Late Night Thoughts

This isn't going to be any sort of review as it's 1:39 am here in New York and I can't create any more logical sentences after writing my 8 page paper all in one go. Now I'm sitting here wondering if the previous sentence was a run on ...

Have you ever been in that weird daze where you're tired but you can't fall asleep? That's me right now and how do I spend my time? Online shopping. Or browsing at least. 

I'm going to the city tomorrow and sort of want to stop by LUSH because I seriously haven't in the longest time! Except for my little impromptu dash into the Atlantic City shop. I want to pick up all two of their Mother's Day bubble bar wands and maybe a Twilight bath bomb. I have officially run out of bubble bathing products and their by far my favorite. Have any of you ever gone into a LUSH before? How addictive is it?

I'm thinking of reviewing the bubble wands and comparing it to the Magic Wand bubble bar that came out during the Holiday season. 

I also sort of want to stop by the M.A.C. Pro Store and see if they have any Show Orchid in stock. It's a beautiful fuchsia lipstick that would take a pretty ballsy person to wear, but I need it for my collection! Have you ever just needed a color to have in your collection? I went in the PRO store last week and they didn't have any. It was so strange going into the Pro store. I felt like I totally did not belong in there and the workers all knew it. It's SO intimidating, but I'll call tomorrow and see if it's in stock. Fingers crossed!

It seems that I can never have enough lipsticks. I have a lipstick holder that fits 24 lipsticks and it's already more than 2/3 full. I still want more! Hahaha, all of them are bright lipsticks that sort of fit an 'occasion' so I've been thinking of getting M.A.C. Chatterbox or Angel. Have any thoughts on which?

Haha, so I see from rereading this that my late night, term paper fried thoughts consist of a shopping list. No wonder my wallet's always empty! Well I'll leave it at that, as to not make the shopping list any longer. Have a goodnight!

Recreating A Look

Every time I see a picture on the web and the model's make up is done brilliantly I always wonder how I can go about recreating it. I am as amateur as amateur gets with make-up. Figuring out colors is one hurdle, the next one is trying to figure out what order all of it goes in! 

I saw this picture on a tumblr dashboard (I couldn't find out who the photo belongs to so if it is yours please let me know! I want to give proper credit). I had just bought the MakeUp Forever Aqua Eyes 5 eyeliner and needed to procrastinate from studying for finals so I decided to take on my first recreation!

That's what I came up with. The colors are a lot brighter in the original picture and I couldn't seem to get my black eyeshadow as dark as the models! I'm pretty pleased with the eyeliner (color and application) although the model's eyeliner makes mine look as dull as a cloudy sky! The make up looks a lot better in the photo than in person if I'm going to be honest. If I closed my eye, it was just all over the place!

Regardless, I did have trying to recreate a look. I think it's good practice for when I apply my own make up. It really helps me see what colors would look great together in a make up application! Let me know what you guys think! :)

Review: Essie Super Bossa Nova

With flash

Super Bossa Nova is a fuchsia based nail polish with, I guess you would call it, purple reflects. I seem to be very drawn in by fuchsia/purple mixes, lately. The combination of either in anyway always creates such an exciting color! The formula of this polish is great! Both photos are of the manicure in two coats, but honestly I could have gotten away with one if I had wanted to. For some reason I always apply two coats regardless! It does however take FOREVER to dry. I don't know if it's just this polish or I'm impatient, but it did still get marks in it 3 hours after drying. It's not a very forgiving color for that but if don't do anything, it's gorgeous!

Without flash

I would wear this color anywhere but it would be amazing to wear to the beach or out on the boardwalk. It's that burst of summer color that's always in for summer and especially this summer! 

Retail Therapy: Birthday Haul!

So Wednesday, May 2, was my 19th birthday! Although my mom thought it was my 17th considering she got a '1' and '7' candle, hahaha! It seems that every year there's something I become completely enchanted with and I get a lot of it for my birthday! Last year it was LUSH Cosmetics gift cards and products and this year it's beauty items! Which I was so thrilled for! Now I didn't get this all in one day (all in one week, but not in a day!) and some of it I bought for myself as a well deserved present (my birth makes me well deserved, haha!) 

• Mrs. Bunny Collection Sigma Brushes (from my Sister) - I was SOSOSO excited for these! I have been using a crease brush from Sephora and the Urban Decay Karma brush that came with the Naked Palette for the longest time, and only those two brushes! I love the blue and pink colors of the brush, I think they are so pretty. It's also awesome that they come in their own sort of brush holders! I can't wait to use them more!
• Ciate Caviar Manicure (from my Aunt) - So I have basically been lusting about this caviar manicure kit since I saw a YouTube guru (FleurdeForce) demo it on her channel! I knew it would be a sort of gimmicky (but awesome) sort of nail thing, but that didn't stop me from wanting it! The only thing though is the price is absolutely outrageous for nail polish, micro beads, and a plastic tray! I'd never buy it myself. When I went out to dinner my aunt (who I never see) handed me a Sephora bag with the kit inside and I freaked! I cannot wait to show you guys a nail of the day with it!!!
• Urban Decay 15th Anniversary Palette (from my boyfriend) - Boyfriend. You're doing it right! If I just insert a giant exclamation point would that convey the proper amount of excitement? Probably not. I know he was originally planning to get me the Naked 2 Palette but then this bad boy came back on the Sephora website and I spammed his Facebook with links, hahaha! I've been lusting after this palette for FOREVER. I wasn't too into make-up when I saw gurus reviewing it so it didn't phase me, but now MUST HAVE!

things I bought for myself

• MakeUpForever Aqua Liner (5) - Blue eyeliner. Jennifer Lawrence wore it in the Hunger Games. Jennifer Lawrence is girl crush. Nuff said.
• Urban Decay Deluxe Eyeshadow (Fishnet) - I am so glad the the Sephora on 5th Avenue didn't get the new look of the Urban Decay Eyeshadows! Two reasons, one: I LOVE the Deluxe Packaging x a million! two: the deluxe shadows are $18 and have  more product, while the new ones would be the same price and the same color, but less product! It's such a beautiful purple color similar to MAC Stars 'N Rockets but 10x more pigmented.
• MAC Morange Lipglass - Walked into a MAC store on the day of a collection launch (unintentionally) and happened to be in the flagship store that had EVERY COUNTRY'S FASHION SET. *dead I've always wanted Morange Lipstick but didn't think I'd have the cajones to wear it out but when I put the lipglass on I could not look away. It made my eyes pop and it was out there without being out there.
• OCC Makeup Lip Tar (Queen) - Gah! This color. No words for it. I've always wanted an OCC liptar (many, at that!) but when I went to IMATS I was so tired that I didn't have the strength to wait in the mob. Then I saw OCC retweeted someone saying they "popped into an OCC store" and I was like THEY HAVE STORES?! Thank you Google for helping feed my addiction and cleaning my wallet ;)

Have you deduced anything from this list yet? Not yet? Well I'll help you out... I'm not buying any make-up for a LOOONG time. But don't fret! I've got so many reviews to write up that time will fly, make up will get used and I'll be able to buy once more! I'm very thankful for everything I've been given and everything I was able to buy. Hopefully this fortune will follow me into my 19th year!

Quick Update!

I have a birthday haul post and a few reviews coming soon but I just needed to get this out there! If you don't already own Sigma brushes, get some! They seriously do the work for you. I'm doing my make-up right now and I can't get over how beautifully it's picking up the color and blending everything! So amazing and just wanted to update for you guys ;)