Thanksgiving Day Makeup

Hello hello!

I hope that you all had a fantastic Thanksgiving if you are in the US! Mine was ....well lets just say it went from uneventful and stressful to a party! I was up way too early and did my makeup at 10am, when I knew I had nothing to do until 4pm. I am so grateful that my face lasted long enough without looking like a dang mess!

Eyes
Too Faced Shadow Insurance (primer)
Wet n Wild Brulee (all over lid)
Sugarpill 2am (crease/outer corner)
Wet n Wild Panther (to deepen crease)
Urban Decay Baked (lid)
Urban Decay Verve (inner corner)
MAC FluidLine Blacktrack
L'Oreal Voluminous Superstar Mascara
Sephora Long Lasting Kohl Liner Infinite Beige
Urban Decay Hustle (lower lashline)

Face
NYC Smooth Skin Perfecting Primer
NYX Conceal.Correct.Contour (green&salmon)
Cara Cosmetics Nagoya (contour)
Rimmel Stay Matte Powder 011 Creamy Natural
MAC Mineralized Skin Finish Medium
Senna Cosmetics Brow Fix X Golden Brown X
Tarte Energy LipSurgence Skintuitive Lip Gloss

I'm slowly trying to get back into the groove of things really. I do have a list of posts to get out, especially I have a few set up for January so yay! I'm pretty excited for 2016!

I thought that this was a nice look for Thanksgiving it wasn't too out there and it combined my love of neutrals with my love of color. You can't go wrong there! Also, I must mention, the lip gloss that I wore in the post, I ACTUALLY wore out. So yeah, we are slowly getting somewhere with me wearing lip colors! *high five* Heck, I might even wear a red out for my birthday ! :O

-Autumn

Caribbean Fireball Eye Look

This is a really simple eye look to create and it is something fun and colorful to wear.

• Too Faced Shadow Insurance
• Wet n Wild Brulee (all over lid)
• Wet n Wild Panther (Crease & outer corner)
• NYX Emotion (used over panther)
• NYX Fireball (center 1/3 of lid)
• NYX Liquid Gold (inner 1/3 of lid) [blended in w/ Fireball you can't really see it]
• Jordana Cat Eye Liner Caribbean
• Sephora Long Lasting Eye Kohl Infinite Beige
• L'Oreal Voluminous Superstar Mascara Very Black
• Dark brown shadow for lower lashes

• Dermalogica Redness Relief Primer
• Mac Face & Body Foundation NW1
• Rimmel Stay Matte Pressed Powder 011 Creamy Natural
• Mac Mineralized Skin Finish Medium
• NYX Conceal.Correct.Contour Green & Salmon
• Becca Shimmering Skin Perfecter Spotlight Opal
• NYX Eyebrow Gel Blonde

Per usual I had nothing on my lips because....why? That is my thing, I am perfectly happy with a lip balm!

Autumn

Easter Face Of The Day!

Purchased Myself/Press Sample

Hello everyone!

I am so sorry that I've practically disappeared! D: I went from working 8 hours a week to between 26-36 hours a week! It's been pretty hectic and I never intended to let my blog pretty much lay dormant for almost two weeks! I do have some guest posts coming! I'm just waiting on the emails and I do have a couple of posts scheduled myself! I can't even describe how good it feels to be typing a post again! Anyways, anways back too the post at hand!

I hope everyone has an amazing Easter! If you don't celebrate Easter, then I hope you have just as an amazing day as well!

I have to work tonight and decided to do a full face of makeup! :O I typically only wear eyeshadow and maybe liner. bahha. I had this whole grand look planned out and everything, it's all I thought about this morning... then I realized the gorgeous pink Sugarpill eye shadow I THOUGHT I had, wasn't real. I do have a pink shadow but I thought I had Dollipop.. I don't know why I thought I had it, but I did. Alas. I made due though! I still love how my eyes turned out so woohoo!

EYES: 

• Urban Decay Primer Potion ♥ Original
• Urban Decay 24/7 Eyeliner ♥ Woodstock (entire lid)
• Sugarpill Cosmetics ♥ (Crease/Outer/corner)
• Sugarpill Cosmetics ♥ Birthday Girl (entire lid, overtop Woodstock)
• Sugarpill Cosmetics ♥ Lumi (Inner Corner)
• Urban Decay 24/7 Eyeliner ♥ Demolition (waterline/tightliner)
• Ellis Faas Mascara**
• NYX Gel Liner & Smudger ♥ Jet Black 
• Senna Cosmetics Brow Fix X ♥ Golden Brown X

FACE:

• Urban Decay Primer Potion (all over face)
• Stila Stay All Day prime & anti-shine balm*
• TEMPTU Pro S/B Concealer Wheel (Shade 2, 3, & 4)*
• TEMPTU airPOD Foundation ♥ 004 Sand*
• Rimmel London Stay Matte ♥ 011 Creamy Natural

And just because here is the picture that I posted on Instagram from my phone! I LOVE how my eye looks in this! *swoons*

This was pre-doing my hair and no glasses. I really love the pink and purple together!

As per usual there is nothing on my lips, it's going to be lip balm for me, like normal, especially at work it's one less thing to worry about! I'm also sure that you noticed my liner wasn't totally straight etc and both eyes are different. Yes girls and boys, if you have tried winged liner you know it's a complete B to do! I've been using liquid liner to do them as of late but have been trying this gel liner out. All I can say is ay dios mio! I still love how it turned out though!

Are you doing anything special on your eyes or nails?! 

All products marked with a (*) were given for Press purposes. 

The Beauty Buffs - Royal Blue

Bought Myself/Gift/Nothing To Disclose

Hello everyone! Welcome back to another episode of The Beauty Buffs!! .. Okay, why I called it an episode I have no idea, I thought it was funny. *bah dum tss*

This weeks theme is Royal Blue and I figured that since the last TBB post I did nail polish, I thought I would do makeup this week! SO, I had gone out in search of a nice royal blue eye shadow and found the Maybelline Expert Wear quad in Electric Blue. I guess, it is new? I don't know, I've never seen them before and it was $2 off I think so I decided I would get it. I'm going too tell you now, don't waste your time, It's not that great. The pigmentation is lacking. WELL, low and behold AFTER I bought it, I remembered I had Sugarpill's Heartbreaker palette in it, which has Velocity. A gorgeous matte royal blue. BAM, have my eyeshadow. *dances*

I decided too use the blue in the Maybelline quad as well as Velocity, and I used a mixture of colors from the Crown Cosmetics Smokey Eye Palette. 

The three shadows with the arrows pointing too the are the ones I used. I didn't use them in any particular order, except tap my brush into each a couple of times.  I added that into the crease and blended out. BUT wait! There's more. I also used Sugarpill Velocity in the crease. I used it as the original outline of the crease then I blended a bit on the top of the crease to give it a little something extra,. 

On the lid I applied lightly the Royal Blue from the Maybelline Electric Blues palette. I should have added some of Velocity on top, but what is done is done.

On the lower lashline I mixed the royal blue and the black shadow and smudged it across.

You are probably asking yourself WHY so many pictures and WHY pictures of both eyes. WELL my dears, I did both eyes different. On my left eye I didn't wing the liner and I didn't bring the shadow up as high as I did on the other eye. You can't tell particularly but the liner on my right eye *below* is winged out and I brought the shadows higher up towards the brow bone. 

Products Used:

Sugarpill - Velocity

Maybelline - Electric Blue Palette (black and blue)

Crown Cosmetics - Smokey Eye Palette (colors shown above)

Urban Decay - Zephyr (innter corner)

Milani Extreme Eye Tech Eyeliner

Urban Decay Primer Potion

MiA BelleZZA Creme Liner in Brown - Waterline & Tightline

Ellis Faas Mascara

I really love how this came out! I've been itching too show everyone the look since I completed it a couple of nights ago! 

Here's the finished look with the whole face! ... I don't know why I said it that way but I did. A lot of people say don't wear blue on blue, brown on brown or green on green. I say, do what you want, it is your makeup and it's YOUR face. Makeup is an expression of art, don't let others dull your shine!

The purpose of this is too give you some more blue options. I understand the 3/4 makeup choice are high end, but you try too find GOOD affordable royal blue shadows. :P I got lucky I found the Maybelline one, and the palette itself isn't that great, 

Essie nail polish / Seche nail care, $16 / Maybelline eye makeup / NARS Cosmetics matte eye makeup, $30 / Eyeshadow, $26 / Obsessive Compulsive Cosmetics matte makeup

Don't forget too check out the other ladies in the linkup and leave comments on their posts!

An InLinkz Link-up

New Years Eve Makeup!

Purchased Myself | PR Sample

Here's the rest of the post! I was going to put this and the nails together, but I decided to split them up. 

I'm still trying to get used too my camera, plus I had the light WAY too close to my face. Lol. Amateur mistake. 

I don't know about anyone else, but wearing silver on my eyes for New Years Eve is a staple and traditional thing for me to do. I wear silver and black EVERY year, this year I decided to change it up though.

This was pre-mascara. I started taking pictures and realized I didn't have it on. Fail #2

EYES;;

Milani eye shadow primer 

Revlon ColorStay ShadowLinks Plum (Crease)

Urban Decay; Busted (crease)

                                Naked/Foxy (blending colors)

Sugarpill Tiara (lid)

Milani Eye Tech Extreme Blackest Black

Graftobian Magic Set Mixing & Lining Liquid

Rimmel MAX VolumeFlash Extreme Black

FACE;;

TEMPTU AirPod Foundation Sand

TEMPTU Pro S/B Concealer Wheel 4th Darkest 

Rimmel Stay Matte 011 Natural

NYX Blush Sand

Urban Decay Shakedown (contour)

I didn't do a lip color. I typically don't, I didn't really feel the need for one since we're not doing anything.

There's a reason I decided to show this picture even though it's mostly blurry. I love that is macro'd on my lashes. Uhm yes, love that!

I don't normally do cat eyes, but I'm really impressed with this one. I know they're a bit lopsided and what not, but I think it came out looking really nice!

What makeup are you wearing for New Years Eve!?!? I would LOVE to know and see it!

Disclaimer: The TEMPTU and Graftobian products were provided for PR. The rest was purchased with my own money.

Holiday Nails & Makeup!!

Hey everyone!

I hope you all are doing well! I hope you had a very Merry Christmas! If you don't celebrate it, I hope you had an amazing day as well! xoxo. Most of my "Christmas presents" were gotten later in the day (I bought) or today (the day I type this) I'm not going to do a haul with them, but I'm sure you will all see them at some point!

My nails, I had a vision in mine, but once they were done, great dislike. I didn't feel like changing them either. ALL of my striping tape disappeared so I free handed the tree and the dots, I don't know, it looked good in my head. Bahha. Everyone else thought they were cute, so that counts for something!

I KIND of got the hand of taking pictures with my camera. Excuse the crooked tree, I tried fixing it, but make it worse lol. Check my nubbin's! I need to cut my other hand down as well. It pains me to do it though, which is why it's not done.

ORLY Bonder
China Glaze Little Drummer Boy
China Glaze Icicle
ORLY Luxe
ORLY Crawfords Wine
Venique Twinkling Glitter

I like this hand a LOT better! >D Tree wise.I used all of the same colors on this hand except I used green.
China Glaze Jolly Holly

I also made use of the little jewel kit that I got 50% off at CVS. I used Bows and Stars for the top of the tree. This mani was a total fail for me in my opinion. Not for others so much. I think I'm going to stick to doing my Mom's till my right hand grows out, since that is the hand I typically use to swatch.

Maaaakkkkeeeuuuuppppp

I didn't wear any foundation. I forgot, since this is a NEW camera it will actually show the imperfections in my skin instead of making my face once color. LOL. See! My skin isn't perfect like my previous cameras showed! Yes, I neeed to get my brows done, don't judge :P Okay okay, enough o my complaining. I know you can't see it but this was the BEST picture I could get of my eyes. I THOUGHT the others were in focus but they weren't. I'm going to have to teach Chris to use my camera bahaha.

Milani primer 01 Nude
Urban Decay Busted (crease)
                       YDK (lid)
Milani Eye Tech Extreme Liquid Eye Liner - Blackest Black
Rimmel London MAX VolumeFlash 003 Extreme Flash
I did have something on my lips but you can't see it, so it's not worth mentioning. I'll have blog posts up about it and the other one. (or ill do one post, we will see)

I'm sorry about all of the complaining in this post! I hope you all had an amazing Christmas and got everything that you wanted! xoxo

Best wishes.

CVS Clearance Haul

Purchased Myself

Hello everyone! I hope you are doing well! :D Thanks to my Niece I've got the stomach flu so I'm dealing with that, which is why I've been so lax on getting anything up. :( Complete fail. I know you're tired of excuses so let's just get into the haul!

Chris bought me this stuff as an early birthday present, since my birthday is next week (Dec.19). I also have a great feeling that I have some totally awesome coming my way for either my birthday or Christmas but I'm not telling! :P

NYC IndividualEYEs in 939 Bryant Park

Revlon ColorStay Spanish Moss | Sally Hansen InstaGel Strips Wine Not | Sally Hansen NailGrowth Miracle Bold Buff

Revlon Just Bitten LipStain + Balm Forbidden (top) | Flame (bottom)

Rimmel The Max VolumeFlash Mascara Extreme Black

Sally Hansen Lustre Shine Plume | Firefly

I think this was a pretty fancy haul if I don't say so myself! The most expensive thing was around $3.49 and it was the GelStrips. I'm so excited I finally have 2 LustreShines and the Lipstain+Balms. I've been wanting to try them both since they came out. 

Have you hit up the CVS Clearance Sale yet?! If not check out Nouveau Cheaps post about what's on clearance (so far)