I’m back with more beauty tips & tricks! I did part one to this a few months ago. And now I have a few more tricks for you guys.

There aren’t as many this time around. I just wanted to do this as a quick post. I’m still on vacation and finding time to write is hard.

So let’s get into this.

How I Pack My Beauty for Travel

A pretty popular thing with the beauty girls on YouTube is videos on how they pack their beauty products or what products they pack. I am in Myrtle Beach SC right now and just started a new way of packing my beauty products. 

I thought I would share how I’m packing my beauty products because I just love it! It’s so much more organized than my previous way of packing. I am going to do a post on what products I packed on Sunday. Hold onto your seats for that one. It might me a long one.

So back to how I pack. Before, I used to put all my makeup in a shoe box and my full size shampoo & conditioner, my full sized body wash, and my hair and skin care products into an old purse. I’d then put the old purse and shoe box into a book bag with my hairbrush, hair dryer and flat iron. 

It was very unorganized and everything kept falling over. The full side bottles were too big and took up to much room. Everything would fall over and/or end up up-side-down. I was so scared it was all going to spill out. And I didn’t even really have anything to put my nail stuff in. I just threw that stuff in my purse. I finally have bags for makeup, bath & hair stuff, nail stuff and a nicer big bag to put it all in.

So let’s get talk about the bags. I love them so much. I’ll do a quick review of each.

Makeup Dupes!

I’m so excited for Makeup Dupes!! If you don’t know what a makeup dupe is dupe is short for duplicate, a makeup dupe is a drugstore makeup product that has the quality, look, feel, or is very similar to a high-end product. Most dupes are just color matches. I love the just color matches to the complete copies.

I have personally tried and tested all of the dupes mentioned in this post. I love all of these products!

Beauty Basics - The Ways of Eyeshadow

Eyeshadow is the most complex part of makeup. There are quite a few terms for the parts of the eye. When you’re new to makeup and you watch tutorials or see posts on Pinterest about eyeshadow they talk about tightlining, and the brow bone, and the crease.

Every little part of the eye area has a name. In this post I’m going to go over the different names and where they are referring to.

Eyeshadow is one of my favorite things about makeup because you can do anything with it. You can wear one color or a bunch of colors. I personally stick to a minimum of 4 or 5 colors depending on how much I blend and whether they are bright or nude shades. I love how expressive you can be with eyeshadow!

Monthly Favorites | June 2015

It’s that time again. Monthly Favorites! I can’t believe how fast June went! It seems like I was just uploading my May favorites last week.

Happy July everyone. And if you live in the US Happy 4th of July. I can’t believe the year is already half over!

Let’s get to the favorites. There are the things I’ve been love in the month of June.

Beauty Basics - What are these brushes for? - Part 3: Eye & Lip Brushes

When you are new to makeup all the different brushes can be confusing. There are just so many. When my cousin started getting for into makeup she bought a brush set and text me a video of them asking what they were all for. 

There are so many different brushes intended for different things. Of course you don’t have to use the brushes for what they are intended. I don’t always use them for the intended purpose. I use them for what I think is best for me, and what brush applies the products they way I want.

There are so many different brushes. Some brushes have the same name but are different sizes and slightly different shapes. It can all get a bit confusing.

There are so many different makeup brushes, I will most likely miss a few, but I think I’ll get the majority.

I will be doing this in three parts, Face Base, Cheeks and Eyes & Lips. This is the Eyes & Lips post. I decided to throw eyes & lips together because there aren’t enough lip brushes for their own post. This post is going to cover the brushes that are typically used for applying eye shadow, and other eye products, and brushes typically used for applying lip products.

All of these brushes can be used wet or dry, with liquids and powders. All of these brushes are used with eye products to create awesome eyeshadow looks. They are intended for the same use so what I’m going to do in this post is describe what these brushes look like and list the main thing they are intended for.

Beauty Basics - What are these brushes for? - Part 2: Cheek Brushes

When you are new to makeup all the different brushes can be confusing. There are just so many. When my cousin started getting into makeup she bought a brush set and text me a video of them asking what they were all for.

There are so many different brushes intended for different things. Of course you don’t have to use the brushes for what they are intended. I don’t always use them for the intended purpose. I use them for what I think is best for me, and what brush applies the products they way I want.

There are so many different brushes. Some brushes have the same name but are different sizes and slightly different shapes. It can all get a bit confusing.

There are so many different makeup brushes, I will most likely miss a few, but I think I’ll get the majority.

I will be doing this in three parts, Face Base, Cheeks and Eyes & Lips. This is the Cheeks post. This post is going to cover the brushes that are typically used for applying products intended to add color to your face and make it look healthier. The products in this category are also used for the nose jaw line and for head.

All of these brushes can be used wet or dry, with liquids and powders. All of these brushes are used with blush, bronzer and highlighter, to add color and depth to the face.

They are all intended for the same use so what I’m going to do in this post is describe what these brushes look like and list the main thing they are intended for.

Beauty Basics - What are these brushes for? - Part 1: Face Base Brushes

When you are new to makeup all the different brushes can be confusing. There are just so many. When my cousin started getting into makeup she bought a brush set and text me a video of them asking what they were all for.

There are so many different brushes intended for different things. Of course you don’t have to use the brushes for what they are intended. I don’t always use them for the intended purpose. I use them for what I think is best for me, and what brush applies the products they way I want.

There are so many different brushes. Some brushes have the same name but are different sizes and slightly different shapes. It can all get a bit confusing.

There are so many different makeup brushes, I will most likely miss a few, but I think I’ll get the majority.

I will be doing this in three parts, Face Base, Cheeks, and Eyes & Lips. This is the Face Base post. This post is going to cover the brushes that are typically used for applying products intended to make your face one color.

All of these brushes can be used wet or dry, with liquids and powders. All of these brushes are used with skin toned products to make your skin one color.

They are intended for the same use so what I’m going to do in this post is describe what these brushes look like and list the main thing they are intended for.

Beauty Basics - Well Known Brands Guide: Drugstore vs High End

There are tons of makeup brands out there, and there are lot of names everyone knows no matter where you live. Today I’m going to take the most well known brands and sort them out into Drugstore or High-end.

These are brands that I have seen people from all around the world use. I have found these to be the most well known and most common brands. These are the brands I know most people in beauty have heard of. You would find these brands walking down the asides of Ulta or Sephora, with the exception of a few high-end brands that you only find at a counter at a department store.

This list is a mix of makeup, skin care, hair care, nail polish, and makeup brush brands. It is also a mix of American and UK brands.

Monthly Favorites | May 2015

Everyone knows what monthly favorites are. The things I’ve loved this month. I am so excited for my first monthly favorites post! I will try to post my favorites the first week of every month. May Favorites post in the first week of June, June Favorites in the first week of July, ect.

So these are the thing I’ve been loving in May, from Makeup & Beauty, to books, to TV Shows, to the most random things ever.

  

My Top 10 Under $10: Lippies

I know I’ve already done Top 10 Under $10 but I wanted to do another one just on lip products. I am a lip product addict so I have tons of lip favorites. 

Picking my favorites for the makeup essentials Top 10 was actually pretty easy but I still wanted to do a post on just the lips. I’m going to do this one as a countdown as it is all for one product type. If you’re a lip addict you’ll love this post.

I think I may do the lip addict tag sometime in the future. Anyway here are my Top 10 Lip Products Under $10. (These aren’t all lip color. Two are lip balms.)

Beauty Basics - Is there a right or wrong way to apply makeup?

So in my last post I told you what all the products are, what they do and where they go. So now the question is applying it, is there a special order it goes on? Is there a right or wrong way to apply it? Getting straight to the point, no. 

Everyone applies their makeup differently. The order can change from person to person. Some people start with the base then the eyes and others start with the eyes then apply the base.

There are tons of posts on Pinterest that tell you “the right way to apply makeup.” And while that is no wrong way to apply your makeup there is no right way either.

Some products have to go before others. Like the face base products have an order. But you can apply the cheek stuff in any order your want. The eye primer goes on first and then what goes on the eyes is up to you. You can apply the eyes first then the face base then the cheeks then lips, or the face base then cheeks then the eyes then the lips or the face base then the eyes then the cheeks then the lips. The products in the categories have to go in order but the order you apply the categories is up to you.

Beauty Basics - What are all these products for?

If you are really new to makeup the mounds of different products may be overwhelming. There are so many different skin toned things, and everyone is talking about contouring, tight lining, and highlighting. There are these things all over Pinterest about what order to apply makeup and how- to photos that don’t make sense.

I am not a pro makeup artist. You could say I am a self taught makeup artist. I have been playing with makeup for a few years and I have learned from trial and error, and researching. I am not a beginner anymore but I am not a makeup vet either. I don’t know everything there is to know about makeup but I think I’ve got the basics down. Or at least I know what all the products are for.

There are tons of different products. And those products come in different formulas. And most products come in more than one type of package. We have to start somewhere. So let’s start with a list of the basic product names and then go into more detail.