Urban Decay Sustainable Shadow Box Look #1: YDK and Flipside

I've finally cracked my Urban Decay Sustainable Shadow Box the other day after months of owning it and keeping it in its pristine packaging. I have this habit sometimes of having my makeup in its original packaging and just looking at it like that. Yes, that defeats the whole purpose of the eyeshadow, but sometimes I just don't want a brush dent on it.

Here's the very first look that I did as I 'bless' my eyeshadow. I used two out of the ten eyeshadows in the palette.





What I Used:
Eyes:

• Urban Decay Eyeshadow Primer Potion
• MAC Soft Ochre Paint Pot
• Urban Decay Eyeshadow YDK eyeshadow
• Urban Decay Eyeshadow Flipside eyeshadow
• MAC Shroom eyeshadow
• Physicians Formula Custom Eye Enhancing Gel Cream Liner in Brown
• Physicians Formula Plump Potion Mascara
• Anastasia Brow Powder Duo Brunette

Face

• MAKE UP FOR EVER Duo Mat Powder Foundation
• MAC True Romantic Beauty Powder Blush

Lips

• Kiehl's Lip Balm with SPF 15
• Paul & Joe lipgloss

Application:

1. Prime your lids with Urban Decay Eyeshadow Primer Potion and apply a cream colored base all over the lid (MAC Soft Ochre)
2. Apply Urban Decay Eyeshadow YDK eyeshadow on your inner half of your eyelid using a shading brush. 
3. Apply Urban Decay Eyeshadow Flipside eyeshadow on your outer V using a shader brush and bring up the color to the crease with a blending brush. Blend any harsh lines.
4. Apply the highlight color on your browbone (MAC Shroom eyeshadow).
5. Line your eyes with a brown gel cream liner (Physicians Formula Custom Eye Enhancing Gel Cream Liner in Brown), curl lashes, and apply mascara.
6. Using a blush brush, sweep a pink blush (MAC True Romantic Beauty Powder) on the apples of your cheeks.
7. Apply a nude or clear gloss.

I'll be featuring a look using the palette maybe once a week. I'm doing this experimenting thing where I actually use it multiple times and create multiple looks by using majority of the eye shadows in the palette. The possibilities are endless! We'll see how much I can exhaust out of it.

Don't forget to enter my contest if you haven't done so!




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HauteLook Sales: Dolce Vita and Becca (Tuesday 9/2)

I can't believe HauteLook is having a Dolce Vita shoe sale tomorrow (Tuesday, Sept. 2) at 8 am. I'm actually going to stay tuned for this one. Hopefully, they will have my size! I have friends who own a pair or two of Dolce Vita shoes, and they're super cute, comfortable, and fit to size. I saw some pictures already that were posted on Facebook, and I'm looking at buying the first shoe pictured below.

Also, they have BECCA going on sale as well later in the afternoon at 1 pm!!

Decisions, decisions.

If you haven't signed up for Hautelook yet, here's an invite. Come back and share what's on your shopping bag!


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Sephora's Harajuku Lovers Makeup Clutch + GIVEAWAY!

It's been awhile since I've had a giveaway! So I received these cute Harajuku Lovers makeup clutch in the mail, and I want to share the other one to a lucky reader or viewer! This post is a tad bit late since my technology has refused to cooperate with me for the past few days as I attempt to edit the video along with this post.

Here's a video that I painstakingly edited for two days because my computer hates me:








I always love the designs on the Harajuku Lovers makeup bags. Harajuku Lovers Makeup Girls Clutch ($24-$28) are exclusively sold at Sephora. These are super cute bags that will help you easily stash your makeup items. The makeup clutch has a wristlet on the zipper which makes it easier to sling and carry it out with you when you're on the go.







These clear pink makeup clutches also make it easier for you to see what you're carrying inside. The designs are really cute too that I'm just totally in love with it.











How to win this super kawaii makeup clutch:















- MUST be a subscriber of my blog or YouTube channel
- FOLLOW me on Twitter
- ANSWER the question below on my comment section (either here or my YouTube channel) *In your comment DON'T FORGET to include your email and your Twitter account: What are your three staple items in your makeup bag, and why?


Giveaway ends Sunday, September 5, 2010 at 11:59 pm (PST).  Winner will be drawn randomly and announced on my blog. Winner will have 48 hours to confirm or a new winner will be drawn. Giveaway is only open to U.S. residents. Limit one entry per person.


FTC: Giveaway is sponsored and the product was provided by the brand PR for consideration. I am not paid to write this post or to produce the video. Thoughts expressed on this post about the product mentioned are my honest thoughts.

Hairstyle Basics

Hairstyle Basics

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Make Brown Eyes POP! using Physicians Formula (Video Tutorial)

For awhile now, I've been trying to figure out how I'm going to squeeze-in pursuing makeup freelancing on the side. After I got my degree, I thought I'd have all these time in the world to go after what I truly love to do. You know when you were in college, you think you'd have all these time in the world for hobbies and just to relax after you've graduated.

Well, not the case. Your priorities actually shift. You start to realize that you actually had more time when you were in school. You have to work full-time to support yourself. It's even more of a challenge when you move out from home. Yes, you do have independence and the freedom, but it comes with a price of having to do everything for yourself.

To save you guys the long, boring details, I won't be able to attend makeup school like I hoped for... at least not for awhile. Although I'm truly grateful for what I have, my dream after college was to be able to do what I truly love.  So for now, I'm just going to teach myself and practice, just like everyone else, and resort to watching makeup tutorials on YouTube. And in the process, I'm going to try and document it by uploading my own videos more frequently. We all have to start somewhere.

Anyway, I was reading Stephie's blog and I've seen that she entered a contest in being hosted by Physicians Formula. It's a long shot, but I told myself I have to at least try doing contests once in awhile just because it'll be good practice for me.



Click on the banner if you want to vote for me! (end shameless plug lol)

Here's a purple look that I did for the Physicians Formula contest. For my eyes, I only used Physicians Formula products (as pictured below).





**NOTE** The Physicians Formula website is taking awhile to process my video, so I'm not quite sure when it'll be up. However, I did edit a version for YouTube :).





Since the palette didn't have names for the eyeshadows, I've labeled the color in the order that I used it for this video tutorial.




Face: MUFE Duo Mat Foundation in 203 using a synthetic face brush. For my cheeks, I used MAC True Romantic beauty powder blush.

Eyes: I applied the Urban Decay Primer Potion to prep my eyes and used Physicians Formula Gel Cream Liner in Purple as my base for my eyeshadow. I used the Physicians Formula Shimmer Strips Eye Palette for my eyeshadows. Using a shader brush, I applied PF [1] eyeshadow (lilac eyeshadow) on top of the base applying it all over my lids. Then, with a pencil brush, I took [2] eyeshadow (purple eyeshadow) on my outer V and bringing it up to my crease. To define my outer V area, I used [3] eyeshadow (indigo eyeshadow) with a pencil brush and then bringing up the color up to my crease. I blended the [4] eyeshadow (dark gold eyeshadow) just above my crease color to lightly blend the harsh lines. I highlighted my brow area with [5] eyeshadow (shimmery white eyeshadow) to brighten up my eye area. I lined my lash line and half of my lower lash line with Physicians Formula Gel Cream Liner in black. On the lower half of my lash line, I used PF [1] eyeshadow (lilac eyeshadow) with a shader brush. Curl lashes, and finish of your eye makeup with mascara. I used Physicians Formula Plump Potion.

Lips: Dior Cat Mauve lipstick.

For more photos of the finished look and the video tutorial, click after the jump!