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January Favorites!!

     The time has come for me to share my January favorites and not much has really changed from the overall 2012 favorite. I mentioned a lot of the products that are my favorites now. I'm still going to tell you guys my favorite of all time I've been using like every single time I promise the Urban Decay Vice palette and I'm just in love with it.The next thing that I'm super in love with is Mac Dazzleglass in Baby Sparks. I mentioned this lipstick before but it's by Sally Hansen in Perfect Pink 1030-04. I am in love with is the Maybelline Master duo by eyestudio in 520 Navy Gleam and 500 black Lacquer.The next thing that I am super in love with is the Britney Spears fantasy and fantasy midnight. I just really love this new perfume by her and all her perfume I think it's just yummy. Another thing that I've been using a ton is my little lady tweezers I just been trying to perfect my eyebrows cause I have eyebrows fetish on my own eyebrows. They will to be perfect.Then another thing is these two brushes by BH Cosmetics. One is an angle brush that I use on my eyebrows. The other one is a spooly brush which I also use on my eyebrows.

 I hope you guys enjoy and I truly love all these products I've been using them every time and I'm just letting you know that I love them so I hope you guys have a great day and don't forget to subscribe:)


Brittanie Cruz
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Go 49ers!!

      I noticed Superbowl is coming up and I'm a huge football fan huge football fanatic when it comes to the Superbowl. I have a tutorial here and of course I'm going with the 49ers because I love San Francisco and I'm from L.A. California. This is for all you awesome fans that are routing for the 49ers GO SAN FRAN! if you are routing for the other team do not worry I still love you :). I just want to let you know that I did my foundation, highlighting, contouring, and eyebrows all the same so if you don't know what I'm talking about or don't know my routine I have several the post on my routine. 

          I am using two things for the eyes. I first had to prime my eyelid with too Faced Shadow Insurance and the next thing was to pick a red  color gold and white because the 49ers colors are red white and gold. I didn't have a red eyeshadow so I just took my lipstick which is in very cherry 635 by Maybelline and I just put that all over the lid and I blended it out we passed the crease and then the next thing I took was Blitz by the Vice. You can take any gold it doesn't matter. This is a really shimmery glittery gold and I put that all over my lid I put on a few layers and then I did my mascara and you can apply eyeliner to the look as well. I didn't want to and you have to apply your famous game day marks on your cheeks and I just used a black eyeshadow. You can use anything really black liner liquid liner. I used Carbon by Mac and so I just really like the marks on your cheeks. For my lips I did a tint of red and I put the same Blitz eyeshadow on top just a little and it just gave me a glittery red bold lip. Besides the marks on the cheek I can't really use a blush I kinda just put a really light flush of Maybelline Fit Me in Medium Coral. That's it, your ready to look fabulous and fierce. Root for the winning teams. Go 49ers!

 I hope everyone is having a beautiful day and you gotta get your game face on for the Superbowl!!!

Brittanie Cruz

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Skincare basics!

Hey eyes I know a lot of you struggle with acne or different problems with the skin. I'm here to show you some different tricks and tips on how to keep your skin looking beautiful. My first suggestion is that if you have severe acne like it's major clinical go see a dermatologist get diagnose and they will show you how to get rid of that. These tips and tricks are just for minor acne and I'll be showing how you could tell what kind of in type you are and stuff like that. Let's get started.  Beautiful skin begins with a healthy lifestyle. Skin care basics include eating the right foods, drinking plenty of water, exercise, including getting enough sleep, protecting your skin from the Sun, not smoking, and limiting your intake of both caffeine and alcohol. The health of your skin begins with good nutrition. The growth of new cells is dependent on vitamins, minerals, and hydration. Eat at least 5 servings of fresh fruits and vegetables each day. Remember to look for A C E vitamins. A helps prevent aging. C to promote clarity. E is to protect against the enviroment. Vitamins are most important for healthy skin and are plenty full in fruits and vegetables. Vitamin A is in carrots, spinach, watercress, broccoli, sweet potatoes, and melons, peppers, strawberries, oranges, grapefruits, and leafy greens all contain vitamin C.  Also include whole grain foods nuts, Dairy, fish, and beans in your diet. They are all foods rich in zinc which promotes healing and reduces inflammation in the body. Biotin is no other nutrients needed for healthy skin hair and nails such as peanut butter whole grains eggs and liver contain biotin and can help prevent Dermatitis and hair loss.

VITAMINS
♡ vitamin A is an antioxidant essential for the growth and renewal of new skin cells topically applied collagen production and promote skin cell turnover (egg yeast dairy)
♡ vitamin B increase fatty acid in the skin promoting exfoliation and firmness ( yeast eggs liver veggies)
♡ vitamin C is a building block of collagen a protein that gives skin its structure tone and elasticity ( citrus fruits broccoli peppers berries tomatoes)
♡ vitamin D is essential for the development of skin cells ( egg yolks salmon fortified milk and other dairy products)
♡ vitamin E is an antioxidant that helps build and maintain healthy skin tissue ( wheat germ leafy greens nuts whole grains)
♡ fat is also an important nutrient for the skin and the health of the whole body it is necessary for supple skin and soft shiny hair (  incorporate unsaturated fat such as the mono unsaturated fats found in olive oil and avocado with omega 3 fats found in fatty fish and some seeds into your daily diet)

This is just part 1 about skin care and learning the analysis of the skin. If I put it all into one blog post it would just be a novel long. I'm going step by step. First we have covered the vitamins and foods and how you should maintain to keep your skins looking glowing and beautiful. Next we are going to talk about the different activities that you should participate in keeping your skin wonderful. Then will go over skin basic how the skin works and after that we will do a self test skin analysis to help you understand what kind of skin type you have. We will go through the process of how to take care of that certain skin and there will be a lot of tips and tricks and links to different web sites and stuff like that so I hope you guys stay tuned.

I hope you guys enjoyed this :)
And you find it very helpful!

I love you guys ♡

Brittanie Cruz
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Reblogging when I cant sleep.

Feb 7 available in Mac stores.

Archie's girls

Hey everyone  I just got an email about Mac's collection Archie's girls and I think it's just adorable and you could download the exclusive wallpaper.
Link:
http://www.maccosmetics.com/whats_new/10626/New-Collections/Archies-Girls-Exclusives/index.tmpl?cm_mmc=ImpactMobile-_-Collection-_-SMS-_-ArchiesExclusives

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The Year of the Snake!

      A couple days ago I got a sneak peek of Mac's new collection and they announce the animal the year which is a snake. They based their whole new collection of the snake. When they sent me the email that collection wasn't available yet but I got the email last night for for the collection and they are available only online. Go check it out there all beautiful colors I don't think I'll buy anything because I just can't afford that right now.I did check out all the colors and they are freaking gorgeous like I wish I had money to buy it. I would hurry and grab your items because Mac does sell out within days. That happen to me before but yeah I think this collection is so cool because it's based on the year of the snake and all the colors are super vibrant. I think you should go check it out before it it run out.

I hope you have a beautiful year of the snake!
I love your guys :)

-Brittanie Cruz
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Link:http://www.maccosmetics.com/whats_new/10488/New-Collections/Year-of-the-Snake/index.tmpl?cm_sp=Endeca-_-TopBanner-_-YearoftheSnake

Where have I been?

           Hey everyone I know I've been absent for the past couple of days but I had the busiest weekend ever and it was so busy that I couldn't even get to my phone and post a picture of the day that's how bad it was. So on Saturday I had to  prepair for a photo shoot but then had to cancel because the weather and then I had to do an art project.I started setting up some fundraisers for Panama and if you don't know I'm going to a missions trip to Panama this summer and I have to raise like 1450 dollars so yeah. I started setting up fundraiser this weekend you should go check out. My video is on YouTube I leave a link and also fine arts practice started for real this past Sunday and my fast ended and there was so many  things going on and I had to do a lot of other things so that's why I have not been posting but I have several you post for you guys and some Superbowl looks and some other cool stuff so you have to check out :)


My Panama Video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aum6SRH9kyg

My Facebook Page
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Panama-Missions-Trip/588513564495979?sk=app_187136414669863


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OH Yeah! Blue

Here It Is!!

    I promised you guys a blue liner tutorial a while back but I just have been so busy :(
   Lets get started Foundation, Contouring, Highlighting, and Eyebrows are the same. I primed my eyelid with my favorite Two Faced Shadow Insurance. I took Brule by Mac from my lash line to my brow bone just to give it a flush of color.Then here is the fun part. Take a blue liquid liner I am use Maybelline Master Duo in shade 520 Navy Gleam. I held the corner of my eye taught and literally just drew a straight line from one corner to the other. Because of the duo side I was able to twist my brush and draw thin to thick then thin again. Now naturally the liner I chose is dark blue I took my Urban Decay Vice Palette and the color chaos which is a beautiful bright true blue. I took my angle my brush and just tapped a few layers onto my liner and I was able to achieve this beautiful color. The best thing about doing this trick is that it lasted all day. It did not smudge at all and it was great. I have been wearing this look a lot:)

I hope you guys enjoy and I miss you all!!

I hope you have been having a beautiful day!

-Brittanie Cruz

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Okay you may be wondering why I posted this as the picture of day. I have some news... I am dyeing my hair.... My bangs specifically..... BLONDE!!!
Yes I am so excited I will be dyeing maybe end of spring because I want to have it for the summer. I will post pictures as well. I am so excited!!

-Brittanie Cruz
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Rainbow! My Favorite Color :)

Find Yourself

           This photo is from the photo shoot that I did last week I promise you guys that I would post one picture from it and I think it looks really cool my idea came across really well and I like it a lot and her skin tone was just perfect because it made that colors pop. Tell me what you think post a comment below and if you want to see any other looks or photos let me know.

I love you guys. Have a great day.

-Brittanie Cruz
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EyeBrows! Finally

                                                                                           I have been having a hard time filling in my eyebrows and trying to find products. I have used a lot of different products before and none of them seem to match the color of my eyebrows maybe I'm just really bad at picking the right colors for my eyebrows. Some are just too light and some are to dark and some are just way off they don't even match in anyway possible. I'm here to help you and say that it is okay to mix colors if you're just having no luck in the stores finding the right colors for your eyebrows. What I use is my BH Cosmetics angle brush and I use 2 colors I use the brown from this Almay trio palette. I'm sorry to say but I do not know the name of this palette I've had it for a really long time and it's just a trio palette with a silver, a grey, and a light brown. I mix the brown from the trio palette with this is cool grey brown from The Vice palette called desperation ( Urban Decay). I mix these two colors together and it just creates the perfect brown for my eyebrows it's not too dark and it's not too light just perfect. One thing I don't like about this is that it has a bit of shimmer to it. These two colors are both frost shadows and so when my eyebrows hit the light you can see them sparkle a little bit and I'm not a real big fan of it. But it is the right color so this is just temporary until I could find a color that's the same as these two colors combined without frost. I did mention in my favorites video of 2012 that I liked the Shiseido pencil for eyebrows but I realized it was way too light for my eyebrows.

      Now for some beauty tips on grooming your eyebrows. You're going to need cuticle scissors, tweezers, and a little eyebrow razor. Take any pencil or eyeshadow brush anything really you're just going to need it to line it with your nose to find out where your eyebrows start and where it ends. Let's get started take your pencil or eyeshadow brush and line at the edge of your nose and also the inner corner of your eye this will depict where your eyebrows start anything that is on the opposite side of your pencil or brush must be shaved off. To find where your arch should be once again line your pencil or brush at the edge of your nose and across your pupil wherever your brush is that's where are you should be tweeze any excess hair that is there or shave of the hair. Now to find where your eyebrows should end take your pencil or brush again line it with the edge of your nose and to the outer corner of your eye wherever your brush lands that's where your eyebrow should end anything that's passed the brush needs to be shaved off or plucked. I forgot to mention that you would need a eyebrow comb. For the next step of brow grooming take your eyebrow comb and brush all your hair upwards anything that's passing your natural eyebrow line take your cuticle scissors and cut it off. Do this throughout your entire eyebrow. On the same eyebrow take your eyebrow comb and brush your hair downwards anything that's beneath your natural eyebrow line needs to be cut off. The reason why you need to take this last is because by trimming your eyebrow hairs it thins out your eyebrows so it doesn't look as thick. This is an extra beauty tip if your face is thinner and you have more contoured features then you want to round out your eyebrows. But if you have more of a round face and you don't have a lot of contoured features then you want to have more of a higher arch in your brow meaning you want more of an angular brow. These little tricks will just cancel out each other.

Have an Eyerbowlicious Day!!

-Brittanie Cruz

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Yeah Saturday Night!

          oh yeah! this is what I do on my Saturday night. Haha just kidding I don't do this all the time every Saturday night I just have a photo shoot tomorrow morning so I decided to practice my makeup look so I wouldn't take so long tomorrow because I have a really busy day tomorrow but yeah I just wanted to post a real quick picure of what I will be doing tomorrow.

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I Love You Guys!! 

.... If I didn't then I would not post this silly picture!

Have a great Sunday morning and a good laugh when you see this

-Brittanie Cruz

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Maybelline Master Duo Review

    A couple weeks ago I went to Walmart and I bought the Maybelline Master Duo and I posted a blog immediately after I bought it showing the results of the brush and I was really surprised on how accurate it was. I bought the 500 Black Lacquer. This is literally my new favorite drugstore liquid liner. I was really impressed when I bought their gel liner and I just was in love with it and I used it all the time and then when I saw this come out in Walmart I just had to try it immediately because I was so in love with their gel liners. The consistency of this liner is great it's not to liquidy and it last all day and I bought the non waterproof liner but it still act as if it's a waterproof liner I cannot rub it off with just my fingers I have to take a makeup remover wipe to get it off. I do have to put a black shadow on top of it just to keep the color because I have oily lids and it would turn the black into silver so I put a black shadow on top of it just so it won't affect the color. So I went back to Walmart to see what other products Maybelline put out and I noticed that they put not just a black liquid liner out but multiple colors they have blue, green, purple, and many other colors so I decided to buy 520 navy gleam. I do have to be honest and say that I do not like the liquid liner by itself because it's to liquidy and the color is not very pigmented you have to put several strokes on it several layers to get the actual color that is on the sticker and it's just way too liquidy for me but the black liner is not liquidy at all it's a good consistency so it's weird it's like their formulas changed maybe I just grabbed a bad one but I'll try again. I do love using the navy blue liner mixed with chaos in the Vice palette it's just so beautiful I love it it's such a beautiful blue liner. I do have a tutorial going up about the blue liner so I'm so excited to show you guys. But overall I really enjoy using that these products they're not the best liquid liners but I do really like them. And I do recommend them if you're on a budget I think I bought mine for 7 dollars each and I totally recommend the black liner I just I really love it I probably used it several times since I bought it. I'm kinda iffy on the color liquid liners just because mine is really liquidy and the colors seem not so pigmented when I put it on the first time so I suggest if you're buying one of the color ones get a matching shadow to go with it just in case so you can put it on top. Maybe I just got a bad liner and that's the reason why it's so liquidy but if that is the case then just buy a matching shadow.


I love you guys and I hope you have a beautiful beautiful day!
If you have any questions or comments or any other looks you want to see or any reviews just let me know and I will do them.

-Brittanie Cruz
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Those Waves

      These waves are just beautiful. These waves are beautiful on anybody there perfect for any shape and it's so simple to achieve this look. You are going to need a hairbrush two hair ties and a crimper and also this is optional but I like to use it, it is the John Frieda Frizz Ease conditioning spray and you're also going need a hair straightener. Let's get started before anything you want to make sure to brush out your hair completely so there are no tangles your hair should be damp and then divede you hair into sections. Then just braid them into a simple braid. Then go to sleep. when you wake up in the morning. This is an optional step you could use water but I like to use John Frieda Frizz Ease conditioning spray so I don't have frizzy hair in the morning. The reason why you want to have your hair damp is because it is easier for you the hair to curl or crimp in a braid. When you wake up the next morning take your hair out of the braid and you will notice that you have beautiful wavy hair but if you don't have naturally curly hair at the top of your head like me you're gonna want to take your crimper and set it up on high and start to crimp the top of your hair. I personally don't like to crimp my bangs I don't like my bangs to be curly whatsoever so I just take my straightner and straighten them the way I want it. This is also optional but I like to use John Frieda Frizz Ease firm hold hairspray just so that my way don't flatten out throughout the day.

I wish beautiful days for everyone

Remember! You are all beautiful :)

-Brittanie Cruz

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Question?

    Hey everyone I recently made a youtube account back in December so I can post my favorite and not so favorite of 2012. I was just going through my channel and I was wondering if a more of my few words would like to see video tutorials or if you just like my blog. I usually just blog on my blogger but I am willing to make video tutorials of makeup or any other things like calls and um just anything really if you guys want? So if you do just let me know in a comment below.

I hope everyone's having a beautiful day!

Brittanie Cruz
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Puuuur-Fect

      I have the perfect cat eye for you. I did my foundation and contouring and highlighting all the same. You could do your brows its optional I've been having such a hard time with my eyebrows lately I just haven't had a color match with my eyebrows I have to takes 2 colors to get the right color that I want and finally found a duo so maybe I'll do an eyebrow tutorial later. So let's get started well of course you always have to prime your eyes with any primer but my favorite primer is Too Faced Shadow Insurance and I just put that from my lash line all the way up to my brow bone and that will just get you started. So then I took my brule by Mac it's a nice wash color for all over the lid so I took that from the lash line to the brow bone. Then I took kitten which is in the Stila palette "in the light" and it's kind of similar to rice paper by Mac so I took it and applied it to the lid and I blended it so it would look softer not as harsh. Next I took bliss (Also in the Stila Palette) which is a nice soft light brown and I applied to the crease and the outer corner of the eye. You could use any eyeliner you like or even a wet angle brush with a black shadow but I bought the Maybelline Master Duo by Eye Studio and I'm just really obsessed with it I'm going to do a review later on, but I'm using that one in 500 Black lacquer. I'm going to take my eyeliner and place it in the middle of my lid and that's where my pupil is and I'm going to draw a thick and then a thin line for the wing and then I take my eyeliner once again but start at the inner corner of my eye start with a thinner line then draw a thicker line so it can match the middle part. Now an extra step what I did is another wing but on the inner corner going downward now you can do it thin or thick it doesn't matter I did mine in between. This completes your purrrfect cat eye. There are some additional steps like lip gloss, lip stick, and blush. For my brush I believe I used Fit Me by Maybelline in medium coral and for my lips I think I used a nude which is Myth by Mac and I put a lip gloss over it which is my favorite Dazzleglass by Mac in baby sparks.

    There you have it if you have any certain looks you want to see or any questions just leave a comment below and I just want to wish you a beautiful purrrrfect day.

Meowf ^-^
-Brittanie Cruz
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So I'm starting to post pictures of the day basically they are just my favorite pictures of the day and I'll be posting one every single day and then I think I'll be doing a quote of the day as well um but I'm not really sure. But just to clarify I nine of the pictures that I posted for picture of the day will be any of my personal pictures. These photos I usually get off of Google or other beauty bloggers so this is just a disclaimer saying that none of these photos that I will be posting or have posted are my personal pictures.

I hope you guys enjoy and have a beautiful day.
Cyber hugs for everyone!

-Brittanie Cruz
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I really love all the colors. They are bright cool colors that remind me of spring which I am super excited for. I cannot wait for it because summer is right after which is my season. I am so excited.

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Ombre! Make Them Brown Eyes POP

      I always like to make my eyes the center of attention so I made this look out of inspiration from my Stila palette. It is an ombre sultry eye, this makes brown eyes really pop and I think all the colors are beautiful and I'm using all the colors from the Stila palette but any of these colors can be duped with something else. Let's get started I did my foundation and contouring and highlighting all the same nothing changed. For my blush I used a Covergirl blush in 110 classic pink. For my lips I used myth by Mac and for my lip gloss I used baby sparks by Mac. I always prime my eyes before I apply any eyeshadow because I want the purest pigment as possible and I don't want it to crease. My favorite primer of all time is Two Faced Shadow Insurance and I applied that from the lid all the way up to the brow bone. From the Stila palette I used Bear, Sandstone, Gilded Gold, and Luster. I applied Bear from my lash line all the way up to my brow bone.
Then I applied Sandstone to the lid and blended it out. I next applied Gilded Gold to the crease and I also diffused it. The next step is to take Luster to the lash line and blended upwards so you get that ombre effect. I did 2 more extra steps and I took Leisure Time by Mac and applied it all the way around my eyeshadow on the outer corners and on the inner corners. I blended it out and then I took my 24/7 glide on eye pencil from Urban Decay and I gently smudge it on my lash line just to have the effect of fuller lashes. Then you could do your eyebrows and mascara and this will complete your look and you will have big popping brown eyes.
(Beauty Tip: If you want bigger and more round eyes take a white eyeliner pencil and apply that in your waterline both top an bottom. This makes the eyes look bigger by appearance because it fools the eye into thinking there is more white space there.)


I hope you guys enjoy!
(Btw) I am having a photo shoot today I will try and post some pictures tonight.
Have a Beautiful Day!


-Brittanie Cruz
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Vanity :)

           Hey everyone this is my new setup of my vanity and makeup station I guess you can put it that way. I used to get ready in my bathroom well not really my own bathroom I had to share a bathroom with my brother and I just couldn't take that anymore so I decided to move all my bathroom necessities back into my room and clear off my vanity and just put all my belongings on the vanity and on the side table. If you watched my video on my 2012 favorites and not so favorites you could tell that my vanity looks way different. Because I cleared of my entire vanity and I cleaned it and wiped it down and I put all that stuff into boxes and Storage until I could find a place that I could put all my nick knacks on. So you can tell that my vanity is very different than the video there are some little nick knacks just the ones I couldn't live without like my white box with my mannequin and crown and my little Tinkerbell stuff. Then of course on my left I have my 6 drawer dresser I guess not really a dressers just like a little storage unit I don't know how many drawers are maybe 6 or four I think. Anyways that just keeps a lot of my beauty products along with jewelry and accessories. Then the little red table that you see on the right that actually used to be on the left by my column but I moved it over so I can put all my bathroom necessities on that table. On my actual vanity there's a bunch of knickknacks on the left top corner by the mirror and then on the right top corner I have my little basket of makeup and then at the bottom shelf I just have like some other bathroom necessities like toothbrush and charger my straightener my brushes my makeup brushes and a bunch of other things. I think you could see underneath my vanity I have my chair of course but right underneath it I have my makeup train case and that's what I used to take on photo shoot when I apply makeup to my models. That train case is on the left hand side and then on the right hand side there's like this little bag of other extra items. Like sometimes if I know I'm gonna run out of a product really soon I like to buy extras and put them in a storage basket so when I need them I'll take it out and use it. This concludes my vanity set up and if you have any questions feel free to ask just any questions about any of the framing, decor, or any of that just comment below and I'll make sure to answer to you as soon as possible.



 I love you guys
 Have a good night


 -Brittanie Cruz
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Get Ready With Me!!

   Hey everyone I know it has been awhile but I do want you to get ready with me to go to bed. Lets get started because I am tired and I do sure want to go to bed.
   I like to light a candle before I get ready before I go to bed it just really relaxes me. Okay well every night before I do anything I have to take off my make-up and I use the Neutrogena Make-up Remover wipes and I do enjoy them. They work very nicely and it is so much easier they washing my face then using a cleanser over the sink. Then I moisturize with Simple Light Hydration cream. Then I take my tooth brush and and my toothpaste and brush my teeth. Then I brush out my hair because I hate going to bed with tanglely hair. If I notice any blemishes on my face I like to use my Neutrogena Spot Gel because it will take care of those areas within 8 hours. Then I like to use a lip balm or chap stick before I go to bed so I wake up with nice soft lips. I currently use Burt's Bees replenishing chap stick but I hate it so I do not recommend it. I am the type of person that will not go out and buy another product until I am finished or almost finished with the first. Because I am a broke college student and I have to save money. Then after I am already and clean for bed I like to put on my Pj's and fuzzy socks and snuggle up in my bed. I usually text my boyfriend for a bit before I go to bed. But that is all I do before I sleep.

I hope you guys enjoy.
I will try posting more stuff tomorrow night. School is just starting so it is very hard to get back into things.

Have a great night.
:)


-Brittanie Cruz
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Master duo!

Just tried it and I think the results speak for itself. Beautifully made even right down ti the handle. This product may be drugstore but it has highquality potential I will test it out and show you guys later ;)

Big apology

This is just a heads up for everyone I am apologizing for the future because this upcoming week for me is just going to be really busy I am starting school on Monday and I have 5 classes and I already have a test on Tuesday so I will most likely not be posting a lot of things but if I do post it will be really late at night. If you have any questions for me or any other makeup looks that you would like to see me just comment below or you can hit me up on Facebook my name is brittaknee cruz. I do have some future posts that I will do tomorrow 1 is the vanity makeup organization and the other are some other makeup looks I put together. I want to do a question and answer video for people so if you have any questions it can be about anything and I will completely answer them honestly so like I said just comment below or hit me up on Facebook I think it would just be a good idea to let my viewers get to know me and I think it would be fun.

I hope everyone is having a beautiful day and I just want to say that I love you guys

-Brittanie Cruz
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Real talk

I just want to talk to you guys about something that has been on my heart .
I know a lot of people struggle with insecurities and have a lot of confidence issues and this is very important to me and I want to say that this is real talk and if you can't handle real talk then don't bother reading the rest of this post.

I want to talk about makeup obviously but specifically talking about insecurities and a lot of struggles that people face and it's mostly girls. Girls are very vulnerable because they are very emotional and I don't want make up to be your goto for a confidence boost because that's so  materialistic. I'm okay with changing hair color changing your eye color putting on makeup and all these other things that people have to offer us to enhance our beauty. But if you're doing this to mask who you are throw it all away. No 1 on this planet has the right to judge you not 1 person can tell you that you are not beautiful just the way you are so don't run to make up to cover up something so pure so beautiful. It is like a canvas a pure white canvas beauty is in the canvas only a true artist can see the beauty inside of it and it is his job to release that beauty. Paint is not hide the canvas its to bring out the artwork that is with inside of it just like how makeup isn't supposed to cover who we are but just to enhance are natural beauty. I want to make this very clear because many many people struggle with so many insecurities and they run to different materials to make them feel beautiful to make them beautiful but I have to say that you are beautiful makeup does not make you beautiful makeup does not make you who you are so if you were masking who you are throw it all away throw everything away. If you're dying your hair you're changing your eye color you're putting on makeup to mask who you are to change who you are I will call you out on it I will call you fake because that is the exact definition of what fake really means taking all the materials this world has to offer and covering yourself covering your true identity and sorry to say this that is fake. I use to wear makeup every single day because I wanted to cover up how i really felt inside I didn't like the person that was underneath all the makeup and I didn't want to see that person so I applied make up I dyed my hair I did all these things to change who I appeared to be to other people and I realized that is not right so I threw away every single piece of makeup that I own anything that was able to change how I naturally looked I just tossed it.  I went a couple years without makeup and I left my hair natural and it made me get use to the fact that this is who I am and I can't change it. I realized if I don't like myself then who will you know I needed to go through a phase where I just had to love myself because if you didn't like yourself you didn't like your personality you're not comfortable with you yourself how is anybody else going to like you. So after the self loving phase I felt comfortable with make up because I knew that I was not applying makeup to cover up who I am I'm not applying make up to
appear different to other people. I decided to be a makeup artist not because I enjoy painting people's faces but i want to make people look beautiful to help people realize you are beautiful naturally make up is just there to enhance it to intensify it and that's what I wanna do.

1 last thing before I end this post I just want to tell you guys that you are all beautiful no matter what because in God's eyes you were made perfect perfectly for him and only him and just remember I will call you out I'll call you fake if you're using all these materials just a cover up who you are to say this again throw it all away unless you enjoy being fake so go right ahead.

I hope everyone is having a beautiful day. And I love each and everyone of you.

-Brittanie Cruz
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School...

Ugh. I have to go down to my school today to pay for some classes and this is my new vanity that I'm getting ready at.  later today I'll post a detailed picture of my vanity and my side table I rearranged my room yesterday and I really like it so much better than getting ready in the bathroom. I had to share a bathroom with my brother and I noticed that he was taking stuff so I just decided to take all my bathroom belongings and put them in my room. I will talk to you guys later I have to go now to go pay for some classes uh story of my life.

-brittanie cruz
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How To Look Like A Hot Mess

 Oh Yeahhh Look At That Hot Mess.

   You want to put a lot of cakey concealer on your face do not blend you want people to notice the cake effect. Next take your foundation which has to be 4 shades darker then your skin or lighter then your skin. I went darker because I like to look orange. Then we do not have to contour anything because we are perfect with out deep skin tone. But we do need to highlight and we just pack it on make it really highlighted. For blush just smack on the brightest color you have. You want to make your eyebrows as thick as possible. Especially if you have a big forehead you want to take the attentions away from that just by making your eyebrows way thicker then normal. For the eyes I just took the darkest and lightest blues I had a smacked it on without blending it and because the concealer was not enough
 for covering my under eye bags I just smacked the two blue


shadows underneath my eyes. That will really deepen your look. I took my gel liner and just splattered it all over my face you can wing it if you want I did only for one eye. Then my mascara I just applied it side ways so it would really clump up because it makes it look fuller. Now for my favorite part the lips I took a liner that was a rose color and drew my lips. It is okay if does not match your lip line and it is okay if it is not a straight line. Then you want to take the palest lip color you have and apply it all over. The your done! congratz you look like a Hot Mess!


Enjoy!

-Brittanie Cruz
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*This is not serious... Just saying.

Things You Need To Know About Maybelline.

   Okay so last year before Christmas I told you guys that I was going to start reviewing the entire line. There are some interesting facts that you may not know about Maybelline. There are also health facts if you are questioning their brand I am here to settle those questions.
   Maybelline was created by T.I. William in 1915. He was inspired by his sister Maybel when he saw her using Vaseline and coal to make her lashes look thicker. He named the company Maybelline a combination of his sisters name and Vaseline. It is now a huge worldwide company with many looks to on and off the runway. Their headquarters lies in New York but lets see how they got started. We know T.I Williams started it but how did it move further. In 1917 Maybelline release the first mascara and from there on made a huge hit. They were sold to Plough in 1967 and sold to many different company from there on. Maybelline got a boost when they hired wonder women Lynda Carter to be there beauty fashion coordinator. In 1991 they obtained they beauty slogan "Maybe she is born with it, Maybe it is Maybelline" and then in 1996 Maybelline was sold to L'oreal where David Greenberg is the current president of Maybelline.
    Just a little history for you now for the health facts. Everyone has been raving whether Maybelline test on animals or not. I am here to settle that with facts and it sadden my heart but Yes Maybelline does test on animals. If you want to challenge my knowledge go ahead but it clearly states on PETA website that they do. I also read a section where they explain how companies get on the list. By the way it is the law that each cosmetic company needs to be examine every year to see what ingredient they use and other things. Back to the PETA list they send out a questionnaire to every company and that determines if they are on the list. You may not see some companies because they refuse to answer some of the questions. For all you gluten free people guess what? Maybelline does sell many gluten free products. I am not sure if all are gluten free but I know most of them are :) You may have to do a little research on there website they do list all the ingredients they use to make there products. But since I do not know much about gluten free stuff you would have to decipher that yourself. Also Maybelline sell hypoallergenic products their entire brand is not hypoallergenic but some of there products are. Again you may have to decipher that yourself.


I hope this help you guys out. I know I learned a lot just researching this for you guys.
Remember you are all beautiful

:)

-Brittanie Cruz
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Almay Smart Shade

  Hey everyone I want to talk to you about this product. Almay recently came out with a primer and it is call Smart Shade Correct and Perfect Primer. I really like it and I am going to tell you why and also some other facts about this product. When I apply it on my face the texture of the product is so smooth and light weight it feels like your wearing nothing. The effects of the product makes you look like you have airbrushed skin. Another good thing about this product is that it is drugstore so it is cheaper then high end but you still get the good quality. This instantly smooths and color corrects your skin. There are two working colors in this. The lavender is to even out and brighten any skin tone. The green reduces any redness. This works perfectly by itself or if you still want to wear makeup apply this before your foundation to have a perfectly prepped canvas. Almay's hole line is hypoallergenic which mean there product will not cause any allergic reactions and this product is also hypoallergenic. This has been dermatologist tested and it is great for any skin type because it is oil free. The price of this product may very depending on where you may purchase it but I got mine at wal-mart for 10.99.

You are all beautiful. Just remember that god made you perfect :)

-Brittanie Cruz
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Happy New Years!

Happy New Years from Cameron and I