The Natasha Denona My Dream eyeshadow palette features 15 dynamic shades that are gorgeous for the fall/winter season!
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STYLE + BEAUTY + AMBITION OF THE MODERN WOMAN
The Natasha Denona My Dream eyeshadow palette features 15 dynamic shades that are gorgeous for the fall/winter season!
(Contains affiliate links)
One of my favorite beauty discoveries this year is the Marc Jacobs Highliner pen in Lun-atic. It’s that perfect streak of purple/silver gel that stays put on the lower lashline for hours. So, it was little surprise when Marc Jacobs announced their Holiday 2014 collection that the Sky-Liner Gift Set of highliners was high on my wishlist! I mean, why settle for one gel liner when you can have seven? #AmIRight?
Needless to say, as soon as Sephora‘s VIB sale hit, I was pounding the pavement to get this in my grasp. And since purchasing, my eyes have been decked out with Jacobs’ smooth and creamy liner all-day every day. Needless to say, I have NO regrets!
Recently Estee Lauder launched a brand new foundation, the new Perfectionist Foundation – which now sits beside the cult favorite Double Wear foundation at an Estee Lauder counter near you. It’s autumn, making it prime time for me to get back into my base and a new foundation is always exciting! And so I jetted off to my nearest Nordstrom to get color-matched by one of the nicest gals I’ve ever met. Seriously, Estee Lauder and MAC always have the best salesgirls. I don’t know what it is – but I always walk away with a new best friend 😉
Fall nails. They’re darker, sexier and sassier than the pastels of spring and summer. One of the many reasons to be glad the temperatures are growing colder is that we can now dress our finger nails in deep purples, burgundies and greens. Last year, navy had its moments on our nails – and this season we welcome dark greens and teals. I’ve narrowed it down to 3 must-have shades that we all need on our nails this season!
Let’s skip the usual ohmygod – August went by so fast! – and get down to it: I frickin’ LOVE September! So bye August, bye bye!
Let’s move onto the dog days, my favorite days of summer. Pre-Fall has got to be my second favorite season, second of course to Fall itself. (And, yes – I do operate on the seasons of fashion, not the sun and the moon. It’s who I am, okay!) September itself is definitely my favorite month of the year because it’s filled with my favorite things: hot days and cool nights, sweaters with shorts, the return of football and of course…New York, London, Milan and Paris Fashion Week. (But we’ll get to that on Wednesday.)
Of course, while thrilled to see August go, I do need to take a moment and give snaps where credits do to the beauty tidbits that got me through the month. Which honestly, for me wasn’t that much of a great one. It weighed in at a solid ‘meh’.
But enough of the intro, let’s get down to it: My August Beauty Favorites!
Browsing Sephora.com in the middle of the night is a very dangerous thing. Especially when you’ve spent the bulk of the summer wearing little to no makeup and are just itching to get into fall beauty products! Low and behold, I fell in love at first sight with the Smashbox Cherry Smoke Eye Shadow Palette. It just happens that my daily and nightly moisturizers are limping by on their last legs, so I took the opportunity as a sign from the gods to take a trip to Sephora.
But the buggers didn’t have it! *gasp*
Oh the nerve of Sephora to only have it available online at this time. I was crushed! Heartbroken! Distraught! Obviously I had no other option than to drown my sadness by perusing items that they actually did have in-stock. AKA: the Givenchy counter.