Cleaning your makeup brushes often is essential! Bacteria can quickly build up on your brushes, and you don’t want to use dirty brushes on your face. I recommend cleaning all your brushes (eye and face) at least once a week. It will be will worth it and help prevent acne breakouts. After you’ve gathered up … More How To Clean Your Makeup Brushes
Watch my first YouTube video that I’m launching in addition to my blog! I’d love to hear feedback about videos for the future. This one is all about my makeup essentials and “holy grail” products. Enjoy!
I recently won 3 free months of lash extensions from a local salon in Beverly Hills, Nzuri Lash. They had an event on the night of the Golden Globes and were giving away prize packages. I was so thrilled to win as I’ve been curious about lash extensions for months now. I wanted to give … More Are Lash Extensions Worth It?
My all-time favorite black liquid eye liner is from Stila. Stila’s Stay Proof Waterproof Liquid Eye Liner applies extremely well with it’s easy to use thin, marker-like pen. This eye liner makes creating a winged liner look incredibly easy and doesn’t smudge or run. Overall, I love this product, but it’s a bit pricey at … More Best Liquid Liners
Orange Lips! The color is surprisingly easier than expected to pull off, and works for every skin tone. If you have fair skin like I do, make sure to even out your skin tone with foundation/concealer as any redness will not pair well with orange lips. I also like to prep my lips with a … More 2014’s Must-Have Lip Color
I never thought I had dark enough features to pull off black eyeshadow, but then I learned a few simple tricks. You need to soften and enhance the black color in some way, which I achieved using 2 techniques. 1. In order for this look to last, you need to apply some sort of eyeshadow … More How to Wear Black Eyeshadow
Rose Gold has been an extremely “it” color lately, and I’ve found the perfect eyeshadow color. MAC’s Pigments are an excellent everyday color you can swipe on your eyes and go. You can play the pigments up with more colors for a night out too. I’m obsessed with their pigment line lately: see the collection … More MAC’s Pigments
Maybelline’s new Volum’ Express The Rocket Mascara is my new favorite! It’s seriously the best, and makes it seem as if you’re wearing false lashes. This is a very voluminous formula, which I love! You can’t beat the $7 price tag. It’s better than any other high-end brand I’ve tried including benefit’s “They’re Real.” I … More My New Holy Grail Mascara
This Black Friday I couldn’t manage to stay away from Sephora and snatched up one of their most popular holiday palettes from Too Faced. It’s all sold-out online and in most stores so I was pretty excited to find it. The popular song from Sound of Music, “A Few of my Favorite Things” serves as … More A Few of My Favorite Things…
I’ve been trying to get my hands on the new e.l.f. Disney Villains palettes! This past friday, I was just in luck as Disney was hosting an event at my local Walgreens (Sunset & Vine in Hollywood). This location is one of their special “department” store style versions. I was able to get Ursula, which … More e.l.f. Disney Villains
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