What do you Wear to a Cave Restaurant?

Hey girl hey! Lol. So this weekend is my birthday weekend and I'm spending it with my boyfriend. When he gets off work today, we are planning on going to a restaurant that's in a cave! Yes, a cave. I'm super excited. 

So anyways, I figured I'd do a blog and talk about a few things while I get ready for our night out. 

Let's start with one of the most amazing eyeshadow palette out. Morphe Brushes Jaclyn Hill's Favorites. I'm in love! This palette is just so smooth and pigmented. It is worth the hype! The colors are beautiful. It's probably my favorite palette I own. :) I used one of Jaclyn Hill's tutorials on it. Here's the link. https://youtu.be/JRhZqiead6k

Next I just did my normal routine. Nothing special, but I did do a full face of makeup. I also did my eyebrows. I'm not sure if I did them right but I think they look decent. It's a work in progress trying to figure that out. 

I'm gonna rave about one more thing, Kat Von D Everlasting Liquid Lipstick in Lolita! I'm late on the Loitia train...I know! But wow this is perfect nude matte lip. I love it. I've searched Sephora 3 times looking for this and FINALLY found it. I'm beautiful so no wonder why it's so rare to find. 

Anyways this blog is basically a couple of quick reviews and a makeup of the day. :) hope you all have a great weekend! :) 

 

The mascara I used is Beauty Rush from Victroia's Secret. I'm not sure if it is still being sold, I've had it a while. 

Overall look. :) 

Blooming with Boxycharm!

Basically Boxycharm had me had over heels in the month of April! I can't gush over this box enough. Boxycharm did an amazing job this month. 

The theme for April is the bloom, as in April flowers blooming. I sure think it definitely bloomed for this month. Okay, enough gushing, let's get to what's inside!

First the Costal Scemts Revealed 2 Palette - this is a wonderful eye shadow palette, just as good as the Revealed 1 Palette that was given a few months ago. There are a great amount of shimmers and matte colors in it. The palette comes with 20 shadows that can complete many looks on its own. I can't wait to start youtubing some great looks using it. 

Top shades all in order, left to right. I love the sixth shade. It's a pretty matte color. I did notice that the last two shades look very similar. 

Bottom shades all in order, left to right. Ideally like all these matte shades! The second to last reminds me so much of the Naked 3 platte. 

Second the OFRA Derma Mineral Powder - okay...I was a lil disappointed with this one at first. There were two different products you could've gotten from OFRA, it was a shimmer brick with, I think four colors, or the loose powder. I wanted the shimmer brick. I'm just not very good with loose powders. Now that I've gotten the powder, it's alright. It can be used as a highlight for the top of the check bones and the eyes. Boxycharm even gave a tip to use it down the shins of your legs to make them look longer and pretty? Idk if I'll be doing that, but I may give it a try. However, there is so much product! This will last me forever, I'm sure of it. Lol. 

Third the Vincent Longo Duo Lip Pencil - I'm really happy with this! It has two lip liner colors on it, purple and brandy. My favorite is brandy! I think it'll go great with nudes. The purple is pretty too. 

Left: purple 

Right: brandy

Fourth the Coolway Smoothing Lotion - this is a hair product that is suppose to create smooth, manageable hair with no frizz. I love it! You can use this product both, dry and wet. I prefer it dry. Let's talk about my hair, I have naturally curly hair. It use to look like Annie, ask Megan! So when I saw this I thought it would be prefect for those humid summer days. I first used it after taking a shower and straightening my hair. I them applied it to my hair and went outside at night. It should've been frizzed up and looked huge, but it didn't! I can't rave enough about this stuff. 

Last the Harvey Prince Mini Roller Fragrance - of course, this is in a travel size. At first I hated it, it smelled so strong! And had that awful old woman perfume smell...lol. But I used it again, let it mellow out and I like it. It smells much better now that it starts to lighten up over a lil bit of time. I think is will be a good throw in the purse roller perfume. 

All together there is so great products in this box for the month of April. Boxycharm blew me away. I basically like everything I got, still on the fence with the loose shimmer powder. But four outta five ain't bad at all. The total cost of this box at retail value is $150. If you're thinking about trying Boxycharm, I say give it a shot! 

...I Spent Waaaay Too Much Money Last Weekend

Ah, Gustavos weekends... where I get my much needed girl time and my bank account gets decimated.  Worth it? Definitely.  And because of schedules, it only happens like once every six months or so, which we're working on fixing, but it was so needed and was a fitting end to my Spring Break.

So, haul time!  Beyond two new dresses (for under $20 together HECK YES) and a couple of more expensive blouses, I got a bunch of new makeup items.

At Ulta:  Ulta has had a beautiful sale going on, and on Saturday they had Bare Minerals mascara on sale for $9. Half price? I am about that life, lemme tell you.  (I used Ashley's a while back and loved it).  I also picked up NYX BB Cream and Pore filler.

At Target:  We decided to make a drug store makeup run because some of us (ahem, me) can't get over the mental hang up of spending more than $15 on a single item of makeup.  I'm cheap, I can't help it.  I got a bunch of e.l.f. items; including setting spray, brush cleaner, lip exfoliator, and a 32 eye shadow pallette. I've already used the pallette, and I love it.

At Sephora:  The last Gustavos weekend, we went to Sephora and I wanted (but couldn't justify at the time) this two ended lipstick set from Bite Beauty.  It includes the colors "Fig" and "Date".  I still wanted it just as much this time, so I treated myself.

P.S. In my haul photo, I included a buy from Old Navy, e.l.f.'s Face Primer.  I didn't get it this past weekend, but it's still less than a week old, so it deserves a place.

I am also not completely sure what the big deal is about BB Cream... I've Googled and I still don't completely understand, anyone care to explain? A more detailed review is coming soon, once I've given them a good try.

-Megan

Haul Haul Haul!

It's haul time! I've been collecting up this stuff up for a whole month or so. I have makeup from Ulta, Target, and Sephora. I've been using it quite a bit, therefore there's going to be some mini reviews in this too. There are a few products I haven't gotten to yet. Let's get it started with Ulta first. 

Ulta

I had never tried any thing from the NYX line therefore I jumped into it. It's pretty affordable and if you catch it at Ulta on sale, you just can't beat it. I got 2 soft matte lip creams, 3 retractable lip liners that claim to be waterproof, and 1 wonder pencil. 

I'm so impressed with the wonder pencil. It's in the color light. NYX claims that this pencil can do 3 things: conceal blemishes, line your lips against lipstick bleeding and fading, and brighten up the waterline of the eyelids. Sounds pretty wonderful, right? I've only used it for lower eyeliner. I really like it as that. I would like to use it for a lip liner but is that weird to use the exact same pencil for eyes and lips? Is that hygienic? I'm not too sure about it. I may have to get 2 pencils. 

Lip creams, wow. They're super creamy! They smell like buttercream too, love it. I feel like I'm putting cupcake frosting on my lips every time I apply them. The lasting time is alright, you will need to take it along to reapply that's for sure. I find the darker colors run a lil but lip liner should fix that right? 

I don't have much to say on the lip liners. There's not anything super special about them. 

Colors going top to bottom: natural, nude pink, and pretty in pink.

Prague and antwerp. 

Target. 

I had to check out some elf products that I've been hearing about of course. I'm actually pretty impressed with some of these products that I got from elf. 

Daily brush cleaner, is great from spot cleaning. I had just been rubbing my eye shadows left overs from my brushes on toilet paper...bad, I know. I just didn't wanna deep clean them every time since I didn't have any spot cleaner, until now! So basically I'm loving it. It works great. And smell is pretty good too. 

Blush brush, this brush is used for many things on YouTube. I've mostly seen it as a concealer setting powder. It's the prefect size for it. I haven't used it yet considering I just cleaned it finally for use. But I definitely plan on trying to make it a multitude use brush, hopefully. 

Eyebrow kit, I haven't tried it yet. It's on my bucket list to figure this whole eyebrow figuring out thing. 

Lip exfoliator, I love this! It was only $3 and one heck of a value. It smells kinda fruityish? When you run it over your lips it is very textured and you can feel it exfoliate, which I would hope you could. Lol. It has a waxy feel once on the lips. I think it will be a great lip primer for lip sticks. Also the packaging is very sleek and black. I like it a lot. 

Contouring blush and bronzing powder in St. Lucia, not sure how I feel about this yet. I think this is suppose to be a dupe for Nars. I just don't like glittery or any shimmer on my face other than my eye lids.  

Elf lip exfoliator

Contouring blush and bronzing powder in St. Lucia. Top is bronzer and blush is bottom. After looking at the swatch, I may start liking the bronzer. It doesn't look too glittery like the blush. 

Sephora. 

Melted too faced in peony. Ugh....I wanted to like it, I really did! But the "long lasting" isn't long lasting. Such a disappointment. It may last 40 minutes. It begins to get clumpy where the lips connect and I hate that. I've applied 2 different lip liners to it and it still does it. I'm going to try the elf lip exfoliator under it and see if it helps any. 

Nars blush in amour. I love it! It's matte and the color is so pretty. I have a lot of blushes I'm a hot pinkish color and this is different for me. I think you could wear this everyday and it be great with any look. I also had this on all day at work and it was long lasting, big plus for me. I definitely wanna try another blush from Nars now. 

Hoola from Benefit, bronzing powder. Love again! It's matte and great. It's easy to work with and blend. This possibly maybe one of my favorite bronzing powders. I would like to try to learn how to contour and use it. The brush it comes with, I think, would work really good for it too. It's like a mini Nars Ita brush. 

Bite Beauty Matte Cream Crayon in Glace. I love it! The color is beautiful, perfect for everyday. It last long. I'm definitely thinking of trying more of Bite Beauty products and everything they use is edible. Not that I'm going to start eating my lip crayon but it's all natural. I really like that about this brand. 

Too faced melted peony, such a pretty pink...I gotta figure out a way to make it work!

Nars Amour 

Hoola by Benefit 

Bite Beauty in Glace. 

Over all I think I found some keepers and a disappointment...too face melted! Come on! Lol. But I can't wait to try out my elf eyebrows kit to see how that goes. Wish me luck! 

Boxycharm madness

Hey guys! So I've been lacking so much. First I haven't done my Boxycharm for the month of January, I'm sorry! And then I missed doing a post last week, I'm terrible. Lol. Okay so we are totally catching up right now.  This post is gonna be Boxycharm for January and February! It's gonna happen. 

January Boxycharm! 

Wow did Boxycharm pull all the stops out for this month. The month's theme was celebrate in style for New Years and it's gotta be one of my favorite boxes so far! As almost always, all these products for this month is full size which is awesome. 

Let's start with the Beauty For Real The Perfect Pencil. It's a great color. I like it. However to claim it's the only lip liner you'll ever need? Not too sure about that. But the color is nice. A mauve brownish red. I love wearing it with Bite Beauty's Grace color. So pretty. It matches so great together. 

Left is the lip liner and right is lip cream. 

Beauty For Real True Color Lip Cream in "Always There". The color is reddish pink. It's super shinny and pretty. I'm in like with it. It a great smooth lip gloss which is super pigmented. What's more to like? The fact that it has a mirror on the bottle and a light? Yes, please. I didn't even realize that the light was on it until I pushed the button on the top of the wand and was like what?? Very cool. Maybe I'm just easy to please, but I think this is a great thing. You know when you're in a dark lit bathroom and you're trying to touch up, this is a great addition to lip gloss. Good job Beauty For Real. 

Mirabella Face Prime. I'm just not sure about this one...I have oily skin most of the time. It's like a shine magnet. So this product is silky and smooth, it just goes on e skin really well. It scares me. Haha. I've used it a couple of times but I don't have much trust in it for my skin. The idea of it is great. Feels good but I don't think it's made for me. I think I'm gonna have to find someone to give it to. Not too impressed with it. 

Pur-lisse Skin Sparkle Flash Tattoos. I'm wishy washy on this too. Is it cool to wear fake tattoos for adults now? New tread I'm guessing. I work in a profession where I just don't think I could pull it off. Maybe I can find somewhere to place them where it'll not be completely seen but still cute. We'll see about it. I'm still on the fence for this one. They are cute though, don't get me wrong. I like the leaf ones. 

And saving the best for last, Tarte Maracuja Bronzing Serum! This is amazing that Boxycharm sent this! Take a moment here, its $47. I probably wouldn't have bought it on my own. This is why I love Boxycharm, the fact of trying things you wouldn't be able to. Okay, let's talk about how good it is. I like it! It comes in a really cute packaging and the dispenser is a dropper so easy application. It says 2-3 drops is all it takes. And then immediately watch your hands so there isn't any discoloration on them. It does have a sticky feeling at first but dries fast on the skin and the stickiness goes away. The only down fall is the smell. What was Tarte thinking? I can't even describe it, I just can't. It's weird, but I can over look it cause I really do like it. Does the bronzing color work, not sure just yet actually. I've only used it about 4 times. I'll have to do an update. 

February Boxycharm! 

The theme is obviously Valentine's Day, Kisses from Boxycharm. This box will have to be a first impressions, because I haven't been able to use anything yet. All together, I think it's a pretty good box so far. 

Modern Minerals Duo Fiber Mini Round Brush. It is very soft and feels good. Who doesn't need more brushes? I'm happy with it.

Mullein & Sparrow Mini Facial Mask. This one isn't full size, it's deluxe size. But I don't think the size is really going to hurt, it's something you'll use once a week. It'll take some time to get through it. Look, at that bottle! So cute. I'm pretty excited to use this one. 

ncLA Nail Lacquer in "Heart Attack". Okay, ehh...it's a nail polish with a bunch of hearts. The kind that you used back in the day where you fished the shapes out you wanted on your nails. It was also for Valentine's Day, clearly. I just don't think there will be much use in it for me. I did put one heart on my index fingers while my nails were painted. They actually stayed on for a good time. 

Jing Ai Velvet Shine Lip Jewel. I really like this! The color is a pink and it's just pretty. It is pigmented. Also it claims to never need sharpening, very cool. I'm really hoping that the claim is true. 

Mistura Beauty Solutions C-2-P Complexion Concealer. What a long name. I was worried when Boxycharm revealed this, I wasn't sure if it was gonna match my skin color. However, it goes pretty good with my skin and blends good. It is very creamy so it feels good on the skin. I think I would use it on just small spots on my face as a concealer. It comes up like a lip stick.   

Mirror, mirror on the wall...

Hey guys! I decided to do a look tonight using my Elf beauty book Disney Snow White. That's a long title for sure. 

Okay and here comes a fun fact about me. I'm obsessed with Disney basically. My family and I went to Disney World this past year and it was amazing. Trip of a lifetime. We had a blast and are already planning on going next year. :) 

Here's a picture of my family and me! (I'm the one in the ears) 

Okay on to the good stuff that you wanna know! Elf cosmetics is super affordable, if you already didn't know that. If I'm thinking about trying a new makeup item out that I'm not use to (example fake eyelashes), I go with Elf. Something's work and then there's the things that don't, it happens with every brand. Hit and misses.

So Elf has came out with some other Disney beauty books but I went with the Fairest of Them All because...I am the fairest of all. Yeah, not really, actually I'm super pale and love one of the eyeshadow colors in it. 

What's in the book? Three highlighting eyeshadow shades, four eyeshadows, eye primer, black eye liner, blush, and lip gloss. 

I love the names of the eye shadows. How cute are they? But my favorite color has to be One Song. The red is just so pretty looking! 

Top left: cover. 

Top right: inside page with step-by-step guide for fairytale makeup look

Bottom left: mirror 

Bottom right: the goods

Swatches of yodel, one song, enchanted forest, and my prince. 

One song, isn't so red looking now...

My look. I only used what was in this beauty book, besides applying foundation and face primer. For eyeshadows, I used yodel in the crease, one song on the lid, enchanted first as eyeliner, diamond mine in the inner corner, and I'm wishing as a brow highlight. 

What do I think about the book? Honestly...I hate to say this but eh....I would love to love it but I don't. The eyeshadows are super glittery and there's fall out. I've worn the makeup for about three hours now and there is glitter all over the tops of my checks. I usually apply eyeshadow first then do my face to prevent the appearance of fall out but it didn't work very well. The eye primer isn't very good, my eye lid just looks greasy and oily. The blush has a little bit of glitter/simmer in it, it's okay. The lip gloss was the only thing not in the picture. It was a pinkish red color. It didn't last very long. Altogether, will I use it again? No, most likely not. I'm more to use it on my little sisters who wanna play with makeup instead on myself. 

Huge success and then failures...

Okay I woke up today and thought let's try this curling wand out again! I got a Remmington curling wand for this past Christmas time and haven't really put it to use yet. I tried using it once and it was horrible. My hair looked bad...and I burnt my thumb. I was done with it after that experience but today I guess I felt adventurous. I watched the how to videos on YouTube before starting out. I even watched one with a young teenage showing how to use the curling wand. Yes, I felt pretty dumb taking tips from her when she made it seem so effortless. Lol. 

So I started in. I began dividing my hair in sections: top, middle, and lower, lower and making my way up curling. It's still a learning process for me. I hated the first go, the tips of my hair were straight because I was so worried about burning myself again. I had to go back a try it over again, getting closer to my fingers. I held about an inch of my hair at a time on the wand for 10 seconds. I gotta say once I figured out how to hold the tips of my hair without burning myself it did go a lil easier. I'm sure that everyone has a hard time doing the back of their head, which was one of my biggest issues too but I think I did a pretty good job with it. I also added a texture spray that I had laying around...for a few years. (I know, get rid of it!) I think this spray helped some but I would like to look into getting some other texture creams or sprays for curling my hair like this. Oh! Also, I think it's a totally good idea to use a heat protection product too. I didn't do this, bad ashley, but I was just excited to see if I could mange curling my hair this time. 

Heres the front 

And there's the back. 

Overall I'm a lil impressed with myself. I like it. I'm even going to wear it out to town. With time and practice I think I'll be able to really to get it down. 

Alright now the failure. After feeling as if I achieved a great defeat, I was feeling super confident. I decided to try a makeup look I've never done. Boy, was I getting ahead of myself... I recently watched a YouTube video by Amanda Ensing where she used orange and blue eyeshadows together. Here's the link, http://youtu.be/otvPDfrXCk4. I've been trying to play with blue colors since I'm more of a warm tones person so I used her video as inspiration. 

I applied the colors, orange on the crease area and then blue on the lid. I didn't use the same brands, I actually used my elf beauty color shadow book. 

Now here comes the failure, eyeliner. I'm so bad with eyeliner. My first eye was great with the liner, not too thick at all. Then on my next eye, it was way too thick. I had totally messed up. I tried to make the other side thick to equal out which I guess worked. Over all the top lid just wasn't the way I liked it, the thick liner just seemed to cover the blue up so much. I added more blue shadow to my lid. Then I decided to put on some eyeliner on the bottom lashes...messed that up too. It was just everywhere. It looked like my liner had started to run down. Note to self: don't rush yourself when using black eyeliner, especially when doing lower lashes. I was about to just give up at this point but I continued on. I applied my foundation. At this point I thought maybe I could fix my lower eyeliner with concealer! I applied a liquid concealer near my eyeliner and paded it out with a brush. It worked pretty good actually. Surprise, surprise!

All together with the makeup, I'm not sure about it...it needs work. I need to slow myself down and take my time. I think this was my biggest downfall with this look. Next time, I'll get it down! 

It's gonna need some more work on the blue/orange look. 

December Boxycharm review

It may be a lil late on this but hey, better late then never right? Lol. 

So the December boxycharm review. This box had some great things! 

My favorite thing in the box this month has to be the Coastal Scents Revealed 1 palette. I love this product!! After seeing many YouTube videos stating how much the colors are alike compared to the Urban Decay Naked 1 & 2 palettes, I'm not going to be buying them. I don't need to spend all that extra cash on it when I practically have it already. I wore this eye shadow for a New Year's Eve party and dinner with my boyfriend. I've never felt so pretty after using it. There are many looks you could do with the 20 shadows. I'm almost tempted to get the Revealed 2 palette, if I didn't already own the Naked 3, I would. 

Here's the YouTube tutorial I used to pull off my New Year's Eve look. 

http://youtu.be/hVogfBG2JZA

My next favorite item is the Mistura retractable brush. I have put a lot of use into this product. It applies facial powders really great. It's soft, doesn't hold onto the powders, and its travel friendly. What more do you need? When I first opened my box, the brush had a weird smell to it but it has went away after washing it. I mostly use it when applying a makeup setting powder or to blend my blush and bronzer out. 

Another item I got was Be a Bombshell lip stick in hollywood. This product was ehhh....okay. The color was nice, don't get me wrong, but the shape of the stick was weird. It wasn't very pointy like the typical application, it was more paddled.  I'm not sure how else to describe it I'll use it since I have it but I just wouldn't go out and buy it on my own. 

Unfortunately, I can't do a review on the Linda Lashes mink. I still haven't been able to learn how to use those. It's on my New Years resolution list to do though!

The Eva NYC hairspray is the typical hairspray. It works and holds. Smells great. Other than that not much to say from there. 

That's all of the December Boxycharm box, folks! I liked it over all. It's not the best box this month but everything is useable. 

Black Friday Haul Reviews

The holidays are over and it's time to get back on here! I hope everyone had a wonderful Christmas and New Years. 

I have said a while back I was gonna do a review for my Black Friday online haul. So here it is the review blog. Pass me the soap and lotion cause there's gonna be a lot of swatches. 

Let's get this party started! :) 

Sephora 

Purity Facial Cleanser:  I think I really like this product it goes on really smooth and silky which is probably my favorite part. However, the smell it gives off is something I don't like. It reminds me of the smells like baby powder.  I feel I can look past that because it makes my face feel so refreshed and cleansed. Rating scale 1-5 i have to give it a 4. I think I'll definitely be purchasing this product again.

Smashbox Be Legendary Lipsticks in Fig and Posy Pink: goes on my lips very smooth and creamy. And the colors are beautiful, as you can see. I love fig for a dark lip. I'm not so sure if posy pink is my style, it reminds me of a Barbie doll. It could be a pretty color for spring. 

Fig is the top color and the lower one is posy pink. 

Bite Lush Lip Trio: wow! Glossy and so much shine. A lil tacky in the beginning once applied but then it goes away. I love this product and I'm so impressed by it. My favorite is strawberry. At first it's scary, like Barbie doll scary. Lol but on the lips it's so pretty and feminine pink. 

Top- corrupt, I can't really tell if that's the name of it. There's a stamp across the name and it's so little it's hard to tell. 

Middle- ramberry

Buttom- strawberry

Tarte set: Amazonian Clay Blush in Magic, I like the color it is very pink.  It stays on for a very long time but I'm not sure it does for the advertised time of 12 hours.  Lights, Camera, Lashes Mascara, wow. I love this mascara. It's so great. Lengthening and volumizing. What more does a girl need? I only got travel sized in this but I'm definitely thinking about buying it full sized. It's the only mascara I use currently. Tarte Lipsurgence Lip Gloss, I'm not sure exactly what color this is in, I threw away the box. At the bottom of the tube, it says magic? Anyways it's an alright lip gloss. It goes on smooth and has a lil shimmer.  Not much to go on about on it actually. I probably wouldn't rebuy it. 

This is a pic of the LipSurgence and Amazonian Clay. 

I love the packaging on this blush. The Amazon River looks so neat in it, I'm a sucker for neat packaging as you can tell. Lol. 

The last product from Sephora is two Makeup Forever Lab Shine Diamond Collection lip glosses. There's no names on it! Why do makeup brands not include the names on it? :( So lame. I like these glosses. 

The top is a kinda brownish/gold color and the bottom is a pink. As you can see there are tiny specks of glitter in it. I like that. 

That wraps up the Sephora haul. I did get one thing from Ulta. 

It is a Laura Geller set, I'm not sure what the name is though. I want to say "Wishes" but I can't remember. Sorry! Anyways this set came with the Glamlash black mascara, Eye Calligraphy tip liquid liner in black, baked eye shadow in honey, and lipstick in chile red. I haven't tried the mascara out. I have so many mascaras opened right now that I wanna some for later. The eye liner is very neat. I have never tried a liquid pen liner. It makes it easy to apply but I need more work with it. The baked shadow is pretty. This is another product that I need to work on. I don't much understand baked products. I know that you can add water to it and the color is suppose to become more vivid and pretty? My question is, how do you add the water without losing the product? I should probably Google it and do some more research. The lip stick is super red! Totally reminds me of Christmas time. I like it. It goes on good and smooth and stays on for a good amount of time. 

Eye liner, shadow, and then lip stick. 

Together Again

Reunited and it feels so good!!! Lol. So Megan is back from college on Christmas break and we got together. We decided to do a blog post together to celebrate! (To differentiate who is talking, Megan will be italicized.)

I have been bugging Ash for weeks now to let me play around with her Urban Decay Naked 3 palette, and we were finally able to do this. I am super excited. Let's do this!

For our first look, we followed this YouTube tutorial by AllThatFresh using the Naked 3. Megan is the model for this look. (I kept begging her to not go too dark, I'm definitely a natural look kinda girl haha.). But by the end, Megan was very happy with the look we came up with, so much so that she didn't want to wipe it off at the end of the night. (I was a little skeptical at first, but it grew on me! I was a little terrified of some of the colors- looking at you, Darkside!- and at first I thought it was borderline too dark. But as the night went on, I definitely grew to love it.) It used Strange, Nooner, and Darkside. You can find the tutorial here (http://youtu.be/Eg7dgz5dxes).

This is the finished look.  After the picture was taken, Ash peer pressured me into a pinkish red lipstick/lip gloss combo ( "Hollywood" by Be A Bombshell and "Strawberry" by Bite- which looks at first like a Barbie Doll pink but they blended perfectly!). 

This was before I was pressured into the prefect lip color. 

Here's a closeup of the finished eye. Ash blended the colors so well. It photographs really well.

Our second look, I went with a day time look since Megan did. Yes, I'm going to blame her for that. Lol. But I still wanted to have boldness in there too. I used my Revealed palette that I recently got. And wow! I really liked it. It was such a good look and Megan did a great job applying my eye makeup. 

We found a Youtube tutorial by Lipgloss Leslie that utilized quite a bit of the Revealed palette. You can find it here (http://youtu.be/o_h4IUVyWXY). 

I ended up pairing the look with a bold red lip, "Chile Red" by Laura Geller. Here's the finished look.

Gorgeous!!

Here's a closeup of Ash's Revealed eye.

After looking great with our makeup looks of experiments we had to go out to Walmart and look at some costemics aisle! A girl can never have enough. ;) but I was actually good and didn't get any, of course I pressured Megan into getting a plaette, it didn't take a whole lot of pressure. Lol. (It was $5, how could I resist? Haha)

No we didn't take a selfie in the makeup aisle just so you can see how glamourous we look! Wow, I really need to get some self tanner or sun.

We decided to do a couple more looks for each other once we had snackage and were back at the house. Both looks were darker and more dramatic in nature... Oh god...

For me, Ashley wanted to really push me past the point of no return and we did a super dramatic tutorial, edited for our materials at hand. For example, we didn't have that giant black pencil as a base so Ash pulled from her Revealed palette and used the near black from it. The tutorial we used was by KathleenLights located here (http://youtu.be/abq5ReFaqec).

I was finally able to line my waterline for once in my life!! I am pretty proud of myself, and I didn't even poke myself in the eye. Big win!

Ashley did a dramatic wing with angle brush and this purple cream eyeliner ("Eggplant"  high intensity pigment by L'Oreal) on my left eye and we loved it.

With my look, I found a tutorial that just grabbed my attention; it was by KathleenLights (again!), who is one of my favorite youtubers. You can find the tutorial here (http://youtu.be/-SK5QR4ceRc).  I really like the pinkish romantic colors. 

Probably not my best pic (lazy eye alert) and this look was kinda flop for us. We learned an important lesson. With a soft romantic look, don't use liquid eyeliner. The eyeliner becomes very harsh looking and just not romantic at all. We really should've used a pencil for the finishing liner but I just wanted to try out the Laura Geller Classic Tip Liquid Liner in black. Megan did my right eye, which was a lil too bold of a line but hey, we both never used a liquid pencil before. Lol. (Sorry girl!) I think this pencil would be better suited for a more dramatic look. We used all the colors in the Naked 3 palette but a purple shade that came from Wet N'Wild palette that is called Knock on Wood. 

The picture actually doesn't look that bad, and I should probably add that we did turn blending some shadow ("Buzz" from the Naked 3 palette) into it to blend the black down. Also need to work on the winging on myself. However, I did do it perfect on Megan's look, if I do say so myself! 

As we finish this, it is 1:50am our time, so we are signing off. By the time we post this, though, it will have been proofread and hopefully read coherently. Goodnight world.