TGIF!!! I could not be more happy that the week is over! I wore this Brown Makeup look to the Billboard Music Awards last month and got such an incredible response to it! It’s honestly my fail-free go-to look and I wore it out the whole weekend Waseem & I were in Vegas for the awards. It always turns out perfect (yay neutral colors!) and is always super flattering on my complexion. I got such a huge response on snapchat that I had to recreate it for you guys! What’s great is that the key color products (eyeshadow & liquid lip) are incredibly affordable! I’m wearing the Morphe 35o Matte Palette on my eyes and Colourpop x Karrueche “Kae” Liquid Lip. The 35o Palettes are always sold out but I’m excited to tell you that all of them are currently in stock! — Regular, Mattes, Shimmers, & even the Bundle! As always you can enjoy a discount with coupon code IRENE. Enjoy the tutorial & let me know if you recreate it!
My hat & dress are from Fashion Nova. (get 15% off with code Irenexo)
Hi girls!! I have been neglecting my blog-fam so much these past couple weeks. I can’t even express how chaotic things have been. As a content-creator, being busy is always an incredible thing but I think I need to take a step back and slow down a bit once I close my projects out this week.
Now that I’m done crying (lol!!), I have a new tutorial up today!!! I received this gorgeous lehenga from India Boulevard and was searching for a great Desi-bridal look to wear with it. After reaching out to you guys on snapchat, I got a ton of requests for Faryal Makhdoom’s wedding makeup! I have been itching to re-create her makeup for literally three years now and I’m so excited that I finally pulled the trigger because it was so fun to do! I haven’t worn a heavy liquid liner on my lower lashline since college so to see it on my face with my updated makeup skills was interesting! I can’t believe I used to always wear my eyeliner like this (with worse application of course lol). I’ve received such an outpour of love via social media ever since I shared photos of this look over the weekend and I just have to say thank you before we get on to the tutorial!! I’ve really been enjoying myself creating videos lately and its you that makes it so fun and rewarding. Thank you for your love and support, always! Now on with the tutorial – let me know what you think!
We’re away for the long weekend but a new makeup tutorial went up on my channel the day we left! Finally getting it on the blog with all the product deets! This is my take on one of Kendall Jenner’s gorgeous looks from Cannes this year. My friend Ariel did her makeup and he is such an incredible artist. We met about a year ago and its so amazing to see how far he’s come in such a short time – also, at such a young age! So inspirational.
This is one of my favorite video yet & I hope you guys love it too! What do we think about the new filming set up?!
Every now and then, I will see girls tagging their friends in my photos and say #lifegoals.
It’s funny reading the I wish this was my life comments, because everything I have accomplished and built is completely attainable by anyone. Sometimes I wish I could just scream it through my phone.
I was always the day dreamer looking out the window, I never knew exactly where my life would take me but I knew that I wanted to build it myself. Ever since a very young age I was completely enamored with creating. It could be arts, crafts, or school projects; I just loved being the architect watching my visions come to life and this passion carried over into adulthood. I’ve never worked a 9 to 5 and have always been my own boss and on my own terms, from working as a photo-retoucher, to an internationally-published photographer, and now a blogger living in my dream city. What I’ll decide to dabble in next is a mystery but I’m confident in my passion to learn, explore, and turn it into a living. The last thing I want to do is write a vanity piece on myself *cringe* but so much of my audience is at that pivotal crossroad stage of life, I am hoping that with this post, I can help inspire and provide some guidance.
Let’s face it, everyone wants to be a blogger these days but not everyone has a tech-saavy-photographer-boyfriend or a dream team behind them like a lot of these A-list bloggers do. I always moan that I wish I had the same resources as the girls that I look up to – but the fact is that I don’t. The up-side is that there is such a full sense of satisfaction with every accomplishment, deal-closed, and successful project in the books when it is all done on your own from start to finish. I do hope to have a dream team behind me one day, but I’m proud to say that in the mean time… I got it handled. 🙂
Today I am sharing with you the genesis of my story. No, it wasn’t a makeup class, or sitting in on a blogging seminar.. it was my 7th grade computer class. Yes, a general middle school class that I attended a couple days a week for a quarter of the school year was the catalyst for everything to come over the next 17 years & hopefully the rest of professional life.
