Sunday Styles: Houndstooth Dress

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         You know a girl like me doesn't dumb down the fashions no matter where I go. I believe fashion is a creative representation of you and I take that very seriously. So church is no different of course I'm conscious of the things I wear so I wanted to share with you my choices that  I make and how I supplement sometimes too short situations. Check it out.

Pretty in Purple FOTD

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    Oh how I've missed you guys and MAKEUP! Yes I feel like I've been away from it if only for a week but on the internet for so much longer. Any who in the coming months I'm going to make it my business to get more looks up on the blog to share with you guys because at the end of the day thats what I love. So first up I wanted to share a pretty purple look that I came up with, for some this will be only for special occasions and evenings. For people like me who wear full face makeup daily, its a pretty everyday look. Without further delay here it is...

What products I used:

MAC Pencil Just Wonderful

MAC Lipglass Comfort & Joy

NARS Danmari All About Cheek Palette  (Check your local sephora or ebay)

MAC Vintage Grape Blush

Kat Von D Poetica Palette

Urban Decay 15th Anniversary Palette

Ardell Lashes 116

Kevyn Aucoin eye pencil in Black

EVE Pearl  HD Liquid Foundation 

EVE Pearl  HD Dual Foundation in DEEP (Darker Color)

Eyebrows  Anastasia Beauty express for Brows and Eyes

MAC Prep and Prime Transparent Finishing Powder Compact

And Here is the Video...

Dupey Dupe MAC Me Over Shadows and the Naked Palette

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So as per request of the beautiful Beverly @fullyBeatable I've swatched my Naked palette from Urban Decay and five of the six shades that was released from the MAC Me Over collection. The one shadow I didn't purchase was Satin Taupe because I felt like I didn't need it but its still a beautiful color nevertheless. The two dupes are Creamy Bisque(MAC)-Virgin(UD) and Moleskin(MAC)-Naked (UD) The other colors were far off Outre(MAC) was more of a tan color more flesh tone ten Buck(UD) which was a ashier skin. Carbonized(MAC) is a dark brown while Darkhouse(UD)is dark brown with bronze undertones

Naked Palette and MAC Me Over Shadows (l-r) MAC's Creamy Bisque, Moleskin, Outre, Carbonized and Mythical

Here are all the shadows swatched

Here are the dupes (l-r) Creamy Bisque (MAC) & Virgin (UD), Moleskin (MAC) & Naked (UD), and Carbonized (MAC) and Darkhorse (UD)

WINNER WINNER WINNER

Hello Beautiful People!

So I'm excited to announce the winners of my giveaway. Let me remind you of the fabulous prizes... 5 Urban Decay Pigments, a Urban Decay Liner and  Makeup Your Mind: express yourself by Francois Nars to 1st place winner 2nd prize is 5 beautiful Nail Polishes from Sinful Colors and 3rd prize will receive 2 loreal hip shadows and mascara. My first place winner is @RevealingBeaute, second place goes to @skinnyrhodes and 3rd place goes to @swankygt. congratulations ladies I'm so excited for ya'll and will be sending out your prizes shortly. To everyone who participated thank you so very much for entering and this certainly won't be the last one and they'll only get better.

My First Giveaway

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So I thought I'd do a giveaway to celebrate reaching 10000 views on my blog and 200 FB fan likes. I appreciate everyone's support, advice and motivation. I look forward to growing with time and providing better posts, videos in the near future and more sporadic giveaways. For the first one I'm giving away 5 Urban Decay Pigments, a Urban Decay Liner and  Makeup Your Mind: express yourself by Francois Nars to 1st place winner 2nd prize is 5 beautiful Nail Polishes from Sinful Colors and 3rd prize will receive 2 loreal hip shadows and mascara. To enter you must subscribe to my blog,  Leave a comment below with your twitter handle and email address so I can contact you if you're the winner. Contest ends on August 1st at 12AM

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Live, Laugh, Love and Learn

Miss Merl

It's Monday Look of the day

Hello Beautiful People,

Hope you had a wonderful weekend. I enjoyed time with my bestie Chantal loved personal shopping with her its like playing dolls having her try multiple dresses that I personally can't wear because of my shape. (I do well for myself nevertheless) ill post a pic of her dress below. Today I'm dawning a colorful dress on a 90 degree day no complaints here. You'll find my makeup look for the day and what products it took to achieve it. Have a wonderful day. Smile :)


Eyes:  Victorian Punk, Candy Cameo, Too Faced Lava gloss Super black eyeliner, MAC black tied, MAC prep and prime eye base in dark, Fetish blush urban decay, Anastasia brow palette, Clinique high impact mascara black,
Face: MAC Mineralize Powder in Deep Dark, MAC blush in Blunt, Urban Decay Fetish Blush, All my Purple Life by Afrobella for MAC bloggers collection

Live, Laugh, Love and Learn
Miss Merli