SHE SAID - Brighten Your Eyes Girlllll

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

SHE SAID - My First Time

Some girls fantasize of their first time years before it happens.  Some girls, like me, obsess over it for a few months before biting the bullet and giving in to temptation.  I wanted my first time to be special.  I wanted it to be perfect. I planned out exactly what I was going to do.  Then I finally DID IT....I bought my first MAC makeup.  

I'd heard of MAC makeup growing up, but never got around to buying any.  In 2009, Derek and I moved to Lexington, Kentucky.  Since we didn't know anyone, we spent a loootttt of time online.  This was when we discovered the process of subscribing to people on YouTube and following their video posts.  I learned there was such thing as a 'beauty community' on YouTube - a place for people to review makeup, do tutorials, and share their love of makeup/beauty.  Whhhaatttt?! - I never knew such a place existed!  I would watch beauty videos for hours.  Literally, hours.  After watching so many of these videos, I was craving purchasing some MAC eyeshadows.  

I thought long and hard about which ones I'd purchase first.  Department store makeup isn't cheap, so I wanted to spend my money wisely.  I finally decided on three colors: Carbon (black), Cork (medium brown), and Sketch (darker purple).  With these three colors I can create a plethora of eye looks.  I'll make a video dedicated to these variations if you'd like!  Just let me know!  

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!