So yeah, I'm pressing the season and I don't even care. Nobody puts Baby in a corner-- **hair flip.
Today I am going to share with you a few of my favorite things that I have been loving all month. Most of these are actually completely new products that I have never used before, which is always exciting. I love adding new and exciting products to my staple items that I will always use. Let's get started!
Hair Products
If you have followed my blog since I started it a few months ago, you may remember my hair tutorial I posted. In this post, I uploaded a photo of my hair in its natural state (click HERE if you're brave and want to see the photo to which I am referring). My have crazy thick, curly, frizzy hair that can only be compared to a lion's mane when it has no product applied to it. I'm getting married in a little over a year, so like every other bride, I want long luscious locks for my wedding. No veils over here, please. I don't need anything covering all dis beauty ;).
I have finally found a hair regiment that is helping to get my hair healthy and to strengthen the weak ends. I was a bleach blonde for years, but I decided that looking like a two dollar hooker was a little too mid-2000s for me, after which I went back to my roots. Today, I am mostly natural (in the hair department, I mean) and I tend to get just a few blonde highlights to keep me from looking like I'm wearing a brown football helmet a la Sally Field.
In addition to using a bottle of Aussie 3 Minute Miracle deep conditioner about every week and a half, I have been using this "Miracle Leave In Product" by the brand It's a 10. I found this at my local Rite Aid, and HOLY COW! This stuff is expensive. Luckily, I had like 15 bucks in Up Rewards, so I only paid about $6 for this product. I think that this line may be sold in salons, so maybe it would be cheaper there. If you know, help a sister out and tell me where I can get this stuff on sale because it is like the bottled tears of angel babies for my hair. Supposedly, this is like a leave in conditioner, heat protectant, anti-frizz product. The whole sha-bang in one bottle is worth the ridiculous price tag. Since using this product, the ends of my hair feel like silk. Keep in mind, my hair is so dry that I can put straight up coconut oil on the ends of my hair and literally go out in public because there is no grease that is left on my strands. If you have an afro, or if you just want to strengthen your hair so you can grow it out, I highly recommend this product. Everyone I see keeps commenting on the length of my hair and I think it is because my ends are not breaking off anymore when I brush my hair, curl it, etc. I see very little hair in my brush and I am having zero breaks when I brush threw my hair.
To apply this product, you wash and condition your hair, towel dry it, then spritz it all over your head. I will usually take a wide tooth comb through my hair after I spray this product into it, then blow dry it on low. Because my hair is so thick, it takes like 8 hours for it to towel dry, so I just get he excess water out of it, spritz on my goodies, then blow dry it. After that, I will usually either curl my hair with my wand or straighten it, depending on what mood I am in. I have also noticed that I can use less heat on my hair while I use this product. Instead of cranking my wand up to 430 degrees to get my hair to hold a curl, I am putting it on about 360 degrees and seeing it curl wonderfully.
While we are on the topic of hair products, I freaking love Suave's Moroccan line. I'm not sure what the official name of it is... I suppose I could go get it off my vanity and look... but nah! I gots things to do. Anyway, it's the one with the blue lettering. I have tried the shampoo and conditioner, which I love, the hair serum, which I love, and the dry shampoo, which I looooove. In my opinion, this hair care line is spot on. I'm not one to use Suave products too often. I think the price tag is cheap and the quality is cheap, but this line they have out is priced dirt cheap and feels like a high end product. I have nothing bad to say about this line, other than I don't care much for the scent of it. It kind of smells like an old lady, but I'm willing to make that sacrifice for healthy, sexy, manageable hair.
Makeup Products
My 25th birthday is next month (eww, halfway to 50), and as a present to myself, I purchased fifteen eye shadows from Makeup Geek. If you aren't familiar with Makeup Geek, or her products, you need to check her out. I have followed her on Youtube since 2008 when she started, then a couple years ago she started her own makeup line and I have yet to be disappointed by anything that I have purchased. In addition to the eye shadows, I bought a new Z palette to store them in. I originally was going to buy myself the Ultimate Palette she has on her site, but it has been out of stock for like 5 months and I was just tired of waiting, to be honest. There were also a lot of shades that were in the Ultimate Palette that I already had something like. Most neutral shades I stay away from because I have my Naked palettes, but I did pick up a couple neutral colors that were rather unique. They are as follows:
Cocoa Bear- reddish brown
Latte- cool tone tan
Corrupt- blackest eye shadow I have ever used
Vanilla Bean- matte white
Shimma Shimma- shimmery whiteish beige color
Beaches and Cream- matte light tan
These eye shadow pans are $5.99 each, which I don't think is a bad price because these are good quality products and they will last you a long time. The only one that I think I will actually hit pan on is Shimma Shimma because I like to use it to highlight under my brow as well as around the tear duct area, in addition to using it on my lid. I also picked up some unique colored shadows. I cannot even deal with how pigmented these shadows are!
Shimmermint- light sparkly green
Envy- dark green with turquoise reflects
Mango Tango- matte peachy pink
Razzleberry- berry color with gold reflects
Mermaid- shimmery blue color
Unexpected- matte purpley taupe
Sensuous- medium purple with gold reflects
Peach Smoothie- matte peach
Chickadee- matte orange yellow
If you are interested in purchasing any of these products, head on over to www.MakeUpGeek.com and place an order. I am a huge fan of their pigments as well. You just can't go wrong with quality products!
The other makeup product I have been loving this month is Maybelline's gel liner in Blackest Black. This is the best gel liner I have ever used. It is super black, super smooth, and easy to apply. If you all would like a tutorial on how to apply gel eyeliner, just let me know and I can do that for you. Once you get the hang of using gel liner, you'll never go back to a pencil. Trust me!
Home Items
Lastly, my favorite home items of the month! Bath and Body Works has their candles 2/$22 this week and there is also a coupon on their website for $10 off of a $30 purchase, or if you're ordering online, use the coupon code FALLINLOVE to get the $10 off. I took full advantage of this sale and got four of my favorite candles! Pumpkin Pecan Waffles is probably my most favorite scent on earth. Just smelling this candle makes me want to eat, which is both a good thing and a bad thing. I also picked up six of the new wallflower scents as well. Yes, I did buy all of the pumpkin scents. I just can't help myself! The one I am using now is called Pumpkin Cider or something like that and I really like it, too. Nothing will be able to take the place of my Pumpkin Pecan Waffle candle though.
The other kind of random product I have been loving this month is one of Bath and Body Works' hand sanitizers. This scent is called Peach Pecan Cupcake. Apparently I really like pecan scented things. This is also one of the fall scents that BBW releases and I cannot help my love for this stuff. It smells like straight up cupcakes and fall time. It's hard to explain, but breaking out all of my fall scents has me in the mood to put on my scarves, leg warmers, and boots... But it's like 90 degrees outside so I better refrain unless I want some ungodly pit stains to show up.
What products have you all been loving this month? Know of anything that I should try out? Let me know in the comments below or tweet me @Butterybiscuit7! I hope you all are having a good week thus far. I'll be back later on this week with a weight loss post, an eyeshadow tutorial, or a product review because I just got my first Birchbox in the mail today. Now I need to go play with my new goodies. Talk to you soon!
--B
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