How To Reduce Bags Under Your Eyes With Strawberries

Bags under the eyes can happen at any age; whether you have been crying too much, lack of sleep, or stress, no one wants to wake up with bags under their eyes.  So, today I’m going to share with you a berrylicious pantry to pretty bit on how to bag those puffy eyes, with strawberries!

I got this remedy from a friend of mine who is an esthetician. This treatment will make you very berry happy, as you can see the results within minutes!

Home Remedies For Eye Bags

• Get some fresh strawberries and store them in the frig. for about 20 mins. (The coolness helps too)
• Remove the berries from the refrigerator and cut them into thick pieces.
• Lie down on your back and place the strawberries under your eyes for about 5 minutes.
• Remove and rinse with cold water.

So How Do Strawberries Reduce Puffy And Swollen Eyes

The alpha-hydroxy acids in strawberries help smooth out the skin, while also reducing the swelling, dark circles and puffiness! 

Additionally, strawberries contain anti oxidants that help make the skin look younger, so applying then in other places other than your eyes, can most certainly be berry beneficial.

Maybelline Tattoo Pure Pigments Review

I try to stay away from posting negative reviews, but this one I felt was necessary, as I think that a lot of people may want to give this product a try for the same reasons I did.  If you are a frequent visitor to my site, you know I love MAC eye shadows and pigments, so when I heard about Maybelline Tattoo Pure Pigments I was excited.   The name to me screamed, long lasting, heavily pigmented, bold, oh, and maybe I can find a MAC product (not color) dupe. NOT! It was upsetting to say the least.  In my opinion, this product needs to go on Spikes, Tattoo Nightmares, as it needs a lot of help!

Review

Product: Maybelline Tattoo Pure Pigments

Cost: $5.99

The Skinny: 

• This product comes in 12 different shades, with claims, they last 24 hours.  The 24-hour  part, I really didn’t believe, so honesty it wasn’t the deal breaker for me.  But I expected at least to surpass some cheap drug store products, which it didn’t.
• There was not consistency with the colors; some lasted about 4 hours with primer, while the Brash Blue stained my eyelid making me look like I was punched in the eye.  The color was on there for a few days, so thank goodness for my MAC Carbon; I could cover my eyelid.
• The colors were very flaky, sheer, difficult to blend, applied patchy, and needed lots of layering, urghh.  Unlike the original color tattoo products where they were long wearing cream shadows; this product was a loose powder, which contributed to a lot of fallout, scary if you ask me.  Something promising to last 24 hours, but has such extreme fallouts, so that means it could stain elsewhere (leading to my bruised eye look). 
• Over all, the pigments were muddled.   While unlike other loose color pigments, where they are highly concentrated enabling you to create a subtle or intense color; these colors each had a mind of their own, making it a grueling process to know what it was going to look like.

Love it or hate it: HATE IT 

The Fine Print: I do not accept money for product reviews of any kind. Nor am I a representative or an affiliate of these products and or companies, unless otherwise stated.  All reviews are from my personnel experience of these products. 

How To Make Your Own Surf Spray

If any of you have ever tried Bumble & Bumble surf spray, you’ll understand why I am in totally in love with this product.  It does some excellent stuff to my hair, especially the way it allows me to create gorgeous beach waves, with lots of body, lift, great hold,  texture and…. I could go on!  And if the spray isn’t enough to rave about, they also have a new line of surf conditioner and shampoo, oh the sexy matte hair, these products give you.  However, the expense of purchasing all them is enough to… gag me with a spoon!   So I had a rad idea, I was like, Dude make your own.  So here we go!  

How to Make Your Own Beach’n Surf Spray

• 3 teaspoons epsom salt (I prefer this instead of Sea Salt, as it is less drying to your hair)
• 2 squirts of hair gel
• 1/2 tsp of a leave In conditioner (optional)
• 4 ounces of hot water (the heat helps to dissolve quicker)
• A spray bottle
• Put the cap on the bottle and shake for 1-2 minutes or until all is dissolved and mixed thoroughly  

Other Primo Options

• The first batch I made, the hair gel and the conditioner didn’t mix well. So, I remade the recipe, by warming up the two in the microwave prior to adding them to the others. 
• More or Less Salt:  The recipe I have above with 3 teaspoons, gives you a lot of texture.  So you could use a smaller amount, like 2 teaspoons, if you want less texture.  If you want a beachier look, you could add more salt.   However,  be careful as you can dry your hair out,  causing your hair to become crunchy, making it harder to curl or flat iron.
• Scent:  The leave in conditioner ( a Bumble & Bumble product), gave it a scent or you could use hair gel that has a scent. 
• Save even more money! I also love Bumble and Bumble Tonic, which is essentially tea tree oil.  So, I decided to add some tea tree oil to another batch, how genius if I must say so myself, now I have both products in one!  Plus, tea tree oil won’t way your hair down, nor will it make it oily!

So there you have it dudettes, your own beach in a bottle; it’s like a day at the beach without the sand in your hair! 


Want More?  Check out the primo video!

 

How To Make Your Eyeshadow Last Longer

I love dramatic and bold eyeshadow looks, especially those created for a Smokey eye look. Hence, today I wanted to share with you a short but sweet FUN FRIDAY TIP on how to make your eyeshadow intense and adhere longer! 

The best way to achieve that dramatic look is by fusing or combining together, both your eye shadow and your eyeliner.  By doing this it wears much better and the dimension is much greater than if you were to use alone.


So How To:

1. Prime your eyes: This is one step you should never skip, using primer allows your makeup to last longer and blending is easier too.  Apply an eye shadow primer to the entire eyelid, from upper lash line to brow, and don’t forget the lower lash line if you are doing a Smokey eye.
2. Put your eyeliner on along your upper lash line and smudge it with a short shader brush (214 Mac Short Shader Brush) or some eyeliners come with a sponge at the end to do this.
3. Take your shadow brush an apply your eye shadow, it is important to blend it into the eyeliner; you can do this my wiggling it along the line creating a dark line of color. 
4. For the Smokey eye look, .you want one side a bit darker than the other,
5. Keep color to the lid and just under the lower lash line. Don't extend color above the crease.
6. Repeat the process one more time, by applying eyeliner then shadow.  And don’t forget to have one darker side and one lighter side.
7. Use a blending brush to blend out the last application of eyeliner into the shadow.
8. Mess, there will be some shadow fallouts, but don’t worry you can wipe it off later.    
• HOWEVER it is important to make sure that you apply your foundation after your eye shadow, otherwise you’ll end up blending the dark eyeshade into your face. 
• To remove shadow fallout, I prefer to use eye makeup pad removers. But you can also use loose powder under the eye and wherever else some color may have dropped.  Once you have applied the powder, take a large powder brush and sweep both the powder and shadow away.