Maybelline Luminous Lights review

              I was recently looking through Allure magazine when I came across an ad for the Maybelline Luminous Lights. The girl in the ad was wearing the eye shadow in the quad 75Q opal lights. It was the most amazing colors, light pink, a light minty green, a light baby blue, and a pretty brown colour. I was so excited that as soon as I got off of work I went home and tried to recreate the look that the girl in the ad had on her eyes with an eyeshadow pallet I already owned, I thought I had it pretty close but I was so in love with the color that the girl was wearing that I decided I would go by this particular quad so that I could make sure that I was doing the look justice. The next day I went to my local Walmart to see if I could find the quad from the ad, I was able to find it and was very excited to try it.

             The next day I try it when I am getting ready for work and unfortunately I was disappointed in it. Don't get me wrong the texture was fine and the time in which it lasted was great. The color pay off however was not very good at all. When I put it on the colors were not  half as vivid as it was in the ad. And it is so shimmery that you can barely see the colors once they are out of the quad especially when you are trying to photograph the swatches. I know in ads you have photo shop and air brushing but I feel like when it comes to makeup it should be a little truer to the product itself. I went and paid for the product and I must say that the colors that I used out of a eyeshadow pallet that I already owned looked more like the ad than the actual product that was being sold in the ad! I'm not trying to make this sound like a ranting blog but unfortunately it does sound quite ranty!

              Now with that said I must say that Maybelline is one of my favorite drugstore makeup brands. I have loved a lot of their eye shadows quads and singles, blushes, foundations, eyeliners, and mascaras but unfortunately the Luminous lights were a big miss in my book, now had I not seen the ad that made this eyeshadow look so beautiful and I had bought it I would probably have loved the product.

How to make your own make up remover

Here is a cheap inexpensive easy way to make your own makeup remover. You only need a few ingredients and most of them you will find around the house.

So here is a list of what you will need.

a bottle (ie...20oz drink bottle or a 16.9oz water bottle)
olive oil
tap water
food coloring (optional)


In a bowl or in the bottle that you plan on storing your makeup remover in you will put your olive oil in. (depending on the size of the bottle depends on how much you want to put because you want to put equal amounts oil & water.) And then you are going to add equal amounts of your tap water. Now comes the optional part. If you would like your make up remover to have a tint to it add a drop of food coloring.(the color is up to you this is just going to give the makeup remover a bit of color). Now if you put this in a bowl you will stir it with your spoon and poor it into a bottle and put the top on it. If you added the ingredients in the bottle you will just put the top on it and give it a little shake...and you are done.

This mixture will stay good for up to 8 weeks. When you are ready to use it just give the bottle a little shake, soak a cotton ball and begin removing your makeup. This is great for stubborn lipsticks or mascara. After you remove the make up you will want to wash your face using regular face wash or soap and water.

At home hair dying tip

I am fixing to color my hair as I often do.  Which made me think of sharing a tip with those who color their hair at home like I do.  I often decide that I am going to color my hair right as it is time for me to go to work or when I am getting ready for a night out with friends. Which means usually I am pressed for time. So I am rushing to get my hair covered with color so that I have time to let it set in. Since I am rushing around  I often get a blotch of color right at my hair line that's dripping down to my eyebrow or on my ear. Sometimes it even ends up somewhere that wouldn't be to noticeable If I had planned to where my hair down with a side swept bang. As you know though I am pressed for time because I have decided that the best time for me to color my hair is 10mins before I should be getting in the shower, to allot me time to do my make up and hair to be ready in time to not be late. So my hair unfortunately is going to end up in a messy side ponytail, or a braid or some sort of up do which means I can't have color at my hairline or on my ear or the back of my neck. So after much trial and effort I have found a solution to my problem (though maybe dying my hair at a more convenient time may solve it as well.)  that will help with my at home coloring faux pas. What I do is take a little bit of  regular Vaseline and put it on my skin right at my hair line and a dab it on my ears (tops & lobes) so that in my rush to get my hair color on my hair if I do splatter some of the hair color on my skin around the hair line that I can simply wipe the Vaseline off of my skin. The color just glides right off with it, so with no scrubbing involved I don't have those crazy looking red marks that come from scrubbing my skin for 10mins trying to get the hair color off of my skin. And I don't have that crazy looking black drip from my hair line to my left brow either. Let me know if you found this helpful and I can leave you more tips that I have learned with my trial and error.
Here is to happy dying!!

Macy's summer hair cut

Loving Macy and her new summer 'do!! Bless her heart it has been so miserably hot in VA, this summer so I gave my little pom a hair cut. She would literally lay around the house panting all day and it was struggle to get her to go outside in the heat. Now she seems to tolerate the heat better than she was. I took her to Petsmart, and the girl that cut her hair was just as nice and helpful as she could be and Macy looked and smelled amazing.

Happy Sunday everybody!! I used to dread Sundays because my job did not discriminate on Sundays or holidays as far as days off were concerned. Which means that I was guaranteed to be on the schedule Saturday and Sunday. When I worked at that job on Saturdays and Sundays I would always have a feeling sadness. See my family except for me had Monday through Friday jobs and I felt that I missed out on all the family gatherings and all of the fun. Now that I no longer work  Sundays they seem some what bittersweet. Now I use them to see family some, but I mostly spend my Sundays cleaning, washing the dog, or the car or all of the be for mentioned, causing more work than I actually do at my Monday through Friday job. Now I believe that those wonderful Sundays off that I yearned for are not as wonderful as I had imagined them. I do prefer my fulls day work that I have at home  rather than a fulls day work at actual work but it was all an illusion. When I was off during the week I could clean, wash the dog and the car while everyone was at work and it would stay clean at least until 5pm when everyone would stroll through the door. Now as soon as I clean up any mess I have to get the vacuum cleaner out and follow my eight nieces and nephews that are between the ages of six and two which they then believe is a game and begin pulling stuff out or dropping crumbs on the floor as fast as the can, lol. As much as I love my new found Sunday off I often wonder what made me think that having Wednesday of was any different that having Sunday off. Though I do love the fact that I do get spend my Sundays with my family.