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Makeup brushes you need in your collection

 

1. Fluff Brush: for applying your eyeshadow onto your eye lid. You can either sweep on the eyeshadow or pat it on. If you pat on eyeshadow you will have less of the shadow ending up under your eyes! My favorite is the M.A.C 213 fluff brush.

2. Flat Top Foundation Brush: I love a good flat top brush for a flawless foundation look. They are so easy to use. I first use a circular motion and then I pat everything in. Stay away from "sweeping" your foundation with this type of brush, it makes it look very streaky. My favorite is the Costal Scents flat top brush.  

3. Kabuki Brush: I use a kabuki brush for powder. ALWAYS pat your powder instead of sweeping it, sweeping causes you to remove product off your face instead of applying. So always PAT on your powder to lock your foundation into place. My favorite is the Sedona Lace kabuki brush.

4. Blending Brush: This will be your best friend when it comes to eyeshadow. A blending brush is perfect for blending out those harsh lines and making everything look flawless. My favorite is the M.A.C 217 blending brush.

5. Contour Brush: You need a brush like this for applying bronzer, especially when you are contouring your face. A small contour brush will give you more precession and help you get into the hollow places of your face. If your brush is too big you will not get the same results you would if you were using a small brush. My favorite is the M.A.C 109 small contour brush. 

6. Angle Brush: This brush is perfect for so many different uses, it is amazing for sharp precise lines.I use a small angled brush for brows, applying shadow under my bottom water line and also creating a cat eye with a gel liner. My favorite is the M.A.C 266 small angle brush. 

7. Blush Brush: Everyone needs a blush brush =) I like using a smaller blush brush so a have more control over where the product goes. If you do not like using a smaller brush, you can also get a large blush brush, whatever works best for you! My favorite is the e.l.f. studio mineral powder brush. 

8. Sponge aka Beauty Blender: The most amazing brush you will ever own. A sponge gives you an absolute flawless foundation finish. If you have a foundation you think makes you crease a lot or just is not applying the right way, try using a sponge (beauty blender). When using one you can either use it dry or damp, use a patting motion not a dragging motion. It comes with a round and pointed part (the one pictured here has a slanted top), the pointed part is perfect for those hard to reach places such as: under your eyes and around the nose. You NEED this in your collection! My favorite is the Real Techniques miracle complexion sponge.

I hope you guys found this helpful, let me know what your favorite brush is! 

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Simona

The order of applying makeup

1. Moisturizer: This step is very important before applying your face makeup. Some makeup can be very drying, so it is important to have a moisturized base. This is crucial especially if you have dry skin. If you notice that your foundation may leave you very dry, make sure to moisturize and you will see a difference!

2. Primer: I love using primer, it gives a base for your foundation and helps it last longer. You can also use a BB cream or a CC cream instead of a primer. I would not skip using a primer, it really does give you that lasting power you need. 

3. Foundation: Use your favorite foundation. It may take you a while to find a foundation you love, but once you do you'll see what a difference foundation makes. A good drugstore foundation is Revlon Color Stay, I HIGHLY recommend it! Haha do you think I used the word foundation enough?.....foundation.

4. Concealer: This is another very important step. Never skip on concealing under your eyes, it makes a tremendous difference. If you have dark circles or bags under your eyes, concealer will be your best friend. Also always go a couple shades lighter then your natural skin tone, you want your concealer to brighten under your eyes not make things look darker. If you have blemishes on your face use a concealer to hide them. A green tone concealer works great on toning down the redness in blemishes. 

5. Powder: Once you have given time for your foundation to set go ahead and powder your face. Powder sets your foundation in place and prevents it from sliding all over your face. Whenever you use and cream or liquid products you need to set it with a powder. Also, don't forget to set your concealer with a powder as well to prevent it from major creasing! 

6. Bronzer: Use a bronzer to warm up your face. You can contour with it or just use it to add a little bit of warmth to your face. You don't always have to use a bronzer, but it really does help give your face some demention. Sometimes when you use a foundation and do not use any bronzer you tend to look flat and bronzer helps to solve that problem.

7. Blush: Ohh how I love Blush, it makes such a difference. When we use foundation we cover up our rosy cheeks. Add a little bit of blush to the apples of your cheeks to bring back some color to your face. 

8. Highlighter: I don't always use a highlighter, but when I do use it I use it on my cheek bones (right above the apples of your cheeks). It gives your look a bit more of a glow as well as more added dimension. 

9. Setting spray: ALWAYS use a setting spray. I used to never use one, and when I started too I noticed a huge difference in the lasting power. A setting spray makes your makeup last so much longer. 

I hope you found this helpful! I promise if you use these products in this order you will see a major improvement in your makeup as well as lasting power. 

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Simona

Physicians Formula Super CC+

The consistency of this very much like a foundation, not a full coverage but a lite coverage.  I used a flat top foundation brush to buff it in all over my skin. I did set it with powder.

When I bought the Physicians Formula Supper CC+ cream I thought it was going to be something I wear under my foundation with pretty much no cover at all. Boy was I wrong! And it sure promises a lot of things:

Age spots

Dark circles

Blemishes

Dullness

Uneven skin tone

Redness

Dark shadows

Discoloration

Fine lines

Wrinkles

Signs of fatigue

 I don't think it does all things as mentioned above, but it definitely covered up my discolored areas and I do think it did a good job on filling in my fine lines. I do not have any age spots so I am not too sure how it would perform when it comes to that. As far as dark circles go, I never put my cc cream or bb cream all the way up by my eyes, that's what concealer is for!  

 

 Wearing nothing but moisturizer. Always moisturize before you apply any makeup!

 As you can see the CC cream did not change the appearance of my skin too much, it looks like my skin but better. The shade that I used is Light.

My over all thoughts on this product are that I do like it as a light coverage foundation. I do think it has a great staying power, but I did get oily in my T zone as the day went on. My favorite thing is that it feels so lite on my face, but yet it gives you some coverage. Would I recommend this product? Yes! 

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Simona

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*Disclaimer: I did not get paid by the company to write this review. All opinions and thoughts are my own.*

 

Highlighting and contouring

 

 I personally think that highlighting/contouring does make a difference! It is a nice and quick way to give your face a "boost." I definitely do not do this everyday, due to the fact that it is a lot of makeup. I usually will highlight/contour when I am going out for the night or for a special occasion. 

The picture to the left I have absolutely no makeup on (just moisturizer), and believe me there are days where I leave the house looking like that. And there is absolutely nothing wrong with leaving the house with no makeup, let your face breath and embrace that natural beauty girl! 

1. Have on ONLY moisturizer 

2. Just foundation. I did use a primer underneath, and use your favorite foundation! Ha ha ha are you annoyed as much as I am by that one piece of hair just hanging out in the air?!

Tribal anyone? Starting out with the highlight, you want to use a shade that is 3-5 shades darker than your natural color and highlight the areas that you want to appear "slimmer" so areas like: your nose, cheekbones, temples/forehead, and chin area. Than highlight the areas that you want to "pop," choose a shade that is lighter than your natural skin tone, but not too light where you look like a zombie! Highlight under your eyes, the bridge of your nose, and your cupids bow (above your lip), middle of your forehead, and your brow bone.

The last step is to blend, blend, blend! Also make sure you set everything with a powder. I use a translucent powder to set the areas that I highlighted and a bronzer for the contour. If you don't want to use a cream as your highlighter you can just go straight to bronzer and use that as your highlight. 

Before- here I just have on foundation, and I feel like there is no life/glow to my face and it is very one dimensional.

After- by contouring and highlighting you really bring dimension and light to your face!

I hope you found this helpful and easier when it comes to contouring and highlighting!

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My makeup organization

So I decided to clean my makeup desk, cause it was looking like a hot mess. As I began organizing and taking everything out I decided to make a blog post out of it! My makeup vanity is actually a desk from Ikea (model name MICKE) but it works perfectly for me, it fits very nicely in the corner of the room and it does come with one drawer. I also use acrylic storage, I highly recommend Muji they have sooo many different acrylic cases to choose from. 

 So before I re-arranged everything in the acrylic holder I had my nail polishes kind of just thrown in there and some makeup products to the right. I decided to put all the nail polish in the drawer and put out my most used makeup on a daily basis. I like it like this much better so this way I don't have to fish around through containers looking for this stuff, now it's all right in front of my face (and it looks much neater)! 

Now the drawer below holds all my nail polishes and the rest of my makeup that I do not reach for on a daily basis. I actually use Tupperware (on the right) to hold mostly eye shadows and some face products  and the pink container is actually a pencil holder that I just cracked in half ha ha ha, hey you gotta make it work!

I have 3 of these jars and some of them actually were candles and when the candle burned out I turned it a brush holder! If you don't have any candles you can always go to a craft store or even the dollar store and you will definitely find something there that you can use. Inside I put little rock that I got at Michaels.

What do you guys use for your makeup storage?