May Favorites

Hello and happy Friday!

Today I'm sharing my makeup and lifestyle favorites for May. I can't believe it's already June. May flew by and June is going to be kind of a busy month! I didn't have many favorites for May but I thought I'd share a few random things I've been enjoying!

 Makeup

I stated using the Too Faced Sweet Tea Bronzer again recently. I honestly forgot about this, but I really do love it. It really screams summer to me! I've also been using NARS Deep Throat blush, which is another prefect cheek product for the spring and summer time.
I haven't been doing much eyeshadow lately, but when I do I've been really liking simple looks. I love using a Bronzer in my crease for some quick definition and then using Colourpop Sunset Blvd on my lid. I've also been using the Lorac Starry-Eyed Baked trio in Superstar. I'm not even sure if these are still being made, but it's a nice baked shadow trio that's also great for simple and fast eye looks.

Lifestyle

My hubby bought me a new Fossil purse and I'm completely obsessed with it. I know the photo doesn't show much of it, but that's because I want to do a what's in my purse video/post soon! I had to include it in my favorites because it's seriously my favorite purse that I've ever owned.
I've also been really loving the Eden's Garden Tranquility oil. I showed this in my Essential Oil Haula few weeks ago. It smells so good and I've been putting it into my Lava Bead Bracelets  and it's definitely been my favorite oil to use on them.
And last is a book that I've been reading. Last month I mentioned I was obsessing over The Magicians on Netflix. I loved the show so much that I went out and bought the first book in the series to read. So far the book is really great too!

What have you been loving this month?  Share your favorites with me in the comments!

April Favorites | Beauty + Lifestyle

Hey! Happy Hump Day!

Remember last week when I said I was going to post every Wednesday and Friday? And then I didn't post on Friday? Opps. Hubby's birthday was Thursday so I was super busy all day and didn't have time to sit down and write a blog post. I was going to do a Friday Favorites post, but since today I'm sharing my favorites from April, I'm just going to include some lifestyle favorites in this post that I was going to share on Friday. 

MAKEUP

I've been into my Lorac Pro Palette lately. I forgot how much I love this palette, and it's super great for everyday looks as well as something a little more dramatic!

I've been using the Stila Stay All Day Bronzer almost every day for the past month or so. I will admit that I gave this a not so good review when I first bought it. I've since changed my mind about it, and think its great for bronzing up my face. I don't like it for contouring, which is why I originally didn't care for it. I also love how big the pan is!

For foundation I've been using the Sonya Kashuk Soft Focus Matte Foundation a ton. This is the newest edition to my foundation collection, and I bought this as an attempted to replace my favorite drugstore foundation with a Cruelty Free one. I do like this, but I'm not going to go into much details because I have a review for it coming soon!

The lipsticks I've been using the most are the Nyx Liquid Suede in Soft Spoken and Maybelline Nude Lust with Nyx Lipliner is Natural. Both are great everyday shades, with the Maybelline one being more on the neutral side.

HAIR AND SKIN CARE

I've been loving this Pura D'or Organic Argan Oil* to help with super dry ends on my hair. This was sent to me awhile ago from Pure D'or along with some shampoo and conditioner that I didn't care for, and never gave this oil much of a try until recently. It's a light oil so it doesn't feel too heavy on my hair.

I recently started using the Burt's Bees Natural Acne Solution Toner again and I forgot how amazing this stuff is. It clears up my skin so fast if I have any problems!

LIFESTYLE 

I've been enjoying these Satwa Sandalwood Incense lately, and they smell super amazing. 

I bought this little piece of Rainbow Fluorite at a crystal shop a few weekends ago and I'm absolutely obsessed with it. 

On Netflix I recently watched 13 Reasons Why and overall really loved how the show turned out. I read the book years ago, and I hope they make a season 2. 

Right now I'm currently watching The Magicians on Netflix and its super good. I'm almost done with the series, and I'm also hoping for a season 2 of this show as well! This one was also made off of a book too, and I'm thinking about picking them up to read. 

I definitely recommend watching both of these shows if you haven't already!

So this concludes my favorites for April! What have you been loving and into lately? Share your favorites with me in the comments!

Check out my Etsy Shop if you haven't already! Also, I have a giveaway up on my shop Instagram right now and I'd love for you all to enter! 

January Favorites

OK guys. I've officially given up on posting my 2016 beauty favorites. I thought I got my movie editor working and all figure out but things went wrong when it was processing. So I'm just going to move on and try again with the next video I film. Let's talk about my favorites for January instead!

Makeup Favorites

Urban Decay Ultimate Naked Basics. I started using this last month in December and it's been the palette that I've reached for this most when wearing eyeshadow. I don't want to talk too much about it, but I reviewed it HERE if you want to see why I love it!

Maybelline Fit Me Concealer. I picked this up for the first time a few months ago, and it's been my go to concealer for everyday wear. I like its super creamy formula.

Mac Pro Longer blush in Make you Mine. I share this in my last haul post (check it out here!). It's a pretty nude/salmon shade and I love the formula of it. I'll do a review with swatches soon! 

Kat Von D Shade + Light blush duo in Mickey and Mallory. This has been a favorite of mine since early last year. I've talked about it a ton on my blog, but its my perfect everyday blush shade.

Nar Lipgloss in Chelsea Girls. This little mini Nars lipgloss is the first Cars gloss that I've tried, and I love the formula and color of it. It's a pretty nude/pink thats great for quick natural makeup days.

Skin Care

Schmidt's Natrual Deodorant Bergamot and Lime. I've mentioned this brand of deodorant before when I have the lavender scented one. I love both scents a lot, and I'm enjoying this lime one. It smells very citrusy and fresh, and this is an amazing brand of natural deodorant.

Lush Sleepy Hand and Body Lotion. This has been my everyday hand and body moisturizer all of January. Lush makes amazing lotions and this is definitely one of my favorites. It has a lavender scent and smells really great.

Lush Bubbly Shower Gel. I got this mini size for Christmas and I've already used it up. I really enjoy this and will definitely be purchasing a full size sometime in the future!

Lush Honey Trap.  This is another product that I've mentioned millions of times. It's my all time favorite lip balm that I recently repurchased. I swear every time I buy this stuff again I love it even more.

What are some of your favorites for January? Let me know in the Comments!

April Favorites + Flops Video

Hello! 

I'm excited to share today April Favorites video because I've decided to include my 'Flops' in there too and share some things that I was not loving in addition to my favorites! Let me know if you guys like this idea, and if you do I will definitely try to do this every month! I just thought I would try doing this since it's something different and I don't talk much about products I don't like unless I'm doing a review for them!

April also marked a year anniversary since I started uploading YouTube videos to my channel! My first video was my April favorites from last year, so I was super excited when I realized this! I have some fun ideas for videos that I want to film very soon and now that I realized I've been on YouTube for a year (it defiently doesn't feel like it!) I'm feeling kind of inspired!

Enjoy the video! 

March Favorites + Book Haul

You guys. I've been in the worst makeup rut. I've been using the same exact things every single day with the exception of switching up my foundations. I kind of put off this favorites video because I just didn't feel like I had much new stuff to talk about other than the Tartelette in bloom palette. So I'm very sorry if this video is kind of boring because I did share some repeat products that I talked about last month! I really need to switch up my makeup routine and I've literally been using the same blush and bronzer since February or end of January, also the same lipstick, and have not even touched another shadow palette since I got the Tartelette in bloom palette early in March. LOL! 

Anyways, here is my favorites video for March! I hope this month in April I have more to talk about for my favorites and more reviews to share. If you saw my post earlier this week on the QVC box I won in a giveaway, then expect some reviews from all those goodies and I hope some of them will make my favorites list too! 

What are some of your favorites from March? 

*Also I've decided to start doing some book related videos on YouTube. I mentioned in a video I did called 'what I read in 2015' that I wanted to do more book videos this year. When I do book videos, I will probably post them on my YouTube channel on tuesdays or thursdays. I won't be posting them on my blog though, so if you want to see them be sure to subscribe to my YouTube channel! I posted my first one yesterday, and I will put the video here on this post if you want to watch it, just to give you guys a heads up since its the first one I filmed, but after this just watch out for them on my channel!*

Spring Essentials | Collab with Lily

Hello!! Even though it's still a bit chilly here in Michigan, spring is arriving! We've had some warm days, but it's been a little cold and rainy still!

My good friend Lily from Beauty with Lily and I both filmed a Spring Essnetials video collab! Dont forget to check out her blog and YouTube Channel as well to see what her spring essentials are too! She is awesome and you all will love her (if you don't follow her already, you totally should!!). 

I hope you all enjoyed the video! I'm planning on doing to spring makeup looks very soon, if you guys would like to see them!

Also, in case you missed my post yesterday, I did a small drugstore haul. My schedule is a little off so thats why I'm posting two days in a row! Click the link to check it out if you haven't already! ;)

December Favorites

Hello! Today I'm going to do a quick beauty favorites post for December! I usually film my monthly favorites videos, but since I'm filming a best of beauty for 2015, I thought I'd share my favorites for this month in a blog post instead. I was going to skip my December favorites since I'm doing a yearly one, but there were a few things that I was enjoying this month that I didn't want to leave out!

Lush Celestial Moisturizer- I picked this up in November and I instantly fell in love. This smells amazing and makes my face feel super nice. 

EOS smooth stick balm in Vanilla Bean- I'm not a huge fan of the eos balms, and everyone raves about the egg shaped ones. I saw these stick balm ones and got suckered into the cute packaging, as I did in the past with the egg shaped ones. This isn't the best for keeping my lips hydrated, but I loveeeee the vanilla bean flavor/scent! It does an ok job at keeping my lips moisturized but it's definitely not the best out there. 

Estée Lauder a Double Wear Foundation- I've talked about this many times but it's the longest wearing foundation I have. I found myself reaching for it a lot this month because there were a lot of times that I had things like holiday parties to do after I got out of work, or all day events like Christmas etc. that I needed my makeup to last all day. 

I've been into my Mac palette a lot the past few weeks. Some of these are MUG shadows, but the Mac ones I've been enjoying are soft brown, shroom, and twinks.

Colourpop Puppy Love- I know I just got this one but I can obsessed. It's such a pretty shade and for an amazing cause!

This is all for my favorites this month. I only picked my top 5 things, since my yearly favorites post will be up soon! Hopefully tomorrow or Wednesday it will be up on my YouTube channel and I will make a post letting you guys know!

What are some of your favorites this month?  

November Favorites Video

Hello! Here I am late on my monthly favorites again! I finally had time to film this video and at least it's still the beginning of December when it's going up. Except in my intro I called it my December favorites on accident. Oops! I was hoping to get this up earlier in the day, but good god does it take long to process the video and upload it to youtube! It took over an hour for each LOL!

Anyways- here's a quick preview of some of my makeup favorites.

I mention some more skin care products in my video along with my favorite candles, elephant pants, and some of my favorite books I read last month! 

I hope you guys enjoy watching!

October Favorites Video

Hello!! I'm sharing my video for my October Favorites today! I filmed this last week but just got time to edit and upload it. I will hopefully have more posts and videos this week and I'm excited about some of the ones that I have planned. For now enjoy the video!

August Favorites | Beauty and Lifestyle

Hello!!  I'm sharing my August Favorites today. I have some beauty and lifestyle things to share. I filmed this video about a week about and forgot to take pictures for my blog, so there more be some things I mention in the video that I forgot to include in the pictures, especially for the non beauty favorites section. 

Here's an overview, and now I'll link the video! Enjoy!

June Favorites

Hello! I filmed a June Favorites video showing my makeup favorites along with some lifestyle stuff too! I showed books and tv, some food things etc. Enjoy watching the video!

Here is some of the makeup favorites that I showed. Watch the video to see everything else that I have been loving! 

Top 14 of 2014! Makeup Favorites

Hello beautiful people!

 I didn't do a monthly favorites post for December because I wanted to do a post that included my favorites for the entire year. I picked some of the things that I purchased in 2014 that were my favorites and that I used the most. This post is going up a little bit later than I wanted it to, and thats mainly because I used my new camera I got for Christmas to take the photos, and I'm super lazy when it comes to actually blogging from my computer (I'm so lazy that I take the photos and blog from my phone >.<). Also, I know that pretty much every blogger and youtuber has done posts and videos on this already, so sorry if you are tired of seeing the 'best of beauty' posts lol!

Top 14 of 2014

My two favorite foundations that I purchased this year are the Estee Lauder Double Wear foundation, and the Covergirl Ready set Gorgeous Foundation. I love both of these a lot, and I really recommend checking out both of them if you are in need of a new foundation! The Covergirl one is definitely my most used one out of all the foundations that I own. 

Two of my other favorites this year came from Hourglass. The Ambient Lighting Palette and the Ambient Lighting Blush in Mood Exposure are two of my most used makeup items. I use the palette everyday and the blush is one of my favorites that I own. Silly me forgot to take a picture of them other than the packaging. Lol fail. 

The next two come from Nars. You all know I'm a huge fan of their cheek products! The first one is the Nars Laguna Bronzer. This is my all time favorite bronzer. I just purchased the full size a month or so ago because I used up the one I had that came with the blush duo. The next item is the Nars Almeria blush. I'm so obsessed with this blush its not even funny. It's such a unique color and I can't get enough of it.

These are my four favorite palettes I purchased this year. The first one is the UD Naked2 Basics palette. It's a great neutral palette for everyday wear. I used this one almost everyday and it's great if you are a fan of the Naked eyeshadow line like I am. 

Next is the Makeup Forever Artist shadows. These are the ones that you choose which colors go into your empty palette. These are super nice and really great quality!

The Too Faced Cat Eyes palette was another favorite of mine this year. The colors in it are gorgeous and I'm seriously in love with the Cheetah print packaging. 

Last for eyeshadows is the Maybelline The Nudes Palette. This is by far the best drugstore eyeshadow that I own. I love this palette so much and its another one I used on an everyday basis!

My two favorite and most used lipsticks are Mac Faux (left) and Mac Viva Glam 2 (right). They look similar here but Faux is more pink toned, and Viva Glam 2 is more brown/nude.

My favorite scent was Gucci Guilty. This stuff smells like heaven! If you haven't smelled this before, please go do so! It's amazing!

The last for my favorites this year is my set of Sigma Brushes. I believe I bought these last March. It was a set of 7 brushes on promotion for Jaclyn Hill on YouTube. I'm very sorry these are gross and dirty, but I use these everyday and they are amazing. I did have my F80 fall apart on me and Sigma was kind enough to send me a new one! 

This concluded my favorite post for 2014!! Thank you all for reading!

What are some of your favorites for 2014? Let me know in the comments!