Showing posts with label Beauty. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Beauty. Show all posts

4.12.2016

Sephora Favorites | VIB Sale

For my beauty product junkies, Sephora is having their VIB Sale.  I always try to pick up one or more new items that I've been wanting to try during this sale and also re-stock any items that I've run out of.

I did a post just a few months back (see below) with some of my favorite beauty products.  I'm restocking up on my Ginzing cream as well as a few more of those Sephora face masks that I'm obsessed with (so hydrating!).

I'm trying this new mascara (I've used Benefit They're Real for a long time) and really excited to finally buy my first Tata Harper product.  I've been wanting to try this one for awhile.  Watch the video and you will be wanting that glow too :)

Tata Harper Resurfacing Mask


I've been loving my Naked2 palate for a couple of months now too.  It's a great matte variety with taupe-hued neutrals. It's perfect for everyday and then can take you through the night with a little more drama. 

I've been obsessed with these Sugar lipsticks lately.  I have it in several different colors, but my favorites right now are Tulip and Nude.  They are so hydrating which I need because I feel like my lips are always chapped.  It's refreshing and gives me some color when I walk out the door with nothing else on my face!




Here's a list of some of my other favorites from this year.  I still use all of these and love them.  Here are the CODE details.  Hurry up before the sale is over.  




Beauty Favorites


NARSissist Cheek Palette- I picked this palette up about a year or so ago and I love it.  It has Nars famous Laguna bronzing powder along with four popular blush colors.  I love being able to change up my blush color depending on my mood or the season!
Nars Lip Gloss in Priscilla- This fab lip color looks a little scary in the tube because it is so bright, but honestly, on your lips it is the perfect pink! I borrowed this from my friend on the bachelorette party and I had several people ask what color I was wearing on my lips.
Origins GinZing Eye Cream- I've been wearing this eye cream for a couple of years now and can't live with out it.  I had read so many good reviews about it. It sucks getting old and having tired bags under your eyes.  But, this pretty creme has a shade of light pink to it that instantly makes you feel brighter and it helps the puffiness under your eyes.  A mother's dream :)
Glam Glow Mud Face Mask- I've been seeing so much about the Glam Glow products and never took the plunge with any of them until I was on the hunt for a great pore refining and pore cleansing mask.  This charcoal mask helps brighten and soften your skin while also working on those pesky black heads which are always my problem.  I also love feeling like I'm pampering myself at home too.
Sephora Face Masks- These mask are the bomb.  Seriously.  We used these on my trip to Miami after a day of too many fruity drinks and our skin just sucked up the hydration and was left feeling silky smooth and replenished.  I came home and bought 6 to keep around.  It's so important to keep our skin hydrated and this is a fun way to do it.

If you had to pick one beauty product that you love and use daily, what would it be?


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2.19.2016

5 Favorite Beauty Products

I am definitely not a beauty expert, but I am a bit of a product junkie. I love to read what other people are using and one of my favorite parts of being on a girls weekend is sharing new products from other girls. My recent bachelorette trip to Miami is where a couple of these new favorites came from :)
Beauty Favorites


NARSissist Cheek Palette- I picked this palette up about a year or so ago and I love it.  It has Nars famous Laguna bronzing powder along with four popular blush colors.  I love being able to change up my blush color depending on my mood or the season!
Nars Lip Gloss in Priscilla- This fab lip color looks a little scary in the tube because it is so bright, but honestly, on your lips it is the perfect pink! I borrowed this from my friend on the bachelorette party and I had several people ask what color I was wearing on my lips.
Origins GinZing Eye Cream- I've been wearing this eye cream for a couple of years now and can't live with out it.  I had read so many good reviews about it. It sucks getting old and having tired bags under your eyes.  But, this pretty creme has a shade of light pink to it that instantly makes you feel brighter and it helps the puffiness under your eyes.  A mother's dream :)
Glam Glow Mud Face Mask- I've been seeing so much about the Glam Glow products and never took the plunge with any of them until I was on the hunt for a great pore refining and pore cleansing mask.  This charcoal mask helps brighten and soften your skin while also working on those pesky black heads which are always my problem.  I also love feeling like I'm pampering myself at home too.
Sephora Face Masks- These mask are the bomb.  Seriously.  We used these on my trip to Miami after a day of too many fruity drinks and our skin just sucked up the hydration and was left feeling silky smooth and replenished.  I came home and bought 6 to keep around.  It's so important to keep our skin hydrated and this is a fun way to do it.

If you had to pick one beauty product that you love and use daily, what would it be?


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6.05.2014

Thoughts for Thursday Link- Up | Morning Beauty Routine

Welcome to Natalie and I's inaugural "Thoughts for Thursday" link-up party!  We are so excited to kick-off a new link-up and hope to meet some new faces and learn a little bit more about the faces we already know!  If you didn't get your thoughts together in time for this weeks link-up, be sure to join us next week!  You won't want to miss this party again :)

Today I'm talking beauty and even gathered a few of the items that help me get beautiful in the mornings these days...

First, I'll bullet a few random thoughts:

+ My beauty routine has grown since having a child...that is when I decide to actually wear make-up.

+ It took about 9 months after having Brody to really start feeling "pretty" again.  I can't explain it completely (those of you that have had babies probably understand better), but it just changes things. Your skin, your hair, your EYES.  

+  I started having bags under my eyes all the time.  That's never something I ever dealt with in the past and it ages you many years.  

+  My hairstylist CHOPPED my hair off back in January thinking I needed a fresh look after my Dad passed and I wanted to cry, but I had bigger things to worry about at the time.  I pretty much HATED it though.  

+ I hated my short hair mainly because it hadn't been that short since I was a freshman in college, but also because it makes my face look fat.  This really didn't help with my already fat face from the extra baby pounds I was holding onto.  

+ I miss my hair being this long...and that's me and my Dad <3


+ Oh, this picture reminds me....I pretty much sport "poufs" like in the picture above all the time because after having a baby, you lose a lot of hair and when it grows back...it ain't pretty.  It sticks straight up at your part and at your hair line and is terrible.  So I try to hide it with the pouf.  

Sorry if I have scared any of you from ever wanting any children.  That's definitely not my intention because our babies are the most amazing things on this planet and I would do it all over again in a heartbeat (and plan to).  However, they do force us to make some adjustments in the beauty department which I know is a positive for me because my previous beauty regimen consisted of bronzer, blush, mascara and some lip gloss.  That was it.

Now, here's my routine: 


Laura Mercier Primer - I don't always use this primer honestly because I have usually just slathered on some of the moisturizer below.  But I need to use it more because I do think it helps make up go on more evenly and helps matte the skin.  
Hope in a Jar Moisturizer -  I love love this stuff.  It's such a nice moisturizer morning or night.  I use it for both, but I know they do make a PM night cream as well.  I may have to try that soon or if any of you have, let me know your thoughts.  
Origins GinZing Eye Cream - This stuff has saved my life.  Thanks you Ashley for recommending. This cream adds the perfect tingling feel to let you know its working plus is light pink in color which brightens and shines your eyes up!  I love it!  Good bye dark circles... 
Laura Mercier Tinted Moisturizer - This is a new addition to my beauty routine and it amazes me I was able to go so many years without it.  It's perfect because it has SPF plus its lightweight and gives me color while evening out my skin tone.  Money.  I use the color Tan. 
Laura Mercier Powder & Concealer -  I'm not a big powder person really, but if I'm feeling a little shining I'll use  that nice Laura Mercier pouf and dab my face a bit.   This also has a concealer in it which I use under eyes and if I have a blemish to cover.  
Bare Minerals Blush Brush - Simple blush brush I've had for a few years and probably need to clean or replace. 
Bare Minerals Bronzer - I've been using this bronzer for years and years in the color warmth. I love it.  Now that I use my tinted moisturizer though, I have to really be careful not to add to much bronzer or else I look like  Magda from Something About Mary! 
Bobbi Brown Blush - This was a dual bronzer and blush compact at one point, but the bronzer fell out and I loved the blush so I've used it for years.  The color is pale pink.  It's bright enough to show up over my dark bronzer :)
Benefit They're Real Mascara -  I'm sure you've seen this stuff on tons of beauty blogs because it's really that good.  It's the bomb and every time I try to buy cheaper ones because it pisses me off to pay so much for a tube of mascara, I hate them.  So I buy this one again.  
Bare Minerals Brush - Brush I use for my bronzer which again needs to be washed or replaced, I'm sure.  
Stila Eye Pencil - I've tried a lot of eyeliner and so many of them smear really bad or don't go on smoothly, but I love this pencil that stila makes.  I have it in black and brown and I use them every day.  
Lip Stick - This varies... I have a bunch that float around my house and throughout purses, but mostly I use these Revlon pencils.  I have about 10 different colors.  
Bobbi Brown Eye Shadow  - I forgot to photograph this, but I use a shadow selection similar to this one from Bobbi Brown.  I think mine was a limited edition.  


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8.11.2013

Ombre Hair

My hair definitely gets darker year after year, but since I was pregnant my natural color has gotten incredibly dark! My roots look terrible and I am tired of it.  I have gone all brown two or three times over the last 10 or 12 years and I never like how it looks.  I always end up going back to put blonde highlights in it.  So I am headed to the hair dresser tomorrow and am using these photos below as inspiration.  What do you think?  Which one do you like best?  Ombre is in, so I mind as well take advantage of the dark roots trend.