Get The Look: Megan Fox
The first time I saw Megan Fox, I sat in the darkened theater in awe of how beautiful she was. I have always loved her makeup, as makeup artist Kandee Johnson so aptly described her as having the “pinup girl” look. If you’re looking to play around with your look, and do something fun a la Katy Perry or Megan Fox, try watching this great tutorial from the awesome Kandee Johnson. She posted this a while back but it’s one of my favorite looks (and looks sexy on any woman) so I thought I would share!
Interestingly enough, it seems like you have to put on a lot of makeup to pull off this “not-a-lot-of-makeup” look, but that is often the case. As one makeup artist once told me on a commercial shoot – sometimes we put makeup on before we can take it back off to get the look we desire. So true!
Enjoy!
Video Review: Maybelline 2011 Product Line Up
Makeup.
I love it. LOVE. My hobbies are reading, swimming, shopping, and makeup. Seriously.
I mean, not that you’re surprised.
Maybelline approached the Walmart Moms and offered us the opportunity to review their new product line-up for 2011 and I was all “duh”. Because, you know, makeup is my hobby.
I started with the new Maybelline Fit Me! product line, which includes 18 different foundations, 6 different concealers, 12 different shades of blush, and 3 shades of bronzer. This lightweight formula is meant to allow your face to breathe which hopefully means fewer blemishes and breakouts, plus skin that is much, much healthier. All of the different available shades allow you to completely customize your complexion to find the best shades that “fit you”. 
I liked the Fit Me! line, and if you watch the video below, you can see me apply the line in real-time – and you can see how smoothly it evens out my complexion. The Fit Me! line is very affordable and I would buy it again in a heartbeat.
Now, I’m a bit of a mascara freak, so it takes a lot to impress me. I’m a big fan of anything that makes my lashes big, bold, and sorta out of control. My all-time favorite is Dior Show Mascara, but it costs a whopping $28 a tube, and as a very famous makeup artist once told me “you should never have to pay that much for mascara”. So, for the past year I’ve been on a mascara “diet” – hopping around trying to find the perfect one and I really, really think that I’ve found it in Maybelline’s One by One by Volum’ Express Mascara. This mascara coats and separates every single one of my lashes with no clumping. One coat is enough to make me feel like hot stuff, but two coats is enough to make me feel va-va-voom!
The last product that I tried from Maybelline is their SuperStay 24 Lipcolor – a 2-step color that lasts for 24 hours. Let’s be honest – I was super skeptical. According to Maybelline, this unique formula has 5 years of research and 10 US patents backing it up – and it won’t crumble, cake, fade, feather or transfer. 24 hours? That’s a long time. The first time I wore the color, I remember walking into the bathroom after eating lunch with friends and being shocked that my lipcolor looked like new. Like I had JUST applied it. That afternoon I brought my daughter home a few cupcakes from her favorite bakery, and we devoured them together – while my lipcolor stayed put. So far we had made it though 8 hours and it looked great. I started to notice a little fading around the interior of my lips, but nothing worth complaining about. My fiance’ loves it too – he used to go in for a kiss to tell me how pretty I looked and then quickly pull back to avoid messing up my lip gloss. Now he smiles and says “24 hour stuff?” and kisses me anyway. That’s a keeper in my book!
Check out the video to see more of my experience with these three great products – and leave any thoughts that you have in the comments section!
Disclosure: This is a sponsored post for Walmart as a part of my role in the Walmart Moms.All opinions are, and always have been, my own.
Get a Free Mini-Facial at Origins
I don’t normally post stuff like this, but I thought that my readers deserved a Mother’s Day treat, and hey, if there is some place that I can go to get free beauty products/facials/Origins Products then you know I’m totally there. So, between May 11th and May 31st stop in at any Origins store and get a free Mini-Facial plus a Origins sample. Rawk!
A Low Calorie Snack For Your Eyelashes! {A Giveaway!}
If you’re a frequent reader here, you know that I’m slightly obsessed with beauty products – especially anything that makes my eyelashes look fabulous. Like mascara. I love that stuff. Jillian even wrote a post about mascara being a must-have, so I know I’m probably not alone on this one, right?
Long luxurious lashes rock, and I was so excited to be given the opportunity to try LashFood – a natural eyelash conditioner that comes with a guarantee — longer fuller lashes or your money back! Of course, the process takes 2-4 weeks, but that is totally worth it! I’ve only been using it for a week, so I can’t yet attest to it’s performance, but I can already tell you what I like about it. It’s an all-natural product that is unscented and doesn’t irritate my eyes. It is super easy to apply – it has a little brush on the end of a wand, and you apply the liquid 2 times a day to your eyelashes just like you would liquid eyeliner. It doesn’t interfere with my makeup – I just put in on in the morning before my makeup and at night after I wash it off.
Want stronger fuller eyebrows? LashFood works for that too! Of course, beauty is hard work and sometimes expensive. LashFood will run you $130 for a tube, but for people with brittle or short lashes, it sounds entirely worth it!
I’ll be sure and let you know how my experiment with LashFood goes, but for now I wanted to give you a chance to win a tube of it for yourself!
Win it! To enter, just leave a comment on this post with a question you’d like to see Jillian, our in-house beauty expert, answer on this site. It can be anything beauty, skin, or makeup related. If you can’t think of one, I’ll take any comment related to why you want to win, so long as it includes some effort. After that, every other (pertinent) comment left on this site on other posts from now through March 7th will count as an extra entry each. You don’t need to come back to this post and tell me you commented on another post, I can stalk track you via your email/IP address. As usual, extra entries are also available for stumbling Chic Shopper Chick (leave your stumble name), subscribing to my site, following me on Twitter, and blogging about this giveaway with a link back here. That’s it, so good luck!
US entries only, winner will be chosen via random.org at the end of the contest. Winners are posted here, please leave a valid email address or blog address if you’d like to be contacted should you win. Winner has 72 hours to claim their prize. This contest ends at 11:59 pm CST on March 7th, 2009.
Superbowl Stunner: A How To for You!
I love Jennifer Hudson and I don’t think I’m alone here. She’s talented, fearless and always looks fabulous. She’s come a million miles since her underdog days on American Idol, and it’s been such a thrill to watch her grow into a stunning young woman.
Her makeup is always PERFECT. Whether she’s walking the red carpet, or making an appearance, or giving one of her sensational performances.
I’m STILL in love with her makeup at the Superbowl earlier this month, and I know many other people thought she looked particularly fabulous for the occasion. If you loved her look too, here is how you can get the look with a how to courtesy of her incredibly talented make-up artist Sam Fine – who also gives great face to Queen Latifah (Interested in a ‘how to’ for Queen Latifah? Visit my blog).
TO GET THE LOOK:
