The Best Kind of Nudes; A Color Collection

Left to right: Jouer 'Mirage' lipgloss, 

Mac 'Spice' lipliner, 

Kat Von D 'Lolita' liquid lipstick,

 Mac 'Whirl' lipstick, 

LA Colors 'Classy' matte lipstick,

 Elf 'Praline' matte lip color, 

Colour Pop 'Cozy' ultra satin lip,

 Mac 'Faux' lipsitck,

 L'Oreal 'Always Almond' infallible lip 2 step , 

Too Faced 'Peony' Melted liquid lipstick , 

Maybelline 'Touch of Spice' lipsitck,

 Tarte Amazonian clay univeral lip liner,

 Bare Minerals 'Rebel' lipgloss ,

 LA Colors 'Tender' matte lipstick, 

& Too Faced 'Perfect Spice Lipliner'.

I might have a type, and this is definitely it. Heart eye @ these shades.
-C

Tattoo Junkee Liquid Lipstick + Glitter Kit

 It is a liquid lipstick and a glitter for $7. I picked mine up at Walgreens but you can also buy them here:

http://www.tattoojunkee.com/collections/cosmetics

http://www.walmart.com/ip/Tattoo-Junkee

I got them in shades: 'Skinny Dip,' 'Bubble Gum,' & 'Pucker Up.'

 Skinny Dip is a (I hate using this reference but people get it) Kylie Jenner shade, neutral brown shade and comes with a copper glitter. The second color is a wearable light pink that comes with a iridescent silver lilac glitter. The last is a true red lipstick with red glitter.

 They can be worn alone as liquid lipsticks or layered together to create that glitter lip.

Let me just say that I love these.  

 This product claims to be long-lasting, smudge-proof, and to dry matte. This does all three beautifully. This product seriously lasts all day. It is very drying on the lips, I won't lie.  It has a true liquid lipstick formula.

To create the glitter lip you apply the liquid lipstick then press the glitter on top of it before the liquid lip dries. I find that it is easier to not do the whole lips at once. I will do the whole top lip before moving on to the second. I do want to say that glitter lip is not comfortable on the lips, you feel it on your lips the whole time you are wearing it. Also, I would not recommend eating with the glitter on your lips, I find you will end up eating glitter. Which is not as glamorous as it may sound. More often than not I'm just going to opt to wear the matte lipstick alone. The glitter lip can be fun just not that wearable for me. But I have used the glitter as eye shadow and I want to attempt the glitter brow trend with these suckers. I find it to be a good solid glitter that can be used for anything you could any glitter for. 

Glitter and a liquid lipstick, what more could a girl ask for?!

Wearing 'Skinny Dip' alone on my lips.

Wearing 'Skinny Dip' alone on my lips. With the glitter that comes with the kit in my inner corners.

I am wearing the 'Bubble Gum' shade with the matching glitter layered over.

You get the point, this product is worth the $7.

-C

Top 5 Favorite Dugstore Nude Lipsticks

These are my top 5 favorite nude lipsticks picks from the drugstore! They range in shades and finishes. I will be talking in-depth about each below! I'm going to be going from the lightest to darkest.

NYX LipSmacking Fun Lipstick 'Circe' $4

This color I find that I can't wear it alone on my skin-tone. This is a light beige color. I find can wash my face out if I wear it alone. But the reason I'm mentioning in a favorites is because I like to use this shade to lighten the center of my lips. To either lighten up a darker lipstick or to make them look more full. Either layered over a darker lip-liner or lipstick. I talk about this technique in my most recent YouTube video. You can use this technique with a shimmery shade or any lighter shade. You can watch it here:

Anyways the formula of these NYX LipSmacking Lipsticks are nice. Not my absolute favorite but worth the money. They have a lot of pigment and this particular shade has a glossy look to it.

 p.s. I found a shade since taking these pictures that I would recommended over this lipstick if you are looking for a shade that can be worn alone. It is Makeup Revolution Amazing Lipstick 'Nude Love'. This shade has more peach in it than the NYX one and more a sheer formula. But I find this shade very wearable. And it is only $3! Can't beat that! 

Rimmel Moisture Renew Lipstick 'First Class Nude'  $5.50

This lipstick is a pretty dang light shade. It very similar to the NYX one above. But I find that I can wear this one all on its own if I want. It also is a light beige color but it has a tiny bit more pink and is ever so darker. These two things make it slightly more wearable. This is such a comfortable lip color it feels like I am wearing a lip balm. And it has a nice shiny finish. 

NYX High Voltage Lipstick 'Stone' $6

The fist two I talked about were light warm shades. This lipstick has a very cool under tone to it. It's a taupe color; it does have a slight gray look to it. Which is surprisingly flattering! This shade is an uncommon shade and but still wearable. It's a really fun color, I like it.  These lipstick are also so great, the pigmentation is outstanding! It has a satin finish.

This is a fairly old picture of me wearing this lipstick, if you were curious what this shade looks like on. 

Maybelline Color Sensational Creamy Mattes Lipstick 'Nude Embrace'

All of the lipsticks I have talked about have had a satin or shiny finish. So the last two I'm going to be talking about are Matte but both super comfortable. These Maybelline lipsticks are sooo good, I have a post about them here:

Maybelline Lipsticks Blog Post

I would highly recommend the Maybelline lipsticks!! I love this shade, it is such a wearable color, it has a lot of warmth to it. So it doesn't wash me out because it has some color to it. It is just a very flattering shade and I love the formula. 

Revlon Ultra HD Matte Lipstick 'Seduction'

*Warning the following is more a rant than about this actual lipstick* This is the only liquid lipstick that I am talking about today. And that is because I don't love a lot of liquid lipsticks from the drugstore, I prefer classic lipsticks from the drugstore. I feel like the drugstore could use some more improvement in the liquid lipstick department. A lot of times even when they come out with matte liquid lipsticks they don't even dry matte. Which isn't a bad thing, just don't label it as matte if it's not matte. (Side note: I bought some liquid lipstick from Walgreens that I am LOVING, blog post coming soon!) Personally no matter drugstore, highend, or in between I would probably still pick a typical lipstick. 

Anyways. I love this lipstick formula. It drys matte, is super duper comfortable on the lips, pigmented and lasts along time. What a perfect liquid lipstick should be! Also this shade has quite a bit of color to it. So is not a super nude color but its still on the neutral light side so I wanted to include it in this list. It has a warm tone and slightly mauve. This shade is ultra flattering and I would highly recommend if straight up nudes intimidate you, to give this a go! I love shades like this for day to day wear. And I am personally drawn to shade like this. I love it!

I feel that nude lipsticks are not a one size fits all type item. Shades can look different on different lips. Some shades flatter skin tones better than others. I do find a lot of this can be trial and error, I just wanted to share that shades that work for me and I love. If you have any questions or want some other recommendations leave them below. Or you could ask me on Instagram:seizethelook.by.c 

I would recommend checking me out on there if you haven't already! Have a great day! 

-C

Colour Pop Haul

I recently bought some items from Colour Pop and gave them to Abbi as a late birthday gift. It's great have a fellow makeup lover as a best friend because she gets me and my obsession. Also she understands the swatch life. And new makeup means swatches and review!

The Ulta Satin Lips are $6, the eye shadows are $5, and the highlighter costs $8. These products are very affordable and can only be purchased from https://colourpop.com/ and you can get a $5 dollar off coupon with your first purchase. 

The larger of the shadows is a face highlight in the shade 'Monster.' The 3 other shadows are all metallic super shock eye shadows. The neutrally gold shade is 'Fringe.' The blue shadow is called 'Sugar' and the peach shade is 'Tea Party.' If you are not familiar with their shadow, then you would not know that they have a very interesting texture. It is difficult to describe because its unique, I have never found another makeup product with the same formula. They have a squishy soft formula, I would describe them as a mix between a powder and cream eye shadow. They can be worn alone or as a base worn under other powder eye shadow. These are best applied with your finger tips or with a synthetic brush, aka: a brush not made with animal hair, which all of my brushes are synthetic so that's easy for me. 

I do really enjoy the texture and the formula. However I do feel that some of these shades are more pigmented than others. The peachy shade, 'Tea Party' was my least favorite, I felt that it took a lot to build up the pigment. These shadows do layer nicely but with the 'Tea Party,' it was hard to get it true to color. I really enjoyed both of the other shades. My favorite of these 3 is the blue shade 'Sugar.' It is a fun summery pop of color! 

The pink shade on the left is a face highlight. And when I first swatched it I thought it would only work as an eye shadow because it has so much pink to it. But on the face it has a nice iridescence to it so it gave a nice highlighted effect. It was surprisingly wearable. I also think it is best applied with a brush. I used the elf blush brush and really enjoyed the effect.

The lip products are the Ulta Satin Lip. The orange red is in the shade 'Cozy' and the mauve shade is in the shade 'Dopey.'  These are not your typical liquid lipstick because they do not dry matte, hence the 'Satin' in the title. They are extremely comfortable and do not dry out the lips at all. On the flip side they are not transfer proof but I think its worth it for such a comfortable lip color. These might be one of my favorite lip products I have ever used for they are so pigmented and last a long time.

All in all I am loving these ColourPop items and think they are definitely worth the money. Even if they were higher priced I would still think they are worth the money. They also have a huge selection of lip products, eye shadows, cheek colors, etc. so a browse through their website is always a good time. Just maybe not for your wallet. 10/10 would recommend. 

-C

70's Inspired Look

Today me and my best friend did each other's makeup for fun (cause we are 8 years old) and we both ended up falling in love with the look she did on me! Take a look!

After doing the themed makeup and we also wanted to do a 70's inspired outfit. The head scarf is Abbi's and she recently bought in store from H&M. And the shirt I got awhile ago from Pacsun.

The dark blue in the crease is from the Gwen Stefani palette from Urban Decay. The other colors are from various palettes.

She did a lot of mascara on the bottom lashes to give the clumpy 70's vibe. You can't tell in the pictures but my bottom lash line is lined with purple from Urban Decay.

I think the pink gloss is so cute and brings the whole look together! The gloss is the BareMinerals Marvelous Moxie gloss in 'Perky Peony' I am obsessed with this look and pretty much wish I could go back in time and spend a day in the 70's with this look!

-C

Maybelline Lipsticks

I wanted to talk about these lipsticks real quick! I really enjoy Maybelline lipstick formula in all of their variations. I would have to say that their matte formula is probably my favorite though. All of their lipsticks have great pigmentation and go on smooth. Not to mention they are affordable! If you are ever interested in a color I would totally recommend picking one up from this line!

-C

3 Makeup Techiques to Make Your Eyes, Lips, and Cheeks POP!

Darker Blush- Essence 'Autumn Peach'
Matte Blush- Smashbox 'Idolize Me'
Bright Blush- Milani 'Luminoso'

Bright Eyeshadow- Lorac 'Lt. Bronze'
Darker Shades- Lorac Pro Palette
Eyeshadow Stick- Jouer 'Rococo'

Lipgloss- Jouer 'Glisten'

Thanks for watching! I hope you like the video! I have been thinking about how I would like to share some techniques that I use that make my face 'pop!' 

-C

Kat Von D Everlasting Liquid Lipsticks Review

Kat Von D Everlasting Liquid Lipsticks

The three lip colors I will be talking about today are: Requiem, Lolita, and Exorcism. All three are matte liquid lipsticks from Kat Von D. Kat Von D's lipsticks are all long lasting and glide on evenly Requiem is the first and lightest shade. It is a really cool toned purple. It looks the same on the lip as it does on the swatch. I personally love this color because its a little more of a fun and different color without being too bold. So if you are wanting to start experimenting with fun lip colors, but are a little nervous this is a good color to try. Requiem is the one color I found to not last as long and that I had to reapply. This could truly be due to having dryer lips plus the fact that it is a lighter color. The next color is Lolita, and I absolutely love this color. I usually apply more than one layer to make it a darker shade than what the swatch shows. On my lips it is a very warm peachy brown that ranges in shade depending on how many layers I apply. This is probably my favorite as well because it lasted ALL DAY, even at working talking to customers or after I ate or drank. I like this as an everyday color. There is definitely a reason this is her most popular shade. Exorcism is the third and darkest color. It is a very rich and dark purple with red undertones. This is a color I personally would only wear on rare occasions because it does give a dramatic look. It is also an awesome winter shade! Like Requiem, it is a fun color to experiment with when trying more bold lip colors. It is extremely long lasting. I would suggest making sure your lips are completely hydrated when wearing this dark of a color or it can appear patchy on the lips. I have found this to be true with a lot of darker liquid lipsticks, not just this particular line or color. Overall I love the lip colors, the formula, and how they wear on the lips. Kat Von D products are definitely quality and especially these liquid lipsticks. I hope to soon have a finished collection of all the lip colors. I would suggest these to anyone wanting to try liquid lipsticks as they are the new big thing that everyone loves. Definitely check these liquid lipsticks out and often because they are constantly selling out!
-C