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Skin care: Obagi Nu-Derm System

Start date: 4/19/12
purchased from: premier health and wellness spa in Hallandale, Fl
Duration of treatment: 18 weeks
Goals: reduce hyper pigmentation, regulate acne, even skin tone

Description: Obagi Medical Skin Care has one simple reason why everyone falls in love with Obagi because it works and it works fast. Its wide variety of prescription strength skin care products repair your skin at the cellular level, which means wrinkles, sagging skin, hyperpigmentation, and acne do not stand a chance

I've heard nothing but spectacular reviews about this product line. It claims to completely transform the skin. I hope this will help in my constant battle with hormonal acne and the scars they leave behind. The cost is pretty hefty but considering the amount I spend in COVERING the problem, I might as well put in the effort to FIX it. I'll keep you guys posted with my progress.

Check out obagi.com for more info

Mac Hit the Pavement

Food + drinks + art = fun

Mac held an event at the Wynwood walls in Miami on March 27. The Wynwood walks are a cool place to view graffiti and cutting edge art from various artists. There were plenty of murals and spectacular live art to check out.

Eating vegetarian (well technically pescetarian....but thats another post) gets tricky at these sort of functions but Wynwood Kitchen provided enough Maduros (sweet plantain), shrimp skewers and margaritas to keep this girl happy.

I dug into the depths of my kit and created a look using blue brown pigment and my fave lip combo, up the amp lipstick and ample pink plushglass.

A good time was had by all, check out the pics.

Fotd: heroine dupe?

Doesn't it suck when you have to wash off a flawless face of makeup at the end of the night? If I could sleep in it without waking up with a massive zit, I would.

Face:
Mufe mat velvet+ #85
Graftobian concealer winter wheat
Mac pro longwear conc nw 40
Mac mineralized skin finish deep dark
Mac prep and prime translucent powder

Cheeks:
Guerlain terracotta bronzer #8
Mac raizin blush

Eyes:
Mac stud and folie (eyebrows)
Urban decay- virgin, buck, hustle, darkhorse
Mac fluidline blacktrack
Loreal voluminous
Ardell lashes #33

Lips:
Mac magenta liner
Maybelline divine lipstick

*excuse the grainy iPhone self shot

Haul #1

After watching a video from one of my favorite beauty vloggers Lipsh0ck , I couldn’t resist picking a few goodies from Sephora and MAC. Here they are:

•Guerlain Terracotta bronzing Powder in 08 ebony

The price is a bit steep at $50, but all the reviews say it’s worth it.

 •MAC Kohl power eye pencil in feline

This is proclaimed to be the darkest most pigmented kohl liner produced by MAC. As a devout smolder fan, I was a bit skeptical at first. Having played with it a little, I can say it is infact pigmented and produces a sharper line than smolder. How it wears, we’ll see…

 •NARS Blush Powder in Albatross

Nars has a reputation for amazing blushes. I’ve had my eye on this one for a while and finally took the plunge and purchased it. Can’t wait to use this to highlight

 •Make Up For Ever Mat Velvet + in #70

Im already a fan of MUFE HD but decided to give this a try. I have oily skin so I cant wait to see how well this matte formula holds up

 • Mac Prolongwear Concealer in NW40, NC50, NW 35

I loved the finish of this concealer in the video. I swapped this out with my studio finish concealer today for work and so far (10 hours later!) I'm impressed with the coverage and application. Formal review will come soon.

 Have you tried any of these products? What do you think?

Carbon Smoke

Super basic evening look using minimal tools. Simple always gets the job done!

All MAC unless otherwise stated
Eyes:
Urban Decay Primer all over lid up to eye brow
nyx black bean jumbo eye pencil on lid
carbon on the lid
arena as highlight and inner corners
BLEND BLEND BLEND then Blend some more!!!


BROWS:
My brows are filled in stud eyebrow pencil, espresso eyeshadow

DEFINE:
I lined my upper lashline with blacktrack gel liner
I lined my lower waterline smolder eye pencil
I used maybelline the falsies volum express for my lashes


Lips:
Lust lipglass

Face:
smashbox photofinish primer
msf deep dark
studio finish concealer nw50
raizin blush

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