College!!!

Hey everyone!

Just wanted to check back in and let all of you know I left Missouri on Wednesday the 17th and arrived in Indiana that night. I moved into my dorm yesterday and have a little free time right now in betweens all the meetings they have planned.

So, now that I'm mostly settled in and everything I'll be back to posting makup/beauty things pretty soon.

I hope that you all have had a wonderful time while I've been gone and that you have a great weekend!

BTW: if you want dorm pics or any organizational tips let me know. Although, I do have to say that my dorm room is slightly above average dorm size plus I'm in a triple so that makes it an even bigger size increase. I don't know how helpful I'll be with smaller rooms, but I can definitely give you guys my opinions. I fit a trunk and half a backseat full of stuff into my room so if that helps at all, there you go. I know some girls actually had to like take stuff home that they didn't have room for, so comparatvely I think I fit a lot into my room- maybe because of my organizational skills? Not to toot my own horn on anything, but I am a super good organizer :) So yea, leave any questions or comments on the page and as soon as I moderate it/read it I'll get back to you or make a new post! 

Too Faced Natural Eye Palette - CLASSIC

Okay guys, so you're probably thinking, "Really Michelle!? The Too Faced Natural Eye Palette again!??" Well, the answer is YES :) This post will be on the Classic instructional card- the FINAL instructional card. So that means I will only be doing another post on this palette if I discover a way I like doing it aside from the posts I've already uploaded. Also, if I run out because I really really like it then it might show up in one of purchases posts.

The instructions are:

1. Blend Silk Teddy from crease to brow.
2. Press Push Up onto lid.
3. Blend Erotica into the crease & lower lashes.

Okay, so out of the three instructional cards this one is my favorite! I love this look, it's not too light like the day card and not too much like the fashion card. I would wear this look on an everyday basis. The Day card could be worn often too, but it's really light so most likely I'd only wear it sometime when I don't want to come off as actually wearing makeup.

After I applied the eye shadow following the directions I put on gel liner on my upper lash line, pencil liner on my lower lash line, and then the Falsies mascara. I really like this look and I know I'll definitely be doing it often.

BTW: I am moving on Wednesday to Indiana so I probably won't be posting as often this week as I did when I first started this blog. I'm going to be packing all my stuff up for the next couple of days and then finally hitting the road for Indiana! I'll move in to my dorm on Thursday so I might be able to post again towards the end of the week or on the weekend unless it's just to hectic while trying to move in and get settled with my roommates. In that case I'll be updating next week :)

Too Faced Natural Eye Palette - FASHION

Okay, so I know I've done quite a few posts about the Too Faced Natural Eye Palette and I have to be honest and say that there is one more post after this one because I decided to review each of the three instructional cards separately. From the title you may have guessed this review is over the Fashion card.

I'm sure you're all very familiar with the picture to the left but it has the box, the actual shadows, and the three instructional cards. So the steps for the fashion card are:

1. Sweep Nude Beach from crease to brow.
2. Press Honey Pot onto the inner lid and around tear duct.
3. Blend Coca Puff into the outer lid, crease, upper & lower lashes.

I have to say that at first I extremely disliked the final look. It was extremely metallic/shimery and the crease color is very dark, I think too dark, for the other colors. I also didn't like the instructions for putting it around your tear duct. After I took the picture to show you guys though, I realized maybe it was just because I was so up close that I thought it was overly shimery because after seeing the picture I thought someone at a normal distance would not notice that. Also, I wear glasses and so I thought that would also kind of cover the shimery effect too on me.

So the picture to the right is the final product and I had on a new liquid liner pen on my upper lash line- I'll do a review on it later because I didn't like it at all, it smelled like permanent marker. I also had a little pencil liner on the lower lash line.



Too Faced Natural Eye Palette- DAY

So as I've said the Too Faced Natural Eye Palette came with three instructional cards explaining how to achieve different looks that look natural depending on the situation. Yesterday I applied the palette using the "Day" instructions.

So the instructional card is at the right, I changed the settings to portrait hoping that you'd be able to read it but I'm kind of worried you won't be able to so I'm going to go ahead and put the three steps right here again.

1. Sweep Heaven from lashes to brow.
2. Blend Velvet Revolver into crease.
3. Line upper and lower lash lines with Sexpresso and blend.

Okay, so the picture above is the final product and I know it looks like it's bad lighting but it's really not because these instructions basically say to blend a really light/white color all over (lashes to brow) and then put a grey color into your crease. This is really like an ultra conservation super day time natural eye. I think this is almost like too natural in a way because you almost can't see it which I guess some people go for that look but I think it's a waste of time to put on eye shadow like you don't have any on. I don't like super bright eye shadow colors or anything, I do tend to brown, bronze, or natural colors. So I do like it to look natural and not too heavy but I do want it to be visible- I don't want to spend however long putting on makeup and it not even be noticeable. There's two other instruction cards which I'm going to post on here also but so far I like what I did myself instead of the day version.

Too Faced Natural Eye Palette

Pictured above is the Too Faced Natural Eye Palette. I have the box showing, the actual shadows showing, and the three instruction cards that came with the palette.

Okay, so I actually went ahead and did my eyes the way I wanted- I didn't use any of the instruction cards. That's why I have the picture above so zoomed in, so you can see which color I'm talking about.
First, I took a lid shadow brush and mixed nude beach with silk teddy and I put that on my lids. Then I mixed Heaven and Silk Teddy as the highlight for just under my brow. I put push-up into my crease and then went over it with cocoa puff before I blended them all out to make sure there were no harsh color lines. I then went over the brow highlight again with Heaven and Silk Teddy. I lined my upper lash line with a Maybelline Eyestudio gel liner in blackest black. I went over my waterline with a pencil liner from the drugstore that's also black. I then went over the pencil liner on my waterline with the color sexspresso. I used Maybelline Falsies mascara also. All pictured below left.

The picture below is of the three shadow brushes I used to apply all the eye shadows.

Also, I'm going to put up two pictures of my eye with the finished product. They're both in different rooms so you can see it in different lighting- my room lighting wasn't fantastic so I went ahead and took one in a different room.

This picture is the one I took in my bedroom, it's a little dark so you can't really see definition between the colors but you can see the eyeliners really well which is why I'm showing it.

The picture to the right is a little lighter so you can see the highlight under my brow and the crease colors a little better than the picture in my bedroom.

New Makeup Brushes!!

Okay guys, so if you've been reading this you know I've been waiting to use my new Too Faced Natural Eye Palette until I got some new really good eyeshadow brushes because I don't want to use the eyeshadow sponge things or like flat eyeshadow brushes brushes.
So, anyway I just want to show you the new brushes and then the next post will be my review of the Too Faced Natural Eye Palette.

 Okay, so in the picture to the left I have the whole little kit open and you can see that there are 15 brushes in the kit. There are 3 bigger blush brushes, one is angled so it's like a contour brush. There's 3 eye shadow brushes. Then there's a few brushes that look to me like they can be used as eye shadow brushes or as eye liner brushes. There's a flat brush and then two mascara brushes. I went from left to right based on the picture so you can look at each brush from left to right.

This picture to the right shows what the kit looks like and it's like pink I don't know I think the thing on Amazon said snake skin but either way it's some sort of faux animal skin on the outside.







So yea, that's the new brush kit I bought. Remember I put the Amazon search bar at the bottom of my blog so if your interested you can search for Bundle Monster 15 piece brush set, I guess is what it's name would be because the brand is Bundle Monster and it has 15 pieces. So if you want to look at the description or the cost, about $18, check that out. I have to say I waited all day, because I expected this to arrive today, to put on makeup. So I can say that I used the foundation brush, the contour brush, the three eye shadow brushes, and the mascara comb thing and I definitely am satisfied with this new kit.

Venus

So I want to talk about shaving :) I know, it's a little weird but I feel like so many girls use bad razors and they don't get the best experience they can out of shaving.
I think a lot of girls and women use disposable, cheap razors because better ones with more blades are pretty expensive. However, I have to tell you if you invested in a really good razor you actually be saving money because you wouldn't have to but a lot of disposable ones and you don't have to buy the refill razor things that often.



Venus Embrace

So this is the razor I use and I honestly don't remember how much it costs because I bought it a few years ago. When I purchased it it came with I think two refill razor things and I bought a package of I believe eight with it. Since then I have not had to buy any more refill packages, they have really lasted that long. I usually only replace the blade when I notice that it's dull or if I'm starting to get little cuts. So it has the little pod thing with suction cups on the back to hold the refills. When I notice either one of those things in the shower I just go into pod and open a new blade and replace it right there so I don't get any more cuts or anything.

I want to tell you guys, my mother still uses cheap, disposable razors and so that's what I used when I first started shaving and it was the worst thing ever. Almost every time you shave you need a new one because they don't have many blades and they cause a lot little cuts because they get dull quickly. With the Venus Embrace it is seriously the best shave I could ever get, it has five blades which is why I bought it out of all the Venus razors. It gives the closest and the smoothest shave you could ever possibly imagine. To be honest, I used to use shaving cream and I don't now. I just use body wash to lather up my legs and that is enough for me because my legs aren't really sensitive. I guess if you had sensitive skin on your legs you might want to use a shaving cream but the blades on this razor are so precise that you really don't need it.

Now, I do want to say that Venus does make disposable versions of their razors but you could really save the most amount of money by purchasing a razor/pod set and then a cartridge of refills that would last honestly a couple of years. You might not get that long out of them if you shave every single day but I think that you should not shave EVERY SINGLE day. I know girls that have really bad razor burn and just problems in general with shaving every day like cuts and nicks so I really don't recommend every day shaving. Instead if you have like really fast growing hair try every other day. For me I shave maybe two times a week, my leg hair doesn't grow that fast so I shave maybe every three or four days.

So yea, I really recommend you give this razor a try if you have any issue with your current razor about it being dull or cutting you a lot.