In honor of one of my favorite girls, owner of the fabulously foxy My Dough Girl cookie shop let me leave you with some Pinup fashion. Check out My Dough Girl’s website for even more vintage fashion and style inspiration! Enjoy the pics!
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Probably more than any other type of makeup, how you work your foundation can make or break your beauty look. Here’s some tips for getting it right.
DO’s
-Do spend a little extra on a good foundation – lipsticks come and go but foundation should be high quality, make you look fabulous, and last as long as possible.
-Do check ingredients – just because it says “Oil Free” doesn’t necessarily mean it is completely free of oil unfortunately.
-Do read reviews, check out recommendations, and ask the pro’s at the makeup counter for advice and assistance in getting the right tone.
-Do let your moisturizer soak in before applying – that way it won’t get all streaky.
-Do apply mineral foundation to your eyelids to prevent your eye shadow from creasing.
DON’TS
-Don’t forget to blend, blend, blend! This includes passed your jawline and along your neck so you don’t get that nasty tide mark.
-Don’t apply foundation to your hand when shopping for the right shade. Your hands are rarely the same color as your face. Check directly on your face instead.
-Don’t just check your makeup in bathroom mirror light & go – bite the bullet and look at your made up face in NATURAL LIGHT so you don’t end up looking a fool.
-Don’t let product and bacteria build up on your brushes – wash them out regularly especially if you have a tendency to break out.
-Don’t take it all too seriously – educate yourself but have fun with it.
Alright, hope that helps you stay beautiful ;) Got any beauty questions or tips? Feel free to share them in the comments below!
Happy Pretty Making!
This my lovelies is the t-shirt appropriately titled “Lady Umbrella is away with the birds” which I thought was a perfectly “tweetable” fashion piece to purchase online at www.ladyumbrella.com. It was a snap to buy and a breeze to wear. For those of you who would also like to make fashionable online purchases here’s a few tips:
Fashion Tip 1: T-shirts are a low-risk, easy way to start purchasing clothes online. T-shirts are effortless to wear and usually found at an affordable price. Just make sure to get a color that compliments your skin tone & features. *I’m a brunette with pale skin so this bold true blue looks wonderful on me. Blondes would look stunning in the peachy pink “Lady Umbrella likes to strut” while dark and olive skinned girls would rock the cheeky yellow “What came first the chicken or the umbrella?”.
Fashion Tip 2: Check out the unique accessory options either from the same store or from another online store to add to the look. Scarves, bangles, & earrings can all be easily paired with your t-shirt and won’t cost a lot either. If you are really bold look at some hats or shoes! Or if you are really on a budget just look in your own closet for some fun accessories that can freshen up your look. *I choose pink instead of blue to add some punch as you’ll see below!
Fashion Tip 3: If available before you check out and put down payment information look at any reviews that are listed by other shoppers who have purchased the garment. You might save yourself some heartache or a wrong size choice. At Lady Umbrella though you can trust you’ll get a great garment since Rob & Elena have given all their shirts rigorous testing.
So are you ready to make your own awesome purchases online! Let me hear about it by commenting below. Also feel free to share your own tips for shopping online & off. And stay tuned for more fashion awesomeness next week ;)
Happy shopping!
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Since I just got back from Florida, a land of sun and surf I thought I would give all you gorgeous girls the rundown on mascara. And what does mascara have to do with the sunshine state? Well ladies…first lemme explain with a great rule of thumb:
Remember W is for Wise…not just Waterproof:
So choose your mascara wisely and apply your daily coat accordingly. Why? Here’s the lowdown: the ingredients in waterproof formulations make it particularly tricky to remove at the end of a glam day. This means you’ll mostly likely be tugging, pulling, and vigorously rubbing at your eyeballs just to get this stuff off of them. Later on this can mean you lose way more of that lovely fringe than you’d like to. Instead go for non waterproof formulas. Trust me unless you’re a big cry baby there really isn’t much running and smearing going on each day.
If you must go the waterproof route use it VERY infrequently. Actually I decided to break the no-waterproof rule during this recent trip to FL. My reason being I planned on jumping into the ocean with a cute guy and would rather not have any runny peepers. Afterword, to get this clingy type of goo of my delicate little lashes I baby *oiled the crap out of them making sure to be as gentle as possible in the process (NOTE: *mineral oil is fabulous for removing stubborn makeup). Then I went back to my usual non swimming pretty routine with daily non-waterproof mascara to keep my lashes intact.
Drugstore vs. Department Store
Where to shop for the best brands is the next small challenge. I gotta confess I’m biased towards drugstores, mostly because I know it makes sense. You can stay beautifully on budget by forgoing the the cosmetics counter in purchasing this particular beauty product. Mascara is something drugstores have an awesome selection of. You should save your hard earned dollface dollars for foundation, brushes, and color at MAC, Bobbie Brown, or otherwise. Cheap is beautiful okay? Just because it’s $20 and vibrates doesn’t mean it’ll coat those lashes any more amazingly than just grabbing that $6 tube while you get groceries. My choice for last weeks vacation? Maybelline The Colossal Volum’ Express in a happy bright yellow tube.
Spidery or sweet? You choose!
To coat both top and bottom lashes or not? That is the question! I love big fluffy spidery eyes myself so I coat both. If you do too you might want to change it up by coating just the top lashes sometimes – you might find doing so can give your eyes a girlish and classically retro sort of look to your overall makeup design. This might also be a better strategy to minimize losing any lashes should you choose to be a beauty badass and go for waterproofing them for those watery events like funerals and swim dates.
Speaking of application what’s your mascara application strategy? Go ahead and answer this week’s pretty little question: Do you apply mascara to both your upper and lower lashes or just the top? Why? Leave your comment below, I’d love to hear about it.
Until next time and Happy Pretty Making!
Ok kids! First I want to apologize for my lack of posting the last week or so. Things are busy here in the really real world and I’m making some changes. Rest assured there is still awesomeness to be had here (& elsewhere with the 365daygirl project) and I LOVE for you to be a part of it.
So today, with this #makeupmonday I want to ask you a couple things :) If you will indulge me. That means it’s quiz time…er poll taking time! Woot! So please take a minute (or less actually) and check off your answers below.
Thank you so much for answering and commenting – it really helps me make this blog & the 365daygirl project good for you and an enjoyable experience :) Keep your eye out for the changes and more great content to come :)
Keep it Really Real!
There’s a BIG reason I tell every one of my girlfriends about Paula’s Choice. This beauty company is just awesome. What makes up the awesome? Here let me give you the list:
Skin Beautifying Ingredients
Let me be blunt: PC’s makeup and skin care products contain ZERO bullshit. No fragrance, no irritations, no hyped up compounds, etc. What they do contain is simple and super effective ingredients that cleanse, treat, and beautify your skin every time you use them. The formulations are sound, there’s no extra fluff to make it sound magical and exotic. Just stuff that gets the job done.
This is huge in the beauty industry where practically every company goes on and on about miracle essence of armadillo this or product x moisturizes your face into the next century that. When 9 times out of 10 the amazing ingredients they are trying to bamboozle you with are the least concentrated and everything else is just filler.
Paula’s Choice has stuff that works, plain and simple.
Beautifully Affordable
Because Paula is smart and caring and loves us she’s made her line wonderfully cheap. Okay maybe it’s not all about her loving us since these effective ingredients just happen to be cheap too but all the better! And because she’s not sending people out to milk exotic critters to get those hyped up ingredients that really don’t do all that much anyway she’s not wasting your money. You get to spend your hard earned glamor dollars on a very sound beauty line. Sure she doesn’t have celebrity endorsements or a slick ad campaign. She does really care about the every day real woman and the ability to maintain her own beauty with ease. That brings me to one of my favorite reasons for awesomeness:
Huge Sizes!
I have a bottle of cleanser that has lasted me a whole year and a half! That alone is fantastic even though I love shopping for beauty products. Actually I’d much rather make my skin care purchases a couple times a year and makeup purchases whenever I want – more fun that way isn’t it?
With most of PC’s products the term “a little goes a long way” applies, though there are some specialty products that get used up fairly quick. But because they are so cheap…ahem…affordable it makes restocking easy and painless. What matters is the stuff you use every day – cleansers, body wash, toners, even moisturizers – last a good long time. NO other beauty line seems to give the option to in effect buy in “bulk” like PC does.
Beautifully Informative
In addition to having a great line of products Paula’s also made sure her customers know all about using them. She’s open about the formulation and lists not only what each product contains but also what it’s purpose is. She’s got a series of tutorials about using her products too which are very helpful.
Also her website and companion member site Beautypedia contain thousands of articles and information on ingredients, products from other lines, reviews, and developing research. Just peruse through it and you’ll be a cute beauty nerd in no time!
So with all that awesome stuff what isn’t to like about Paula’s Choice? Well her makeup line is pretty conservative and kind of small. And don’t go looking to her for innovative ways of getting that makeup on your face (she feels lining your inner eyelid is bad…which a bajillion glamazons do anyway without much hazard). But do get her skin care and do use it regularly – your face will thank you :) mine has!(via Paula’s Choice)
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