I've randomly bought eyeshadow palettes from ELF to give as gifts to friends but not till recently did I want to buy a palette for myself that I saw at Target, sadly they were broken up and it was all a mess so I didn't purchase it.  I went to a free smoky eye workshop at Rubys Makeup Academy and one of the girls said she uses the eyebrow kit that Elf sells, So I had to try it if a makeup artist recommends it. I picked up a few things that day to play with and liked the brushes, eyeshadows but loved the prices. I went home and got on line to visit ELF, saw they were having a mystery bag sale, I believe I spent a total of $20 maybe $25 and, with a code they provided, received a mystery bag full of ELF goodies:

Free Mystery Bag

This is what I ordered the first time:

I have yet to try any of this! But if you have anything youd like to see swatched or any questions about a certain product let me know and I'll be sure to to answer it asap.

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I'm such a homebody but this past weekend I decided to take my niece and step daughter to a fairy event at Westfield West Covina Mall. The girls entered a chance to win the dvd which will be out October 23, 2012. There was face painting and fairy tattoos. The girls also colored and received a cute fairy gift, which I cant tell you what exactly it is because they wouldn't let me see them, maybe they thought I was going to take it? but it is pictured below to the left of my step daughter...

My step daughter coloring

My niece posing

Face painting with Arianna

face painting with Serai

The boys headed off to who knows what part of the mall while the girls and I enjoyed our time but they returned to join in the fairy fun...

Jayden getting his hand painted

Jaycens coloring

Everyone getting tattoos, the weirdo in the back is husband, Nathan.

Before we left we got free passes to the screening of the movie on October 13,2012 at Edwards SouthGate 10:00 am but the movie is in spanish and the only one that understands spanish is me. Havent decided if I'm taking them anyway but we had fun

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I recently wanted to start wearing lipstick and blush so I went ahead and bought a few E.L.F. blushes of course! I bought 4 but the one pictured was the brightest pink.

Pink Passion

Last month I had a bridal shower and one of my friends gave me a gift card to MAC, which I loved. I headed to the MAC store at the mall and told the lady there I wanted a bright pink lipstick that went well with my skin tone, she said this was a good one

Lipstick: Pink Nouveau                     Blush: Gentle             

Well I was happy my purchases until I was telling my mom about them and she said she heard a make up artist say bright pink tones don't go well with dark skins :(

I ignored it and though "it depends on how you wear it".

Well yesterday I was looking through my tweeter feed and saw this:

"i love black women..but yall gotta leave that chalky ass super pale pink lipstick alone. 

it looks ridiculous. so ridiculous"

I'm not black, I'm  latina but I get confused very often as being black so when I read that I took it as shes talking about me! lol I didnt ask her anything about it, maybe she meant a specific color? but it made me think twice about the lipstick I just bought.

Did I make a mistake with what I bought? is bright pink not ok for dark skins?

what do you think??

These were my inspiration, I hope it looks as good as this

 

Or better yet like this

 

  

I'm sure it wont look like Riris because the shade I purchased doesn't look similar but I'll play with my make up soon and post pictures of my look so I can get some feedback.

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I know, we are just at the beginning of October and Ive already started my Christmas shopping?? I had to, because I love to give gifts, I love Christmas and I love making my kids happy. I noticed Walmart is doing Layaway for Christmas already also and I had to DO  IT! I have a hard time saving money, I know that's bad, So Walmarts layaway comes in real handy to me. I didn't go as crazy as I thought I would but I am very happy with the things I did pick up, though I'm missing a few gifts for other people still.

I don't have any girls of my own so I was lost at what to get my 8 year old step daughter, I dont know what they want now a days but while standing in the aisle full of Bratz and Monster High Dolls I asked another mother how old her daughter was and was this the "In" thing for girls, she said "Oh yes! I don't get it but my daughter loves it". Picked up a Monster High password journal that recognizes her voice only to unlock. 

JOurnal    $27.97

Monster High Color & Style Large Purse    $12.99

and a pretty pink vivitar 7.1 megapixel camera that she can carry in her new purse. Nathan sounded excited when I asked him if he thought it was a good idea to buy her a camera so I'm hoping Serai likes it also.

Vivitar camera    $29.00

Next is a gift for my 3 year old niece that spends her time dancing to "ballet" music playing in her head lol

Tutu Dress up         $19.97

For my 4 year old son, Jaycen, hes mommas boy <3

Gift #1    $21.97

Gift #2     $22.96

Jaycen tells me at least three times a day something about a power ranger, shows me his ninja moves or, recently, walks around with a Thor costume on all day. He loves Iron man too so of course I picked up The Avengers movie for him also. Cant wait to see his face!


 Jayden is 6 years old, he recently told me he wants a bike with only two wheels, I knew he meant he wanted the training wheels from his previous bike GONE. I picked up this mongoose bike for him, which I know hes going to love. Also picked up a helmet for safety and since hes a hemophiliac he needs it even more.

Mongoose bike    $97.97

I know the kids will love this stuff and I'm glad to have started getting all these toys already at Walmart.

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