Today's Make Up: "Unapologetic" Yet "Adorable" As Can Be

Here we are, the Wednesday, one week before Thanksgiving. This time next week, relatives will already be back in town, everyone off from work and school, it'll just be one big, happy family gathering. Yay... Fun! Haha.

In all seriousness though, I am greatly looking forward to Thanksgiving. There are certain relatives I have not seen in years that will be joining us this year. Since everybody will be in one place, it will be noisy, it will be chaotic but, family all in one place. Nothing truly makes me more content than being surrounded by family and loved ones.

As for today, I am to pick up a family friend who is officially making the move from Vancouver, Canada to Arizona. Sparing the details, she and her sons will now call this desert their new home. Hooray for AZ gaining three new residents! Although I was able to avoid picking them up at the airport, I still have to take them around to run errands. I don't mind, it's just the lady makes things really, really awkward. I will be busy all day tomorrow also, showing them around and getting them situated. Ahh... being host is fun.

FACE
ELF Mineral Infused Face Primer
Sonia Kashuk Concealer Palette in Hidden Agenda
L'Oreal Magic Lumi Light Infusing Primer
Maybelline Dream Fresh BB 8-in-1 Beauty Balm Skin Perfecter in Light/Medium
Revlon Nearly Naked Pressed Power in Fair
NYC Smooth Skin Bronzer in Sunny
Wet N Wild Color Icon Bronzer in Reserve Your Cabana
the Balm How 'Bout Them Apples? Cheek & Lip Cream Palette in (Apple) Pie

EYES
Urban Decay Primer Potion
NYX The Adorable Shadow Palette in TAS01
Wet N Wild Mega Liner Liquid Eyeliner in Black
NYX Jumbo Eye Pencil in Strawberry Milk
Maybelline The Falsies Black Drama Mascara

LIPS
Revlon Color Burst Matte Balm in Unapologetic

On the face, again, I am really loving the luminous bare face trend this Fall. It just makes life so much easier! I used the Cheek & Lip Cream Palette today to get a natural flushed look. I used (Apple) Pie, left column, middle shade, on a small stipple blush and stippled it on my cheeks. It looks very natural and beautiful.

This is the latest addition to my eyeshadow family. I ordered this off of drugstore.com last week and it came in over the weekend. I can surely create many "adorable" looks using this palette. So far, all the shades I used have been all hits. 

I've been into the bold lips as of late if y'all noticed. For the Winter months, I prefer a long wearing lip product that is also moisturizing so do not be surprised if y'all see a lot of lip stains and balm stains such as this. 

Everyone please have a wonderful rest of the night. As always, thank you for visiting and thanks for reading. Please come back soon. :)

Combined Haul - Hautelook Orders: NYX, the Balm, Sephora by OPI, Pixi, Pop Beauty

Wednesday greetings everyone! Hope you're all having a fantastic Hump Day. :P D-2 until Halloween, who else is excited?!

So it's been a while, but I have somewhat managed my "see everything, buy everything" or the "I want I get" syndrome. LOL. I emphasize on the somewhat part because being a makeup-aholic like myself, how am I to completely shut myself off from buying more makeup? The products I will mention today are all Hautelook orders I have made within this past month. I pick up a few things here and there and figured it'll be a waste of a post entry so might as well wait until everything arrived and do a combined haul. So this is what today's post is all about, a combined haul of Hautelook orders.

Let's start off with my first order from NYX Cosmetics, I picked up two eyeshadow collections.

NYX

– Love in Florence 5 Color Shadow Palette in Eat, Love, Be Fab (LIF02)
+  Glam Shadow Stick in Rose Gold
– Love in Rio 3 Color Shadow Palette in Sway With Lola (LIR13)
+ Jumbo Eye Pencil in Oyster
+ Jumbo Eye Pencil in Pacific

The first eyeshadow palette I got is from the Love in Florence collection. It came with a 5 shadow palette and a shadow stick. As you can probably see, the palette is very Earthy, with neutral colors; even the salmony pink and green seems to give off that Earthy vibe. The shadow stick is called Rose Gold so you can already guess it's a rose gold-ish shade. Haha.

The second palette is from the Love in Rio collection. This palette came with 3 shadows and two Jumbo Eye Pencils. The three shades include a baby pink, baby blue and very beige; as for the eye pencils, one is a pearly lilac while the other is a pearly sea blue.

Both palette, I feel, is perfect for Spring, the pastel, neutral Earthly colors. Don't y'all think so?

Next batch of order is from the Balm, a brand that's recently become a fast favorite.

the Balm

– Instain Long Wearing Staining Powder Blush in Argyle
– How 'Bout Them Apples? Cheek & Lip Cream Palette
– Mary-Lou Manizer
– Stainiac in Beauty Queen

I might be the last person to jump onto this band wagon but I finally got my first ever Instain blush! Out of the... five or six shades available, I picked up Argyle, a dusty rose pink shade. If I end up liking this Instain formula, I might purchase the other shades. I do have the rest of the Balm's blushes like Hot Mama and Down Boy and I do love those a bunches.

As soon as I saw this cream palette, I knew I just HAD to get it. In face, it was the first item I added to my cart. The packaging is super cute, the shades looked amazing and since Winter is just around the corner, I thought it was appropriate to stock up on cream blushes. Yeah, during the Winter, I tend to use cream blushes because it looks more natural, as if you're really blushing from the cold.

I loved Cindy-Lou Manizer so much I had to pick up Mary-Lou. While both are highlighters, Cindy-Lou is more pinkish while Mary-Lou is more yellow. I've realized that I have been reaching for Mary-Lou more often now because it not only complements my skin tone more, it complements my the blushes I use as well.

Y'all know how much I already love this lip stain. It isn't as long lasting as Benefits or my Peri Pera but it does do a fine job of staining if I do not eat or drink. Unlike Benefit where the tint is water based, Stainiac is a gel and you apply it with a doe foot applicator. It does not leave a tackiness feel or does it have a smell that's bothersome. Love it so much I bought 3 more for back up...

Next up, more Sephora by OPI Nail Colors... :D This time, Fall and Winter shades.

TOP - Left to Right: Dance Til Fawn, Fiercely Fabulous, Good Thing We Bling!, Hi Def, It's Bouquet With Me, Keep Me In The Mistletoes
BOTTOM - Left to Right: Leaf Him At The Altar, Metro Chic, Mr. Right Now, Set The Mood, What's Your Sign?

Sephora by OPI

Nail Colors in
- Dance Til Fawn
- Fiercely Fabulous
- Good Thing We Bling!
- Hi Def
- It's Bouquet With Me
- Keep Me In The Mistletoes
- Leaf Him At The Altar
- Metro Chic
- Mr. Right Now
- Set The Mood
- What's Your Sign?

Love these nail colors oh so much that I had to pick up 11 more shades. I actually picked up 12 initially but one shade became out of stock so I ended up with 11. Of the 11 I did pick up, 9 are stand alone nail colors, while two are more of a top coat or for accents because they are composed of large glitter particles. 

Good Thing We Bling! is super perfect for the holiday season, I mean it has large red and green glitter specks and gold micro shimmers. Very, very beautiful.

I did use Metro Chic and Leaf Him At The Altar already. Check 'em out if you're interested. :P

 

 

As a matter of fact, I actually used another one of the nail color from above in my Halloween Spooks manicure this week. That bright orange I used for the Jack-O'-Lantern, is no other than Hi Def, that in your face orange on the top, third one from the right.

Last but not least, my Pixi and POP Beauty order that consists of three, but now two items. 

Pixi & Pop Beauty

– Pixi Nail Color in Lime Lustre
– Pop Beauty Nail Glam Nail Polish in Pink Popsicle

I actually ordered two POP Beauty nail colors but Hautelook messed up my order and sent me only one but charged me for two. I already sent them an email so hopefully we'll get it sorted out. But doesn't the pink look super gorgeous?! 

If y'all remember, I was raving about Lime Lustre a while ago. Unfortunately, I was only able to use that once before I regrettably broke the bottle and all was gone. I loved the shade so much that when I saw Pixi was featured on Hautelook and Lime Lustre was one of the nail colors, I had to repurchase it. 

That concludes this combined haul from Hautelook. Is there anything specific y'all want to see? Let me know! You all enjoy the rest of your night now. 

Thank you for visiting and thanks for reading. Please do come back soon! :)