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

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The Little Mermaid Makeup.

"You've got to flutter your eyes like dees & you've got to pucker your lips like dees" I remember watching the Little Mermaid when I was five & six.. over & over.. & over again. I had a little tv/vcr sitting on my pink vanity, my parents had painted for me. It's my second favorite Disney princess movie, my first being Cinderella. The weird thing about the Little Mermaid for me, is that I didn't really watch it for Ariel. I watched it for Ursula. Ha! No lie, she's my favorite character in the movie. I still think she's the coolest villain ever. This look isn't supposed to be what Ariel's wearing.. cause that would just be red lipstick & some mascara maybe. This is more just putting all her colors as a mermaid, in one look. I hope you likes!

A-riel Life Mermaid

MAC Turquoise Glitter • MAC Push The Edge • Mabelline Colot Tattoo Painted Purple • UD Purple Haze

The first went over the lid with the purple Color Tattoo. The lid color over it, is Purple Haze. It looks kind of pink in the pictures, but it's more of a red-violet. I then took the blue-purple, Push The Edge, in the crease. With some glitter glue, I went along the botton lash line & then placed MAC's Turquoise glitter over it. These awesome lashes, that I'm absolutely inlove with, I recently picked up. They're from Klean Color's Angelic Wink lashes & they're in the style Smoking Erica. The makeup is simple yet really bold, because of the glitter.. which is always good, in my book.

You Wanna Kiss The Girl

Wet N Wild Stoplight Red [911D] • Mabelline Fuchsia Fever: I did the red lip because Ariel wears it in the movie & also because of her signature red hair. With a lipbrush, I dabbed some Fuchsia Fever along the center, of the top & bottom lips. I think it makes the typical red lip, not so typical!

Mermaid Tail Me Your Name

• LA Colors Intimate (Body)

• Wet N Wild On A Trip & Orly Charged Up (Seashells)

• A Perfect 10 Sweet Thang (Mermaid Tail)

• MAC Turquoise Glitter (Mermaid Tail)

• Wet N Wild Jezebel (Red)

Awesome design right??! Well, the idea's not originally from me. The original nail design [found here], is a lot prettier! I saw it on wehearit & gaahh, that tail is amazing! I know it's not wearable, but what a fantastic nail art. I tried to make mine, (above) more wearable, but only because I couldn't figure out a way to add that amazing tail & make it look as flawless. Haha. So I did a pointy nail, instead. This was definitely my favorite part of this whole look. I also like how melon-like her body looks on my thumbs lol. Also, I cut the tips of my thumbs in the shape of a lazy "M" to do the seashell bra. I love this design so much!& I'm so proud of my word-play titles lol Me & my boyfriend came up with them lol.

Thank you so much for stopping by & checking it out.

For my fellow Americans, I hope you enjoy your 4th of July festivities! & For everyone, 

have a great week!! ♥

Giraffe Inspired Look. ღ

Haii! This past weekend, I visited the zoo/refuge & it was so neat. I hadn't been in a long time & it was awesome to see all the beautiful animals. One of my favorites, were the giraffes! They were gorgeous & seemed friendly. Haha. They came as close to us as they could & stared at us. I wanted to make a makeup look inspired by them & here's what I came up with.

Eyes.

 

1.) Highlight & Transition: I used a matte flesh tone color as my highlight & then an orangy color in the crease. (Wet N Wild's I♥Matte palette)
2.) Crease: To define the crease more, I used a color darker in my crease & blended out the edges. (Naked from the Urban Decay Naked Palette)
3.) Golden Lid: I then placed a gold color all over the eyelid. (Half Baked from the Naked Palette)
4.) Blend: Taking a shimmery pinkish color on a fluffy brush, I then blended out the inner-mid crease. (Toasted from the Naked Palette)
5.) Outer Crease: I took a dark shimmery brown & placed it in the outer eye. (Darkhorse from the Naked Palette)
6.) Blend: Blend it the edges & where the other shadows meet.
7.) Inner Eye: With a pencil brush, I dabbed a shimmery light shadow in the inner tear duct area. (Virgin from the Naked Palette)
8.) Liquid Line: With a black liquid liner, I lined my top lid, with a dramatic winged eyeliner. (Wet N Wild Water Proof Liquid Liner)
9.) Pencil Line: With a black pencil liner, I tightlined the top & my waterline. (Wet N Wild Pencil Eyeliner in Black)
10.) Define: I used a dark grey color to define & darken the outer eye. I mixed the shimmery brown & the dark gray color into the lower lash line. (Darkhorse & Creep from the Naked Palette)
11.) Lashes: To finish off the look, I applied a black mascara on my top & bottom lashes & then applied some short but full falsies. (Mabelline The Colossal & Ardell Lashes in 101 Black)
12.) Conceal: As a finishing touch,, I then conceal under my eyes & set with a powder.  (Hard Candy Glamoflauge Concealer in Light & Wet N Wild Natural Blend Powder in Bare)

Lips.

[L] Wearing Reel Sexy only [R] Pucker Up Gloss over Reel Sexy

MAC Reel Sexy • Sinful Colors Pucker Up: I loooove this lipcolor combo! I really like the orangy-pink lipstick alone but love it with this gloss too. The gloss is more of a milky pink but it looks prettier than I expected with this lipstick. It's bright, fun & a great Summer color. I'm usually a pink lip kind of person lol but I've been trying different colors lately & I'm loving it. Corals & oranges have been my favorite!

Nails.

Sinful Colors in Vacation Time: This is literally my third attempt at giraffe print nails lol. My first attempt reminded me of banana pops & chocolate lol. My second, I did a sparkly lavender background with a too-bright orange pattern on it. I didn't even bother to take pictures of it, it was so bad lol! This was the only one I was pleased with lol. I hope you enjoyed the nails & the makeup look! Thanks so much for stopping by. xOxO

Beauty Around The World: Texas Forever. ʊ

As a Texas girl, born & mostly raised here.. I thought I'd do makeup inspired by what screams Texas! to me. Where I live, it's not unusual to be loved by anyone see people wearing cowboy boots, hats, & big ole buckles, driving around big pick up trucks. Stuck in traffic, behind a trailer with cows or horses. We have our big cities with beautiful skylines too, of course! But I'd like to focus on the rural part, for this post. It's a lot more near & dear to my heart, & it's what reminds me of this place. I hope you enjoy it! ♥ By the way, super cool points if you know where the title of this post is from! I was obsessed with that! lol

Eyes ☼  South Padre Waters.

UD Narcotic • MAC Blue Brown • UD Electric: I'm from the Valley & the one good thing we have is, South Padre Island! The East-Southern East part of Texas wraps around the Gulf of Mexico which makes for some awesome Texas beaches, but also for some scary Hurricanes! Lol.  I wanted to do something like color blocking, since it's been really popular for awhile now & I've never really dabbled in it. But I ended up with this instead!  When I first thought of doing this, I knew I had to incorporate the Blue Brown pigment somewhere. For some reason, it reminds me of rust & brown leather. Both things remind me of the country part of Texas. The matte blue is the gulf! Now, these Urban Decay matte shadows are awesome! Here's a tip: To get a really awesome punch of color out of any eyeshadow or pigment, apply it wet! Dip your brush in some water, squeeze off the excess.. so that it's just a bit damp & apply your shadow that way. It's great for making lower quality shadows, with not so much color payoff, really stand out. It's also an awesome technique to use with pigments. It's one of the best ways to get the most out of your shadows. (Note: I also used the I♥Matte palette to darken up the outer eye & the Lust palette for my highlight.)

Lips ☼  Southern Belle Kiss.

MAC Innocence Beware: I wore this nude color to draw more attention to the eyes. You can tell, this nude, is more of a pink nude than it is a brown nude. It's really pretty. In the pictures, I'm wearing the lipstick alone but I do prefer using a clear or a slightly pink tinted gloss over it. The reason being that in certain lighting, it does tend to look like concealer on my lips. ¡No bueno!

Nails ☼  Belt Buckle Gold.

Gold Chunky Glitter & Clear Nail Polish: Omg this was so easy, I can't believe I hadn't done it sooner. All I did was apply a clear coat of nailpolish, then dipped my finger into the glitter jar & tapped off the excess. It helps if you tap your nails on a table/desk/flat surface to get all the loose glitter off. Then put more polish if there are any areas where you can still see the nail & then re-dip & tap off the excess all over again. When your nails are glittered up to your liking, just take the clear polish & go over your nails again. You'll need about 2-3 top coats. Just enough so that, the glitter stays on the nail. Use a clear polish, you don't too much care for, because little glitter specs will stick to the brush. Super easy & bling galore!! It was like I had diamonds on my fingas. Super pretty! I'll be doing this with different glitter colors for funsies.

This post has been sitting pretty in my drafts for a min. Lol I thought I'd finish it & post it already. Some of you have probably already seen this look or the nails from my FB or Instagram . Which is so much fun, by the way!! I mean twitter's cool but on Instagram people seem to share .e v e r y t h i n g ! Which is awesome & kind of weird.. Lol jk! I just started maybe two weeks ago, so if you're on Ig, feel free to follow me! I almost always follow back♥ .. unless you're a straight guy! Those get blocked. >.< Lol Thanks for stopping by & have a great weekend & to all the Mamis♥, have a wonderful Mother's Day!! xOxO

Alice In Wonderland ღ

I was playing around with a palette my lovely friend, Lori gave me. [full post coming soon] & I couldn't help but think of Alice while looking at the palette. The packaging more-so than the colors, reminded me of the latest Alice movie. So I did the eyemakeup! I also did some nails but kept the theme closer to the original movie.

Orly Blue Collar • French White • LA Colors BlackVelvet

My bows are totally weird, I know. Haa. Halfway through, I had to stop & look at pictures of bows because I couldn't remember the basic shape. Really?? Well, I tried. I added the black & white stripes because for some reason, they're almost always incorporated in costumey Alice stuff. (striped tights) I don't know where it came from, but I like it & even though it's not from the original, it totally reminds us of her.

Urban Decay Marisposa Palette: Now this is where it all started. The blue in this palette, Haight, is beautiful & reminds me of Alice's dress. I used the gold color, Limelight, on the lower lashes as her gold-blonde hair. I used a little bit of Skimp in the tear duct area for the white rabbit. I tried using the Gunmetal color on the outer lower lashes but it wasn't dark enough, so I just went over it with a matte black shadow. You can't even tell but as my highlighter, I'm using both highlighters from Wet N Wild's I ♥ Matte palette. I also used my new green circle lenses (review coming soon) because they reminded me of the Mad Hatter's green eyes. Although, lol not as crazy. The lashes are two sets of random ebay lashes. I've been doubling up on lashes a lot lately. They look okay for makeup pictures, I just hope I'm not walking around looking like Alejandra Guzman IRL. Haa. You can check out the palette & a closer look of the colors I used here. Thanks again, Lori!

Wet n Wild Bare it All [902C]

Everyone knows how awesome these lipsticks are. Well I only had three of these babies & I recently went out & bought three more. I was looking for the new shade they have, Dollhouse Pink. But I couldn't find any new colors. This was one of the ones I picked up & I wasn't surprised that I loved it. These are really great quality lipsticks that last a decent amount of time. I wouldn't call them "mega-lasting" lol but they do pretty well.

Thank you for stopping by!

xOxO