Last Minute DIY Halloween Costumes

Happy-almost-Halloween, my long lost blogging buddies!!  I’m praying that you are all subbed to me on YouTube so that you’ll know that I haven’t just fallen off the face of the planet.  While I’ve got you here, I thought I would share some of the costume ideas that I came up with this year.  We…

Happy St. Patrick’s Day 2013!

St. Patrick’s Day is almost here!! How do you plan on celebrating?  I’ve got a marathon day at our church, singing in the praise band at the early service, sunday school, singing with the choir at the late service, and then a choir rehearsal to prepare for Palm Sunday and Easter.  After all that, I’ll…

Urban Decay Vice Palette: Chaos + OOTD

I’ve done a few of these tutorials before to help you use some of those ultra bright, intimidating colors in the Urban Decay Vice Palette.  But I must say, blue is one of those colors that, even in its palest form, can be a touchy color to use on your lids.  So when you look…

Pretty in Pink Valentine’s Day Look

I wanted to make pink eye shadow wearable for this romantic holiday, so naturally I reached for my Urban Decay Vice Palette.  This is a great way to make those super intimidating colors work for you.  You honestly couldn’t see the pink until I blinked and then it was like–POW!  See?! You can wear this…

UD Vice Palette: Nikki Reed Look

I love doing celeb-inspired looks!!  We all flip through magazines, see pictures of our favorite stars looking glamorous, and wish we could get their look too.  So this is a recreation of this Nikki Reed look I found.  I love this look for work or school because it’s a great day-to-night, neutral eye with a…

Vice Palette: Christmas Look

In this tutorial, I use a few of the gorgeous Vice Palette shades to make a lovely Christmas look that’s perfect for the holidays.  Just using Junkie, the jewel tone green, would have been pretty, but not necessarily Christmasy.  It would be very reminiscent of some of the looks I did using my Smoked Palette…

Urban Decay Vice Palette: Armored Desperation

It’s taken me forever to get up the links and details for my first Vice Palette tutorial, Armored Desperation, which is so named for the two starring shadows.  I created a similar look to this one when I first got the palette and then my mom created this look and sent me a picture.  She…