Three Over the Top Looks I Love

It's no secret I love a dark lip. I especially love them during the day and since we are officially in dark lip season full swing (lies dark lips forever) I thought it would be good to pair some of my favorite dark lip options with my favorite eye shades to wear with them. These are not your typical daytime looks but if you're feeling adventurous this could be a good place to start.

It can be a tricky balance to strike...too much eye too much lip, Maybe you're in my camp and think that there isn't such a thing as too much. (I mean there totally is but I do tend to like a more OTT look.)

Now that my hair is pink I have found that it's harder to get away with so much color but the past few weeks there have been three combinations I have really been loving.

Edinburgh #zitosonparade

Oh Edinburgh.

Featured on every one of my fellow collegiate travelers to see lists it very quickly become on of my favorite places to visit. So much so that when I graduated I took my roommate back for a visit and she fell in love too. Up until recently I had never left Edinburgh not hungover. Classy.

Now that I'm no longer a college student the city holds less of a long term appeal but it is no less beautiful for that fact. 

With mounds of tourists over flowing at every turn it can be tricky to capture how stunning it is.

Let's try shall we?

The Warm Weather Dark Lip Obsession

I'm not sure what it is this year. Normally I am SO on board with spring this-summer that but this year it seems the only shades that have graced my lips have been in the blood red and burgundy families.

Admittedly I'm having a bit of a baby goth girl moment as my Instagram can certainly attest to.

I think there is something about a more generous makeup application that feels fun for me right now.

I have mentioned a fair few of these babies before but as they have barely left my lips in nearly a month I think it's high time they got another shout out.

Stepford Alien

I feel like every year I share a new pair of sunglasses on the blog. Last year it was a badass pair of colorful, mirrored aviators and this year we have June Cleaver meets Judy Jetson.

Now these are "inspired" by the Tom Ford Nastasya sunglasses that I first saw on Dara's YouTube Channel.

Now I love Dara and her recommendations but Tom Ford and my wallet are just not on the same page these days.

I think the number of selfies on my Instagram may have grown by 5,000% since I got these.

I am in love.

The One I Broke My "No Buy" For

 So I decided that to kick off the new year I would reign in my beauty spending until after I did my beauty inventory (coming later this month) and got rid of some of the clutter taking up space in my Muji storage. 

I can tell you now in terms of what's lacking (HA!) in my collection lip products DO NOT qualify. 

Then this past Wednesday my apartment flooded. This is not the first time it's happened but I had thought the issue was behind me. Sadly it is not and I still have some work to do with my landlord (who is handling things wonderfully might I add) to get it squared away. 

This past Wednesday was also the launch of Bite Beauty's new Lip Lab Limited Release Creme Deluxe series for 2015. 12 Limited run shades released the first Wednesday of every month all year long.

What can I say? I'd had a rough morning and I'm weak.

The Summer Splurge!

 

 I bought stuff! I am pretty happy with this selection of things as I was a responsible(ish) adult about my purchases and my budget and bought things I had been really anxious to try for a while.

So please join me after the cut while I waffle on about all of the consuming I did this month.

Jewelery Collection, Storage and, Organization

Last weekend I got the sudden urge to purge. This happens every once and a while when I realize that I'm not wearing or using or reaching for things and I just try to pass them along.

 I am a New Yorker, space is expensive.

So I picked the dressers. I went through and got rid of everything that was worn through and threw it out and anything that was in good enough shape gets donated or passed along to friends. The fun part though ended up being the jewelery. It was long overdue for some attention and with overflowing glass candy bowls and odd earrings on every surface of my apartment I thought a new storage set up was in order. 

I got a few nice bargain pieces from Marshalls, an old display piece from Urban Outfitters, a metal storage box from Target's holiday collaboration last year and an empty diptyque candle jar and I was in business.

If you want to take a peek at how I put things together have a peek behind the cut!

#BOTB 1

Bottom of the bag week number 1! I thought this would be a good weekly post that would a. encourage me to wear all of my lip products and 2. encourage me to clean out the lip products in my bag at the end of every week.  So without further ado.

Clockwise from the top,
-Urban Decay Revolution Lipstick in Shame
-MAC Candy Yum Yum
-MAC Shy Girl
-MAC Ronnie Red (LE)
-Bite Beauty in Pastille Violet
-Maybelline Baby Lips Electro in Strike A Rose
-NYX Matte Lipstick in Indie Flick

Show me what's at the bottom of your bag! Use the #botb on Instagram!

 Find me @blkmagicwoman21

Instagram Nails #6

Instagram Nails #4

Instagram Nails #1

Nails of the week! I was thinking this might be a nice way of including nail stuff on my blog without doing individual posts! Follow me on Instagram at blkmagicwoman21 to see what the polishes are!
xoxo
Molly