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Hey Christine! Great review! Because we have the same type of skin (normal-to-dry), I really do value your opinions on products, especially ones that I'm looking into buying in the future. I am a MAC NC20, would you recommend this product to someone with my skin or lighter - or do you think it will look "dirty" and give us a shadowy effect like many darker highlights and blushes do? I do have some more questions about this gorgeous product especially on you and your personal preference. How is the finish on normal-to-dry skin? (I read that this is your skin type and it is mine too!) I usually find products similar to this one cling on my dry flakes. Also, have you tried the product with other foundation or bases? If yes, how well did it work with foundations other than 'Born This Way' by Too Faced? I also do not quite understand something. Are you wearing a highlighter or is that golden shine from the glow of the blush itself? I read you mention that it does have a rosier tone when blended out. It looks beautiful on you either way! I really enjoy your blog and love the way you describe products - these are just the things I, personally, would want to know that may not apply to other people. Thank you! She responded!
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This isn’t really something I thought I would talk (/rant) about in my blog – but – I just have to.
WHO would have thought that the beauty community could turn to this drama filled reality show? – not me. Has anyone reading this heard about the feud between the infamous Jeffree Star and his “ex-friends” Manny MUA, Laura-Lee, Nikita Dragun and Gabriel Zamora? If not, then I can confirm you are definitely living under a rock. I read an article online which basically says: Gabriel Zamora (or Gabby), a YouTube “Beauty Guru”, took to Twitter and posted a picture that included a caption ‘slamming’ Jeffree Star (the post has since been deleted, sorry!). Update: The tweet says (word per word), “imagine stanning a racist”. After Jeffree responded, his ex-friends, including ‘Gabby’, started talking about Star’s past and continually slamming him for being insensitive toward other races. Here’s where the plot twist happens… Loyal fans of Jeffree went all the way back to his nemesis’ old tweets and found they THEY were being racist in some posts as well. This made Laura Lee, Gabriel Zamora and Manny MUA upload videos of them publicly apologising for their wrong doings. After this, we would all think that everything was fine, right? Well no, it only got worse. Laura Lee’s ‘apology video’ was so bad, people caught on that it was all just an act and made her lose over 500,000 subscribers in only a couple of days. This is what WASN’T mentioned in the article: First of all, Gabriel’s apology was accepted by Jeffree as is seemed so sincere and it looked like Gabby was extremely vulnerable in this situation. He even called out Manny MUA for being fake and manipulative! Which, honestly, to me – isn’t that surprising. BUT, this should have been mentioned in the article especially after talking about Gabriel’s apology. Since this incident, Laura Lee came back to YouTube after 3 weeks, being FLOODED by hate comments that say things such as “we never wanted you back” or “YouTube was a better place without you” – ouch. Now we are in October and the feud continues. Manny MUA has just recently dropped a two-part series titled “My Wakeup Call”, which mentions Jeffree Star’s name quite a few times. Which, also, Jeffree was not happy about. He actually, again, took to twitter slamming Manny MUA – but that’s for another post. Are you on Jeffree’s side or not? Honestly, I feel like all this drama in the beauty community is so unnecessary and needs to stop. Let me know your opinion. Twitter @makeupdiaries1 I grew up in a family made up of mostly females (this was the case when I was growing up. Now, the boys in my family are expanding and it won't stop!). The women in my family loved to look and feel "beautiful". This is when I started to get interested in the beauty and "magic" of makeup.
Even when I was a little girl, I noticed the change in behavior after my aunties applied makeup. To me, they seemed much more confident and, well, happy. Other than this, ever since baby, I have NEVER seen my mother without makeup on! - it's insane. So, at age three, I started playing with makeup - not as anything too serious, more literally as a game. I would ask to apply makeup on my family member's faces and remember thinking that it was the funniest game out there to play! Although I was extremely bad at makeup, I too felt how amazing it was to play with makeup! Now I was never really serious with makeup until age 11. This is when all the girls in my school started wearing lip balm and mascara to school. I remember feeling so left out and sad because I didn't know how to put makeup on properly. So the first thing I did when I got home was ask my mother how to put mascara on. At 13 was when eyeliner came into my life. I remember feeling gorgeous. Like I was on top of the world. I wanted to be just like my mother and I was one step closer! And then brows at 14. And finally, my mother slowly let me collect makeup (they were mostly her hand-me-downs but I was over the moon!). I started with the world’s worst eyebrows. Starting with drawing a circle at the start of my eyebrow and filling it in, then extending it to the other end - hideous! This is when I discovered YouTube makeup tutorials - this was the start of it all. I would come home from school and practice every single day until one day at 15 I remember starting to get compliments by school friends on my makeup. This was my motivation. Fast forward to now. I am certified makeup artist and STILL completely in love with makeup. Don't get me wrong, I feel beautiful with or without it - but - to me, its art. I could turn myself into whoever, match my makeup with the personality I am that day and feel absolutely amazing doing it! |
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