A Lavish Affair Alter Ego Lip Gloss Collection: REVIEW

Hey Everyone! Today I wanted to share with you my review on the 

"Lavish Affair Alter Ego Lip Gloss Collection," by Lorac Cosmetics. 

This Collection is a limited edition collection with 4 LIMITED EDITION shades. 

                     

Firstly, I am absolutely obsessed with this packaging, very sleek and pretty and very much on trend for this holiday season that is around the corner. I think this collection would be a perfect christmas gift or even an individual lipgloss for stocking stuffers. 

*MISSING "DIVA" Lip Swatch, but I do give that one 4 stars. Highly pigmented! 

BAE

Personally for my lip color, I have never found a nude lipgloss that is this true to my lip. It gives me just a little sheen to intensify my natural lip color. I think this is would a universally friendly color that would look beautiful on anyone. 

IT GIRL

I absolutely LOVE LOVE LOVE this color. I am not usually a huge fan on gold shimmer in a lip gloss, but this one is such a hidden gem that just pops right off the lip! 

GODDESS

Out of the entire collection this is my NUMBER ONE MUST HAVE. I feel like this lip color could spice up an everyday look and it can also add the right amount of color to a smokey eye! This is a permanent gloss with Lorac Cosmetics. 

ICON

Unfortunately, I do NOT like this lip gloss. It is the only color in the entire collection that I will not wear unless its over laying on a lipstick. It is not a wear on its own color. Very low pigment, and a little splotchy. 

DOMINATRIX

I am a huge fan of deep burgundy colors and this one is no exception. It is deep in color and also in pigment, perfect for this season! 

A Lavish Affair Alter Ego Lip Gloss Collection : $25.00

Alter Ego Lip Gloss: Goddess-  $16.00

Alter Ego Lip Gloss: Dominatrix- $16.00 

Overall I think this is a fantastic collection and I would most definitely pick this one up! Highly Highly recommend this collection and it is limited edition, so please don't wait to go pick up yours today! Individually, Lorac Lip Glosses are $16.00 and this collection is $25.00 and gives this collection a $96.00 VALUE! Can't beat that! 

Thank you for stopping by and checking out my review on the Lavish Affair Alter Ego Lip Gloss Collection and I hope you found it helpful and informative. If you have any questions, comments or just want to send some love please don't hesitate to reach out. If you have any ideas or thoughts on what you want me to write about next just let me know. I would love to hear your suggestions! And if you enjoyed my makeup review on my blog, let me know. I really enjoyed putting one together for you and I would love to review more products. Let me know if there is anything you would like me to review & write about! 

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Everything You Need To Know About: Lorac Pro Mega3

Hey Everyone! Today I wanted to give you all the details about this amazing palette! Below I have photo's, swatches and my opinion on everything that has to do with this palette!

Here we go...

I am so obsessed with this packaging. It is sleek and slim and is a perfect all in one palette for vacation or travel! With the wide variety of shadows from lights to darks and mattes to shimmers, I really can't complain about anything in this palette.

Featuring 32 PRO Eye Shadow Shades:

• 16 Matte (top two rows) & 16 Shimmer (bottom two rows)
• 30 New Shades & 2 Essential Shades (Jet Black and Snow)

Below I have row by row swatches of each color. Keep in mind a used a light to show off these shadows, most of the colors will be even MORE pigmented in natural day light! <3

Row One:

is filled with gorgeous and pigmented mattes

Row Two:

is filled with lighter and deeper mattes

Row Three:

 starts the shimmers and gives a variety of warm and cool tones.

Row Four: 

finishes off this palettes with some more excellent shimmers & this would most definitely have to be my favorite row out of the 4.

     

I have been so excited to get my hands on this gorgeous palette.! I've always had an obsession with Lorac shadows and their soft & butter like feel, so when I saw this palette that had mattes and shimmers I knew I couldn't pass it up! This is number 3 in a series of Holiday Palettes that Lorac comes out with every year and this is the first time I have purchased one because I couldn't let it go! 

Now onto the shadows...

 My favorite thing about the shimmers in this palette is that they remind me of gorgeous foiled shadows. Even without using a fix plus (that will intensify the pigment) it gives the same effect with a dry application! The mattes are great as well and they do exactly what you need a matte shadow to do! 

The best thing about this palette is it gives an amazing variety of colors & tones! The worst thing about this palette is that it is a limited edition item, so make sure to get into a store that sells this product and pick one up! It would be great christmas gift or even a treat for yourself kind of gift! 

I found mine at Ulta in-store & they also sell it online! 

Click the link below if you want to purchase this palette, right now!

Lorac Mega Pro Palette 3- 

This palette is priced at $59.00 and it is worth every penny. 

When you do the math it comes out to- $1.84 a shadow! 

Come on, you can't beat that! 

I truly love all the shadows in this palette but below I wanted to circle the shadows that are my absolute favorites, if I had to make a choice--- 

Thank you for stopping by and checking out my review on the Lorac Mega Pro Palette 3 and I hope you found it helpful and informative. If you have any questions, comments or just want to send some love please don't hesitate to reach out. If you have any ideas or thoughts on what you want me to write about next just let me know. I would love to hear your suggestions! And if you enjoyed my first makeup review on my blog, let me know. I really enjoyed putting one together for you and I would love to review more products. Let me know if there is anything you would like me to review & write about! 

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The Face Shape Guide

Finding your face shape and knowing what it is becomes a very helpful tool when looking for a hairstyle that will be the most flattering on you. I hear it all the time when a client sits in my chair, that they cannot have a specific style because their face shape is too round, too long, to square and in a lot of cases they don't know what their own face shape is. In this post, I am going to give you the ultimate guide to finding your face shape and details on what will look best on you. 

Let's get started...

OVAL

Description:

Someone with an oval face shape has a forehead that is 

slightly wider than their chin, the length is also 1-1.5

 times in width and they have a rounded jawline.

Do:

1. Angular Bob

2. Blunt or side swept fringe

3. Long and wavy hairstyles

Don't:

You can do anything.

CELEBRITY EXAMPLE:
Carey Mulligan









OBLONG

Description:

Someone with an oblong face shape has a narrow

 thin face without angles and the length 

over width is evident. 

Do:

1. Fringes
2. Long curls and waves
3. Keep hair longer than collarbone

Don't:

1. Pixie cuts

CELEBRITY EXAMPLE:
Liv Tyler

ROUND

Description:

Someone with a round face shape has

chubby cheeks and the length and width

are equal to each other. They also

have a round and full jaw. 

Do:

1. Chin Length bobs

2. Layers that hit the nose, chin and collarbone

3. Get layers that come down and away from the face. 

Don't:

1. Big top knot buns.

2. Half up, half down bouffant hairstyles.

3. Bangs

CELEBRITY EXAMPLE:
Cameron Diaz





DIAMOND

Description:

Someone with a diamond face shape has a 

narrowed hairline, their cheekbones are the

 widest part of their face and their face is 

slightly longer than it is wide with a pointy chin. 

Do:

1. Long hairstyles

2. Middle partings

3. Add volume to the corners that are missing.

4. Wavy and curly hairstyles

5. Angled pixies

Don't:

1. Edgy voluminous short hairstyles

2. Side cut bangs

3. Volume on the top.

CELEBRITY EXAMPLE:
Scarlett Johansson

HEART

Description: 

Someone with a heart shaped face has a 

wide forehead and cheekbones and their 

face has narrow jaw and pointy chin.

Do:

1. Side swept bangs

2. Pixie Cut

3. Long hair that come at the face

Don't:

1. Low pony tails

2. Blunt Bangs

3. Lots of volume on top and or 

cuts that end around the ear.

CELEBRITY EXAMPLE:
Reese Witherspoon

SQUARE 

Description: 

Someone with a square face shape

 has a forehead that equals jaw in length 

and is equal width and height. 

They have a strong jawline and square chin. 

Do:
1. Texture
2. Long, sleek styles
3. Waves and side or straight bangs

Don't 
1. No pixie cuts
2. Don't add volume to the top

CELEBRITY EXAMPLE:
Rihanna

Even though your face shape might have certain styles and looks that are more flattering, that doesn't mean that you wouldn't be able to rock a style that is completely opposite of what your face shape says. I think, if you want to try something... do it. 
It's your life & your hair, do whatever makes you happy! 


Thank you for stopping by and checking out my "Face Shape Guide" and I hope you found it helpful and informative. If you have any questions, comments or just want to send some love please don't hesitate to reach out. If you have any ideas or thoughts on what you want me to write about next just let me know. I would love to hear your suggestions! 

THE INVESTMENT: My Service Prices

Hey Everyone! I just wanted to make a reference post when it comes to my services that I provide in salon and what those prices are! I hope you find this helpful and I hope to see you soon at an appointment!!!

What Does That Mean?

When clients comes in for specific color or style some of the terms stylist use become a foreign language to clients. In this post, I wanted to give you an outline on specific words and terms so when you get in the chair so, you know exactly what you're asking your stylist to do.

1. Balayage

this technique can be used to lighten or darken the hair but the term means to paint the hair in such a way to create a natural-looking effect. Balayage is definitely more of a technique than a specific look. This is for sure the technique I use the most but I do mix it up and create different forms of balayage.

2. Ombre

This style of color can be used in many different ways but it all reality it is just having tones of color that shade into each other, graduating from light to dark. You can also have it fade it both directions... fading from dark to light is an ombre but fading from light to dark is called a reverse ombre.

* Balayage Ombre is creating an ombre that looks as natural as can be without using foils. When you use foils to achieve this look is can be called a Foilage which is achieving a balayage look with isolated foils to either help give maximum lift or to protect the hair from other colors being used on the hair. 

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3. Highlights

There are many types of highlights and many techniques to achieve them but the basic concept of highlighting is creating dimension through adding lighter tones into the hair. 

4. Lowlights

There are many types of lowlights but when it comes down to it you're just adding dimension into the hair with darker tones. I like to use this technique to help blend a dark root color into a lighter mid-shaft to end color. It gives a seamless grow out.

5. All Over Color

Adding an all over color in the hair isn't as simple as slapping one tube of color all over and then the hair magically becomes a solid color from roots to ends. It is much more than that but, an all over color is described as a hair color that is the same color throughout entire head of hair. Most of time, you aren't going to just do an all over color because that does lack dimension, so adding multiple colors to achieve a look that looks cohesive and balanced is the best in my opinion.

6. Baby lights

In some cases it almost looks like an all over color that is perfectly blended from roots to ends and in other cases it can add slight dimension to dark hair to give it some movement, but it is described as very fine and small weaved highlights to achieve lightness. 

7. Hair melt

Also known as a sombre, where like an ombre having tones of color that shade into each other but with this technique you have no lines what so ever and it gives a low maintenance grow-out. 

I hope you found my outline on specific hair trends, helpful and informative. If you have any questions, comments or just want to show some love, please don't hesitate! I would LOVE to hear from you. 

Thanks again for checking out my post and until next time, have a great day! 

Caramel Balayage Breakdown

DISCLAIMER: THIS IS A STEP-BY-STEP TUTORIAL TO BE PERFORMED BY LICENSED PROFESSIONALS ONLY. I AM NOT PROMOTING NON-LICENSED PROFESSIONALS TO DO THIS AT HOME OR IN A SALON.




Hey Everyone! Today I wanted to give you a 3 step guide to go from a "Summer Balayage Ombre" to a "Fall Foilage" look. If you're interested in my technique for this look & my personal formulas used then, please keep reading!


Hair History:
Let's get started... First let me give you a little hair history on my beautiful client Meghan. We have been doing a "summer balayage ombre" on her and she had let it grow out from May until the end of September. When she came in for her fall hair appointment she had voiced how she wanted to go a little darker but not too far from her natural color (6-7 level naturally) and she wanted to still have a little lightness and dimension to her hair. Meghan's hair had lightened even more during the summer from natural lift of the sun, so I was able to achieve this look without any lightener & with my conditioning foilage technique.



Step-by-Step Tutorial:

Step 1:

 With Isolated foils, weave a combination of baby lights and basic weave patterns and coat the hair with a conditioning treatment from mid-shaft to the ends of the hair. You want to make sure to leave the root area with room to place the base color.

Step 2: 

Use Formula 1 to coat the hair left out of foils from roots to ends. Make sure to use a comb to pull the formula from roots to end to make sure each hair is coated. 

Step 3: 

When processing time is completed, rinse the hair with cool water and towel dry the hair. Then you will apply formula 3 to the rest of the hair at the shampoo bowl to gloss over the hair. Once you see the desired color on the previously lightened hair you will rinse, shampoo and condition the hair. 

Formulas:

Conditioning Treatment: Olaplex No. 2

Formula 1: Redken Shades Eq Gloss 5NW 

Formula 2: Redken Shades Eq Gloss equal parts 7NB & 7GB

Thank you for stopping by and checking out my "3 Step Tutorial" on how to achieve a Fall Foilage. If you have any questions, comments or just want to send some love please don't hesitate to reach out. If you have any ideas or thoughts on what you want me to write about next just let me know. I would love to hear your suggestions!