MUA- Red Riding Hood photo shoot.

I worked with Fitz Photography again last weekend. This time it was a themed shoot. Red Riding Hood!! I was so excited to glam up the model, Katy. She has the best skin and eyebrows! I used BFTE Red Hot along with the Ben Nye Essential Palette on her eyes and Lime Crime Red Velvet Velvetine on her lips. Here are some of the pictures from the shoot!

If you are in the Inland Empire or Orange County and want fabulous pictures done contact Fitz Photography!


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Face of the Day!

So I failed at the 30 day challenge. Too many times I was in a rush or really needed a certain shadow to complete a look. I used my Sugarpill and Ben Nye Essential Palette quite a few times during this challenge. I can say that I did find a bunch of colors I love in my stash that I forgot about it. Maybe next time I will do a shorter challenge.



Too Faced Shadow Insurance
NYX Jumbo Pencil In Milk
Ben Nye Essential Palette on Brows Jordana Fabuliner Eyeliner Pen
Anastasia Beverly Hills Covet Eyeliner in Noir
Sonia Kashuk Lashify
Ben Nye Essential Palette




Ulta Mousse Foundation
Benefit Porefessional
Benefit Watt's Up Highlighter
MAC Pink Cult Blush
Lime Crime Red Velvet Velvetine

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Day #6

Too Faced Shadow Insurance
NYX Jumbo Pencil In Milk
Billion Dollar Brows Concealer
Benefit High Beam as a Highlight
HyperColors Teal Tornado on Brows
Jordana Fabuliner
Anastasia Beverly Hills Covet Eyeliner in Noir
Too Faced lashGASM mascara
Ben Nye Essential Palette

Ulta Extreme Wear Mousse Foundation
Benefit Fine-One-One
MAC Pink Pearl Pop Lipstick



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Holiday Shopping Spotight on..... Batts Audio, Video and Lighting

 

            First up in my Holiday Shopping Spotlight is Batts Audio, Video and Lighting. You are probably wondering what this company has to do with beauty/cosmetics. Let me tell you, this company has the BEST selection of Ben Nye! Ben Nye is by FAR the best priced and best quality cosmetic line out there in my opinion. I have bough and reviewed many Ben Nye products and all were purchased from Batts AVL. You can check out all my reviews here.  I have so many Ben Nye products on my Christmas list! Below is just a TINY selection of the products Batts AVL carry. If you are a makeup lover or you are buying a gift for one I can hands down recommend buying them some Ben Nye. I like buying from Batts AVL because they have great pricing, fast shipping and the best customer service! 

Ben Nye Final Seal - This is a great product for keeping your makeup looking perfect all day! You can see my review here.

Ben Nye Grand Lumiere Palette - This palette is gorgeous, the colors are buttery and blend like magic. You can see my review here.

 

 Ben Nye Rouge Palette is on my Christmas List!! So is Ben Nye Brush Cleaner.

Ben Nye offers a FULL line of cosmetics. They have everything you can think of from brushes to blushes, eye shadows in pressed, powder, cream, sparkle, matte and more. Concealers, foundations, primers, sealers, lipsticks, glosses and if you are into special effects or stage makeup than Ben Nye is for you. Ben Nye is primarily known for their stage/special effects makeup. More people need to try there mainstream cosmetics. They are MUCH higher quality than any drug store makeup and in most cases higher quality than high end makeup. I prefer my Ben Nye Lipsticks over MAC any day! Ben Nye is also much cheaper than most high end makeup. It is a little more than drug store makeup for most items! I urge you to try them!

Ben Nye Blushes are only $9 each!!  Ben Nye Glitter Glue is also on my Christmas list!!

 

I love my Ben Nye Lip Colours! You can see my review of Ben Nye Lip Palette here.

 

Go and browse the selections at Batts AVL . See if anything catches your eye and pick something up for the makeup lover in your life!!!

Halloween

I spent so much time working on my kid's costumes and I never got around to putting thought into my own until the night before Halloween. I had bought a huge pair of gorgeous red and black wings from Joann last month so I knew I wanted my costume centered around them. I planned to do sort of a dark fairy. On the day of Halloween I opened the wings only to find out that they were cheap pieces of crap. They were super heavy so the elastic straps stretched making then hang weird and then they were only held together by a tiny piece of felt that started ripping when i tried them on. I was pretty pissed off. In the end I just wore a black and purple cape and called it a day. Because I was in a bad mood I feel like my makeup came out bad. Looking back at the pictures I see it looked good but it just was not what I envisioned.

I used my normal foundation with some white powder on top of it to give me a paler look. On my eyes I used Sugarpill Love + and Sugarpill Bulletproof. I did the feathery lines using a cheap NYC liquid liner. My eyelashes are Klean Color. I used Bling Spirit Natural Control glitter adhesive, Bling Spirit glitter in Black Diamond and 8 Bit Cosmetics Glitter in Container for Hearts for the feathery accent lines. I also used Container for Hearts on my eyebrows.

After I got home I washed that makeup off and decided to just do something quick and over the top. I personally would love to wear crazy loud makeup like this everyday. This is also the only picture of my husbands makeup I got of the day! In this pic I used Bling Spirit Natural Control and Bling Spirit Platinum Sparkles on my eyes. My lashes are Klean Color Catty Maria. I used Pretty Addictions Wild Thang for blush and my lips are Ben Nye Pink Tart. My husband is wearing all Halloween cream makeup.

I did minor makeup on all my kids and failed to take pictures of course. I did snap this one of the mermaid makeup I did on my middle daughter. I used Pretty Addictions Shipwrecked in Paradise collection as well as Shattered Pearls. I also used some lash glue and applied some jewels to her cheeks and her eyebrows are Bling Spirit in Pacific Blue.

Next year we are are all forgoing the glam and going for guts and gore. We are going to be a family of disgusting zombies. I am going to RAID the Ben Nye section here!! 

If you have links to your Halloween look comment below so I can check it out!!

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Butt Naked

Too Faced Shadow Insurance
NYX Jumbo Pencil In Milk
elf Concealer Stick
Urban Decay Skimp as a Highlighter
Billion Dolar Brows Universal Brow Pencil
Sephora Mascara
Jordana Fabuliner
Beauty From The Earth Butt Naked
Beauty From The Earth Wizards Wand
Ben Nye Graphite
Ben Nye Black

Ulta Extreme Wear Mousse Foundation
MAC Soft Sand Bronzer
Pretty Addictions The Big O Blush
MAC Forever Marilyn Beauty Powder
Ben Nye Sangria on the Lips


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Ben Nye Grand Lumiere Colour

 What is it?  Ben Nye Grand Lumiere Colour in Starry Night

 How much is it?  $9

Where to buy it? I buy ALL of my Ben Nye from Batts AVL

What is it supposed to do? Grand Lumiere colours are brilliant, shimmery eye shadows that can be used wet or dry.

 What does it ACTUALLY do?  This is a gorgeous black shadow that goes on ultra smooth and has glitter and shimmer mixed throughout. You can really see the amount of glitter/shimmer in the last swatch picture.

Starry Night swatched in natural light

over bare skin, NYX Jumbo Pencil in Milk and 

NYX Jumbo pencil in Black Bean

Starry Night swatched with flash

over bare skin, NYX Jumbo Pencil in Milk and 

NYX Jumbo pencil in Black Bean

Starry Night swatched in sunlight

over bare skin, NYX Jumbo Pencil in Milk and 

NYX Jumbo pencil in Black Bean

Overall thoughts? I love Ben Nye and really love the texture and finish of the Grand Lumiere colours. They are velvety smooth and a breeze to blend. I will definately be buying more of these, I have the Grand Lumiere palette and eventually hope to have all of the colours in the collection.

Have you tried Ben Nye Grand Lumiere colours? If so, what did you think? If no, check them all out here and pick some up!

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Smoky Purple look

Too Faced Shadow Insurance
NYX Jumbo Pencil In Milk
Ben Nye Vanilla
Ben Nye Graphite
Ben Nye Black
BFTE Big Ego
Dior Extase Mascara
elf Concealer Stick
Urban Decay Skimp as a Highlighter
Klean Color Purple Eyeliner on Brows
BFTE Big Ego on Brows

Maybelline Dream Mousse Matte Foundation in Light #4
MAC Soft Sand Bronzer
Pretty Addictions Shattered Pearls Highlighter
Laura Gellar Pink Grapefruit Blush
Smashbox Photoset Pressed Powder
Benefit Porefessional
Lime Crime Coquette Lipstick
Bling Spirit Clear Gloss


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Ben Nye Essential Eyeshadow Palette

 What is it? A palette of 8 intensely pigmented rich neutral shades
 How much is it? $40.50
Where to buy it?http://www.battsavl.com/products/essential-eye-shadow-palette-esp-912

 After the whole hot mess that is called the BH Neutral Palette I knew I needed a good quality neutral palette and could not get my mind off of this Ben Nye Essential palette. I am a sucker for anything Ben Nye. Every single product I have tried from Ben Nye has been top notch and superior. This palette was a HUGE splurge for me but it was necessary ( I tell myself this and it makes it better).

Vanilla ER-302

Shell ER-314

Cork ER-50

Mink Stole ER-37

Black ER-99

Graphite ER-98

Smoky Taupe ER-36

Black- Brown ER-595

Natural Indoor Light over NYX Jumbo Pencil in Milk

Flash over NYX Jumbo Pencil in Milk

 Indirect Sunlight over NYX Jumbo Pencil in Milk

Sunlight  over NYX Jumbo Pencil in Milk

             I can honestly say these are best neutral pressed shadows I have ever used. They are so pigmented and rich in color and the formula is smooth and buttery. They are amazing. I ordered my palette from Batts AVL. I have ordered Ben Nye products from them numerous times and my orders have all shipped very quickly and arrived perfectly. Check them out here

  I used the whole palette for this look. Check it out, I ditched the winged liner and used the black shadow as a liner instead! I also used Black/Brown on my brows.

Overall I am extremely pleased with this palette. WAY more than I thought I would be. I am not a huge fan of neutrals but this palette makes me want to wear them more. It also makes me want to buy every single Ben Nye shadow ever made but that is a whole other issue. While Ben Nye may seem expensive it really is worth it.

Do you have the Ben Nye Essential Palette? If so, what do you think?  If not, what are you waiting for? Get one!!!



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