Skin and Brows: Anastasia Brows and Bobbi Brown

         I think that the one thing I wish I would have started doing sooner in my whole makeup "career" is doing my eyebrows. It really makes such a dramatic difference in your face. It gives you a facelift and makes you look more awake and ... alive. Anyway, I have been in a constant struggle from a very long time ago to find a brow filler that doesn't make me look like a flaming ginger. Because my uncle and cousins have red hair I was blessed with having red tinges in my brows. So I have to literally find the most ashy color, for light blondes out there. I think I might have found it! I use the lighter side, but using the darker side for anyone makes you look younger. So I picked this up in Ash Blonde/Taupe, and I like power better because it looks more natural... in my opinion.

      Did you notice that I GOT A NEW CAMERA? :O Well I did. Its the Canon Rebel T3i. Its such a beautiful piece of equiptment. 
Any how... This brow power duo comes in this nice silvered little compact, with a mirror... not like I would suggest using that mirror to do your brows though... I would actually highly not suggest doing so. But In my journey, I have found this to be the best for my brows. And like I said. I have pretty blonde hair and on my brows I have a hidden tinge of ginger in the undertone apparently. I have only tried and been using this for about a week or so, but I still love it and find it the best brow product I have used thus far.

      Now on to a substitute that I picked up at Sephora to replace my Cover FX concealer. So here is me, thinking "Oh Megan.. you really love Bobbi Browns tinted moisturizer... so just try the foundation stick. Not like you have many other choices here. I mean your alabaster skin is a rarity uncommon in Florida, this is the only thing in this store that could come close to matching you." So basically I got it. And straight up, matched my skin perfectly. I mean the shade description is supposed to be pinker than all of Bobbi Brown makes. And the tinted moisturizer is a tad dark in the same shade so I mix white into it. With this it is perfect, I suspect because it is a cream. Anyway I love it, thus far. Though I want to mention it is hella exspensive for .31 oz. coming in at 40$. Other than that I love it.

         Straight up swatches, unblended.
         

    Oh hello super sexy new camera quality ;)

                    These are blended, and you can see how well of a match is :)

Well, anyways. I have had literally the worst week of my life this week. School sucked so bad. Tests, Homework, everything. I am trying to get some posts up between the two blogs I run.. ( The other one is "MegansMovingCastle.blogspot.com" ) And I hope this tides you all over and I hope you guys had a lot better week than I did. And I will hopefully post something tomorrow or Sunday.. it will most likely be a new look! Yay!

Love you all!

xxx

Megan

I Salute You: Make Up For Ever Full Cover Concealer in #2

I'm back from vacation as you can probably tell. I am going to start a new series of sorts.. a tribute, I guess you could say, to the most amazing products that if they were alive, real, and walking.. I would most definitely salute them for all that they do. This is the first installment! 

Stating a little bit of the obvious but, this is the Make Up For Ever Full Cover Concealer in #2. I have had this concealer for well over 3 years (sounds like a long time when i actually write it.. like probably it should have been in zee garbage..). Any who... I love this concealer. It for me is like magic in a 22$ tube. It is waterproof, which translates into sweat proof .. which translates into perfect for me, since I live in Florida. It doesn't cake up for me, glides on to my skin like a dream. 

 Onto the color. I must say that now since I have started to use self tanner and lay out in the sun a little bit.. it doesn't quite match me. A tad too light. But when I was a perfect NW10 it matched me to a tee! It is cool toned but not overly pink.. it carries a neutral quality to it.. whilst still being cool toned! Now onto my biggest pet peeve. They discontinued this shade in the United states. What the heck MUFE? I mean do they think we don't need it? Was it because not enough profits were being made off of this particular shade? Why did you do such a thing? I remember when I first heard about the news, I was on MakeupAlley. Fair skinned ladies of MUA were as devastated as I was. The worst part? Knowing there was no way that you could go rush out and get a backup because the only sephora in your area is closed for construction, and because it was removed from the website.
Well with all of the sadness aside. I salute you Make Up For Ever Full Cover Concealer In #2, for making me not look like a hormonal pimply teenager with bad skin or making my skin worse, and for not letting my face melt off in summer. For that I salute you. You made me look flawless.

(Seriously.. when I saw this I laughed for a longer period of time than I probably should.)

Bobbi Brown Corrector Concealer Review!

Bonjour!

This past weekend I went to Sephora, and noticed that they finally have a section of Bobbi Brown. Since I got their early enough, practically no one was in the store so I got the pleasure of looking around the new stand, by my self, without other people hovering over me waiting for me too leave so they can look!  I was so excited about this, mostly because of the fact I wanted to try Bobbi Browns face products because they look light enough for me! I was completely right! Unfortunately the one thing I really wanted to try was the skin foundation, they only had the second lightest shade, porcelain. For me I am definitely Alabaster because of the fact that all of Bobbi Browns face products tend to lean more yellow. Since I am textbook cool, I would definitely be Alabaster which has some yellow in to counteract redness, but has the right amount of pink to work. In the concealer it is all different. The one i ended up picking up is the one in porcelain Bisque. This has pink undertones in it, as you can see in pictures below, and since my arm is basically even skin (meaning no splotches of red/pink/discoloration) it shows a tad bit off in color, but still a good match. On my actual face it's gorgeous! matches really nicely, and since it is a corrector concealer it counteracts all the colors you don't want on your face, like red for spots, and blues and purples for under eye areas. I find that i like this more for spots and blemishes more than on the under eyes, because it creases on me because it is pretty full coverage. The concealer itself is very creamy and pigmented. I would say depending on how much you use it is a medium coverage to very full coverage concealer. I think this is great for us cool, incredibly pale skinned people. I think guys could get away with wearing this even because Bobbi brown designed this to blend perfectly into peoples skin tone. Because in all truth no one has completely pink undertones. Even if you are super cool toned like me, you still have some yellow pigment in your skin. I love this concealer and this has replaced my favorite concealer.. which is the Kat Von D tattoo concealer in Porcelain.