I'll wear pink when I want.

I found my new favorite shirt. And as all my favorite clothing items often do, it inspired a makeup look! 

Wednesday or not, I'll wear pink when I want, bitch.

Urban Decay Naked 3 Palette was the obvious go-to for this pink mission. Using its beautiful rose and rose gold hues, I felt dreamy and calm.

But I've always got to have some sort of BOOM so Raspberry Glacé came to the rescue.

Do your clothes ever inspire you to go in a certain direction? 

Look great on camera!

My sister is home for the holidays so we decided to take family pictures with our dad and family. For professional photos I like to change up my normal routine into something a little more intense. It makes a pretty big difference in the long run.

Here, my naked face and wet hair.

Next, I go in with BH cosmetics cream contour and highlight. (After skin routine) Blend well with normal foundation Clinique Even Better. Conceal under eyes. Top with translucent powder.

This is the result of ^^plus a small amount of Benefit Hoola for contour and a pale shimmer blush on top of the powder where the cream was placed initially.

A bit different lighting unfortunately but you get the idea hopefully!

Since this is for a photoshoot I made the outer corners a bit darker than normal and placed a tiny bit of white-ish shadow just in the center of my lids and a bit more mascara. These are all things that will make your eyes pop on camera.

I of course had to go with a red lip to finish! 

As soon as the pictures are posted I'll upload what this looks like on a professional camera! 

Find old favorites!

 

Hey you guys!

One of my favorite things about changing up my makeup style is finding things I haven't used in ages, especially things that were in my 'can't live without' bag at one point! Today I found three old-ass Lancome single shadows in the purple family. These were some of the first bright colors I dared wear out in public, and I loved sporting them again today!

I wish I had a pictorial type thing here to post. Next time, promise :) I'll just show some pictures and give you a list of products after!

Well, here it is. My naked face, in all it's red and dark circled glory! The only thing I have on is a heavy duty lip balm from Clinique to give it time to soak in for my lipstick.

This is the finished look, pre-hair!

Here's how I did my full foundation, concealer, and powder!


Here's how I did my contour, highlight, and blush!


Here's how I did my brows!

And here are some quick and dirty shots of my eye look! I don't have a tutorial filmed for this yet unfortunately. I'll do a run down of what I did to create this look!

I primed my eyes with Too Faced Shadow Insurance, then added NYX Jumbo eyeshadow pencil in Milk to the inner half of my lids, and blended. I added Urban Decay 24/7 Liner in Ransom and Vice to the remaining half of my lid, with Vice going to the very outer corner. This gives a good base for shadows to press onto and will make the colors pop!

I then added the three shades to the lid. I pressed them each on rather than sweeping so they would adhere to the primers. Tailored was first, and went where Milk was placed. I added Luring over Ransom and softly blended Trendy over Vice, increasing the space the shadow was using. I kept blending until I was satisfied with the look. Then I took Lorac 3D Liquid Luster silver and dabbed the tiniest bit on my lids to get that amazing shimmer look!

I finished with a line of Maybeline Master Precise liner pen in black, amped up with Too Faced Better Than Sex mascara on my lashes. On the bottom lash line I added the same liners from darkest to lightest, and added their coordinating shadows on top. I lined my waterline with Urban Decay 24/7 in perversion (seriously, so beautiful and dark and long lasting!) As my final touch was adding a very small about of my 3D luster on the inner corners of my eyes!

I hope you liked this look, and that my instructions made some sense! Let me know in the comments what you'd like to see, or if you have any questions!

Here are some links for more looks and tutorials!

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Be bright!

I thought I would try a FOTD post! These will be a fun way to help me remember what I've been doing and remind myself to always push past my comfort zone. I get into makeup ruts pretty easily, so this will be great! So here's my very first official FOTD!

My Coastal Scents 88 color palette never fails to make me feel brighter! If I need to get my creative juices flowing I can open it up (okay, just grab it because I broke the lid like two years ago) and play!

These always end up being my favorite makeup days. I look at the palette and immediately get drawn to a set of colors. It's the craziest thing. I start swatching different shades of those colors on my hand to find the right combinations before I start going crazy on my face. Once I do that, I grab a flat concealer brush and blend them onto my eye (on top of Too Faced Shadow Insurance and NXY Jumbo eyeshadow in Milk, of course!) Then I find a blush and lipstick that compliments the look and finish it up!

So there you have it! More iPhone pictures of my face and fun colors! What do you do to get out of a beauty rut?

Here are some links for more looks and tutorials!

Watch me do my makeup!
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Mostly my face on Instagram!
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Samantha Says mix it up!

Find new youtubers!

I have been especially obsessed with Cora @ vintageortacky on YouTube lately. She has an incredible way of using colors and shapes and being adorable that has me binge watching for hours. She makes me want to do more, go further, be brighter. And that kicks so much ass.

So, today I decided I wanted to try out one of her latest looks with my Urban Decay Electric Palette.

I have turned the process of following along to these videos into a ritual. I watch the video, gather all my products and brushes, grab a drink and have a seat. This is going to take a while.

I pause and play, rewinding and blending the shades to get the right feel. I curse and become disgusted with my brushes asiftheyretheissuehere. Finally, I watch a clip of David Tennant or cute babies animals because cute babies make me cry. Because I'm like always ovulating or something probably.

Aaaand I'm back. I realize most of the things driving me crazy are easily fixed and I usually try to change it up a bit to make it mine.

This was the process I did today, but with less cursing. This girl is great in the timing of her videos and explains things in ways that are easily understandable.

So, here is the final look up-close and personal! (iPhone pics, I couldn't get any good shots with my Nikon!)

 If you want to see where I found this inspiration check out vintageortacky's video here.

****Product List****
Clinique Pore Refining Foundation-02
Clinique Line Smoothing Concealer-Light
Clinique Stay Matte Powder- Stay natural
Estee` Lauder Blush-Peach Nuance
Too Faced Shadow Insurance
NYX Jumbo Eyeshadow Pencil- Milk
Urban Decay Electric Palette
Maybeline Master Precice Liquid Liner- Black
Urban Decay 24/7 Liner- Perversion
Too Faced Better Than Sex Mascara
Rimmel London Lipstick- Eek, I have already lost it! But it's much more of a true electric pink than red, like it photographed. I'll edit when found!

Samantha Says, follow your inspirations!

Samantha says hello!

I think we all know that person who always has big plans. They are just about to start x, y, and z. When the stars align, when school is out, when they have a little less going on. When the weather is just right and their face clears up. Man oh, man watch out. They're doing big things, just you wait. So you do. And they may start but they just never seem to follow through.

That person is me. I might actually be the worst person ever with this. It's bad, you guys.

I have all these ideas buzzing around all the time. And I do get busy. School, work, life. Whatever, it's Netflix and we all know it.

But I have passions. Right now I'm making the decision to further my passion for all things beauty. I want to learn new things and show others different ways to make themselves feel beautiful. I know that it is easy to feel insecure, like you have less worth than others for any number of reasons. The reason I have always loved makeup is that it is a way to build self confidence. Helping someone overcome a feeling of negativity towards themselves by feeling creative, accomplished, and a little bit daring is what I wish to one day do every single day. Until then, I try to help myself with these things daily, and grab hold of anyone who wants to play! I'll post a few pictures of past looks below since this is going to be a 'beauty blog.'

Now to come up with posting ideas!


...let me know what you'd like to read about/look at in relation to beauty and fashion products and looks!

 Before and after, not sure where the romantic candlelight came from but all my posts are non-filtered unless stated otherwise!

This is my, ahhhh I finally get to play with my Urban Decay Electric palette! 

Red (oops actually), white, and blue. On July 7th because I do what I want.