A Quinceanera for Urban Decay

Urban Decay, one of my favorite brands especially for eyeshadow, is celebrating 15 years of fabulous makeup!  To celebrate, UD has a limited edition makeup bag in a fun glitter purple with lots of room to take your makeup on the road!  It has a zippered pocket inside to separate and organize your stuff.  I like the double zipper, as oppose to the one-way one-zipper bags where you have to open the entire bag just to pull one thing.  The interior lining is pretty too!  Check it out here!  While you're there, check out the 15 years 15 pencils item too.  Happy 15th Anniversary Urban Decay!

Photo credit: Urban Decay http://www.urbandecay.com/the-quinceanera-bag/292,default,pd.html

A NEW LOOK...

...to the blog!  I also changed the name!  I've wanted to change it for awhile to something that wasn't so monotonous, boring, or literal.  I wanted a name that has more life, a little catchy, yet simple and represented a little bit of personality.  It shouldn't be that difficult, right?!  I mean who would've thought amazon.com would become a household name.  I should be studying right now (fail), but I just couldn't get myself to study until I came up with a new blog name.  Type A person!  I spent the last few days thinking - at work, in the grocery store, before I went to bed.  I played around with words like my nickname, Belle, and my favorite color, pink, but the names I came up with were taken!


I'm not 110% sold on the new name, but if I want to study at some point this weekend, I needed to come up with something that will keep me satisfied.  I think it's a little girly, but then again I am girly.  Ironically, one of my favorite makeup products is eyeliner, but when it comes to natural looks, the most natural look is a person's blush.  Your own blush is what makes each person unique.  There's something vulnerable, yet delicate about a person's blush.  Who doesn't smile when someone blushes, unless you're a robot and have no feelings.  Blushes leads to smiles, and who doesn't love both? :)


Anyway, I need to hit the books.  Let me know what you think!


(If you're new to the blog, it was once called Makeup Actually.  Work in progress.  There's still a lot I need to do to switch everything to the new blog name!)

Bumble and Bumble arrives at Sephora!

What a coincidence that when I went for my haircut last Friday, they used Bumble and Bumble and just when I was going to research places nearby that I can purchase their products, Sephora announces their arrival to their stores and website!  When I went for my overdue haircut, I left with Bumble and Bumble's styling creme and Rockaholic dry shampoo (look out for this post).  Typical me, I told myself I'll buy their shampoo later when I finish my current shampoo.  I should've just bought it right there in the salon, because I noticed my bottle was running low when I got home!

Ok, so I have pretty fine straight hair, so my hair was washed with Bumble and Bumble's seaweed line.  I can't wait to buy it and use it on a regular basis.

Bumble and Bumble Styling Creme
Retail price: $24.00
Where to find: PR@Partners salons, Sephora, Sephora.com, Bumble and Bumble website

I am mostly a wash-n-go kind of person.  I like easy (and lazy!).  So, I rarely dabble in the complexity of using the right styling products.  Hairspray vs. mousse? Cream vs. gel?  Yea, I'm not good at that (yet).  But in the spirit of becoming a better me, which includes my appearance, I decided with this haircut, I'm going to give my hair the TLC it needs.  So, the hairstylist at PR@Partners in DC, Josh, (whom I totally recommend!) suggested that I try Bumble and Bumble's Styling Creme.  It works well on people with fine hair; it doesn't leave your hair greasy at all.  Now of course, people's hair looks and smells amazing right after a salon visit.  The real test is when you have to do it all by yourself!

It's been a few days, and I love the styling creme!  I have pretty long days, and I hate it when my hair feels greasy or oily at the end of the day because of product.  But, so far, I've gone home feeling like I could even skip a day of hair washing.  I only use a dime size of the creme and run my hands through my hair and blowdry.  I could work on my blowdrying skills, but for what I need my hair to be to brave the long days, it works pretty well!  Bumble and Bumble have been around since the 1970s.  I can't believe I've only heard of them now.

I also bought Rockaholic dry shampoo which is to be used for the in-between-hair-washing days, hangover mornings, or post-gym-no-time-to-shower-yet days.  My hair is still relatively fresh from a salon, so maintenance has been quite low (wink).  When I start getting super lazy with my hair, you'll see a post about this product! haha.



Photo credits:
Bumble and Bumble styling creme at Sephora http://www.sephora.com/browse/product.jhtml?id=P280533&categoryId=C24070

Favorite look of Oscar Night 2011: Mila Kunis

Credit: Frazer Harrison; Photos: Getty, http://justjared.buzznet.com/2011/02/27/mila-kunis-oscars-2011-red-carpet/

I still can't get over how beautiful Mila Kunis was at the Oscars.  Her dress, an Elie Saab dress, was unique and elegant, both in color and style.  I loved the intertwined lace portions of the dress; it added a hint of sexiness, without being overly revealing or too bedrooom-y.  And the color!  I'm not even a huge fan of lavender (I'm more of a dark purple fan), but the lavender on her skin tone was a perfect match.  And it made me fall in love with lavender!

To complete her look, Kunis' hair and makeup was amazing!  The 30's updo hairstyle and subtle smoldering eyes really complements the dress.  Read up on how to get her look here!  

And I found a video on how to do the hairstyle.  I'm definitely trying this one of these days!