Brand Highlight: Favorite NYX Products!

Hey beauties. I just wanted to post my latest video on my youtube channel, featuring my favorite NYX products. I've been really loving this brand lately, featuring its products in several of my past videos. I figured it was time to do a video dedicated to my favorite products, the ones I could not live with out. Check it out and tell me what you think!

 

Thanks and have a great memorial day!

Wish List Wednesday: NYX Butter Lipsticks

Hello beauties! Hurray for a new blogpost! I haven't written one in a long time. I'm super busy with school as I'm taking several education classes that require so many of observation hours for each. And hours of homework on top of that. I'm tired and burnt out but hey only 17 more days till spring break!!

Anyway, I've been super good with not buying any makeup, haven't bought a single product since November, go me! I'm paying for school currently and so my budget is super tight.  So because I haven't been able to go buy new products to try and review, I thought I'd do a Wish List Wednesday and talk about a product I'm currently pining after.

The product I really want to try is actually from the drugstore, so it's super affordable. NYX has been putting out a ton of new products, new eyeshadows, baked blushes(I might cave and buy one, they are only $5 and I have a coupon for Ulta) and these new butter lipsticks. They came out with butter glosses awhile back and I really like those. So when I saw the lipstick display at Ulta, it took every ounce of will power I had not to buy some. As I do not have any to swatch I will link a blog post by pursebuzz who did a great job swatching all the lipsticks. I really want to try Gum Drop, Taffy and, because I love a bright fun lip, Hunk.

This line seems to have a color for everyone and looks simply beautiful. I really hope to find some extra cash to buy a few of these as well as some of the other new products from NYX, which is probably my favorite drugstore brand ever. Are there any new products from the drugstore you've been dying to try? Let me know in a comment below! Thanks for reading, stay gorgeous!

FoTD: Silver and Plum

Hello, beauties! I pulled out some old products from collection and put together this look inspired by a tutorial that emilynoel83 did on her youtube channel some time back. It was great to use products I haven't touched in a long time. It's also sort of a different look for me as I usually stick with neutral colors, but I used some silver and purple and it was actually a nice day time look.

 

 

Eyes:
Primer-Wet n Wild Fergie Eyeshadow Primer
Base: NYX Jumbo Pencil in Milk
Eyeshadow: Coastal Scents 88 Warm Palette and L'Oreal Infallible eyeshadow in Smoldering Plum
Mascara-Benefit They're Real and Maybelline Lash Discovery

 

Face:
Primer-Pixie Flawless Primer
Foundation-Revlon Color Stay Whipped Foundation
Concealer-Benefit Erase Paste
Blush-Mac Well Dressed
Lips-Nars Lipgloss in Turkish Delight

 

Tools:
Eyelash Curler-Tarte
Sigma E-55 Shader
Sigma E-30 Pencil
Sigma E-70 Angled Shader
Sigma E-40 Tapered Blending
Sigma P-88 Precision Flat Angled
Sigma E-65 Small Angle

 Tools cont.:
Sigma F-84 Angled Kabuki
Sigma F-70 Concealer
Real Techniques Blush Brush

Let me know if you guys would like more FoTD posts! This was really fun :) Until next time, stay gorgeous!

Daily Tidbits:
1. Finally doing a Vlogmas video....after I started Vlogmas 7 days ago. Ooops!
2. Just watched this weeks Vampire Diaries. Oh My God!!
3. Starting to plan my Bells Beauty Awards for 2013. Can't believe its the end of the year already!

Cleaning Out My Makeup, Project Pan Update!!

Hello, beauties!! A few months ago, I showed you what makeup I was trying to use up and here I am again with an update. I used up most of the products I put aside in a makeup bag(see post Spring Cleaning My Makeup?? Project Pan???) so I went through my stash and picked out some more products I wanted to attempt to use and possibly use up. I decided to put a full face of makeup in here for the days I really don't want to do much with my makeup, either due to it being to hot or just pure laziness.

 For a foundation, I decided I wanted to use my Covergirl BB Cream. I'm almost out of this and just want it out of my collection. I like it, but compared to other bb creams out there, its just not that great.  It offers ok coverage but does nothing for dark marks or acne scaring. It's more of a tinted moisturizer.

 This is by far one of my favorite face primers.  It's only a sample size that I received in a Target beauty bag.  Pixie's Flawless and Poreless. This I should be done with in the next few days. I will most likely be making a trip to repurchase once I go through some other face primers I have.

 I don't know if they've reformulated Urban Decay's Primer Potion or if its just the new packaging but I like this primer so much more now. I feel like I get better coverage to cover my pigmented eyelids with this than I did in the old packaging. I'm almost out of this and will probably be done by the end of the month. Will I repurchase? I don't know. I have several other primers I to go through and found a cheap drugstore alternative.

This is the Maybelline Instant Age Rewind Pressed Powder. I simply love this powder! I don't want to use this up but I always need to use this in conjunction with the Covergirl BB Cream to add more coverage and set the bb cream.

Oh my Covergirl Shimmering Sands Trio....so loved!! As you can see by the huge chuck of pan in the center shadow, I tend to use this a lot.

I've been doing something unusual for me and using bronzer. Normally I only do this when I'm sick and therefore even paler than normal.  But lately I've been enjoying taking this Rimmel Bronzer(so old that I can't even read the packaging anymore) with a large powder brush and sweeping it all over my face.  And this bronzer is very old(I'm sad to say I think almost 2 years) and I want to use it up.

One of my favorite blushes of all time. This is NYX's Mocha. I got into a blush rut and haven't used this in ages so I wanted to give it some love. I'm trying to change out the blush in this bag at least once or twice a month so I can use all my blushes. When did I start to collect so many blushes??



Lastly, for a lip product, I decided to throw in this NYC Applelicious I received in an Influenster box recently. I don't remember the name of this but its a great little tinted lip balm. It's very moisturizing and smells amazing! It doesn't offer much in the way of color but I do like this when I just want a little something on my lips. Of course, I change up my lip color every day so I don't stick with just this.    

 

Ok, those are all the products in my current bag of products to use up. If you want to see when I do use them up, subscribe to my beauty channel, http://www.youtube.com/user/bellsbeauty where I do empties videos. Thanks for reading! Have a good weekend!!                                                                                                                                                                      

November Favorites!

This is a little late but I wanted share with you my November Favorites! I have lots of new products to talk about!

Primers-I really enjoyed playing with some face primers in November. I used Tarte's Clean Slate Poreless and Benefit's Pore-fessional.  I prefer Benefit's better as its tinted and seems to hide my pores better.

Revlon Lip Butter in Berry Smoothie-Wore this so much this month, can't believe I haven't really used it before.

NYX Lipgloss in Tea Rose-Super pretty deep pink. Very pigmented.

L'oreal Infallilbe Pressed Eyeshadows in Iced Latte and  Bottomless Java-These are super pigmented and creamy and are wonderful eyeshadows. I can't wait to buy more!!

Urban Decay 24/7 Glide on Pencil Duo in Zero and Whiskey- I finally tried a pencil from Urban Decay and am obssessed! I must have more of them in my life!

Jordana Fabuliner- Another eyeliner to talk about. It was the month of eye products. I can't believe I haven't tried this eyeliner yet. I won it in a giveaway and was super excited. It's my new holy grail liquid eyeliner. :)

TheBalm Body Builder Mascara-This was a fail product in October but now its a favorite product for the month of November. Once it dried out a bit, it was perfect for adding some drama to my eyelashes, not something I liked by the way. My eyelashes are long enough without mascara, but I actually like the way this makes lengthens and defines them.

Maybelline Color Tattoo in Barely Beige-Finally got my hands on this baby and its now my favorite base!

Sigma's E60 Large Shader brush-Using to to apply my color tattoos. It applies the color sheerly and blends super nicely. I have a coupon code for Sigma, which is 10% off your order. Use DEC2012 at check out! http://www.sigmabeauty.com/?Click=224226

Bath and Body Works Charmed Life Lotion-Rediscoverd from my collection, sadly this is discontinued. Why BB&? Why must you discontinue all the good scents??

Got2B Guardian Angel Curling Heat Protectant-This is a great heat protectant that holds curls amazingly!


That's it for my November Favorites. Already looking forward to my December Favorites because I have a lot of new products I've been playing with and already have some new favorites! See you guys next time!

Back to School Tutorial

This is my entry for a huge back to school collab giveaway taking place on youtube. I love the whole back to school season(guess that's natural for a future teacher) so of course I was eager to do a back to school tutorial, the fact that its for a chance at some awesome prizes is a bonus!

Products Mentioned:

Tarte Clean Slate Flawless 12 Hour Brightening Primer
Revlon Colorstay Whipped Foundation
Sheer Cover Concealer in Light/Medium
Maybelline Instant Age Rewind Finishing Powder
NYX Jumbo Eye Pencil in Milk
Coastal Scents 88 Warm Palette
E.L.F Eyeliner in Coffee
Rimmel Scandelize Mascara
Physician's Formula Happy Booster Blush
Revlon Kissable Lip Balm Stain in Cherish