Monday, November 19, 2012

My top makeup brushes

Hello girls and welcome back to my blog. Its been a while but I will try to keep posting as I was before the pregnancy. So lets begin I decided to wash my brushes today and decided to pick my top brushes that I prefer to use in a makeup look. I will post a pic and will try to talk about them from left to right as the picture shows them. So the first brush is my blush brush. I bought this from avon catalog a very long time ago. It works great and I never seem to put an excessive amount. My bronzing brush I recently got maybe about 2 months. I was using an angled brush beforw but I find that this one has much better precision and blends much nicer. Its thw mac 109 . Concealer is something u really want to blend well so there arent any creases in ur skin. I use a brush that was in a flawless kit at sephora and it works wonders. My powder brush I got from an online store and the name literally just left my tounge. When I remember I will post as a comment on here. This brush I feel spreads the powder evenly and I hardly have to pick up more product. Oh crown brush is the name of the store. And last for face brushes is my foundation brush. This one I bought at sephora and its a round head and its very dense. I like this because when I apply my foundation is covers well without having to do a lot of work. It blends nicely and doesnt leave streaks. Now to begin with the eyes! The first brush I got at sephora and its an angeled brow brush. I have used several but this purple one is my favorite. Next is a mac 134 and this I only use when u want to define my eyebrows by adding some concealer. Its stiff when it needs to be and blends very well. Now for the eyes I mostly use my mac 239 and 217 for every look. All the others following it I use for crease or outer corner to add definition to it.

Tuesday, January 17, 2012

Maybelline Color Tattoo


So recently i have been watching a lot of YouTube videos to try to keep on track of all the new products that have been released. I have been working so much and haven't been able to do much of blogging. So i logged on and a lot of YouTube gurus have been posting videos reviewing the Maybelline Color Tattoo eye shadows. So as i was going home one day from work i decided to stop by Walgreens and see if they had some of the colors available. So the walgreens by my job had a buy one get one 50% off. So i decided to get 4 since they didn't have all the colors. I ended up getting a bronze, taupe, purple, and orange. And WOW! this is a great item. They are much like the paint pots MAC has. I would not use this alone as a shadow because even though it hasn't creased i feel that this would act much better as a color base to another powder shadow. The pigmentation was great on these. They are creamy and not sticky. I did find that you have to let it dry before you add another coat of it because then t doesn't seem like your adding much color on it. I think they are a great price and will be purchasing the other colors. I did use a primer on these and they did not move, smudge wear off during the day. I used them for about 12 hours so im sure they probably would last the full 24 with no sign of creasing or wearing out. I would get my hands on these if you guys can.