Eye Palette

As we approach the holidays, here are some gift/stocking stuffer ideas for all beauty lovers!! 💋 1. BioClarity’s “Customer Fave Bundle”, which includes bioClarity - BioClarity Cleanse , bioClarity - Hydrate & bioClarity - Clarifying Masque 💚 All of BioClarity’s holiday bundles offer excellent savings & include FREE gifts! 😍 p.s. use code BBASHLEY for another 15% off (: 2. Trader Joe’s Must Haves for Winter! ❄️ Tis the season for dry skin, so here are some low cost/high quality products for skin & hair! TRADER JOE'S - Shea Butter & Coconut Oil Hair Mask TRADER JOE'S - Lemongrass Coconut Body Oil With Almond and Jojoba Oils 🤍 3. Tarte Palettes!! 💜 This particular palette is my all time fave & I received it for Christmas last year! tarte - Tartelette In Bloom Clay Eyeshadow Palette 💄 Check out this palette & all of Tarte’s gift ideas on their website! 4. Give the gift of KinderBox! Either purchase 1 box for someone or subscribe to receive monthly boxes! ✨ I purchased a 3 month subscription this fall and I’m in love!! These are just a few of my faves that I have received from Kinder (all time fave = Fleur & Bee - Eyes Eyes Baby Natural Anti-Aging Eye Cream ) 💗 I think this would be such a cute gift for the holidays!!! 5. I’ve been using YesTo for a long time but they have SO many products I haven’t even made a dent! Their masks would make amazing, affordable stocking stuffers ❣️yesto - Charcoal Peeling Mask yesto - Cucumbers Soothing Calming Sheet Mask I’ve already been starting my Christmas shopping so in case y’all are too, here are some ideas for your beauty-loving friends/family!! 😇

I just got married this past week, so I thought I would share how I did my makeup for my special day. I was going for a more natural/neutral look and focus on products that would hold up through my tears. My skin tone is fair with pink undertones My skin type is sensitive combo & acne prone EYES: SHADOW. The eyes are arguably the stars of the show. Eyes are also so personal—I have hooded eyes so I have to use darker shadows to manipulate my eye shape. I started off with Mac’s Paint Pot in Soft Ochre MAC - Pro Longwear Paint Pot Eyeshadow and set it with the Tartelette in Bloom Palette tarte - Tartelette In Bloom Clay Eyeshadow Palette shade “flower child.” Then I went in with “smarty pants” in my crease, creating a dramatic crease since my eyes are hooded. I continued deepening my crease and outer V with the shades “rebel” and “leader,” and blended out the upper edges with “charmer” on my brow bone. I mirrored the blend of “rebel” and “smarty pants” on my lower lash line. I finished off with “funny girl” on my lids! EYES: LINER + MASCARA: I feel like eyeshadow always looks a little funny until liner and lashes. I started off by giving myself a super thin line with the Urban Decay BLACK Perversion liner URBAN DECAY - Perversion Waterproof Fine-Point Eye Pen . I have ultimate control since it has a brush tip. Shake before use! Then, I decided to use the Urban Decay Subversion Lash Primer URBAN DECAY - Subversion Lash Primer Deluxe Sample I love this stuff! I finished off my lashes with Nars Climax NARS - Climax Mascara and the primer kept it LOCKED ON. FACE: I went a little rogue with my foundation and decided to try a sample I had of the Charlotte Tilbury - Airbrush Flawless Longwear Foundation and I fell in love. With my elf “flawless foundation” brush, I used the shade “1” and it was a little pale for me but I bronzed up using the Fenty powder bronzer FENTY BEAUTY - Sun Stalk'r Instant Warmth Bronzer in the shade “shady biz” and it worked perfectly with the Urban Decay blush brush. Then I went in and blended out the rare beauty blush in “grace” Rare Beauty - Soft Pinch Liquid Blush , and since that is a matte blush I went in with my Becca liquid highlighter on my fingers over it to brighten it up BECCA - Shimmering Skin Perfector Liquid Highlighter . NOTE: I didn’t use any setting spray or powder and makeup stayed on for 12+ hours! BROWS: my brows are pretty naturally full so I just lightly filled them in with e.l.f. - Ultra Precise Brow Pencil and e.l.f. - Wow Brow Gel to hold them in place. LIPS: I also kept my lips simple since we wore masks all day—essence - Soft Contouring Lipliner all over and chapstick on top. #CheriePartner

Using the pink toned shades in ANASTASIA Beverly Hills - Soft Glam Eyeshadow Palette Some of the shades in this palette you either need to use wet or lay them on thick to really get good color payoff. NYX - High Definition Blush one of my favorites. In the shade “rose gold”. Has definite shimmer much like a highliter. Charlotte Tilbury - Jewel Lip Gloss in Rose Jewel. Perfect your lips but better shade. Doesn’t last very long and slightly sticky.

In my review of ANASTASIA Beverly Hills - Modern Renaissance Eyeshadow Palette I mentioned that ABH palettes are the best to travel with.. and it holds true with this palette! Your looks with this palette can range from basic nude to the most dramatic smokey eye you can create. Similar to the modern renaissance the is some fallout with the darker colours, but some of the lighter shades can also come out a bit chalky if you don't use a primer.

ANASTASIA Beverly Hills - Modern Renaissance Eyeshadow Palette ANASTASIA Beverly Hills - Micro-Stroking Detailing Brow Pen Face: FENTY BEAUTY - Pro Filt'r Hydrating Longwear Foundation FENTY BEAUTY - Pro Filt'r Instant Retouch Concealer FENTY BEAUTY - Match Stix Matte Skinstick Rare Beauty - Soft Pinch Liquid Blush MORPHE - Glamabronze Face & Body Bronzer DERMABLEND - Loose Setting Powder Beauty Bakerie - Face Flour Baking Powder FENTY BEAUTY - Limited Edition Diamond Bomb II All Over Diamond Veil Lips Juvia's PLACE - Juvia's Place Lip Gloss Juvia's PLACE - Luxe Lip Liner OFRA - Long Lasting Liquid Lipstick

In my review of ANASTASIA Beverly Hills - Modern Renaissance Eyeshadow Palette I mentioned that ABH palettes are the best to travel with.. and it holds true with this palette! Your looks with this palette can range from basic nude to the most dramatic smokey eye you can create. Similar to the modern renaissance the is some fallout with the darker colours, but some of the lighter shades can also come out a bit chalky if you don't use a primer.

GUYS THIS PIGMENT IS CRAZY! GUESS WHAT ITS MADE OUT OF!!!!! 👏 BEETLES 👏 That’s right...SMUSHED AND GROUND UP BEETLES. It’s not just any beetle though! The red pigment have to come from this insect called the ‘Cochineal’. This pigment is called Carmine and it is located in paints, eyeshadows, lipsticks, and virtually anything that needs a specific type of red pigment that certain red dyes can’t pull off. This ingredient is one of the reasons some beauty brands can’t be vegan. An example of this is ANASTASIA Beverly Hills - Norvina Eyeshadow Palette Aside from the red hue, many formalists use this in their formula possibly to due the stability factors. Some alternatives to Carmine aren’t heat stable which can cause your precious lipstick, paint, or anything that requires heat to make to fall apart. There’s no going around decreasing the price for this stuff either. I’ve seen places that sell cosmetic grade Carmine for about $50 for ONE OZ. 😱 Carmine has always been naturally expensive and cause a palette to be 40-60 dollars vs drug store prices. It takes a lot of time/effort to extract this pigment from the beetles and turn into a cosmetic powder. You CANNOT use this by itself as it can be detrimental to your health if you inhale this. Your lungs are sensitive organs and if you get a little bit of something into them, you know it won’t be good news. On a first look, it is a really beautiful pigment. As I turn and shift the bag I received with the product in it, you can see how much dimension this red has. Depending on the angles you view it at and how the light hits it, you can see different hues resembling magenta, blood red, ruby red, pink undertones, etc. In the photo, you can see it up close as a deep red. Take a look at some of the beauty products you have in your beauty stash! Does yours have Carmine in it! :O

These are my favorite makeup products I used almost all of 2020! These are my honest thoughts about these products! MAYBELLINE - SuperStay Full Coverage Powder Foundation This powder makes your skin look super smooth and is pigmented. It stays pretty well on the face and is comparable to my favorite high-end powder, makeup forever powder foundation. e.l.f. - Hydrating Camo Concealer I tried the original and I wasn’t a fan until I tried the hydro version! I use this for my acne spots and my under eyes and love it! MAYBELLINE - City Bronzer I have a light skin tone and this bronzer is the perfect tone for my skin! It blends easily and doesn’t look muddy like a lot of other bronzers I’ve tried. Collab highlighting powder: This brand is from Sally’s beauty! This highlighter powder looks great on textured skin and doesn’t have any chunky glitter. I love it! MILANI - Make It Last Prime + Correct + Set Setting Spray I love this one and the dewy one! They melt my makeup together and get rid of that powdery look. Love them! e.l.f. - Bite Size Eyeshadow Palette These tiny shadows are comparable to high end ones. Super buttery and easy to blend with good pigmentation! MAYBELLINE - Mascara Lash Sensational I have been using this for years and it’s by far my favorite ever. It doesn’t transfer and keeps my lashes curled all day long. It gives you both volume and length making your lashes looks amazing! essence - Make Me Brow Eyebrow Gel Mascara This gel is a great color for my brows and works so well. It’s super cheap and stays all day. I love the way it makes my brows look. My brows look fluffy and full after using this! These are products that I have loved this year and I recommend to everyone! They are all inexpensive and from the drugstore which I think is a huge plus :)

e.l.f. - Bite Size Eyeshadow Palette Pigmented but too powdery.

Hey Cherie Fam! 🍒 I have been using Huda Beauty’s Haze Obsessions in Khaki for my everyday look. HUDA BEAUTY - Haze Obsessions Eyeshadow Palette I have been wanting this palette since it released, but I figured I would wait until Black Friday to knock a few dollars off. So I have been using this palette for about 2 months now and I would say that I can finally do a full review rather than a first impression. First of all, I love the color story of this palette. You can create khaki bronze, soft rose pinks and gold looks with this 9 pan shade. Mattes blend like a dream. However, I am somewhat disappointed in the shimmers. Shimmer shades are beautiful but a little lackluster. My brush doesn’t pick it up even when used wet and I really have to dig in the pan 2-3x when I use my finger to get it to show up. I noticed that shimmers don’t last long on the eyelids either and I have used multiple eye primers (P.Louise eyeshadow base, ABH primer, UD Primer Potion and KVD Shake it primer). I am glad I got this on Black Friday sale for 30% off. I wouldn’t repurchase or pay full price because I expected more from the shimmers, Overall, I would give this palette 3 stars. ★★★☆☆ Mattes performed well and at the end of the day, you would want your mattes to outperform the shimmers. However, I am disappointed on how the shimmers performed because they are so beautiful. Some shades were even duo-chromes. If you have been wanting this palette, I say go for it but wait for it to go on sale... I am disappointed because I LOVE LOVE LOVE my new nude palette and my Mercury Retrograde palette. I’m not sure why this one didn’t perform as well. Xoxo, Francesca 💋

Little cute eye palette HUDA BEAUTY - Haze Obsessions Eyeshadow Palette

TULA SKINCARE - Smoothing Primer Gel CLINIQUE - Even Better Glow Light Reflecting Makeup Broad Spectrum SPF 15 Foundation CN10 tarte - Shape Tape Concealer in 16N Too Faced - Shadow Insurance Anti-Crease Eyeshadow Primer I finally bought a new container! ANASTASIA Beverly Hills - Jackie Aina Eyeshadow Palette I love the colors and the intensity of them but the fallout of ‘Big Wig’, the only matte I used, was really heavy. The shimmers and glitters are great however and the colors suit a wide range of skin tones. COVER FX - Dewy Finish Setting Spray Gives me a glow but I think I prefer Urban Decay All-Nighter setting spray. PAT McGRATH LABS - Dark Star Volumizing Mascara HG OG DIOR - BACKSTAGE Glow Face Palette in Rose Gold. Love the glow this gives me and the softness of the color. Builds really beautifully. GUCCI - Rouge à Lèvres Satin Lipstick in Three Wise Girls topped with COLOURPOP - Lux Lip Gloss in Renaissance. I love both these products. The lipstick has a little bit of a smell that dissipates quickly and the gloss is great for topping many a lipstick. A friend and I both decided to use the Jackie Aina palette to create a look. It was a fun thing to do as the weather and COVID limits my outside time. Tell me if you are interested in doing something similar!

I was prescribed glasses in the third grade which has given me a looooot of time to figure out what looks best on my eyes behind my rims. While I do opt for contacts a good amount of the time, I’ve really been appreciative for the versatility that glasses allow me. I’m wearing frames that I got a few years ago from Zenni.com. I have multiple pairs of glasses for the simple fact that Zenni’s frames are super affordable, durable, and filled with cute options. I’ve found that when I wear makeup with glasses, I tend to go a little bit more vibrant with my eyeshadows. Here I’m wearing the color ‘Supreme’ in ANASTASIA Beverly Hills - Jackie Aina Eyeshadow Palette which I’d definitely recommend. I rarely wear this hot pink color without my glasses on, simply because I’m not as brave and feel as though it looks too bright on me without them. However, with glasses on to me it looks just right. So for my fellow glasses-wearers, I advise trying out colors that you may have been hesitant to wear when not wearing glasses. Vibrant punchy colors will shine through your frames to give you a subtle pop of color in all the right ways. On the flip side, more mute colors may get lost behind your rims, but it’s truly what type of makeup look you’re going for so just feel it out! I also recommend really leaning into highlighter with eye makeup for glasses. Using an angled brush, I used the color ‘Zamn’ in the Jackie Aina palette tagged above for the inner corners of my eyes, lash line, and brow bone. This really makes my eyes come to life and sparkle when the light catches the highlight through my glasses. I also tend to use more generous amounts of highlight on my eyes when I wear glasses as opposed to when I opt for contacts. I do this just so that the sparkle really glows and shines through my frames. The good thing is that the possibilities are endless with glasses. Cool frames can serve as another accessory to your look. There’s absolutely no reason to hide behind them!

...during this winter Hey Cherie Fam 🍒 I played with one of my favorite palettes of all time which is the MORPHE - Morphe x Jaclyn Hill Eyeshadow PaletteI have literally made so many looks with this palette and after all this time I still reach for it often. I wanted to do an icy winter blue look so I played with the jada and pool side. The jada shade, which is the teal shade is soooo pigmented! It wasn’t chalky at all and applied evenly. For this look, I used: •creamsicle and butter with a fluffy brush as a transition shade •hunts on the crease just below the transition shade •I cut my crease with P.Louise eyeshadow base in shade rumour 2 •I applied jada all over the lid then topped it with poolside •I used creamsicle and butter on the lower lash then applied hunts on the outer lower lash. I applied jada close to the lash line •I used NYX retractable liner in white to brighten up the eyes •enlight on the inner corner and brow bone •mascara then falsies. I used HOL in Temptress Wispy Maybe one day I’ll be brave enough to do a full blown eyeshadow look 💙 Xoxo, Francesca 💋

MORPHE - The James Charles Palette and MORPHE - Morphe x Jaclyn Hill Eyeshadow Palette and Juvia's PLACE - The Zulu Eyeshadow Palette SUVA BEAUTY - Hydra Liner HOURGLASS - Arch Brow Micro Sculpting Pencil the Lip bar - Skin Serum Foundation Rare Beauty - Liquid Touch Brightening Concealer