Finished my 50k words today, right on time. Still only halfway through my novel, but wow, what a cool and fun thing to do! I barely remember November, but it was a historic one for me!!! Check out National Novel Writing Month if you want to get involved.
Did I mention, Yay, Yay, Hooray, Hallelujah, and Yay, Yippee!!!
Sorry I haven't been posting so much this month. If you've been reading, it's because I've been participating in NaNoWriMo, which is also known as National Novel Writing Month, and it's a movement that supports people in writing a 50,000-word novel during the month of November. This means I've been writing at least 1667 words per day, which isn't a lot, if you don't have anything to do.
But I am also working full time, singing with my employee choir, singing at a friend's party, beauty blogging and YouTubing, and training for the Tinker Bell Half Marathon. You can donate to fundraising efforts for the Team to End AIDS in conjunction with that race here.
Phew!
I'm almost done with my 50k word novel, and November's almost over. So far I'm ahead. You can see my progress on the widget up to the right. I already ordered my winner's tee shirt, so I intend to finish, even though I've got stuff to do pretty much all the time until the finish. It's amazing how much you write when you are busy and you carve out an hour at a time.
So to keep things simple, I started a new YouTube series called Palette Porn. Sometimes I just like to look at palettes. Here's one of my newest faves, the blogger's darling, the Urban Decay Vice palette. Enjoy, Beauty Fans!
Recently I found a new YouTube beauty guru called Killer Colours, who introduced me to Maddstyle Cosmetics, and I bought a set she recommended on her blog. She was actually doing a giveaway, but I wanted to get these shades for sure. They are so interesting. Here's my look, and tons of photos. Hope you like!
Here's a video I finally got around to editing last night.
Writing a novel in one month is no joke, let me tell you, but that's what I decided to do when I took up the challenge of NaNoWriMo. NaNoWriMo is National Novel Writing Month, and it's really fun to finally be hitting this lifetime list item! 1667 words per day, people! For a month! I'm doing it, and I think it's altering the pathways in my brain because I really feel different. For more info on this amazing process and how you can be a part of it, click here.
Enjoy my October Favorites!
Happy Thanksgiving Week! Do you think this video upload is a little late? Well, since I probably need to film my November Favorites like next week, pretty much, yeah. Oh, well!
There were some quite nice things inside my Glossybox that arrived in Late October, and there were some things that were less than thrilling to me. Want to see what I got? Click below to watch the video.
FYI, if you haven't heard of it, Glossybox is a monthly beauty box subscription. It currently costs $21/month, but there are discounts for signing up for 6-month and 1-year subscriptions.
Maybelline Eye Studio Color Tattoos are a great way to go with your eye look when you don't want to wait for your eye primer to dry. They act as their own eye shadow bases, but with color, so you can use them to anchor powders. I have these in nearly all the colors, except for the orange one, the purple one, which I saw on a few videos gets a bit streaky.
Maybelline has put some fun tutorials on their site to show you how to use these, and you can use several of them for one eye look as I did here. Here are the steps I took for this look. You can use brushes or your fingers, but be careful with these. They set quickly, so you'll want to have something ready to blend out the edges, be it a q-tip, or a brush.
Put the Limited Edition Teal, or plain old Tenacious Teal only in the center of your lids up to the crease.
Put Too Cool, the frosty white color, on the inner third of your lids and over your tear duct area.
Put Too Cool on your browbone.
Put Audacious Asphalt, the gray one in a wedge shape on the outer edge of your eyelids
Blend the edges of everything gently.
Pick a doe brown to put in your crease and blend this up toward the Too Cool on your brow bones. The soft brown color anchors the blue and makes it much more wearable for day. This is a pretty dramatic look, but the brown makes it not totally cray-cray. Blend, blend, blend.
If you'd like, put a shimmery blue over the top of the Teal to give it some extra excitement, although please note, I have hooded lids, so most of the time you only see what's in my crease and right at the edge of the lash line. The blue here is kind of a peekaboo color that is a fun little flash of brightness. Your makeup-loving friends will notice and say, ooh. Other folks will just say, oh, you look pretty and a touch more creative than usual. That's the idea, anyway.
Line your eyes with a deep blue pencil and blend to soften.
Whack on some black mascara.
Apply the base and blush of your choice. I picked my mauvey La Femme one, which is a cool-toned blush, and then contoured under my cheekbones to tone it down and, well, to provide contour to my face.
Lips are a warm pink shade called Cherish from Revlon's Just Bitten Balmstain line. You know I love these because they are glossy and they stain and the color lasts.
Hope you find this look fun. As you can see, I paired it with lots of cyan blue because it was a rainy day, and I wanted some brightness.
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This morning, I used the Nuance Medium Blonde Brow Pencil to really emphasize my brows
Heavy dramatic brows, carefully sculpted, seem to really make my green eyes pop.
I started the look with Make Up Forever's Aqua Color in 13, a shimmery pale peach all over the lids. I used this as a base. It anchors powders very well, but creams, not so much. The concealer I put in the inner corners of my eyes creased a bit.
I kind of went to town with my Sedona Lace 28 Neutral palette, a palette full of subtle neutrals.
Lids: Make Up Forever Aqua Cream in 13
Outer half of lids: Sofia, which has some shimmer
Crease: Po
Lash Line: Fresco
Crease, center to the edge: Fresco
Lower Lash Line: Fresco
Browbone: Puck (it's got a goldy-green shimmer!)
Black liner gel from Tarte We Wish You Wealth palette pushed into lash line
Smashbox Full Exposure Mascara
Face:
Embryolisse Lait Créme Concentrée moisturizer
Olay Wrinkle and Line Filler as primer
2 BB Creams mixed together: skin79 Triple Function Orange and Missha BB Cream in Beige
Concealer: It Cosmetics Bye-Bye Under Eye, and Cinema Secrets light peach concealer
Cheeks:
Palest and brightest of the 4 Tarte cheek stains in my We Wish You Wealth palette
Tarte We Wish You Wealth Cheek Stains, Lippies, Eye Base, Liners and Highlighter
Lips:
Revlon Just Bitten Balmstain in Cherish
What do you think? Do you do strong brows sometimes? How do you like it?
Had some fun on Halloween as Tinker Bell. Got a costume at Ozzie Dots in Los Feliz (Hollywood Blvd. just east of Vermont, north side of the street) in no time because they are so organized and well set up for Halloween.
Used my Anastasia brow stencils to do an eyebrow with teal and green colors from my Wet n' Wild party palette and my Crown Brush 180 palette.
Put on my blue-spotted feathery eyelashes. The eye look overall was gold and teal blended carefully into the crease with a neutral matte faun brown shade. The lip was Revlon Just Bitten Balm Stain in Honey with some highlighter from my NYX "butt" naked palette, the pinky-white shade.
Used Skindinavia's fix spray to keep the whole thing lasting all day long!
The best thing was talking to the kids during trick or treating. They were so cute. It felt like really being Tinker Bell!
