadow on my eyelids.

8. Covergirl Lash Blast Luxe mascara (I think this is my favorite).

9. I eventually noticed how blah my eyes looked, and so I tightlined with a black-brown eyeliner.. and then a tad of black eyeliner on the bottom.

Dang.. I think next time I'll try to condense my beauty routine. And eventually try to achieve a 5-minute face. I was trying to do that a couple days ago, but it turned out to be a 10-minute face.

11.19.2010 Beauty and Prada

Something awesome happened to me this evening, and I had to celebrate. Except, I was supposed to go to dinner with my friend and she flaked on me right when I was just done dolling up my face with my good makeup. Whatever..

I wanted to do something pretty grand with colors under my eyes, and it was probably a good idea I didn't seeing that I didn't get to go anywhere. So instead, I just did a smokey brownish-taupey look using mostly my new Pop Beauty palette. I'll probably be using this more because I love the colors and I want to see what I can do with them. Just as long as you have some kind of primer underneath, most of these colors can stand out.

And then later this evening, I decided to make a version of this Rugalah recipe,

http://www.thecookingguy.com/cookbook/recipe.php?id=590. I was excited because I was just watching Sam the Cooking Guy earlier today and he cooked up this recipe. Here at my house, no one cooks with spices, so I had to knick those out of the recipe. Whatever. What am I saying? I don't even have pictures to back up my long explanation. haha.

So then my mom came home with a surprise for me. I've been eyeing these sunglasses where she works at every now and then. They used to be around 60 bucks around wintertime last year. They hardly ever got marked down, even during the summer months. And so, today she found one left marked off to around 14 dollars. Prada's! And then I saw this site,

http://www.smartbuyglasses.com/designer-sunglasses/Prada/Prada-PR51IS-5AK-8C1-15999.html?feed=us+shopzilla

where it retails marked down to 342.95 from 566.00. Yes. I'm insanely surprised, and excited because I always wanted these and thought these were so unique and fashion forward. In a way, they also look very science fiction to me. I haven't told my mom yet on the price I saw them online yet, but she believes a lot of the priciness in it is already because of the packaging. hehe. I must admit, it is really nice. Thank you so much, mom.