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Red Lips

I love red lips!!!

I have been on a mission to find the perfect red lipstick for my NC 30 skin tone for about two year now. I have tried soooo many and while some of them look really nice it’s not the color that I want. 

THIS IS WHAT I WANT!!!! Granted Lauren is a bit lighter then me so her red is more of a fire engine red and the second red is a darker richer red. I want them both but i just keep running into reds that are too orange or too pinky. It’s really annoying. I have tried Max Factor, L’oreal, Make Up For Ever, MAC, YSL, NYX, Guerlain, Chanel, NARS, Illamasqua, Giorgio Armani, Kat Von D, Clinique, NYC, Wet N Wild, and a lot more brands than I can remember. I have tried EVERY red  lipstick at Sephora. I am not even exaggerating. I had like three people helping me with this at the store. I can not seem to find this color. I beginning to think it only exist in my head. My inspiration for the color is a rose petal.

You might be asking yourself “why don’t you mix two colors together and make the color?” I don’t think i should have to. I want one lip stick with maybe one lip liner. That is all. I don’t think i should have to mix three different lipstick with two liners and a gloss to achieve the color of a freaking rose! I know I’m not the only person who has looked at a rose and said “That would be nice on my lips.” 

Sorry I get a little upset when I think about how ridiculous this is.

At this point I don’t even care how much this color will cost me. If the color exist i will find a way to buy it.

I just bought a YSL one yesterday. Rouge Pur Couture #14. I am going to try it out for a while and then I’ll write a review about it.

I will probably make a video reviewing all the red lipstick I have currently because no one want to read that much info about red lips :-)

PH

Urban Decay Naked Palette

So I was in Sephora a couple of days ago, I went in to get the Urban Decay Primer Potion, and I saw the Naked Palette!

I think I mentioned this before but I’m still extremely new to makeup so I’m still extremely overwhelmed by eyeshadow palettes. I look at them and i don’t know what to do! I’ve seen so many tutorials for eye makeup on youtube and I still don’t feel comfortable with all those colors! how can i combine them? Will I really use all of them? Are they the same quality as the singles? AHH! That is why I generally don’t bother researching them.

Back to the story. So I saw the naked palette and I remember thinking “Isn’t this always sold out? I think a lot of people love this. Should I get this?” Then I saw that it came with a mini primer potion… So I’m standing there for like 5 mins when I see someone creeping closer from the corner of my eye. I look at her and she is coming for the palette (which I don’t have in my hand like an idiot!) She sees me noticing her and picks up the pace but I snatch it from the display just before she can! She goes “DAMN IT!!” and I go “HAHA!” So I ended up buying it lol. I didn’t even look at the colors.

I NEVER EVER DO THAT. EVER. I read reviews for like 3 days before I change my toothpaste. I just bought this palette because the other girl wanted it :-\

So I get home and I see it for the first time and I AM SO RELIEVED. The colors are really pretty and I think I can wear them…. One at a time for now lol.

PH

Makeup

I wish I was this into makeup and skin care when I first started High School. I probably would’ve been a lot more confident in myself. My experience wasn’t terrible in the sense that I had people bulling me or whatever. I didn’t. I was pretty popular. I had a lot of friends and I was invited to plenty of parties. The point I’m trying to get across is that it still sucked because I was always trying to be someone else. I was trying to have someone else’s skin or someone else’s hair. F*ck that! I finally started loving myself and it’s showing :-)

This blog is going to be my therapy session through makeup, skincare haircare and whatever else I feel like blogging about. As some background info let me just say That I am a female in my early 20s. I live in NYC.

We’ll start by reviewing products I love, like, and hate.

PH