&*(Sephora Haul!)*&

Hello loves, as promised, even though its 5 AM where I live and I haven't been to sleep yet.. I'm posting like I said I would! haha I am determined to keep my promises so here we go!

I went to Sephora because I went tanning while I was in Ohio.. I know, I know! It's not good for you! I just went to even out my horrible tan lines I had on my legs and from many summer days with different strappy dresses and tank tops! lol Anyways, I went because my Bare Escentuals bareMinerals foundation was way too white for me all the sudden. So I took a trip to the local Sephora when I got home in need of finding my right shade again! Who better than the ladies at the Sephora in the mall! As always they were helpful and found I'm not golden fair anymore, I'm medium beige (matte formula for my oily skin). lol As you probably know, I couldn't leave the store with just that so I looked around and this is what I got PLUS the face makeup not pictured. Totally forgot to add it! lol

Left to Right:

Smashbox Limitless Liquid Liner Pen in Jet Black (waterproof formula)

Murad Get Clear Live Clear Acne Complex Starter Kit (one month supply)

Sephora Waterproof Eye Makeup Remover


So the Smashbox Liquid Liner Pen -- This was the last pick up of the day. lol I love liquid eyeliner but I always feel like the brands I try fall flat when it comes to its staying power. So I asked the lady who helped me if I could use it on my hand and then remove it with their remover.. She of course gave me the tester and I wrote thick lines, thin lines, soft lines, and bold lines on my hand! haha I looked a mess. haha Sure enough it dries really quickly for a pen which I usually do not prefer and I started rubbing across the swatches and sure enough they didn't budge! Win-Win!

Sephora Waterproof eye Makeup Remover -- So I tried the remover and fell in love with their formula. I tend to be one of those girls who loves mascara to look like false lashes haha so I use a couple coats of it. It's hard to remove without having raccoon eyes or scrubbing forever. I like this product because it was super easy to remove it and you don't end up with red skin from scrubbing or losing lashes!

Murad Get Clear. Live Clear. Acne Complex Starter Kit -- Okay, I ended up not being super impressed with the Philosophy kit that I had got. I loved certain products out of it but not the kit as a whole was not worth the price! So I decided in my venture for clearer skin, to try this brand. I will try it for a month to see how it works out for me. I've tried so many now it's hard to keep track! haha I think the price wasn't too bad although its supposedly only a month kit. I think it'll last longer than a month. Anyways, my initial reaction.. I tried it out and love the cleanser! It has menthol in it so it has a cooling effect! If you don't like that effect, don't try this one! I personally love it and I like the smell of it. I hate how some cleansers are so strong it burns your eyes to use it. lol This has a pleasant smell and it continues in their other products in this kit. I have used the spot treatment for two days now and the wash, toner, exfoliating gel, and lotion only once. I like the spot treatment at least so far. It has helped with some of the redness! Let's hope it continues.. Only downfall, finding it isn't very helpful with controlling the oil.. hmmm We will see.

Oh yah! I got this too!

Sephora by O.P.I -- The Garden of Good & Evil mini collection

Completely Fern-ished (green color.. It's a little lighter than this in real life.. camera was not working with colors today!)
Eve-y on the Eyes (Purple color)
Tempted by Teal (Teal color)
Frankly, I Don't Give A-dam (gray color)

So I haven't tried them out but I'm a sucker for packaging and I love the colors! I'm feeling a peacock nail design coming on with these colors together! hahaha The box is adorable, the brand is famous so we will try them out! lol

Well I hope you all enjoyed this post! Note my adorable owl backdrop for the pictures! lol I'm not sure if it's what messed up the colors in the next post, but hopefully not. Will test it out more since I really want to use it! Thank you all for sticking by me and understanding my crazy schedule! I will make more time to post in coming weeks. Promise!

Until then, remember to stay smiling!

XoXoXo,
LB

&*(Yes I am Working on Posts! Sorry Everyone!)*&

Hello loves! So, have you ever had one of those days where you bit off more than you can chew? lol Welcome to my last week! lol I'm not sure how much I talked about it on here but I'm in college with the University of Phoenix, getting my business degree! I'm doing reallllllllly well in school but it's taking up more time than I thought so I'm rearranging my schedule! I promise this next week, I will plan my time better so I have more time to work on my blog. I have taken pictures and edited them so I can post them later tonight once I finish my discussion questions for school. I know I keep promising and not actually getting around too it but I'm finally in a moment where I can get some stuff accomplished! I'll have some new posts up tonight! Until then, keep smiling! Remember you are all beautiful just the way you are!

XoXoXo,
LB

&*(Quick Update)*&

Hello lovelys! So I have been terrible keeping up with my blog recently. I want to apologize ahead of time since I have been crazy busy with college, visiting for 6 weeks with friends in Ohio, and so much more! I promise I have not forgotten about you all! =)

So I am back and happy to say WOW! I just checked my stats on here and saw I've had 1,193 views! You are all amazing and thank you for sticking with me even though I've been so busy! I promise I will have new posts for you all sometime this week. I am thinking of doing some new makeup tutorials with one of my best friends as a model for the day! =) As well as a new nail tutorial. I will definitely have some things up for you this week!

Also, with being in Ohio with friends and getting so close to the giveaway at 1,500 views, they will be helping me go shopping for items for the giveaway! They have been such a great support of this blog so why not have the supporters help me with the give away? =) I will post pictures of us shopping for items to give away as well as let you all know the rules of the give away! I am thinking of having a contest to help pick winners. Make sure when you see a post about the contest to tell your friends and make it a lot more fun! I want everyone to enjoy this blog and to get to know a little into my crazy normal girly life! haha

Thank you all again for sticking with me! I promise to post the rules and such soon for the contest. Have a great day loves and we will talk soon! I will have tutorials up for you all soon! PROMISE!!

Until next time, remember to always stay smiling and you are beautiful just the way you are!!


XoXoXo,
LB

&*(Nail Tutorial -- Flashy & Flare)*&

Hello loves! So I'm back again with another nail design! I promise I'm working on some reviews as well, haha I just have to unpack some of my makeup and such so I will have something new for you this week! Promise! But until then, I decided to go ahead and post a new design tonight since I start college tomorrow! Even though I will be working on my business degree, I will still make time for you beautifuls on here! :) Thank you to everyone who has followed my blog, viewed the blog, told friends, just you all are amazing! Hope you know that! =)

Oh.. an update on the contest! haha I am currently at about 760 views! Remember at 1,500 I will have  3 lucky winners of some beauty products! Top winner will even get the products used in their favorite design I've created! (as long as I can find them, if not I will find dupes of the products!) Exciting, right? Plus lots of makeup goodies! I will have two other winners to get prizes too!

Without you all, this blog wouldn't be successful so I definitely will be giving back too you all!

Also, the facebook contest... when I reach 150 friends on the fan page I believe is what I said lol there will be another contest! I'm already collecting items for the give away! You can find that fan page by looking up LB BeautysMagic. =) I know not everyone who reads this will add as a follower or even want to make a name to connect with me here so facebook is always open for questions, requests, whatever you all want to talk about! Introduce yourselves! =) The beauty of makeup and nail art, whatever is that you can share what you love with others too.. it's a way to express yourself, so EXPRESS AWAY! haha

Now I've talked too much, time for the nail tutorial!!! haha

Neat, huh? I found those decals at the local Rite Aid! As well as the colors and top coat so you can get all of this at your local Rite Aid or maybe at Walgreens,.. don't quote me on that!!!

What you will Need:

Left: my favorite top coat Sally Hansen Insta-Dri anti chip top coat

Middle: Pure Ice in the color, Rio (this color is beautiful.. a purply fushsia color with blue and purple fine sparkle that the camera didn't pick up)

Right: Wet n Wild FastDry nail color in Hannah Pinktana (Name is corny, right? haha Color is beautiful though! Almost sheer purple with lots of multi colored sparkles!)

Sorry this picture is not turned the right way, it is resetting it to match the other picture's size..

I got these decals at Rite Aid. They are called Broadway Deluxe Nail and Body art Kit.

This comes with a top coat, glue to put the gems on your body, and a wooden stick to pick them up and such..

I used the stick but just used my favorite top coat, not the one they provided. Not sure how that works!

For this design, I just used Wet n Wild FastDry nail color in Hannah Pinktana as the base coat because I couldn't find mine and this is a really sheer color... This is a no no in nail designs but I did it anyways.. Don't copy me on that part! haha Always use a base coat to protect your nails from being dyed the color of your polish! I'm crossing my fingers that mine won't be messed up!!

Anyways...

I used two coats of Pure Ice nail color in Rio. It makes a beautiful purply blue color! This was the best pic I could get to show some of the blue tint too it.. Sadly I did my nails at like 3 AM and I didn't have the greatest lighting. Sorry lovelys! I will be getting better lighting ASAP!

Beautiful color, right? I've been wanting to use this color for awhile now! haha This design will definitely stay awhile! lol

I then took Wet n Wild FastDry nail color in Hannah Pinktana and put only one coat over the Rio color. I love all the sparkles!! I think this is just a beautiful combination for summer and will definitely do it again! lol

The Hannah Pinktana was a color I found on sale awhile ago but even now I think it's only like a 2 dollar polish! This is a little thicker than the other polishes I usually use but its not hard to use!

Now for decals!

To apply them, its a little annoying and you have to have patience. lol I reccomend if you use this set, make sure you set out all the decals you are going to use for all 10 nails. I found out I didn't have enough of the little pinky tear drop shapes for all the nails to have two of them. lol So only my three middle fingers are this design.

For my pinky finger, I just made a butterfly almost looking shape with some of the other decals they have in this set!

But the beauty of doing nails is you make it how you want it! Be creative! You don't have to do the same as I did! I just loved this combination! =)

My thumb, I decided, to make almost a flower pattern. =) I thought the colors were pretty together.

Usually in my designs you'd find some striping of silver glitter or something but I felt with all the shimmery of all the multi colored glitter, this worked perfectly without anything extra added.

I did 2 coats of Sally Hansen Insta-Dri Anti-Chip top coat over this and it dried seriously fast!

Well lovelys, I hope your week starts out well and you have been doing well since the last time I posted! I promise to keep posting and keeping up with you even though I maybe getting a bit more busy in my everyday life! I always make time for creativity though! I'll post again soon! =)

Thank you again! You are all beautiful, never forget that! Stay smiling!

Until next Time,

XoXoXo,

LB

&*(Nail Design -- Mix Matched)*&

Hello again lovelys!

I've been super busy getting up some new posts on here. I know I've been MIA for a bit but I've been enjoying time with my family and been super busy lately! So I'm trying to make up for it and get you all some new blogs! =)

So here is another nail design. Now usually all my nails are the same, other than maybe some of the decals or whatever.. So I wanted to bring something a bit different and super trendy this summer.

You may have been out and seen people who will do two different colors as their base colors on different nails.. On top of that, you may see people who have done different designs on different nails! Well I brought the same idea in these nails!

Now this is not a tutorial (although if requested for colors of the products and a tutorial I will break it down for each nail!), this is just a design idea. :)

I have a few pictures as I did this design, but not of the products and such, again unless requested. This is meant to be an open design, you make it how you want too. I took five designs such as writing love on my thumb nails, hearts on another, stripes, dots, etc. and then did the same 5 on my other hand just different fingers other than the love being written on both thumb nails.

I took two different nails for each hand and painted them green, the other nails are a bright blue.

I went back over the green with a sparkling green color to make it stand out against the blue color.

To do the designs, I took a green striping polish the same color as the green nails and did the designs on the blue. I did the same thing for the green, putting blue designs on those nails.

After I did the designs, I added some almost clear pink gem stones that popped against the colors. =)

This is up too your imagination!! You can do whatever you feel looks good. That's the beauty of mixing patterns and colors! They are up too you! I posted this to show that you can be creative and not have to match all your nails the same way. I will be showing more nail designs like these coming up in the next few weeks. I'll be posting roughly once a week for the next few weeks showing how to make your nails all different and not have to keep them all one color or one pattern! Including stormy nails, beach scenes, etc! =) Keep a look out of them!

I will again post the colors I used and such if you are interested. Main reason I didn't post on these is some of the striping polishes I used, are not available everywhere.. I will probably put together another nail design like this with striping tools you can get at WalMart or where ever so you can all find the products I used!

Until next time, stay smiling and remember you are beautiful just the way you are! =)

XoXoXo,
LB

&*(My Organization for my Nail Polishes)*&

Hello loves!

As promised, here is another post to keep you all busy! haha So the theme for my haul posts and such seem to be deals on things! I went to Michael's, the craft store, and found the most amazing storage boxes for the super girly like me! lol I have been trying to figure out where to put my nail polishes since I have quite a few and I didn't like having to carry a seriously heavy box around... SO I got these boxes!

Now, I will start this blog with I am NOT trying to show off the amount of nail polish stuff I have. I have bought ALL OF IT with my OWN money and do not get free stuff from companies. The products I show you are things that I get for myself to share with the rest of you! I wanted to just show how I organized the boxes as well.

Now with that covered, let me show you these amazing boxes that I got for 40% off!

Here is the first box! They have a magnet closing lid so they are not super secure if you drop them or anything! They are also paper boxes so imagine a cardboard box, and that's how protective these boxes are! But I have them for keeping the colors and such organized and they stay on my desk unless I'm doing my nails of course! =)

What's inside! =) This box holds my Sally Hansen's Salon Effects designs, my glitter nail polishes, I keep my nail tools in here, lotion, my nail polish pens, and I have the bride series of small polishes by Ulta in here as well. This is more my tool box than anything. =)

Next box! Super cute, right? haha

In this box, I keep my blues and green polishes! I'm super girly so I have more pinks and purples than anything else so I didn't need a large box for these colors.. Now I know I will have to get different boxes as I get more but this works for now! =)

This is the smallest box that I got and it stacks on top of the pink one, as well as the next box goes with this set. =)

This box, I keep all my decals in. I love how all the sets I've bought fit perfectly in this box. Gotta love staying organized as well!

This is the largest of this set so obviously I stack this first then the smaller ones on top.

In this box, I keep my grays/silvers/blacks/whites. I would usually use these colors as base colors so I put them in this box which is like my top coats, nail treatments, and all my striping polishes. I have all the colors of my striping polishes in here so I can keep up with them. I will be going through and putting a dot of each of the colors on the top so I can easily find the colors I want! =)

This is my second largest box that I bought. I have one very large box but I'm going to use it for holding my acrylic paints/art supplies/etc. I do all kinds of art so I keep all my supplies in that large box. This one is.. you guessed it, more nail polish! lol

So this one has my purples, pinks, peaches, neutrals, yellows, oranges, and reds. =) Now this is full of all my different brands that I have and if I get more, I'll have to organize my extras in another box BUT for right now, this works perfectly for me and when I switch to new larger boxes as I have too, then I'll use the others for something else! haha They are super cute and a great cute way to organize your stuff!

I just thought I would share these because I love the boxes and love how everything fits! =)

Remember, to stay smiling and keep looking for my next blog posts!

XoXoXo,
LB
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&*(Victoria's Secret Sale Haul)*&

Hello lovelys!

I AM BACK! Finally, right? haha So I have several posts for today to catch you all up on what has kept me so busy! haha I hope you all enjoy all the new posts and at least find something you really enjoy!

Also, I currently have had 628 views on my beauty blog. First off, I have to say WOW and Thank You! I never thought I'd be hitting a number that big. lol I seriously thought just friends would be viewing this blog and it has just blown up to where I'm getting at least 25 views a day.. So what way to give back to my viewers? A give away of course! When I reach 1,500 views I will be doing a give away for 3 lucky viewers! =) This will be out of my own money just to thank you all for everything! I will also be doing a give away on my facebook page that I am currently working on updating!

Once I reach the 1,500 views, I will post a blog post on here of how to qualify, what the gifts for each of the 3 winners, and when to look for a facebook page give away as well! This will be for all USA viewers, I won't be able to ship outside of the states.. I'm sorry in advance for that! I want to put together really great give away prizes so I won't be able to ship outside the USA! =(

Anyways, enough about that exciting news.. Now to the good stuff! The haul of course! haha


So I went to the mall the other day and saw so many stores were doing their cleaning out old stock type sales including Victoria's Secret!

Now I love some of their fragrances so I found a lot of their PINK fragrances on sale. I believe they were 50% off!!

You all know how I love my makeup as well so I decided to pick up some of their makeup they had 5-% off as well!

Pretty right? haha

Now the third large perfume in the back, I actually bought from Bath and Body Works for 50% off because they wanted full price at Victoria's Secret. haha Way to beat the system and find deals!

Anyways, so the four fragrances in the back in order:

PINK with a Splash -- Fruity & Bright

ALOHA PINK -- Tropical & Juicy

PINK with a Splash -- Warm & Cozy (my favorite that I bought from Bath & Body Works)

ALOHA PINK --Vibrant & Beachy

The two small perfumes are:

(Left) ALOHA PINK -- Wild & Breezy

(Right) ALOHA PINK -- Lovely & True

The two boxes in front of the perfumes are lipsticks. I'll show swatches coming up. :)

The purple tube is a purple mascara in the color called Violight.

Then the eyeshadows.. The four eyeshadows and the quad I also have swatches coming up..

My opinions --

So the perfumes are all amazing, obviously since I smelled them there and bought them! haha I personally was disappointed that they were charging full price for Warm & Cozy (my favorite fragrance of all time lol) and I had to go to Bath & Body Works to get it on sale! I went right to Bath & Body Works after this store to get that fragrance since I already knew it was on sale before I got to the mall!

I have to admit, I'm completely blown away by the cosmetics at Victoria's Secret! The lipsticks are so creamy and they don't take much to have full color and last a long time! Plus, can you beat 50% off! lol Talk about great savings for great products!

So now for swatches!

(Left) Lipstick in Instinct (Middle) Beauty Rush Soothing Lip Balm in Clear Shine (Right) Lipstick in Heated

My opinions on the lipsticks -- These are amazing! I especially love the creamy neutral color in Instinct. It is such a soft color but great color payoff. They are extremely creamy, I seriously can't get over the formula of these! Feels like a lipstick and gloss in one! On the color Heated, it's a pretty color on light skin! Super pigmented and just as creamy! This color stays like crazy! haha I love it! There is a swatch in the middle but it really is just a clear balm. haha I love it though because it has a minty smell and tingle too it when you apply it too your lips! Definitely a great product although just like most glosses, it can get sticky over a long period of time.

For this swatch, you can click on the picture to make it bigger since it is really small for the blog..

The top four swatches are Beauty Rush wet/dry shadows. Left swatch is dry, right is wet.

I know they green and purple got switched around in the top of the image, lol Sorry about that.

The colors are as follows:

Glamerald (green shade)

Violet Femme (purple shade)

Gold Rush (gold shade)

Flower Girl (pink shade)

Okay these are okay and I don't think I would buy again. I am not a huge fan of them dry, they go on kind of flakey because of the sparkles in them. None of these are matte, they are all frosty with glitter in them. I do on the other hand like these wet. They go on well, are great colors so if you wear yours mainly wet, these are a good pick for you! I personally do not like how big the glitter is in it that I didn't notice in the store. That's about the only downfall to these unless you like glitter! lol

The bottom swatches are of the quad I got called Uninhibited. Now if you are a sucker for packaging like I am, lol these are adorable! The lipsticks and this quad all have the zebra print in the packaging! So cute and I'm really impressed with this quad! The top line is dry, the bottom is wet! 

I definitely recommend if you don't like paying full price for their stuff, check out this sale! I think its every store having it now! I do not know how long this sale is but check it out! =)

I want to know your opinions as well! I want to know what you'd like to see more of or less of on this blog! Do you want haul posts, nail tutorials, more swatches? What would you like to see? I'd love to hear your opinions! 

Thank you again to everyone who has followed me, viewed this blog, shared it with friends, you are all amazing! Remember to always stay smiling! =)

XoXoXo,

LB