Fire Flies

Hello there:)

     So I was inspired to do this look from fireflies(fun fact I am terrified of fire flies, actually all beetles), it's a night look of course, since fireflies or lightning bugs only come out at night time well they only light up at night. This look is using the Coastal Scents 42 Double Stack Matte palette. This look is matte, but I did add some sparkles because they light up and I just thought sparkles when I thought of the lighting up and its using a total of five colors but really you could get away with using five colors, I just blended a few together to get the ones I wanted and you can use any shadows you'd like that are similar to the ones I used, you can also switch out the green and put in silver, I've done that many times and it looks so gorgeous like that too, I'll probably do that for my next night time look. Now onto the the look...

Products Used:
Urban Decay Primer Potion
ELF Cream Eyeliner in black(I have a review on this)
Coastal Scents 42 double stack matte palette(review coming soon)
Sparkle Effect Loose Glitter in Pearly White, this comes off a bit green and they have one called Gleaming Green which probably would work better
Avon SuperShock Waterproof Mascara
Lashes (optional)
I used only six brushes for this, two packs, a concealer brush for the glitter, a pencil brush, angled, and blending brush.

I used the colors in red and then mixed the colors in black together to get the perfect color. Use any palette you have, and now that I look at this picture I realize that I mixed the two olive shades and the dark green shades together to get a perfect color to blend between the black and green/yellow shade. Use any colors that correspond to these or that are the same without the blending.

First take you cream liner or pencil liner and draw a shape similar to this, make a shape that works for your eye shape, you want it to go half way in your crease and then make like a crescent shape and meet with the lash line, I really hope that makes sense. It doesn't have to look perfect!

Nest fill in your shape with liner then a matte black shadow, also light blend the edges out but not to much, this is one of those looks that don't really involve much blending. You can put tape on the edge of your eye to keep it sharp if you find it hard to keep that line sharp, I find that making a line with the liner keeps mine sharp but do what works best for you.

Then just pack on a greenish yellow shade, like I mentioned before I blended two shades to get this but you could use any color that matches this or that is similar to this that you already own.

I added some white shadow with a light hand under the brow to highlight and and took a dark green and blended in between the green and black to give a nice gradient. Then I simply lined my upper lash line and water line and outer half of my lower lash line. Then I put some orange shade on the inner part to represent the liner on the fire flies backs.

Then I put a little bit of lash glue just on the green under my crease and let it get tacky before packing on some glitter, this is of course optional, I think it looks pretty either way.

Lastly just set your liner, put on some mascara and lashes and your all done. I didn't really spend much time on my lashes like I normally would have. I also filled my brows in a bit stronger then normal because of how bold this look is.

Thanks for reading, more to come, please leave your opinions and request below, I really hope you liked this look and give it a try!

Websites for products:
http://www.urbandecay.com/eyeshadow-primer-potion/296,default,pd.html?start=2&cgid=1_503
http://www.eyeslipsface.com/studio/eyes/eyeliner/cream_eyeliner
http://www.coastalscents.com/makeup/palettes/eye-palettes/pl-006.html
http://www.sallybeauty.com/on/demandware.store/Sites-SA-Site/default/Product-Show?pid=SBS-388606&dwvar_SBS-388606_color=Pearly+White
http://shop.avon.com/shop/product.aspx?level1_id=300&level2_id=301&pdept_id=312&cat_type=C&pf_id=42809

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**All products mentioned were purchased by me,this is not sponsored and all opinions are my own.

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Sally Beauty Supply Haul; Mini.

Hello there :)

     So a little over a week ago I went to Sally Beauty Supply, I needed to get perm rods and perm solution. I ended up getting a few polishes and no perm rods, but I did get the solution.

Sorry for the not so great photo.

So this is all I got, a total of six things.

As I mentioned in a previous post I am going to be perming my hair soon, my mother is a licensed cosmotologist so she's going to be doing it instead of me getting it done at a salon. I got Quantum 5 perming solution, from what I picked up bewtween my mom and the lady at sallys its supposed to produce normal curls and a normal hold. Honestly I don't have much of a clue as to what that means other then the curls won't be extra loose or extra tight. We couldn't decide on the rods to get; we were going to get those bendy rods but then my mom came up with the idea to try a pin curl perm and I was all for it, I love the way pin curls look, but for pin curls you either use metal aligator clips or bobby pins, so we had to pick up some plastic double prong clips to hold to curls down, we got two packs but we have to get more, they only had two packs in stock. After I perm my hair I'm going to do a post on all the fun stuff as to the time, the products, how my hair came out, and so on.

Of course I couldn't go to Sallys without picking up a bottle or two of nail polish. The Finger Paints was reduced so I couldn't pass that up and I have yet to give them a try so I'll probably feature one of these polishes in next Mani Monday, and if its the Finger Paints one I'll let you know my first impressions on it.  

I don't know how well you can read that but the color is in Go Van Gogh! Its a pretty green, I'd say either a kelly green or forest green, it's a medium/dark blue based green. I'll probably toss it in with my fall and winter polishes after giving it a try.

Next one is Re-Fresh Mint, I needed a new mint polish, so I picked up this one, plus I have been eying this polish up for a while now, this is just a typical mint, in the bottle it looks to be a light mint thats more on the white side if that makes sense; it's not a in your face mint, more of a muted mint.

Lastly is For Audrey, pretty well known China Glaze polish, they have been out of this the last few times I was at Sallys so I hadn't gotten it til now. This is similar to a Tiffany blue, so in other words and nice mid toned muted blue with light hints of green, I hope that was a good description of this shade. Honestly I don't know why I picked up three green or greenish polishes, its honestly quite strange even to me.

www.sallybeauty.com,  http://chinaglaze.com/, http://fingerpaints.com/

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Review: ELF Cream Eyeliner in Black

Hello There:)

      This is a review on ELFs Cream Eyeliner in black, I haven't tried any of the other colors yet, but I do plan to sometime soon and once I do I'll probably review those too. Although from what I hear they're not as good as the black one. Now on to the review.

     This liner isn't the most creamy cream liner but it is workable, and doesn't dry up easily. It has good pigmentation, and comes with a mini brush, the brush isn't the best but it does do the job for those who don't have any or many brushes, it is also nice for beginners. I would recommend this for people just looking to try cream or gel eyeliner for the first time or those sick of paying 20 dollars for a gel liner that just dries up in a month or two. I found this to be quite easy to apply and long lasting. It lasts all day(especially once set with shadow); even on my waterline, which from what I found is safe for the waterline. The packaging is really nice also and it comes with .17 ounce and for me that has lasted over a year and hasn't dried up completely but honestly it needs thrown out, I wouldn't recommend keeping it more then five months tops; I just hate wasting product even though I know I should throw it out and I don't use this daily so to me it's not that germy like it would be if I did use it daily even though it really is but I haven't gotten an eye infection yet so we're all good still, and with that being said I did actually repurchase this because it really is a great liner.   

      All in all I would recommend this to people especially those who want to try cream or gel liners but are hesitant on spending 20 dollars on something they aren't sure about, it's a really nice liner that has good pigmentation and is a nice rich dark black liner that last all day long; it's also affordable and can often be found on sale for half off on the ELF website. This also makes for a good base for a black or deep colored smokey eyes, it looks gorgeous under a medium/dark shimmery purple eyeshadow.

     This liner comes 11 shades, and cost 3.00usd and 3.50pounds. In the US you can buy this and other ELF products in Target, and you can purchase ELF at www.eyeslipsface.com (US) or www.eyeslipsface.co.uk (UK).

www.eyeslipsface.com

Thanks for reading, next review is going to be on Avon Glazewear Lipglosses.

**All opinions are my own, this was not sponsored, I purchased everything mentioned.

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25 Question Tag

Hello there:)

This is my kitty, Emma, I just wanted to add a picture so this wasn't all words. This is one of my favorite pictures of my cat.

    So I decided I wanted to do this tag, I wasn't tagged nor do I really know if this is much of a blog tag but I wanted to do it anyways, I'm also not going to tag anyone. I thought it would be a good post to do to help complete one of my goals for the 7 things I aim to achieve.

QUESTIONS:
1. Do you have any pets? Yes, I have two cats, two chinchilla, two hamsters, a guinea pig, and a tortoise. I know that may seem like a lot but I am an animal lover...
2. Name 3 things that are physically close to you. A remote, snuggie, and a cat.
3. What's the weather like right now? Hot and humid.
4. Do you drive? If so have you crashed? No and no, I'm terrified of cars, so currently I do not have my license I do intend on getting it in the next year though, and my mom doesn't want me driving til I have a job which I have yet to get, being young as long as possible but do need to get on that soon, although I figure I'm better off just waiting til I'm 18 to get my license because if I were to get a job tomorrow I would probably have a month wait before getting my permit and then I'd have another six months to wait so I ought to just wait til I'm 18 and really don't have to wait to get my license after my permit, I live in Pennsylvania by the way and we have a six month wait after getting your permit well under 18.
5. What time did you wake up this morning? About twelve, it's summer...
6. When was the last time you showered? This morning, actually around twelve but it was my morning.
7. What was the last movie you saw? Scary Movie 3, I've seen that movie too many times.
8. What does your last text message say? Okay this is really strange but here it is; Do you want to make Power Puff Girls with me, I have the sugar, spice and everything nice your just going to have to bring the chemicals that caused the reaction that made them have powers...? The reply was; chemical x? and then I said yes, are you in? We can name them Lucinda, Sheriesh, and you can name the last one. The reply was Yeah I'm in! My answer to that was, alright, when do you want to do this we have to keep it on the down low; and now I'm sharing this amongst the Internet... I know it was only supposed to be the last one, but I can't just tell you that and not share the conversation, you might think I'm dealing or receiving drugs or other illegal things.
9. What's your ringtone? Disasterology by Pierce the Veil
10. Have you ever been to a different country? Nope, I haven't really traveled much upon America let alone other countries.
11. Do you like sushi? No, I tried it years ago and hated the taste of the seaweed and the rice was too sticky for me.
12. Where do you buy your groceries? Wal Mart
13. Have you ever taken medication to help you fall asleep faster? Yes, I find it doesn't help much though, I have a hard time getting to sleep often.
14. How many siblings do you have? One sister, shes older.
15. Do you have a desktop computer or a laptop? Laptop
16. How old will you be turning on your next birthday? 18
17. Do you wear contacts or glasses? Both, I have terrible vision, but usually I don't wear either even though I should, but I usually wear glasses around the house and contacts when I'm out and about.
18. Do you color your hair? Yes, but only a few times a year, I dye it black but recently I dyed it Dark Auburn, I'm going to do a post about my hair after I perm it.
19. Tell me something you are planning to do today. Write a few blog post, other then that nothing just going to go with the flow today.
20. When was the last time you cried? Can't remember probably with in this last week or two though.
21. What is your perfect pizza topping? Bell peppers.
22. Which do you prefer-hamburgers or cheeseburgers? Neither, I don't eat meat and when I did I didn't eat hamburgers because I didn't like their taste or texture.
23. Have you ever had an all-nighter? Multiple times.
24. What is your eye color? Hazel, there a brown/green color.
25. Can you taste the difference between Pepsi and Coke? Yes, I don't really drink pop but there is definitely a difference between the two, Cokes better in my opinion.

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EOTD: Orange and copper

 Hello there:)

With my eye open normal, I open it really wide for pictures; you can see a lot of the color and it looked pretty if you like orange and copper, it was subtle but still different.

    I was just playing around today with my eye makeup and came up with this, its different then my normal look and I thought it was pretty so I figured I would share with all of you, and look at that to post today, wooh! If you would like to see a tutorial on exactly how I did this just leave a comment below telling me. I paired this with a pale pink blush, which I used lightly and some bronzer, of course highlighter too, and lastly a nude pink lip, I used Airy Fairy from Rimmel , but I think a more nude lip would have looked better. I also forgot to highlight the inner corner, so thats another thing I would have done.

What I have on:
Urban Decay Primer Potion
Coastal Scents Fall Festival palette shades, # M004 Chamois Nude, # ME003 Bright Copper, # ME026 Deep Cantaloupe, # S030 Cherry Chocolate, and Hot Pot # ME023 New Penny. I also used # M023 Gunmetal to set my liner its a black with red sparkles.
ELF Cream Eyeliner, I have a review coming soon on this.
I don't remember what mascara I used it was by Maybelline and in the yellow packaging, I don't know the name.
I didn't use much brushes, a fluffy blending brush, eye contor brush, a different type of blender and my fingers instead of eyeshadow brushes to pack the color on, normally I use brushes I just wasn't feeling it today, and of course I used angled brushes for my eyeliner.

Thanks for reading, please any request below.

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Mani Monday: Mint and Green

Hello there :)

This picture was taken before the pictures my nails.

      So this week I wanted to test out a few new polishes I bought, mini haul coming this week. So the polishes I have on this week including my toe nails(fun fact, I only paint my toe nails once a month, usually), anyways I have on Finger Paints Go Van Gogh! and China Glaze Re-fresh Mint, on my toes I have China Glaze For Audrey. I just want to put this out there I buy China Glaze polishes because I can get them so cheap at Sally Beauty Supply, if I didn't get them for no more then 3.50usd then I wouldn't be so okay with buying them, I don't buy OPI or Essie because I think it's too expensive, but for me China Glaze is cheap, I'm going to include a link or two of where you can buy China Glaze for cheap with the other links.

I do paint my own nails so they're not perfect.

And I wanted to give my first impression on the Finger Paints polish, I mentioned this in my haul and said I would but this is going up sooner then that... The brush is small, but the cap is really nice like it just fits in your hand so well, the polish was very opaque but it was a dark polish and the consistency was nice, overall I thought it was a nice polish and I would consider buying more Finger Paints polishes, and my only complaint so far is the brush size, I'll update you next week upon the wear of the polish, by the way the NYC polish I had on last week didn't chip at all, pretty good for a dollar polish although it was only on my ring fingers so it probably would have chipped a bit on other fingers but I have found they are pretty good polishes for a dollar.

I really need to get the tattoo touched up,
but I did mention that I had this in
my One Lovely Blog Award post and
here he is, I named him Harold
 when I got him done last year.

Links: China Glaze(legit site), Sally Beauty Supply, Finger Paints is this a brand sold in the UK?
Cheap China Glaze polish: 8ty8 Beauty, Head2toe Beauty. I am not affiliated with this companies nor have I ever purchased from them, I have heard people mention 8ty8 beauty before so I would imagine it's a legitimate site selling cheap China Glaze polish, the other site was one that popped up first so I assumed they were pretty reputable.

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**All products mentioned were purchased by me, all opinions are my own, this is not sponsored just a run on sentence, I have poor grammar, not really I just like run on sentences.

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At Home Exfoliater

Hello There:)

This is not my photo, photo from http://cherrystainedlips.blogspot.com/2012/02/basic-sugar-scrub.html

       So keeping on the Olive Oil theme, I'm going to tell you all about my favorite at home exfoliater. This is quite a well known at home exfoliater, all you need is two things for this Extra Virgin Olive Oil, olive oil is very moisturizing for your skin as well as your hair, you can also use almond or coconut oil if you don't have olive oil, and the molecules in it are too big to clog your pores so it is perfectly safe to put on your face and either brown sugar if you have sensitive skin, white sugar for those with normal skin, or sea salt, finely milled, this is good for acne prone skin that isn't sensitive because the sea salt can be a little more harsh on your skin but will help dry out your blemishes and clear them up. Of course using organic ingredients is best but not necessary. Sugar or salt scrubs are very popular facial scrubs you can buy at stores like Lush and through other skin care companies, but why not just make it your self for much less then they sell them.

      So you want it to be two parts sugar, or salt and one part oil. If your just making this for your face to use then I suggest using tablespoons, so two tablespoons sugar or salt and one tablespoon of oil, if making for your body use half cups instead of tablespoons. When I make this I like to use one part sugar and one part salt, you can also mix in some honey or make it one part sugar one part oil if you would like a more liquidy exfoliater. Then you just mix that together, you want to store this in a jar of some type of container with a lid and keep it in the fridge, this last about a week or two and can be used on your face and body. If you use salt do not use it on your body after you just shaved. I suggest using this twice a week for normal skin, once a week for oily and three times a week for dry skin.

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