I Can Only Pick How Many (Nov Favs)?

I really didn't do any shopping this month, but I did by one thing that I fell in love with (and would repurchase anyday) and, also, rediscovered some things.  I ended up talking in this vid a great deal more than usual...sorry about that!  I think it is because I just haven't filmed in a while!  LOL!  Anyway, so I had to cut some things out of the vid, but I will post them here!  On to my favs!

CHI Keratin Mist - This is a leave-in strengthening treatment that is full of proteins that will do their thing on your hair from the inside out!  All you do is spray some on wet hair and style as ususal.  The mist will not only strengthen, but condition your hair, leaving it silky and smooth through styling.  I just love ti too!  I purchased it at the beginning of the month and I have seen a difference from day one.  I even use it on my daughters hair prior to a blow out.  I suggest this product to anyone that really styles the hell out of their hair and is looking for added protection.

NYX Jumbo Shadow Pencil in Milk - Everyone knows about these shadow sticks.  If you don't, boy are you missing out!  This is the first color I purchased and I will continue to purchase it until the day I stop wearing makeup!  I use it after my UDPP & prior to shadow to brighten up areas I will be applying lighter colors.  I have used it as a cheek highlight as well with an MSF over it, to set.  I use this just about every day.  Really, all of these pencils would be on my favs list if I had that much time!

Rimmel Spark It Up! Gleaming Eye Darkening Pendil in 610 Tiger's Eye - Woah!  Talk about a product that suprised the crap outta me!  This pencil is super smooth and pretty soft making it very versitile for the eye.  I love to apply it to my lower lash line and smudge!  It provides a sticky base so I have used it as a base for shadows to deepen colors and give a metallic finish to an otherwise boring shadow.  You can see in the swatch photo that it has a bronze/gold finish to it.

Benefit Boi-ing Concealer in Light - I LOVED this concealer when I got it, but stopped using it so much in the summer, because it was just too much on my face.  I picked it back up again to conceal my under eye area, rather than my Erase Paste, because I have been going to bed earlier these days.  Now, don't get me wrong, my Erase Paste is still my all time fav, but this works for every day use.  It leaves a smooth, powder-like finish on my skin that I just love and blends VERY easily!

MAC Select Cover-Up Concealer in NC20 - Yep, it happened...my face got SUPER mad and broke out like CRAZY this month for some reason!  (I attribute it to stress and my lack of H2O consumption this month!)  Anyway, I apply this with a Sigma 224...any fluffy dome shaped brush will do the trick for remarkable application.  I like it because it never looks cakey, even by the end of the day and I can cover break-outs with little or no effort at all!  If you have issues with break outs, you should really try it.  Get an NC shade so you can neutralize the red in the spots though.  Following application, set by stamping over some translucent powder.  Then, be mindful of those areas when applying your all over setting powder, or in my case, Bare Minerals Foundation.

MAC Pearl Cream Color Base - This will be my go to highlighter for the rest of my life, just so you know!  LOL!  Set it with.....

Bare Minerals Flawless Radiance - This creamy, beige-gold highlighter is BEAUTIFUL!!!  I hope you can see the effect on the left side of my hand in the photo.  I think this would be a great addition for anyone's collection.  It is versitile in that you can utilize it as not only a cheek highlight, brow high light but it is really pretty applied wet as a lid color or mixed in clear gloss for an interesting lip gloss.  :)  I LOVE this stuff!  I gotta find some more for cheap! 

Bare Minerals Blush in First Class - This has sat in my drawer for a while.  This was one of the colors I had in my stock in my eBay store.  (I do have a few left.)  Well, I pulled this one out the other day when I did yet another one of my neutral looks and it turned out to be the perfect blush to go with browns!  It has just a little shimmer to it and is a muted brownish rose color.  I REALLY love it!  It is the swatch above the Rimmel pencil in the swatch photo.  I think I am going to take 2 jars and press a pan of it so it is more portable.  I really do like the color and I think it would look great on just about anyone!

Well, I think that just about covers it for this month!  If you have any questions about these products, just let me know!  Also, if you are interested in any of the BE products that I have, just let me know and I will publish a post with some photos of what I have left.  All of the jars are $5 each.  I am thinking of putting a few lots on eBay with some MU bags.  They would make PERFECT xmas gifts since they are all BN!  :)

If you guys would like to see the video version of my favs, you can check it out HERE.

Thanks for coming by again today!  I hope you all have a wonderful weekend!

Blogger Rant! WTH??

So, I really dig you, Blogspot/Blogger!  But...why the hell are you not working for me lately??  Every time I pull up my site, this gadget or that gadget isn't working.  It isn't me on my YouTube vid bar, my followers aren't displayed loud and proud at the top of my page, my adsense is not there and countless other things are going wrong!  I cannot leave comments on my posts, much less any one else's!  I mean, I would really like to show my love to other people I love to read and tell KoKo, yes, you do deserve it and CMK2 & toshiam...dang, you guys are some of the best commenters in the WORLD!  I really wish the kinks would get worked out around here!  I love how easy this site is, but if it doens't start wokring for me soon, I will have to move and I REALLY don't want to do that after all I have gone through to get this page where I wanted it! 

Well, anyhow...that is my rant.  I am pretty angry about not being able to use this easily, and I am not the only one!  Tell me your rant about blogger/blogspot and what hasn't been working for you here or on other's blogs (or your own of course)!  I am tired of feeling like it is just ME that the site hates!  LOL!

Loves you guys!

FYI

I don't know what is up with Blogspot lately, or if it is my lame computer, but I haven't been able to make comments on ANY blog!  So, just so you guys know, I AM reading all of your comments and responses will come as soon as the comment page decides to load on my computer!  Sorry guys and thanks for coming by and commenting!  I'm editing some new YT vids, so make sure to go check those out!  :)  Loves ya!

Throwin Some Love Their Way!

I had a thought, how wonderful it would be to show some love to some AWESOME people that have blogs I love!  Some of these people have supported me, some have not, but I still love reading and keeping in touch with their blogs!  Not all of them are about makeup, but that doesn't make them any less interesting to read!

I believe I will share one blogger with you maybe once a week or at least every other week, so you can maybe check out some new material as well as give them some new foot traffic!  Personally, I LOVE to see new faces travel through my blog and I know these people will as well!  Some of them are HUGE bloggers and YouTubers, some are little, like me!  Either way, I love what they put out there and I would love to share with you why!

The first blogger I want to share with you guys is a sweetheart!  I met her first on the MakeupGeek.com Forum.  We started chatting about the best way to conceal under eye circles.  I of course use nothing but Benefit's Erase Paste when I really need to conceal after a night of sleeplessness!  We chatted for a while on this subject and then I started to see her gorgeous face on the "Show Your Face" thread on that site and saw her unbelieveable talent!  This girl REALLY has a gift, you guys!!  Her name is KoKo aka Special-K!

She started blogging and doing videos shortly after we became web friends, and I was SO happy to see that!  Her posts are so great and she puts up some phenomenal looks!!!  I have a few photos here that are just some of my favorites of some of her work.  If you only speak English, you will have to translate her page, but that is not an issue since she has a translator right there for you!  Some days, I don't have to translate it to know what she is talking about since she posts a lot of super great photos to illustrate each entry!

She is such a beautiful woman and has an eye for this art!  I, personally, feel that she will go far in this profession if she persues it!  Make sure to go check out her blog and click to follow!  She posts great stuff, often and that is what I like to see out of bloggers!  I hope you enjoy her blog as much as I do!

KoKo, I want you to know how much I love reading your blog honey!  I just wanted to let anyone that passed through my page to know about you!  I think you are just fabulous and you deserve all the followers you get!  You talent is amazing so just keep on doing what you do and keep on learning!  The sky really is the limit for you!  :)  Loves ya honey!  Take care and I will talk to you soon!  :)

Like I said before, I am going to be "featuring", I guess you could say, a new blogger every week or two for you guys to check out.  They may not all be about makeup, but interesting still!  If you guys have someone that you would like me to feature, email me and I will happily feature them!  Make sure you tell me why you like their blog or website so much and why you think everyone else should read what they have to say!  I would love to add some new blogs to my list as well!

Thanks for coming by you guys!  I hope this post was helpful!  Take care and have a great day!  See you all later!

A Dazzling Holiday Look Courtesy of Sephora...

Here are the holidays ladies and gents!  You know, it seems the older I get, the quicker they come!  When I was a kid, it seemed like it would take a lifetime before Christmas or my birthday would roll around.  Now, when I wish it would take forever, it doesn't!  I mean, where did this year go?  Does anyone else feel that way...or is it just me!?  Well, can't stop it now, so I will just get to the point of this post!  :)

I have told you all about my loss of inspiration and I am sure you are all tired to death of hearing about it.  Well, I have been sitting down every night and playing with color, of all things!  LOL!  I have even changed up my neutral day time looks to be a little more fun and exciting!  Yes, you can make browns look amazingly interesting with a little extra effort!  LOL!

Since this tragic time fell upon me, I have scoured the net daily searching and saving pics that I love and that seem, at the time, to inspire me.  Bad thing about it, I am always somewhere that I can't just break out the brushes and get to work!  Anyway...I went to Sephora online today since I got a Beauty Insider coupon and started looking around their site at products and pics.  I ended up in their "Get the Look" section and the holiday looks they have are simply amazing!  I know these were all in the Holiday 09 book, but mine never showed up, so this will just have to do!

Our of all those looks, this one has to have been my fav!  I LOVE the glitter and glimmer, especially on the lips!  I don't know what it is about glittery looks, but I just love them!  I especially love this one because it is a combination of pinks and purples.  I think this has to be one of the most inspiring photos I have seen in a while along the lines of holiday looks!  I am going home tonight and trying it on for size!  I will film and hopefully, all turns out well and you will see it on my YouTube channel!

I did get a look filmed this weekend between my cleaning frenzy trying to get the smoke smell out of the house from the small kitchen fire I frig set last week!  Sorry, guys, but that was top priority!  I know I have been severely MIA and I am GOING to make it all up to you soon!  If I could get back in the grove of doing new and different looks everyday, I could at least post pics here...but, yeah, we all see how quickly THAT is going to happen!  LOL!

Well, hopefully, these pics inspire you guys to do somehting great!  If you do a look like this, email it to Vanitys_Edge@yahoo.com and I will do a post of followers looks!!!  That can always turn into another giveaway, you never know!  :)  Loves ya!

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Did you miss out too??

I have been pretty bummed since I missed out on the majority of the limited edition items I longed for from MAC.  I had SO badly wanted the majority of the Style Black collection and the liners from the "MAC" collection...even a few Style Warriors items!  But, I suppose that is how LE items go, they only produce/release so many for sale on a first come, first serve basis.  If you get them...KILLER, if you don't...BOO for you!  Well, like many of you, I am on a strict budget when it comes to makeup.  The majority of stuff I get these days are from me selling my stash or swapping with people.  Just because I am on a budget, doesn't mean I can't look!!

So, last night, I was browsing around the net and decided to hit Nordstrom's MAC site just to see if they had any exclusives I didn't know about.  I got there to find, they still had the Kohl Power Pencils in stock...one of those products I REALLY wanted but missed out on!  Well, that got me to thinking, if they had this product, what other ones did they have that I didn't get??  Well, I found TONS of products that I thought I would end up paying big bucks for in a couple of months when people that bought 5 back ups decide they really don't need that many of one item! 

Low and behold, I am NOT going to have to deal with these crazy women that go to the counter/store and buy 7 of one eye shadow, 4 quads, and 9 lip sticks in the same color because they just LOVE the color and HAVE to be able to have access to it for the rest of their lives.  They never think that they will NEVER use all that product because their vanities are like mine and are full of a million and ONE other items longing for use!!!!!!!!  Okay...sorry for that rant and sorry if you are one of those women/men that do go to the counter and do that!  LOL!  I DON'T BLAME YOU!  I would probably do the same exact thing if I had the cash to do so!  Hell, I can't even pick up ONE item on a whim most weeks!  LOL!  What really gets me about people doing this is that when they decide that they DONT need that many tubes of lipstick in the same color and it is time to sell/swap, they mark the price up to $10-$20 over retail!  I know it is discontinued you guys, but really...I don't want a liner that is going to cost me $30 when I can most likely get something similar in another brand!

So......what this post was getting at before my crazy views got in the way, was that Nordstrom and all of these other department stores that house MAC counters, get these same products!  Just because you local counter doesn't have something, doesn't mean that the online store doesn't as well!!  GO CHECK OUT THESE SITES!!!  You will probably get just about everything you have been looking for!  Nordstrom still had collections all the way back to Makeup Art and there were not many colors sold out of the most popular things!

There you go!  Go shop and find all the things you have been wanting OR you could be the savior of Christmas and get your best girlfriend that eye shadow that she just barely missed out on getting and was so sad about!  :)  Just a thought!


**Dillards MAC Counter online is another place you could go look.  However, most people will go here when their local counter is sold out.  There are, I believe, more Dillard's than Nordstrom stores in the US.  They didn't have as great of choices on the LE items.

***Keep in mind when shopping at Nordstrom online, you will have to pay shipping.  There was a code for free shipping over $100, which can be pretty easy to do when buying MAC!  I was going to only get two of the Kohl Power pencils and the shipping was going to be $8.  That IS one thing to consider!  Just an FYI!

More Coupon Codes!

You know I like to keep you guys in the know...so here ya go!

The codes below are for www.eyeslipsface.com!

LOYAL: Free Mini Makeup Kit with your order!
EH50SB: 50% OFF ALL Studio and Bath Products!

Use these coupon codes at Benefit Online for some more major savings!

BBUCKS10: Gives you $10 off a $50 purchase
25BBUCKS: Gives you $25 off a $100 purchase

As always, on this site, you get free shipping on orders over $50 and FREE SAMPLES in your package!  TOTALLY worth ordering with this company!  Also, every day in December they will be hosting Gift Me Gorgeous where there will be special offers on gifts, shipping deals, and tips and tricks for you to check out!  Go to the link above to check out the calendar of events!

(Now if only they were still selling the F.Y.Eye, I would be in heaven! Ugh...I am still angry about that one and wondering what they were thinking discontinuing the product! If any of you guys know anything about it, please let me know!)

These codes will certainly come in handy right here at the holidays! Perfect for rounding up stocking stuffers!

Also, make sure you check out MAC Cosmetics Online to get free shipping on any order!

Coastal Scents is also having a clearance sale where you can find $10 brush kits, $1.95 lip glosses and more!

As always, if I see or hear of any great sales or gift ideas, I will let you guys know!

Happy Holidays!

Done...

I know, I know...this layout is kinda boring, but it is the only thing I could get to work and work properly. The other layouts did not have the nav bar at the top and to me, that makes it a lot more difficult to follow a blog you want to keep up with. I suppose, keeping things simple, will make you life, and mine, a lot easier! Maybe later on down the line, I will decide to spend the cash and have someone design a really killer blog for me! (thanks for the name toshiam, btw!)

Alright, now that all the crazy stuff is over, things are going to get back to normal around here! I have a lot to tell you guys and stuff to show you and review! So, get ready to get back movin along properly!

Thanks for everyone being so patient with me while I figured this stuff out! I really appreciate it! I hope you all have a wonderful day and I will be back with you shortly!

Much love always!

Troubles....

Alright everyone...I am SO trying to get this silly blog back in order, but I am having a tough time! All I wanted was to find a layout that reflected what the blog was about and sort of my personality. Something pretty to look at and user friendly...needless to say, it has become a bigger hassle than I thought! LOL!

I am really not the worlds greatest with computers and technology and I would kill to have someone design a layout (and do it...lol) just for me and my readers. Since these things cost money and well, its Christmas folks, that just isn't an option right now!

So, if you guys see a different layout everyday, or find issues with the page gadgets not working, never fear...please know I am working to get everything in order! :) I am about to give up and just use one of the simple blogger layouts for now until I can get someone to design a logo or a layout for me. So, if any of you know a great graphic designer that works for reasonable amounts, let me know! I would love to check out their work and possibly utilize their services in the future!

I will be filming tonight...FINALLY! I have you guys' comment goodies to show and announcements about the giveaway to tell that are too much to write! I will make sure to post the vid here, but as always...I love seeing you guys on my channel too!!!

Thanks to everyone for your patience! Once I get this page all sorted out, we will get back into normal posts and I will get responses to all your comments posted as well!!

Much love always you guys!!! Talk to you again SOON