A Month?! Really?!

wooow you guys i didnt realize how long ago it was since i updated my blog! almost a whole freakin month!! the funny thing is i have been taking pictures of everything so i can blog about it! lol i finally colored my hair the way i wanted it, its faded out now but i took pictures of the process. i went on a huge shopping spree with my IMATS money, therefore i couldnt go. i took pics and swatches of my new things to blog about it. i also did a few tutorials while i was away. im going to post ALL this new information today! HERE WE GO!

HELP! I WANT THIS HAIR COLOR!!!

ok first, i didnt scribble her out to be rude!! i just dont want evil messages about"thats my picture!!" and blah blah blah! so i scribbled out her face! LMAO anyway! this is what i want!! soooo badly!! i guess it kinda looks like what i had but mine was so much brighter. i want a deep dark burgundy red. i have come up with a plan of attack, i think im going to buy a reddish dark blond... and use manic panic vampire red over that i think that will work out well..... but im not sure sometimes my plans are thwarted (i dont get to use that word as much as id like to) by my damaged hair. any advice or reviewish type things about a red hair color you used would GREATLY appreciated!!!

Tutorial: Sugar Sugar

Hey! so this is my newest tutorial i have up and im so loving this one! i havent done bright and vibrant in awhile, everything has mostly been smokey or dark. I need to start working on that. I mention this in my video but i want to talk about it here too, i got the look from a picture i saw twitter, Shrinkle twitpic'd a photo of someones look using Sugar Pill Cosmetics and i dont have anything from sugar pill yet which im so sad about! but i saw this look and was like OMG! i recreated it almost exactly the original look was more dramatic, i say mine is a lil more "wearable" but thats not true for everyone.

I had to find eyeshadow to duplicate what was in the picture so i rummaged through my make up and of course ended up with my 120 Pro Palette and i didnt want to use two different palettes but the 120 doesnt have a true red eyeshadow, i had to bust out my 88 palette too. Just the one red eyeshadow was used from the 88 palette everything else minus the highlight was from the 120. If you dont own that palette and are thinking or hesitating DONT! i think everyone who likes bright eyeshadows should have this palette! you can get it on ebay for like $20 and thats including shipping! AMAZING DEAL!
Oh yes! i forgot to mention that i colored my hair! im actually not that sad about it. when i decided to color it i wanted a bright burgundy deep red. If that color exists please let me know! i can live with this for awhile but it didnt satisfy my craving for a super awesome burgundy! you should have seen it before i colored it like this! I tried mixing in one of those stupid "compliments" things from sallys, because i chose a dark almost blackish burgundy but i wanted to the red to show through so i got the red "warm compliments" O M F G. Messed me up! i looked like a copper penny! lol i went straight to sallys the next day and picked up a medium intense auburn. Its AIGHT. i wish i had a Maly's card. Darn me for failing state board! LMAO whats that got to do with my Make up! i have no idea but this is my blog! LOL

Like i said the whole eyeshadow look was done with the 120 Palette and used only 1 eyeshadow form the 88 palette. I have pics of the exact eyeshadows used in the video tutorial i didnt post them here cause i thought of it too late and blogger sucks when you have to post pics! sawwy.

Cheeks: i just used MAC Peach Twist Blush

Lips: NYX Lipliner in Natural and MAC Lipstick in Warm Me Up LMTD ED.

A Little On Whats Happenin'

hello friends i found out on saturday that Gary Coleman is dead! wth?!?! so yes i have been MIA for awhile on my blog i know. i have been super active on my TWITTER (follow me! @RJMakeUp) though! hahah i only have 7 followers but talking to myself is still fun, it would be alot more fun if people responded though LOL i did tutorial the other day and forgot to take pics of it so i didnt bother blogging about it, i also have been super falling off my "healthy living" wagon so theres absolutely no reason to depress my self and talk about that either lol. This past weekend i did a make up job for my friends wedding and a couple brides maids oh and my bestie the Maid Of Honor! she looked amazing! i wish i would have taken pictures of everyone but we were so rushed at the end the Bride was stressing me out! lol all i wanted to do was finish on time EFF the pictrues man! Everything turned out good well i hope it did i couldnt really attend the wedding so i couldnt be there to touch her up and what not. Id have to see the pics. So i have decided that when i have another make up gig im dragging my sister along to take pictures for me while im doing the make up! im not going to bother to ask them to pose for me or whatever ill just take what i want! LOL other than that not much has been.. OH! i saved my dog from Parvol! its a nasty horrible canine disease. it slowly and painfully kills dogs. I wanted to put her down but the vet said she still had alot of fight in her so every 2 hrs i forced down pedialtye and pepto and she was all better in 2 days!! AMAZING! we now call her "No.5" if you dont know why.... you should really watch "Short Circuit" awesome awesome movie!!! reminds me of when i was a kid and "The Goonies" too. ahhh comfort films. i plan on doing a tutorial tomorrow OH! i did my first hair tutorial! ill post that up in a different post. i saved it on my external hard drive and im too lazy to get up and get it and look for it on the drive and then cut and paste it here. LMAO i also plan on doing on the Beyonce "Why dont you love me?" video. Im also going to enter RetroSpeckBaby's contest its a Beyonce contest hence why im doing the hair video! :D i already kinda know what im going to do i just need to see how its going to pull together. I never got my hands on the Marine Life Hilite from MAC either... im a lil bummed but not so much only because i have been wanting a great coral blush and i thnk that one is bright enought to show coral on my skin. anywhos people i will have new pics and videos up soon!!!

A New "Healthy Lifestyle"

Ive been feeling not so cute after having my daughter, so as always i thought about starving myself and start counting calories again. The thought of it made me so sad. haha i hate looking at the nutritional facts of everything i eat! its like just let me eat in peace brain! so i decided on a better plan, my mom lost alot of weight juicing up all day. She bought herself the Jack Lalanne Power Juicer and of course i was skeptical. It worked! in about 6 months she lost 30 lbs. which is a healthy weight loss but isnt enough for me, i want to lose like 30 lbs in a month! LOL medically thats not good for your body. Healthy weight loss is about 1 lbs a week! A WEEK! thatll take forever! I lost track of myself here.......oh yeah my mom lost a bunch of weight juicing up! So she gave me her Jack Lalanne juicer cause she got the new Montel Williams juicer/soup maker/get cash anyway i can machine. Yeah my mom buys everything that talks about health on infomercials. She got me the Bullet too! i LOVE that thing! So basically my plan is to have a smoothie not a jamba juice 1,00o calorie smoothie but a frozen fruit, oj, yogurt, soy milk and sometimes powdered oats smoothie. they are actually really good. My son thinks hes on a diet too cause he drinks half of mine every morning. and for lunch when my husband gets home a light healthy meal, usually chicken, veggies and brown rice. Brown rice isnt so bad, i dont notice the difference my husband says he does but meh! and for later in the day i usually will have yogurt and granola or coffee. Im giving myself my coffee! no fat free creamer! god no. i love my coffee too much to destroy it like that! the weekends are free range to an extent i suppose, im not having a huge burger and fries but ill have a bite so i dont want to kill myself in a month and go out and eat 4 slices of pizza and cheesy bread. NO ABSOLUTELY NO SODA!! that stuff is terrible! even the "diet" soda! if your trying to lose weight and are drinking diet soda, im sorry to tell you but your doing yourself a huge disservice. Im drinking water, cranberry juice or pomegranate juice. 100% juice i hope haha thats what it says on the bottle anyway. My mom gave me some cranberry juice and i was like "mmmm cranberry juice isnt so bad!" i go to look at the label and it says "13% juice"!!! what the H-E double hockey sticks is that!!! basically the rest is sugar, water and food coloring! 100% cranberry juice isnt too bad either though i guess i would say that when all i have been drinking before that is water lol. I have been doing this for about a week and since i am the instant satisfaction kind of dieter im very discouraged i havent lost anything! Then again i havent been exercising or doing any cardio. I seriously cant seem to find the time, i guess i could be exercising right now instead of talking about exercising huh? :D HAA! Im liking this new "healthy lifestyle" thing its really not hard and in all honesty guys if i can sit here and tell you that im liking it and not finding it too difficult not to scarf down pizza, fries and pan dulce (mexican sweet bread:my weakness!) then it isnt so bad! cause i am a horrible eater, i usually wont eat much all day and then i eat whatever i see in the middle of the day and thats really bad eating. one HUGE meal a day is the recipe to be fat! LOL believe me i did it to myself! I lost 50 lbs when i was 16 i was at 139 lbs :( makes me want to cry when i think about it. then at 17 i found my future husband and got too comfortable, years went by and i gained weight lil by lil. i looked at myself one day and i was like OMFG!! im a fatty again! i saved my favorite skinny jeans, they are the ones i wore on me and my husbands first date! a size 29!!!! again OMFG!! i dont know if ill ever get into them again seems somewhat impossible when i look at them and they look like they can button up on my thigh! So basically i think it will be helpful for me to talk about this somewhere and since im not a very good diary keeper im going to do it here! I do keep a log on what i eat all day everyday supposedly thats good cause then you wont want want to write down you ate chips and dip on there. i read that somewhere, dont know how effective it is but im doing it. Ill let you know my progress if i ever have any! i do need to start doing some cardio, im pretty sure thatll boost up the weight loss! lol wish me luck!!

Tutorial: Kat 2.0

Kat Von D again?? *aarrggghh* is that what your saying?? well this one is a million times better!!! My last Kat look was "aight" wasnt bold or dark enough to be deemed Kat Von D. So i recently saw the season finale of i dont know what season but she was a wearing a bright blue with blue glitter, you all know im a sucker for glitter! im not sure what she had on her other eye..... might have been gold. I decided to go green, i say red is my favorite color but i think it might be green. lol i do alot of green looks, maybe its just my favorite eyeshadow color. Im love love loving wearing 2 color eyeshadows so i need to stop calling them Kat Von D anything cause im going to be doing them often!
FYI: those Jesses Girl Sparklers, the glitter is great but dont bother using the "application liquid" or that ridiculous wand!! It was insane, the wand shifted my eyeshadow and the liquid creased my eyeshadow, i just ended up using my finger it worked so much better. Your hands are always your best tool. 20 minutes after applying the glitter it was all over my cheeks! I seriously need to invest in some mixing medium. I have tried the homemade mixing medium 1 part water and 1 part glycerin but instead of water i used Visine, it works fairly well. The glitter didnt budge it stayed put but what did happen was creasing of my eyeshadow, i only used it on my bottom lash line i havent tried it on my lid. Now this Cherry Bomb lipstick is the poo!

BLUE EYE:

Soft Ochre Paint Pot

Wet N Wild Idol Eyes Creme Shadow Pencil in Distress

Jesses Girl Pigment in Secret Weapon

MAC E/S in Bang On Blue

Wet N Wild Pride Palette Matte Navy Blue

Glam Couture Cosmetics E/S in Snowflake

Jesses Girl Sparklers glitter in Royal Blue

GREEN EYE:

Soft Ochre Paint Pot
Wet N Wild Idol Eyes Creme Shadow Pencil in Envy

Jesses Girl Pigment in Kiwi Rose

MAC E/S in Wondergrass

MAC E/S Bottle Green

Glam Couture Cosmetics E/S in Snowflake

Jesses Girl Sparklers glitter in Ocean Spray

BLUSH:

MAC Alls Good Beauty Powder

MAC MSF Soft n Gentle

MAC MSF Cheeky Bronze

LIPS:

Jordana Lipliner Plush Red

Wet N Wild Mega Last Lipstick in Cherry Bomb

Tutorial: Midori Melon

Hey guys! FINALLY a tutorial!! I recorded another one today so ill have one up tomorrow too! OH im on a roll! So i wore this look Saturday, the babies and i spent the weekend at my moms. My husband is in the Army Nat'l Gaurd so he has monthly weekend training and i dont like staying by myself, especially since it was his first one since my daughter was born. I would have gone crazy by myself. LOL

Usually if im going to be making a tutorial I pick out my make up the night before. I just mix and match in my head and pull out what i need and put it together the next day. I didnt do that on Friday, much too much was going on. So in the morning I wasnt really sure what i was going for but i had my 88 palette in front of me so i just picked out some colors and this is what happend. I really like the way orange and green compliment each other, but i didnt want full on bright orange eyeshadow on my lids so i went with a melon color. I used my 88 palette for the whole look except my crease i used Bottle Green from MAC.

I had my trusty Soft Ochre Paint Pot as a base and then i used the Wet N Wild creme shadow pencil in Pixie. It worked awesome! No creasing, no fading, no flaking! So for 2 bucks its pretty dang good! I wasnt too fond of my eyebrows lol i wanted to have a higher arch that day but since my eyebrows or getting pretty full you can see lil hairs peeking through. SO CUTE!! hahaha I did absolutely nothing special to my hair that day, i just the usual twist, push and pin i do when im being lazy.

EYES:

88 Palette

MAC Bottle Green E/S

BLUSH:

Ben Nye Dark Tech Rouge

MAC MSF Cheeky Bronze

LIPS:

NYX Red Hot Lipliner

Wet N Wild Mega Last Lipstick in Coral-ine

Revlon Lipstick in Kiss Me Coral