NYX Liquid Suede Lipstick | Beauty Favorite of the Week

This weeks beauty favorite is the NYX Liquid Suede Cream Lipstick in the color Sandstorm. I have been using this liquid lipstick to death, literally everyday. It is one of those colors that's like your lips but better! It is so easy to use, I don't have to fuss with it, I usually apply a little from the doe foot applicator and then blend it in with my finger all over my lips.

It looks awesome, it applies beautifully. It is so easy to grab it and go. My favorite thing about it is that since it is a liquid lipstick, it is matte and longwearing. I can apply it early in the morning and not need to apply it for like 5-6 hours. That is my kind of lip product.

I have been super impressed with NYX as a whole recently, I think that they really have stepped it up when it comes to their products and availability.

Basically I love this lip color and for the price you can't really go wrong!


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How to Get Long Lashes Without Falsies!

Having long lashes is something everyone wants, but if you don't want to have to deal with false lashes here are some of my tips to make your lashes longer.

Mascara

Using a good mascara is key to make your lashes look longer. Check for mascaras that say things like "lengthening" or "voluminous." My absolute favorite mascara for lengthening is the Maybelline Lash Stiletto Mascara. This mascara really builds on itself and creates length that doesn't get clumpy. 

Layering Mascara

Another trick is to layer your mascara. I like to layer at least 3 coats of one or two different mascaras. Having only one coat of mascara really doesn't do much as far as making them stand out. Layering builds the mascara on itself creating the illusion  of longer thicker lashes. 

I have been layering my previously mentioned Maybelline Lash Stiletto with the L'Oreal Voluminous Carbon Black mascara. These are excellent together. 

Oils

Using Castor oil, coconut oil, olive oil, avocado oil, sesame oil, argan oil, will moisturize your lashes and make them grow longer. Soak a cotton ball with your oil of choice and wipe over your clean lashes before bed, then wash off in the morning. The natural oil will moisturize, nourish and help the growth of your lashes while also making them stronger and healthier.



Green Tea

Green tea can also help make your lashes strong and healthy. Make some green tea, let it cool and swipe if over your lashes with a cotton ball. The caffeine will help maintain the growth of the lashes and will stimulate new growth.



Removing Makeup

A great way to have longer lashes is to make sure that every night you are removing all the old mascara buildup from the day. Using a cleansing water or makeup remover is the best way to get rid of mascara. Having clean lashes while you sleep will help them grow when they need to.



Leave them Alone

Being gentle with your lashes isn't always the easiest thing to do, but avoiding rubbing your eyes or pulling on the lashes when removing your makeup can make a huge difference. Rubbing and pulling on your eyes can cause premature wrinkles and fine lines to the skin around your eyes as well as pulling out some lash hairs. This can stunt the growth of the lashes.

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Angled Bob Haircut | Behind the Instagram

This haircut was super fun to do. In the before picture you can see that my client had medium length hair. She has very thick hair, and a lot of it. So going from a longer cut to a much shorter haircut can be difficult for someone with thick hair like this. Texturizing with point cutting or texturizing shears is key in a haircut like this one.

I started the haircut by cutting in the base shape and getting rid of the length. I sectioned from the crown to her ears and worked on the back first. I divided the back section into two down the middle. Then I took small subsections from that center part down to the nape at a 45 degree angle. I took off about 5 inches from the middle back to start. I combed out the section I was going to cut and I angled it towards the center of the part at the same angle as the subsection part.This technique creates the A-line shape of the hair cut. It keeps the hair farthest away from that middle part line longer than the hair closest to the part line. When the first small section is completed it should look like a long arc, not straight across.

I work in clean small sections on the left side then on the right side alternating them the whole way up the hair in the back of her head.

When I had the back done, I moved on the the front sections. Again I took diagonal subsections from the front above the ear and used the hair from the back as my guide to connect the front with the back. I over-directed these front sections so they would stay pretty long in the front.

Once the base of the cut was done, I went in to texturize and add some layers. With thick hair like this, texturizing is a necessity to make the hair cut look the way you want. 

I went in vertical sections starting in the middle back and I point cut out at a slight 45 degree angle (almost 90 at times) to give the hair that stacked effect without getting too short. I did this same thing around the whole back of the head.

To finish the hair cut, I did a tiny bit of face framing and layering throughout the hair so it wasn't too heavy. Making sure to run my hands through the hair to feel for any thicker or heavier sections.

The final touch was a quick blow out and flat iron to smooth everything out. After I finish a cut I like to go back and make sure that everything is where it needs to be, and if something needs to be adjusted this is when I take care of it.

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Stila Stay All Day Liquid Liner | Beauty Favorite of the Week

My beauty favorite for this week is the Stila Stay All Day Waterproof Liquid Eyeliner.
I have had this for quite a few months and it is still going strong. I am loving this liquid liner, it is the only one I have been using the past couple of months. It's super black and intense, not too runny. It also has not dried at all, or on the felt tip like other liquid liners tend to do sometimes.

This liner has a super fine felt tip and it gives me the bessssssst crisp line for my winged cat eyeliner!
I love that it is waterproof, so it is very long lasting and doesn't budge even in the summer heat.

I am so impressed with how long this liner has lasted! It is definitely my favorite liquid liner and I will for sure be repurchasing it when I run out!

Tell me what your favorite beauty product is lately!

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Brown Ombre | Behind the Instagram

This hair color is one of those that are very difficult. My client came in with black box color in her hair. She has been putting this black color on her hair for a few years. 

Black box color is one of the worst colors to put in your hair. Box color in general is made as a "one size fits all" when it comes to hair texture and color, so these chemicals are the strongest and most damaging to the hair. You would never know it since when you finish the at-home color, it looks "healthy" and "shiny." But this is an illusion, and getting rid of box color is not as easy as some may think.

As you can see in the picture below, the client had very long black hair. She has thin hair texture and she didn't want a drastic haircut, just a small trim.

To lighten her hair I mixed up my Matrix lightener with 20 volume developer. I wanted to use a very low developer because since her hair had so much black color on it, I didn't want to damage the hair more than it needed it. And since our goal color was a medium brown I didn't need to lighten the hair too far. We mainly just wanted to remove as much of that black color as we could. 

We let the lightener process for 45 minutes, and I made sure to keep an eye on the hair as it processed.

After washing out the lightener, I quickly rough dried her hair with my blow dryer and we went in to tone the hair.

With just the bleach the hair had lightened very unevenly and spotty. Some spots where still pretty dark and others were an orange tone.
She was going for a black to brown ombre, so we went in with Matrix 6A and 10 volume developer as the toner. I used 6A because we were going for a light/medium brown and we also were trying to cancel out as much of that unwanted orange tone with the ash. 

I let the color process for the full 35 minutes to make sure we got as much color pay off as possible.

The last few steps were to give her a quick trim and a quick blowout.

The blend between the black and the brown was very soft and pretty, I really enjoyed doing this color. It was a challenge and it took a few hours, but in the end it turned out like what the client wanted. 

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The Brow Wiz | Beauty Favorite of the Week

Beauty Favorite of the Week

I have gone back to one of the products I used to rave about a while back when it came out. I am talking about the Anastasia Beverly Hills Brow Wiz eyebrow pencil.

I recently went on vacation, and when I was packing up my makeup I didn't want to over-pack. So instead of packing my eyebrow brush and the eyeshadow and my eyebrow gel, I decided to bring along my Brow Wiz instead. This would be a lot quicker and a lot less stuff to pack for my vacation.

I have fallen back in love with this product. I have reviewed the Brow Wiz previously, check out the post here: Review, Tutorial

I have it in the color Chocolate, this color is perfect. It matches my hair color but isn't too dark. I like that it stays all day long, doesn't smudge or wear off. It also works as a color and gel at the same time. It holds my eyebrow hairs in place.

I have been using it every single day. It has also really helped me speed up the time it takes me to do my makeup since I was able to cut out a bunch of other steps!

The ABH Brow Wiz gets a 10 out of 10 for me!



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Caramel Balayage | Behind the Instagram

I have been doing more hair coloring recently, and I thought that it would be fun to talk a little about the pictures I post to Instagram and tell you what I did and what I could possibly do better. 

This post is the first one in my Behind the Instagram series. I will be doing this for some of my favorite Instagram pictures.

During the consultation for this color she told me that she wanted to have a caramely blonde balayage that would transition into an ombre at the ends. She also wanted a haircut to match her new color.

This client came in with virgin hair at a natural level 3(warm) and the length was about to the middle of her back. Before I did the color I dry cut about 5 inches off the length. This is a great way to make sure you are not wasting color/lightener. If I would have done the color first and then the cut, I would have probably cut off all her ombre ends. 

A good tip when getting to know what the guest wants is to make sure you know exactly everything she wants and you can even suggest things that maybe the guest might not have thought of. Make sure to cover all the bases before starting any service. This will make it very easy to know what to do and when.

Once I had the base of the cut done, then I went in with the lightener. When it comes to a balayage or ombre, the key is to make the light and dark colors blend seamlessly together. 

I always try to work off of the clients natural color as much as possible. This sort of color can work wonders for people that don't have the time or desire to be at the salon getting their re-growth touched up every 4 weeks.

Unlike traditional highlights, balayage highlights don't go the whole way up to the scalp. This gives it a very soft natural look to the color, and makes it grow out beautifully. 

Since this client has a smaller head, and about medium to fine hair I was able to take inch and a half sections. starting from the back nape of her head and working my way up.

I sectioned off a mohawk section from her forehead to her crown. The rest of the hair I section in a regular T part. 

The trick to blending the highlights into an ombre is to grip the hair as tight as possible, then add the most lightener to the midshaft of the hair in a V or W shape, very carefully blending the lightener up the hair shaft up to where you want the highlights to start. Then making sure that the ends are completely saturated. I like to keep the lightener only on the surface of the section that I am working on, only saturating the ends of the hair. This will make the blend between the natural color and the lightened color seamless.

After the lightener was applied, I watched it process to make sure it gets to the color I want it to be.

Once it was done, I washed and conditioned her hair then finished her haircut by giving her long layers to compliment the color. 

Since this client had virgin hair, I didn't have to tone the color to get to the desired shade. 

Overall, I really liked how this color turned out. The blend between the lighter color and her natural color is completely seamless. 

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