Bold Lips: A Few Of My Faves

Happy New Year, everyone! I know it's been months since I last posted but I do hope you all are doing well. :) Also, if any of you are on Instagram, follow me! I post almost daily, I'm addicted! My username is lani12j. I created a beauty photo-a-day for my Instagram followers and thought it would be a good way to start blogging again. :) I didn't realize I put eyebrows twice lol but it's Okay, I Love eyebrows. Day four is bold lips. So here are a few of my faves: From left to right: Make Up For Ever Rouge Artist Intense in #37, MAC Outrageously Fun, NYX Xtreme Lip Cream in Strawberry Jam, MAC Dear Diary & Wet N Wild Pinkerbell. :) What are some of your favorite bold lipsticks?

Recent FOTDs: Springtime Neutrals & Date Night makeup ;)

Hello my darlings! I know it's been a while so I thought I'd share a couple of my recent FOTDs. :) I have a few reviews coming up so please stay tuned. :)

Springtime Neutrals 

FACE:

- Revlon PhotoReady Perfecting Face Primer

- L'oreal Visible Lift Foundation in Creme Cafe

- Make Up For Ever Duo Mat Pressed Powder Foundation in 209

- Maybelline Super Stay Concealer in Cream (for undereye)

- MAC Pro Longwear Concealer in NW30 (for blemishes)

- MAC Blunt blush (for contour)

- Illamasqua Blush in Tweak

- MAC True Romantic Beauty Powder Blush

EYES:

- MAC Soft Ochre Paint Pot (eyeshadow base)

- MAC Eyebrow pencil in Spiked, Maybelline Define-A-Brow pencil in Medium Brown (for brows, brushed out with angled brow brush)

- Jordana Brow powder in Brunette

- MAC eyeshadows in Vanilla & Mylar (for highlight)

- MAC eyeshadows in Texture, Soft Brown, Espresso, Rummy (crease & outer-V) & Phloof (lid)!

- Urban Decay Liquid Liner in Perversion

- MAC Fascinating Eye Kohl (lower waterline)

- Milani Liquif'eye Eye pencil in Black

- L'oreal Voluminous mascara in Carbon Black

- Red Cherry Lashes #47 (applied with DUO lash glue in dark tone)

LIPS:

- NYX Lipliner in Rose

- Maybelline Super Stay 14-hour Lipstick in Perpetual Peony (A new love! -a perfect pink lipstick for spring)

- MAC Curvaceous Lip Glass

Date Night Makeup

FACE:

- Revlon PhotoReady Perfecting Primer

- L'oreal True Match Foundation in Sun Beige mixed with MAC Studio Fix Fluid in NC42

- Physician's Formula Youthful Wear Cosmeceutical Youth-Boosting Powder in Transluscent Matte finish (A new find, awesome setting powder!)

- Maybelline Super Stay Concealer in Cream (for undereye)

- Wet N Wild Bronzer in Reserve your Cabana (to set undereye, highlight)

- MAC Pro Longwear Concealer in NW30 (for blemishes)

- MAC Blunt blush (for contour)

- NARS Amour blush

- Sonia Kashuk Beautifying blush in Sunset

EYES:

- MAC Soft Ochre Paint Pot (eyeshadow base)

- MAC Eyebrow pencil in Spiked, Maybelline Define-A-Brow pencil in Medium Brown (for brows, brushed out with angled brow brush)

- Jordana Brow powder in Brunette

- MAC eyeshadows in Phloof! & Vanilla (for highlight)

- MAC eyeshadows in Texture & Soft brown (for crease)

- various eyeshadows from Urban Decay Naked 2 palette (can't think of the names right now, sorry!)

- Maybelline Master Precise Eyeliner pen in Black

- Real Colors Waterproof Gel eyeliner in black (smudged out on lower lashline)

- MAC Fascinating eye kohl (waterline)

- Red Cherry Lashes in #47 (applied with DUO lash glue in dark tone)

LIPS:

- MAC lipliner in Creamola

- Benefit lipstick in Lady's Choice

- L'oreal Infallible LeGloss in Barely Nude

Xoxo! ;)

FOTD+Mini Back2MAC Haul

Quick Post!

An FOTD since it's been forever and a day...

And a little Back2MAC haul. 

- Outre Eyeshadow - Curvaceous Lip glass - Blanc Type Eyeshadow What have you recently hauled? :)

NBA Playoffs Makeup Series: Denver Nuggets

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Hello gorgeous ladies! ;)

Today's look is for the Denver Nuggets, whose colors are powder blue, white, gold and navy. I was happy with the results because I did have some bumps along the way. I used MAC's Felt Blue eyeshadow thinking it would be perfect as the powder blue but after applying it over the navy blue shadow it wasn't as light as I wanted it to be. So I had to pack on a matte white eyeshadow over it to get the right color. Let me know what you think, I hope you all enjoy it. ;)

NBA Playoffs Makeup Series: San Antonio Spurs

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Hello Dolls! ;)

Today's look is for the San Antonio Spurs and their colors are black, silver & white. I think this would've been great with false lashes but I need to buy more lol. I should get some in bulk on ebay so I don't need to worry for a while. I went a little heavy on the contouring because I just wanted to use a light bronzer in place of blush. Hope you all enjoy it. ;)

NBA Playoffs Makeup Series: New Orleans Hornets

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Hello my beautiful bloggeristas!

Today is the last day to enter my giveaway! Please enter if you haven't already done so. I'll be accepting entries until 11:59pm tonight! Thanks!

Today's look is for the New Orleans Hornets, who, fell short to the Lakers. Their colors are creole blue, dark purple, mardi gras gold, white and green. These colors were a little more of a challenge for me to blend because of where I chose to place the colors. I actually wanted to wipe it all off mid-way and start over but I pushed myself to make it work lol! But I think it came out okay. Let me know what you think. What are your favorite teams? ;)

NBA Playoffs Makeup Series: Miami Heat

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Hello my lovely ladies!

So it's on, my Celtics VS. Heat! So excited! Here is my look for the Miami Heat. Like my Celtics look, I opted not to use false lashes because I used an orange/coral liner on top of the black shadow. I made the liner by wetting my angled brush with MAC Fix+ and dipping it into Splash Cosmetics loose eyeshadow in Sunkiss Gold. Don't be afraid to experiment with the things you already have. I wasn't about to go and buy an orange liner just for this look, so I had to improvise. Remember that there are no limits when it comes to makeup so just experiment and have fun! :)

NBA Playoffs Makeup Series: Oklahoma City Thunder

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Hello Dolls! ;)

And the series keeps on going! lol. Today I chose to do a look for the Oklahoma City Thunder. This reminds me of a sunset look I did a while back. I just wanted to mention that I am aware that my skin looks different shades in my photos because I don't always get the same lighting. lol. Anyhoo, hope you all enjoy it! ;)

NBA Playoffs Makeup Series: Boston Celtics

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Hello my lovely ladies!

I know the playoffs already started but better late than never, right? My favorite team is the Boston Celtics and I'm hoping that they'll be able to bring home banner #18. Since they are my favorite, I thought I'd do the first look for them and I hope you like it. I chose not to add false lashes for this look, only because I used gold liner on top of the black liner, and I didn't want it to be overpowered by huge lashes. On another note, tonight is 31-cent scoop night at Baskin Robbins so if you love ice cream, head on over there until 10pm. :)

Milani's Blue My Mind Eyeshadow & FOTN

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Hello my gorgeous Dolls! ;)

Just wanted to share my makeup from last night. I had dinner with my other half. ;) I recently purchased Milani's Blue My Mind Metallic Baked Eyeshadow. The color of this shadow is a bright electric blue. It can be used wet or dry, but the pigmentation when used dry is almost as good as using it wet. I've always been a fan of Milani Cosmetics and this eyeshadow hasn't disappointed me one bit. Okay, well the little applicator is useless but other than that, it's great! My FOTN photo does not do this eyeshadow any justice! It's very true to the color in the pan. ;)

Depotting Time & Easy DIY Hello Kitty Palette

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Hello my lovely Dolls! ;)

I wanted to share my depotting adventures with you today lol. The shadows that I depotted were a gift from my sister  for Christmas which was the Flirt! Cosmetics 40 Eyeshadow palette. I'm very late on depotting these. Flirt! is from the same company as MAC and Estee Lauder. I love these shadows, they are very pigmented and are easy to blend. From what I know Flirt! can be purchased at Kohl's but unfortunately here in Hawaii, we don't have a Kohl's so I was very happy to receive this from my sister. I usually depot my shadows with my flat iron but I didn't need to use any heat for these because they popped right out of the plastic packaging. I wasn't able to fit all 40 of the shadows into one MAC palette so there are 20 from Flirt! in each palette and I had to add 6 more MAC shadows to fill them up, some of which are pro. There is one that got cracked, as you can see in the picture, which devastated me lol. 95% of my MAC shadows are still in the pots but after this depotting session I am strongly considering depotting the rest of my MAC shadows. They're so much easier to look for this way. I prefer to take out the 15-pan insert so I can fit 26 shadows, I'm all about consolidation, more room for more makeup! lol.

Depotting Flirt! Cosmetics Limited Edition 40 Eyeshadow Palette

Inspired Makeup: Illamasqua 2009 Sirens Collection

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Hello my gorgeous bloggeristas! ;)

I've really been inspired by Illamasqua's collection photos. In fact, I'm falling in love with Illamasqua even though I don't anything from their line-yet lol. I've seen this photo in the gallery on their website and I've been wanting to re-create this look from the moment I laid eyes on it. I had a lot of fun doing this and I hope you all enjoy it. ;)

Cutting The Crease With MAC's Fresh Cut Palette

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Hello my lovely ladies! ;)

I actually got all 3 of my kids to nap all at the same time! (that's rare lol) So of course, I wanted to play around with my makeup. I wanted to practice a cut crease look and experiment with a multi-dimensional/gradient lip and this is what I came up with. I'm happy with how it turned out. This was my first time using this palette so I was more than happy to break it in. I purchased this at a CCO while in Boston visiting my sister. Unfortunately we don't have CCOs here in Hawaii so you can imagine my excitement when I stepped into one lol. Hope you all enjoy it. ;)

Summer Time Makeup Looks

Hello ladies!

It's been a while since I posted some makeup looks so I did a couple yesterday. I used the same face products for each look but switched up the eye shadow and blush. Hope you all enjoy it!

Also, thank you so much to everyone who has entered my giveaway! I truly appreciate all of your feedback. ;) There are 17 days left to enter.

Floral Fantasy

Purple & Blue Makeup

Hello dolls! I had some time to play with makeup today and I wanted to incorporate purple and blue together and this is what I came up with. Hope you like it! ;)

St. Patty's Day Makeup

Aloha everyone! Hope you all enjoyed St. Patty's Day! Here is a look I did using MAC & Wet N' Wild. Enjoy! ;)

Inspired Makeup: Illamasqua's Spring/Summer 2011 Collection

Hello dolls! I'm back with another inspired makeup look. I loved the promo pictures for Illamasqua's Spring/Summer 2011 Collection so I thought I'd take a stab at it. To be quite honest, I don't own any Illamasqua Cosmetics so I did have to improvise on this one. This was a fun look to do, something I haven't done before. Kinda modern doll-like/ganguro makeup. I used Red Cherry lashes and cut the 1/4 end off and used it for the lower eye area just to give it a little kick. Do any of you own Illamasqua Cosmetics? If so, how do you like them? Any favorites you'd like to share? Hope you all enjoy this. Til next time!

Rasta Makeup

Alooooooooooooooha!

First of all, I would just like to apologize for the lack of updates, yet again. However, a big thank you to YOU for taking the time out of your day to visit my blog. I appreciate each and every one of you. I hope that you all had an amazing Christmas and New Year! ;)

Back in December, I was contacted by Stephanie from maximumlash.com to do a review on their product. Unforunately I had conjuctivitis for a while so I was steering clear of makeup. However, please stay tuned for my review on this product as I will be giving (4) weekly blog updates with a final YouTube video review. Thank you Stephanie!

Here is a fun look that I was able to do today. I was inspired the rasta colors, red, yellow, and green. I'm not wearing any foundation here, just concealer where needed and I also forgot to put on some blush! I know, how could I? lol. I hope you all enjoy this! ;)

    

Kat Von D Inspired

Hello everyone! I'm back with an inspired makeup post. This is actually supposed to be a contest entry for YouTube. I haven't uploaded the video yet. It was raining and cloudy all day so I'm not sure if the lighting was good.

My Top 10 Nude Lipsticks

Hello everyone! I'm back with another post. Today's topic is: My Top 10 Nude Lipsticks! This was a request by one of my YouTube viewers so here it is. :)

I am a huge fan of nude lippies! I'm much more of a lipstick gal than a lipgloss lover. With lipsticks, I don't have to be bothered by the wind-blowing-your-hair-onto-your-lips causing that dreaded lipgloss line on the face lol. I also prefer lipsticks for the pigmentation that it gives. As I mentioned in my previous post, my favorite finish for any type of makeup is Matte. Satin would be the next best thing. Don't get me wrong, I like the frosty ones too but I constantly find myself reaching for the Matte & Satin ones.

I've got a bajillion lipsticks and it was hard to choose just 10. I couldn't find my MAC Velvet Teddy Matte lipstick which is my all-time fave! :( I was a bit disappointed that it couldn't be featured in this post because it is lost somewhere in my stash.  If I was able to find it, I would've knocked off Blankety for Velvet Teddy. To ensure that this isn't a biased Top 10, I've included 5 MAC lipsticks as well as 5 other brands including my fave drugstore ones.