Hiiiii guys! I know it has been a hot minute since I've talked to y'all through my blog space, so I figured why not hit the refresh button from last year, and start off this year with a light post, and share some of my favorite makeup products from one of my favorite drugstore brands! Now these products are all obviously from one brand - Maybelline - and it is one of my ALL TIME favorite drugstore brands. It's the first makeup brand I ever used, and I can remember being about 7 years old, sneaking into my Grandma's bathroom, and grabbing that iconic green + pink tube of mascara off the counter. I just remember feeling so unbelievably happy with hearing that pop as soon as you open a tube of mascara. You know what I'm talkin' about. *insert slight smiley faced emoji here

Of course, it ended up all over my eyes, and inside them a lil bit, but I fell in love with it instantly, even if I wasn't very crafty with my hiding my makeup skills from my Grandma or Mom.

But I can remember finally turning 10, and walking into Rite Aid with my Mama, and her taking me into the beauty aisle, and her allowing me to buy my own tube of mascara. She mostly gave in because I kept stealing hers and losing it all the time - ha, whoops, but I mean it worked out for dis chick soooo.

Now, 15 years later, and Maybelline is still my top brand. Hell, I'll say it - I even tend to go towards it over more of the higher end brands. Now don't get me wrong, there are TONS of other drugstore brands/products that I absolutely love, and are my ride or dies - Maybelline is just the one brand I lean towards the most, and have a special love for.

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MASTER CONTOUR |
Shade: Light/Medium

This one was a new find for me. I started using it a couple months back and I really do love it. The contour powder is on the cool side which I like because I am super fair, and I find that if I use more warm shades it can turn out to make me look a bit orange. That ain't cute. The blush I find is a bit on the pinky side, but it's not an overbearingly pink shade. It's more of a pretty pink. The highlight on it is definitely on the more natural side, which is super beautiful, and nice when you are going for that look. I mostly wear the highlight + blush shade when I am just doing basic/natural makeup look, and I want a more luminous look with some color to my cheeks, but the contour shade I use frequently.



LASTING DRAMA WATERPROOF GEL PENCIL LINER |
Shades: Multiple Different Options
(Ones I own are - Sleek Onyx + Soft Nude)

These are just beautiful pencil liners. I love them because they don't transfer which is amazingggg! Especially, when I am putting the black one just on the top waterline, and the nude one on the bottom, and it stays where it's suppose to. It's bomb guys.



THE FALSIES FLARED |
Shade: Very Black in Waterproof

This mascara is definitely in my top five of favorite mascaras. I love it because it has the little tiny fibres that lengthen your eyelashes, and make them appear thicker and fuller. Which is definitely something that this mama NEEDS in a mascara.



FIT ME POWDER MATTE + PORELESS |
Shade: 110-120

I dig this powder when I'm going for a full glam / full coverage / full cover this isssh up look. It's a beautiful powder that doesn't cake up on my face at all which is nice. My favorite way to apply it is with a damp beauty blender, or with a bigger fluffy brush (ex. Real Techniques - Powder Brush). I usually use the lighter shade for under my eyes, sides + bridge of my nose, and chin, and then the light/medium shade for all over my face. It just sets in so flawlessly, and doesn't settle into my fine lines or pores. It's a beautiful product.



MASTER PRIMER + BABY SKIN |
Shade: Blur + Illuminate

These primers are so beautiful! The Baby Skin I mostly use in just my T-Zone area - nose, forehead, chin, etc - and then I use the Master Primer for all over. It truly does what it says it does - blur + illuminate. It gives this very subtle glow, while also blurring out the pores and texture. LOVE.



MASTER CONCEAL |
Shade: Light

This concealer - ohhh my gosh. Can we just take a moment for how truly magnificent this concealer truly is? Like, I can't even begin to describe my love for this product. It is so flawless and beautiful, and just melts into your skin with the most flawless finish. I love it completely. It doesn't crease on me - which is a miracle in itself. But seriously y'all, it conceals up my struggles like a true homie would. She ain't no snitch, and has my back through and through. I apply it using a damp beauty blender wherever I need it the most - so under my eyes, nose, chin, forehead, + texture areas, and then I use setting powder after it's all blended.



COLOR SENSATIONAL LIP COLOR |
Top Fave Shades: Gone Griege, Lust for Blush, Touch of Spice, Espresso Exposed, Honey Pink, Brown Blush, Warm Me Up

These lipsticks are some of my favorite formula as far as drugstore lipsticks are concerned. They are pigmented, creamy, and are just beautiful. Their color range is pretty amazing too. My top fave is Gone Griege. Ugh, it just speaks to me on another level y'all.

Now, I will add in a little side note - they do also have their Vivid Matte Liquid Lipsticks which are also pretty amazing too. My favorite shade from that collection is the Nude Flush.



BROW PRECISE MICRO PENCIL |
Shade: Soft Brown

I was pretty pumped when I saw that they came out with a micro brow pencil. I love micro pencils for doing my eyebrows. They are my favorite! But I do love how easy this applies to my brows, and how natural I can make them look. I can get super precise with my strokes so I can give the empty spaces in my brows the appearance of having actual hairs there. The spooly is very important to me when it comes to a brow pencil because well, that's a huge part of getting it all blended and making it look like your natural brow, and this spooly is booomb! I always say that spooly's get better the more you use them, aka. the more product that build into them, because to me it just adds that lil extra to help blend everything that much easier, and faster.



EYESTUDIO GEL LINER WATERPROOF |
Shade: Blackest Black

Imma just say this real quick - put this on the record - this is the BEST gel liner in my personal opinny. Seriously, it is. I've used sooo many different smudge pots in my few years of doing/wearing makeup, and nothing can compare to this. And y'all can either try and clapback to that or approve, but I will forever be loyal to my Maybelline gel liner pot. It honestly gives me the blackest liner imaginable, and helps me create that perfect wing EVERY. DAMN. TIME. It doesn't flake away, or dull throughout the day. It literally just stays black all day long, and doesn't smudge. I don't necessarily enjoy the brush that it comes with, but I do like it for when I use this on my waterline. But I use just an angled brush, any angled brush will give you that fierce wing (ex. Sephora Pro Angled Brush #22)



FIT ME LIQUID FOUNDATION |
Shades: Matte + Poreless in 115 & Hydrate + Smooth in 125

Now the Hydrate + Smooth use to be Dewy + Smooth, but they just changed the name, and I am 100% okay with that. Either way, I love both of these foundations separately so incredibly much, but when I mix them together it's like this beautiful, flawless, perfecting concoction that I LOVE completely. These hands down are my favorite Maybelline product. I am constantly reaching for these foundations when I am doing my makeup, and they have never disappointed me. They give me that flawless, airbrush like finish. It's nice because the Matte + Poreless one does mattify your skin, but it's not a drying foundation. Meaning that it doesn't cling to your dry areas which is nice for my skin because I am definitely on the dry side. The reason I mix them together is so I get the mattifying and extra coverage from the one, and also the luminosity from the other. But both of them are just amazing, and when their powers combined.. well, you know.



Now I want to know what YOUR favorite Maybelline products are, or what your favorite go to Drugstore brand is! Tell me all your deeets, and what products you think I have to try out!

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weekly obsessions

/  c a r a m e l  a p p l e  m i n i  d o n u t s. Remember these that I mentioned in my Nair Post? Okay, well can I tell you how amazing they were? Because they were. Someone should give this woman a friggin' metal for how beautiful this recipe was. A+ good woman. I was proud to re-create these in my home.
* I didn't put the pretzels in them, and I did make my own buttermilk with milk and lemon juice, and it was perfect.

But really, her blog is sooo good, and filled with the most delicious recipes. 

/  l' o r e a l  h a i r  m a s k. I might be new to getting on this train, but holy. I'm hooked. It's amazing. They had a few different options but I just grabbed the Total Repair 5. They do have other kinds for specific things (color protection, volume, re-nutrition, etc.), but I chose this one because my hair is damaged. And I'm in sweet, sweet love. It has completely transformed my hair. Whenever I would braid my hair, before I used this, it would get all wispy, and thin at the end of the braid. But after using it only 3 times, 3 TIMES GUYS, it has gotten noticeably thicker, the color has gotten brighter and shinier, it's become stronger, and looks healthier overall. Which is a feat with how much I've dyed, and damaged it. Especially from straighteners. Thank you 16 year old self. Really though, I highly recommend this to anyone looking for something new to freshen up those beautiful locks.

/  m a y b e l l i n e  m a s t e r  c o n c e a l e r. I was in the market for a new concealer, but I wanted to be cheap about it. So I went on a hunt for a cheap drugstore one, that gave amazing coverage as a pricey one. And I FOUND IT. It's so amazing guys. These dark circles I gots since becoming a mama is a bit ridic. I'm a vibrant, young mama, and wife! I ain't supposed to be lookin' like Voldemort is walking down the street. There are children present. Good grief! But, it's been a bit of a gong show trying to find one that covers them, and isn't super pricey. But here it is! This one covers them beautifully. And I no longer look like the Dark Lord. Win win.

/  e a s y  s u m m e r  b u n. Sometimes I wish I could see the front of their hair in these pictures so they aren't left up to my imagination. It just doesn't validate my reasons to be lazy guys. That's really what the problem is. But I will just sit here, and dream about what could be..

/  d i y  m o d e r n  d r e a m c a t c h e r. I always said that I would get a tattoo of one when I got older. That obviously never happened. Nor will. But dreamcatchers were my and my Dad's favorite thing. I always would get nightmares as a kid, and into my teenage years, (probably from being allowed to watch It & Killer Clowns From Outer Space when I was 6, but yah know)  and my Dad would always tie a piece of my hair around my dreamcatcher, and put a golden safety pin (his signature thing) on it. And I will always swear to this day on how much they helped me. Be it our Native blood, or wonders of will power they worked. I love them. And I love this memory of him. I still have one to this day, and so does Ren. But I want to make one kind of like this for him.

I am though superly (yes,its a word) addicted to her blog. It sings to me. It will probably sing to you too.

/  And to end it on a funny note because I'm pretty sure I'm trying to set the record of how many times I can re-wash towels that have been sitting in my dryer for the past few days.

it may not be the weekend, but it is the middle of the week.

figured you might need a pick me up.

and i am kinda overdue on this...

in my defensive i had nair attack me.

and just crazy things go down.

like my internet being down, and having the telus guy come out

every. single. week.

because it kicks off ALL THE TIME.

..but i'm not bitter. 

anyways, as always, you rock my obsessive homies.

weekly obsessions.

/ I've always had a love for the Gardiner Sisters on YouTube. Seriously, their voices are beyond anything, and they are seriously the cutest. (They even got 2 seriously's outta me.) Love love LOVE these girls. I have been completely obsessed with this song of theirs. I found it a while ago, but then re-found it recently, and fell in even more sweet love with it. Not to mention that I can't, for the life of me, teach myself how to sing, and play my guitar at the same time. So watching this gives me hope. Anyways, it's a remix of one of my favorite song, Dirty Paws, tied beautifully with Home. SO GOOD. K, I'll let yah listen.



/ WE FOUND OUT WHO 'A' IS. well... the world did. I refuse to read any tweets, statuses, or articles about who it is. Dying. DON'T TELL ME. (unless its Aria. because I swear that girl...) This chick is waiting till this season is on Netflix. 

/ BOBBY IS COMING BACK ON SUPERNATURAL. Okay. Deep breaths. & for hells sake no more caps.  ...do those two even count as an obsession? More like I'm obsessed with the shows, and it's exciting news.

/ But really though you wanna know who's hair I'm truly obsessed with, it's my girl Laura Vandervoort. (Okay, really though, who isn't completely in love with this gal? Or just want to hang out with her?) Can we find someone more perfect, please? I thought not. Been having a girl crush on her since the Smallville & V days. Now falling even more in love with her on Bitten. #packforlife  She truly makes me want to have my hair short again.. or just you know, be as freaking awesome as she is.

/ I'm kinda obsessed with this o u t f i t . It is so beautiful, and looks so comfy! And I am all about comfort. But really, I'm so in love with that shirt. One day technology will advance so far that we'll be able to pull clothes out of our computer. Well.. here's to hoping anyways.

/ But really.. I can hear my mom actually saying this to me...

/ This summer I really want to be adventurous, and play outside. But I just never know what to do.. We always just end up doing the same thing. (Go to the park. Go to the library. Go get ice cream.) Which isn't bad, or not fun. But I need to be more creative. And now that he's getting older, I think he'll find some of these things on this 1 6 0 S u m m e r  L i s t really amusing. Well, here's to hoping anyways!

/ So remember that thing I posted on my last weekly obsessions about the lady who lived to be 104 years old, and credited her long life to Dr. Pepper. Well, here's a l i n k vid of her. And did I mention she's from Texas? Makes me want to be best friends with her even more. #texasforever

/ Whenever I see b r a i d s like this I just get depressed, and wish I could braid my hair like that. I don't know why I have the hardest time with doing braids like this on myself. I can do a side one like no ones bidness, but something like that? Nah. I guess I just stick to staring at them on Pinterest, and dreaming being that cool one day.

/ Also... I've been contemplating going back to mah true roots of a b l o n d e because of that picture. But then I hear my mom saying to me all through out my youth, and even now, "You were born a blonde", "You look better as a blonde.", or my personal favorite, "The dark hair doesn't suit you, because you were meant to be a blonde." Then I remember why I don't really want to become a blonde anymore haha. (Just kidding mama, you're only part of the reason ;)) But then I see t h i s pic, and I'm all.. maybe it would be worth it. 

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/ I am so in love with this g l o b e from Chapters. Seriously. Not that I'd pay that much for it, but maybe I would paint one. They also have t h i s one that I am equally in love with. But really? Who doesn't love globes?

/ & then this because I want to die some grocery shopping days, and this made me laugh.

as always happy weekend, my obsessive homies.

you rock.

Weekly Obsessions.

/ Jacklyn Hill is one of my favorite Makeup Artists! She has awesome videos on YouTube that I am obsessed with. She's just, I don't know, super down to earth, and quirky. I love the quirky. But this vid is about her getting ready, and shows her c l a s s i c m a k e u p look. Love her, guys.


/ This beautiful s w e a t e r. Yep. I'll take one in every color it comes in. Thank you.


/ This awesome mamas b l o g. I was doing my insta creeper thang, when I came across her page, and fell instantly in love. You will too.


/ I just want her s h o e s.. and well, actually, I'll just take all that in my collection.


/ This p h o t o, because we just got about 3 inches of snow, AFTER it all melted, and it's still snowing. I'm ugly crying on the inside.. maybe, on the outside too. & now I am watching Lord of the Rings. Silver lining in somethings I guess.

/ This makeup & hair style. I can never find the time to do my hair this beautiful, and intricately done, so I'll live vicariously through these chicks.


/ My good friend Alyssa over at, Studio Camp Photography Blog, shared t h i s s t o r y with me of this lady living to be 104 years old, and gave her long life credited to Dr. Peppper. All I can say to that is AMEN.


/ This sickeningly, beautiful p i c t u r e of spring flowers. (more ugly crying)

/ Everything about this b e d s i d e  t a b l e. It's amazing, and I need to know how to decorate them.


/ C r e a m C h e e s e C i n n a m o n M o n k e y B r e a d. Nuff said.


/ I've been obsessed with putting lemons and raspberries into my water bottle, so these f r u i t i n f u s e d w a t e r guide is pretty fantastic. Here is another one from B u z z F e e d. (which is another obsession. i love that site)
Speaking of Buzzfeed, Keagan and I are both obsessed with these "W e i r d T h i n g s C o u p l e s D o" videos. We've probably watched like everyone. They're our favorite. // 1 / 2 / 3 / 4 (this last one is me all the time. only when I ask keagan to call it, he goes, "phone!" not even kidding haha. usually though, it's in his pocket. actually always in his pocket.)


/ And finally, t h i s. I'll just leave this here.

Boom. Drop the mic.
Happy weekend, my homies. You dah bestest.