1. Covergirl Ready Set Gorgeous Foundation : I honestly didn’t even think that I would like this foundation when I purchased it. I bought it purely to try out for review purposes. I have a friend who uses this foundation and has oily skin, so I wanted to try it out and see how it fends with dry skin. Yet some how it just… worked. Now I pretty much use this foundation every single day. I’m not going to lie, I think Covergirl has really been killin’ it with their foundations as of late.
2. Chantecaille Anti-Glycation Primer : I got gifted this product quite a while ago, but never really enjoyed using it. Honestly I don’t even know whether my foundations applies any smoother after I use this primer, but I mainly use it as a little bit of sun protection for my face, and just as an extra bit of moisture incase I had any dry spots. I think if anything, at this point I’m just trying to use up this product, but I have been using it almost everyday in January so I thought I would include it here.
3. False Lashes : Been getting back into the falsies game lately, and I’ve been loving these ones that I purchased from China. They don’t even have a brand on them anywhere, but I think you can definitely find similar looking ones on Ebay for cheap. I’ve definitely been leaning more towards the lashes that wing/fan out and get longer towards the end. I find that it gives your eyes an even more almond / cat-eye effect, and I’ve been obsessed pretty much.
4. Vice 3 Palette : K SERIOUSLY THIS PALETTE THOUGH. Man it is just such perfection. It’s got all the colours that I feel comfortable using (purples, golds, browns, bronzes, burgundies), and then also have a few that I could experiment with (blues and greens). Not to mention they all have such amazing pigmentation it blows me away. I didn’t use anything else for SO long after I bought this palette; I just never had the need to. It’s just… perfect. I don’t even know how else to explain it, I’m so in love.
5. Tapered Kabuki Brush : So earlier on, in January, I wrote about a new, super affordable brush set that I recently bought, and I’ve been trying them out ever since. I’ve been adoring their tapered kabuki brush for setting underneath my eyes and around my nose areas in those pesky, hard-to-reach places. The point just fits so well in the contours under my eyes, that I haven’t been using anything other than this to set.
6. Flat Top Kabuki Brush : When I want a super flawless foundation application for a night out downtown, I’ve been loving the flat top kabuki brush from the same affordable brush set I mentioned above. I feel like this would actually be a pretty good dupe for the Sigma flat top kabuki brush, but since I don’t own the Sigma one, I can’t tell you guys for sure. But honestly, this brush has pretty much ruined the relationship I had with my Real Techniques buffing brush, which was my old favourite foundation brush. It just swooped in and took over, and now I don’t even touch my RT buffing brush (I’m sorry baby, we had a good run).
7. Tapered Precision Brush : Next up for brushes, is the mini version of number 5 on this list. It is the tapered precision brush. I’ve been using this to buff colour underneath my eyes, into my lower lash line. Works like a charm. I also use it sometimes to contour my nose.
8. Round Precision Brush : UNNNFFF. I can’t say enough good things about this brush. I’ve been using this one as a blending brush for my crease, and my dear lord, it works so well. I will usually use this to deposit and blend a transitional shade into my crease, and then again to blend out whatever other colours I had to my lid as well. It just works. It’s amazing. Buy the brush set guys. It’s $10 for 9 brushes. Just go buy it please.
9. Flat Angled Precision Brush : This particular brush, I’ve been loving for depositing a darker shade into my outer v and crease area. I found that it fit perfectly into the outer corner of my eye, so I use it for just that purpose.
10. Maybelline Touch of Spice Matte Lipstick : Definitely my favourite shade out of their matte lipstick line, I’ve been obsessed with Touch of Spice lately. It is one of those plummy, pinky, nude-y Kylie Jenner lip colours that everyone has been obsessed with lately. I remember seeing a few swatches on the internet comparing Touch of Spice and Mac’s Twig and they looked pretty similar, but don’t quote me on it, since I don’t actually own Twig.
11. Josie Maran 100% Argan Oil : I was using a lot of this oil when my skin was so dry that it started to become flakey and patchy. I got this as a 500 point perk along with a couple other Josie Maran products to try out. Despite the fact that it’s a small sample bottle, it’s actually going to take me a LONG time before I get through this bottle, since I only use, literally, a drop or two each time. And now that my skin has been quenched, and does not have dry patches anymore, I’ve laid off it for a while, as to make sure my skin doesn’t think it has too much oils and dry itself out even more. I think I might pass this along to Ryan to try to see if it does anything to help with his Eczema.
12. MAC Melba Blush : Last but definitely not least, is my newest MAC blush addition… MELBA ! I’ve actually wanted this blush for years and years now, and I finally went out and bought it. And ohmylord it is everything I’ve ever imagined it to be and more. It is a matte, peachy, warm, neutral blush that just gives your skin the nicest warm tone to it. What I love about this blush, is that you can wear it with pretty much any look since it doesn’t add too much crazy colour to your cheeks, but instead just warms it up and makes it look lively. I’m OBSESSED. I probably wore this almost every time I wore make up since I’ve purchased it. I can’t pick any other blush up.

So that concludes my January Favourites ! I hope you guys found this a good read, or maybe it gave you a few suggestions of new products to try !

Let me know down below what your favourite products of January 2015 are, or if you also write a blog, link me to your post ! 

I’m already thinking about what I want to include in my February favourites, but I haven’t actually tried out very many new products this month so I have no idea ):

Until next time my lovelies,

Here’s another look that I created with my Urban Decay Vice 3 palette. I’ve been obsessed with this palette ever since I bought it. It’s just such a versatile palette. It has a really good selection of shimmers, bright colours, as well as neutrals and mattes. Let me know if any of you would like to see a full review and swatches of the palette. I have a video where I do a first impression of it here, and a post about it on my old blog here, but I’d love to do a fuller review of it with brand new pictures and everything, if you guys would like to see it.

I love purple eyeshadow looks because I feel like purple, despite being a pretty bright colour, looks good on everyone. It’s just such a wearable colour. Not everyone can pull off the blues, or the greens, but some how purple just works.

By the way, I totally apologize for these awkward photos of my face that looks like I’m falling asleep. It’s pretty hard taking a picture of your make up when it’s just you and a DSLR. Sometimes I can get a few good ones, but other times, like the ones in this post, I just like derpy and sleepy. Much apologies.

I mention this in the video as well, but I did some things differently with this look. For one, I tried to wing out the purple eyeshadow, so it almost pulls out into a winged shape. If you know me, you know I love my winged eyeliner. So since, for this look, I actually decided not to wear winged liner (or actually liner at all), I decided something had to be winged or else it just wouldn’t feel right.

That’s the other “different” thing I did with this look. I decided that I would wear my usual dark black liner with it. I really love how the no-liner eye looks look on other youtubers, like Jaclyn Hill, and Kathleen from Kathleen lights. So I thought I would try it myself, and skipped the winged liner and went straight for mascara and half falsies.

But of course, I couldn’t help myself, and went back over and lined the other half of my lash line with the littlest bit of black eyeshadow. Just to darken that lash line up a little bit. I think it turned out fine though ! It still really does look like I’m not really wearing any eye liner.

For this look, I used the shadows

DTF (transition)

Alchemy (crease)

Bondage (outer v)

Truth (all over lid)

Bobby Dazzle (inner corner and brow bone highlight)

So that is it for this look, I hope you guys enjoyed it. If you want to see how I achieved this look, you can click here, or just watch the video down below.

Until next time,

Here’s my first make up look that I created with my new Urban Decay Vice 3 palette. I have been obsessed with this palette ever since I picked it up. It’s got such amazingly buttery, pigmented beautiful colours, it’s hard not to love it. I’ve decided I’m going to try to put this palette to use as much as I can and not leave it unloved like some of my other palettes.

And what better way to do that than to create a bunch of looks with it for you guys  !

I wanted to start with something basic and natural. Sure the palette itself has got some gorgeous, eye-catching colours, but what’s great about this palette is that it’s got some amazing matte shadows as well !

So being a matte eyeshadow lover, I created this little neutral number for you guys.

I love how this look turned out.

The colours I used for this eye look are :

Undone

DTF

Defy

Truth

Hope you guys enjoy this look ! If you want to see how I achieved it, you can watch my tutorial down below.