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Makeup: La Femme Blush

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Left to right from top: Redwood, Dusty Rose (Bottom) Golden Sunset, Terracotta, Dark brown E/S, Brick Red.

La Femme blushes have made their round on you tube so I was a little surprised that I hadn't heard of them sooner...but then again I was never a blush person to begin with..*blinks* Well hasn't that changed now.  I've yet to come across any bad reviews of the blushes themselves though I have come across not so great reviews of the online reseller MakeUpMania. Many reviewers had issues with the shipping time, packaging for shipping, and not being informed of certain blushes in their order being out of stock. I personally had no issues with my order/s regarding shipping time. With both orders I placed, I received my orders on the third business day (Ordered on Sunday and received on Wednesday for both orders that were placed almost one month apart).I liked the blushes yet was disappointed that I didn't try varying colors so I ended up placing the 2nd order.

Makeup Brushes: Bdellium Tools Smokey Eye Set

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About a month ago I purchased the Bdellium Tools Smokey Eye 5 Eco Friendly Brush Set from Amazon.com. The set is currently available for $26.10 + 4.99 shipping a total of $31.09. I paid $1.09 because I had accumulated $30.00 in amazon gift cards thanks to SWAGBUCKS! I could have gotten the set completely free..but yeah I didn't want to wait for my other gift card to go through since it would take a few more days LOL -_-; ANYWAY. The set consisted of:
  • 5 Professional Eco-friendly makeup brushes
  • All sustainable bamboo handles and vegan soft synthetic bristles.
  • All recyclable aluminum ferrules. 100% cruelty free.
  • The collection of perfect blending & lining tools you need to create beautiful smoky eyes.
  • #781B Crease, #777B Shadow, #769B Angled Contour, #760B Liner/Brow, #716B Smoky Eyeliner
 I also wanted to go ahead and say that all of the brushes were incredibly soft. No scratching..as it should be lol. The brushes were also a bit shorter than I imagined and super lightweight which felt a little weird. Oh yeah..and I LOVE the color!


 The lovely #769B - ANGLED CONTOUR
"Sharp angled brush for contouring with intense color. Create color accents and highlights on the inner and outer corners of the eye area.
5.5 inch (14 cm)"

Glamour Doll Eyes Shadow Towers/Stacks

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I'm always on the lookout for well priced and good quality pigments and while on you tube I stumbled across a tutorial using Glamour Doll Eyes eye shadow pigments (http://glamourdolleyes.com/). I took a look around their website and decided I would try out a few of their pigments. While browsing I saw that they provide eyeshadow towers with various shadows in different number combinations. I decided to get the 4 shadow "Olivia" stack ($14.00) , and the 5 Shadow "Yuliya" Stack ($17.50). Regular pigment containers are $6.00 each so I figured this would be a cheaper way to try out more shadows and get more product seeing as the sample's of course don't contain as much.

NAILS: Nails for the week VIII

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My nails had been boring for the past two weeks so I decided to add some color via water marbling.


FOOD: Granola Yogurt

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As far as breakfast foods go I can't really say that I'm very innovative. This isn't very great seeing as some staple breakfast foods don't appeal to me very much (cereal, oatmeal, cream of wheat, boiled eggs/sunny side up gaggggg gaaggg gagggg and triple gagg lol).


In my quest for nice breakfast treats I have discovered......YOGURT lol. I can't say that I was previously a fan..Though I didn't find yogurt gagg worthy I sure wasn't going out of my way to eat it. I was having a discussion with my friend about her son. She mentioned that he didn't like to eat certain fruits and that he likes yogurt..We started thinking and I was like "Ahaa!!" lol Came up with the idea to add fresh or dried fruit to his yogurt with granola and maybe add sprinkles on top (yes..tis trickery) *giggles*

I decided to try out the idea for myself due to my lack of breakfast ideas..This is what I came up with!


All I used was vanilla flavored yogurt (Dannon Light), a crushed crunchy granola bar (nature valley), and added a cereal mix (Granola cranberry Orange) I purchased from New Leaf Market. (I put fresh strawberry in my mom's)

NAILS: Nails for the week VII

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For this week I did another take on icecream nails.. I used Sinful Colors "Nirvana" for the chocolate, and "Snow Me white" for the cream and index finger. As for the Lilac and aqua color...I mixed those from Beauty Supply Store $1.00 polishes (lol) I could never find some shades in the price ranges that were good for me so I just decided to mix my own.


On the thumb I added some "sprinkles" and a strawberry slice..The sprinkles are nail art metal balls I purchased on ebay (set of 16 or 18).


For the strawberry I thinly sliced a couple of pieces off of my fimo nail art fruit cane that I purchased also on ebay with a set of around 24 other canes.





I included a photo of my current nail set up..*kinda* My other polishes and nail accessories are inside of the plastic container. I'm currently looking into buying or making my own shelving to store/display my polishes.

My nail clippers, brushes, files, and dotting tools!

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