BCA: Week 3: My Favorite Lip & Nail Products!

The Beauty Crown Awards are a yearly favorites collaborative effort including beauty bloggers around the globe. The Beauty Crown Awards were created by Lily from Beauty with Lily Liz from My Pretty Obsessions, Jackie from Five Two Certified, and Shalunya from Shalunya & Boyet. We felt that a collaborative effort from a large number of beauty bloggers would be much more interesting to our readers and would garner more attention. The Beauty Crown Awards are a 5 week event with each week covering types of products.

Week 1 - Personal Care Products - Dec 2 - Dec 8, 2013

Week 2 - Facial Products - Dec 9 - Dec 15, 2013

Week 3 - Lip & Nail Products - Dec 16 - Dec 22, 2013

Week 4 - Eye & Misc Products - Dec 23 - Dec 29, 2013

Week 5 - Facial Care Products & Tools - Dec 30 - Jan 4, 2014

Week 3 of the Beauty Crown Awards covers Lip & Nail Products. Below are my Week 3 selections:

LIPS

Lipliner: I'm not sure if this is meant for a brand but I'm gonna say the MAC lip liners are my favorite just cause it's the only ones I wear. I just find them to fit perfectly with every shade and I'm able to mix and match them. But I also love the new Kardashian cosmetics line, they have amazing lipliners which are super creamy!! Try them out!

Lipstick: Oh come on, you all know my favorite is MAC hands down. Their lipsticks last forever, are super pigmented, and most are very creamy and don't dry your lips (except Ruby Woo lol). Even though they are a little more expensive than drugstore brands I feel like they are completly worth it. I have yet to find a drugstore lipstick that has the same longevity like the mac ones do.

Gloss: No, let's just leave it at that.

Tinted Lip Balm: I don't wear tinted lipbalm. Only Burt's Bees.

Lip Treatment: Not sure what that means? I don't use any lip treatments. 

NAILS

Polish: This is a no-brainer! My favorite nail polish is Essie! I absolutely love the colors, formula, and the brand. I can live off of just using essie for the rest of my life. They have so many different shades and etextures. I love buying a new glitter to spice up older colors. That's the best thing to do when you start to get bored of your collection. Here are their new winter collection colors!

Basecoat: Hands down, Essie's base coat is the best (the only) base coat I have ever tried!! I've been using it religiously ever since I got it. It is a necessary step especially when I wear reds, blues, blacks, and glitters. It makes taking off the nail polish so much easier! Plus, my nails are looking less yellow (yes, honey! The constant use of nail polish can turn your rosy, pink nail beds a gross yellow color due to the lack of oxygens and chemicals in polish). But the base coat has turned this all around! I recommend this 150%!!

Topcoat: My favorite topcoat is from Seche Vite. Julia Grath is the one who introduced me to this, thanks to her videos so thank you Julia! I absolutely love this and can't live without it. Not only does it dry my nail polish in under a minute but it keeps them glossy, hard, and chip free for over a week. It's pretty expensive but I definetly recommend this to any nail fanatics. 

Treatment: If we are refering to nail treatments I cannot comment since I haven't had any done. Sorry!

Beauty Haul 2!

Hello my beautiful readers!

Wow, it's been a tough week so far because of tests and finals. But, I wanted to show you guys the new little make-up stash I have (that has been growing ever since I started this channel!). I love make-up and I got a few new bits to review for you guys and make better make-up tutorials. I hope you guys like my video and let me know if you have used any of these products! 

I'm so sorry for the lack of posts and videos for these past few weeks. I've been really busy in school and it's pretty time consuming (you all know that). Thank you for being patient with me!! I hope to have more videos next week!! 

I posted a picture on Instagram asking which make-up look would you guys like to see. Thank you all for your feedback! The winner will be revealed on Friday!! 

Till then, I hope you're having a great week!!

BCA: Week 2: My Favorite Face Products!

Hello beauties! It's week 2 of the Beauty Crown Awards! To upload your own post click here.

This week we are talking about our favorite face products! I have quite a few and will just start raving about them now haha. Hope you like the post!

Week 1 - Personal Care Products - Dec 2 - Dec 8, 2013

Week 2 - Facial Products - Dec 9 - Dec 15, 2013

Week 3 - Lip & Nail Products - Dec 16 - Dec 22, 2013

Week 4 - Eye & Misc Products - Dec 23 - Dec 29, 2013

Week 5 - Facial Care Products & Tools - Dec 30 - Jan 4, 2014

Week 2 of the Beauty Crown Awards covers Face Products. Below are my Week 2 selections:

FACE

Primer: My favorite primer would have to be the Covergirl & Olay primer (even though it says it's for age prevention, you can never start too young!) It is a perfect primer that doesn't leave your face oily and holds your foundation in place. Love the lightness of this product!

BB Cream: The BB Cream I am currently using is from Maybelline. As much as I want to believe it evens out my skin, it does not. Sad, I know. But I like to wear it as an every day face product as it is super light on my face and it has SPF 30. It truly doesn't feel like a sunscreen because it is lighter and has just a tiny bit of coverage to cover up my dark circles. (But it doesn't banish them from existence lol). I need to try a few more BB creams before I settle down on my favorite but I did want to let you guys know my thoughts on the one I've been using.

Foundation: Last month I review the Revlon Colorstay Foundation for dry skin. Now that I've been using it non-stop I can tell you it is one of my favorite foundations!! I absolutely love this foundation as it doesn't show my dry areas and it actually hydrates my skin. It covers all the imperfections even though it's not full coverage. And because of that it doesn't feel cakey or heavy on my face. Omg! You have no idea how happy I am with it. This product also has SPF 15.

Powder: For powder I am currently using Revlon photoready powder. I think it does a fine job and keeps my face perfectly matte and set. I do have to admit that if I put too much it will make me look dusty. The pesky peach fuzz on my face makes powders look very noticeable! So I literally only swipe it on my face once. This product also has SPF 14.

Concealer: You girls have heard me talk about this product over and over again. But when you find something that becomes a miracle worker you can't stop talking about it! Like I've mentioned, I suffer from dry skin especially under my eyes. That are gets so dry for some reason and no matter how much water I drink or how much moisturizer I put it's not the best place to put on makeup. It's the hardest! So when I tried the NARS concealer in its liquid form in #1 I was in love!! Not only was it full coverage it was so light that it didn't feel like anything was on me. Plus it doesn't settle into all the annoying creveces on my skin. I recommend this 100%!!

Brightener: I've been using the maybelline Lumi brightner and love it!! I use it something on my cheek bones and under my eyes to highlight those areas. It is so amazing and it's easy to put on. With it's brush applicator it is an easy way to place the product where you want it.

Blush: I absolutely love Fleur Power by MAC I think it's amazing and it suits so many different skin shades. I love using it some times as just a bronzer since it has a golden undertone to it. I also love to use it by itself as it is beautiful on its own.

Bronzer: My favorite right now has been the MAC Minerilized bronzer in Give Me Sun. That is amazing and so fluffy (for lack of a better word to describe it's consistency). I love how easy it is to apply to the face and since it is so pigmented you really don't need that much. I love using it to give me a sun-kissed glow around my face. It's much more natural to my matte bronzer from MAC.

Highlighter: I recently purchased the MAC Mineralize SkinFinish in light. That thing is amazing to highlight and brighten. Since I haven't used it as much as I would have liked I can only tell you that so far I love it!

Palette: Oh man, tough one because I don't own any palettes!! Yes I know shocker. I bought the Naked 2 not too long ago (you'll see in my Beauty Haul coming out on Wednesday) but I can't tell you what I think of it just yet.

Participating in the Beauty Crown Awards this week? 

Leave me your links down below!

Tell me what you think of these products!

-TheFashionQueen

Winter Haul!

Happy Friday everyone! Today I have a great video for you guys. It's my first fashion haul video on my new channel. Now, I know that I'm ranting a bit about Forever 21 in this vid... but can you blame me!! I just spent hard, earned money on items I can't return. The frustration is real! lol

But, I love the other items I got so it makes up for it (a bit). 

This haul is winter oriented as we are already in the colder months. Now, Miami doesn't get cold, true lol, but I do visit New York a lot and it's always good to have a few thick knits for unexpected cold fronts. Which, by the way, it has been pretty chilly these past two weeks! I hope it stays like that for the rest of December! I hope you guys like the vid and let me know what your favorite Winter accessory or trend is in the comments below! 

Any video requests are always welcome! 

-TheFashionQueen

BCA: Week 1: My Favorite Personal Care Products!

 

So this is the first week of the Beauty Crown Awards!! How exciting for the amazing four ladies who created it!! (Their links will be down below my friends so definetly go and check their blogs out!) For this first week they have scheduled for the participants to talk about their favorite personal care products. I have a few that I want to discuss so we are going to jump right in!

Let me know if you have/like any of these products and if you will be participating in the Beauty Crown Awards too!  

Here's a little information about the Beauty Crown Awards:

The Beauty Crown Awards are a yearly favorites collaborative effort including beauty bloggers around the globe. The Beauty Crown Awards were created by Lily from Beauty with Lily Liz from My Pretty Obsessions, Jackie from Five Two Certified, and Shalunya from Shalunya & Boyet. We felt that a collaborative effort from a large number of beauty bloggers would be much more interesting to our readers and would garner more attention. The Beauty Crown Awards are a 5 week event with each week covering types of products.

Week 1 - Personal Care Products - Dec 2 - Dec 8, 2013

Week 2 - Facial Products - Dec 9 - Dec 15, 2013

Week 3 - Lip & Nail Products - Dec 16 - Dec 22, 2013

Week 4 - Eye & Misc Products - Dec 23 - Dec 29, 2013

Week 5 - Facial Care Products & Tools - Dec 30 - Jan 4, 2014

Week 1 of the Beauty Crown Awards covers Personal Care Items. Below are my Week 1 Selections:

HAIR

Shampoo: I love Dove. In my life, I have tried over a dozen different shampoos (l'oreal, pantene, garnier, herbal essence, aussi, sauve, tressemme, biomex, organics ect) none I liked and none left my hair soft. So recently I have been using the Intensive Repair Shampoo from Dove which is amazing. It doesn't dry my hair or make it oily. I absolutely love it! I know it is recommended to change your shampoo every few weeks/months but I just can't bring myself to let this baby go. My hair is such a big part of my style (as you ladies will agree!) so I like to keep it as healthy as possible. And if something works for my hair might as well stick with it!

Conditioner: This is a toughy. I have super fine hair that gets oily so quick! (I hate that!) So I use conditioner only once a month or when I'm going to do or did my hair and used hot tools. I'm currently using the L'Oreal deep conditioning conditioner for dry hair. So far I like it and it smells wonderful!

Hairspray: Currently I am using the aussie mega hold hairspray which smells amazing and leaves your hair soft, instead of that horrible hard, crunchy texture that most hairsprays leave you with. I really like it even though it's not very good for the humidity. It does not hold anything if you go out where it's very humid. It also doesn't give you a sleek look when you wear a bun or a high ponytail. I usually like to have all those pesky baby hairs slicked back so everything looks clean but nope, this one wont do it! It's way too soft for that job so I have to use a soft, styling gum from garnier which is fab!

Styling Product:  Well, I've got a few of these bad boys in my bathroom cabinet. I will talk about my heat protectant first. Right now I am trying out the Tresemme Thermal Creations heat protectant which has been working so well!! I see less split ends and it's easier to style my hair with the hot tools. It also has an amazing scent which helps with that god, awful burning smell that comes with styling your hair with hot tools. The next product I use is the John Frieda Frizz-Ease Straight Fixation Smoothing Creme to help with frizz (because I live in humid city (Miami)) and to help keep my hair straight and tame my flyaways. This is another product I love to use! But it doesn't help with my curls so I just use it for the frizziness. Last product I use is my Tresemme Dry Shampoo for fine/oily hair. This is perfection and it helps me so much when I need to skip a wash to let my hair take a break or when I'm rushing out the door and need some help living up my flat hair. Plus the smell is amazing and not overpowering!

Hair Mask: This is a product I just recently got into which is a hair mask from L'Oreal, the hydrating one for dry hair in a baby blue container. I only use it once a month and sometimes once every two months since it is very mosituring and hydrating to my hair. I use it after I have curled my hair so I can help my hair remain soft and beautiful. I love using this product!! I want to try some more hair masks but haven't had any time to look for any! (bummer)

SCENTS

Body Mist: My Victoria's Secret body mist is my absolute favorite and unfortunetly they have discontinued it!! I have one bottle left and an thinking of purchasing more from Amazon as I saw them there. This one is called Soft & Dreamy from their PINK collection. It is exactly what it's called" soft & dreamy. I adore the soft scents of vanilla mixed with flowers. It's undescribable! 

Perfume: My Lady Gaga Fame perfume of course!! I recently purchased this (if you saw my winter haul you'll know this) for the winter, well technecally I bought it two months ago but whatever! I absolutely love it and it has been my favorite for he past few months!! Of course it is the only real perfume I own (for now) as I have ran out of all my others! So Fame it is for those special occasions. It is a very strong scent, again I cannot describe it for the life of me! Sorry! It is amazing though, very dark and alluring. If you ever get a chance take a whiff and you'll see what I'm talking about.

SKIN CARE (Non-Facial)

Body Wash: Can you believe I use a regular body wash! It's actually two in one: a wash and a scrub.
This one is just a palin old body wash/scrub from dial. Now, it's not my favorite but I do like the smell. It also doesn't leave my skin feeling dry or as if it still has soap. I also like the dissolving microbeads in the wash which makes it so nice with scrub into my skin. 

Moisturizer: I use the vaselline lotion for my body to keep in moisture for after I shower. I'm actually using this one because we bought a huge tub of it and just want to use it up. This is actually not good at all. It doesn't really keep my skin soft for very long and I feel like it just vanishes instead of being absorbed by my skin. But I'm too cheap to buy another one so I'll be using this one for now.

Hair Removal: Omg, this is probably my newest obsession as it is my newest discovery as well!
My sister bought a professional wax kit with those hardening wax gels that you see in the salons! I never liked to wax under my arms as I knew it hurt like hell. Well, this at home kit doesn't ease the pain but Jesus, it is so worth it!!! Instead of paying $12 to get some lady to wax your pits I recommend to spend the money and do it yourself. (Well not yourself but get a girlfriend or your mom, someone who knows about waxing and get them to do it for you!) It is so worth it and I love getting my pits waxed now. It removes the hair almost completly but it doesn't even matter if they get everything. The hair grows in 10x thinner and the graying under the arms begins to lighten after you wax the first time. I have major gray areas under my arms for some reason (some say it's lack of moisture others say it's the roots of the hairs *shrugs*). but with waxing that is all gone! My worries have lifted off me! I am so happy with waxing and I will gladly pay for the wax (which I believe is $20-30) so I can continue to wax! The wax tub actually lasts a very long time so I see it as a wonderful investment! I've waxed my pits twice and did my legs (I DO NOT RECOMMEND THIS IT WAS UNBEARABLY PAINFUL!!!!) and there is still wax left! My sister has also used it to do her arms (twice already) and her own armpits. Do you know how much money we saved!!! Think about it girlies!

That is is for this weeks Beauty Crown Awards. I hope you liked it and I will talk to you guys next week for the following topic.
Love you, beautifuls!!
-TheFashionQueen

The Beautiful Women behind the Beauty Crown Awards!

Liz | My Pretty Obsessions

Lily | Beauty With Lily

Jackie | Five Two Certified

Shalunya | Shalunya & Boyet