DIY Brow Pomade

Brows got EXTREMELY popular these last few years. Ppl realized how important a good set of brows was to, not only a great makeup look, but to your face in general. Anyhoo... Everyone was looking for ther perfect brow products. Some people weren't just ready to accept that pencils were the only option. So on came waxy pencils made specifically for brows, brow powders, gels and pomades. I was actually not sold on the idea that my method of alternating between a pencil and a dark brown shadow was inadequate. I mean... it looked great in the end. And paying tens of dollars on a pomade that i heard was prone to drying out, just because it was trending just wasn't on my list of things to do.... but... wait.. i could just make my own right? Ppl are doing that? Youtubing and Pinteresting my life away allowed me to discover that i could totally make my own brow product and for a fraction of the cost of those other big named products... but will it work? Hmmm....

Some people were using actual hair pomade and hair sprays and eyeshadow to create their brow products but... i don't use pomade and i was really trying to avoid buying something that i don't really need to have sitting on the shelf in my bathroom. So, i grabbed my Murray's Beeswax

....and scooped a bit of it into an empty gel eye liner pot til the little pot was just over half full. Then, after one of my many adventures down the Walgreen's cosmetic isle, i used the dark brown definer shade at the center of my Wet N Wild "The Naked Truth" pallette for color. 

I scraped the shadow into the gel liner pot with the beeswax and used a cuticle pusher (because it's small) to break the shadow down and mix the products together. In hindsight, it probably would have been a million times easier to mix the two on a flat surface or in a larger container and then tranferring it to the gel liner pot. Anyway, it'll take something like equal parts to get the right amount of pigmentation for you brow product, but once you get it to the right color, it works like magic!

And there you have it! Brow "pomade" made super cheap and easy with beeswax and eyeshadow! It works great, it doesn't dry out and best of all, when u run out, you can just whip up some more! BOOM!

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Wet N Wild is LIFE!- Lipstick Gold

I've posted quite a few times about looks i created using Wet N Wild products. Their eyeshadows are AMAZING. They're super pigmented, some are dupes for high end brands, i can find any color my makeup loving heart desires and let's not forget that they're extra affordable! At no more than $6 per palette at walgreens, walmart, target, cvs, rite aid, and that's just the stores i've been to.... you really can't lose with Wet N Wild.

I found myself bypassing all other brands and heading straight to the Wet N Wild 5' section when doing my mandatory stroll of the cosmetics section of any store i'm in. I now will swear by the gel liner pot, the fergie collection eye primer and the color icon liners. But there is one product that stands out like a bedazzled fanny pack... the Mega Last Lipstick collection!

Listen, lipstick is kind of a big deal for me. Like... it sets the mood... it finishes your face..  brows, lashes and lipstick are my staples... and these lipsticks are like GOLD! There's a wide range of colors from nudes, to pinks, to purples to reds and even a couple of orange shades. They finish matte when blotted (which is a must), they last for forever, they're very pigmented so fading is almost unheard of (esp with the deeper colors), they come in some fairly sleek little tubes and... They cost no more than $2!!!! Not a joke. The highest i've seen them priced is $1.99 ! Insane right?! Right! I didn't even realize how obsessed with this lipstick that i was until i organized my makeup case and realized that i had somewhere between 15 and 20. I shop them and find that i already own most of the shades and then when i grab one that i think won't be anything special, it blows me away! (That's actually happened twice now). But yea, it's an amazing product, extra low cost and soooo my fav product by a company that i frequently refer to as "life". Just in case you're still not convinced that you should report to your nearest drugstore and grab alllll of these lipsticks, here are some pics of some of my faves....

"Don't Blink Pink"

"Stoplight Red"

"Bare It All" (over a dark brown liner)

"Vamp It Up"

"Think Pink"

"Sugar Plum Fairy"

"Mochalicious"

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