Love of the week...

My love of the week and what I have been obsessed with is winged liner achieved with gel or cream liner. I love how gel or cream liner elongates the eyes and give that sexy kitten yet classy old Hollywood look. I tried to get a good picture for you guys but this is the best that I could do....very sleepy eye. :)

Here I used MAC's 266 an angled brush perfect for winged liner and cliniques' brush on cream liner in the color True Black which is a dream to work with. It is very creamy, pigmented and long lasting. I have had mine for a while and it has not dried out. Bobbie Brown gel liner is still my holy grail liner though but Clinique's is a closed second.

What's your take on liners?

Hope you all are having a fantastic day.

NOTD - Essie Ballet Slippers

Essie's ballet slippers is a gorgeous milky nude color that gives a soft romantic look to the hands. I love this color.



I have been looking for a nude to replace my beloved OPI bubble bath. I love OPI original bubble bath formula which is an off white nude. OPI reformulated it and now it's a sheer pink color which is very unoriginal and not special at all.

Below is OPI's original bubble bath:

To the right is OPI's original bubble bath and the left the new formula. The new formula is very sheer, very streaky and pinkish toned.

Essie's ballet slippers is pretty close to the original bubble bath. My search is over!

Do you have a favourite nude polish?

 

NOTD -Opi Strawberry Margarita

So the weather is doing this right now ..

It has been snowing so much here this month and I'm in the south. It never snows this much here. Really craving spring so to put myself in the mood for spring and sunshine I picked Opi Strawberry Margarita to paint my nails.

Love this color. It's such a pretty hot pink. Now all I have to do is close my eyes and wish to be here.

Hope you all are doing fantastic.

 

MAC Peacocky haul

If I had to pick one makeup items that excites me the most it has to be eyeshadow. I can go without foundation, or blush and even lipstick but I love love love to play up my eyes. So MAC's peacocky collection which had 15 different eyeshadows, had me really excited.  I really loved this collection. I didn't buy any of the lip products although they looked amazing. The eyeshadows in this collection are absolutely stunning. They have a metallic shine but they are not majorly frosty. The texture of these is like butter, even softer than the starflash eyeshadows. I loved every one of the eyeshadows that I swatched and below are some of my favourites from this collection:
1. Unflappable. This is a gorgeous black/purple color much similar to MAC smut pro eyeshadow which is a gray black/red color. If you have a yellow undertone complexion like I do, you may have noticed how some grays or even blacks turn bluish color on you. Smut or Unflappable are perfect for anyone who has that issue because of the red or warm undertone that keeps it from going too blue. I love this shadow.

2. Center stage. This has to be my favorite eyeshadow at the moment. It's a beautiful burgundy red color that really makes green eyes "pop". This is absolutely stunning on top of MAC vintage selection paint pot.



3. Paparazz-she is a golden copper color. This is the perfect color for blue eyes and it'll look gorgeous with a tan. I love these type of colors for spring and summer.

Did you get anything from this collection?

MAC cham pale haul

MAC's Cham Pale collection came out in December so I'm really really late in posting this but I recently trotted to MAC and they still had the entire collection at my store. Since this was one of my favorite collections and it's not sold out in most stores, I felt ok posting this now. I'm in love with paint pots at the moment and this collection had four of them but my two favorite are vintage selection and chilled on ice.
1. Vintage selection is in my opinion the star of this collection. It's a gorgeous peachy/pink color with tons and tons of shimmer. It goes very well with both MAC woodwinked and Mulch and it's gorgeous on its own as well. If you get one item from this collection, get vintage selection.

2. Chilled on ice is a shampagne/gold color. This is sheer and very comparable to MAC bare study. It's not necessarly a must have but I love it enough that I thought it deserves a mention.

3. Chez Chez Lamé highlighter is a beautiful light golden highlighter. This is absolutely wonderful. It gives that light within to the cheeks. The shimmer is finely milled and absolutely gorgeous. This is a better and more refined version of the famous NARS albatros. It's stunning.

These would be my recommendations from the MAC cham pale collection. I'll post a different post about Peacocky collection haul. As far as MAC wonderwoman collection goes, I'll probably not be getting anything from that collection. The packaging is just not my cup of tea. Did you get anything from Cham Pale?

Hope you all have had a lovely week.





January favourites

This month has been all about the eyes and the cheeks for me. I have been wearing mostly just balm in my lips. Here are some of my January favourites.

1. Cream color bases. I have always been a major fan of cream color bases and shadows but this month specifically I have been using them not just under my shadows but also by themselves. I have so many I love like Benefit creasless cream eyeshadow/liners, MAC paints and paint pots and UD potions just to mention a few. The three I have enjoyed the most this month have been MAC bare study - a beautiful champagne color that brings light and opens the eyes, Benefit birthday suit- a gorgeous golden chrome color and Benefit bunny hope - a beautiful pink with a multidimensional blue on it. I also have used MAC paint in Stilife
 a lot (There is a swatch of it on my previous post) From Left to right - MAC bare study, Benefit birthday suit and benefit bunny hop.

2. Chanel Safari eyeshadow. This is a beautiful taupe color. If you love taupe, this is one to add to your collection. It's a taupe with tons and tons of silver shimmer. As most chanel eyeshadows, this is not super pigmented, but it gives a gorgeous color without being too overstated.

3. As a makeup junkie I have tons and tons of blushes, but the one I love the most and when I use I truly feel like this is all the blush I need, is  MAC well dressed. I love this blush. It's a pink with silver shimmer running thru it so it brings color and light to the cheeks. Lovely.

4. I change my polishes all the time but I really wanted to mention one of my all time favourite which is China Glaze something sweet. I love this cotton candy pink. Perfect for spring. I have it on right now and love it.

What have your January favourites been?

Hope you all have had a lovely day.



NOTD - Chanel Blue Satin

I feel like I have a favorite nail polish associated with each color family like if pink comes to mind -OPI mod about you is my favorite, and if royal blue comes to mind...well then it's chanel blue satin. Chanel Blue Satin is a deep royal blue and its gorgeous with short nails.

This polish is lovely on the nails. I only used one coat to get a perfect opaque color.
 Do you have a favourite royal blue polish?

Happy Friday everyone!


My commitment to beauty

I have been so busy lately and have decided to take a day or at least afternoon to pamper myself. Wednesday night has been my "beauty night" and here are some of the things I have done as part of my commitment to beauty this year:

1. Exfoliate. I exfoliate daily with my clarasonic but once a week I use a stronger exflolator and it is eather Origins Brighter By Nature pads or Dermalogica gentle exfloliator. Either one of these can be used twice a week but I find that to be way too harsh for my skin so I only use them once a week. After a good exfloation treatment, I use Mega Mashroom Skin Calming Face Mask to calm the skin and put some moisture back. I first sow this mask in Lisa Eldrige's skincare video and was surprised I didn't have it since I had all the rest of Dr. Weils for Origins line. I bought it then and love it. It is perfect to calm irritated skin.

2. A hair conditioning/mask. My hair is colored and very very long. I keep it healthy by using a mask at least once a week Here are some of my favourite hair masks. Aveda Dry Remedy Hair Mask is the star here. If I had to purchase only one going forward, this would be it.

3. Polish my nails. I only change my polish once a week. I use Stickey base coat and Orly glosser and my polish last chip free for a week but once a week I have committed to change my polish. After all I have to use up 5 bottles pretty quickly as part of 2011 polish out.

This has basically been my Wednesday night beauty ritual. It's snowed tongith (again). It has snowed way too much here this year. I tried to take a picture with my pup but he wouldn't have it. He was far more intersted in doing this.....(NOTE TO SELF: Do not use Coralista and pet the dog. It smells too much like food)