The Beauty Buffs : Holiday Looks

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Hello everyone! Welcome to another bi-weekly post of The Beauty Buffs!

Woohoo! *throws glitter*
As a warning, this is a really long post.
This week I'm pretty excited! It's all themed around Holiday looks!  What I decided to do was touch on each of the three Holiday's that are going to be happening this December! Christmas (12/15), Kwanzaa (12/26-01/01/15) and Hanukkah (12/16-12/24) Why did I chose to do three? Well, isn't it kind of obvious? More than Christmas goes on in December, plus it could be a good learning lesson. Plus, it could be really fun to learn a little something about each of the three! One little known thing about me is that I LOVE History and really, I love learning about customs and things that I normally wouldn't know about. All of the eye looks are BASED off of colors from each Holiday. 

First up Christmas : An annual religious and cultural holiday commemorating the birth of Jesus Christ,celebrated generally on December 25 by billions of people around the world. A feast central to the Christian liturgical year, it closes the  Advent season and initiates the twelve days of Christmastide, which ends after the twelfth night. Christmas is a civil holiday in many of the world's nations, is celebrated culturally by an increasing number of non-Christians, and is an integral part of the Christmas and holiday season.

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Christmas is a season that I think pretty much most of the world celebrates. For most people unfortunately it's turned into all about getting gifts instead of just spending time with family. In my family this year we actually wont be getting gifts for each other, we only plan on getting gifts for my Niece and Nephew. For Christmas I decided to not stick with the traditional red and green but to take my inspiration from that song by Burl Ives called (what else) Silver & Gold. Every Christmas this song gets stuck in my head without fail. I also must give a shout out to Jacqueline from A Brilliant Brunette because she helped me settle on doing something with silver and gold. Now I also added in some brown and green as I'm sure you can tell. I wish my silver would have been more bright but it looks kind of muddy. Boo.

Products Used:
Too Faced Shadow Insurance
Wet n Wild Brulee (base)
L'Oreal Infallible 24/hr Eye Shadow - Continuous Cocoa 
Sugarpill Cosmetics - Goldilux
Sugarpill Cosmetics - Tiara 
Make Up For Ever Artist Liner - I-32 *
A Dark Brown MATTE eye shadow for the lower lash line (if you want)
Wet n Wild Lipstick - Spotlight Rouge
Vincent Longo Meta Gloss - La Fiera *

Kwanzaa : A week-long celebration held in the United States and also celebrated in the Western African Diaspora in other nations of the Americas. The celebration honors African heritage in African-American culture, and is observed from December 26 to January 1, culminating in a feast and gift-giving. 

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I've looked at a lot of Websites about Kwanzaa and everything is very tribal and very traditional. The focus is on the lighting of the Candles (3 red, 1 black, 3 green). Those three colors are what I am going to mainly focus on. I personally feel like Kwanzaa is a very lesser known holiday, and really it's something I would LOVE to learn more about! I decided to go dark with the shadows, I didn't want it to be bright or it would have been too "Christmassy". 

Products Used:
Too Faced Shadow Insurance
Wet n Wild Brulee (base)
MAC Cosmetics - Cranberry
Urban Decay - Bender
MAC Cosmetics Fluidline - Blacktrack
A Dark Brown MATTE eye shadow for the lower lash line (if you want)
Wet n Wild Megaslicks Balm Stain - Pinky Promise

 Hanukkah : also known as the Festival of Lights, Feast of Dedication, is an eight-day Jewish holiday commemorating the rededication of the Holy Temple (the Second Temple) in Jerusalem at the time of the Maccabean Revolt against the Seleucid Empire of the 2nd century BC. Hanukkah is observed for eight nights and days, starting on the 25th day of Kislev according to the Hebrew calendar, which may occur at any time from late November to late December in the Gregorian calendar.

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Hanukkah is a Holiday that has ALWAYS interested me, probably because of my Mother. Little known fact my Grandfather was born into a Jewish household and was put up for adoption and was later adopted by an Italian family. My last name would have been Jobe if his parents wouldn't have given him up! We actually used to play with Dreidels when we were kids. One of these years I will celebrate Hanukkah. For this look I will be focusing on Blue and White, since that is what is mostly associated with the Holiday. I decided to go with no eyeliner because I felt like it could have been too much. I wanted this look to be simple and be the main focus.

Products Used:

Too Faced Shadow Insurance

Wet n Wild Brulee (base)

Maybelline Color Tattoo Metal - Electric Blue

Sugarpill Cosmetics - Velocity

Sugarpill Cosmetics - Mochi

BFTE Cosmetics - Diamonds *

I also added other random no-name whites to try and make it brighter

A Dark Brown MATTE eye shadow for the lower lash line (if you want)

Now, with all of those looks aside, you're going to need an eye look for all of your Holiday parties! I chose to do Gold and a darkened Cranberry because those two colors goes together so beautifully. Unfortunately I don't have a full shot with both eyes, I'm not sure where that picture went! I think out of all of the looks, this has to be my favorite, there is just something about it that I absolutely love! 

Products Used:

Too Faced Shadow Insurance

Wet n Wild Brulee (base)

Sephora Pocket Palette Neutrals - Darkest Brown (crease/outercorner/lower lashline)

MAC Cosmetics - Cranberry

L'Oreal Infallible - Bronzed Taupe

Urban Decay - Half Baked 

Givenchy Nior Couture 4-in-1 Mascara
MAC Cosmetics Fluidline - Blacktrack

Urban Decay 24/7 Liner - Demolition (waterline)

Xtreme Lashes by Jo Mousselli Glideliner - Black Pearl (tight liner) *

I KNOW this was a long post and if you've read or made it this far kudos to you! Which is your favorite look out of the four?!!
Don't forget to check out the other posts below from the other ladies! 


Some products were purchased by me and the products marked with ( * ) we provided for PR use. 

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Hello everyone!! :D

Fun fact I started blogging January 19, 2011 NOT January 16, 2012. I switched over to this blog in 2012, I didn't really "break into the scene" though until 2012 :P

Also, fun fact. Nothing gets under your skin and puts a fire under your butt like someone telling you that you and your blog aren't good enough. All I have to say is *sticks tongue out* Normally that would upset me and make me doubt everything but you know what. >D Not this time. NOT this time. *snaps* Let's get onto the sassy-ness of this post.


I wanted to play around with some red eye shadows, since I've not done it in a while.

I have a giant nose :P I need to learn to contour it. :P Bahah. I love my nose though :)

Eyes:

Urban Decay Primer Potion (original)

L'Oreal Infallible Eye Shadow - 891 Continuous Cocoa (outer corner/crease)

Urban Decay - Gash (outer 1/3 of eye)

SauceBox Cosmetics - Russian Rouge (lid)

Chella Ivory Lace Highlighter (inner corner)

Sugarpill Loose Eye shadow - Lumi (inner corner)

L'Oreal Power Volume 24H Black Smoke mascara

Mica Beauty Cosmetics eyeliner - Black

Urban Decay 24/7 eye liner in Perversion (tightliner)

I blended Lumi up into the crease as well as into the red. I think that Lumi mixed with the brown makes a gorgeous color. Seriously. Much love for the way the inner crease looks. 

 I think that the next time I do this, I'm going to use the shadows wet to make them pop a little bit more and maybe I'll add some false lashes. :D I'd also use a liquid liner maybe because this cream liner, as you can tell was a bit off kilter and funky looking and not in a good way. That's like though. You'd only notice it if you get all up in my grill though, so I wasn't too worried about it. I also would probably use a mascara that didn't flake. I'm kinda miffed because it didn't flake before on me. I think it's getting old. Time to bust out a new one.

I look like a deer caught in headlights

I do love this look. I used to wear it quite a bit. What do you think of it?!

FOTD #3

Heyyyyyy Sexy Ladies!
(and Handsome guys)

Today is FOTD El número tres!


I didn't really have any inspiration for today's FOTD except Chris' favorite colors. That's just about it honestly.

Sorry about the whole mascara flakes above my eye, I didn't even notice them when I bloody took the pictures. Oh well! Tis life!!!