Here are some lovely blushes. I love la femme. I was not a blush person because the blushes never showed up on my skin. But these do. La femme blushes are perfect for dark skin. I have one mac blush in raizin but that is about all for other brands of blushes. Russet, cinnabar, and …
Well, I always fail at foil art. The foils never transfers completely. And I am left with a sticky mess. Heh. Well to do foil art still you can do the no glue method, where you use regular polish and wait until it is tacky but not dry, then place the foil on places on your nail to grab t…
I love wet n wild, so I have many lipsticks accumulated. Here is my collection and swatches. Left to Right: doll house pink, mauve outta here, purty persimmon, sugar plum fairy, cherry bomb Doll house pink is almost lavender on my skin tone. Mauve outta here is a very bright Barbi…
Left: Maybelline Dream Fresh BB Cream in Dark. Right: Garnier Skin Renew BB cream Oily Skin in Deep Well here are some bb cremes! I love bb creams. They are lightwieght and these have sunscreen protection. The maybelline is a deep sheer tint and has spf of 30. The garnier is i…
Hello again! I took twists out because they were getting frizzy. I tried Bantu knots again. I always fail at them. But this time I made the knots smaller and I made sure to twist them really tightly. They came out pretty well! Some of the curl lost definition, but t…
Here is my eye of the day. I love bright colors! It is raining here, so I need something bright. I used the palette below. It is a random palette. It has eighteen colors and they are easy to blend. They have a bit of fallout though. The brand name is Absolute. I love the colors! To get…
This is two coats. The formula is great. I love this color. A nice brown with silver microglitter!
This is my second fishtail attempt. It is okay. I messes up a little but I think it is still pretty. I used love n beauty cocoa for the brown, zoya darcy for the yellow, and zoya kaufda for the copper. Here is a link to my tutorial .
Here is my fishtail nail art tutorial. Wait about thirty seconds between each layer to dry so the colors don't get mixed up.
Here is my eye of the day. I used a random beauty palette I found at a small beauty store. I used a reddish color for the top of my eye. A purple for the middle. And a light blue for the lid. It was fun. I am not a makeup professional, but it was easy to do. 
I made a zebra accent nail. I used cocoa from love n beauty as the brown. So pretty.
This is nyc: Love Me Red Creme. I have had this one for a while but never worn it. The pretty color magenta is so bright. I know its a basic color but it is so pretty. I do not know why they call it a red a creme it is a shimmer pink magenta polish. The formula is great and goes on smooth…
Essie Splash of Grenadine on left, Sally Hansen Bubblegum Pink on right Well, I thought theses were going to be dupes but essie is a little more purplink (a purple undertoned pink) and sally is more pink pink. They both are three coats. Both formulas are great. Bubblegum Pink is…
For this mani I used sally hansen: bubblegum pink and for the glitter 5 stars: magenta. Its an okay mani. The glitter is too thick. I will try with a less sparse glitter next time.
Before I didnt like animal print. But now I cannot get enough! Here is zebra and leopard. I used charity ball from color club, gold coin from revlon, and nail art pen for black.
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