Wine Tasting and an EOTD

Posted on December 31, 2010 by Vanessa

Hi Lovelies :-),
I hope you’re all having an amazing week! Happy Friday! I’ve been relaxing so much during my week off, it’s amazing and much needed. Yesterday I had the pleasure of joining my best friend, her mom, and a few friends for wine tasting in Temecula (located in Southern California). We went to four wineries and had about 25 different kinds of wines, it was a good day lol. Here’s the eye of the day from yesterday along with some pics of the trip:

Products Used:
UDPP in Sin all over the lid.
MAC Mulch on lid just past the crease.
MAC Teddy eye pencil along lower lashes and set with Mulch; also used on wanterline.
Revlon Colorstay Liquid liner along upper lashes.
Covergirl Lashblast mascara.

The view from the first Winery we went to. The day was beautiful, but sooo cold!

Loved my polish, it’s China Glaze’s Peace on Earth.

Our view during the first tasting.

Shan loving wine lol.

The view from the driveway of the second winery, it was on a hill.

Amazing! I fell in love with the scenery.

LOL! I took too long with pictures and Shan needed to find the little girls room.

Happy Bff’s :-).

What are you all up to tonight?

<3V

Coffee Inspired Eyes

Posted on November 30, 2010 by Vanessa

Hello Dolls,
How are all of you this lovely Tuesday? Is it just me, or is this week already dragging on? Having a long weekend spoiled me and now I want Wednesday to be the new Friday, lol! I’m adjusting to not sleeping in now and have been drinking coffee like it’s going out of style. The lovely drink inspired the EOTD below:

Products Used:
-UDPP in Sin all over the lid.
-MAC Black Tied on the lid, 3/4 of the way up to the crease.
-MAC Mulch blended into the edge of the black shadow and up 1/2 way to the brow. Also blend Mulch along lower lashes.
-MAC Dazzlelight as a brow highlight.
-Revlon liquid liner along upper lashes.
-Stila Kajal in Onyx on waterline.
-Covergirl Lashblast mascara.

I can’t get enough of the color Mulch, it’s one of my favorite browns from MAC :-).

I hope you’re all having a great week!

<3V

Cranberry and Brown Sugar

Posted on November 25, 2010 by Vanessa

Happy Thanksgiving!
How are all of you today? I just finished dinner and I’m absolutely stuffed…thank goodness for stretchy pants! I wanted to do my makeup with colors that reminded me of Thanksgiving so I combined cranberry and brown sugar and came up with this:

Products Used:
-UDPP in Sin all over the lid.
-MAC Cranberry packed on the lid up to the crease.
-MAC Mulch blended into the crease up 1/2 way to the bro bone. Make sure this is very well blended into where the Cranberry color stops.
-Layered Mulch first then Cranberry on top along lower lashes.
-MAC Dazzlelight as a brow highlight.
-Stila Kitten in the inner corners.
-Revlon ColorStay liquid liner along upper lashes.
-Stila Eye Kajal in Onyx on waterlines.
-Covergirl LashBlast on lashes.

I’m very thankful for all of you readers! Thank you a million times for commenting, stopping by, emailing me, adding me on Twitter, everything! I hope you and yours have a blessed Thanksgiving :-).

<3V

Makeup for a Quinceanera

Posted on November 24, 2010 by Vanessa

Hello Lovelies,
How are you today? I hope you’re keeping warm wherever you are and that you’ve got stretchy pants out and ready for the feasting that will happen tomorrow!

This past weekend I had the pleasure of doing makeup for a Quinceanera party for a friend. A Quince is a Latin American celebration of a girls 15th birthday, commemorating her transition into womanhood. The parties vary in extravagance and some also include an entire church mass dedicated to the birthday girl. The celebrations brings together families for food, dancing, pictures, and memory making. My friend Paty asked me to do makeup for her, her sister Miney (the bday girl), and their mom. The girls were a dream to work with and I had so much fun doing their makeup. Side note: they have to die for lashes! I don’t remember all of the products used, but let me know if you want me to do a tutorial for any of the looks and I’ll recreate it in an EOTD post :-).

The birthday girl, Miney:

Beautiful Paty:

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Smokey Eyes for $1? Yes, Please!

Posted on November 21, 2010 by Vanessa

A rose I took a picture of at the Huntington Library a few weeks ago :-).

Hello Lovelies!

How are all of you doing the week before Thanksgiving? I’m watching Ghost Adventures tonight while cuddled up in blankets and a sweater :-). I recently did a little therapy walk through Target (does anyone else do that when they need to relax?) and found a cute little palette by e.l.f. for a $1 that I couldn’t pass up. The quality and color payoff were surprisingly good and the colors are perfect for a standard black smokey eye.

The Drama quad comes with a shimery black, shimmery gunmetal grey, a shimmery silver, and a matte white (which seemed weird to me…it looked odd with the rest of the shimmers).

I put together a really fast smokey eye and loved the texture of all the colors, but the silver was REALLY soft so I had to be careful with my brush when I was dipping into the color. You’ll have to use a base under these eye shadows so they have something to grip on to. I also used my MAC Dazzlelight shadow as a brow and inner corner highlight because the matte white looked off to me lol.

To create the look above I used UDPP in Sin as a base, the black shadow along my lid up to the crease and along lower lashes, the gunmetal color along the crease, the silver along the crease closer to the inner corners, and the white along my brow bone with MAC’s Dazzlelight on top and along the inner corners. I also used my standard Revlon Color Stay liquid liner along upper lashes, Stila’s Eye Kajal in Onyx on waterline, and Covergirl Lashblast mascara.

I’ll definitely be picking up a few more of these quads on my next Target trip. They’re a great way of trying new colors without spending a lot.

Have you tried e.l.f. cosmetics? What do you think of them?

<3V

Cat Eye Makeup for Halloween

Posted on October 12, 2010 by Vanessa

My sister and I this past weekend at the first costume party of the month. Isn’t she a cute clown?!

Hi Beauties!
How are all of you doing? I’m taking a break from my homework to post some pics of my makeup from last weekend. I’m not much of a dressing up person and would rather buy shoes than a costume, but I needed something easy and inexpensive to wear to parties this month. I picked up cat ears at Spencer’s Gifts for $6.99, a tail at Party City for $6.99, wore all black, and had some fun with makeup.
I wanted a little bit of a whisker effect without actually having to wear them, so I played with my eyeliner and came up with the look below.

Pardon the stray hair that made its way into the pictures lol.

Products Used:
-Urban Decay Primer Potion in Sin all over the lid and along lower lashes.
-MAC Knight Divine shadow all over lid, stopping 1/2 way past the crease.
-MAC Silver Ring shadow along crease to soften Knight Divine.
-MAC Dazzlelight along brows and in inner corners of eyes.
-Revlon Colorstay liquid liner in blackest black along upper lashes and winged out, and along lower lashes to create the “whiskers”.
-Red Cherry false lashes (I can’t remember what number they are, sorry!).
-Covergirl Lashblast in Black packed on to upper and lower lashes.
-Cargo HD blush/highlighter.
-MAC Ample Pink Plushglass.

It look me about 25 minutes to do everything, mostly because I’m not a pro with fake lashes yet lol.

What are your costumes this year?

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Sigma’s Indian Girl

Posted on September 24, 2010 by Vanessa

Happy Friday babes!

I’ve been MIA for a week or so now, I honestly haven’t done anything besides my everyday liner/mascara because I’ve felt lazy lol. Now that fall has kicked in, I’m feeling inspired and excited to try new looks. Below is one of my favorite shadows, Sigma’s Indian Girl. I ordered one of their brushes and a full sized shadow came with my order as a free gift. The shadow is so finely milled and soft, I can swipe it on for a quick wash of color in no time.
I wore this over my new Urban Decay Primer Potion in Sin; LOVE LOVE LOVE the primer. I’m kicking myself for waiting so long to get it. A must have from now on 🙂

Products Used:
UDPP in Sin all over lid and along lower lashes.
Sigma’s Indian Girl shadow on lid, past crease, and along lower lashes.
MAC’s Dazzlelight as a brow highlight.
Revlon Colorstay Liquid Liner in Black.
CoverGirl Lashblast in Blackest Black.

Random, but I love the old photo effect on the Photobucket editor :-D.

I’m excited to kickoff a fab weekend! Celebrating my friend’s 21st birthday tonight in LA and then spending all of tomorrow with my beautiful bff :-). What are your plans this weekend?

<3V

Flashes of Purple

Posted on September 7, 2010 by Vanessa

Shannon’s cat, Jewel. She jumped in the tub while we got ready to go out.

Hi Dolls!
I was so not ready to end my three day weekend! I slept in Sunday-Monday and didn’t do a whole lot, which was amazing. How was your long weekend?

Here’s a look I did on Monday with my new Urban Decay shadow:

Products Used:
-Urban Decay Primer Potion in Sin all over lid and along lower lashes.
-Urban Decay Flash eyeshadow all over lid, just past the crease and along lower lashes.
-MAC Nocturnelle blended lightly into the outer corners of eyes.
-MAC Dazzlelight as a brow highlight and lightly blended into the inner corners.
-Revlon Colorstay liquid liner in blackest black.
-Stila Eye Kajal in Onyx on waterline.
-Covergirl Lashblast mascara in Black.

The pictures didn’t come out as sharp as I wanted, I think I may have had it on the wrong setting lol. This was a really bright and fun look and I can’t wait to wear it with fake lashes for a night out.

Here’s to a new week!

<3V

Stormy Eyes and a Mini Haul

Posted on August 31, 2010 by Vanessa

I had to! LOL! ❤ this show!

Hello Beauties,
I’m watching a rerun of Teen Mom and seriously thinking about going to bed early tonight. I’ve been so tired the last few weeks, not sleeping enough! I may just be adjusting to school again, who knows? Even though we’re still in summer, I missed the rain and cold last week and created an eye of the day that reminded me of a storm.

Products used:
-MAC paint pot in Bare Study all over the lid and along lower lashes.
-MAC Blue Flame on the inner half of the eyelid and along the lower lashes.
-MAC Knight Divine on the outer half of the eyelid and blended just past the crease.
-MAC Silver Ring blended into the crease.
-MAC Dazzlelight as a brow highlight.
-Revlon Liquid liner in black.
-Stila Eye Kajal in Onyx on the waterline.
-Covergirl Lashblast mascara.

And here are some goodies I picked up today:
$9 at Nordstrom! I love watches but I could never bring myself to buy one, until I spotted this on sale today :-D.

$2.99 each at Charlotte Russe, but they were buy one get one free today.

Urban Decay Primer Potion in Sin, $18 at Sephora. I’ve been eyeing this for months now and finally gave in.

How is your week coming along?

<3V

Rediscovered MAC’s Humid…

Posted on August 29, 2010 by Vanessa

Mini haul from Asencio Designs :-).

Happy Sunday Dolls!

I’m hanging out at home being lazy in one of my favorite weekend outfits: distressed old jeans, a black tank, and black flip flops :-). What are you up to today?

I rediscovered Humid in my eyeshadow collection and had to wear it, here’s what I have on today:

Products Used:
-MAC Bare Study paint pot all over the lid and along lower lashes.
-MAC Humid on lid up to crease and along lower lashes.
-MAC Mulch blended into crease.
-MAC Claire de Lune as a brow highlight and on inner corners.
-Revlon Colorstay Liquid liner.
-Stila Eye Kajal on waterline.
-Covergirl Lastblast mascara.
-MAC Espresso on brows.

Counting down to True Blood tonight! Hope you’re having a lovely day :-D.

<3V

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