Work makeup

Hey beauties,so its another work week and I was feeling a bit inspired with my makeup the past few days. On Monday I was inspired by the purple poka dot shift dress I wore with a black boyfriend jacket and some lavender Aldo pumps.  I tell people this is my 5 minute face and they don't believe me. If I do work on my eyes, I spend most of my times on blending and keep the lips simple with just some light gloss. In this case its the stila baby pink gloss (because pink lips and purple shadow work well together) Also for the summer I opt not to wear liquid foundation instead I prime my face with my GOSH primer or my Ponds Clarant Oil Control Lotion and then just apply my MAC Studio fix foundation plus powder and to set it I use rice powder and mist my face with MAC Fix Spray plus. The flash picks up the rice powder on my face but it doesn't look that ghost like in natural lighting.

This is my version of a reverse purple smokey eye using colours from coastalscents 36 smokey eye palette

me at the office

 Have a good week.

Different folks, same strokes

Hi Beauties its been a while, I know. I have been working on my other job after my main job so my passion which is sharing with you guys got lost in the shuffle. I try not to let that happen but apparently the definition of being an adult some how consists of working and not following your passion. But I'm here now. I have been meaning to write about how women of different skin tones can pull of the same colours sometimes. I did this experiment with my friend Kyla, who is a little darker than I am where I put her in two looks that I wore a few weeks ago. And what do you know... both looks worked on her perfectly.

The first look is with both of us wearing stila lip enamel from the Barbie collection in "TICKED PINK". I love this bright fuchsia colour. It is one of my new favourites. Now to make it work on me I wore the stila lip enamel on top of Covergirl Queen Collection "POWDERPUFF PINK" lipstick to make it even richer. For Kyla, we just put the tickled pink on her bare lips.

Kyla et moi in the same lip colour

Then I was inspired by a look I saw on a magazine and tried it on myself with my coastalscents smokey eye palette using all the purples and then I tried it on Kyla who usually wears less eyeshadow but it really opened up her eyes. If you do purple eyeshadow try it with a pink lip.

Kyla et moi with the same purple smokey eye

And then we did our nails. I am wearing Sally Hassen Xtreme Wear nail colour in pacific blue with MIA Secret Crackle over it and Kyla is wearing NYC Longwear  in Fuchsia Shock Creme with Crackle also.

So sometimes the same colour can work on women of different colours. Have a good night and I will try to keep the posts coming. Bon soir mes cheries.

Things I love!

Hi beauties, here are some things I can't live without... well at least for the week that just passed.

Fuchsia lips with matching purse. Off to the movies

Covergirl Queen Collection Powderpuff pink with stila tickled pink lipgloss and fuchsia lip pencil for the look above

I know... alot of cleavage but it was friday nite. lol Im rocking a bubblegum pink lip with a pink and black smokey eye.

wigs for bad hair days. cant go wrong with deep red lips either.

ELF Gold goddess pigment with bronze ELF eyeshadow

Low key no makeup look with just some blk liquid liner and pink gloss. And of course my nerd glasses

Red lips will become my signature look. Im also wearing ELF natural false lashes

One of my best friends, Kyla and her plum lips courtesy of sacha cosmetics

Shiny hair with bounce courtesy of mizani products

purple smokey eye courtesy of coastalscents smokey eye palette

in natural lighting. I love sun shine

animal print bangles. 

24 kt lip gloss from stila :)

Share in the comments things you love or you cant do with out when it comes to your beauty regiment.