Blue Smokey Eye

This is the first eye look on the blog!!! I am very excited about it. I wasn't planning to post anything like this just yet, but I have been taking pictures of my eye looks in anticipation of posting some of them at some point. Really specific, I know. So here we go.

Let's not consider this a tutorial or a how-to at all. I'm not sure yet how I want to handle showing how I do my eye makeup, so for now, let's just look at some pictures :)

It was a pretty fun day. And I did not match my fleece to it on purpose. For this look, I used e.l.f.'s Studio 80 Piece Day-to-Night Eyeshadow Palette. I was skeptical of this product at first, but with a primer, most of the colors are actually pretty great. I'll do a full review at some point, but if you want to try it out for yourself, you can get it here. My skin is looking more red in the pictures than I would like it to, but the point is the eyes, so we'll be ok. 

So that's that. Maybe I'll start posting things like this more often. Thanks for visiting!

Manicure Monday! Rose Gold Glam.

So hey.

I took a bit of a hiatus from all of the responsibilities to spend time with my family, my dog, my friends, and my HuluPlus subscription. Also, many bubble baths happened. But I really did miss blogging, and I am excited to share this manicure with you!

This is another one from the summer, and since it is FINALLY starting to get a little warmer, I am going to suck all the vicarious living I can out of this little bugger.

Here it is.

To get this look, I used:

Bonder Base Coat

2 coats of Revlon's "Copper Penny" Nail Lacquer (you could definitely get away with one)

1 coat of Sally Hansen's Hard As Nails Polish in "Strobe Light" (you might need two, mine was a little old and, thus, a little thicker)

And Orly's Won't Chip Top Coat

I really thought that this was going to chip super quickly since I used two coats of "Copper Penny" when I didn't really need to and an older glitter polish. But it still lasted a good week for me, so I was pretty happy with the Orly products once again, since I attribute a lot of my manicures' staying power to those two little gems. 

Since glitter can be so darn difficult to photograph, I tried to get a closeup for you. This doesn't quite do the polishes justice, but hopefully you can still get an idea of what it was like.

And here is one last image :)

Thanks for visiting!!! See you again soon.