The Naked Palette is L-O-V-E

Hello lovelies!

So most people in the beauty community probably already know about the hype and craze that Urban Decay's Naked Palette has brought about and I definitely understand why......the palette is simply GORGEOUS :)

The more I use my Naked palette, the more I fall in love with the colors put into this palette.  I just find that you could create so many versatile neutral looks with the colors that come in this palette.  The texture of the shadows are just so smooth and creamy and of course as all Urban Decay shadows are, extremely pigmented.  I've learned that just a little bit of these shadows will definitely go a long way.  I find that I do use certain colors wayyy more often than others and I believe I have found my absolute favorite highlight shade...Virgin <3 too bad it's a new shade that cannot be purchased as a single shadow yet.  At least from my knowledge, it is not available :(  I also love Sin because I find it to be the perfect champagne color.

This is probably one of my favorite looks that I've created using the Naked Palette so far

I know that the color looks extremely dark in this last photo, but I assure you that it is the lighting.

What I'm Wearing:

Foundation: Nars Sheer Glow in Barcelona

Powder: Palladio Rice Powder in Translucent 

Cheeks: ELF Contouring Blush and Bronzer Duo

Eyeshadow: Naked Palette (Virgin as highlight on brow bone, Sin as an eyelid color, Naked on the outer corner, and Dark Horse in the outer V to darken up the look)

Eyeliner: Hourglass Calligraphy liquid liner pen

Mascara: Maybelline's The Falsies

Though this may be a bit too dramatic for some to wear during the daytime, I absolutely love it and this is definitely more my style so I've been rocking it during the day as well as night :)  

Well, let me know what you think of this look since I just wanted to rave about this amazing product and share my favorite Naked Palette look with you darlings so until next time...

xoxo <3

Drugstore FOTD and update

Hello lovelies!!! :) 

I hope everyone had a safe and wonderful New Year.  I also would like to say a special thanks to  the followers of my blog since the very beginning...you guys are the best!!! :) My New Year resolution is to find a job back in San Diego so I can move back as soon as possible.  Leave me a comment and let me know what your New Year resolutions were for 2011 :)

Also, I just wanted to share with you a quick face of the day using only drugstore products.  Here are some pictures taken with my webcam so do note that the colors seem a bit more toned down here, however, in person, the colors are a bit more vibrant.

What I'm wearing:

Foundation: Maybelline Superstay 24Hour in Classic Biege

Cheeks: NYC Sunny Bronzer, ELF Blush in Tickled Pink ($3)

Lips: Revlon Colorburst (002) in Crystal Lilac

Eyeshadow Primer: ELF Mineral Eyeshadow Primer ($3)

Shadow: ELF Beauty Encyclopedia in the Basic Eye Edition ($5)

Liner: ELF Liquid liner in Black and Copper ($1/each)

Mascara: Covergirl Lashblast Fusion

 FTC:  All products used were purchased with my own money.  I am in no way affiliated with ELF, nor am I getting compensated in any way.  I just simply love bargain cosmetics that are of good quality. :)

It's been a while since my last update.  The past couple weeks of break has been so good to me and I was able to spend lots of time with my loved ones doing very fun things.  We even managed to go the the happiest place on Earth :) Yay Disneyland!!!  My sister came down to visit for a week and we managed to squeeze in karaoke, rock climbing, Disneyland, and lots of yummy food :)  Unfortunately, I forgot to take more pictures than I ended up taking, but I'm going to be sharing some with you here. 

My sister and I on the shuttle into Disneyland.  I know, we don't look alike at all.

We made it in after a long wait for the shuttle, which was the beginning of a long day of waiting in extremely long lines

The huge decorated tree that greeted us once we entered

It's a Small World at Night in its full glory :) it was gorgeous all lit up

My sister with the beautiful castle all lit up :)

Overall, I would say our Disneyland trip was a success even though it was super packed.  I believe the news said that there were 85,000 people there at the 2 parks the day we went so it was almost impossible to get around.  Due to the long lines, we were only able to go on about 5 rides, but I'm still glad we went :) 

Ok, that's all for today

xoxo <3

Quick FOTD and La Femme Review :)

Hi my darlings!!!

I know it's been a while since my last blog post and I'm extremely sorry.  Recently, I stumbled upon a new brand at my local beauty supply store and I decided to try it out.  I picked up 6 blushes and 4 eye shadows and I'm love-love-loving their products!!!  The brand is La Femme and I must say, their blushes are simply amazing :) I could have probably done without the eye shadows since I already have so many neutrals and what not, but I wanted to give them a try.  This brand is extremely affordable, each of the blushes were about $6, but they had a buy one get the second one half off, so 2 blushes were about $9.  I am definitely going to pick up more since I'm in love with their pigmentation.  A little bit of product definitely goes a long way and these blushes absolutely have to be applied with a light hand otherwise you will look like you're wearing clown makeup....unless that's the look you're going for =P  but here is a video of my review of the blushes and eye shadows along with some swatches if you ladies are interested ;)

 

 I also wanted to quickly share my face of the day so here it is :)

 

That is all for now until next time!!!

xoxo <3