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If you are like me and have eyebrows that don’t grow in certain places than you will understand how important a stay put eyebrow pencil is.  I envy people who have thick gorgeous eyebrows with a beautiful arch-I have neither.  I inherited this quirky feature from my mom where my eyebrows are short and they don’t have a tail to complete the arch.

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I have to admit, I am a summer girl.  I love everything about summer, the weather, the activities, vacations, fashion and even nail polish.  I am not one who really follows seasonal trends in polish, I wear whatever color I feel like.  However, in order to get myself excited about fall I picked up a few new polishes to kick off the season.  I’ve been addicted to buying nail polish lately so these are only a few, stay tuned for a whole lot more. View Post

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I decided to try out my Wet n Wild Petal Pusher palette tonight before we went out to dinner.  In all honesty, I used it one time before and applied my makeup at 8AM and by 12:30AM I noticed it creasing on me.  Tonight I used it just for the evening out and I did not have any creasing.  I do believe the colors on this palette are really gorgeous.  When I saw this palette at Ulta immediately I thought in my head, wow, there are a few noticable MAC dupes.  I will point that out later in my post.

I used the three colors on the right from the bottom up and the top left color as my highlighter.  I used the shimmery maroon color on the bottom left labeled “crease” for my lid, then applied the color on top in my crease.  I then took the bottom black glittery color and defined the outer corner of my eye.  Now I did feel that the eyeshadow did have a bit of fall out and was not as blendable as some of my other shadows but overall I was happy about the look it produced.  And even bonus Wet n Wild is so reasonably priced!

As well, I had another fabulous find at Target this week, the Physicians Formula Organic Wear Eye Makeup Remover pads.  I actually bought some MAC wipes last weeked that are unopened that are going back to Nordstrom because I found these!  These little pads are just the right size to do a quick clean up of any fall out.  Some added bonuses are that they are organic and they have a pleasant lavendar smell!

Check out what I believe which are the MAC equivalents
MAC shadows top-down:  Trax, Beauty Marked and Black Tied
Another photo of MAC equivalents without flash
Swatches of colors I used going from L-R is the WnW shadow and then the MAC dupe
As well, white color on the end is the WnW highlight color
I found these were so great for cleaning up the fall out! Small and compact too!
The final look!
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I have had a longstanding love affair with MAC.  It was the first high end brand of makeup that I bought so it holds a special place is my heart.  Yesterday I had a little time to sit down and play around with my makeup.  I have been wanting to explore using MAC pigments so yesterday was the day.  I used the MAC paint pot in the color Bare Study to prime my eye, then I used the NYX Jumbo Eye Pencil in Cottage Cheese on my lid and inner corner to help the pigment stick and give my inner corner a little light.  I then applied the MAC  pigment in Naked on my lid.  After that I took the MAC pigment in Melon and applied that on top of the Naked color with the exception of the inner corner.  I then went in and cut my crease with the color Shale.  For a little dimension I applied the color Club into my crease.  I used the color Smut on my outer corners and applied in a “V” shape.  As a final touch I took the color Vapour and used it to highlight my brown bone.

A close up picture without using a flash
A close up using a flash-I love how the light bounces off and shows the shimmer
What I used
Three shadows L-R from top to bottom: MAC Pigment Melon, Mac Pigment Naked, Espresso for Eyebrows
NYX Jumbo Pencil in Cottage Chees
MAC Quad L-R – Club, Shale, Smut, Vapour