Urban Decay - NAKED Palette

Because 1. i'm a college girl who you won't see walking around school with a crazy black smokey eye and 2. I work for the Abercrombie & Fitch company where employees are limited to little, natural looking makeup to none at all, neutral colored eyeshadows are a must for me! I use it almost everyday. EVERY girl needs a go-to palette with beautiful colors for everyday natural looks.



The palette has the perfect set of neutral colors. Some lighter, nude kind of colors and darker  purple, blue and silver colors as well. You can do a BUNCH of looks with this thing. Retail goes for about $48 which might be a lot to some people but it's definitely worth it. I bought this a while ago in 2010 and last time I checked they were pretty much sold out everywhere but I heard Sephoras were stocking up because they were so high in demand. I know you can find them on eBay too but then you'd be risking spending even more. (even though I'd say go for it because  they'd STILL be worth it!!!) looooooooooooove this palette.

Robin's 21st!

Saturday night at our house we had a party to celebrate 21 years of Robin always being the sober guy at parties by getting him anything but sober! So much fun. Thanks everyone who came and made it another great night at the Martin residence! I felt so happy being surrounded by good company all night.







Many more nights like these to come!

SIGMA - Complete Kit w/ Brush Roll

I looooooooooove this.

Okay so before these babies (lol) my brushes consisted of 5 or 6 mix-matching, super old, cheap makeup application brushes with bristles always falling on my face! Not to mention not having the right tools to do certain looks was frustrating. I knew I needed a set of good quality brushes and MAC's brush line came first to mind but the prices are insane!! I wanted a set that was high quality but one that I could afford at the same time. I know sometime down the line when I become more experienced i'll make the MAC brush investment but for now i'd rather put less of my little college-student-budget- type of money to expensive brushes and more to my actual makeup collection.

Anywaysss... After weeks of non-stop research I finally found these. I read/watched about a million reviews and read a thousand beauty blogs about this particular set and so many professional makeup artists compare these brushes to MAC's brush line. Some even prefer Sigma's over MAC's. 



The brushes are SO high quality and so is the roll it came in. They are SOOO soft. The packaging was super cute and they came with brochures on how to use each brush and how to clean them too. Luckily, after watching me drool over these over the internet for about a week, my love bought them for me as a VERY early Valentines day present. There's 12 brushes total. 5 for the face, and 7 for the eyes for ONLY $99! With shipping and everything, we paid just $108. That's basically $9 a brush. Just 1 MAC brush is HALF that price. It's totally worth the investment. Every girl should get these!


And my mommy just informed me that she recently ordered a bunch more individual brushes from the Sigma website that were on my birthday wishlist so i'll post those up when I get them in the mail!


www.sigmabeauty.com

The 1st Blog

Hey guys!! 


Okay so... tumblrs been making me kind of sad lately so i'm switching to BlogSpot. Kinda bummed because I have a lot of good things on that blog but tumblr (to me) is just too picture-ie now and being someone who loves to read and write I just miss reading peoples' blogs about what's going on in their lives. Although I DO go on tumblr sometimes to look for inspiration. But anyways, I really like the set up on BlogSpot better! (took me forever to learn how to use it though!!!!!) >:(


I feel really shy for doing this but whatever! This is gunna be a personal blog and a beauty blog also. Most of my girlfriends and acquaintances know (or eventually can see/tell) that for a while now i've been sort of makeup/beauty obsessed and i've been getting asked SOOOOOO MANY QUESTIONS LATELY (SERIOUSLY!!!!!) ABOUT; what I use, how much things are, where I got it, how to do things, if I can teach them, if I can do their makeup... blah, blah, blah, so even though I might get hated on for whatever reason i'm doing it for people like them and other girls who are makeup beginners, because at the day that's what I am too; a beginner :)


I am not doing this to be considered a "beauty-guru" or anything like that! I'm still far too stupid (lol). It's just mainly about my life and a little bit of beauty here and there. What products i'm obsessing over, what's working for me, what's not working, skin care I wanna share and YEAH! :) So hate on me or whatever but i'm happy because I know people who already appreciate my advice :) Okay, i'll stop talking now! I hope you guys enjoy this! =/