Holiday Makeup Tips

Celebrity makeup artist Christopher Drummond, who has worked with celebrities, such as Jennifer Lopez, Brooke Shields, Jane Fonda, Glenn Close and Eve Ensler, offers his advice for looking flawless this holiday season.

According to Christopher, “A big trend both in fashion and in makeup for the holidays is the “moonstruck” look. Nothing says glamour like a gown and smokey eyes. And this season, the dresses are slender and simple with an occasional train and details to dazzle. To compliment your fabulous dress, makeup is flirty and smoky.”

Here are Christopher’s tips for achieving the perfect smokey eye:

1. Start with a beige shadow base all over the entire lid

2. Take a gold shadow, and apply it 3/4 of the way up, not quite all the way up to the brow. Leave some space between where you stop and the brow

3. Apply a blue/grey shadow from the crease (middle) of the eye to the base of the lashes. Be sure to blend it well, back and forth. This helps the product adhere, and stay on longer

4. On the outer corner of the lid, blend in a purple eye shadow to give some extra “sizzle.” Blend well

5. Finally, use a black liner to line the base of the lashes. Follow with mascara.

To compliment the smokey eyes, Christopher suggests lush lips and radiant cheeks. The new Fall/Winter 2009 Color Collection from Christopher Drummond Beauty has products for all the trends for holiday in one collection (plus it’s all-natural, vegan and organic.

Happy Holidays!

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As we near the end of year and we are spending lots of time with friends and family filled with good times and good food. At least I hope! So I just wanted to say I hope you had a Merry Christmas, Happy Kwanzaa, Hanukah and New Year!

Hope you and yours stay safe this holiday season and here’s to a successful 2010!

Product Review: Satina Hand Mirrors

These mirrors are a great compliment to the brushes that I reviewed from Brush Love. They come in great funky colors and can be held in your hand or snapped to become a desktop mirror. One side is regular and the other side is 3x magnification. This is great for either a quick touch up at the office or for your use at home. It’s 4.5 inches wide by 4 inches tall. The price is also perfect at $9.98. This is very handy for the makeup diva. It also comes in hot pink and lime green. Happy shopping!

Christmas Shopping at TJ Maxx!

This shopping excursion was sponsored by Rocket XL for TJ Maxx.

I’ve had a great opportunity to participate in a Secret Santa for bloggers! It was cool to shop for another fellow blogger although I don’t know her in real life. I received two $25 gift cards, one for my Secret Santa and the other for Christmas shopping. Hubby’s favorite store is now TJ Maxx so he used the $25 to buy himself some clothes. It was honestly a bit hard to shop for someone you don’t know and everything there had such great prices. I saw so many pretty things I wouldn’t have minded someone buying me for Christmas for less than $10!! The $25 gift card was more than enough to buy something.

So clothes were out of the question because I obviously

don’t know what her style is or her size. I was looking at frames and housewares which were priced very well. I ended up getting a very cute set of glass tumblers, two with candy cane design and the other two with a Santa design. They were only $2.99 each!!! I also got a very cool looking dip tray you can use for four different dips! Here are some pictures sorry about the quality I had to take it with my BlackBerry. My camera has no batteries. But what do you think? I absolutely loved the glasses. I love cute things that you may not be able to find just anywhere. Even the cashier was admiring them. So I was able to buy four glass tumblers and the dip tray and still had enough left over to buy myself a very cute reusable bag for only 99 cents! And the bag was big enough to hold all the things I bought! While I was there I also got my sister in law a pretty candle holder set for the wall for $10. I also ended up seeing some cute things for my office in the basement that is still in construction. A very cute mod painting of audrey heburn in pink and brown and also cute sayings for the wall made out of mirror. Since my future office is going to be in the basement, the mirror sayings would work well to help the light bounce off the window.

Check out “Carol-Oke” where you can select from one of three carols, create your own video and upload for a chance to win a $5,000 shopping spree!

TJ Maxx is definitely the place to shop for the holidays! Now how to pack all these breakables so that they don’t break on the way over to my Secret Santa’s house…..

New Winner for Cheerios Giveaway

I was never contacted by the last winner so I picked a new number using random.org. The number picked was 92 which is Erica G! Please contact me within 48 hours in order to give me your address to claim  your prize. Congrats!

Saturday Steals: Beauty!

You can make your eyes look gorgeous with this kit from Sephora. For only $23, you can get an eyelash curler, atomic volume mascara, and an eye pencil. Only at Sephora! Happy Shopping! Do you have your Christmas shopping done? I do but they are not gift wrapped yet.

Avoid the Mall and Check out Sale.com

I don’t know about you but although I love shopping I HATE crowds! Despise them. And after Black Friday my local mall becomes so mobbed that it tires me just to think about it. Sale.com saves you time and energy buy providing you with the best Holiday gifts and savings from over 5,000 retailers, like Barnes & Noble, Saks Fifth Avenue, Apple, Tiffany & Company, REI, and thousands more.  And you can do it all from a single, visually stimulating and interactive shopping portal that makes seasonal shopping a snap, and restores the holiday cheer.

SALE.com recreates the ease and essence of window shopping, while connecting consumers with unrivaled sale alerts, exclusive savings, and noteworthy news about your favorite stores. Now you will know where to go, what to buy and how to get the best deals for the holiday season. And because holiday shoppers want to stretch their dollars further, SALE.com aggregates tens of thousands of coupons and savings alerts each day from your favorite retailers in one easy access page. They even provide you access to the scoop on over 1,000 store email promotions, e-newsletters, and retail bulletins. 

You can save time money and your mind by checking out sale.com for the holidays. Happy shopping!

Kat Von D Makeup at Sephora

I can’t believe I haven’t written a blog post about Kat Von D’s makeup. If you don’t know who she is you should definitely google her. She made a mark on the show Miami Ink and got her own show on TLC called LA Ink. She has a very cool, rocker type vibe that’s all her own. And better yet, she’s Latina! She’s also got some great makeup at Sephora. I am a sucker for packaging and her packaging is too cute! Here’s some info from the Sephora site:

A limited-edition mix of old-Hollywood glamour and modern-L.A. edge, Kat Von D’s makeup is 100% inspired by her personal style and extreme love for makeup. "It’s so rad to be able to accentuate all the little things that make you a woman, from the curves of your lips down to each eyelash," she says. "Makeup is only one of the many things that make me feel so privileged to be girl." Accordingly, Kat’s artistic attention to detail and personal passion is apparent in every product she’s created. With Kat’s bold collection at your fingertips, you’ll be able to make your mark, too.

 

This lipstick set is one of my favorite pieces. At only $34 it’s a steal! You can wear it layered or on by itself! Makeup is a great stocking stuffer! Happy Holidays!

The Holidays at Mamitas

The following post was written by Matt Ciscart, a Married father of one seven year old handsome SLMB (Sexy lil man beast). Decided to go back to school as work turned into just a job, and longer enjoyed it. So after ten plus years he’s back in school to become an educator. he’s just recently started blogging. Check him out at Back 2 Go Forward.

Remember the sitcom Cheer’s, which took place in a bar in Boston? The title song talks about a place where everyone know’s your name. Well, it didn’t have anything on Mamita’s, where instead booze there seemed to be something going on in the kitchen, but the holidays, olvidate man, te digo, it was crazy. I personally, could care less about the holiday season, not that I didn’t like getting gifts, but being that my birthday is four days prior to Christmas, meant I kind of got the short end of the stick, if you know what I mean. It was one gift for two occasions, but anyway like in life you get over it or like me make amends when you get older. Yep! I ensure that I buy myself a wonderful gift for my birthday each year.

 
On Christmas Eve you’d swear it was the grand opening of some major Broadway show. Mamita would be in the kitchen to all hours of night. You know those jars of crushed garlic you find at the supermarket know-a-days, well if you ask me, Mamita invented that idea. She’d used an empty apple sauce jar and spend her time peeling and pressing ajo until that jar was full. By late Christmas Eve or Early Christmas day the fridge would be loaded, not that it was ever empty, but you best be careful opening it around this time of year. The pernil, pork shoulders to those who don’t know, it just sounds so much better in Spanish, y el hamon would both be seasoned so well, cono, I swear if you were in a coma you’d immediately recover after a quick whiff. Mamita would also be up at the crack of dawn to ensure that everything was going as planned. Please realize that, whoever ventured into her kitchen would immediately be ushered out, and please dare not touch a pot lid, what you’d hear next would be something along the lines of "Cono tocate el culo". Mamita would make breakfast for not just the us, but in the early years it would included my nieces and nephews who would spend Christmas vacation with us. Imagine our house looked like a small village, we went from seven to about fourteen at times.

Though this changed as we got older, one thing that did not change was the fact that everyone appeared for the Christmas feast, instead of having my nieces and nephews stay during vacation, they would all stop by with there friends, and significant other on Christmas day, and my brothers and sister would come with their spouses and their children. So many people would be in the house that we have to open doors and windows, which never sat well with Mamita. All the guys would be downstairs eating, watching sports and just basically hanging out. While all the ladies stayed upstairs eating, and doing what ever ladies may do when you get together. Outside of the wonderful cooking, which I experienced every single day of my life growing up, after dinner was done everyone would end up upstairs crowded into the living room, dining room and kitchen just talking about what ever came to mind.

What I love and treasure is, looking at Mamita sitting at the head of the table with a sparkle in her eyes. I used to think it was the food, but know as an adult, I now know what the sparkle in her eyes really was about. That on that day she got to see all the hard work and sacrifices she made during her life. I realize that Mamita, as a pirate who surrounds themselves with gold, Mamita surround herself with what she considered a pirates gold equivalent. Familia! Our familia was not just us, but every friend or significant other that came over and made sure that they were there the following years after no matter what. So with that, te dejo con un dicho, que Mamita siempre decia, "Donde come dos comen tres". If you don’t know what that means ask a fellow Latino, they’ll be glad to explain.

Ten Gift Ideas from FashionBug

Below check out a great gift guide from Fashion Bug!

 

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