EOTD & the one-month-countdown!

Good morning to all! It's official as of yesterday we have less than a month until our baby girl makes her appearance, we couldn't be more excited!:) I have my Doctors appointment tomorrow where I will be checked to see if I'm dilated or effaced at all (which I'm pretty sure I am) and get the doctors thoughts on how close she is to coming. I can't wait! 

Anyways, on to my Eye Of The Day yesterday;

Although yesterday was National Lipstick Day I went without, lipstick just isn't my cup of tea. We were just running to the store and hanging around so I figured I would test out a "real" brown smoky eye ("real" meaning that I added the shadow on the bottom lash line that I fear oh-so-much). It wasn't too harsh or crazy, all matte to be daytime appropriate, and all from my beloved Lorac PRO original palette. All in all, I really love how it turned out, I felt it was well blended, subtle but still defining my eyes and giving off some drama. What do you guys think? This is a slightly more dramatic version if my go-to daily look, what's your favorite daily look?

Products used: Elf Eyelid Primer, Lorac PRO palette (shades used; cream, taupe, sable, espresso, nude, and white), Rimmel Waterproof Gel eyeliner in Black, and Benefit They're Real! mascara.

Keep your eyes peeled for a reveal of my brand-new positively dreamt diaper bag and first impression! Thank you so much for reading, hope you'll come back soon.:)

Manly Baby Shower?!

Haha, okay maybe not. Let's be real, a baby shower can only be so manly in the first place, and having a little girl only makes that harder! However, Logan's coworkers are quite excited for us and so wonderfully decided to surprise him with a mini baby shower at work last night. Safe to say I was not expecting what he came home with this morning. I thought maybe 4-5 people would be orcastrating this event because (A) he works night shift and one would think less people work night shift than day shift because well, who wants to pull all nighters constantly and (B) I simply thought not many people worked with him on his wing. But no, he showed up at the door this morning with about 1 1/2 dozen bags! 

We spent the morning unwrapping, looking at all the adorable outfits, soaking up all the excitment of this baby coming soon, and being extremely grateful for such generous people. It was a blast and I can't describe how dang cute these outfits were (there's only so many times I can say "that's SO cute!" Before it becomes simply inadequate) along with countless diapers, wipes, and other bath/miscellaneous goodies.

Here's a few of our favorite things we received (there were like 5 outfits I'm in love with that I didn't take pictures of for some mystery reason, thanks pregnancy brain):

What an adorable thing to have on a bib!

This beautiful frame that I wanted but didn't know where to find, how fun is that going to be to fill up with pictures of baby rolls and toothless smiles!:)

A little romper, I have a thing for soft-gray combinations in baby girls' clothing. So precious!

And this little outfit, love the "peasant" top as my mother-in-law calls them. Those little polka-spots along with little cute owls and bubble-cap-sleeves, killll me!

Safe to say we're set for bath things for a while. (Hello, swollen toes)

And a huge bag filled with diapers and wipes strategically stacked to fit perfectly in this adorable polka-spot bag. That doesn't include the 100-count box of size ones we got also! Phew!

We are feeling so incredibly blessed to have people willing to be so generous and help so much when we really haven't known them for long at all. We couldn't be happier with everything we received and all of this only makes our little girls arrival even higher-anticipated! I hope you all enjoyed a glimps into our excitment and adorable-clothes-stash, have a super wonderful day and thanks for reading!:)

Summer sunset smokey eye tutorial

Hello again all!

Today I planned out a nice little tutorial for you all. This is by far the most complicated look I've done since startin this blog and I'm pretty proud of making it a tutorial. Keep reading to learn more, enjoy!

First I did my eyebrows, and primed my lids with my Elf eyelid primer, and let it set for 10 minutes.

Secondly, I took a domed, fluffy, blending brush (mines the Real Techniques Round Crease Brush) and dipped it into Mauve from my Lorac PRO Palette and mixed in just a hiiiint of Taupe for my transition shade. I lay the transition shade first to make blending easier so it doesn't muddy up the lid colors, which I'll be adding later.

*note I apologize these photos are pretty yellow-toned, I could not get my camera to adjust properly.:(

Then I took Sable from the same palette on a flat fluffy brush and blended that 3/4 of the way into my crease. I'm going to steer clear of that inner-most 1/4 of my crease so my pop of gold will show up ideally.

Then I look Garnet on a flat shader brush and kind of "stamped" it on my outter V to (A) avoid fallout as much as possible and (B) to get the right shape on both eyes. No one likes it when one eye has a night outter V shape and the other is more... Uh... Oval-y.

Then I just took the flat fluffy brush previously mentions and blended that out so there weren't any harsh edges.

After that was nicely blended I took Hustle from my Naked 1 palette on a (clean) fluffy flat blending brush and used that to just deepen my crease a bit for some more definition.

I then took Lt. Gold from my Lorac PRO palette and put that on my inner crease (remember that 1/4 we left bare?) and brought down a little onto my inner-most lid.

*gosh, sorry that bottom photo is so darn blurry! Today is apparently not my day.

Finally I took Urban Decay Half Baked and a flat shader brush that's a bit more dense and dabbed it onto the middle of my lid (the inner-half specifically).

Finally I added some eyeliner (L'oreal Super Slim liquid eyeliner, in Black) and mascara (Kat Von D mascara I can't recall the specific name and it's nowhere to be found on the packaging) to complete the look.

In natural lighting, to get a truer feel for what it looks like outside of my very yellow lighting.

Thank you all so much for reading and bearing with me lately. I hope you all are enjoying summer and taking advantage of these gorgeous days, come back and read again, I'd really appreciate it!:)

EOTD and baby bump update!

I apologize for the brief absence, I have been very busy these past few days with baby stuff, appointments, etc. In all honesty these next few weeks are going to be very busy as we only have 3 weeks until I'm term (could go into labor at any time) and 6 weeks until my due/induction date! Get very very close.:)

Anywhoo, thought I'd give you all the bump update and my EOTD today!

This week I am 34 weeks and starting to really feel the discomfort that I've heard oh-so-much about. Last night I think in total I got 4 1/2 hours of sleep before my two naps so far today, not fun. However, I know it will all be well worth it in just a few weeks, and I'm grateful I've made it to the home stretch without any major discomfort/unpleasant symptoms until now. We are so excited to meet our baby girl, and to cuddle her and spend lots of bonding time together as a family. Logan is especially excited to cuddle her all the time and "lick her until she loves him".:)

        Maternity dress from Old Navy

        Headband from American Eagle 

        Nail polish is Orly "Live Wire"

Now onto my eye/makeup look today!

I was so determined to do a sunset orangey yellow look today with a tutorial but my UD Vice pallete (original) has mysteriously gone missing. I'm quite broken up about it. So I was watching Cry Baby with Johnny Depp in it and was inspired by the main-character girls (I wasn't paying much attention) makeup, winged liner but still relatively natural looking. 

Products used: Wet N Wild Comfort Zone palette (the top right hand "browbone" shade, neutral taupe color), UD Buck (from Naked One palette), Elf Eyelid Primer, Rimmel ScandalEYES Waterproof Gel Eyeliner (black), Kat Von D mascara.

Today it's actually been really mild out and we're finally getting some relief from our unusually sweltering Pennsylvanian summer. I hope you all are staying cool and enjoying your summer so far! Come back to read again soon.:)

EOTD, smokey eye featuring NARSissist Palette

It has been insanely humid all of the sudden here today, just now at 7:00pm it has become ridiculously humid! Anyway, how are you all today?

Today I broke out my NARSissist palette and kind of went to town, which resulted in this smokey eye. 

Products used: Covergirl 3-in-1 foundation, Elf eyelid primer, NARSissist palette (shades used; Lhasa, Matrauge 1, All About Eve, Bad Behaviour, and Dogon), Maybelline Pumped Up! mascara, Rimmel ScandelEYES Waterproof Gel Eyeliner in Black

I personally would wear this out for a day of shopping, because there's no shadow or liner on the bottom lash line. You could always bring the darker shades into the bottom lash line for more drama and definition if you like. I never do though because I just think my eyes simply cannot pull it off, I just end up looking dirty and muddy. I love that it's shimmery but not bam! shimmery, still wearable and not "draggy".

I hope you all enjoyed this and in the next day or two I will be doing a tutorial on how to achieve some type of smokey eye. Thanks for reading!:)

EOTD and my Lazy Tuesday

Today we went to Dairy Queen, ran some errands, I FaceTimed my mom, and watched The Fault in our Stars. It was a really fun day! I've felt kind of off all day and the baby wasn't moving a whole lot so I kind of took it easy. Thankfully we got her to move around a healthy amount to make sure she's okay and so now we're all feeling much less worried.

Today I used my Lorac PRO Palette (original) for a basic, easy, but pretty and soft eye look with a bold hot pink lip! Logan is convinced my lips look red, what do you think?

 

Please be kind and ignore my atrocious under-eye bags, I've been positively pooped lately. As you can see I did my eyebrows today, which I will be doing a tutorial on soon, even though I really don't do anything special.

Products used: Lorac PRO palette (Nude, Lt. Pink, Mauve, & Taupe), Maybelline Color Tattoo in Barely Branded, Elf eyelid primer, Maybelline Pumped Up! mascara, Covergirl 3-in-1 foundation, Rimmel ScandelEYES gel eyeliner in Black, and Milani eyebrow pencil.

Hope you all have had a wonderful beginning to your week and enjoyed your Tuesday! Please comment and tell me what types of posts you'd like to see me do (tutorials, basic looks, reviews, etc.) I'm open to all the options!

Happy Fourth of July! & EOTD

Happy Fourth of July everyone!:)

Today is a day to remember all of the hard work our troops have done for us, recently, and since the establishment of our great country. If it wernt for our troops fighting for our freedom things in this country would be so much harder, and life surely wouldn't be what it is today. So keep that in mind today in every way you celebrate. It's time to celebrate our freedom, our country's birthday, and everyone who's made it possible for us to be where we are today. I aplaud all men and women who fight for us to retain our freedom and our independence, so thank you!

Here's my Eye Of The Day for this gorgeous, mild (so far), Fourth of July!🎆

In artificial lighting:

In natural lighting:

I hope everyone has a great day celebrating and stays safe!