Julep Maven - Classic with a Twist April 2013

Outfit of the Day - Another Warm One

Even though it was supposed to be fairly warm today, it was rather chilly this morning so I still wore a hoodie until it warmed up! I recently rediscovered these shoes - I can't believe I forgot about them! These are one of my favorite pairs of shorts - and they used to be my brother's jeans that got too short for him (which is hilarious considering they were much too long for me when I put them on to measure the cutoff length)

Face of the Day

I completely forgot to take a photo of the products I used today! Many of them are ones I've used before, however.

Products used:

Rimmel Fix & Perfect Pro primer
Revlon Colorstay foundation
Milani HD Advanced concealer
Milani Minerals Compact Makeup
Cargo blush - Key Largo
Prestige Brow Perfection - Light/Medium
Maybelline Great Lash clear mascara
MAC Paint Pot - Painterly
Urban Decay Deluxe Shadow Box - Honey, Peace
Wet n Wild Creme Brulee eyeshadow
Physicians Formula black gel liner (from the Hazel Eyes trio, but it doesn't really matter)
L'Oreal Voluminous Carbon Black mascara
MAC lipstick - Impassioned
Revlon Super Lustrous lipgloss - Coral Reef

My outfit today was pretty boring - just jeans and a tshirt, and shoes I've shown here before - so I didn't take photos of it, either. My fragrance of the day was more of my sample of Marc Jacobs' Oh Lola!

Face of the Day - 24. April

Face:

Rimmel Fix & Perfect Pro

Revlon New Complexion foundation

Urban Decay 24/7 concealer

Milani Minerals Compact Makeup

Milani Blush - Mai Tai

Eyes:

NYX HD Primer

MAC Lucky Green

Sleek Original Palette (blue only)

Wet n Wild Creme Brulee

L'Oreal Lineur Intense - Carbon Black

L'Oreal Voluminous False Lashes

Lips:

Covergirl Lip Perfection - Heavenly

I'm including a photo of the same look but with my glasses on. This is how I'll actually be wearing it - I wear these glasses 90% of the time, which is why I'm not too concerned that my eyeshadow isn't always particularly visible when my eyes are open and I'm smiling. It wouldn't be visible anyway with these frames. I prefer the way I look with glasses, I just don't do FOTD photos with them on since you wouldn't be able to see the look then!

Outfit of the Day: July 2nd

Tank Top: Old Navy

Skirt: H&M

Belt: H&M

Shoes: Payless

Outfit of the Day: 6.20.11

Sorry for getting this one out late! Somehow slipped my mind to post yesterday.

Top: Old Navy

Jeans: Express

Earrings: Wet Seal

Shoes: Target

I seriously regret not having bought this shirt in a million colors. It was $5 last summer and it really is one of my favorite shirts – lightweight and comfortable without being totally transparent.

Spring Nail Haul and Swatches

These are the nail polishes I've gotten over the past few months!

L-R: Sally Hansen - Lacey Lilac, Sinful Colors - Soul Mate, Maybelline - Timely Turquoise

Top, L-R: China Glaze - Electric Pineapple* (Island Escape Collection), China Glaze - For Audrey, China Glaze - Dorothy Who?, Finger Paints - Laugh My Art Off, Sinful Colors - Hazard, Maybelline Orange Blazes (LE)
Bottom, L-R: Revlon Matte Suede - Powder Puff, Revlon - Frankly Scarlet, OPI - Black Shatter, Urban Outfitters - Afterhours

*There are two swatches of Electric Pineapple because I could NOT get it to photograph as it looks in real life! The real color is more of a combination of the two swatches.

Top 10: Spring Nail Polishes

China Glaze - Lemon Fizz

China Glaze - Re-Fresh Mint

China Glaze - Something Sweet

China Glaze - Spontaneous

Essence - The World's Coolest

Finger Paints - Vermillion $ Painting

Revlon - Tropical Tempation

Revlon - Candy

Sephora by OPI - Caribbean Cocktail

Zoya - Dannii

Nails of the Day: Spring Flowers

This is the manicure I had for Easter weekend. I used China Glaze Lemon Fizz as the base, then used one of the flower patterns from the Essence Nail Art Stampy Set. I used Milani Nail Art Polish in Draw in Pink for the stamps. Instead of just doing one stamp per nail, I thought it would be cuter to cover more of the nail. Unfortunately I'm not very good at positioning the stamp yet and some of them overlapped. Despite that, and that some of the flowers got smeared by my topcoat, I like how it turned out! Hopefully I'll get better at stamping eventually!

Pink Flower Nails

I'm not really sure where the idea for these nails came from, I just kind of...did it.

Nail color : China Glaze - Sugar High (Up and Away Collection)
Flower petals : China Glaze - Something Sweet (Up and Away Collection)
Flower center : Essence - Sundancer

I used this tool from Sally Beauty Supply to make the dots. I had always shied away from doing any kind of nail art because I assumed it would be too challenging, but this dotting tool is seriously so easy to use. It's really handy that the brush is connected to it, too. And it's really affordable!

I had already had this on for a few days before I decided to photograph it, so my nails are a little worn away...whoops.