I never thought I would spend $23 on an eyeliner. I also never thought I would spend $23 own an eyeliner and not regret it. I have even been considering what my next purchase will be. While I own a ton of colored liner, none of them work as well as Make Up Forever's Aqua Liner. They always take forever to dry or are thin or lumpy. Not this one- I love everything about it, the color is so awesomely bright, application is nearly perfect (the applicator is a little on the hard side), waterproof, lasts forever, no-flaking.

This was also my first day playing with the new Naked palette. I always end up overwhelmed by all my choices when I get a new palette so it wasn't my best. I overloaded myself with light shimmery shades ;)

Whenever I don't feel like putting in the effort of selecting shades to use (aka can't decide on a color combo) I turn to one of my quads. No thinking required. This time I tried Maybelline's Eye Studio Eyeshadow Quad in Give Me Gold.

Products Used:

UDPP in Eden

Maybelline Eye Studio Quad in Give Me Gold

L'oreal Telescopic liquid liner

Maybelline Great Lash BIG mascara

Tarte Clean Slate primer

Maybelline Dream Liquid Mousse

Mary Kay mineral powder foundation

MAC Bite of An Apple blush

NYX Honey lipstick (I think this is too much for my skintone)

On my days off I really don't want to do my makeup. When I have to work spending my time carefully applying and thinking things out is a treat but on my entirely free days? That time is precious. But I still will trudge up some effort if I'm going to have to run loads of chores. Here is a quick one I did using my Milani brow kit (that would be this one- in medium).

I really like this kit because it includes a small angled brush that is not so bad other than being teeny, a mini pair of tweezers, a sponge tipped applicator (okay, I've never used that one), 2 brow colors AND my favorite part! A highlighter! It's a very light champagne and an almost glowy kind of shimmer. That means with the right brushes you can do your brows, eyes and highlight the face if you want to.

In this look I used the highlighter all over my lid up to my crease. Then I applied the lighter brow shade in the crease and blended it out really well. The darker shade I used to lightly line my eyes.

I used a quick brush of Mary Kay mineral powder to even out my skin and reduce shine and added a little Jane Blushing Baby Doll blush. To finish it off I very lightly applied NYX Honey round lipstick.

I do suppose my "quick" look isn't very quick, this maybe took me 10 minutes. I personally feel that I don't look "complete" wearing just mascara or just eye makeup.

Products Used:

UDPP in Eden

Milani brow kit in Medium

Maybelline Great Lash BIG

Mary Kay mineral powder foundation

NYX Honey lipstick

What is your "quick" or "lazy" look?

Finally crawling out of bed. That flu kicked my butt! I got sick of fighting my roots and killing my hair so I decided to go with a box dye that would work over my natural roots. I used Feria Chocolate Cherry.

MAC Bare Study Paint Pot