40 Beauty Questions

Skincare:

How many times do you wash your face daily? Once during my shower. 

What skin type do you have? (dry,oily,combo) Oily

What is your current facial wash? Garnier Gel Brusher cleanser

Do you exfoliate? No. 

What brand do you use? --

What moisturiser do you use? Benefit's Total Moisture 

Do you have freckles? Yes I sure do. 

Do you use eye cream? Benefit's It's Potent eye cream. 

Do you or did you have acne prone skin? I do, mostly when my brushes need to be cleaned or I don't wash my face good enough after I workout. 

Did you ever have to use Pro-activ? No

Makeup:

What foundation do you use? I don't use foundation. :( 

How about concealer? Rimmel's Match Perfection, and Neutrogena Healthy Skin

Do you know your undertone colour? No

What do you think of fake eyelashes? Requires too much time in the morning. 

Did you know that you are suppose to change your mascara every 3 months? I sure did

What brand of mascara do you use? I'm not brand specific. I use every brand as long as It appeals to me. 

Sephora or MAC? Sephora has a lot of brands. Or are you talking about the brand Sephora? If you're talking about the brand Sephora, I'd go with MAC. If not, then the store Sephora. 

Do you have a MAC Pro-card? Nope

What makeup tools do you use in make up application? I don't like this question. Not specific enough. 

Do you use make-up base/primer for the eyes? E.l.f Eyelid Primer. All day. 

For the face? Porefessional by Benefit. 

What is your favourite eyeshadow (color or shade)? Toasted in the Original Naked Palette 

Do you use pencil or liquid eyeliner? Pen. Revlon Colorstay. 

How often do you poke your eyes with an eyeliner pencil? I haven't yet. But I'm sure I will tomorrow. 

What do you think of pigment eyeshadows? Cool Man. 

Do you use mineral makeup? Nope. 

What is your favourite lipstick? Plumful by MAC

How about lipgloss? Coralista by Benefit 

What is your favorite blush to use? Melba by MAC

Do you buy your makeup on eBay? No. I think there are way too many fakes for me to try to decipher the real ones. 

Do you like drugstore makeup? Yes

Do you go to CCO's? (cosmetic company outlets) No

Did you ever consider taking make-up classes? No 

Are you clumsy in putting on makeup? I wouldn't say clumsy, I'd say more lazy. 

Name a makeup crime that you hate? Way too much blush. Yo--TONE IT DOWN 

Do you like colourful shades of makeup (lipstick,eyeshadow) or neutral ones? Neutral

Which celebrity always has great make up? I have no idea. 

If you could leave the house using just ONE make up item,what would you use? Concealer. 

Could you ever leave the house without any makeup on? Yes, everyday. 

Do you think you look good even without any makeup on? Yes. 

In your opinion, what is the BEST makeup line? Benefit

What do you think of Makeup? Makeup is meant to enhance your beauty. It won't create it. You need to believe that you are beautiful without it to fully get it. 

Fun fact. This post has been in my drafts since the beginning of 2012. Yay me for finally getting around to filling it out! :) 

Also, I have not figured out how to reply to comments in the comments below. If you comment, I will comment back. You'll just have to check back because it won't allow me to reply directly. 

Best of 2013; Beauty

Here we go for 2014 everybody, and what else is better than talking about last year? hahaha. I'm just kidding, but I AM going to tell you what I used the most last year. The best of my entire makeup collection. I found myself drawn to these products the most and I believed that they did the best on my skin. The only thing that is not pictured is my beloved Rimmel Stay matte powder because I have mentioned that at LEAST a million times by now. :) and on we roll!

Blushes:

Benefit's Bella Bamba: I'm not going to lie, I think that the packaging is nothing but annoying. It's bulky and big for basically no reason; BUT I love the color. The gorgeous pink with gold flecks of shimmer. I love that the payoff on the brush is just the correct amount and it's not crazy pigmented from one swipe. Absolutely beautiful color.

NARS Torrid: This was the first NARS product that I ever purchased and it led me into my deep pocketed love affair with NARS products. If you were going to compare Torrid to Bella Bamba, it's a lot more of a deep orange, so it's a coral color with gold shimmer. I love NARS packaging--who doesn't?-- because it's just so clean and simple.

May Favorites

 It's that time again! End of the month and that means it's favorites time! As you may or may not know May--ha, get it?-- was a very exciting month for me. My husband came home from Deployment and we had our second anniversary. I was very busy had in-laws that came in and had to get back into the swing of things. I have 6 things this month as my favorites, not too many because I wasn't really dipping into the collection much. The first two are:

FOTD: Face of the Day

Real quick Sunday post, Face of the Day! Today I had a crazy day at work so I didn't get to plan and take pictures for another post that I'm working on. 

Eyes:
Urban Decay's Naked palette:

• Toasted, all over the lid
• Darkhorse, in the crease

Maybelline's Mega plush mascara

Revlon Color stay liquid eyeliner

theBalm's nude tude palette:

• Sleek, on the waterline

Face:

Rimmel's Stay Matte powder

Rimmel's Airy Fairy lipstick

MAC's blush in Melba

I hope you had a wonderful Sunday and it was less crazy than mine! ;)

Where else to find me:

Twitter: @AlainaKayy

Instagram: @AlainaKayy



Oh! and that's my natural crazy hair that I get to deal with every morning. ha! 

Whoops! ;)

Whoopsie! I went a little crazy in the mall over the past week. I have been feeling a little down, and I guess that I went shopping to compensate; BUT I scored some really good things. 

April Wishlist!

#1 The Victoria's secret lipgloss set, basically I really want the lipgloss in color Innocent, but I can't find it on the website so I cannot find a picture of just it. I guess it's supposed to be a dupe for Turkish Delight and I love that lip gloss so If I can get 5 for less than the price of Turkish delight, I'd be all over it.

#2 NYX Jumbo Eye Pencil in the color Milk. I think this would be the perfect thing to stick on the waterline for keeping eyeshadow's to stay. I've also heard so much hype I'd love to try it out and see what its like and if I'd like it.

#3 MAC Lipstick in "Vegas Volt" I saw this in someone's video, and I absolutely fell in love with the color, it's bright but not too bright that it'll be weird to see on someone, and I think that this would be a perfect color for spring.

#4 Revlon Grow Luscious Mascara, I loved this mascara, but I thought that the non-hypoallergenic mascara's were making my eyelashes fall out and I want to see if it was actually the 24/7 Urban decay Eyeliner Pencils. This mascara made my lashes full and long and that was back when I didn't have many. I just can't be bothered to go pick it up, but I really wish I would. Hah.

#5 Macadamia Deep Repair Mask- I bought a little sample of this to try it out that I haven't used yet, but if that works I'm gonna want to get the full size. Probably off of amazon since it's only 17 dollars on there. I've heard so much hype about this also I want to try it. and I use a lot of products on my hair already, might as well add one that odds are it's gonna work.

Haul: BH Cosmetics, NARS, Lovestruck, MAC

Corresponding video: COMING SOON! My eyes are really irritated so I decided no makeup today, which in turn means no filming. Tomorrow I shall most likely put up the video.

^^Sneak peek! Can you guess what I got?! ^^

Valentines gift from the husband is above! He so sweet. 

Lovestruck by Vera Wang perfume.

 

  Torrid Blush by NARS. You may recognize this blush from my wishlist. I decided to bite the bullet and get it the color is absolutely gorgeous.This blush has a some shimmer to it and is pretty true to the picture I took to it, but because of varying pixelation colors on computers, it's a coral-pink color. Very pretty.

 This is my first blush from NARS, and I decided not to get orgasm or super orgasm only because I've heard so much about them, I wanted to try something different and I've been after this color for a while. So happy about my purchase. In the swatch you can kind of see it above the eyeliner swatches. It shows up pretty well on my skintone. I love it. :D

 This is an Ombre Blush from MAC in Vintage Grape.  This picture is not color correct it appears much more purple in the photos than it actually is. It goes from a light pink and then fades into a dark purple and the purple is maybe a third of the blush. I'm excited to try it out as it swatched pretty pigmented but I think a light hand would be best with this blush.  This is my first MAC blush and product. Also pretty excited about that.

 Next up is the BH Cosmetics Contour and Blush palette. It has six colors in it. A white highlight, two pink blushes, a tanner highlight and two contouring shades.

 The white swatched well, white. The two tan colors didn't show up. The two pinks came out pretty much the exact same color and the darkest color came out pretty splotchy. It's not looking good for this palette. But I'm going to give it some time to see if I actually don't like it or not.

 

 

 The 26 color palette which contains 21 eyeshadows and 5 Blushes. Unlike the above palette most of these colors swatched very well. They all were pretty  pigmented except a few of the pastel colors, they didn't show up and they were powdery.

 

 Top row in the palette. You can see the pastel pink didn't show up very well. The color is there, but it's very faint.

 

 Second row, all the colors showed up well. You can also see the shimmer in this picture.

 Bottom two rows with the blushes at the end. These blushes were very pigmented on swipe was all it needed to transfer on to my skin.

 BH Cosmetics stippling brush. Much more dense than my e.l.f brush. This brush seems like it would actually stand up to the foundation or powder instead of just flopping over like the e.l.f one.

 BH Cosmetics 10 piece brush kit. These brushes are very soft, much softer than I would of pictured.

 Fluffy Powder Brush

 Blush Brush

 Foundation Brush

 

Blending Brush

 Angled Definer Brush

 Smudge Brush

 Fine Eyeliner Brush

 Spoolie

 Eyeshadow Brush

 

Precision Brush

 Brush bag they comes in.

 Pen liquid liner.

 Showing the applicator.

One swipe over the hand. Very pigmented and it stayed on even after trying to wipe it off. 

 Free gift for spending over a certain amount of money. The Waterproof pencil liner in Onyx.

 Typical Pencil liner.

In comparison to the liquid eyeliner it is not as black, but it is waterproof so this one was a fight to get off even with the makeup remover.