Wednesday, September 5, 2012

Makeup for a friend...

So my best friend is extremely artistic and talented and has her own OC (orginal character) named Griff!

(art by my friend katie)

and in his human form he looks like this!

(art by my friend katie)

Griff is part Barn Owl part Cat! I based my look of the picture above but made it work with more of my face shape! It didn't turn out perfect, but was super fun to do and i'm very happy with the results! The video isn't the best, but I do have some pictures of the finished result! Hope you enjoy!




PRODUCTS USED:
-elf eye primer
-coastal scents 88 palette
-wet n wild color icon liner in black
-maybelline studio gel liner
-nyx jumbo eye pencils in black bean and milk
-sigma paris palette
-rimmel stay matte pressed powder
-wet n wild vanity palette






(shy griff hehehe)

ALSO not shown in the video was that I applied blush to the lips and tip of my nose! Not just the cheeks :3

Okay, I hope you all enjoyed this and Katie I hope you like how this turned out!!

~Mariah~



Friday, August 31, 2012

Purple and Blue Eye Look!

Hey guys! I have a look/tutorial for you all that's a bit different! I didn't want to talk because I haven't been feeling well, so I just put music over the video. But everything will be instructed below in detail along with brushes and products used! :D Hope you like!



PRODUCTS USED:
-Too Face shadow insurance
-NYX jumbo eye pencil in MILK
-Wet N Wild Color Icon pencil liners in Purple and Black Black
-Kat Von D Autograph Pencil in Wonderchild
-Kat  Von D Mi Vida Loca palette
-Australis eyeshadow trio in Exotics (THANKS MARY)
-Wet N Wild palettes in Pride and Lust
-Covergirl Cheekers blush in Pretty Peach
-Kat Von D Painted Love lipstick in A-Go-Go
-Loreal Voluminous Full Definition Mascara
-Coastal Scents 88 original palette

BRUSHES USED:
-Large Fluffy blending brush
-e.l.f. professional total face brush
-e.l.f. professional defining eye brush
-small eyeshadow/c brush
-e.l.f. blush brush
-crown brush c431 precision detail brush (pencil brush)


First, start out by priming your eyes! Then, you'll need a nice white base of some sort to help those pretty blues to pop! Take a blue liner (kvd autograph pencil) and draw out a cut crease. Go over that with a purple liner (wnw pencil liner) and do your best to blend it out a bit! Take your pencil brush and get a little bit of the middle purple color from the Lust palette by wnw. Press it over that cut crease and then blend it out. Don't worry abot fallout, it will get covered up! Take the middle shade from the Australis Exotics trio and apply that over the white part of your lid. In the center of the lid, apply Mad Max from the Mi Vida Loca palette, keeping it away from the inner corner, but bringing it into the outer corner. 

Get some of the dark navy matte blue color from the Pride palette and apply that to the outer corner of the lid. No whip out your handy dandy 88 palette and your e.l.f. defining eye brush and get some of that light purple shade I pointed to. Pack that over the crease and blend out. Then move on to that true Purple shade at the bottom row of the palette and apply over the crease as well, and bring it under your bottom lash line. Take some of the NYX jumbo eye pencil again, and bring under that bottom/inner corner of the lash line. Blend it out and then go over it with a light pink shade that has hints of purple. 

Almost a lilac color. Pack it on good and blend it in with the purple! Get your fluffy brush out and a nice cream colored highlight shade. Apply under your brow bone, and BLEND BLEND BLEND out the edges of that crease!! This step is CRUCIAL. Now get out that precision brush again and your Lust palette and pack on that darkest matte purple color and apply to the crease. Bring it under your lashline as well! Go back in with that first light purple color on the 88 palette and your little defining brush and blend all those pretty purples out! Get some more of that highlight shade on your fluffy brush and blend out some more. Apply that light blue shade from the trio of Exotics in that inner corner of your lid. Groom your brows, and apply some mascara! Tightline and line your waterline with a better liner than mine -n- Powder yo self, add yo blush, and WHAM add yo bright ass orange lipstick.

DONE



I hope you guys enjoyed this look! I may do more looks like this, with the music played over the video in the future! And I also want to note that you can use WHATEVER blue and purple shadows at your disposal! Don't feel obligated to have to use the same products listed or don't think you can't pull of this look with what you already have! :D TREAT YO SELF (I like to say that time to time)

Anyways, I hope you all have a great weekend wherever you may be! <33

~Mariah~





Wednesday, August 29, 2012

AUGUST 2012 FAVORITES







Loreal Voluminous Full Definition Mascara

 

Kat Von D Tattoo Liner in Trooper

 


ELF Single Eyeshadow's in Pepple and Saddle

 
(L to R on bottom: Pepple and Saddle)
 


Wet N Wild Vanity and Greed palettes

 


Coastal Scents 88 Original Palette



Hope you all enjoyed the video and pictures! Had a hell of a time getting the pictures up here!

~Mariah~

Thursday, August 23, 2012

LUSH REVIEWS!!!

WEEEE A REVIIIEW!

Okay so I made a video reviewing the three LUSH products I bought in minnesota in July!





A REFRESHING FLORAL DIP INTO SPRINGTIME

When the blossoms burst forth in spring, it’s a tradition to take a picnic and bottle of sake and enjoy the beauty. Noriko, one of our product inventors, hails from Japan and this beautiful Bath Bomb represents what it’s like to be in a park while the breeze blows through the blossoms in the trees. Instead of heading to the park, lay back in serene waters while the gorgeous scents of mimosa and jasmine envelop you to give you the joyful feeling of springtime. Sakura: simple, elegant, and enduringly beautiful bathing.


VANILLA BEAN MASSAGE BAR MADE FOR DESSERT

Skip dessert and head straight to the bedroom with Heavanilli. Or, skip dinner altogether and get to work with our decadent vanilla massage bar. Heavanilli will satisfy your cravings for a rich, vanilla bean desert (and may even lead to other things!). The natural Shea and cocoa butters melt into the skin and release a jasmine, vanilla and tonka bean blend that will make you irresistible to your masseuse. Slip out of your clothes and into Heavanilli.



SOOTHING CALAMINE CLEANSER

Feel like you have the world’s most sensitive skin? Allow us to prescribe you a bar of Fresh Farmacy, our calamine-based cleansing bar. Fresh Farmacy contains chamomile extract to calm, rose and lavender to soothe dry patches and tea tree to clear up any blemishes. The name stems all the way back to the beginning of LUSH, when we held a competition to name the company. Although we (obviously) went with another option, we thought the name appropriate for our problem-solving cleanser.
*information and images listed above are from the lushusa website*

~Mariah~


Sunday, August 19, 2012

Update!

I'm sorry I haven't updated in a little while! I'm working the most hours i've ever worked in my life and it's dragging me down. On top of that , I hurt my shoulder pretty bad from sleeping on it weird and lifting heavy freight. Ahhh, I really hate my job and am gonna start looking for a new job in october. One of the employees at ULTA said they'd be hiring in october so i'm going to try applying there. *fingers crossed*

Just thought I'd update you all! I have a review coming up this week for sure after a pretty crazy and slightly gross experience with Fresh Farmacy, aha. I'm just gonna say, that stuff really works.

:p

~Mariah~

Thursday, August 16, 2012

August Birch Box Unboxing!

YAY! I finally got it!

:)



I hope you all enjoyed watching this! While I was disappointed in the products this month (COTTON SWABS?!?!) I still enjoyed filming this and had a lot of fun doing it! I also hope that you enjoyed my mad editing skills lol I'm still learning! :p

Thanks for watching!

~Mariah~

Wednesday, August 15, 2012

FIRST IMPRESSIONS Loreal Voluminous Full Definition Mascara

WOW WOW WOW!
Okay I am not one to fall so easily in love with something. But HOT DAMN, this Mascara is the shit. I have gone from dreading to put a mascara wand near my lashes, to wanting to apply this to my lashes every second I'm awake. I can't wait to get more use with this so I can write a full review!

But here's my first impressions/unpackaging of the Loreal Voluminous Full Definition Mascara!






Ahhhhhh, again I'm so sorry I was out of frame! Luckily the focus was on my eyes in this video and you could at least see the mascara's effect!

Anyways, here are a few pictures I snapped!




The pictures below show the difference in my lashes so perfectly! The eye on the left is without the mascara and the one on the right has it on!





I hope you all enjoyed this post and sorry I have made any updates in a few days!
Work has gotten slightly hectic! :c

I think in the very near future though, I'm going to start looking for another job. I had one of the girls at Ulta tell me they would be hiring in october so I think I'm going to apply just to see how it goes! If they are and I get hired, I will probably cry. Here's to hoping for the best! :)

Thanks for reading/watching!
I hope you all are doing well :)

~Mariah~