Goodies Purchased Today and a VIDEO REVIEW L'OREAL's TELESCOPIC EXPLOSION MASCARA!

Hey loves,

Today I went out with my sister and on our journey I picked up two products that I was dying to try out!

1) Fake Eyelashes: I got Ardel's Fashion Lashes Starter Kit, wanted something simple to try out (Probably have something tomorrow, what I'm thinking is something I know you'll LOVE!) I've been told by friends these are terrific starters!

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2) L'OREAL's TELESCOPIC EXPLOSION MASCARA: This I've been wanting to try FOREVER now! (Well the whole 2 weeks I've been into makeup) The premise is just so amazing: a small wand to get lashes seperately and make it easy to reach everything... I've posted my first video review on this product here:

As I said in the video I'm not here to buy and try things out, so this won't be a regular thing, I'm not going to be blowing my wallet on makeup to do reviews on it (I don't really think I'm the best authority anyways) This was a one off thing where I needed to try it and decided to spend the cash to try... Hope you enjoyed!

Love you all!

Tyrel

SPECIAL TODAY: Following Aja's Sexy Sultry Smokey Eye Tutorial!

Hey everyone!

Sorry I didn't update yesterday (well technically 2 days now that it's after midnight) but I was having major life issues that were needing attention sooner than the blog, sorry, I'm gonna make it up tomorrow (well today) trust me! Sooooooo... Today is a special day! My friend Aja put up another tutorial today for me. I requested she do a smokey eye tutorial and told her I'd try it out as soon as she did it! Here's the tutorial:

Here's my response:

I don't know about you, but I EFFING love her and her tutorials! Aja is so wonderfully quirky and easy to follow! Ugh! Subscribe... NOW! Bye bye for now loves!

- Tyrel

Making Face #9: Classical!

Number 2 for today is the final one that I'm going to do out of the first section of Kevyn Aucoin's Making Faces. There are 2 looks in this section that I'm not going to do: "Defining" and "Softness". The reason I'm not going to do these two looks is because they are just so light and, really, just minor tweaks to the "simplicity" look, I don't feel they'll further my knowledge any, so I'll skip them and note the subtle difference for future use.

So, as I said before, here's another look for today, this one is called "Classical" and is SOOOOO easy to do that I figured why not?

1) Eyebrows are brushed first upwards, then downwards at the ends (I used a lighter colored liner to lesses the color a bit because it's such a simple and nice look)
2) Gold eyeshadow is appled on the eyelid and "washed" in
3) Eyelashes are curled and Mascara is applied to just the top lashes.
4) Lip-line and fill the lips
5) Put on some red lipstick (blot with single ply, reapply, blot, then reapply)

It's that simple! Love it!

I really hate how easily lipstick gets on your teeth :( Any tips on how to NOT do this?

Love ya,

Tyrel

Making Face #8: Glamorous: REMIX!

So, I'm not feeling all that well today >:( I think I FINALLY caught what Taylor had a few weeks ago and am a bit weak. It's not a harsh cold, just makes you tired and nose-annoyed... But I was lucky and got off work early and decided to thrift store it up. I was lucky again to find that books were "HALF OFF" today and got a copy of "Drums of Autumn" by Diana Gabaldon in hardcover and a 20-book-set of "Nobel Prize Winners" in hard cover! Also, they sell these really cute eyeshadow palettes there (NEW, don't worry!) so I bought 2 because they have a lot of colors and are pretty cheap... When I got out to my car though I dropped one of them palette boxes and was saddened to come home to find 2 of my colors cracked (but still useable)!

So yeah, today's look is Glamourous... R-R-R-R-REMIX!!! YAY! So Kevyn Aucoin does two versions of the "glamorous" look on two seperate models, so here is number two, which I'll dub "Glamorous: Remix"

This look is just a lovely, everyday kind of version of the first look! The first one is in your face and hard, this one is soft and polite, I love them both so much for different reasons!

1) First, you want to shape your brows (I was NOT gonna go this thin, so I hid my brows under a bit of powder and drew in the middle. I wouldn't recommend this because it'll look silly outside, but I just wanted to do it for effect) then pencil them in (best to have an upward curve, not angry though)

2) Apply concealer where needed and loose face powder

3) A golden-brown eyeshadow is placed on the lids going dark alon the last line, the blending upward

4) Black eye-liner is placed along the lashline and slightly smudged (SLIGHTLY)

5) White eye-liner is placed along the waterline (I LOOOOOVE this) to open the eyes more for an innocent, doe-eyed look

6) Lashes are curled and mascara is placed on top and bottom

7) Pink blush is applied to the cheeks, temples and chin

8) Red lipstick is applied

9) (I forgot to do this AGAIN) A fake beauty mark is applied to the cheek with a black eyeliner!

Truly gorgeous! Try it out loves!

- Tyrel

Making Face #7: Glamorous!

Hello loves! Yes, this is makeup tryout number two for today! I was bored when I came home from the lovely dinner my sister made us, so I decided to do another! Tonight's look is G-L-A-M-O-R-O-U-S! Yes, we're flyin' first class up in the sky!

So this look is obviously sexy and fun! I mean Fergie's got an effing song with Luda about it! Here's how:

1) Concealer where needed, then some loose powder over the whole face!

2) Apply brow pencil, lightly feathering throughout

3) KOHL EYES! (top and bottom rims with eyeliner, I've found the trick for the top layer: aim your pencil where it needs to go, then look away from it as you glide it along) Smudge into your lashline on both sides!

4) Take some black eye shadow and outline what you just did with that eyeliner using a sponge-tip brush

5) Take smokey grey color and outline the black eyeshadow, blending in

6) Use loose powder (or a highlighting eyeshadow, like I used) around the grey and blend more

7) Curl and mascara the lashes!

8) Soft pink blush on the cheeks

9) Natural colored lip-liner to line and fill the lips

10) RED LIPSTICK (blot with single ply, reapply, blot again, reapply!)

Ha ha! I noticed the Volver poster in the background of one of my pics and realized Penelope Cruz and I had similar makeup!

So yeah, it's that simple ot feel and look stunningly glamorous! I LOOOOOOOVE this look, so pretty!

Love ya,

Tyrel!

Making Face #6: Colorful!

Today was a pretty good day <3 It was sunny and a meeting at work was held out in the courtyard... I ended up getting off early and had a nice wander through the mall. I got myself some pizza and a diet pepsi, then looked at the fake lashes at Shoppers Drug Mart. Shoppers only has 1 brand of fake lashes that costs around $13 (without the glue, which is another 2.50) so I decided against it since I don't get paid til tomorrow.

I continued reading "The Rules of Attraction" by Bret Easton Ellis, my favorite author who is releasing a new book next month (the sequel to his first and my favorite, "Less than Zero"), so I'm re-reading all 6 of his books before the next one. Finally, I decided it was MAKEUP TIME!

Today's look is called "Colorful" and I don't think it looks that great on Kate Moss, to be honest. Kate is a lovely girl, but the green-gold just makes her look cheap and, personally, like she's playing "makeup". Also, I was SOOOO tempted to venture out of the tutorial today and create my own version of "Colorful" but decided against it. I'll stick with the project, and in the end I'll create my own looks!

Here it is:

So yeah, it's not really hard to do...

1) Use some "sheer foundation" all over your face, I just did regular because I looked up "sheer foundation" and it seems like kind of a bitch to use.

2) Blush your cheeks, temples, and chin.

3) Loose powder on the face, I like this because it lessens your blush a bit

4) Pencil brows (if you'd like) and brush them

5) Use a turquoise-blue eyeliner to do the lower and upper rims of the eyes (seriously, starting to get really good at the uppers)

6) Liquid metallic green eyeshadow is applied to the lids and under-eye (no liquids here, so I used regular, sorry!)

7) Gold eyeshadow is placed on the middle of the lid and blended out

8) Curl and black mascara the upper lashes and lower.

9) Using a flesh-toned lip-liner, outline and fill the lips

10) The apply a simple light-red or pinky gloss

TADA!

That's it for today loves, gotta run off to my sister's place with my boy! She's making us a prime rib dinner <3

Love ya!

- Tyrel

Making Face #5: Neutral!

Today's face is NEUTRAL! It's a simple, yet slightly glamorous everyday look...

I was having quite a boring downer kind of day today, it was my second day off and no one was around to do anything with: Taylor had school, so I got lunch with my sister, but she had to work, so it had to be a quick one, and the friend I was supposed to lunch with was super busy so we didn't get to meet up either. I'm gonna do a late dinner with my father and sister, cause this is the only night I can see my dad with his scheduling and I haven't seen him for like 2 or 3 weeks :( Taylor's going to the movies with his classmates and I'm just feeling super lonely... So yeah, I wasn't going to do a look today, but figured it might cheer me up some.

1) For this look you start out with some warm-toned foundation under the eyes and around the cheekbone, around the lips, and from the brow done the bridge of the nose. (This is really cool because it gives these areas a smoothed over look and brings forward any sunken in eyes and such)

2) Blend that in so you don't have lines

3) Apply some translucent face powder

4) Pencil in your brows to define them

5) For the eyes, you take a neutral brown color on a sponge tip applicator and apply it to the inner eye, under the bottom lashes, around the outer corner and slightly to the inner corners, BLEND

6) Take a pale flesh toned color and apply to the middle of the eye, blend that out now too.

7) Curl and mascara the upper and lower lashes (Mine aren't that full so I applied a bit of eyeliner to the outer lashes )

8) Take an apricot blush and dust it onto the cheekbones, temples, chin, sides of neck, and hairline

9) Use a neutral toned lip pencil around your lips, then fill it in

10) Cover with a neutral pinky-beige lip color just to the edges of the lip liner

11) Finally take a lighter neutral lipsick and put just on the middle of the lips (this makes them 3D-ish? I'm working on learning this technique still)

12) DAZZLE!

So this look cheered me up a bit. I think it looks decent, not my favorite, I don't think I've mastered it, but it went okay and hey, I'm learning, right? At least I was semi-productive today...

Love ya, thanks for listening, and sorry for being a dramatic Julie... but bleh, I'm just having a total downer day... The sun'll come out tomorrow, bet your bottom dollar, that tomorrow, they'll be sun!

-Tyrel