SHE SAID - Question & Answer

So you asked, and now I've answered!....as best I can.  If you have other questions (makeup related or not) just post them below and I'll do another Q&A video down the road!

SHE SAID - Brighten Your Eyes Girlllll

Want your eyes to look brighter and more alert?  Let me show ya howwwww.

SHE SAID - My Daily Makeup Routine

So it's 5:08AM on a week day - where are you?  Well, hopefully most of you are lucky enough to be sleeping.  But not Derek and I - that's our wake up time!  It's really not so bad once you get used to it, and I'm honestly a morning person, so it's pretty easy for me to wake up that early.  But what's not so easy is making myself look presentable at that time of morning!  So I stick to the basics makeup-wise throughout the week. 

Let me start off by saying the job I currently have is definitely not a job I need to look fancy for.  Most of my day is spent crawling/climbing/contorting around in a lab/office/hallway/closet floor looking for serial numbers on equipment.  Seriously.  Obviously I would look out of place in this line of work if I had makeup/hair to the nines every day since it would get disheveled very quickly.  So I don't.  I keep it pretty simple:

• Bare Minerals face powder (been using it since 2005 and am still a fan)
• Blush of choice
• Concealer
• Fill in my brows (most days)
• Eyeliner
• Mascara
• White highlight for inner corner

Now, I do add a little flare almost every day....I make my eyeliner winged.  Sounds fancy right?  That's my little bit of extra primping I allow myself in this position.  It's super quick and easy to do, so it doesn't add much time to my morning routine.  And honestly, I feel most confident when I have on winged eyeliner.  (The italics and bold font are totally necessary). 

I know I could wake up a few minutes earlier and do nicer eyeshadow or attempt to contour daily...but I like to save that up to do on the weekends when I feel I actually have time to 'play' in makeup, because Lord knows I'm NOT waking up any earlier that 5:08 on the week days.  

The video below explains exactly how I wing my liner!  It's easy!

SHE SAID - Makeup Brushes

For some reason when I was little I was reeealllyyy into lipstick brushes.  I was such a little diva! - an elementary school kid obsessing over lipstick brushes?!  Ok, ok, do you remember the cheap-o brushes you get with waterpaint sets...well, that was my "lipstick brush".  I would NEVER use it in paint - it was used solely for applying lipstick/chapstick.  I remember this one pot of coconut chapstick that I loved to apply at bedtime using my lipstick brush.  It went on so smoothly!  One day, I couldn't find my lipstick brush.  Ends up, my brother had taken it...and used it....and used it....and used it...in PAINT!  (the horror! didn't he know that was NOT a paint brush?!)  I remember crying to my mom "HE RUINED IT! HE RUINED IT!"...seems so silly now, but it paints (pun intended) perfectly how my makeup addiction started early on.  So speaking of brushes...let me show you a few of my current favorites!

SHE SAID - In The Beginning...

In the beginning God created a girl that loved her some makeup. Ok, so maybe I wasn't a makeup lover from birth, but only because my little baby brain didn't know it existed yet! Once I was introduced to makeup as a toddler, it was all downhill from there.

My mom used to let me play in the makeup she no longer used, so my tiny little kid hands went to work. What I remember most vividly was acting as if I had my own makeup TV show when I was about 4 or 5. I had a lighted mirror that I would cut on after turning off all the lights in my room, then I would place a towel around my neck/shoulders, and my show was ready to begin!  Apparently I thought doing makeup was super messy and towel-worthy (or maybe my mom made me do that come to think of it...who knows?!)  Anyways, I'd begin each show by saying to the mirror (AKA - my loving imaginary TV viewers) "Now remember, your face is your canvas and you are the artist".  Seriously, I would say that - I'm not joking, hah.  I would have so much fun just playing with the makeup and feeling proud of myself for what I'd created. Little did I know (since internet was yet to be widely introduced) that I was going through the motions of what so many fellow makeup lovers would be doing on YouTube 15 years later - sharing makeup tips, exploring creativity, and being all-around-flat-out-no-lie-obsessed-with-makeup.  So I'm late to the blogger/YT game make-up wise.  Oh well, you gotta start somewhere!