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This past week, we enjoyed our time together - like we always do... because Summer was coming to an end. Come and join my family on our journey... and have some fun with us. To watch this Vlog via YouTube - click here.
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I have had this manicure for about a week now, I thought I posted about it, but I guess I forgot. I am using Polish Addict Nail Color in Neon Lights. I took this photo at night so the lighting was not ideal... but it includes awesome square glitters, circle and all different types of shape glitters in a wide range of colors from neon pinks and oranges to green and blue (neon). It is just an awesome white polish - I love it.
Have you heard of that CRAZY Wrap Thing? Have you tried it? Well, as many of you know, I wear many many hats... from Full Time SAHM and Wifey to a Wedding & Portrait Photographer, Indie Cosmetics Company Owner and of course, Blogger and YouTuber. But after being introduced to this awesome product, I was completely amazed. Now - let me just say... that I DO NOT put my name behind a product if I do not believe in it or know from personal experience that it works. I am so happy to say that it does.
My whole story about this product will unfold in a Vlog / Documentary on my YouTube Channel soon (I have been to ashamed to take photos, but I'm getting up the nerve to do so). And, I'll be posting updates here on my Blog as well - so stay tuned for all of that. This post is not about selling you - but letting you know that you may be hearing about this a lot in the future. As I am on my road to healthier living and a happier me... I am including this in my healthy body regimen... and since you are all along for the journey in my life - this is a part of that too. Stay tuned and thanks to all for all your support. And, keep your eyes out for more info on THAT CRAZY WRAP THING. :) xoxo Honey
Are you as excited as I am to get your hands on these? Roses are quite possibly one of my favorite flowers and these blushes are the epitome of "love in a compact". I am so bummed that these are limited edition, because I know that they will be a hot seller. After watching a few videos in the last couple of days where people have swatched them, I know that I need every single color. Looking here, I know that these colors are universal for all skin tones. I especially love that they are matte which we all know is my favorite of all favorites type of blush - I love mattes.
What colors are you planning to get your hands on? They should be available on milanicosmetics.com next week and are available at select stores like: CVS, Walgreens, Fred Meyer, Meijer and a few others. Retail for this product will vary from location to location - but I have seen them retailing for about $6.99 - $8.99 at certain locations. I am so excited to get these... I will be doing a formal review as well as show and tell when I get my hands on them, so stay tuned! xoxo Honey This quite possibly is a great invention for any family, bachelor or single ladies and especially for mommies trying to get their dinner on the table in 10 minutes or less. It's effortless and easy to use. Check out my review and demo on my quick taco salad in the video embedded below or click here to watch it on YouTube. I was sent this product as a part of the Expo Trylogy program to review and test out. This video was uploaded almost a week ago, so I have been using this product for about 3 weeks - almost a month. Does this product give me whiter and cleaner teeth is just 2 weeks? Well, check out my review and demo to see what I think. :) Watch the embedded video below for a review and demo or click here to watch on YouTube. Happy Monday! It's been a while since I focused on Makeup Kits and how to build your freelance kit... so I figured it would be the best time to start since I'm booking Brides for the upcoming year. I will be doing a few Quick Tips here on my blog and also will be starting up on my Videos again. These can be used as a Guide for getting started though I know every circumstance is different and every situation - so you will have to tweak them accordingly.
Quick Tip - Bridal Makeup and Building your kit... Your makeup kit includes the tools to make magic happen. It is an investment and it is also how you will represent yourself to your clients. While I whole-heartily agree that you can find many affordable brands to stock your kit with - I also know that clients are looking to book a Makeup Artist that has quality product. The better your product, the more you can charge in some cases. While it is true that the type of products you have does not determine the type of artist you are, it certainly is a reflection of your skill to your clients sometimes. I use a wide range of products from High End to even drug store. At one time, I remember when my entire Kit was stocked with nothing but MAC (if this is something you want to do - please please get a Pro Card as it will help with building your kit financially). While it was awesome to look at, I realized quickly that many of my clients could not wear MAC foundations because it caused them to break out within hours of application. So I tweaked it and added foundations that are mineral based and my clients love it. I suggest if you are certified or have a decent portfolio built, definitely invest your time and a little bit of money and sign up for Pro Memberships. It will help tremendously with building your kit because you can get products much cheaper. Just a few companies I am a Pro Member at include: Motives, Makeup Art Cosmetics (MAC), Camera Ready Cosmetics. Keep in mind that when you are a working artist, even if you sanitize, your kit items will not last as long as your personal makeup collection, and your kit is ever growing - so you want to make sure that you are investing in it. It's your business - so you want to treat it as so. When you make money - invest it back in your business, even if it is just a portion of what you make. I will be posting a video on how I stocked my kit in the beginning as well as what I currently have in my kit now. So, stay tuned for that. :) It will be coming in the next few weeks. xoxo Honey "Success is liking yourself, Check out what made my 5 Friday Favorites in 5 Minutes. Watch the embedded video below or click here to watch it on YouTube. :)
Watch my video below for the full review and my thoughts on Parnevu's products from their T-Tree Line that I was able to try out. My thoughts in a nutshell... I really do like them. I have a few things I would change or improve, but still - I think they are great. Watch the video embedded below or click here to watch on YouTube.
I am a Handbag and Shoe Addict... yes, even more than Makeup! lol I truly have a passion for collecting handbags and this one is no exception. To show off my new handbag, I decided I would do a "What's in my purse" video. This purse is super cute, but what I like about it even more is that it is stylish but allows me to still carry all my essential mommy items for the kids... like snacks and band-aids. Check out what I have in my Designer Mommy handbag and watch till the end to see where I got this bag and the details of it all. While this bag may be temporarily sold out on Shoplately - it always gets brought back in and is perfect for any style or handbag lover like me. Sign up for Shoplately via this link: https://shoplately.com/u/vv5zp15p and get a $5.00 credit if you use Facebook to login. Bronze Smokey Eye tutorial featuring Too Faced Sweet Indulgences Palette. Makeup for Brown eyes.7/22/2013 I would be lying if I didn't say that Smokey eyes are such a go-to no matter the time of day or time of year. They are sultry and in most cases, super duper easy to recreate. This is a makeup look I have used many many times in the past, but this is the first time I am using the Too Faced Sweet Indulgences Palette to create it. This makeup look is very similar to that I do on brides. It is a favorite of mine because it works well with brown eyes and would also work very nicely with green and hazel eyes too. If you have blue eyes this could work well too, but to bring out the blue, try adding a bit of purple liner to your water line. Tutorial for this look is embedded in the video above. If you would like to watch it directly on YouTube, click here. All products used are listed also. :) Products used: Eye Shadow Base: Maybelline Color Tattoo in Bad to the Bronze Eye Shadow Colors: Too Faced Sweet Indulgences Palette - Teddy Bear (transition color), Lovey Dovey (all over lid color), Marshmellow (Inner Corner Highlight Color), In the Buff (browbone highlight color) and Black Sugar (used to smoke out the liner) Urban Decay Naked Basics Palette - Crave (outer v - outer crease definition color) Eyeliner: Mally Beauty Evercolor Sparkle liner in Black Face: Olay Fresh BB Cream Brows: Mary Kay Brow Gel Set and Brow Pencil Lips: Milani Color Statement lipstick in Rose Amour topped with MAC Lip glass in Nymphette Bronzer: NYC Sunny Bronzer Blush: Too Faced Papa Don't Preach (Sweet Indulgences Palette) Highlight: Too Faced Candle light Glow (Sweet Indulgences Palette) The necklace pictured above is from Shop Lately. Shoplately offers a wide range of accessories from Jewelry to Handbags and so much more. Sign up for a free account using your Facebook login and you can get a $5.00 shopping credit to use towards your purchase. Thank you so much for watching my tutorial and reading the post. Have a wonderful week!
xoxo Honey It was a super hot day yesterday... and it was mandatory for us to cool off and cool down. Since my hubby put out the pool, the boys and I took full advantage of it and cooled our bodies off and relaxed. I do enjoy the warmth of Hawaii's sun... but it is very important to find a way to stay cool. My boys love the water as much as I do... so they surely enjoyed every moment of it. I hope you all had an awesome weekend. I'm blogging from my phone so this will be interesting to see how the app works. Wishing you all an awesome week... enjoy the sun but don't forget to hydrate with water and apply sunscreen.coco
Honey Summer months and the Hawai'i heat have always had me wearing some really relaxed makeup... but it's also because I just love a bare face. Mascara and a lippie (lip balm or lip butter) is usually my go-to. On my face today...
Coconut Oil as moisturizer Dior Show Lash Maximizer Primer and L'Oreal Voluminous Mascara on my lashes A blend of Revlon lip butters in Cupcake & Sorbet on my pout. On Friday, July 19th - many from around the World sported their mint manicures/nails for the beautiful Talia Joy in her memory. While I didn't do the fishy on my wrist this time around, I made sure to include my little fishy on my nails. It still saddens me that we lost such a beautiful person in the YouTube beauty community. She was an inspiration to so many and I know she is adding her Glitter and Sparkle to Heaven above.
I send a ton of prayers to her family and friends during this very difficult time and will continue to hold her love and compassion dear to my heart. She has made such a huge impression on me... just with the few times we communicated together and I will always cherish those times. Rest in Love and Paradise Baby Girl... You have made such a huge impact on my life and I will cherish it forever. I will make sure to continue what we discussed and I will strive to help the Warriors! xoxo ~ Honey On my nails I am using the following polishes: Main color (mint/turquoise) - Wet n Wild's I Need a Refresh-Mint Accent Nail (small glitters) - Polish Addict's Neon Nights Accent Nail (large glitters) - Sinful Colors' Watch it Shine "A little fishy told me to...
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While out and about in Walmart a few days ago, I came across the new Maybelline Color Tattoo Pure Pigments. Now, these were recently released in the last month I believe, and while I really couldn't wait to see what they looked like, I opted out not to try one. I'm unsure of what the retail price is for this particular product, but I do know that our local Walmart is selling them for over $6.00. At first glance, they do seem really pretty but I'm wondering if the colors are as vibrant as they look like in the packaging. I guess i will just have to pick one up to find out. The color selection from what was left in my local display showed a pretty nice range of neutrals which I think will definitely work well for most people. The teal and purple colors also appealed to me too - but I really didn't get a good look or was able to swatch them so I have no idea for sure. Have any of you tried these products? What are your thoughts on them? As someone who owns my own Mineral Cosmetics Indie Company, I'm very interested to see how bright and bold these are. I wish the display was much neater, but considering this was coming from Walmart, this actually was the neatest out of many of the displays there. I don't normally pick up too many cosmetic items from our local Walmart in fear that they may have been tampered with. I figured I would share these with you. I do wish or hope that Maybelline comes out with pressed shadows with the same 24 hour type wear as these should have - because I love working with pressed shadows more. xoxo ~ Honey |
While out shopping a few months ago at my local CVS Store (we call it Longs Drugs here) I came across these Lip Balms in the NYX Display. Our local CVS store has an awesome NYX display and you can normally find every NYX product there. So, I was very excited to try these out seeing as I have not seen them anywhere else prior to this.
PRODUCT NOTE:
I have searched NYX's Website as well as a few other sites and have not seen these anywhere except for Cherryculture.com ($3.00). I do not know if NYX has discontinued these but they are still available at some CVS locations and they were recently stocked in my area.
I paid about $3.99 for each one - which in my opinion is a little more costly than I would like to spend for such a little amount of product and packaging that is pretty basic, but I was willing to do so to try out a product from one of my favorite drug store brands.
I only purchased two shades: Spasibo (neutral color) and Xie Xie (pinkish red tone). Both of them to me are pretty universal shades so it is easy for me to use all the time and not be so selective.
Xie Xie is a Strawberry type color but soft on the strawberry, as if you mixed a creme into it. I like it because even if it can be a bright color - it is still very wearable for all day every day use.
Spacibo is very nude on me, as you can see from the swatch above, but it shows up on my lips nicely and looks like a nice nude lipstick.
These Lip Balms, while moisturizing only have a color/tint and moisturizing capabilities. They are not known or possess gloss type capabilities and if you are looking for a glossy look, you may have to apply actual clear gloss over them. While they did moisturize my lips, it was not something long term and application to remoisturize was definitely required. I also noticed that a day or so later... my lips felt dry even if exfoliated and moisturized with my normal routine.
These lip balms do move more than what I am used to. When you eat or drink or if you like to lick or lips, etc. - you can expect it to smear. I think these may have a tad bit too much mineral oil in them and if you are one like me that are not huge on that - this may not appeal to you.
All in all - I liked these products... they were pretty okay but I still think they could use some work considering they are NYX products and haven't held up to the brand standard. I do think they are just too expensive in my local stores and while I do get that they need to keep with the cost of living... it is not worth it. I will not be purchasing anymore unless they are on discount.
Sparkle rating... 3.7 - 4.0 - probably more towards 3.7
Hope you guys enjoyed this review.
xoxo
Honey