As you all know I love natural products, so I was beyond excited when I found out about 100% Pure.

100% Pure is the first and only cosmetics line colored from fruit and vegetable pigments. How cool is that? Another cool thing is that the ingredients list on all of the products is actually readable! How often does that happen these days?

I was recently sent the Pure Pigment Cheek and Lip Stains in Cranberry Glow, Shimmery Strawberry and Shimmery Cocoa Berry for review. So what are my thoughts?

These stains are perfect for that I want to look great, but like I’m not wearing any makeup look. You know the look I’m talking about right? Think Julia Roberts or Kate Hudson. Just a nice, natural everyday look.

I enjoyed all of the stains, but I find myself using Shimmery Strawberry the most. It’s great for use as a highlight on your cheekbones, cupids bow, etc.

Even though I enjoyed the cosmetics it was the eye cream and body wash that I love the most. I’ll have a review of those products coming up soon so stay tuned!!

The Lip and Cheek Tints are 100% Natural, 100% Vegetarian and Gluten free.

They retail for: $15.00 and can be purchased at 100%Pure.com.

Note: I received a press sample of this product for review.

The New Estee Lauder Love Your Lips collection is out just in time for Valentines Day.

The Love Your Lips collection features 12 Limited Edition Signature Hydra Lustre Lipstick shades and Four New Kissable Lip Glosses. The lipsticks have a “LOVE” logo imprinted on them. How cute!

The lipstick shade Chelsea Rose is calling my name.

The glosses retail for: $ 18.00 The lipsticks retail for: $19.50

Available now at: EsteeLauder.com

These are my top 15 MAC Shadows. I consider these must haves and have repurchased some of these several times.

*Note: You won’t find any “fun” colors here as I’m more about browns,bronzes,etc.* Sorry!

1.Love Connection (Pale beige with gold and blue veining/Warm gold mono )
2.Amber Lights (Peachy-brown with shimmer )
3.French Cuff (bronzy-pink)
4.Mythology (Copper)
5.Coppering (Orange copper)
6.Mulch (Red-brown w/bronze pearl)
7.Go (Light Brownish Shade)
8.Bronze (Gold brown with gold-bronze shimmer)
9.Satin Taupe (Taupe with silver shimmer )
10.Phloof (Frosted off-white)
11.Tempting (Sinfully rich coco)
12.Naked Lunch (Minimal pink with shimmer )
13.Woodwinked (Warm antique gold)
14.Vex (Beige w/pink-green pearl )
15.Print (Muted grey with shimmer)

What are your favorite MAC Shadows? I’m always looking to add to my collection so please share!

Hi Girls. How’s it going? I hope your week is going well so far!

Today I thought I’d post a list of my favorite beauty products. I get asked all the time to do this so I decided why not it should be fun.

I’m sure this list will change in the future, but at the moment these are the makeup products I reach for the most. Enjoy.

Face Primer:
Nars and Smashbox are tied

Liquid Foundation:
Nars Sheer Glow or Illuminare Fantastic Finish Foundation

Mineral Foundation:
Bare Minerals

Concealer:
MAC Studio Finish

Powder:
MAC Mineralize Skinfinish Natural

Blush:
Bare Escentuals Golden Gate and MAC Love Rock

Bronzer:
Bare Escentuals Faux Tan

Highlighter:
Benefit High Beam

Lipstick:
MAC Hue or MAC Angel

Lipgloss:
NYX Sweet Heart

Eye Primer:
Urban Decay Primer Potion

Pencil Eye Liner:
Urban Decay Zero

Liquid Eye liner:
Revlon Colorstay

Mascara:
MAC Studio Fix Lash

Eyeshadows:
I will be doing a separate post on my top 10 eyeshadows in the next day or two so watch out for that.

What are your must have beauty products? Please share!!

Here’s another Guest Post from our Clinique Beauty Consultant, Cindy. Enjoy!

1. Lip Smoothies

Lip smoothies are amazing because it gives you the coverage of a lipstick in a gloss form. If you are anything like me, lipsticks these days do not have enough moisture in them. So, you have to wear a lip gloss on top of your lipstick to give you the texture and look that you are going for. However, there are times when I want the convenience of just using one product. This product is the answer to that problem. Plus, they have tons of antioxidants and vitamins. They also feel very smooth on the lips, never sticky. Every single one of these colors are beautiful, so be sure to check it out.

2. Butter Shine Lipstick (Delovely)

I love the texture of the Butter Shine lipsticks. Now, this lipstick does provide plenty of moisture to your lips. When you wear this lipstick, it feels like you are wearing a gloss. My favorite color is Delovely because you can wear it with just about anything. This neutral color gives you a little bit pink and a little bit of bronze to give you the perfect balance. It is the perfect everyday color. Also, check out Berry Blush for a soft pink that is very natural

3. Bamboo Lip Liner

Bamboo lip liner is my favorite because once again this color goes with almost all lipsticks and lip glosses. The lip liner also has a little bit of pink and a little bit of bronze. It is a perfect match for the delovely lipstick above.

4. Fresh Bloom All Over Color ( Peony)

This peony blush palette is absolutely beautiful! When you swirl these three colors together you get a look that softens the whole look to the face. The lighter color helps highlight your cheeks, while the darker colors help contour. Peony is the perfect blend of a peachy pink that looks so natural on all skin types. Also check out the color almond blossom. It is my second favorite that can also be used as a bronzer or eye shadow.

5. Happy in Bloom

Ladies, take advantage of this perfume while you can because it is a limited edition. This perfume has always been my favorite from Clinique. When they discontinued this perfume, it broke my heart. However, Happy in Bloom is back just for this spring. So, make sure you stock up while you can. This is a sweet floral that is soft and bright, and just makes you feel Happy! Almost everyone that I spray it for loves it.

Hey girls. How’s your week going so far? I hope it’s well!

You all know I’m obsessed with bath products right? Well, I received some wonderful shower gels from Pattern Body Wash a while ago and I’ve been dying to tell you about them.

About Pattern:

Pattern is a small company that wants to do one thing very well… make great products that are highly effective. Their formulations use no artificial additives and no synthetic fragrances, colors or dyes. The body washes are gentle cleansing and skin moisturizing.

The body washes come in 4 scents Black Pepper, Cucumber, Citrus and Eucalyptus. My faves are the Cucumber and Citrus!! Yum! Yum!

What I liked about Pattern:

All natural.
Contain no parabens, no artificial fragrances, colors or dyes.
It is not tested on animals.
Multipurpose can be used on hair, face & body
Made with the finest fragrances, essential oils and plant extracts.
No SLS/SLES
100% vegan
Smells great
Works great

What I don’t like about Pattern:

Pricey $20 for a 240 ml bottle
Only available online as far as I know
*Correction: These are also sold in around 20 select beauty stores, apothecaries, and spas across the country.*

These body washes are amazing. If you’re a fan of all natural body care products like myself you must give these a try. They’re right up there with Lush in terms of quality, no kidding! I love them. The only negatives as I stated earlier are I wish they were slightly cheaper and a little more convenient to buy. That said though they’re totally worth the price tag.

You can purchase Pattern Body Wash online here.

Anyone tried these products before? What were your thoughts? Please share!

Note: I received a press sample of this product for review.

I came across this post on Ny Daily News recently and just knew I had to share it with you guys.

Wondering how the Victoria Secret models look so perfect wearing almost nothing on the catwalk? It’s simple really, 20 layers of butt makeup.

Selita Ebanks told the New York Daily News:

“It’s all about creating the illusion of this amazing body on the runway. People don’t realize that there are about 20 layers of makeup on my butt alone.”

Selita also said the body makeup takes about an hour to apply. Then face makeup and hair takes three to five hours. An average of five people works on each of the 38 models.

What are your thoughts on this? I’m just wondering why they would need 20 layers of butt makeup? I mean 2-3 I get, but 20? Wouldn’t it be cakey?

I was so excited to try this foundation. I’ve heard amazing things about it and I even heard it was a dupe for my HG foundation Nars Sheer Glow. So when I heard that I ran to Target and picked it up.

I’ve been using the product now for about two weeks and I have to say I’m very disappointed. This product is nothing like Sheer Glow in my opinion. It’s thick and goes on very streaky. I looked in the mirror outside after applying this foundation and I looked like a mess. There were streaks everywhere, it settled into all my pores and it just looked plain cakey. This product also dries extremely fast so you have to make sure to blend quickly.

I’m very sad that this foundation didn’t work for me. Revlon is one of my favorite drugstore brands and this could have saved me lots of money if it had worked. Oh well….maybe it will work for someone else.

Pros:
Price ($9.99 at Target)
It has a pump!!
Gorgeous glowy finish

Cons:
Streaks
Not a wide variety of shades
Emphasizes imperfections and pores
Heavy feeling

Have you tried this product yet? Please let me know your thoughts.

We have another guest post for you today. Enjoy.

Hello, my name is Heather, I’m 27, and I’m a freelance makeup artist. These are the blushes/bronzers I find myself using the most on clients and myself. I’m a Mac NC15 for reference.

Let me know what your favorite blushes are, I have TONS of blushes these are just a few of my favorites. Maybe you’ll know of some that I don’t so please share!

Top 10 favorite blushes/bronzers

1. Nars- Orgasm

Don’t tell me you didn’t see that one coming. It is a beautiful pink/coral with
a hint of gold shimmer. It looks great on every skintone in my opinion. You’ll
find yourself hitting pan with this one for sure.

2. Nars- Albatross

This is more of the highlight blush than a colorful blush. Its truly the perfect
finish to any look.

3. Benefit- Coralista

A beautiful shimmery pink blush. The packaging is super cute and its one I always find myself reaching for. I also love the smell of Benefit blushes, is that weird?

4.Too Faced-Pink Leopard

This blush is a mixture of pinks and tan, take a big fluffy brush swirl it in the blush and just buff all over for a nice healthy glow.

5.E.L.F.- Blushed and Bronzed Contour Powder

This blush is only $3.00 off of the ELF website, or you could use a code and get it even cheaper. It is worth much more than three dollars plus you get both the pink/coral blush and a great bronzer with a nice shiny palette and a huge mirror.

6.E.L.F.-Candid Coral Blush

Watch out Orgasm you may have met your match. This blush is a pinkish coral shade with gold shimmers. It’s gorgeous, has great color payoff, and for $3.00 you can’t beat it.

7.Hard Candy-Living Doll

This is a baked blush with swirls of pinks and gold (I see a trend forming here). This is 6.00 at your local Wal Mart and the color payoff is amazing.

8.MAC-Dollymix

This is one of my favorite blushes because its such a vibrant pink. The color is so pretty and cheerful and it looks amazing on almost all skin types.

9.MAC-Florida

This is what I would refer to as the cremeblend version of Dollymix. It’s such a vibrant pink and its staying power is unbelievable. I have only had this since the Lily Pulitzer Collection came out and I find myself going for it more often than not.

10.MAC- Pink Swoon

This blush is a beautiful soft baby pink. It gives you that fresh faced look without glitter or shimmer. Kim Kardashian says: “This is the perfect pink, I carry blush in my purse at all times” well said KK.

I have a guest post to share with you today. Today’s post is written by Cindy. Enjoy.

Hello, my name is Cindy, I am 26, and I am a Clinique Beauty Consultant. While working for Clinique I became very interested in not only what the products are going to do for me, but how the products work to achieve the optimum results. I am going to share with you my favorite Clinique products to help me achieve my ideal skin. Now before I begin I must tell you what makes Healthy skin.

1. Balance of Oil and Water
2. Continuous Cell Turnover
3. Intact Moisture Barrier
4. Strong Support System

1.Rinse- Off Foaming Cleanser

The Rinse-Off Foaming Cleanser is going to remove long wearing make up. It will also help comfort and leave the skin feeling fresh and cleansed. Now, a lot of my customers think, ” why do I need a makeup remover and a soap.” Well, Clinique’s soap is not formulated to breakdown makeup. So, it cleanses the skin better once the make up is removed. Because if you have a cleanser that is meant to remove make up and cleanse the skin, it’s not going to do as great of job.

2. 7 Day Scrub

The 7 Day Scrub is going to scrub away roughness and flakiness to refine the skin’s texture. It is also going to lessen the appearance of fine lines. The 7 Day Scrub got its name because it’s gentle enough to be used 7 days a week. This is so important to the skin’s well being because it is going to help your skin’s natural continuous cell turnover which is number two on my list of what makes healthy skin.

3. 3-Step

Now, I know what you are thinking. 3-step…. Blah, Blah, Blah….Boring, Boring, Boring… What is so special about 3-Step.

Well I will tell you, I was the biggest skeptic about 3-step before I started working for the company. However, once I started to use the products and saw results, I became a believer. The first step of 3-step of course is the soap. Clinique’s soap is going to loosen the dead skin cells on your skin which is a very important part of the cleansing process. I was skeptical about a bar of soap because soap just has that reputation of leaving a film on your skin. However, a neat little fact about Clinique’s soap is that if you were to only use clinique’s soap in the shower, you would never get soap scum. I also prefer the bar of soap compared to the liquid soap because it lathers up so much better and cleanses so much deeper.

The second step of 3-step is the clarifying lotion. The clarifying lotion is going to sweep away the dead skin cells to reveal clearer skin. This gentle exfoliation is going to prepare the skin for moisture, so that it penetrates deeper into the skin. The clarifying lotion is my favorite part of 3-step because it makes my skin feel so clean and fresh.

The final step of 3-step is the dramatically different moisturizing lotion. I was the biggest skeptic about DDML, more than any other step. I thought, ” What’s the big deal? What does it really do? It doesn’t even have a SPF in it. How could this really benefit my skin?” Well, the DDML was never meant to be used by itself, unless you are 12 and have no other skin concerns. The DDML is going to go in and balance the oil and water in the skin. Which, if you remember from my list above, the balance of oil and water is the number one thing that makes healthy skin. Plus, when you use DDML it works like glue for everything else that you use on top of it. For example, if you use a repair product after DDML it will suck the repair product deeper into the skin, and the deeper it goes the better results you will see.

4. Turn Around Instant Facial and Concentrate

The Turn Around Instant Facial is a 5 minute mask that I normally just do in the shower while I’m shaving my legs. Because just like you I never have an extra 5 minutes in my day to do a mask. The mask is really great because it is going to give your skin the high performance of a microdermabration, but without the irritation. This mask is going to promote continuous cell turnover on multiple levels. Which is on my list from above. The average, young, and healthy skin takes about 28 days to come up to the surface of the skin. As you age your cell turnover begins to slow down. In some cases it takes up to 72 days for your new skin cells to come up to the surface. All of Clinique’s Turn Around products are going to help boost your skin’s continuous cell turn over. So, that your new more vibrant and youthful skin comes up to the surface. Now, this mask should be used about 2 to 3 times a week in place of the 7 day scrub.

The Turn Around Concentrate is going to have exfoliating ingredients that speeds fresh cells to the surface of the skin. It leaves the skin radiant, silky, and smooth. This is a serum that should go on the skin after the DDML, but before an additional moisturizer. This can be used everyday, and especially after using the Turn Around Instant Facial. These two products work hand and hand.

5. Superdefense SPF 25 and Super Rescue

The Superdefense is an awesome product that is going to protect the skin from all the environmental damages throughout the day. It has a high dosage of anti-oxidants. Everyone talks about how important it is that you eat lots of anti -oxidants, well you also need that in your skin. It is going to defend your skin of visible signs of aging. I think this product is for everyone. Even if you don’t have any signs of aging because it is gong to prevent you from seeing those first signs of aging. Or even if you already see signs of aging, it will still help fight against those signs. This product is also going to help neutralize UVA and UVB rays, which is going to keep an intact moisture barrier.

The moisture barrier is created by your skins cells. When your skins cells are created they are very plump like a grape. As they come up to the surface they thin out and squeeze out all the nutrients inside of them. These nutrients form a barrier to help protect your skin. Every so often you get a break in your moisture barrier. This allows environmental pollutions into your skin and destroys your healthy skins cells. By using this product you will help insure that your moisture barrier stays intact, which is number 3 on my list.

The Super Rescue is just like Superdefense, however it is for night time instead. When you sleep your body renews itself and repair all the past damage that you did to it throughout the day. Because of this it is going to have an extra dosage of vitamin C to help repair your skin. And just like its name, it is going to rescue your skin from all past damage and help your strong support system. Which is the final thing that makes healthy skin. A strong support system is what makes your skin firm and free from aging. You start to loose collagen in your skin at age 20’s, so keep it as healthy as possible by rescuing it every night to maintain your beautiful healthy skin.