by Jessica Dawn

Oh boy - look at that hair! Can anyone believe that I want to grow it out longer?!? Seriously. I might have lost my mind over here. lol. I've changed up my posts again and am really playing around with the formatting. I changed the photo size to be smaller but I think I prefer the larger size - thoughts? I've definitely decided that I like the graphics over (some or all?) of the images - still working on this though as to what it will be and the rest of the overall layout. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated as I'm really just starting this blog. Anyways, I am sooo late joining the Pretty Little Liars band-wagon... but better late than never. Pretty Little Liars won at the Teen Choice Awards a couple weeks ago and I loved Ashley Benson's look , especially her hair pulled to the side - it was simple yet elegant, so I really wanted to do an *inspired by* look. So here we go: Step 1: Start with un-washed hair to help create messy curls and give your hair more...

Who doesn't want to be a princess? Especially a Disney Princess! I went a little crazy when the first Disney Sephora collection came out. Just a little crazy - I mean - Disney and makeup...together? How could I not?!? The first few times I used the quad palette, I didn't like it at all. I was putting way too much of the light gray on and it just isn't a color that looks good on my skin. I finally found a way to use the quad for a pretty pretty princess look. =) So here it is - a tutorial using the Disney Cinderella quad palette from Sephora. Step 1: Apply the nude shade to three quarters of your lid leaving the outer quarter bare. Step 2: Apply a light wash of the light gray color into the crease. Step 3: Use the dark gray color to make an angle on your outer crease and into the lid. Step 4: Apply the light gray softly on your lower lash line on the outer third to half. Step 5: Apply the dark gray on...

Hang on to your seat here folks. There's a storm rolling in and it's going to be beautiful! When I started this blog, I didn't think I would feel the passion for the makeup tutorials like I do right now. I have this urge to do one every single day, maybe twice; I'm just having so much fun with it. Of course, being the weekend, that sounds like a fabulous idea, but during the week? When I'm already getting up at 5:40 every morning? And now I want to get up earlier to work on a makeup tutorial? Psycho. Seriously lol. So right now I'll settle for frolicking deep in the lands of makeup on the weekends. For this tutorial, I'm using two different eyeshadow palettes. The first is Bobbi Brown's Caviar and Oyster palette and the second in Urban Decay's Naked2. I'm pretty sure you can buy the Urban Decay shadows separately, but I think some of the Bobbi Brown ones are a special edition for the palette - at least I didn't see them on the website. I...