Let's Play Catch Up

Hey Beauties, I know it's been a while since I made a blog post.  If you follow me on Twitter, Tumblr and/or Instagram you know that I didn't disappear completely.  So today's post will include all the things I didn't make a blog post for, that I posted on my other social networks...yay.  This is going to be a long one.  Hmmm why don't we start this baby with NAILS!

I did these babies back in May for our family Disney Vacation in California.  So neon, so awesome.  For this design I used Floss Gloss Dimepiece, Milani Cosmetics Pink Hottie and Forever 21 Neon Green.

This delicious little swatch is Milani Cosmetics Sugar High on top of Wet n Wild Tropicalia.

Ugh I loved these...sheer black is EVERYTHING to me right now.  I'm definitely going to make some more sheer colors. For this I used Revlon Black Magic, Wet n Wild Fantasy Makers Confetti, Daily Charme Swarovski Crystals and Born Pretty Store Swarovski Crystals.

My Fourth of July nails...obviously ;).  Later that week I added glitter to the polka dots and stripes nail and it looked so awesome.  I hate when I think of glitter after the fact :(.  For these I used Revlon Spirit, Wet n Wild Red Red, Sally Hansen Pacific Blue, and Jade Psicodelica.

Now for my most recent nails, I did these last week.  Some neon aztec nails with some studs and a frame nail on top of Ninja Polish FLOAM! Oh my gosh, I forgot I had this guys.  Can you believe that?  How dare I. The neon pink is Jesse's Girl Beach Babe and the studs are from Born Pretty Store.

Now...the makeup! Here is a Tropical Summery Ombre Lip I did using Kaoir Cosmetics Truly Outrageous and Ooh La La.

Next up are swatches of some of the lipsticks I got from the NYX Macaron Lippie Collection.  

Pistachio

Lavender

Chambord

Last but not least, a hair update.  My hair journey is going so great.  It was rough in the beginning but back in February I did a final trim, that got rid of all the damaged hair.  I'm completely in love with my natural hair.  It's healthy and I'm very happy.  Coming up I want to share with you my hair routine and favorite hair products.  Until then here is a photoset I create for my natural hair 2 year anniversary last month. 

If you made it this far THANK YOU, I LOVE YOU!!! This was a lot :).  I'm going to try really hard to not have to do this again. *crosses fingers* 

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Floral Nail Art

Hey babes!  How is everyone doing? Awesome I hope ;). Today's post is going to be short and sweet because my brain isn't working right now lol. So I'm just going to throw down the picture of my nails here :)

I really love floral designs and I love how these came out. To me the beauty of a floral print anything is in the imperfections.  No need for perfect lines and brush strokes.  Another great thing...you don't need a lot of tools.  You can create a beautiful floral design with just the nail polish brush and a toothpick. 

For these I used a small dotter, a tiny detail brush and a small triangle shaped brush (not sure how to describe it). Here's a list of the polishes I used:

New York Color SideWalkers 

Wet n Wild On A Trip

New York Color Lavender Cupcake

H & M Beauty Bandit

Essie Mesmerize

Essie Bikini So Teeny

H & M Something Blue

Wet n Wild Candy-Licious

New York Color City Sweets Pink

Milani Cosmetics Rapid Cherry

Sephora by O.P.I Caught With My Khakis Down

Sephora Military Jacket

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Red Lips Are A Girls' OTHER Best Friend

Heeeeeyyyyy, I'm finally doing another lip color post! YAY!!  I felt like it was a little too late to try to do my current fall/winter favorites.  If you don't think so and you want me to do one, let me know in the comments below.  I will definitely oblige.  So I figured with Valentines Day approaching it would be a good time to share with you, all my red lip colors. 

Let's get a closer look at each one...

Sephora Cream Lip Stain Always Red 01 It's the perfect shade of red and has a velvety matte finish.  

Wet n Wild Red Velvet It's so vibrant IRL and has a creamy matte finish.

Wet n Wild Stoplight Red It's very similar to Red Velvet just a little darker.

 

                                                     




Sephora Lip Attitude Chic C13 Best described as a strawberry red with a glossy finish.

Milani Cherry Crave A gorgeous cherry red with a metallic finish.

Wet n Wild megalast liquid lip color Cherry On Top It's a nice deep cherry red when applied.  After it dries it lightens a little bit with a matte finish.

Wet n Wild Cherry Bomb A wine red shade with a cream matte finish.

Milani Black Cherry It's name is the best way to describe it. A vampy black cherry shade with a glossy finish.  

I hope you enjoyed this post, I had fun doing it.  I'm a makeup junkie that gravitates towards lip products and nail polish.  So you will definitely see more posts like this one in the future :).

I was a little iffy about including Black Cherry because it's so dark it looks purple.  I swatched it alongside Red Velvet and one of my purple lipsticks and it looked more red than purple in my opinion.

Which one(s) do you like the most? My personal favorites are Always Red, Red Velvet and Cherry Bomb.

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A Then and Now Christmas Pt. 1

Hey Loves!! No it's not Friday yet. I'm actually doing more than one post this week. For the official Starlett Approved Then & Now Christmas Edition. You should have read that like an announcer, with the echo and everything :). I was actually supposed to post this yesterday, but had too much fun this weekend and Sunday was stolen from me, aka I didn't do ANYTHING. Which worked out for the best. With extra time I was able to change my design and I love this one soooo much more!

The original manicure was done December 2011. You can check out the original post here. Wow that was 2 years ago, how time flies.

This time around I tried my hand at a Reindeer print rather than just one big head. I really really love it. It's so flippin' adorable, they're like little chocolate reindeers of yumminess. The Poinsettias came out very pretty too. I wish I could wear these longer and really enjoy them, blogger problems. 

Here's a list of polishes I used:

Wet n Wild 2% Milk
Sinful Colors Nirvana
Revlon Spirit
Wet n Wild Red Red
Gap Fireball
Sinful Colors Exotic Green
Models Own 25 Carat Gold 

Which design is your favorite, Then or Now? 

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Candy Cane Print

Hey lovelies, how's everyone doing today?  Wow, I can't believe it's already December and the holidays are here. To help get me into the spirit of things, I decided to do Christmas nails this week.

I was in the mood to do candy cane nails but I didn't want to just do stripes.  So I talked myself into doing candy cane print instead.  They were much easier to do than I imagined.

I was holding my breath a lot during this manicure haha.  I painted my right hand first and realized covering up any mistakes with the glitter wasn't going to work :/.  But  any other base color should be easy.

Originally for the other nails I was going to do glitter placement stripes.  Then at the last moment I decided on a frosty glitter fade with glitter dots.  I love how these came out and I do not look forward to removing them so soon for the Then and Now challenge :(.  I definitely plan on doing more holiday nails. 

If you have any suggestions let me know.  I would love to hear from you ;)

What I Used:

• China Glaze Glistening Snow
• Wet n Wild French White Creme
• Wet n Wild Red Red
• Wet n Wild coloricon mini Red Glitter

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Then & Now Week 1

Hey peeps, wassup? So today I'm starting a new challenge, The Then & Now challenge. I'm actually joining my girl Alice of One Nail To Rule Them All who started it this past Saturday.  When I saw her post I immediately decided I wanted to do it.  I've actually been wanting to do something like this for a while.  Thank you Alice for giving me the motivation I needed ;).  It is a weekly challenge and I'll be doing it for 10 weeks.  But who knows maybe I'll do more.

The Then is my first photographed nail art. I did it spring of last year.  Man it feels like ages ago.  I had just got some new Kiss Nail Art Stripers and just winged it.  You can see the original tumblr post here.  It wasn't much of a post :/.  Kept it very simple for my first few posts.

For the Now I decided to do zebra stripes.  Which is what I was attempting in the original design haha.  I added more colors this time around because I have the nail polish and tools to do so now.  

It is amazing the difference a year makes.  Practice definitely makes improvement.  This challenge is an awesome excuse to do some of my favorite designs and even try to do it better.  I'm going to have a lot of fun with this :) If you're interested in joining in please do and let me know.  The more the merrier!

What I Used:

• Wet n Wild French White Creme
• Wet n Wild megalast Candy-Licious
• Wet n Wild Sunny Side Up
• Sinful Colors Exotic Green
• Sinful Colors Pull Over
• Sinful Colors Nail Art No More
• Sinful Colors Nail Art Moon Light

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Fall/Winter Favorites- Lipstick (Swatches)

Hey everyone, I hope you're enjoying your day so far.  Today I have a picture heavy swatch post for you.  My favorite lipsticks to wear during the fall/winter season.

My favorites range from nude to dark purple.  Very rich shades compared to the vibrant peaches and pinks of spring & summer. Well then, lets get to some swatches!

Wet n Wild Bare It All One of my newest purchases and my only true nude lip color.  I'm already in love with it.  The shade goes great with my complexion and the matte finish makes it 100 times sexier ;)

Maybelline Sunlit Bronze I've had this for a long time.  I'm not even sure they still sell it.  Another neutral shade that adds just enough color to a low key makeup look.

Revlon Wild Orchid My favorite pink to wear this season.  It's more fuchsia than pink actually and the pearl finish is just stunning.

Maybelline Scarlet Simmer The first red lippy I ever purchased.  It's a little more red than berry IRL.  I bought this back when I was just getting into lipstick and makeup so I was playing it safe.

Sephora Lip Attitude Chic C13 I've had this for a while now.  This is my go to red lipstick.

Wet n Wild Stoplight Red A recent purchase, I actually bought a back up tube.  That's how much I love this lipstick.  This red pops IRL!

Wet n Wild Cherry Bomb I literally got this the other day.  Very pretty dark berry color.   This is  thee lip color for Fall.

Milani Black Cherry I won this in the Milani Fall into Beauty giveaway.  In the bottle it's super dark. I was a little nervous because I don't do a lot of dark lippies.  As you can see it's a beautiful dark cherry color.  Just pictured this with a gold eye look O_O

Sephora Rouge R24 My only dark color for a long time and my go to dark lipstick.  I bought this after seeing Rihanna wearing a similar lip color. 

Do you have any of the lipsticks I mentioned?  What's your favorite lip color to wear during the fall/winter season?

Here is an overall view of the swatches! :)

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Red & Teal Water Marble

Hey there gorgeous!  You read the title correct, I did water marble nails.  Guess what? I really liked it this time.  I'm very proud of this mani.  It usually takes me a few tries before I get something decent.  This time it came out great based on my water marble skill level my first try.  I'll let you know what I did and what I noticed this time around, makes for a successful water marble manicure.

The first tip/trick I used was filtered water rather than tap water.  Less impurities in the water makes for a happy nail polish & H2O relationship :).  To make sure my water was perfectly room temperature I let it sit out in my bowl all day. 

The next important factor is the nail polish.  It has to be spreadable and not dry fast.  I originally wanted silver in this design but I noticed it dried too quickly in the water and didn't spread well.  It actually affected the other polishes in the water and made it hard to work with.

In my experience the best polishes for this technique are opaque in 1-2 coats with a bit of a runny formula. For this design I used Sephora by O.P.I My Personal Serpent and Wet n Wild megalast I Red A Good Book.  I hope these tips, some I learned from my own trail and error the rest from different bloggers and tutorials, were helpful.  I'm actually inspired to try another water marble design.  Very excited to try it and see if it works out :)

What I Used:

• Sephora by O.P.I My Personal Serpent
• Wet n Wild megalast I Red A Good Book
• Wet n Wild Kaleidoscope
• Wet n Wild French White Creme (base)

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