frankie sandford

Today's look is inspired by the stunning Frankie Sandford of The Saturdays, okay so it's not really inspired it's more like a direct copy of what she looks like. I realized that trying to emulate Frankie's look would only hurt my "ego" (rofl did you catch that Saturdays reference?) because the girl is GORGEOUS but that clearly didn't stop me. The eyes are really dramatic - a smudged up smokey cat eye paired with overly bronzed cheeks (thats her trademark so I had to) and a safe nude lip which I think is straddling the line of being a concealer lip but who am I to judge? (well maybe her makeup artist lulz)

The resemblence is just striking innit??

Close up! Damn that friggin strand of hair ...



This shot was purely for the lulz, aka my sad attempt at being "fierce" like Frankie.

i've got the blues

So I got bored today and decided to a FOTD. (thats a face of the day for all you n00bs out theres :)). The look consists of a smokey blue eye, kim kardashian inspired nude-y cheeks, and peachy lips. Sounds absolutely ground breaking, I know. Nonetheless I think it turned out rather nicely.

With flash.

Note how yellow flash makes my skin look =/

No flash.

And some more gratuitous shots of myself...how vain am I?

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dewy summer skin

Ah, nothing like some late night blog posting... The topic this evening? What every girl strives to have in the summer: gorgeous dewy skin. It's taken me awhile to accomplish such a feat but I think I've gotten it down to a science. I stumbled across a lovely product, courtesy of my lovely mother, by Estee Lauder called Spotlight. It's like a luminizing cream that you can wear over or under your makeup. But I found the best way to utilize its beautiful sheen was to mix the cream with my foundation. Set with some of my Mac MSF natural and I was sold.

Note that what looks like a highlight is actually the result of the estee lauder + foundation concoction. Also note that the bronzer used was a mix of dior bronze in 020 light tan and tarte's park avenue princess. Oh and if anyones wondering, the foundation I used was shiseido lifting foundation I 40 natural fair ivory.