This post is photo heavy. These are the photos from my adventure to the gorgeous French Riviera.
Anastasia Beverly Hills has released their newest palette, the Sultry palette that is an essential smokey eye palette that features 14 gorgeous colors including an intense black that is buildable and blendable to for that perfect sultry look. You will notice that the price of the ABH palettes has increased from $42 to $45 which has some buyer talking especially since ABH has sold a minority stake to a private equity firm which now leaves the company at a whopping $3 billion in reported value. It will be interesting to see what the future holds for ABH.
I purchased my palette from Ulta.com and it has become available online but not in stores as of yet. It should be available in stores within the next couple of weeks.
Are you going to get your hands on the sultry palette?
Ivy Lovely is a simple girl who knows not of her lineage of magic and glory. The Crowns of Croswald takes us along as Ivy is thrown into an adventure to discover who she is, her magic and all the challenges of dark magic that await her. Once Ivy crosses the boundary that sonic booms her into an enchanted world of magic, her powers come to life and reveal a girl who has been hidden away for a reason.
The Crowns of Croswald swallowed me whole as soon as I started the first chapter. As a fan of the Harry Potter series I was reluctant to want to fall in love with another story of magic mixed with the enchanting halls of a school, but this story was different. I love how the author builds an entire world into the mind of the reader, making it quite easy for the reader to create a move-like sequence of events while progressing through the story. The descriptions and details paint a beautiful scene into every event that takes place and recalling events becomes simple.
This story has been receiving rave reviews on sites such as Amazon.com and GoodReads.com with reviewers calling this the best story they read the entire summer, and a read that transcends all age groups. I fell in love with this story so much so that I started following the author on Instagram in anticipation of the release date to the second book in the series. Once finishing The Crowns of Croswald you know that there will be a book 2 and luckily for us, it will be releasing soon!
Check out the author's website for more information and a beautiful leap into the world of Croswald. It is probably the most beautiful website I've ever seen! www.denight.com
My review - 5 out of 5 stars
Photography can be an expensive hobby, but one that has such a valuable reward. Your money will return, but the moment cannot, so capturing it in quintessential quality is important. Questions about photography are asked to in abundance, but most of them revolve around lenses and which ones are most recommend. Some lenses can take you back thousands of dollars, and even though they are typically worth every dime, there are options that are available on the market for a fraction of the cost that can give you a look back at the moments in your life that you has wished to capture, and even convince you that the photo made it seem even more so like a beautiful dream.
Today I created a look using my new Anastasia Beverly Hills Norvina eyeshadow palette. I had so much fun creating this look and I will probably be doing this exact look again soon. I love how it came out. I typically do not go for pinks and purples, but this palette is so fun and the shades are so buttery soft and it made the look come together effortlessly and blended exactly the way that I wanted it to.
I did a little shopping on Ulta.com and picked up some new goodies that were just released and are all the rave right now. The items I picked up are the Anastasia Beverly Hills Norvina palette, and the DOSE of Colors X iluvsarahii collection lipglosses.
The Anastasia Beverly Hills Norvina palette dropped a few days ago and features some of Norvina's absolute go to shades in bold bright mattes and soft pastel shimmers. If you didn't know yet, Norvina is the daughter of Anastasia, and President of the company that the mother-daughter due have grown from the ground up. This mother-daughter duo has certainly shaped the makeup industry in recent years. They remain very hands on in company decisions and I am a huge fan! They have a very unique and interesting company history, so if you're interested in finding out more about how Anastasia got into the beauty industry, I recommend a quick Google search that will land you to many interesting articles about her.
The palette itself is very beautiful. It comes with its own brush which I think makes the palette totally worth the money. Anastasia Beverly Hills eyeshadow palettes are all around $42.00 and come in a beautiful velvet packagings. I am thinking of starting a collection and getting them all after swatching this palette and seeing how buttery smooth each shade is. I will be doing a look using this palette and will have swatches of each shade up, so check back for that.
xoxo,
Katrina
Steam has been an important part of my skincare routine ever since I discovered a steam room at my local LA Fitness gym. After my workout, I would rinse my face, apply a mask, and head into the steam room to get my skin dilated and ready for a nice deep pore cleansing afterwards. My favorite reason for steaming is that it's so relaxing. I mean...can we take a moment to look at how relaxed I look in this first photo? It makes me want to go steam my face again.
Every season I change up my table setting. I wish I would have blogged about my Spring table setting because it was probably my favorite setting that I have ever put together, but unfortunately I did not capture any of it in a blog worthy way. The focus of my spring table setting were bunnies and carrots, and I had the cutest bunny shaped napkin rings that I purchased from QVC.
I played in my makeup again today and went for a peachy-brown look using my Too Faced Sweet Peach eyeshadow palette. I went for a look without any eyeliner and I love how emphasized the lashes look! I think I may start to do more looks without any eyeliner. I just look how clean the eyes look. Don't get me wrong, I still love a sharp winged liner that looks like it could cut you, but this subtle focus on shadow blending, color, and lash length has given me life!
My favorite foundation at the moment is between Too Faced Born This Way foundation, and Estee Lauder's line of Double Wear foundations. I can't decide which one I like more because it just depends on how my skin wants to behave on a certain day. I've also been very happy with mixing the two foundations to totally match my skin needs and color at the moment. Priming your skin is very important and I am not a fan of the typical primer. I prefer an oil based product that absorbs nicely such as Yves Rocher's line of facial oils. I prime my skin by washing it, applying my facial oil as a moisturizer and then applying my foundation and continuing my makeup routine.
I may not be a fan of facial primers but I am a fan of eyeshadow primers from time to time, but I did not use any eyeshadow primer today.
Check out the products that I used and let me know if there are any products that you are currently loving to use in my comments section.
