Love at First Click!

I am just in love with this Outfit!!! So much I decided to make a post for it alone.

In this amazing picture, Natalie Massenet, Founder of Net-A-Porter pairs an all-black outfit with  Antonio Berardi coat, a Mulberry clutch, and Alexander Wang Shoes!

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How To find your own style~

Growing up (and even afterwards) finding your true fashion self can be a little tricky. I, for instance when through a couple of "stages" until I kind-of-found my style.

But, thanks to all the long, hot I-only-wear-dark-clothes past days of mine I am now aware my likes and dislikes when it comes to fashion, and what type of clothing fits my persona.

So, lets start this never-ending journey of finding your style, embracing it, and implementing it.

1.THINK

Yes, the first thing you have to do to find your style is THINK. You need to ponder on how you WANT to dress (even if it now doesn't seem as a possibility), what makes you feel comfortable and how you want to portray your personality to the world. 

You need to think about what goes more with you without trying to be something or someone you are not. Because, in the end, this will just make you feel uncomfortable in your own skin, and you will never be able to fully portray yourself as someone with confidence if you do not feel comfortable in what you are wearing or in your own skin. 

2.RESEARCH

Pick up a MAGAZINE... OR TWENTY! Look at magazines, blogs, fashion personalities, or even people in your neighbourhood for inspiration and for styles. Taking a glance at the different types of styles there are will help you see which is more fitting for you.

Now, DON'T LIMIT YOURSELF to the styles you might find. You can be a combination of two, three, or can be a beautiful chameleon that can have different styles because your personality can't be "boxed" into one style, as yours truly! EMBRACE YOUR STYLE AND/ OR CREATE YOUR OWN.

Nowadays many new styles are flourishing, and the more unique someone dresses the more attention they get, because most people are used to confine themselves to the "punk"/"preppy"/"classy" limitations, not understanding the beauty of mixing some.

3. BE CONFIDENT

It does not matter if you want to dress preppy, but don't look like Olivia Palermo. You are yourself, unique in your own way, and that is exactly what makes you beautiful. SO, my darling you, have some confidence. Don't limit yourself to thinking you cannot dress elegantly because you are not wealthy, or that you cannot wear cute, girly dresses because you are fat. Please, don't. Do both of us a favor and show the world just ow special you are, regardless of all your insecurities. 

4. LEARN ABOUT YOUR BODY SHAPE/WHAT FLATTERS YOU

This one is extremely important!!! It does not matter if you are Angelina Jolie or the fat girl from the block, if you don't stick to what flatters you you WILL NOT LOOK GOOD, regardless of how beautiful a piece of clothing might be or how high the cost of it was. You must learn how to work with your assets, ('cause we all have those) so that the focus is not on your not-so-flattering parts. This point is so important I will make a future post about body shapes and what works best for them. 

5. EXPLORE

Explore with different styles. Don't get stuck on what you think you would wear because "you're a girl, you're a mom, you're forty, you're a cheerleader..."  

EXPLORE!!!

You might realize you really love trends you never thought you would (I, for instance, have sort of fallen in love with prints after having hated them years ago. My style has changed dramatically). Keep your mind open to different pieces and styles, and you will be able to merge any two, three, four, twenty, a million styles together into what makes beautiful you in the trendiest of ways. 

6. HAVE FUN

Don't go crazy and all nazi on yourself. HAVE FUN! Fashion is an art form and is meant to be fun, it's meant to be experienced with and played with, among other serious things. Don't hold back (unless you feel like dressing like an all-orange-alien wearing cowboy boots). Again, have FUN. Life is a trip which is meant to be enjoyed, dressed as chic as possible.

Maquillaje del Dia - makeup of the Day~

Today I was feeling a little Trendy, so I thought I'd try out something I saw before☺

I used colors that would accentuate my big, brown eyes and I think I accomplished it with this look, even though very minimal technique or trying-really-hard-to-make-it-look-good was required.

I started out applying my Tarte    foundation with a blending sponge. I applied several layers in places where I needed more coverage, like my cheeks. Afterwards I applied eyeliner both in the lower and upper lid of my eyes, winging it out a little. Afterwards I took a purple eyeshadow (purple enhances the color of brown eyes) and I smudged my top eyeliner with that, and voila!

On my eyelashes I used PowerLash Mascara from Cyzone, and I contoured my face and nose with ELF contouring blush and bronzing powder, and for the cheeks I used drugstore Blush, in shade Soft Pink.

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Hoy me estaba sintiendo un poco trendy, por lo que decidi hacer algo inusual (para mi) con mi mirada☺.

Use colores que acenturarian el color marron de mis ojos, y creo que con este look minimalista lo logre, y sin tener que hacer malabares con tecnicas o hacer mucho esfuerzo para que el maquillaje tuviera el efecto deseado !

Empece utilizando Mi base Tarte, y luego aplique delineador negro en mis ojos, tanto arriba como debajo, trazando la linea lo mas cerca a mis pestañas como fuera posible, y luego, con sombra morada, lo difumine. El morado funciona perfectisimo para acentuar los ojos marrones, asi que sin mucho esfuerzo y con poca tecnica, Voila, tus ojos llamaran la atencion como nunca.

En mis pestañas utilice PowerLash Mascara de Cyzone. Una capa solamente. Luego para contour  mi cara utilice el Polvo de ELF, contouring blush and bronzing powder. Para mis mejillas utilice un rubor en la tonalidad Soft Pink.

“The most beautiful makeup of a woman is passion. But cosmetics are easier to buy.”

-xo~

CyZone Cyº Cheek-a-chic Blush Review

A couple of years ago while in High School I was introduced by a friend to this brand:  cyzone

At first, what caught my eye was the colorful and extra-girly catalog that she presented to us on a monthly basis trying to sell us the products. After a while, the products sold themselves.

This blushes are WONDERFUL! They are one of those gems that you want to let go of after having discovered them.The Colors are amazing, and they last the wholeeeee entire day! This blushes belong to the type that you can wear the beginning of the morning to the end of your daily journey.

I'M IN LOVE WITH THEM

They are highly pigmented, which means a) That you have to apply just a slight amount of them and b) That they will last a lifetime. In my picture, I only took a big powder brush and took and I was able to aply it to both of my cheeks. And I took from the lid!! Haha they're just wonderful once you get the hang of it.

(They are a latinamerican brand. I live in Dominican Republic)

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Los rubores Cyzone son de esas gemitas que no quieres soltar cuando las encuentras. Los colores son maravillosos, y se aplican a la piel difuminandose y matizandose con el resto de tu maquillaje para dar un acabado natural y perfecto que tiene de durabilidad todo el dia.

ME FASCINAN!!!

Estas bellezas tienen un solo "problema" (que no es nisiquiera un problema y les explicare en un tantito por que): Son MUY pigmentados. O sea, tan pigmentados que me los aplico con una brocha de polvo desde la tapa del contenedor y me da para ambos lados de la cara a full color! Esto, por el otro lado, tambien significa que el rubor promete durar meses y meses y meses.

Perfecto para el invierno !

Tarte Amazonian Clay Foundation Review ♥

This little baby has taken me by surprise and awed me in Oh, so many ways.
Introduced to it by a friend, I bought this feeling very skeptical about it. Little did I know I was about to fall head-over-heels in love.
This foundation is not thick at all, nor is it oily, and it gives the skin that velvet-skin look that we all covet.  The application is very easy and you can get a medium to full coverage depending on the application method. This is such a good foundation that using a setting powder is an option, not a must.
It works like the perfect canvas for the rest of your makeup, because all the colors show perfectly and blend in smoothly with the foundation, avoiding that "cakey" effect.  I, personally, forgot about other foundations as soon as I started using this one.  It is my FAVORITE foundation so far. I was not a fan of using foundations, and didn't tend to use them, but whenever I am going out I can't resist the Tarte Effect. It is water-resistant, so it can be even be used for a pool day, and God knows I have plenty of them. Thanks to this baby I can still have  a flawless skin for hours and hours to come regardless of where I am at.
I normally apply it with a dampened Beauty Blender, to get a medium coverage that gives me that no-makeup effect, for a daily use. I will upload a video review of this product very soon.

Definitively, A MUST-TRY !

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Esta bebe me ha tomado por sorpresa y me ha sorprendido de Ay, tantas maneras! 

Introducida a la marca por una amiga, no estaba muy segura de que me gustara el producto cuando lo pedi.  Poco sabia yo que estaba en camino a quedar super enamorada! Esta base no es para nada grasosa, y se esparce sobre la piel con gran facilidad, dejandola suave y sedosa. No es necesario utilizar polvo despues de la base y dependiendo de la aplicacion, la cobertura puede ser de mediana a completa. Cualquiera que sea la cobertura, es garantizado que funcionara como el canvas perfecto para los colores que vayas a utilizar y se va a mezclar perfectamente con todos los otros productos utlizados, evitando el efecto "cakey".

Es a prueba de agua y tiene proteccion solar, asi que es perfecto para esos dias de playa - y Dios sabe que tengo muchos. Gracias a esta bebe puedo ir a la playa o piscina y aun lucir una piel radiente y libre de imperfecciones.

Normalmente me lo aplico con un Beauty Blender previamente mojado, para que el efecto de la base sea mas natural y parezca que no estoy usando base alguna.

Definitivamente, un producto que se DEBE PROBAR!!!

You can Buy it Here!!

Disclaimer: I am not getting any commission for placing the Product's link in the post, I did so to facilitate the purchase to the dolls that do wanna try it out.

Thanks for Reading; Have a nice Day, and Remember: It's Only Makeup~

XO~