Halloween 2012- Army Girl ♡

[Just getting around to this post lol Shhhh!]  Halloween has come & gone but I never got the chance to post what I actually wore that day. We didn't do anything super exciting. I gave out candy with my two amorsotes. Muneka was in the Halloween spirit too! I wanted to dress her as a pumpkin but I only saw a pumpkin at Petco's & the darn thing was like $20+ Ain't nobody got time fo that! I got her a cute sweater at Walmart for $7 instead! She wasn't too fond of it when she first wore it. (See pics below lol) But on Halloween, she didn't even care cause she was on cloud 9! I had her on the porch with us & people were gushing over her & petting her. She loooooves people & she looves to be the center of attention! So she had a blast out there.

Omg she hated me so much the first day lol. She didn't even want to get up. I had to take it off her, she looked so miserable.

Coastal Scents Warm Palette • Solone Glitter Liner: As far as eyeshadow goes, it's super simple! I just put a light brown in the crease & dragged a darker brown on the lower lash line. & Also deepened the outer v with it. I used all matte colors. But as you can see, it's nothing really special at all. The fun part was a thin line of glitter liner. I've used this liner all over the lid in this post & I'm so inlove with it! This silver liner is from kkcenterhk.com & you can find all the info on it  here. I've been really enjoying glitter liners, as of late. Nessa sent me some really gorgeous glitter liners recently that I've been loving! I'll be posting those pretty soon also. It gives boring makeup some.. as the great penguin Memphis would say.. umph!

Wet N Wild 915B Spiked With Rum: I'm working backwards here lol but I'm pretty sure the this is the lipstick I used for Halloween. It's my mom's favorite shade on me.. because it's her shade. lol She always uses colors like this. Anyway, I honestly don't think it's all that flattering on me. I actually think it ages me a bit. But it really is a pretty color, generally speaking. I wear it from time to time because it's such an awesome color.. whether it suits me or not lol.

There's a new Sgt. Padilla in town. Yayy lol. My "costume" came super easy. I was looking at costumes online & I saw an army girl & was like "Heyyyy! I wanna be that!" My bf immediately offered me some of his army stuff! I did feel kind of guilty wearing the helmet for Halloween. I almost felt like I was desecrating pieces of history. But he said it wasn't a big deal. Although, I know it really is lol. I handled everything with super extra care. Omgosh I thought his helmet would fit me loose lol but it just barely fit my big ole head. The coolest thing I got to wear was his last name patch thing. ♡ I also wore his dogtags (which I wear alot anyway lol). It was so cool & he's such a sweetheart to let me dress up as him haha.

LA Colors Black • Wet N Wild Fergie Kaleidoscope Eyes: I had done this mani just for Halloween. It's just an all black nail with some sparkle on the beginning. I must say, this Fergie polish was a pain to build up. It doesn't give off a lot of glitter so I had to pick up the glitter & manually put it on my nail with a dotting tool. It sucked lol plush the results weren't what I thought they'd be. I didn't really like them too much.

Omg I thought these were so cute lol I made my bf like a Halloween goody bag for funsies. & I stuffed it with a bunch of these candy covers lol. These are the four types of covers I made. I got the idea from Pinterest lol. I put a bunch of his favorite candies in there & I also made him some m&m brownies. Luckily he loves my kindergarten-like crafts lmao. ♡

If this shows up in your feed, please ignore it haha. I just didn't want to go on without posting it.

xOxO

Halloween Look: Poison Ivy ☠

Hey girls! So I really want to do some simple Halloween looks! Definitely nothing over the top because I want to show how easy it is to come up with a great look without having to spend a whole lot of money. I'll be using stuff I already have to accessorize the makeup to give you an idea of what you could do. This look will be Poison Ivy from Batman, the Uma Therman version.

Deadly Garden Eyes

Coastal Scents 88 Shimmer Palette: I used Edgy Emerald color tattoo from Mabelline as a base for the lids. I did a very standard, very simple green smokey eye. I didn't want to do anything crazy since I also made an Ivy mask. But I still wanted to keep the green color theme going with the eye makeup. It's only right!

These lashes are called "Chan Mei Eyelash K-Series Five Pairs Handmade Double Lashes-K15" from KKCenterHK & you can find them here. I think the way they're packaged has a lot to do with how they fit. Since these are pushed up in the shape of an eye, application is really easy. They have a thick band, but because they're already shaped to fit an eye.. they're really easy to wear & don't poke or stab my eyelids lol. Linked here is another pic in which I'm wearing these lashes. I love the how feathery looking the ends are. Really different & really pretty!

Love-Dust Lips

MAC Moxie: Since this color is like a pinkish red for me lol I decided to wear this one. Although I think her lips are more of an orangy red though. Any red lip would look great though. & If you have red hair or a red wig, I think it would look even better!

Okay this is my very humble.. very simple Poison Ivy mask. Lol Very simple. Basically, I had some green glitter foam paper lying around & I cut out the shape for each eyebrow. I didn't use anything special to measure it precisely. I just eyeballed it, because it's going to get covered with "leaves" anyway. So then I cut out the "leaves" in different sizes, trying to make them longer where your arch is. Mine aren't perfect at all lol but I still really liked them. This foam paper is sticky on the back but I had a hard time getting it to stay on my face. So I just ended up using lash glue around the eyebrows  to keep it on my face. Try not to get any one your actual eyebrow hairs cause.. it'll be painful when you try to take it off. Trust me. "I know from experience, duuuude. "

The homemade mask goes a long way! You don't have to spend a ton of time doing intricate makeup to get the full Poison Ivy effect. I'm wearing just a regular green tank top & the leaves are from my Home Interior pot lol! I cut those suckers off & wrapped them around myself. lol Well thanks so much for stopping by! Hope you're all having fun preparing for Halloween!

xOxO

Instagram Makeup ♥

Instagram has become the easiest & most convenient way to share makeup pics for me. Blogging is still fun though! The beauty of blogging is that you can go into as much detail as you want! But over the past few weeks, I've been sharing makeup pics on Instagram like cray! Below are some of my favorites! I'll include a list of the products I used for each picture. Also, for some of the IG pictures, the filter was too overpowering so I posted the pre-filtered version for some of them. Enjoy!!

The last one is my latest & my favorite! Thanks so much for checking it out. Again, if we don't already follow each other on Instagram, well then.. let;s!! I get a lot of spam followers.. you know the kind that follow a kagillion people. So let me know that you're real & I'll follow back. (@ me, So I know it's REAL! lol) Have a great week everyone!! xOxO

instagram: @dinorahbaby
 

Sedona Lace 88 Metal Palette+ Copper ☼ Plum Makeup!

Let's "jump een it"! I'll be reviewing the Sedona Lace 88 Matte Eyeshadow palette today! It was sent to for review purposes from sedonalace.com & the following are my honest opinions on the products & I also included a pretty fun look. We'll be transitioning from Summer into Fall pretty soon & if the ladies at QVC have taught me anything, it's that the Northern Lights Linen bedding will change my life! Lol kidding, they've taught me that your Summer wardrobe should transition into the Fall seamlessly! & That can apply to makeup also, right? An easy way to do that is colors! By including more darker or warmer tones into your makeup, we can start replacing the half baked shadows & the bright colors. Of course, I'm one to wear bright colors & bright lips any day of the year! But let's pretend I'm normal for this post lol. I think the Metal palette is perfect for this! It has a lot of browns & oranges.

This Metal Palette consists of 88 shimmery (metal) shadows. It includes all kinds of shades ideal for the lids, to darken creases, for highlights & everything in between. In the pictures above, are some random swatches from the palette. It shows that some shadows are more pigmented than others. All eyeshadows are really good to work with though. They're soft shadows, so it makes blending a breeze. But they're not overly soft, to the point where they'd crumble easily or where you'd have to be really careful not to overblend. They're pretty great! Like, my 88 matte palette.. The shadows are about the size of a dime. What I love about these palettes is that I have access to so many different colors in one place. Instead of fumbling through multiple palettes or single shadows to do my makeup. I can easily just keep one of these palettes nearby, which takes less space than all my little palettes. Another thing I love is that it doesn't compromise my options, on the contrary, it gives me so many more colors to choose from! In the two weeks, that I've been using this.. I find it hard to get stuck in a makeup rut. It's easier to experiment with new colors & combinations. The application is awesome too. It took me awhile to test out most of the colors & see which were more pigmented than others but now that I know which ones have more color payoff, I know which to use on the lids & which I can use for blending or for subtle color. I had a feeling I would like this palette, just because I already loved my matte one. But this is a really awesome palette. I was kind of afraid of the shimmery shadows because they tend to make all the creases on your eyes a lot more visible lol. But the colors are so gorgeous, that I actually love the shimmer. Overall, I really loved this palette.. my only gripe being that the outside packaging easily gets tons of finger prints & I'm constantly wiping it clean. Lol but that's so trivial & pretty insignificant. Sedona Lace frequently has promotions going on. At the time this was sent to me, they were having a "Get 3 free shadows with each order" promotion. So they also included the 3 shadows shown above! How cool. They're like little refills, they're the same size.

Copper Plum Eyes

Sedona Lace 88 Metal Eyeshadow Palette : This is a look I had done last week. I loved it so much, I decided to redo it for this post. You can check out the original on Instagram here. I tweeked it a bit & also used different lashes this time around. I should also note that I used the Mabelline Color Tattoo in Painted Purple as a base for the purple eyeshadow & I used a fleshtone matte shadow from the 88 Matte palette as the highlight. I love the eyelid color. It's such a pretty plum color. This has become one of my favorite color combinations I've ever done. It just works so well with the bronzy-copperish color. Who knew!

Dollhouse Pink

Wet N Wild Dollhouse Pink : In the original, I had used MAC's Of Royalty as the lipcolor. But for a little more "HEY LOOK AT ME" I switched it out for the bumblegum pink Dollhouse Pink. Which next to Candy Yum Yum is probably every bold girl's favorite lip color! If it's too much for you, you can always just swap it for a nude color or a less obvious pink. Haha

Sedona Lace Tapered Blending Brush 863

I also tried Sedona Lace's Tapered Blending Brush 863 which I found is perfect for blending out harsh edges in the crease! When I first got it, it didn't seem too different from the blending brush I already used but this one works really well. I found that it blended out shadows with less strokes than mine. The bristles are really soft but the tapered shape of the brush, keeps the bristles together when blending. I found that it also works really well for contouring down the nose & around the tip.. something I couldn't do with my old blending brush.  Anyway, I've been using this brush for the past two weeks & also used it in the Plum+Copper  makeup look above.

Thanks so much for stopping by! I hope you enjoyed the look! Hoping you all have a great week! I got lots of fun things lined up to post soon! Yay. For now, below I have listed some of the looks I've used the Sedona Lace 88 Matte palette. Ciao bellas! ❤