Mermaids & Mascara

Hey Everyone! I hope everyone has had a great weekend. Tonight I wanted to tell you guys about the skincare I can’t live without! To give you a background on my skin type, I have normal to dry skin that can be a little red in tone. The older I get, the more troublesome spots pop up! I’m pretty low maintenance when it comes to my skincare & I probably should have a more intense regime as I get older. The cleanser that I use is the First Aid Beauty face cleanser. It doesn’t dry out my skin & is unscented for anyone that has sensitive skin. It’s relatively inexpensive with a 5oz bottle being 20 dollars. it makes my skin feel clean without being tight. My every day moisturizer is the First Aid Beauty Ultra Repair Cream Intense Hydration. Again, it’s unscented so good for sensitive skin, and it just provides great hydration before my make up or when I just get out of the shower. At Sephora, you can buy a 6oz container for 30 dollars. Definitely cheaper than some of the high en...

Hi everyone! I feel like a great return to the blogging world would be to post a “what’s in my bag” because I’m these are some of my favorite posts to see. The bag I carry most is my Rebecca Minkoff Mini MAC in plum suede. I’ll start with my wallet which I am OBSESSED with. It’s a Louis Vuitton Josephine wallet in Rose Ballerine. I obviously have my car keys, some of my favorite lippies, movie stubs (gotta get those free wings at Houligans), Titanic museum tickets, my hair appointment card, & eye drops. Ever since I started wearing contacts again, I can’t leave the house without them! I hope you guys liked seeing what’s in my bag! What’s the one thing you can’t leave the house without??

This is going to be an overview of how I store my makeup as well as a peek into what I have in my collection.  If anyone wants to see a little more of what I have or more detailed look at my drawers I may to a follow up VIDEO to this.  I am still on the fence though.  I kinda have a lot of make up.  I like to try new things, and I am addicted to buying make up, but for me, I still think it is a small collection compared to others that I have seen.  I don't own a huge drawer system or anything like that.  I just have four sets of drawers of where I keep my make up.  I also utilize the drawer in my desk for my big palettes.  My mom also keeps some of my less used make up in her room.  She got lucky with my addiction haha. Anyways, I'm going to just go drawer by drawer telling you what I keep in them.

Today I'm gonna take you guys along with me as I get ready for the rest of my day.  I'm not doing anything exciting, but I did wanna take the opportunity to kinda give you a first impression on my new products that I recently hauled from my last post.  I am going to try to use as many new things as possible.  I'm not gonna show you step by step on my face, but I'll just show you an after of everything together because the only new products I'm going to be using is the primer, which you can't see, and the concealer which I can easily explain.  I will be using my new NYX blush in summer as well.

So I did a little shopping because it was the VIB sale at Sephora & I had been eyeing some stuff at Ulta & they offered this amazing make up bag when you spent 60 dollars.  I bought a bunch of new stuff & I wanna show you what I got.  I am so excited for everything & I cannot wait to use it all.  Let me know if you want a review for anything or if you want me to do a tutorial with anything that I have included.

I have a relatively low maintenance brow routine, but I feel like it is essential to doing my make up.  If I'm gonna wear any make up, it's going to be my brows.  People can do them so wrong too.  I am fortunate with very thick brow hairs that tend to be on the course side.  One of my brows is pretty full & I just fill it in at the tail and on the edges just to give it more definition, but my left brow is the trouble brow which gets extremely sparse at the tail and I have to do quite a bit of drawing on that side.  I do have to set my brows as well because of how crazy they can get. The two products that I use is the Anastasia Beverly Hills Brow Wiz in Caramel & the Benefit Gimme Brow in the darker shade.  Before I dyed my hair lighter, I was using the Brow Wiz in the shade Dark Brown, but I think it may be too dark for my current hair color.  I may purchase a darker Brow Wiz cause I think I want to define my brows a little more than they are ...

Okay, so I know this is definitely different than what I normally post, but I have had so much on my mind recently, and I have a few thoughts that I wanted to share with everyone.  Maybe, advice if you want to call it that.  So I have a TON of friends that are pregnant, have kids, or plan to have kids.  On my social media feed, all I see is engagements, weddings, & babies.  Granted, this is wonderful & amazing news, & I am happy for everyone, but I can't but help to sit here & wonder what the hell I'm doing with my life....