My Personal Make-up Collection

Today I decided to give a little tour of my personal make-up collection. Of course, this isn't everything that I have. Most of what is shown is just what I've been using on a daily basis more recently. Ya'll, I love make-up. I love experimenting with different colors, and tricks. I may not be a pro, but believe me, by the time I'm finished watching random tutorials I find online, I'll be a natural. 

After cleansing my face, these are my first and favorite go to products. I adore foundations. I love that they give a flawless finish to my freckly, red face. So, I start with my foundation primer, which is basically the foundation of the foundations. Mary Kay's foundation primer fills in all of my pores giving my skin a younger look, while also allowing my foundation to last ALL DAY. It's pretty amazing. My next step is CC Cream. Color Correction cream is a tinted moisturizer, great for creating a more even skin tone. My last step is to apply my Timewise Matte-wear liquid foundation in the shade Ivory 7. I love the look the matte-wear gives me, and I absolutely love the feeling it leaves on my skin. I can hardly tell I'm even wearing foundation and I've applied three liquids. Talk about wonderful.

Now that my face looks and feels flawless, I add the finishing touches to the foundation look. I add bronzer under my cheek bones and lightly contour my face. It just adds a little bit of a glow. Lately, I've been playing with Mary Kay's new cheek duos, and they are awesome. The one pictured is called Ripe Watermelon, and its the perfect pop of pink. I love that these products are blush and a mineral highlighter. Mineral highlighter is bae. 

                                 

A flawless face can't be completed without some flawless eye colors. I experiment with my eye colors a lot, so you might find me wearing different colors every day. Although, for the past couple of months I have been in love with the mineral eye color Rosegold. It's a golden sparkly brown and it is beautiful. Rosegold is in the picture above, it's the only one that has a place worn out because I've used it so much. I have Moonstone, Sweet Plum, Rosegold, and French Roast pictured as the mineral eye colors., and I love each one. They can all be played with to be dramatic or simple, and that is my favorite part about the mineral eye colors.  I added a cream eye color because I love to use them as eye primers. The color in the picture is Metallic Taupe and it looks gorgeous under purple eye shadows, although I typically use Beach Blond as my go to eye primer. 

 Mascara cannot be forgotten. If I had to chose only two makeup products to live off of, I would chose my timewise matte-wear foundation, and ultimate mascara. Mascara is SO important. Leaving the house without mascara, is like leaving the house without pants. You just don't do it. I just have to brag on the eye lash primer, its the white tube kind of hidden behind the lash love mascara. This product is a miracle. It leaves my mascara clump-less, and adds loads of length. I apply one coat of my lash love I <3 black mascara after my eyelash primer, and then top it off with a layer or two of my ultimate black mascara. If you love a falsies look, then I definitely recommend trying these products together. Your eyelashes will thank you. Trust me.

 

Last but not least is lipstick. I never knew that lipstick could be so powerful. Its almost as if my confidence boosts about 10 points just by picking up the tube.  I have a few different shades shown off in the picture, such as Subtly You, LavaBerry, and Berry a la Mode. Each of the shades shown are Mary Kay's True Dimension line. (Obviously my favorite line, since that is all I own) My personal favorite lipstick is the color lavaberry. I may have mentioned this in a previous post, but ya'll it is seriously the perfect color. If I'm having a rough day, I just apply my lavaberry lipstick, lift my chin a little higher, and remember that life goes on. I'm always so impressed how the same lipstick can look so different depending on the person wearing it. I love to use one lipstick a party and have all the guests try it, just to see how diverse the shades are. It's pretty amazing. Lipstick is an amazing tool that just makes a woman feel pretty and strong. At least, that's how it works for me. 

There you have it, a little sneak peak at some of the products that I use every day. Make-up is so much fun and I absolutely love the products that I put on my face and the company that makes them. I'm sure my collection will continue to grow as seasons change, and newer products are revealed, but for now this is satisfying.