Bold Color

It has been a while since I did a Make-up Monday! I found this article just before New Year’s Eve and have been saving it as my first Make-up Monday, Elle teamed up with MAC Pro make-up artist Keri Blair to create some truly beautiful looks. You can visit Elle for all the tips and tricks but I really just wanted to share the photos with you. I love make-up as art and these looks truly depict just that. My favorite is the gold look. Who knew such bold lip colors could look, dare I say, so natural. One of my favorite bloggers/unicorn queens, Doe Deere, has a wonderful line of bold lip colors in her Lime Crime collection. I’m a relatively simple girl when it comes to make-up (although simple still takes it’s fair share of time at the vanity table), I leave the bright colors to those more adventurous and youthful than myself but I really appreciate girls with strong, individual style.

Shiny!

Another Kingdom Hearts moment for me with this one.  Make-up and chandeliers!  The bareCrystals Collection by Bare Escentuals came out last Holiday season.  I found similar colors in the cheap Loreal HiP drugstore brand and I am going to test those out and see if I like them.

Good make-up is expensive for a reason, brands like MAC and Urban Decay are far superior to pretty much anything you can find at the drugstore.  The color pay-off is great and it lasts for a very long time.  Trying out the cheaper versions of the expensive stuff I love sometimes pays off in the end.   So, it’s worth the risk every now and then.  I guess I will find out when I try it out though!

MAC Rose Romance

Another new MAC collection!  This one is very springy.  I am loving the purples.  I have been obsessed with purple lately.  It’s odd because growing up I hated it because it was my Mom’s favorite color and I wanted to be different.  Lately though I am finding that I really, really like the color and it looks good with my skin tone.  =)

Sugar Shock

Mondays will be reserved for me to girl-out over beauty products.  I will not be reviewing products or giving tutorials, I will leave that to those more fabulous than myself like Makeup Geek, Doe Deere, and Rice Bunny.  What I will be doing is posting my latest “must-have” or a look I love.

A few weeks back I started seeing previews on various make-up sites for MAC’s new SugarSweet Collection .  My head nearly exploded when I saw that two of my favorite things were combining:  Cupcakes and Make-up!  Ramses likes to refer to such happenings as “Kingdom Hearts“  as in “It’s like your Kingdom Hearts!”

I went through the swatches and although they are pretty, they’re not really my style.  At least that is what I am telling myself since MAC just got me good with their awesome Hello Kitty Collection.  Damn them and their knowing how to seduce me.  I tell you though, if this new collection had anything shaped like a cupcake my ass would be buying it…  *sigh* I am so weak.