* NEW * BH Cosmetics Pop Art Lipsticks!

Hey Everyone!

  I recently saw Shaaanxo do a video on these and got super excited, I love a pigmented bright lip colour almost as much as I love my kids! I got 5 of the colours from this line and could not be happier with almost all of them. All of these go on really smooth and aren't patchy at all, the formula of these is done really well. 

The packaging on these lipsticks is HOT PINK and it's amazing, it has a glossy finish so it doesn't show finger prints. I don't think I know of any other lipsticks that have a line in all HOT PINK packaging. 

This is Zoink and I wanted this to be the perfect nude colour for me but unfortunately it made me look like I had concealer all over my lips. They swatch on my hand seemed so peachy and pretty but once it was on it totally washed me out. * SAD FACE *

Pop was one of my favourites of the ones I got, I'm really into these soft coral/oranges recently and headed into Fall I know I won't get much use out of them but I'm loving them. This one is a beautiful creamy almost matte finish, it looks amazing on my lips! 

Pow is a deeper and brighter version of Pop and it's up there on my favourites list. It's a beautiful orange with just a hint of red and surprisingly doesn't make my teeth look overly yellow. 

Bang is the kind of colour you wear when you want everyone to look at your lips, it's the perfect neon matte. Reminds me a lot of Candy Yum Yum but not matte, it has a slight shine to it but it's not overly glossy. 

Last but defiantly not least is Slam which is a beautiful pinky red and I am in love with it. This is almost always my go to colour for life but I really love the balance of pink and red in this one.

If you want more information or to watch the live swatches you can watch the video:

4 or More TAG!

Hey Everyone!

  So here is my 4 or more TAG!

 When I was pulling the products for this video I had a really hard time, as most of you know my makeup collection is pretty large. It truly would have been a lot easier to pull things I have 4 or less of. And of course this got my thinking, how much is too much?

 I do makeup for a job, it's not a hobby or just YouTube for me. I am a working makeup artist so I find that I justify the amount of stuff I own using that excuse. Truth is I haven't used some of my makeup for a really long time, coming up on a year now, so maybe it isn't about what you do but how much you use. I rarely wear makeup myself, I have super sensitive skin and no time!

I have thought and even tried to go thru and pull what I don't use as much but at the end of the day no matter how big of a dent I make I always get it filled right back up! Makeup is a never ending obsession, there will always be a new product, a new colour, or special packaging. My words of wisdom for all yo out there reading this, buy what you will use, don't buy something that you know you will never touch because the packaging is pretty. When you buy something and it doesn't work for you return it (yes you can do that!), don't just let it sit and grow, trust me before you know it the collection will over take you!

Anyways hope you enjoy this video!

Thanks for watching!

Crazy About Lipstick Tag!

Hey Everyone!

 So I was reading some of my fav BLOGS over the last couple of days and I ran across a TAG that I had to do. This is the crazy about Lipstick Tag and I stole it from the always witty Cheshire Cat and if you don't know who she is you should go check out her blog here:

http://cheshirecatchats.blogspot.ca

So with that being said let's get into this!

1. How many lipsticks do you own?

Honestly I can't answer this, mainly because it would take me forever to count and I don't know if it's a fair question seeing as most of my lipsticks are for my kit and not my own personal use but to appease the masses I will insert a photo so you can have some of an idea as to how many I have.

And just so I'm being honest that isn't all of them but at least I gave you an idea right?

2. What was your first lipstick?

This one was easy for me as it is hands down still one of my FAVS. It was Ruby Woo by MAC and yes it's super drying and yes that's crappy but the colour can't be beat!

3. What is your most worn lipstick?

Most worn......well the first one that comes to mind is MAC Syrup. It's just that kind of lip colour that looks good on everyone and is really wearable.

4. What is your favourite brand of lipstick?

This question had to be broken into to two for me to be fair.

High End: Is MAC, they just have such a  colour range and so many different finishes. You can find almost anything from shade to formula.

Drug Store: NYX and this is one I thought about for a long time. It has all the same reasons as MAC. Huge colour range and different formulas. They feel amazing on your lips and they last a really long time.

5. What is your favourite finish?

Within MAC it has to be the Amplified finish because I love that they aren't completely drying but they are beyond bright. They are really a WABAM lipstick. The Maybelline Colour Vivid's would be my FAV drugstore finish for the same reasons as the MAC amplified!

6. What is the last lip product you bought?

I just placed a SEPHORA order that I'm waiting to arrive with a bunch of FALL and BERRY tone lipsticks! I can't wait to show those to you guys.

7. How many lip products (everything) do you currently have in your handbag?

6 and don't look so schocked because more then half of that number is just lip balm/chap stick. I love having smooth lips so I always find myself reaching for something to hydrate my lips. 

8. What lip product do you use to rock a red lip? 
This is my go to RED LIP! I love it because it's bright and it lasts all day!

I use Cover Girl lip pencil in Passion and fill in my entire lip and then I put Cover Girl Hot Passion lipstick over top. Beautiful!

9. How do you store your lipstick?

Depends on which lipstick we are talking about, all my work/kit lipsticks are melted down and stored in a plastic container, which looks like this:

The rest of my collection is kept in a few drawers in my ALEX from IKEA. Some are in boxes and some are in acrylic containers, I'm not 100% happy with my lipstick, it's something I'm working on!

10. What lip products are you currently lusting after?

It has to be anything YSL, every time I look at one I want it but the price TAG always keeps me from buying them. I can just buy some many other products for the same price as one YSL.

That's it everyone, you have made it to the end of the TAG!

I TAG all of you to do this Crazy about Lipstick Tag or just leave me a comment with your current FAV lipstick!

When life gives you lemons...

So life have been very hard these last few weeks, between my youngest son Paxton being very sick and my living situation sometime sI find it hard to see light at the end of the tunnel.

I live in a CoOp, for anyone who doesn't know it's a place where everyone works together and lives within a community feeling, the units are smaller but you have a family feeling as everyone should help each other. That has not been my experience here and I have faced backlash and a lot of it for trying to get people to stick to the rules and not go off and do whatever they want. I would say I have 2 or 3 really great friends here but for each of those friends there are at least 3 people who work daily to make my life miserable. I'm not going to go into a huge rant about what these people have done to me cause honestly they aren't worth but the message I wanted this post to send to you, my readers, was be true to who you are always. Don't ever fake who you are or what you believe in to make people be nice to you or like you. People who aren't willing to be respectful and get to know you they don't deserve to know you in the first place.

Every person is different and the most important thing in life to remember is you don't have to like everyone but being respectful is a direct reflection on you. If you disrespect someone that only reenforce that fact that you aren't comfortable or secure within yourself.

Here are some photos of my boys because that is what has kept me going when things here have been very difficult.

A Special Little Treat......

My small DIOR haul!

So it's been a rough week, truthfully it's been a rough month and I needed some retail relaxation. I went to the mall looking for items from the new Lancome Show collection but got pulled to the DIOR counter. The blush/bronzer duo has been something I've been talking myself out of getting for over a month and I finally gave it.

Coral Glow:

Let's start with DIOR packaging cause it in itself is a work of art. Each item comes in it's own velvet wrapper and then when you take that off you have this very sleek looking metal compact. It has a a pattern on the top and then when you open it the mirror is the whole one side of the compact, it's a nice size. Before I talk about the colour this also came with a very nice blush brush which for the price is a nice addition. 

Onto the colour first let's talk about the bronzer side because I love it! It's not a dark colour or a too orange colour, it looks perfect on my very fair skin and I love that DIOR didn't make the darker colour of the two unwearable. The blush side is as gorgeous as you think it would be, it is the most beautiful coral flush and looks amazing on. It looks very natural and really helps to wake up the skin. 

This product is hands down worth every cent you pay for it, DIOR also has a pink one but I found the pink too light for my skin tone.

I had a buy $70 and get $10 off coupon so I had to get something else so I also got one of the new Dior Addict new summer colour lipsticks. The colour I got was 771 which is a very nice medium pink colour.

The packaging again is just amazing! When the light hits it it becomes different colours, it's beautiful to look at. And the lipstick it self is a very moisturizing formula and has a very nice colour pay off. It's a very nice medium pink colour and wears for about 4 hours before needing to be reapplied. 

You guys know I'm not big on higher end makeup, I offend find that you can get just as nice stuff at the drugstore but sometimes it's just nice to treat yourself and get something a little extra special!

Julep for June

Hey Everyone,

  So Julep for June was honestly my dream box, I don't know if they will ever be able to top this box in my eyes. Between the bright colours, the pretty pastels and the fact that most of them cover perfectly in only one coat really made it fell like Christmas in June!

Here is the overview of the entire box:

This months quote:

How true is that? Have you ever thought about "Style" that way, I know I hadn't but I am going to make an effort to start now!

For me this box was basically two sections, the brights and the pastels and even though the reddish orange colour in the second photo really had more of a pastel feel I felt like the colour was too rich to go with the others.

The Pastels:

The Brights:

Let's break it down by Box Type!

It Girl featured Char a beautiful and true bright blue colour, Bess a beautiful robins blue, and Nan a burnt orange colour. I've seen Nan in other photos and it looks like a coral cream but mine doesn't look that way! 

Classic With A Twist included Kennedy a Yellowish-Nude cream colour and Martha a very soft pink cream that reminds me of a strawberry milkshake.       

The last two are my favourite out of the whole box and we will start with BOHO Glam. Lexie was the first colour that really caught me eye when I opened my box. It's a beautiful bright yellow colour and I love yellow for doing designs with and it also came with Dianna the perfect light green. These two will look amazing together!

My second favourite and the last ones in the box came from the Bombshell type and that's just what these are BOMBSHELL colours. Raegan the most amazing hot pink cream I own, and Payton, which get's points first for having the same name as my favourite footballer but then it's all about the colour with this amazing BRIGHT green! STUNNING!

Like I said I am in LOVE with this box! I'm wearing Reagan and Dianna on my nails right now and as I'm typing this I can't help that I keep looking at my nails and thinking "how PRETTY are these!"

If you haven't tried Julep yet, you really should!

Click here to check it out:

http://www.julep.com/rewardsref/index/refer/id/33397

Notice anything different?

Hey There!

So it's been a while and I'm sure from the new look on my page you know why, but truthfully that is only part of the reason.

I did give my BLOG a major style update and I love it! I'm so thankful to Jenn from Munchkin Land Designs for the amazing job she did and how wonderful it turned out. You can check out all her work here:

http://www.munchkinland-designs.com

Tell her Tanya from Tanya Talks Makeup sent you!

As for what else has been keeping me from updating I'll post that later in the week but for now know that I'm back and happier then ever to be blogging.

Thanks for reading!