June 2014 favorites

Time is flying by so fast! It's half a year already and soon all my favorite holidays will be here. But let's not jump ahead and enjoy our summer! It just started anyway! So let's start. 

 

Foundation- I have been loving 2 foundations. One from the drugstore and one high end. From the drugstore, I love the l'oreal true match lumi. And the high end one is the Mac mineralize moisture with SPF 15 foundation. I have dry skin and both does a good job keeping my skin hydrated and make it look a little Dewey which is my thing winter OR summer.

Bronzer- my ever so favorite hoola bronzer from benefit. I hit pan on this already, that's how good it is.

Mascara- I used two mascaras one for the top and one for the bottom lashes. For the top, since I am a vib holder at sephora, I always get a travel size of benefits they're real mascara. I think I have 4 or 5 of these, and I love it. Once I ran out of it I will sure buy a full size. For the bottom lashes, I am loving the Clinique bottom lashes mascara. They're really made for it and it coats my bottom lashes perfectly without smearing or touching my skin. 

Eyebrows- it takes a little bit of work using this but... But it's the perfect color for my eyebrows. It's waterproof and wouldn't budge which is very important to me. 

Concealer- I have a lot of concealer, usually I always gravitate to my Mac prolong wear concealer but this month, maybeline age rewind won me over. Perfect for the under eye, and brightens up the face. In-love!

Eyes- I don't know why not a lot of people are raving about this palette. This is ahhmazzing! They are all matte perfect for me since I love matte shadows. They have colors that's good for blending and to darken the crease. Here's the swatches of the shadow.

If you follow me on Instagram, you will know  that I've been raving about the hourglass ambient lighting blush. They are so soft and creamy. I will have a blog all about the hourglass blushes and highlighters. So, one of my favorite YouTube guru is Jaclyn hill. She did a video something about favorite blushes for summer and she mentioned style, margin and sun basque by Mac. And of course I had to buy most of all the stuff that she raves about. But out of the three, I have been loving style. It's peach with shimmer and it doesn't look too much on my fair skin. Lastly is Mac mineralized skin finish in global glow. Perfect bronze highlighter.

And the last three favorites for this month is three lip products. The first one is revlon primrose. This for me is the perfect pink for summer. Now if I don't feel like wearing a lipstick, you will sure see me wearing a butter gloss from NYX in vanilla cream pie. Lastly, my monthly favorites won't be complete without a lippie from Mac. This month, it's vegas volt. It has just the right amount of orange on it. Great for day time or even night time. 

So, this is all my favorites for the month of June. Share me your favorites too. Xoxo.

Mac lipstick swatches

Wow. I know it's been almost 1 year since I last posted. I was just a bit busy with my daughter attending pre-k to getting pregnant and trying to save money by doing DIY blankets, burp cloth, car seat canopy. I was not a bit but way too busy! 

Today, I will be showing you guys some of my Mac lipstick swatches. This is not for me to brag or to show you guys how many I have but to help those beauty addict who haven't tried Mac lipsticks yet. I tried to put it together by color but I missed some. 

These are some of my neutral lipstick. My most used one is pure zen, hue and creme cup. Japanese maple is a bit too light for me since I have fair skin it makes me look like I'm wearing a concealer. But, with a gloss it's perfect. Same with myth I need to use a pencil and gloss on top of it. Salute is a limited edition lipstick from the hey sailor collection. 

Okay so I'm into the Kylie Jenner lip color right now and it's hard for me to tell which one she's wearing or if she's even wearing a Mac lipstick. So I tried my best to look for it. The original plan was to buy few lipstick, which in my case was 5 and if it's not right, I'll return it. (Btw there's no Mac store or macys or Dillard where they sell Mac here. I feel like I like in the desert, so I had to but it online.) anyway, I ended up liking all of them and of course I have to keep them. The closest color to Kylie's was brave. I love it so much.  Anyone who loves darker nudes take my advice and buy these colors. 

Except for peach stock. Peachstock is so much better with darker skin tones. I'm keeping it for my makeup kit when I do freelance.

Ok so I totally messed up. I should have put peachstock here and creme in your coffee with the darker nudes. And sark companion on the first pic but who cares right? Warm companion was a limited edition too from god who knows which collection. Lol. It's a good uh hmmm... Topping? (Can't seem to find the right word) to another lipsticks. It's like a champagney color. Creme in your coffee reminds me of what my mom used to wear when she was younger. Not her teens but after having 4 kids. Lol. But you know what, I like it. This color for me is great for fall, when I'm super duper pale. Sushi kiss is from the orange collection, it's a matte finish and so good if you top it with a gloss too. 

Ok, this is my summer go to lipsticks, the famous pink nouveau that we all know, they call it the Barbie pink. Lady danger, omg, I love this. Toying around is from the play land collection that came out this year. Flamingo was also from the orange collection that I think Mac made as a permanent lipstick.

This is where I got lazy color coordinating it. Lol. Dangerous and relentlessly red was from the retro matte collection. As much as I love these colors, it was just to drying for me. I still use it though. I just make sure I exfoliate and moisturize my lips and use lip pencil before I put this on. One thing I like about mattes, they last forever on your lips.

I am not gonna talk about every single lipstick, if you're wondering why I skipped a lot. Sweet experience was also from the play land collection and girl next door was from the Archie's collection. Who doesn't know about viva glam nicki? I think everybody owns this coz it was also a LE although it was out til the viva glam Rihanna came out. They also came out with a 2nd nick I lipstick but I didn't buy it coz I don't know where I'll wear it. It was like a lilac color. 

 

Out of this six swatches, my most used one was Russian red. I was wearing this the whole winter time. And every time I had it on, people always ask me what I'm wearing. It's a good addition to your collection. Buy it. 😋

My last swatches. Darker colors. Rebel is my favorite. People need to own this. 

I hope this helps a lot of Mac newbies. Thanks guys!