ootw (outfit of the week)

The color Maroon has been the biggest trending color for the fall and winter time the past few years. The color maroon surprisingly works well with many colors besides black. Deep tone colors like maroon look great with other deep tone colors like forest green. 

Holiday Outfit Ideas

The color red is not only great for nails, but its an essential color for the holiday season. The color red is a bright cheerful color that screams Christmas. Incorporating the color red is a great way to bring the joyful holiday spirit within an outfit.

Including any holiday accessories like a Santa hat, or reindeer ears is a great way to top off an holiday outfit. 

The outfit on the left is long sleeve red crop top with a black A-line skirt topped off with a Santa hat. The outfit on the right is a red peplum top with cutouts in the middle with a pair of black denim and cutout wedges. 

Both these outfit are great for an holiday occasion/event rather its a holiday party or dinner at a restaurant. 

Holiday Nail Idea

The color red is not just a popular color for Fall, but the color for the holidays. 

This color is a fun bright festive color. 

Having sparkly bright red nails can top off your entire outfit. 

Having a gold accent nail also puts your nails in not only a Christmas theme, 

but also incorporating New Years with the gold. 

Smokey Fall eyes

by Kelly Leem

Even though fall is probably over, warm browns and reds are still in this winter to warm up the cold temperatures. Here’s how you create a nice and simple smokey eye that has transitions of all these warm colors.

What you need:

-Eyeshadow primer

-A dark brown eyeshadow

-A Copper red eyeshadow

-A creme colored eyeshadow (as a transition)

-Black gel or liquid eyeliner

Note: All eyeshadows being used was from the NYX “Love in Paris” eyeshadow palette

1. Apply your eyeshadow primer all over your eyelid and under your eye. I’m using the Milani eyeshadow primer
2. Take your creme colored eyeshadow and apply it all over the eyelid, inner corner, and up to the browbone
3. Taking the deep brown color, roughly apply it all over the eyelid and under the eye.
4. Take the copper red eyeshadow and apply it right on top of the crease.
5. Take a lighter gold color and lightly apply it on top of the copper red color
6. Take any blending brush (I’m using the ELF blending brush and a blending brush from aliexpress.com) and start to blend the colors together. Make sure you do it neatly otherwise it will look muddy
7. Use your black gel liner or liquid eyeliner and apply it on the lower lash line lightly and create a nice wing on the upper eyelid. Make sure you tightline your upper waterline so your eyes look more intense
8. Curl your eyelashes and apply your choice of mascara on both the upper and lower lashes
9. Optional: You can use fake eyelashes to make your eyes look larger.

It’s a 10 Miracle Leave-in Product Review

by Yura Shin

The It’s a 10 Miracle Leave-in Product is a hair conditioner that is meant to do 10 things at once. It’s suppose to:

-repair dry damaged hair

-add shine

-smooth & control frizz

-seal & protect hair color

-detangle

-prevent split ends

-stop hair breakage

-create silkiness

-enhance natural body

-is a flat iron & thermal protector

This product can be used on wet or dry hair.

This it’s a 10 Miracle Leave-in product is truly a miracle product. It’s the best hair product I’ve ever owned and is really worth the investment.

This leave in conditioner does everything it says it does. Ever since I started using it, I’ve seen a major difference. I use it when my hair is still damp, and it detangles my hair so much. I’ve struggled with tangled hair when it’s wet and this product has helped tremendously. I spray a few sprays at the ends of my hair and when my hair is completely dried, it leaves my hair extremely soft.

I regularly use heat on my hair, and this product helps prevent split ends. I hate having to cut my hair and when I have to, it’s usually because of my split ends. However, since I’ve been using this product, it’s help me grow my hair soft and healthy.

This product is pretty pricey for a drugstore product, but it’s so worth the investment. It’s $18 for a 4oz bottle and $36 for a 10oz bottle. Everyone I know that used this product loves it and recommends it. This product is a holy grail for my hair and I would continue purchasing this product until I find anything that can do better. The It’s a 10 Miracle Leave-in Product can be purchased from any where that sells beauty products like Target, or Ulta, or any drug stores like Walgreens, CVS, Duane Reade, Rite Aid, etc.

Outfit of the week (ootw)

Sweaters and knee high socks are the perfect essentials for the fall and winter season. It make you look so cute and also keeps you warm. Knee high socks are usually worm with shorts or skirts. Although its cold out, pairing knee high socks and a sweater, allows you to incorporate summery clothing items.

Items were purchased from:

Turtleneck Sweater: J.Crew

Skirt: Brandy Melville

Knee High Socks: Urban Outfitters

Shoes/boots: Doc Martens

Dolly Black Contact Lense review

by Kelly Leem

Color contacts make up a big part of makeup now a days because they can change the color of someone’s eyes without going under the knife. It visually enlarges the eye while adding a cute touch of color that can enlarge your eye and make it cuter looking (like puppy eyes). It’s used in gyaru makeup for the purpose of making their eyes look as big as doll eyes. Gyarus’ in Japan tend to use more colorful contact lenses, while the korean styled ulzzangs’ use brown and black lenses that add enlargement but are more natural looking.

Dolly Eye Black Contacts:

~Enlargement: 5/5

~Color: 5/5

~Comfort: 4/5

~Design: 5/5

Overall: 4.5/5

~The design in the sun looks really nice! You can see how the black blends into my brown eyes, but indoors, it looks pitch black which I was going for. It’s pretty natural; no one really pointed out if I was wearing contact lenses. However, my eyes got dried out within the end of the school day. Usually it lasts the entire day, but this one kinda got dry on my eyes, so you might need some eye drops to rewet them.

The difference between the eye enlargement (Left eye, with contacts: Right eye, without contacts)

Seasonal Hair Transition

Going Lighter to Darker

by Yura shin

As the weather is changing from warm to cold, people tend to change their hair color to match the season. People go lighter during the spring and summer, and go dark during the fall and winter.

Since few years ago, the ombre trend has been becoming more and more popular. The ombre effect is when the top of your hair (towards the scalp) is dark, and as your hair goes down, it gets lighter and lighter.

With the ombre hair, people have been turning their ombre lighter where the tips of their hair are almost blonde. However, during the colder season, people have been dying their hair in a darker ombre effect where the tips are now a medium brown color.

But not all people have the ombre hair style. Some people just have regular hair dye, but are still going darker for the fall time. For example, I had light golden brown hair, but for the fall time, I dyed it completely black. Now, since the dye washed out a little bit, the black dye isn’t too harsh and is now just dark brown.

Dark Ash Brown, Dark Mahogany Brown, Dark Auburn, and Dark Golden Brown are all dark beautiful colors for this season.

Beautiful Fall Lipstick (Pt 3)

by Kelly Leem

NYX Jumbo Lip pencil: Deep Red

-This jumbo lip pencil has the same exact name as the retractable lip liner I use. Which means these two products would work pretty nicely together (which I have yet to test). It’s not a lipstick, but it’s a lip product that comes in the same packaging as the NYX jumbo pencils.

Pigmentation: *****

-It’s as it’s name says. It’s a beautiful creamy dark red that stains the lips, so you should put a lip liner underneath. The downside to it staining, could also make you look like the joker if you accidentally smudge it, so be careful (it’s very pigmented). Also, you might want to pat it down a bit with a tissue because it’s so creamy that it’ll just move around.

Packaging: ***

-It’s the same exact packaging as the NYX Jumbo pencil. However, my cap broke, so it presses down on the pencil and just squishes it flat, so that’s a no no (don’t break the cap). You do have to sharpen it with a special pencil sharpener that sharpens larger pencils (I use Revlon’s Pencil Sharpener; It’s black and has 2 holes. One of the holes can be adjusted to the size of your pencil and works fine with this product).

Staying Power ****

-It stays nicely on the lips. But, like I said, it’s pretty cream, so it’ll pretty much go everywhere you wipe your lips on, so that could contribute to a shorter lasting power.

Application: ****

-It’s harder to apply it from the pencil because it’s not as precise. So, you might need to use a lip pencil to precisely apply it for a nice and clean look. It does tend to smear sometimes and go everywhere, so I need to blot it down before applying another thin layer to add the glossiness back.

Overall: 4.5/5

-It’s a nice color and I like that it stains my lips because I love my lips to look red. It’s a beautiful fall color and it’s pretty cheap too! I definitely recommend this product.

Lorac skinny palette review

by Alice Mungyu

Lorac skinny palette consists of seven highly-pigmented neutral eyeshadow shades. Filled with a perfect combination of matte and shimmer shades, it is simple to transform an eye-catching everyday look to a girls night out look.

The palette itself is very thin, thus called the “skinny” and is travel-friendly. On the plus side, it includes a rectangular mirror which can come in handy when you’re on the go. A downside to this palette is that the shades don’t have names because they can’t be bought separately, only as one set.

These shadows are  warm-toned neutrals and are easy to work with. There are three matte shades which are soft and natural. The colors blends smoothly into the skin and they are perfect to apply onto the crease or brow bone because they seamlessly transition the color to the next. There are four finely-milled satiny shades which have great pigmentations creating a buttery texture.

This palette is well-worth the price considering it is only $15. It is available on Amazon and Nordstrom.

Outfit of the week (ootw)

 

Long coats are perfect for the cold weather. 

They make an outfit look put together making you seems very sophisticated and elegant. 

They are perfect clothing pieces to just throw on when youre running late but you still want to look like you put a lot of effort into your outfit.

Reds are one of the trending colors for fall and winter time. 

It is also a perfect color to wear since the holidays are coming up.

Items were purchased from:

Top: h&m

Coat: Banana Republic

High wsited pants: Urban Outfitters