I had a day off and was going to see my grandparents who were in the country visiting. I wanted to try something different with my hair, I had seen crowns on a high bun and I had a peacock hairpiece my husband had given me a while back, but I had never worn. This was my moment and it worked out perfectly, with an all jean look and new makeup look.

  Jean shirt from Target, Bongo jeans from Sears as well as the booties and handbag from dd's discount.

 

  Peacock crown was part of a set that included necklace and earrings from Wish, earrings were a gift from Colombia, pearl necklaces from Miss A and if you can see the Swarovski and pearl bracelet from Burlington Coat Factory.

 

  The new makeup look was doing simple and natural eyeshadow with a winged liner and a red lip, but the one thing that made the biggest difference to my complexion was adding Tarte Radiance Drops, my skin has never looked so smooth and amazing. Sadly I only have a sample size I got with Sephora points. I'm going to have to do some saving to get the full size, for now it has only been used for special occasions, though all I do is work these days.

Yes, I really do like this color and here it is again. Wearing my Teal pants and teal lipstick yet again. It was a a day off of going to Ikea and furniture shopping or just some window shopping before the big purchases to see what I liked and what would getting in my home.

Teal Bongo Jeans from Sears, peplum top and sandals from Rainbow.

This was back in March.

Striped cropped jacket was a gift from Forever 21.

Earrings from light in the box, pearl necklace was a wedding gift from my mother in law, Amazon watch and bracelets from Alex and Ani.

Just a little picnic at Ikea.

Wore my Huda Beauty obsessions palette in mauve and Anastasia Beverly Hills Requiem Liquid lipstick.

I had written on this post, but for some reason nothing uploaded with it, so here I am again. This was for valentine's day this past year and I had the day off. These pants were actually indeed of loose when I first got them, I was in my super skinny days then and knew I was going to eventually gain a healthy weight back, now they actually fit a little snug, but still perfect.

Peplum was a gift, wine colored skinny pants are from Cotton on and sandals from Rainbow.

Earrings from Valsan, necklace from Miss A, new tennis bracelet from my husband he got from the antique show at the fair expo, since he works there.

I went to get a gel manicure since I had a Groupon that expired this day, I had been so busy working, I hadn't had a a chance.

Eyeshadow was Huda Beauty obsessions palette in mauve and lips were Tarte Cosmetics Tartiest quick dry matte lip paint in cheerleader.

Again here I am trying to catch up with my posts, but so busy working and my mother was visiting this past week, which meant spending a lot of money. This was another make up haul from Sephora, they were separate buys to get more samples of course. I decided to actually buy this cobalt blue matte lipstick from Anastasia Beverly Hills as it was sitting in my shopping cart for a while and boy did this not disappoint. I also bought a matte pore primer from Benefit Cosmetics and the lock it concealer from Kat Von D as I had gotten a sample of this and loved it.

Received some samples with my lipstick order, IT Cosmetics cleanser and Dr. Jart Water Fuse, which I recently just finished.

The PORE fessional matte rescue primer from Benefit Cosmetics and Kat Von D Lock It Concealer in medium 19 cool.

I really did love the blue lips, it has now become my staple and my bitmoji on snapchat.

It was still early 2018 and the cold front was still in Miami, it was 46 degrees and it was finally time to break out the Marchesa Voyage cape coat I've never been able to wear, even if it was just for a few hours in the morning. If you remember my previous posts, I had originally bought this coat for $25 at Ross for an upcoming NC trip, which ended being a warm trip. Never thought I would be able to use it here in Miami and lately there have been more cold fronts, even now in March.

My go to new skinny jeans Bongo from JCPenney, new Tommy Hilfiger knit top from Ross, embroidered Marchesa Voyage cape coat worth almost $600 bought for $25 at Ross and boots from Sears.

I had decided to put up my valentines decor early in January.

A chilly 46 degrees.

For this very pink makeup look, I used Huda Beauty obsessions palette in mauve, eyebrows are Anastasia Beverly Hills brow pomade in taupe and Everlasting liquid lipstick from Kat Von D in melancholia. Also used Benefit Cosmetics POREfessional primer.

I'm posting still trying to catch up to my current outfits, but I as you know I stopped for a few months, since all I did was work. This look was for the beginning of 2018 and it started off with a cold front in Miami, which I was loving, since it was an all day one and I was able to brush off the dust from my winter clothes.

Skinny jeans Bongo from JCPenney, thermal shirt from Rainbow, poncho from Old Navy and boots from Sears.

Pearls was a wedding gift from my mother in law and headpiece from Miss A. I was wearing my new Huda Beauty obsessions palette in mauve, Anastasia Beverly Hills brow pomade in taupe and Tartiest quick dry matte lip stain from Tarte.

And as a new year, my husband and I got couples tattoos. I had been wanting one for a while now, just didn't know what I wanted, so when I finally found it, we did it and loved it. This is my second tattoo, my first was "Liebe dich selbst" which is love yourself on my wrist.

I've been really loving this new app called snow, a lot of pretty cool filters and I had to take one with my husband during this cold front.

Like I had said before in part one, I did a lot of Sephora shopping for the holidays as well as some presents, which I did not take pictures of. For part two I left the the first two online orders I did with the app, which is much better than buying at the store, since I received so many samples with each order. I bought another Huda Beauty obsessions palette, this time in mauve, another quick dry matte lip paint from Tarte in cheerleader and a sample set of Tarte lip paints, one quick dry matte in rosé and the other creamy matte in fomo.

Like I said, ordering online is way better with all the samples I received. Mini perfumes, argan oil, lip balm, makeup remover balm, which I love and will definitely get in full size once I run out, foundation, primer, concealer from Kat Von D, which I also loved and bought the full size and the great thing was I got them in these cute striped makeup bags.

This Chanel N5 perfume was not something I bought, but I did order it on behalf of my husband as my Christmas present. It was a fragrance I hadn't tried before, but when I received it, I loved it.

First I tried here the palette, the primer, the Fenty by Rihanna foundation, which I wasn't a fan of, liquid blush from Nars and the Tarte lip paint in cheerleader, very beautiful red. Necklace by the way is from Mirina Collections, which is now Chic Wishlist, for 70% off anything on the site use coupon code saveonwishlist.

I continued to use the makeup, picture on the left is the shade fomo, picture on the right is rosé.

It was December and my makeup and Sephora obsession was growing. I went for another trip to the store and bought myself a few goodies after a gift shopping trip there as well. I was sampling the rollerball perfumes and fell in love with this scent from Gucci called Bloom, for now I'll just stay with this, since just the rollerball is $34. I also bought the Pore fessional primer from Benefit, a matte red lipstick shade 714 from Urban Decay's Vice collection and a metalized green one shade junkie, the Huda Beauty obsessions palette in smokey, the quick dry matte lip stain from Tarte in the shade Bounce and the infamous brow pomade from Anastasia Beverly Hills in Taupe.

A friend had given me a Vice lipstick just a few weeks before, which was the reason I went and bought another in another shade.

This was my first Huda Beauty purchase and it did not disappoint, they are very pigmented colors and for awhile I was only using this palette.

I had heard this brow pomade was heaven, but had never had enough money to be able to buy makeup more expensive than a $5 lipstick at the drugstore. Now working two jobs that were paying well, I was finally able to try it. It took a few tries, but by the third time as they say was the charm, I was used to using brow pencils, so this was completely new territory for me. For $18 it's not too bad, since you get many uses out of it, to this day I'm only 1/4 into it and I use it everyday.

Around my birthday last year, I decided to go ahead and walk into Sephora for my birthday gift, which was a mini size of Amazonian Clay 12 hour blush in shade paaarty and Tartiest Creamy Matte Lip Paint in shade birthday suit both from Tarte Cosmetics. They were actually really great products that I'm still using to this day, but it wasn't until December where I started the heavy shopping and when I say heavy, I mean I made it to VIB status, which is spending $350 a year, I spent that in a month. Husband buying my Chanel fragrance as my Christmas gift did help and shopping for my step kids as well.

A friend of mine who is also a Sephora fanatic, gifted me the mini size Better Than Sex mascara from Too Faced, which is amazing. Gives great volume and I use it everyday, even as a base mascara.

I also wanted to show my manicure, they were a newly discovered process called nexgen, which is a dip powder. They do no not damage the nail the way gel and acrylics do, pricier than both, but worth it. More Sephora posts to come.

My blog has just been through a makeover and to celebrate, I am doing my first giveaway. I put together a few things inside this red clutch, which includes two blur perfecting primers, Kleancolor highly pigmented loose powder blush, two eyeliners in taupe from Wet n' Wild that can also double as an eyebrow pencil, a pair of red wooden disc earrings to match clutch and a wonder jelly for foundation, which is actually one I use and it is amazing and saves you a lot of product.

 

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