The "Jen" Look from Too Faced Loves Sephora palette and Curly Hair using T3 Singlepass Straightener

Hello dolls!!

Here is yet another look from the Too Faced Loves Sephora palette. I did the "Jen" look this time. I thought that the look looked much better on paper than it did on me. I don't particularly like this look, but it is very simple to do. The eyeshadows used in this look are 525 Market and TF<3's The Cast. 525 Market is a dark brownish purplish colour and TF <3's The Cast is a weird silver/gold. I'm not sure if I like the last colour. It hasn't had time to grow on me yet. I thought 525 Market was a nice colour so I decided to use Stila's Black Cherry Lipglaze, which is a plum colour, as a complimenting lipgloss. You could also use a nude lipstick with this look as well. I followed the look exactly like it was on the card. For the most part lol.

I curled my hair again. Photos down below. I left the makeup pics showing my hair so you could see it. I'll post the link at the bottom so you can see my Hair Tutorial using my awesome T3 Singlepass straightener.

I'm also working on a Review on this palette, so it should be coming real soon!


The "Jen" Look from Too Faced Loves Sephora palette

Eyes:

Too Faced Shadow Insurance
Too Faced Loves Sephora palette

• TF<3's The Cast: apply to entire crease and bring it down to the tear duct
• 525 Market: apply to the lid

Too Faced Lashgasm Mascara

Face:

Too Faced Primed and Poreless
MAC Select Cover-Up Concealer in NW20
MUFE HD Foundation in 110
MUFE HD Powder
Too Faced Loves Sephora blush in Who's Your Poppy?
Too Faced Loves Sephora bronzer in Chocolate Soleil

Lips:

Stila Lipglaze in Black Cherry
OR
Too Faced La Creme in Naked Dolly

Products Used:

Too Faced Loves Sephora palette

Too Faced Loves Sephora palette - 62$CAD

Too Faced Loves Sephora

Too Faced Lashgasm Mascara

Too Faced Loves Sephora

Stila Lipglaze in Sugar Plum, Black Cherry
Black Cherry used in tutorial, mini showsn, fullsize is 29$CAD

Too Faced La Creme in Naked Dolly - 25$CAD

From left to right:
Too Faced Loves Sephora eyeshadows: TF <3's The Cast, 525 Market
Too Faced Loves Sephora blush: Who's Your Poppy?
Too Faced Loves Sephora bronzer: Chocolate Soleil
Stila Lipglaze in Black Cherry

So that is the "Jen" look from the Too Faced Loves Sephora palette!! While I'm not a huge fan of this particular look, I really enjoyed all the looks that I've tried thus far. I can't wait to try another look tomorrow. I'll probably use this palette until I do all 15 looks along with my own. I know I should move on and post about something new but I'm really liking it.

I'm working on a Review on this palette right now, it should be out by the weekend so keep checking back.

If you wanted to check out the other looks from this palette, this is my look, this is Artemis and this is Alison.

And now, the hair pictures.

If you want to do your hair like this, check out my post Curly Hair Using T3 Singlepass Hair Straightener.

This is only my second time doing my own hair like this and I'm really starting to get the technique down. The trick is flipping your hair around the straightener with your hand that isn't holding the straightener. And always hold on to that piece of hair coming out of the straightener.

So what do you guys and girls think about the "Jen" makeup look? What do you think of the Too Faced Loves Sephora palette? Yay or nay? What did you think of my curly hair? Let me know what you think!

And I want to let you guys know what I've been working on lately.

Reviews: I'm currently working on a review on the Too Faced Loves Sephora palette and I'm going to do a review comparing the old Too Faced Pink Leopard vs the new Pink Leopard, if you want to see something reviewed, just let me know.

Cruelty-free / Vegan Makeup: I'm doing research so I can give you guys accurate info on which brands are cruelty-free and/or vegan. It's been asked so I wanted to do my own list with my own in-depth research.

Empties & Extras #1: I've started doing this post but I've only got 7 empties and I wanted to have around 10. But this is definitely in the works.

Nails: I'll probably be doing my nails in a week or two, they're really bad and damaged so I want to give them some time to get better before I slaughter them with more nail polish.

Now these are just a couple things I've been working on, I'm still doing the last touches on my Makeup Basics page as well as doing a new look everyday for you guys.

Thanks for reading,

Steph xo.

[Disclaimer: All products are bought and paid for by me. All opinions are my own.]

Fashion Look using Too Faced Smokey Eye Palette and NARS products plus MAC Foundation Fail

Hello glamour dolls!!

Today I'm going to show you a Fashion Look using Too Faced's Smokey Eye palette. I'm using the "fashion" row of eyeshadows. It is a silver/purple look and I'm using NARS blush and lip pencil to complement the eyes. This is obviously more of a night look but I have worn this in the day with a lighter lipgloss because I love the colors. If you don't want such a bold lip I'll suggest a lighter color lipgloss to wear, but I think this lip color looks fantastic with these eyes. The lip pencil is a red/pink color. It isn't something I would have normally thought of buying. It was Sephora's 500 point perk by NARS and I took it because I wanted the Orgasm blush. But the lip pencil turned out to be a lovely color on me. The NARS Super Orgasm blush that I'm using is a mini sized that was bought at Sephora. They had the product over by the cash where they have a bunch of other products as well. That's usually where they sell minis and stuff. It was also my first time ever in my whole life using fake lashes, so they might look a little weird and they might not be 100% straight. The reason I've never used fake lashes before is because I have long and full natural lashes so I never needed to wear fake lashes. I bought a few packs recently and thought it would be fun to try out for more crazy fashion inspired looks. I'm not really used to using them, I found it really annoying to get them on and the inner corners kept coming off. I guess I'm just not used to the feel of them yet. My eyes were also a bit watery and the glue has taken off all the eyeshadow underneath, which required some fixing up when the corners came off.

If you want to check out the "classic" look from the Too Faced Smokey Eye palette, you can see it here.


MAC Foundation Disaster!!

So I will show you this look after I tell you about the disaster I had when I tried out one of the new foundation shades that MAC released. I find that NW20 is a bit too dark for me and that NW15 is ghost white on me. So I should be in between these two colors, right? Wrong! I got a sample recently of a new shade, NW18 in their Studio Fix Fluid and I tried it on today to do this look and it was so horrible that I ended up washing it off and putting on the foundation that I normally wear, Makeup Forever's HD Foundation in 110. I don't know if I got a bad batch, or the wrong color, or if it is actually supposed to look like this but it looked orange/bronzey on me. It was way too dark for my skin. I compared it to NW20 that I have in Studio Fix Powder and they looked way different. I'll include a picture with a few swatches of different foundations and concealers that I have by MAC as well as the foundation that I use by MUFE so you can see what I'm talking about. Do let me know if I received the wrong color, or if it is actually supposed to look like that. I'm planning on going back to the MAC store and comparing NW15, NW18 and NW20 together. I was really disappointed. I really thought that this would be my color but it looked so horrible. I really couldn't believe it. So please let me know what you think about this!

From left to right:
MUFE HD Foundation in 110, MUFE HD Foundation in 115(slightly higher), MAC Select Cover-Up Concealer in NW20
MAC Studio Finish Concealer in NW20, MAC Studio Fix Fluid in supposedly NW18

Looking at these 5 swatches, MUFE HD Foundation in 110 is the lightest color. MUFE HD Foundation in 115 looks almost the same as MAC Select Cover-Up Concealer in NW20 and MAC Studio FInish Concealer in NW20. MAC Studio Fix in NW18 is the darkest color. I'm really starting to think that this was an error on the makeup artist's part. This color cannot be NW18. Obviously, I will keep you all in the loop. I'm going to go back to the MAC store and obtain samples like I mentioned above and I will swatch them and compare them when I repost about this.

And now, the look!


Too Faced Smokey Eye palette in "Fashion"

Eyes:

Too Faced Shadow Insurance primer
Too Faced Smokey Eye palette

• In A Flash: apply to the inner half of the eye. Extend to the crease. Line the inner half of the bottom lash line doing a relatively thick line.
• Smoking Jacket: apply to the outer half of the eye but only on the lid. blend the two colors together, you don't want a stark line. Line the outer half of the bottom lashline, but do a thinner line than In A Flash. You will be putting Smolder underneath Smoking Jacket.
• Smolder: apply to the crease. apply on top of Smoking Jacket and stop once you get to In A Flash. Make sure that it blends into In A Flash. Line the outer lashline with Smolder underneath Smoking Jacket.

Too Faced Perfect Eyes Eyeliner in Perfect Black
Too Faced Lashgasm Mascara (make sure to put mascara on your bottom lashes too)
Sephora Fake Eyelashes in Showstopper
Duo Fake Eyelash Glue

Face:

MUFE HD Primer
MAC Select Cover-Up Concealer in NW20
MUFE HD Foundation in 110
MUFE HD Powder
Benefit High Beam
NARS Super Orgasm blush
Too Faced Bronzed and Poreless bronzer

Lips:

NARS Velvet Gloss Lip Pencil in New Lover
OR for a softer lip color use
NARS Super Orgasm Lipgloss

Products Used:

Too Faced Smokey Eye Palette - 45$CAD

Too Faced Smokey Eye Palette
Fashion row was used for this look

Too Faced Perfect Eyes in Perfect Black - 25$CAD

Too Faced Lashgasm Mascara - 28$CAD

Benefit High Beam - 32$CAD

NARS Super Orgasm (deluxe size shown, regular size is 32$CAD)

Too Faced Bronzed and Poreless - 38$CAD

Too Faced Bronzed and Poreless

NARS Velvet Gloss Lip Pencil in New Lover (deluxe size shown, regular size is 32$CAD)

From left to right:
Too Faced Smokey Eye palette in In A Flash, Smoking Jacket, Smolder
Benefit High Beam
NARS Super Orgasm blush
Too Faced Bronzed and Poreless
NARS Velvet Gloss Lip Pencil in New Lover
NARS Super Orgasm Lipgloss

Now I hope you all enjoyed this look! I really wanted to do something more fun instead of the usual neutral day looks which can get a little bit boring after a while. Please do let me know if you want to see more fun looks like this. I will be doing that 60's mod look this week for Fashion Friday, that I promise you. Unless I get even more sick than I still am now. I'm slowly getting better though.

Oh and I tried out doing the mermaid waves with my T3 straightener. I only did a few pieces of hair to try out the technique and this is what it looked like.

And this is the straightener:

So do you girls like it? Should I do my whole head like that? And do you know any other straightener techniques other than the curl and the mermaid wave? Please do let me know if you do and link a video if you can. And if you like the makeup I'm wearing here, you can see my post on it here.

Please leave me some comments, I want to know your thoughts on these questions. What did you think of the fashion look? Would you do it or is it too bold? Do you like the NARS velvet lip pencils? What is your favorite shade? Which is your favorite Too Faced palette of all time? What techniques do you use to get your fake lashes on? Do you like NARS famous Super Orgasm and Orgasm blushes?

And finally, what did you think about that horrible MAC foundation color? Do you think they made a mistake and gave me the wrong color or is it really dark like that?

Please let me know what is up with that!! I know I promised a nails video yesterday but I just remembered that the kit I wanted to use I'm giving one to my friend for her birthday so I didn't want to spoil the surprise. I'm also working for the next two weeks and I don't want to ruin my nails either. I think I might use the Naked nail set by Urban Decay and do something more casual.


So that's it for now, take care everyone!!

Steph xo.

Curly Hair Using T3 Single Pass Hair Straightener

Hello lovelies.

[My camera ran out of batteries before I could get all the shots. This is being published a tad bit later than I had originally intended.]

So I bet you're all like "omg how did she do that to her hair?!?!?". The answer is simple. My new T3 Single-Pass straightener curled my hair, as ironic as that sounds. There is a very specific technique to curling your hair, you need a lot of time and patience to get it right. I would not suggest attempting this for the first time when you have somewhere important to go. It took me about 3 hours (breaks included) to get it done. I've only ever played around with curling twice, and this is the first time that I fully finished it off with every strand curled, hairsprayed, and in place. Since I'm new at this, I don't feel like it's really my place yet to tell you how to do the curls and look fabulous. But I will tell you what I did to achieve these particular curls.

T3 SinglePass - 180$CAD

I've only had my T3 for about a week, I got it for my 23rd birthday. It has 5 heat settings, which gives you control over the temperature so you don't end up frying your hair on high. The on/off switch is located inside between the plates. It heats up really fast. It can heat up to 450F. So it looks like the Alterna was a good choice. It straightens really nicely and gives your hair a nice texture. It's almost as if its glossy. It doesn't feel like it's damaging my hair. You only need to pass it through once, like its name suggests. But I have fine straight hair, so obviously it only needs one pass. It curls extremely well (you need to have skill to do this). Hair doesn't get caught. The power cord is a swivel cord so it doesn't tangle. So far, so good; I'm really liking this straightener. Obviously, it is more on the high end side, but it is worth it if you are buying a straightener for more than just straightening. If you have naturally straight or close to straight and all you want to do is straighten, then I would buy a cheap pharmacy straightener. I would only suggest buying an expensive straightener like this if you are going to be using it to style, straighten, curl, wave, whatever else you can do with a straightener that I don't yet know about. And if you have really thick and curly hair, you know you need a higher end straightener to straighten your hair.

The verdict: I'm really happy I got the T3. I was debating on getting the CHI, dreaming of the GHD cuz I kept seeing a ton of positive reviews, and heard good things about the T3 and a few other brands. I haven't owned a straightener since my mid teens. I'm happy I picked this straightener. So far it's doing a fantastic job. I just hope it stays this way.

But before we start, we're gonna need a few simple tools. Hair spray (Finesse is the absolute max hold hairspray), those clips that the popular girls stole from their salons, those big salon clips that hairdressers use to separate sections of hair, a comb, a brush, and a thermal protection spray. The lady at Sephora suggested my mom buy the Alterna thermal protection spray, so she went with it. Neither of us knew which brand to get. This one seems like a good pick, protecting up to 450F. That is really hot.

hair dresser clips, combs

Finesse hairspray

Alterna Thermal Protective Spray

How to do those beautiful curls: Brush your hair. Spray a thermal protection spray all over your hear. Comb it through. Section your hair, you want to start with the bottom. Take a strand of hair (not too big of course!). Comb it. Clamp the iron onto your hair. Rotate your wrist AWAY from your body. You want to make a full 360. The piece of hair from the straightener should be facing down. Make sure you keep your hair between the plates. The slower you pull, the smaller the curls. For a more wavier look, pull faster. If you did this properly, you should get a nice curl. Help it along and make sure it's going the right way. If you're happy, hairspray this curl and grab your next piece of hair and continue the process. If you're not happy, straighten your hair, spray again with thermal protection, comb it through, and wait a couple mins for it to dry. YOU SHOULD NEVER STRAIGHTEN DAMP OR WET HAIR. EVER. This will literally kill your hair. Do not do it!! It's okay if you don't achieve the perfect curl right away. It took me quite a few tries to get the technique down. Just don't give up. When you get to the top, you want to pay extra attention to the front. Before curling each top piece, backcomb it so  that it will give you some extra volume. After you've done all your curls, put your head upside down and hairspray the crap outta it. At this point, you should be looking fantastic. If you look like a hot mess, don't be discouraged, try again another day. I looked like a hot mess the first time I tried curling with a straightener. Just remember: time, patience and perseverance.

This isn't the only technique out there for curling hair with a straightener. Instead of rotating the wrist away from your body, try rotating it towards yourself. This will make your curls go in the opposite direction but it will also have a different effect where it starts on your head.

For wavy/mermaid hair: When you go over a piece of hair, you want to rotate away from the body slightly, drag it down slowly, then stop and rotate towards the body, drag it down slowly, and keep repeating. You want to constantly be rotating your wrist. It is this that will give you the waves. I tried this on a piece of hair and I really like the outcome. Of course I'll still need some more practise!!

So that is all I know so far about curling with a straightener. I'm still practising my curls and experimenting with different types of curls and waves. When I get better I'd feel more comfortable making a video demonstrating how to achieve the perfect curl. lol. It won't be a perfect curl, but it'll be a damn nice curl!

Thanks for reading and I hope you enjoyed it as much as I enjoyed curling my hair today!!

So do you prefer me with straight hair or curly hair?

Are you impressed with the T3's ability to curl hair?

Do you have any other tricks or tips for curling?

Show me your pictures of your curls using a straightener. I'd love to see them.

I'll be back to makeup tomorrow.

Love Love Love

Steph xo.

[Disclaimer: All products were bought and paid for by me. All opinions are my own.]