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Friday, June 6, 2014

Summer Essentials: Makeup & Face

Ola beauty lovers! I have sitting here enjoying the beautiful sunshine when it donned on me that Summer is here! That means there are some summer beauty and hair products that are just a MUST for me during this season and I am sharing them with you so that you can pick them up and try out for yourself.

Now go grab your pen and paper while I sit here and wait. Go on, I am waiting....

Good now that your ready to take notes I am diving in, lets get started:

1. Sunscreen - Body and Face- Neutrogena Wet Skin ($19)

Now we all need to protect ourselves from the harsh damage the sun can do to us humans. Therefore a sunscreen is important. I use this Neutrogena Wet Skin sunscreen for ALL over my body, including face. Why you may ask? Am I crazy? Well no, I'm not crazy. First off this amazing sunscreen is sweat proof, waterproof, and can be applied to wet or dry skin. So right there it's convenient. It is also oil free, PABA free and hypoallergenic. Plus it's dermatological tested. Which means I can use this also on my FACE! BONUS! This brand of sunscreen comes in 30SPF or 60SPF UVA/UVB protection. I have the 60SPF because you just never know. This baby is a bit more on the pricey side but well worth it since it has a lot of benefits. You can find this at your local drug stores.

2. Lip Balm- EOS ($3-$4)

I don't leave my house without a lip balm any time of the year period. But when you are on the beach or at the cottage in the sun your lips can tend to dry out and crack....well at least mine do for some odd reason. So I always make sure I slather on a lip balm. It's preferred to use a balm with SPF especially if you are out in the sun, but even the EOS balms are great, they are 100% natural and 95% organic. They are affordable and their scents are great! You can find these also at your local drug stores.

3. Sunglasses- Aldo ($12)

With the brightness going on outside, you need to have at least 1 pair of sunglasses. Every time your outside you must put them on to protect those eyes.

4. Bright Nail polish- Kit Cosmetics ($4 each)

Ladies, you must crack open your bright nail polishes! This is the time of year to flaunt them, wear them, enjoy them! I have so many brights that my spring/summer is filled with different brights weekly! These can be found at your local drug store. Very affordable too! :)

5. BB Cream- Garnier ($15)

For those of you who need some coverage on the face or to just even out your skin tone. A BB Cream is a great summer time option. Most BB creams come with SPF protection so you don't have to worry about that. This one is my ultimate favorites, and it can be found at the drug stores. Which means more affordable than most high end BB creams. This one is very light weight, and provides coverage, enough to even out your skin tone. Make sure ladies you get the oily combination skin type one so that it is oil free.

6. Bronzing Powder - MAC Bronzing Powder "Refined Golden" ($30 CDN)

Everyone needs a bronzing powder for the summer time. My current favorite is the MAC cosmetics bronzer. Yes I know it is a bit pricey. Another affordable option at the drug store can be Milani Baked bronzer's or the Wet n' Wild Bronzer's. Or even the Physicians Formula Bronzing powders are great as well! But the one I use lately all the time is my MAC one. It does have some golden flex to it, but it really just helps your skin glow like JLO!

7. Bright Lipstick- Milani "Rose Hip" ($5-$7)

With the warm weather, we think of tropical colors. Well I know I do. That makes me want to always be wearing a bright ass lipstick. It's fun, it's colorful, why not? The best affordable bright lipstick I own and enjoy is the Milani Color Statement Lipstick in the shade "Rose Hip". This is basically a HOT PINK and its gorgeous! Again these can be found at your drug stores. In Canada they are found at the Superstores.

Well ladies, that was it for Summer Essentials for Makeup and Face. Leave me comments to let me know if you want to see Summer Essentials for Hair and Skin.

Until next time beauty lovers !
MacGirl25

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Saturday, May 24, 2014

Quick tip: over expired Mac lip products

Ola beauty lovers! It is Saturday and usually Saturdays are my filming days for my youtube channel. But since it was nice out today for once here in Toronto I decided to skip the filming and lay out side in the sun. Yes I wore sun screen for those of you who are wondering. So I spent a couple hours outside to get my bronzey glow on because girl you know how it is when you are getting glamed up in the summer time, the tan is a must.

Anyways so I come back into my room before I head into the shower and I glance randomly at my lipgloss drawer and said hmmm that drawer is looking a bit too full. Maybe it's time I go through it and see what lip glosses are bad for me to throw out. I know, I know, products you bought and some point now your gonna throw them away?!

Well yes. Hate to break it to ya but lip glosses have a life span and I had some Mac glosses that have been around for ages so I knew I had a couple that must have gone ratchet. How can you tell when a Mac lipgloss goes bad you ask? Well it's simple, you know how Mac lip products usually smell like vanilla sweet scent? That's when you have the green light that they are still ok to use. But when your lippies from Mac begin to smell like play dough that's how you know it's time to get rid of them! You definately don't want to put that on your lips when it smells like that! Yuck!

So how many glosses did I throw out you may be curious to know? Good news is I only had to throw out two of the handful and a half that I own :)

Go through your stash of Mac lippies and test them out, if you are smelling play dough instead of that sweet vanilla smell then you know it's time to get rid of them.

I put the two bad glosses in my back to Mac bag so that once I have six empties I am bringing them back for a free gloss or lipstick :)

Until next time beauty lovers ❤️
MacGirl25

Saturday, March 15, 2014

Saturday Shopping at Sephora!

Ola beauty lovers! It is one of those Saturday’s where I am home, and bored. I know I sound like a kid whining to their parents that they are bored. I remember I used to always do that to my mom and she would say “How can you be bored with all the toys and books you have?” I think every kid does that at one point in their childhood. It’s only natural. But when you become an adult like me, it’s a bit pathetic.

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Any ways as I was saying I was a tad bored earlier today, so my girlfriend Maria texts me and says I am going to the mall you coming? Now, when any girl gets an invite to accompany their friend to the mall you definitely accept unless you have a prior engagement to attend. So I said HELL YES. So off I went to the mall to meet her. I was supposed to work out today, but I woke up with a sore throat and said, ok guess that isn’t going to happen. Usually when my body aches like that, I try not to work out and make it worse. Lord knows my tonsils have a mind of their own and I can’t afford to take any sick days off right now with work being so damn busy. So I thought the walking around the mall would be a good source of movement. Usually when I am at the mall I put up a sweat, not by choice, just by walking the entire mall in and out of stores.

I had some items in mind to purchase from Sephora, since I had a few gift cards laying around from Christmas. Plus I wanted to stop into MAC because I had some back to MAC empties to return for a free lippie. Well, I think I did well because once I got there, I did a walk-a-thon in the entire mall and it was nice to walk around and get some leg work in.

Sephora was busy as hell. But really when is Sephora ever NOT busy? To get a chick to help you with some samples is like pulling teeth sometimes. Sephora if you are reading this you must put more girls on the floor to help out customers ESPECIALLY ON A SATURDAY! So I managed to pick up the Buxom Lip Gloss in White Russian because everyone and their mother rave’s about how such a great topper it is on a nude or light pink lipstick. Then I also picked up the Anastasia Dip Brow Pomade in the color Chocolate. The samples I got were the Glam Glow mask in the white jar and blue jar. I think the white jar is to help clear up acne and the blue jar is to hydrate. I wanted to try those two out first before I get suckered into buying them full price (each tiny jar is like $69 plus tax, ouch I know). Also picked up the Formula X nail polish in the color Alive since it is their spring 2014 limited edition collection and fell in love with this shade.

Then when I strolled over to MAC to get my free lipstick, I decided to go with the famous shade Myth. I know another nude to add to my collection but no girl can ever have enough nude lippies in their collection. Nudes are the most wearable on an everyday basis all year round!

I did head over to Sally’s beauty supply but I did not do much damage there. I only picked up my conditioner form L’oreal, and a couple of nail items. If you want to see those items, then I encourage you to go watch my YouTube Video linked below :)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XO-g5WXERxQ

After spending a few hours in the mall I was pooped. I was ready to eat something hardy and healthy then heading home. I grabbed Greek food to eat and then went home to do my weekly stuff around the house.

Well fellow readers that was my Saturday. If you want to see reviews on any of the products I have mentioned please leave me a comment below and let me know.

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This is the full size but I only got a sample of this

This is the full size but I only got a sample of this.

Thursday, March 13, 2014

Keeping your Makeup Brushes clean

Ola beauty lovers! Today's discussion is going to be make up brushes, and how to keep them clean. Now I know that make up brushes can be expensive. So you want to make sure you take care of them so they last a life time. God knows that ain't no girl got money to blow on make up brushes every couple months to replace a good set that you have already spend money on, and used to the ground.

Now there are plenty of different make up brush brands you can choose from when you purchase yours. Me personally, I have a wide range of brands. Sigma Beauty Brushes, Elf Brushes, MAC Brushes, Real Techniques Brushes, Sephora Brushes, Sedona Lace Brushes, Urban Decay Brushes, Quo Brushes etc. As you can tell I have a wide range of different brands. All their prices range from less expensive brands and expensive brands.

No I did not get all these brushes at one time. Yes I purchased these brushes with my own dollar bills. These brushes are my collection of brushes over the years of doing makeup on myself and we are taking like as of Grade 8. Makeup brushes are like an investment. Sure you buy makeup and you use it and once you finish the product you toss the package and move on, BUT Makeup Brushes, if they are taken care of properly are with you for LIFE. So I want to take care of my investment so that I don't have to keep replacing my investment. Make sense? Well to me it does.

Moving on, there are two different ways to clean your brushes. If you daily need to clean your brushes because you use a whole bunch of different shadow colors or pigments then you would need to do what is called a "Spot clean". That is just a quick disinfectant to remove any surface bacteria and color on the brush if you plan on dipping it into another product when you are applying a face of makeup. I have two options in spot cleaning. The first is the more expensive root, and that would be purchasing the MAC Makeup Brush Cleanser, pour some into a little spray bottle, and spot clean by spraying the solution on your brush and wiping the brush back on forth on a Kleenex or towel. The second option is least expensive, take a small spray bottle, pour distilled water and a few drops of tea tree oil in the water. Close the top, shake well and spray, there you have a cheap BUT effective solution to spot clean your brushes.

The last cleaning type is called "Deep Clean". If you are a makeup artist and use your brushes regularly on clients then a deep clean for your brushes is a must after you use them on each client. If you only do makeup on your self then I suggest a deep clean of your brushes between once a week, to every other week, or once a month. My skin is very acne prone, so I try to deep clean mine once a week. If your skin is not as sensitive or acne prone you could wait longer if needed. Deep cleaning your brushes is when you take these suckers to the sink and use a deep cleanser for brushes or shampoo (regular or baby shampoo), or gentile dish soap. There are so many expensive deep cleansing brush soaps that are probably great, but realistically not everyone has the money to blow on stupid things like makeup brush cleaners when you have other important expenses. Therefore, the least expensive way to deep clean your brushes would be taking shampoo/dish soap or hand soap that is already in your house and rinse the brushes under water then swirl them around in the soap in a bowl making sure that soap gets deep into those bristles to kill any germs or bacteria and wash out any of the left over make up in between the bristles. Once its swirled around, rinse the brushes thoroughly and re shape them with your fingers, and lay out to air dry. If you find that your shampoo is to drying on the bristles mix in some conditioner in your soap solution and there you have a cleanser and conditioner for those brushes.

I know you are thinking girl I ain't got time for this, but listen to me, if you don't make time for this, your are going to be putting on your makeup with the most disgusting bacteria filled brushes that you will begin to break out, or your skin will look horrible when you apply your make up on if you don't cleanse your brushes.

It ain't pretty when you buy that expensive NARS Laguna bronzer and you go apply it with a bacteria filled brush. NASTY. I can't stress enough to make sure you clean your brushes!

That is as simple as it gets. Below I have included some photos on the products I use to clean my brushes.

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Mac Brush Cleanser