Still In Love: ABH Modern Renaissance

I bought the crazy-hyped, warm toned palette by Anastasia Beverly Hills as soon as it was available on Sephora's Canadian site early last summer. I've had it about a year now (I got it June 14th 2016!) and I wanted to use it today for a date look.

Products: 

☀ Too Faced Hangover Primer

☀ KVD Lock It Concealer Creme, Light 3

☀ MUFE Water Blend Foundation, Y215

☀ Rimmel Stay Matte Presed Powder, Translucent

☀ LunatiCK Cosmetic Labs Contour Book Vol. I

☀ MAC Beauty Powder, Summer Opal (Bao Bao Wan collection, 2015)

☀ BECCA Pressed Powder Highlighter, Opal 

☀ Smashbox 24/HR Eye Primer

☀ Anastasia Beverly Hills Brow Whiz, Soft Brown

☀ Anastasia Beverly Hills Dip Brow, Soft Brown

☀ NYX Shadow Single, White 

☀ Anastasia Beverly Hills Modern Renaissance palette (Red Ochre, Burnt Orange, Love Letter)

☀ MakeUp Geek Shadow Singles (Bitten, Shimma Shimma)

☀ Annabelle Smoothliner, Brownie

☀ Wet N' Wild MegaLiner, Dark Brown 

☀ Buxom Lash Mascara

☀ Maybelline Rocket Volum Express Mascara  

☀ Maybelline Master Fix Setting Spray

☀ Smith's Menthol and Eucalyptus Lip Balm 

Do you ever get nostalgic for a certain product or palette and get excited to use it again? 

sarah pie

I'm supposed to work and be grown up and all this stuff, but I decided to follow my dreams and be who I wanted to be and look how I wanted to look. So after one bleach, a head full of Special Effects Atomic Pink and a couple of good, patient friends, I have my dream hair.

 

 

Best decision of life. No regrets. 

I'm still here!

I have been attempting to spend less money, and I have all my last minute projects and papers to be finishing up.. I've been a little bit absent, but that's okay. I got up nice and early today for choir practice (we have our bigtime Christmas performances next weekend!) and spent the rest of the day trying to work on a paper. I fell asleep a while ago for a couple hours (oops), so I'm sitting with some coffee and I'm ready to go!

PS. I found a pink Christmas tree. It's pretty much the best thing in the world. My roommates hate it.

I'm Thinking Blue & Walk The Line

I went out to Walmart yesterday with my roommate, Amanda. She was looking for a "white eyeshadow" and she isn't a huge makeup lover, so she wanted my help. She was essentially looking for something super versatile with some shimmer, for highlighting and whatever else she wanted. Pretty simple, huh? I pointed out a million things she'd love (price is an issue, so I showed her the Wet N' Wild palettes since she's saving for her wedding right now) and she wanted to buy a lot of stuff but settled on the Hard Candy "Mini Must Haves" kit in Bad Girl Next Door. It had her covered for the white, frosty shadow and I pointed out for she'd have a lot more products to try for a tiny cost. Better value, though maybe not quality. She was happy with it, though!

I didn't have anything in mind I wanted when I walked in, but of course couldn't leave empty handed! There are so many more Hard Candy products that I want to try! I have loved 99% of what I've bought, and the one product I didn't like, I think was my colour choice and not the product itself. Anyways, I ended  up grabbing Walk the Line liquid eyeliner in Licorice. It looks like black eyeliner with silver and rainbow glitter throughout, but once swatched, you can see it's more fo a grey wash than solid black. I wore it yesterday and ended up putting three layers of it on to get it opaque, but I figured out since that I can put a plain black or dark brown liner on and then layer Licorice on top for just the glitter. It dries pretty slowly, too.. that's my only complaint. I am usually a pro at applying liquid eyeliner and I ended up with eyeliner lines under my eyebrow because this was pretty wet for a long time. If you're going to layer it like I did and not bother putting something dark underneath first, you should wait for it to dry completely in between.

Top - one swipe of Licorice
Bottom - one swipe of Licorice over one swipe of Wet N Wild Mega Liner


Overall, I like it. It's different than plain black or brown. The brush is good, the packaging is cute, whatever.

The other thing I bought was totally by chance with no thought put into whatsoever, and I couldn't be happier! I mentioned casually to Amanda that I wanted a dark/navy blue with NO glitter or shimmer, and she just walked right over and said, "like this?" I didn't even think about it, I just bought it. I love it so much! It's the closest I've ever seen to TARDIS blue, and it's a good formula. I really like these Sally Hansen Salon Manicure polishes. This is "I'm Thinking Blue" and I did two coats.

I'm also getting way better at not picking and biting my fingers. Woot, woot!

things that make me happy

pastel pink hair

my new bass

green tea
House MD

Lights

Florence + the Machine

croissants

Ellie Goulding