I ♥ Sephora

As a cosmetics and beauty lover, Sephora is obvs my go-to spot. I can spend hours there, looking at all the glittering glosses, pigmented shadows, and oh so much more. (I can also spend lots of money there, and do, as I'm really close to becoming a VIB Rouge, which I'm not super proud to admit. SA (Sephora Anonymous) anyone?) Anyways, since I do most of my shopping there for my cosmetics, I'm going to start showing my beauty hauls from there (and probs other places too). On my last visit there this past week I got:

Bare Minerals' Marvelous Moxie Lipgloss in Hypnotist
$18

It's kind of an odd gloss, as it's holographic, and it reminded me of fish scales at first, but it was just too cool to pass up, so I got over it. It feels really smooth and moisturizing and isn't sticky at all, which is a huge plus. I've worn it just plain by itself, which produces a nudeish creme shimmer, and also over colors, which gives the color an extra boost and shimmer. The holo effect is beyond amazing and suuuuuper duper cool and I'm kinda obsessed with it, as I'm a sucker for holo anything.

Sephora Collection Colorful 5 Eyeshadow Palette in No 7 Mild to Wild Khaki
$25

I absolutely love this palette for fall! It offers a nice variety of greens and can give you an everyday look to a smokey eye. It also gives you a nice little guide on the back of what colors to use and where to place them on your eye based on the look you want to achieve.

Benefit Porefessional Pore Minimzer
$31

I like to think this helps my Grand Canyon pores and I suppose it does a bit. I tend to go between this and Dr. Brandt's Pores No More.

Manicure Monday: On Nightwatch

As I said in my last post, I'm all about the Halloween nails for all of October, so obvs I have some on today! For this mani, I used Sally Hansen's Complete Salon Manicure in Nightwatch, an almost-black navy. I then used my dotting tool to create the white dots with Sally Hansen's Xtreme Wear in White Out and then was too lazy to go find my black polish, so I just used the navy again for the other dots. Originally, I was going to use actual googly eyes, but I knew I'd be too fidgety with them and they'd pop off within minutes, so simple eyes they are. I'm planning on doing some glow-in-the-dark polish over the eyes too to give it a fun effect!

Halloween Mani Inspos

Though Halloween is weeks away, I celebrate it the entire month, mainly on my nails and with pens (I got awesome needle ones from Target!). Below are some Halloween nail art inspirations! Def going to try some of them out!

Obsessed with these Day of the Dead skulls from
Drop Dead Gorgeous Daily! Probs would do one as an accent!

Love this chic take on spiderwebs from Refinery 29!

A classic Halloween mani for me & the one I
always seem to get the most compliments on!
Tutorial from The Beauty Department.

October Preview

Trying to get back into this, especially now that it's part of my social media class! I'll be incorporating things for the class throughout the rest of the semester, so bear with me a bit, but I will be posting my usual things! So, my "editorial calendar" for the next couple of weeks: every Monday I will share some fab Halloween manis for #ManicureMonday because it's finally October (!!!!!!) and October means Halloween everything! Duh. Every Wednesday, I will be continuing "Wishlist Wednesday" with my wants for the week! Enjoy and Happy October!!!!!!!!

Best & Worst (And Everywhere In Between) Dressed of Emmys 2014

Overall thoughts on this year's Emmy fashion: not impressed. There were no dresses or ensembles that I thought "Oh my gosh. I'm in love." Kind of disappointed, as this red carpet is now supposed to hold me over until award season. 

Also, overall thoughts on this year's VMAs: why do you think there's no post? The only outfit that slightly impressed me was Demi Lovato's dress, but other than that, nope. Even Taylor Swift, like what in the world was that?! A word search onesie? No. And Katy Perry's denim dress? This is not 2001, you are not Britney, and that man was definitely not Justin in any way. I personally feel the majority of them dressed pretty trashy and that's not worth my time to write about. (I know that sounds snobby, but whatevs it's the truth.)

Anyways, back to Emmys:

Best Dressed:

Sarah Hyland in Christian Soriano

Love this. Totally age appropriate, fun and flirty, and just super cute. I also like that it's Christian Siriano.

Honorable Mention of a Dress I Like A Lot:

Allison Janney in Nicolas Jebran

This got a lot of thumbs down, as people claimed it was too 80s, but I like it. I love velvet, I love the color, and hello: big bow.

Just Because: 

Kevin Spacey in Ralph Lauren

I just love a good tailcoat.

Honorable Mention of a Dress I'm Torn On: 

Melissa McCarthy in Marchesa

Hm. I don't know. I love the dress, (I would wear it in a heartbeat), but just not on her. I think it's just too dark and too pouffy, which I'm usually all for, but it just does nothing for her.

Dress I'm Torn On:

Mayim Bialik in Oliver Tolentino

First off, props to her because I feel this dress is way out of her comfort zone, so you go Mayim. I actually quite like this dress. The color, the lace, the silhouette (amaze)... just not all that on her and not at this event. Perhaps the Oscars? Or a ball?

Honorable Mention Worst Dressed: 

Sarah Paulson in Armani Privé

What is this? It looks like tons of tulle bunched together with blood splatter. (Too far?) It's probably really itchy too, which is probably why she's posing like that.

Worst Dressed: 

Lena Dunham in Giambattista Valli

I mean, really. Why in the world would her stylist (or anybody who knows her for that matter), let her leave the house like this? Leave the house AND go to the Emmys. I love the skirt, just not on her and not with that top. That top. Ugh. Did she not learn about ill-fittingness with her yellow Zac Posen gown? Is she ready to crawl into bed and use the skirt as a blanket? It's just all unflattering. And the hair, oh the hair. E! quoted her on her hair, saying, "I always have kind of a bad hairstyle as Hannah, so it's nice to kinda chop it off or do something that shows me I'm a real woman." I don't watch Girls, so I don't know what her hair typically looks like, but I can bet it looks better than this platinum bowl. Also, probably the real tragedy of this ordeal, is that it's likely nobody else will wear this skirt and wear it properly... 'tis a shame. 

All pictures via E! via Getty.

Tunes Tuesday: "Shake It Off"

I'm super excited about this Tunes Tuesday because!!!!! Taylor Swift has a new single and is coming our with a new album!! (Obviously I'm a T Swizzle fan.) I knew she had some sort of big news coming soon, but I didn't know it was a new single until I turned on the radio and heard it, at which I may or may not have screamed a little. I absolutely love the beat in this song, as well as the lyrics, especially because in true Taylor style, the song relates to her life. Also, the music video is super cute and awk (which is relatable for me, because awk).

Manicure Monday: Back to School! (Bleh)

Bad note: today is the first day of classes. Good note: it's my last first day as and undergrad and I have these cute nails to look at! I figured it was only fitting for me to do a schoolish theme for this sacred day, so I decided to do a pencil accent nail (which in retrospect, I wish I'd have done all my nails as pencils). For the nails that don't have the pencil, I used Essie's Cute as a Button, which is also what is used for the eraser. (It looks red in the pic, but it's more of a coral. You can also opt for a dusty rose for the eraser as well.) To make the pencils: two coats of Ulta's Sun- Sational, wait until it's a little dry, then two coats of the coral (or pink), again, let dry a bit. Then with a striping brush, I used Sally Hansen's Celeb City, make a thin-ish line, covering up any unevenness of the coral tip. These actually turned out much better than I thought they would and like I said before, I wish I would've done them on all of my nails, especially since they were so easy! Happy first day of classes!