&*(216 BFTE Cosmetics Swatches -- Part 2)*&

Hello again! Here is the continued swatch post of all the colors that I have!

Please note that me showing all of these colors is NOT me showing off my collection, but showing a part of my passion with the rest of you. I have no connection to this company other than having respect for the quality of products that they have to offer.

If you would like to purchase any of these colors, please check out www.bftecosmetics.com

Remember I have done three swatches of each color. First is dry, second is done wet, and third is on Urban Decay Eyeshadow Primer Potion. Enjoy!!

Top Row L-R:
107.) Moonwalk
108.) Kou
109.) Misquoted
110.) Avoid the Mistletoe

Bottom Row L-R:
111.) Canyon
112.) Heat
113.) Lemon
114.) Beam

Top Row L-R:
115.) Courage
116.) Oak
117.) Spring Fever
118.) By Golly

Bottom Row L-R:
119.) Chocolate
120.) Truffle
121.) $10 Pineapple
122.) Autumn

Top Row L-R:
123.) Curiosity
124.) Orchid
125.) Mistress
126.) Cotton Candy

Bottom Row L-R:
127.) Rome
128.) Simply Me
129.) Passion
130.) Country Blue

Top Row L-R:
131.) Oasis
132.) Victoria
133.) Hollywood Secrets
134.) Boutique Babe

Bottom Row LR:
135.) Karma
136.) Purple Iris
137.) Calypso
138.) Paris

Top Row L-R:
139.) Promises
140.) Lilac
141.) Sugar Plum
142.) Carnation

Bottom Row L-R:
143.) Spider Venom
144.) Wasted Time
145.) Classy
146.) Boysenberry (Part of the Bring on the Berries collection)

Top Row L-R:
147.) Romp
148.) Stunning
149.) Grace
150.) Insomnia

Bottom Row L-R:
151.) Panurple
152.) Thistle
153.) Aloha
154.) Risky Business

Top Row L-R:
155.) Aphrodite
156.) End of Times
157.) Embrace
158.) Last Dance

Bottom Row L-R:
159.) Laura
160.) Class Act (Not available anymore.. this was just glitter and hard to keep on)
161.) Raspberry
162.) Bliss

Top Row L-R:
163.) Eggplant Light
164.) Triple Berry
165.) A la Rose (Part of the Bed of Roses Collection)
166.) Swift

Bottom Row L-R:
167.) Runway
168.) Melon
169.) Belle of the Ball
170.) Ever After

Top Row L-R:
171.) Iris
172.) Iced Violets
173.) Candy Shop
174.) Twister

Bottom Row L-R:
175.) Meteor Shower
176.) Girl Next Door
177.) Grape
178.) Mi Amour

179.) Lovestruct
180.) Whisper
181.) High Maintenance
182.) Tuscany

First Row L-R:
183.) Riddle
184.) High Strung
185.) Appletini
186.) Spring Moss

Second Row L-R:
187.) Gable
188.) Moonwalk (Accidently swatched twice haha)
189.) Blue Me Over
190.) Wicked

Third Row:
191.) Chenille

Top Row L-R:
192.) Seafoam
193.) Gooseberry (Part of the Bring on the Berries collection)
194.) Bali
195.) 4 Leaf Clover

Bottom Row L-R:
196.) Grassy
197.) Green Apple
198.) Secret Garden (Not available on the site at the moment)
199.) Blue Pacific

Top Row L-R:
200.) Fawn
201.) Bat Wing
202.) 24K
203.) Beach House

Bottom Row L-R:
204.) Chili Pepper
205.) Very Vanilla
206.) Blueberry
207.) Pumped

First Row L-R:
208.) Treason
209.) Main Stage
210.) TGIF
211.) Halo

Second Row L-R:
212.) Addicted
213.) Babycakes (Part of the Valentines collection)
214.) Purple Haze
215.) Suede

Last Row:
216.) Orangesicle



Well this concludes my swatches of my BFTE cosmetics colors! Thank you all for being supportive. I hope you enjoyed this blog! I have some new reviews to post as well. Since it's 5:30 AM, I'm going to call it a night haha and will post them tomorrow!

Until next time..

Remember to stay smiling!

XoXoXo,
LB

&*(216 BFTE Cosmetics Swatches -- Part 1!)*&

Hello lovelys! I seriously am so sorry for not getting this post up sooner. I didn't realize how long it would take just to make the swatches and editing the pictures! I am also using a new camera so I had to learn how to use this one best for my blog. Anyways.. enough talking!! The blog is here!

All the pictures were done with flash because I took these pictures in the middle of the night. lol Life of a college student! =)

I did three swatches of each. The first is dry, second is done wet, and the third is with Urban Decay Eyeshadow Primer Potion.

I hope you enjoy this blog! I tried to keep the colors some what in the right color category other than the last few which I found at last minute and literally just took pictures of! I'm still missing a few shadows but will post more swatches when I can.

If there is any color you would more swatches of, please let me know! You can purchase any of these colors from www.bftecosmetics.com. I appreciate your continued viewing of my blog! It's amazing to be able to share my hobby with all of you!

Top Row L-R:
1.) Casablanca Nights
2.) Walking on Water
3.) Jazzy
4.) Pegasus

Bottom Row L-R:
5.) Marina
6.) Saturday Morning
7.) 7 Seas
8.) Aqua Mist

Top Row L-R:

9.) My Pretty

10.) Lavish

11.) Elegant

12.) Tickle Me

Bottom Row L-R:

13.) 1939

14.) Lucky Me

15.) Bitter

16.) Limeade

Top Row L-R:
17.) Jaded
18.) Titan
19.) Nebula
20.) Envy

Bottom Row L-R:
21.) Spoiled
22.) Bombshell
23.) Charm
24.) Mania

Top Row L-R:
25.) Fairytale
26.) Ying Yang
27.) Dive
28.) Winter Blues

Bottom Row L-R:
29.) Pizzaz
30.) Clear Skies
31.) Caribbean
32.) Spellbound

Top Row LR:
33.) Poison Brew
34.) Twisted
35.) G. Kelly
36.) Bewitched

Bottom Row L-R:
37.) Peacock
38.) Hocus Pocus
39.) Ocean Mist
40.) Area 51

Top Row L-R:
41.) Atomic Teal
42.) Spruce
43.) Bermuda
44.) Go Green

Bottom Row L-R:
45.) Glitz
46.) Blacklisted
47.) Tradewind
48.) Message in a Bottle

Top Row L-R:
49.) Laguna
50.) Rain Forrest
51.) Celeste
52.) Blue de Jeans

Bottom Row L-R:
53.) Deep Thoughts
54.) Breeze
55.) Fanfare
56.) Mermaid

First Row L-R:

57.) Miracle

58.) Shifty

59.) No Place Like Home

60.) Blue Monday

Second Row L-R:

61.) Trinity

62.) Journey

63.) Dangerous

64.) Subcooling

Third Row L-R:
65.) Paradise
66.) Cheap Thrills

Top Row L-R:
67.) Guilty
68.) Angel
69.) Stealth
70.) Black

Bottom Row L-R:
71.) Diamonds (This is almost just pure glitter.. Use a different primer to hold glitter)
72.) Treason
73.) Cyclone
74.) Beautiful

Top Row L-R:
75.) Butt Naked
76.) Stonewashed
77.) Gentle
78.) Night Trains

Bottom Row L-R:
79.) Chantilly Lace
80.) Brimstone
81.) Lola
82.) Dirty Deals

Top Row L-R:
83.) Coal
84.) Misty
85.) Have a Heart
86.) Steel

Bottom Row L-R:
87.) Ash
88.) Bondage
89.) Romeo
90.) Cocoa

Top Row L-R:
91.) Satin Sheets
92.) Tangerine
93.) Sugar Coated (Part of the Bed of Roses Collection)
94.) Celtic Charms

Bottom Row L-R:
95.) Meow
96.) Copper Cauldron
97.) Dragon Slayer
98.) Linen

Top Row L-R:
99.) Bubbly
100.) Wizard's Wand
101.) Mayhem
102.) Spank Me

Bottom Row L-R:
103.) Harvest
104.) Money
105.) Chance
106.) Whimsey



Stay tuned for Part 2 of the BFTE cosmetics swatches!!

I have continued to be impressed with this company which is why I have so many colors! haha I hope you have enjoyed the swatches so far!

Until Next Time...

Stay Smiling.

XoXoXo,
LB

&*(Computer Fried, New Blog soon)*&

Hey lovelys! I feel terrible for my delay when I promised new BFTE swatches a few days ago. Unfortunately my computer decided to break,.. yet again. Third time in 4 months!! Instead of getting it fixed since I was told it's the motherboard this time, that I would get a new computer since I need it for school as well.

Long story short, I lost everything on my computer since it wouldn't stay on and we know it wasn't the power supply since I had just replaced that... so I just set up my new computer and have been busy with midterms that I hadn't been able to work on all week due to computer being broken. I am now back up and running but sadly lost all the pictures for the swatches and have to do them again.

So I will be doing swatches beginning of this next week since my weekend is full of cramming for exams and spending time with the hubby before he has to return overseas for the last of his tour. Please be patient and stick with me. I promise I haven't lost the passion for this blog, I just have had some unexpected events come up that have taken more of my time.

Now that my computer is running much faster and have an external hard drive to keep all pictures and school work, I will make sure this doesn't happen again.



Thank you again for those who have stuck with me even though I keep failing miserably as a blogger. I am so thankful too you all for standing by me and having patience. <3 I will have the swatch post up in the beginning of next week. :)


Until then, remember to stay smiling!

XoXoXo,
LB

&*(Quick Update Everyone, New Post coming!)*&

Hello my lovelys! I know I seriously have been the worst blogger in the world! I will have my swatches up tonight or tomorrow depending on how much editing I have to do due to lighting issues. Anyways, my husband is visiting from overseas and I've been spending time with him as much as possible and work completely took over my life for awhile there. lol Now that things are not as crazy, I'm working really hard to get my blog posts up for you all to enjoy! I am going to be working on my BFTE cosmetics swatches from my Cyber Monday sale, what seems forever ago. lol I am getting them up ASAP though!! I appreciate you all sticking with me and continue to check the blog. I was seriously surprised to see how many views I have gotten recently! It's been a huge encouragement and push to keep up my blog! So, I will post again ASAP and thank you again. I look forward to another year of posting and getting to know my viewers.

Hope you all had a great Christmas/New Years! 2012 is going to be even better than 2011! I'm just sure of it! =) Until next time, remember to stay smiling!

XoXoXo,
LB

&*(Smokey Eye Tutorial w/ Too Faced Smokey Eyeshadow Collection)*&

Hello lovelys! Sorry for the day delay! Due to bad lighting, bad camera, and my phone just not taking good pictures, I've done this tutorial three times now and I apologize for not the best pictures! I'm in the process of looking for a better camera but until then, I just have my phone so bear with me! haha ANYWAYS...

So this was a request from one of my closest friends, Michelle, who I adore and of course had to make sure I did this tutorial for her! I decided since it's so overdue, that I'd try to deal with the bad pictures! So Michelle, I'm sorry but I hope this will help!

Her request was a tutorial on how I do a simple smokey eye! This is my first makeup picture tutorial so please be kind! haha I promise next time I'll use flash (like in the below picture haha) with an actual camera to get better pics!

So here we go!

So here are the products I used:

Benefit Stay Don't Stray primer for concealers & eyeshadows
Too Faced Smokey Eye shadow Collection
Sephora brand Brushes from their recent brush collection for the holidays
Maybelline Lash Stiletto waterproof mascara (Its in black, although the sticker is missing so not sure what the name exactly might be for the black)
Avon dual ended eye liner in Black-Silver

So the colors I used in order are:

White Lie as the highlight
In a Flash as the second color on the lid
Up in Smoke for defining the crease
Smokin Hot to darken outer V

I used these two brushes for the look. A flat detailing brush and a fluffy blending brush.

Now, time to start the step by step tutorial!

First, I used an eyeshadow primer. I usually use Urban Decay's primer potion but I just got this primer from Sephora and I'm in love! Benefit Stay Don't Stray primer for concealers & eyeshadows is fantastic! I love that it's extremely close to my skin tone and it helps also to keep your concealer in place!

Primers are great at making sure your eyeshadows last a long time without creasing through out the day. I recommend using a primer but it isn't needed!! For this primer, I just used a pump of the primer on my finger and blended it in over my whole eye, corner of my eye, and under eye area.

So this is an awful picture, I'm sorry!! I will explain all the lines to make this easy! hehe Adding a highlight color can help to brighten the eye area and bring emphasis to your eyes. For my simple smokey eye, I start by highlighting right under my eyebrow. This will instantly add light to your eye area.

Next, always add a little of that light highlight color to the inner corner of your eye. This will also bring light to your eye. Now to start the smokey eye, keep in mind start from your lightest color and work your way darker going towards your outer corner of your eye.

In this case, I used White Lie on the inner 1/4 of my eye. I like using light colors on the inner part of my eye to just add more light to the eye. I know it sounds strange to add "light" to a smokey eye but stick with me! I promise it works out! haha Now, I usually make my highlight under my eyebrow kind of bold and then blend it down to my crease. This step you don't have to really do but I like how it looks in the end.

Again picture quality is horrible. =( My camera was just not working with me.. Sigh.. Anyways, next I took the color In a Flash and blended it into the rest of the lid.

Tip: So you don't end up with it going straight from white to gray, use this trick! I used the flat brush for these two colors. I used one side for the white, and the other for the gray. When you get done putting the gray on your lid and need to blend that line inbetween the two colors, load up each side of the brush with white on one side and gray on the other. Start packing on the white over that line inbetween the two colors, then use the gray over that part you just added the white too. As you go back and forth between the two colors, slowly dragging the brush over that line, it'll blend flawlessly! Easy right?!



The next step is to start defining your crease. This is where the fluffy brush comes in. This step isn't really "needed," but I like using this technique when doing a smokey eye. Taking a darker color than your eye shadows on your lid, but not your final darkest color, helps you to slowly mark where you want your smokey crease to be. For me, I like a larger crease because you can see that your makeup is smokey when your eye is open. So, to do this, you take your fluffy brush and darken just the outer corner of your lid and then slowly drag the brush over your crease.

Keep in mind for my smokey eye, I keep the 3/4 rule. 3/4 up to my eyebrow, 3/4 of the way to my inner corner of my eye. I like to keep that inner 1/4 of my eye light so I don't drag the crease all the way to the corner.

Now it's time to add the really smokey effect by adding your darkest shade to your eye. For my smokey eye, I just darken my outer V and blend.. blend.. blend.

Your outer V is the corner of your eye lid and about half of the crease. I put in a V on the image to kind of help you to figure out where it is located! =) Easy right?

A blending brush is really essential here! Now I'm not saying you have to use expensive brushes from Sephora to get a great look like this. You can easily use brushes from ELF (www.eyeslipsface.com) cosmetics or something that are like a $1.00. To be completely honest, my go to brushes are from ELF! haha Just decided to treat myself to some different brushes! =) You can even find flat detail brushes or fluffy brushes like this at your local craft store! They don't have to be "makeup" brushes.

Last but not least, just add your eye liner and mascara. =) I used the silver on the inner half of my bottom lash line and black liner on the outer half. Add mascara, and bam! You have a dramatic look that is really wearable! I wore this look to a Christmas Benefit Concert. =)

Final tips for this look:

Remember, light colors on the inner part of your lid and under eyebrows!
Blend, Blend, Blend. It's your hero in a look like this!
Choose any color scheme and just start with the lightest color on the inner eye and go darker on the outer eye.
To balance out the look, if I go with a strong bold or dark eye, I make my lips a neutral color like a light pink of champagne nude shade.

I hope this helps, Michelle! Let me know if this broke it down for you and show me a look you do! =)

Thanks for all the support everyone and stick around! I'll be doing more things in this upcoming week! =)


If you enjoyed this photo tutorial, let me know! Maybe I'll start doing more of these! =)

Until next time,... Remember, Stay smiling!

XoXoXo,
LB

&*(Yes, it's a Blog Update!)*& =)~

Hey lovelys! Yes, I am back after awhile of nothingness.. I know, I had finals and the start of a new class plus yes, my husband is coming home! He's been overseas and he's coming home for a few weeks so we are getting the house all Christmas decorated and such! Plus I am working and I know it sounds like a lot of excuses but I am back and decided I am going to try something new. I am going to try to get a bunch of posts ready and then that way I won't get behind again! I see a lot of YouTubers and such do this so I'm going to try it out! So tonight is a full night of beauty reviews, swatches, looks, and more! I will be posting them every week like I was when I started the blog. Yes, I am back and feeling much better also! After having my tonsils removed and getting my allergies under control, I'm just feeling better and happy to be back to working on this blog for you all! :) So thank you again for sticking with me and I'm going to be posting more for sure now. I have so far a review on some new primers that I've started using, a review on a Too Faced Smokey Eyeshadow collection palette, review on The Body Shop Tea Tree Acne Prone skin Starter kit, doing a simple smokey eye tutorial by request <3, new looks of BFTE cosmetics that I've been wearing a lot lately, new swatches of the new colors I have gotten from BFTE, & I'm thinking of starting to do a tutorial once a week on a fun look I put together. I have seen a lot of people post fierce friday posts or have a themed look for each week. If I get some requests for looks, or maybe follow a group that is already doing a themed look each week, I might join in! This sounds like a lot of fun and a way to get those creative juices flowing! Anyways, I do apologize for all the wait time for a new post and I'll have one later tonight for sure.

Thank you again for all of your support! I am looking forward to posting more often and getting to know more of you! I do appreciate the love and support you have all given me even though I have been MIA lately! I am back though!!

Until next time, remember to stay smiling!

XoXoXoXo,
LB

&*(New BFTE Makeup Looks)*&

Hello loves! I am back again after a very busy week of work and college work. I swear when I stop having to write papers, I'll be super excited! haha In the mean time, I just finished school work and it's 3:30 AM and what's a girl to do to unwind? Post her looks she did this week of course! haha

So as you may have saw if you looked at my last post, I've been seriously becoming addicted with BFTE Cosmetics! I had ordered two more 16 sample tins and have been only wearing their eye makeup anywhere I go! haha After trying some new colors, I definitely have my wish list building for their Black Friday/Cyber Monday sales! haha I plan to be on their website, www.bftecosmetics.com as soon as the sales are posted! =) If you haven't tried their products and want too, this would be the perfect time since they will definitely be having sales since this has actually already been discussed on their facebook fan page! Anyways.. back to what I was saying hehe I know I promised this sooner but of course, life got in the way and my computer broke so I haven't been able to get on here yet other than for school work pretty much. Stick with me, my computer is supposed to be back in a couple weeks, hopefully sooner though, and I'll be back to posting again. It's just been really bad timing! And I lost my camera as well so that isn't helping either. Thank goodness for my phone! =)

So enough about my mishaps lately lol Here we go!!

Look #1 -- Winter Blues

Inner corner && highlight: Butt Naked
Middle of Eye: Winter Blues
Outer Corner && a little into the Crease: Bondage

My thoughts: First of all, yes that is me! haha Secondly oh buddy, this doesn't show how sparkly winter blues is. I blame bad lighting.. sigh. Even flash on my phone just didn't help. But it's such a beautiful color and definitely on my list to buy a full size of. I have been into adding some sparkle too my looks and this was the perfect color to do so! Butt Naked is by far my favorite highlight for myself and bondage is the perfect color to smoke out any look! It's actually not as blue as the picture looks. Once I find my camera or during the day, I will recreate this look to show you the colors better! But such amazing colors together!

Look #2 -- Whisper too Me

Inner corner && highlight: Butt Naked **See a pattern lol*
Middle of Eye: Whisper
Outer corner: Aphrodite
Liner: Bondage applied wet **Another pattern hehe*

My thoughts: OMG I am in love with Whisper! It is such a pretty duochrome (color that looks one color in the jar, different color completely on your eyes). This seriously is a look I do quite often just because I love the classic look too it. The thicker black liner, lighter eyeshadow, and warm lip color is timeless! When I started my job, this was my go to look. Now I'm branching out to adding colors and such! haha =) I work in a store that has a Sephora so I get to be adventurous with my makeup which I won't complain about!! =) Anyways, back to the eyeshadows! Aphrodite is not given justice here! It's such a pretty color and also one of those colors I keep in my makeup bag all the time. I carry about 15 eyeshadows from BFTE with me at all times! hehe After I lost my tins back awhile ago, I keep my favorites that I couldn't stand to lose in my makeup bag in my purse. It goes with me everywhere. <3

Look #3 -- Pretty in Pink

Inner Corner && inner lower Lashline: Aloha
Highlight: Butt Naked
Middle of Eye: Orchid
Outer Corner: Wasted Time
Lower outer Lashline: Aphrodite

My thoughts: So I wanted to play with color! This is sparkly and the colors are so fun! I didn't get around to doing my bright yellow/green look or my peacock look yet! I will as soon as I find my camera, hopefully in the next day or two. I wanted to really showcase their colors but my camera on my phone just wasn't working well. The pics I'm posting are the ones that I thought turned out much better. Anyways, these colors blend so well and I love Orchid, another color on my wish list! lol I think these colors are compliment each other well and is actually really wearable. =) I have found brights and such are actually really wearable when you blend them well and with good complimenting colors. =)

Look #4 -- Ocean Calls

Inner Corner && highlight: Butt Naked **It is actually really light on the inner half of the eye but I couldn't get the camera to work with me.. Sigh**
Middle of Eye: Stonewashed
Lashline && Blended into Outer Corner: Bermuda
Outer Corner: Atomic Teal and Steel

My thoughts: So this look kept changing as I was doing it before work. haha The outer corner I wanted to be a smoked out blue but I just wanted to use a little different than just one color so I combined several colors with ALOT, and I do mean ALOT, of blending! =) I like the effect it had and I had a lot of compliments. Now this is again one of those pictures that doesn't give the sparkles justice. Sigh.. Stonewashed is really sparkly and I liked how it looked professional but still fun for work! I never really liked the sparkle but I'm loving it now for sure! Stonewashed && Atomic Teal are also on my wishlist! hehe I've been really into blues lately.

Look #5 -- Doll Me Up

Inner 3/4 of Eye && highlight: Butt Naked
Outer Corner: Celtic Charms
Over Black eyeliner: Oak

My thoughts: I feel like this look makes me look like a doll. haha But I love the thick black liner. Seems to be my go to look lately and I used to not feel comfortable with it but now that I'm getting so used to liquid eyeliner, I like it. lol I wanted to add a little twist to this so I put Oak over the black liner. If you have seen Oak, it is EXTREMELY sparkly brown and it looked great over the liner. I already had such strong eyes with the black liner that I kept the rest light other than smoking out the outer corner just a little bit and extending the wing liner with a little of Oak && Celtic Charms. People loved it at work and kept asking me if I got my makeup done at Sephora before work. hehe Nope!


Anyways, these are the looks I have to show for now. I'll have more once I find my camera. hehe I can't believe I lost it. Sigh. I promise to have more up soon, even if it means buying a new camera which I need to do anyways. Wonder which camera works best for close up pics!? Hmmmm... Any other bloggers out there want to share good cameras for me to look into? I really do want a better camera but need to figure out which ones work best for close ups. Hmmm... Well until then, remember to stay smiling and will talk with you all again soon!


Love,
LB