Benifit They're Real VS. Revlon 3D Volume Mascara

I love long full almost spider lag eyelashes and Benefit's They're Real gave me that plus it was long lasting. The only down fall is the price I don't mind paying for expensive foundation and skin care but 23 dollars for mascara is so outrageous I can't I just can't justify paying that so my search started for a drug store version of They're Real it needs to be cheap, cruelty free and just as good as They're Real. So I did alot of research reading other blogs, reviews on youtube and Makeupally. After alot of reading I decided to pick up Revlon 3D volume and it is 80% perfect it has a rubber bristle brush like They're real 3D Volume feels a little bit more flimsy and just a little bit smaller the wand and the spikes and doesn't last as long but it gives me the same effect as They're Real and 3D volume is supper black which is important to me. 3D Volume is 8 dollars as were They're is 23 that's a 15 dollar difference. So all in all Revlon 3d volume is an A+ in my book and will repurchase time and time again.

(I deleted the pic of the wands I have to take another and ill up load it soon.)



XOXO, Brooke

Cara Delevingne Brown Smokey Eye Makeup Breakdown

 

 

 

This is a fairly simple makeup with a really lovely result I love this look and have been wearing it nonstop. all you need is four matte brown shades that flow in a gradient effect like O'mbre actually exactly like O'mbre so on the eye it will be darkest to lightest starting on the lash line and working up. I am using my favorite eye shadows Urban decay there super pigmented and blend really easy I'm using Naked, Faint, Secret Service and Walk of Shame. Start off with priming your lids and filling in your brows if you like sweep and flesh colored shadow over the whole lid to set the primer and avoid skipping. take a large fluffy blending brush and naked and buff that on your crease but not really in the fold where the lid and crease meet just up a little higher blend really well. Now using Faint and a pointed crease brush or a blending brush like the Bdellium Tools 776 put that in the crease the actual fold blending it down onto the lid a little bit and up into Naked to fuse them together. With a small flat shader brush take Secret Service and pat that on the lid staying out of the crease taking just a little little bit of Faint run that through the crease one more time to blend Secret Service. For a brow bone highlight sweep Walk of Shame there and the tear duct to give a more open look to the eye. For eye liner I like making my outer corner a little thick and making it thinner going towards the tear duct or you could do a small not to dramatic or bold cat eye line the water line as well and line the flap of skin on the top lid underneath the lashes only the thick part that will help give your eye an upturned effect. Apply lots and lots of mascara or false lashes if you want. Use your favorite bronzer and a soft warm light peach blush like Kat Von D Wish Blush highlight your cheek bones if you want. For lips I suggest a glossy lip balm or a "my lips but better" color.   

 

 

P.S. I tried to take swatch pics on my arm but they just didn't show up right on my arm with the lighting in my room so that's why there on a tissue.

 

 

XOXO Brooke

Beautifully Disney

The Disney Corporation has come out with a great little cosmetics line available I know for sure at Orlando and Anaheim parks not sure about the others. The line is called Beautifully Disney and it has nail polish, lip gloss, eyeshadow quads, compacts and makeup bags. Right now its the Wickedly Beautiful line with is Cinderella and her evil stepmother, Sleeping Beauty and Maleficent, Ariel and Ursula, Snow White and the Evil Queen. The next collection is Unlock the Spell Spring / Summer 2013 this collection is Princess and the Frog and the last is Fiery Spirit Fall / Winter 2013 and it is Pocahontas. I only picked up one thing and it is The little mermaid lip gloss in Mysterious Mermaid Is on the thinner side which I prefer and it smells really good like cherry. So all in all I'm enjoying my purchase I emailed Disney to see if Beautifully Disney is Cruelty free (I sure hope so). 

 

Update 4/23/2013 I recived an email back from Disney they are cruelty free!!

 

 

XOXO Brooke.

 

 

  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Black Heart Cosmetics

A new store opened in my local mall called Black Heart it is a sister store to Hot Topic and Torrid, Black Heart is mostly lingerie but they do have close there too. It is definitely has a rock and roll punk feel which I love but what I noticed is that it had a really nice selection of beauty products while looking at the label I saw that it said cruelty free on the back I was so excited I only bought one product to see if they products were even good so I bought a mermaid teal colored glitter eyeliner and its so nice and such a pretty color to boot. I'm definitely gonna try more products I'm gonna buy there eye primer and a shadow quad next. 


XOXO, Brooke 

 

 

 

 

Cruelty Free Cosmetics

From now on I will only be buying, using and reviewing cruelty free cosmetics. I have always been an animal lover and I just couldn't live with myself if I hurt an animal and after watching video and doing research and animal testing and cosmetics there is just no way I can consciously uses cosmetics tested on animals. Ill name some brands that are cruelty free and some that are not.

• Cruelty free                                        
• Tarte
• Too Faced
• Urban Decay
• Kat Von D
• Sephora Collection
• Benefit
• Nyx 
• Black Heart

• Not Cruelty Free
• Mac
• Most drug Store Companies
• Most High End Companies I.E. Dior
• Makeup Forever

XOXO, Brooke

Updated Eyebrow Routine

One day while shopping around my favorite beauty supply my friend Susan works at I noticed for great her eyebrows looked I asked her how she does them and she uses a small angeled brush with an powder eyeshadow and she just dampens the brush with fix plus dips it in the powder and shapes her brows and the best part is that being that using the shadow wet makes them last all day. I started doing this and my brows have never looked better.


XOXO Brooke

Sephora and Disney Princess Collection

I am a huge Disney fan in general so when I heard about this collaboration I was very excited. Each collection has the Storylook Palette, compact, perfume, quad, nail polish and a set of products that's special to each princess Cinderella had a set of lipsticks and Jasmine has a set of eyeliners. The only thing from the collections I'm really interested in are the compacts I do like the Storylooks Pallets but I just don't think I use them. The first release the Cinderella were I bought the Stroke of Midnight compact which I love so much it has a clock with roman numerals on it is silver with gold and blue with the castle in the back round. The second collection is princess Jasmine with the Palace Jewel Compact which is gold with a pinky purpley back of the city of Agraba its also has a raised pattern on top of it. I love this collaboration between Sephora and Disney and I will continue to buy compacts in hopes to collect them all.

P.S. I have heard from a few little birdies that in late summer early fall The Little Mermaid will be next. 

XOXO Brooke