25 Days Of Christmas Giveaway

Hey guys, I know it's been kinda quite here in our little space of the internet, but I have been so busy preparing for my annual 25 Days Of Christmas Giveaway, that I haven't had much time to focus on anything else. Now that I have everything ordered and all the intro's filmed and edited, I'm hoping things will become a little calmer, although I am doing Vlogmas again and I have started a Sims Christmas Series so lets face it, it's going to be a crazy month that will end with almost 60 videos uploaded in 30 days...phew I'm tired just thinking about it, but very excited too.
So lets talk about the giveaway and how it works, on December 1, 25 people will win an item, on December 2, 24 people will win, going all the way to December 25, where 1 person will win. I have gotten a lot of questions about why I do it backwards and don't have 25 people win on Christmas Day, the reason for that is when I first started this 2 years ago I did a poll and my followers then (all 20 of them lol ), decided this is how they wanted it, I may do another poll next year and see if you guys want me to change it, but for now this is how it works.
The rules, basically the only rule for this is you have to be Subscribed to my main youtube channel. There are also a couple of ways to earn an extra entry which are as follows:
Follow me on Twitter
Follow Me on Instagram
Follow me on Tumblr
Follow me on G+
Like my Facebook Page
Follow my Blog (look to your left and you will see a follow by email and members section)

This is open internationally, and all prizes will be shipped on January 1, 2015 due to the possibility of multiple wins. I hope you all are have a lovely holiday season, I know I have just been loving the holidays this year, and don't forget to enter the giveaway!

October Ipsy Bag

I recently decided to sign up for the Ipsy Bag service, this is a beauty bag that comes once a month and is full of sample sized goodies, and it only costs $10 a month with shipping!!! This was my first bag that came so I thought I would share it with you guys, I will do a review of these items in my November Ipsy Bag post.

VolumEyes mascara by Model Co.

Epic Face Scrub.

Rose Berry Hand Cream "Figs & Rouge".

StarLooks Lipgloss "Guilty Pleasure.

Nicole By OPI "Feeling Very Cherry".

If you would like to see my full video for this post you can find it here:

   

Vamp Lips

In my last makeup tutorial, I did a full face of makeup with vamp lips, unfortunately my makeup tutorial became 18 minutes long and some of you requested a vamp lip tutorial without any other makeup, so here it is.

For this tutorial I used the following:

NYX LipLiner in the color Currant

Nix Soft Matte Lip Cream in the color Copenhagen 

NYX HD Concealer in what ever color matches your skin tone.

First line your lips with the LipLiner, if you have thin lips you can line just outside your natural lip line and it will give the illusion of having larger lips.

Then using that same lipliner completely fill in your lips, this will help keep the dark lipstick on all day, I also primed my lips using concealer and powder, but that is an optional step.

Then add the Soft Matte Lip Cream over the top of the lipliner, the more you go over the lips the darker your color will get, if you would like an even darker color try NYX Transylvania. 

Allow the lip cream to set for 1-2 minutes, then place your thumb in your mouth like a baby would and pull your thumb out with your lips wrapped around, this will remove any lipstick that can get onto your teeth throughout the day.

The final step is using an angled brush lightly dip your brush into your concealer and then drag very cleanly along the outside of your lips, this will keep the lip color from "bleeding" onto the skin.

And now your ready to show off those gorgeous lips, tag me in your photos on Instagram and Twitter so I can see your amazing work. 

   

My Meals Monday 11.2.-11.8

This week I have been a little bit ill, it seems like as soon as fall set in the sickness has come with it, but I did try to remember to vlog all my meals and snacks so here we go....

October Favorites

Favorite Book: Outlander

Favorite Music Video: All About That Bass

Favorite Movie: St. Vincent

Favorite YouTube Channel: PointlessBlogTV

Favorite TV Show: The Good Wife

Favorite Song: WinterSong

Favorite Beauty YouTube Channel: Zoella

Transylvania 

Copenhagen 

Currant

Craving 

Bare My Soul

Mac Brule

Mac Wedge

Zoeva 231 Brush

ELF St. Lucia Contour Kit 

Pilates Tower Workout

So as promised last week I did a Pilates Tower Workout, unfortunately I am still getting used to using the tower on a Pilates Reformer so the workout didn't go as planned but I am still sharing with you guys. I used the Tower Workout DVD that came with the reformer for this workout. 

   

Foundation Face Prep.

Some of the most frequent comments I see on my videos is how to get your foundation to last all day, so I thought I would do a Foundation Face Prep post showing how I prep my face for makeup.

The first thing is washing your face, because I suffer from very dry skin right now, I am skipping this step as water is very drying to the skin, but if you have oily or acne prone skin wash your face in the PM and the AM.

The you need to moisturize, if you are under the age of 26 any moisturizer will do, it can be drugstore, or high end it won't really make a difference. If you are over 26 use something that offers anti-aging in your daily moisturizer. I am using the Sei Bella Daily Moisturizer with SPF15. if your moisturizer don't contain SPF I would recommend adding it in to your routine.

The Eye Cream, if your over 18 start using an eye cream it doesn't have to be a major anti0aging cream just something to help in the eye area, which has very thin skin and can often be overlooked.

Now stop! Let this sit on your skin for 20-30 minutes, I know most of us don't have 30 minutes in our mornings to just stop so do your hair, have your breakfast, get dressed....basically do everything you need to do to get out the door.

Then add your primer, some people will say you won't need this, but I know from personal experience when it comes to dry skin you NEED a primer, I am using the Revlon PhotoReady Primer, if your looking for a high end one the MAC Prep & Prime is great.

Then prime your eyes for your eyeshadow. I am using the Urban Decay Potion Primer, but you can also do this with concealer and powder. This is important to do so that your primer is set when your ready to do your eyes.

Then the final piece is pore coverage, I use the Maybelline Baby Skin Pore Eraser, but the Benefit POREfessional is great too. I added this is as an optional thing for people with large pores, I also would recommend using this over foundation rather than under, as your foundation may cover most of your pore areas and then you won't need as much of the pore eraser.

Now your ready to move onto foundation. 

If you would like to see the video for this post click here...

   

My Meals Monday 10/26-11/1

This week has been a bit of a food vlog fail, mostly because I have been ill off and on so I either would forget to vlog my food, or I would just go to bed without eating dinner. Sorry for that, but I'm hoping to be better soon and get more on schedule with this. 

Here is the video for this weeks My Meals Monday.