Saturday, April 12, 2014

Go-To Daily Look

Hi everyone, my apologies as it has been far too long since my last blog post.

I have been extremely busy between work and transferring schools, leaving little time and little amount of patience to do much of anything else. I'm not sure what is to come with this blog as I will soon be doing 70 hour weeks with school and work. I would like to keep up with the blog of course but it will most likely remain quite inconsistent unless I can button down a time during the week to devote purely to the blog. Only time will tell!

In this post I just wanted to show you guys my go-to daily look as it is one of my most used looks and I'm hitting pan on all the shadows used for this look. I only have one photo of the look from today but will redo this look(of course!) and show closeups of the eyes and lips.

The Finished Look

For the eyes I used the following from my Coastal Scents 252 pallette:
Lid: Sand Storm
Crease and slightly above: Coconut Husk
Crease: Deep Roast
Lower Lashline: Deep Roast
Brows: Brownstone
Eyeliner: Eyestudio in Blackest Black by Maybelline
Mascara: L'Oreal Voluminous Million Lashes Diamonds

Lips: Pink Cloud by Revlon 

Face:
Foundation: Almay Smart Shade in Light(100)
Highlight and Contour: Coastal Scents Eclipse pallette
Powder: Revlon Colorstay pressed powder in fair


As always thank you for reading and I hope you all have a wonderful day!

Sunday, March 23, 2014

Mermaid Eyes

Hi everyone! Two days in a row now I've done makeup looks to put up, now all I need to do is post them!

So I guess I have mermaids on the brain lately, and for good reason as I will soon be getting a mermaid tattooed on my upper arm and am beyond excited! So the other day my mom asked if my makeup was mermaid inspired, which had not been intent, but I guess that's all my mermaid-occupied brain would emit at the time.

Unfortunately I didn't write down the colours used for this look so this isn't much of a tutorial but more of me just sharing the look I wore. If there is interest in a tutorial on this look leave a comment, let me know and I will work on recreating in for you guys! So here is the result of my unknowingly mermaid inspired look.







Bonus Puppy Picture!

As always, thanks for reading and I hope you all have a wonderful day!

Saturday, March 15, 2014

My Weight Loss Journey - Update 2 - Oral Surgery and Other Things

Firs of all I want to apologize, its been 3 weeks I believe since my last update. I have been pretty busy, between working late night shifts and catching up on sleep and then getting everything else done that needs to get done I just haven't had time to sit down and record a video.

My boss has been putting my solely on late night shifts so I don't get home until after midnight. It has been like this for about a month if I'm remembering correctly and I am kicking these shifts' butts, but I have to admit that it is quite taxing, I am always tired and can't seem to get enough sleep.

In other news, I spent a few days relocating in my house from one room to another, that took quite a bit of time and energy. My mom and my aunt took a whole day to paint my room, put the carpet down again and bring all my furniture back in and set it up, I am so unbelievably grateful to them. Being able to come home after a late night shift and sleep in my finished room was incredible. In my next video I will give you all a little tour of my room, hopefully by then I will have my vanity table sanded and re-painted and my mirror and lights hung. This also means we will enjoy a new and better recording location.

This past Wednesday I had all four of my wisdom teeth extracted. For those of you that don't know me, I suffer from relatively severe anxiety and in most cases would have been absolutely freaking out about the oral surgery. Something in me has changed recently, I'm not sure why or how but it was like a switch was flipped. I had zero anxiety on the day of the oral surgery from start to finish. I was calm as could be even when they told my less than 5 minutes prior to the procedure that they would not be able to put me to sleep due to the medications I am on. I was even so bold as to keep my eyes open through most of the procedure. I've been dealing fairly well with the pain but I credit most of that to the vicodin. I will  be on an all liquids diet until I heal so hopefully that will help kickstart me to get back on track with my diet, I know, maybe not the best way to get started but I figured I would take advantage of the situation. Due to the extraction, I have been out of commission the past 3 days and would be today as well if my work had been able to find someone to cover for me, but here I am, at work, swollen, and hopped up on the vicodin they prescribed me for the pain. Since I knew I would have to be in public, I decided that I would attempt to distract from my swollen cheeks by doing some killer eye makeup today. I will post the results of that below as well as pictures of the swelling from the day after surgery just for kicks. 

Now onto the weight loss part of this post. 

I have plateaued, my weight has stayed at 192.4 lbs since my last video without any fluctuation at all. To be fair I haven't been sticking to the diet the way I should be but like I said, I've been very busy and it's been difficult to maintain a balanced diet. I am pleased however that I at least haven't gained any weight due to my lack of dedication.

I will hopefully have some time tomorrow to record a video update but I make no promises.


A Side-By-Side Comparison Without Makeup

                                           Before Oral Surgery                              Day 2

Pretty bad huh?

Front and Side Views of the Swelling With Makeup - Still Day 2


Makeup makes such a huge difference!

Day 3 - Makeup I Did For Work





Thank you for reading and as always have a wonderful day!


Saturday, February 22, 2014

My Weight Loss Journey - Update

Hi everyone, if you're keeping up with this blog, you've probably noticed that I haven't done my usual Friday Weight Loss Journey video, the reason for this is that I've had to take on some extra shifts at work and just didn't have time yesterday to record and upload a video. I'm hoping to get it done tomorrow but as it stands I'm running on about 2-3 hours of sleep, currently on an 8 hour shift and am getting together with some friends tonight after work so I probably won't get much sleep tonight either, therefor tomorrow just may be a day of rest for me before I head back into work.

I attempted to record a video in my little booth at work but I only have access to the webcam on my laptop so the video quality is just awful and its a bit awkward to record while I'm on display for the world to see. I do have another WWE Makeup to post as well but don't have my Coastal Scents pallette on me to double check the colours I used, so that will also be posted in the upcoming week.

As always I appreciate you reading, have a wonderful day!


Thursday, February 6, 2014

WWE Makeup - Alicia Fox


This look was another challenging one due to the multiple outfits Alicia Fox wears and the lack thereof of a set theme but I made due as always. 

This is the ring attire I based this look off of.
 

Start with a foundation routine as always. Now lets move onto the eyes from inner corner to outer, these are the colors from the Coastal Scents 252 pallette that I used.

Lid: A mix of Kodiak & Aluminum Taupe 
Crease and Slightly Above: Gunpowder
Crease: Incognito
Browbone: Ivory Dust
Lower Lashline: Incognito
Eyeliner: Maybelline Eyestudio in blackest black
Mascara: Monsterlash



For the lips I decided to pull in Alicia's rich red haircolor.
Base: L.A. Colors Lipstick in Berry Red
Top: Spiceberry from Coastal Scents 252 pallette
Finish: BedHead by TIGI Shine Junkie Lipgloss in Java


That completes this look, thanks for reading and as always have a wonderful day!








WWE Makeup - Alex Riley

This is one of the more colorful looks I have done and I was surprisingly hesitant about it, but I hink it came together nicely in the end. My inspiration for this look is WWE Superstar Alex Riley.



The Finished Look

Start with a foundation routine.Then using the 252 pallette from Coastal Scents, these are the colors I used for the eyes inner corner to outer.

Lid: White Silver>Solar Flare
In and above crease: Indigo Dream & Vibrant Blue mixed
Crease: Navy Baby
Browbone: Ivory Dust
Eyeliner: Maybelline Eyestudio in blackest black
Lower lashline: Maybelline Eyestudio in blackest black smudged
Mascara: Monsterlash



Lips: BedHead by TIGI Shine Junkie Lipgloss in Java

That completes this look, thank you for reading and as always have a wonderful day!





Monday, February 3, 2014

WWE Makeup - Alberto Del Rio

This installment is a look I had done for my WWE Makeup blog so if you've seen that then this will be kind of a repeat, I apologize for that but seeing as Alberto Del Rio seems to flaunt his heritage I see it only fitting to sport the Mexican flag.

Alberto Del Rio



The finished look


Starting with the eyes as usual, I used my Coastal Scents 252 Pallette.
Lid from inner corner to outer: Pomegranate Red>White Silver>Prehistoric Green
Crease: Prehistoric Green
Lower Lashline: Prehistoric Green
Eyeliner: Maybelline Eyestudio in Blackest Black
Mascara: Monsterlash



Now onto the lips, I decided that since this was a very colorful look that I would stick with a neutral lip.
I used my TIGI lipgloss in Java.


That completes this look. I hope you enjoyed and as always I hope you all have a wonderful day!







Friday, January 31, 2014

My Weight Loss Journey - Day 8


WWE Makeup - Aksana

This look was quite a challenge because Aksana doesn't really seem to stick with just one look so I had to choose what stood out to me most, which was this ring attire.

I also brought in a little bit of this ring gear for colour.

I wanted to pull the lace into the makeup, which was quite a challenge because I only have the creme eyeliner, not a liquid, which would provide so much more precision. Once I have purchased a liquid eyeliner this look will be redone and will be far more intricate which I'm excited for but since I went ahead and completed the look I wanted to share it. 

The completed look

Because I was restricted to using my creme eyeliner I decided to stick with a simple lace and based it off of a lace tutorial I found on youtube. 

Lets start with the eyes. 

Lid: Blue Zircon
Lace: Maybelline Eyestudio
Mascara: Monster Lash



For this lips, I used Bed Head By TIGI Shine Junkie Lipgloss in Java


That completes this look. I hope you enjoyed and as always have a wonderful day!