It's the Most Wonderful Time of the Year

Hey everyone! Merry Christmas Eve! If you're like me, you're probably spending the day doing some shopping that you should have done a while ago, but better late than never right? Lately I haven't posted any makeup posts because I've been doing my makeup the same everyday and it's really simple and boring, but today I spiced things up a little bit. I still used neutrals, as always, but I decided to go for a more smokey effect. Using a Maybelline Color Tattoo in Bad to the Bronze and a Wet N' Wild palette in Sparkle Til' Morning, I used the color tattoo all over my lid, then on top of that I put a sparkly champagne color. Then I used gold on the crease and a dark brown in my outer corner. I finished off my eyes with liquid liner and mascara, then used a Maybelline Color Whisper in Who Wore It Redder. It's still pretty simple but it's a little bit darker than I'm used to wearing it and I like it! I hope you all have a fantastic Christmas Eve and an even more wonderful Christmas! 

Everything Happens for a Reason

Hey everyone! Today I wanted to get on a little bit of a deeper level with you. You know when people tell you that everything happens for a reason right after something terrible happens and you can't help but think that someone's out to get you? That's how I've been feeling. I've recently had to make some pretty major life decisions to do what's best for me and it definitely hasn't been easy. Many buckets of tears have been shed, but I know that eventually everything will work itself out because I have an amazing support system at home and I have this blog which is something that is very important to me. Not only does it make me happy knowing that people are seeing it and enjoying what I have to say, but it's also very therapeutic. Plus, along with these life changes I'll have more free time to blog and hopefully get more makeup posts up for you all, but in the mean time, I hope you enjoyed this rambly blog, leave me comments with requests, and I'll talk to you later!

Let It Snow Let It Snow Let It Snow!

Hey everyone! I'm super excited because it snowed on Friday! It hardly ever snowed where I live and it snowed quite a bit, but the only problem i that the roads didn't get plowed so it's super icy out and therefore, I can't drive. BUT, classes on Friday got cancelled and finals are having to be rescheduled so that means more study time for me! Woohoo! And I know I promised a Black Friday haul but I didn't have time to take any pictures of the things I got with all the studying, but here it goes:

Old Navy:

Green military-style jacket: $20

Navy blue puffy vest: $15

Black sweater-print tights: $5

Fred Meyer:

Tons of socks all for 1/2 off

Dark green tights: $3.50

Black tights: $3.50

Maroon tights: $3.50

And believe it or not, that's all I got! So leave comments below with what you got and with requests for future posts and I'll talk to you later! 

I Thank God I Have You

Happy Thanksgiving everyone! This year I'm thankful for so many things including my family, friends, Chi Omega sisters, and all of the opportunities that life presents to me, but I'm also extremely thankful for all of you and that I have a place where I can write my feelings and opinions for you all to enjoy :). As most of you know, Black Friday shopping starts tonight! Where I live, most of the stores are opening at 8 which is too early for me, I mean it's still Thanksgiving! So instead I've been doing most of my shopping online and in the morning I'll be going to a few more stores, so you better believe I'll be doing a haul! Anyways, I hope you're all having a wonderful Thanksgiving and I'll talk to you later!

You Are The Wind Beneath My Wings

Hey everyone! I have some really exciting news! I recently hit 1016 page views which is absolutely amazing! I can't thank you guys enough because when I first started this blog, I honestly didn't think that people would look at it (other than my parents), and now I've reached over 1000 page views which is just incredible, so thank you so much! On another note, I'm sorry I didn't post very many Halloween looks, and even though it's past the days of dressing like someone you're not, I wanted to show you guys my vampire makeup that I did on Halloween. It was pretty creepy looking and I wasn't sure how I felt about the overall idea, but it was a nice change from all of the girls who just dress as a cat. So for the makeup, I started by adding a little bit of white face paint to my normal foundation to make me look more pale, then I moved onto eyes and started by blending out some black gel eyeliner on my lid. Then I used a black eyeshadow on top of that to set it. Next I took a red (I know, who owns red eyeshadow?) and blended that into my crease and took it pretty far below my eyes to create really big, dark under-eye circles. After that I took a blue eyeshadow and put that right where you would normally get bags under your eyes to make the illusion that my eyes were sunken in. I finished the eye look off with  liquid eyeliner on my top lid, black gel eyeliner on my lower lash-line/waterline, and used a really bold mascara. As for lips, I obviously had to go bold, so I used a dark red lipstick and added black eyeshadow to just the outer corners of my lips to give it kind of an ombre look. Then to tie the whole makeup look together, I took fake blood and let it drip down from the corner of my mouth. For my hair, I just teased it a lot to make it really messy and clipped the tom half up with a black bow. I decided to keep my outfit really simple and just wore a black dress with black converse.