19 Jan 2016 Beauty

Selena Gomez Inspired Makeup & Hair | Hands to Myself

Hi Dolls! Gosh this video is so long over due!! Snapchat fam.. do you remember seeing me dying my clip-on bangs forever ago?? I kept putting this video off because I don’t like wearing my hair straight out so finding the right time to squeeze in a sleek look was annoying lol #girlproblems

I was inspired by Selena Gomez’s sexy look in the Hands to Myself music video. Gosh what a babe! Her hair, makeup, body, confidence were all on point. I wore my Cleopatra bangs by Bellami Hair (use code irene for a discount!), and the reason I had to dye them was because they originally were the shade mochaccino brown when my hair was lighter about a year ago, I dyed them blue black but Bellami carries jet black already so you won’t have to do all that work! Enjoy the tutorial!

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15 Jan 2016 Beauty

Easiest Smokey Eye Ever

Happy Fri-YAY!!!

I have an easy peasy glam look for you just in time for the weekend!! I call this, the easiest smokey eye ever! I’m all about lazy girl hacks and the best thing that’s happened to my eye-makeup game is Stila’s Magnificent Metals Eyeshadows! Most of the time i just pat a little on my lid, highlight my brow bone with a light colored eyeshadow and call it a day. The finished look always looks like I spent a lot of time on my eyes when I really haven’t. I’ve been using Comex Gold for the longest time but I picked up a couple new shades at Frends Beauty a few weeks back! In this look I am using the shade Titanium. I hope you guys love this look! xo

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11 Jan 2016 Travel

Travel Vlog: Paris & London

Happy Monday!

Our trip to Paris and London back in 2012 was so beyond exciting for me. It was my first overseas vacation in a very long time (the motherland never counts!), I was going away with Waseem, & hello he ended up proposing to me in Paris! Literally a dream come true. Fast forward 3.5 years, a week away from 2016, both of us burnt out from an extremely busy, but amazing, year and our friends convince us to go to London with them on 6 days notice! We didn’t care that we were running on fumes, we were so excited to jetset with our friends and revisit an itinerary so near and dear to our hearts. My individual Paris and London photo-diaries are on the way but I wanted to share my vlog with you the moment I finished it today! Our 2012 trip was my very first travel vlog; and it wasn’t very good haha so I’m excited to come back with a do-over! We were corny sightseers the whole time so hopefully this isn’t too boring. Enjoy!!

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07 Jan 2016 Beauty

Brown Liquid Lips for Brown Girls

Happy New Year my loves!!

I’ve been putting this video off until after the holidays but just my luck, my two New Years Eve tutorials I had finished to go up while I was in Europe are stuck in limbo right now :-/ it’s a long story but hopefully they will be recovered asap as they are two of my favorite tutorials I’ve done yet. sighh BUT! The good news is that I’m obsessed with this video I have for you today!! I’ll be showing you my collection of brown liquid lipsticks. I think it’s so important to see proper lip-swatches of these on someone that is close to your complexion so I hope my medium-toned babes will find this video extra helpful. When it comes to brown or nude lipsticks it’s very hard to tell how they will translate on your skin, do you remember when Anastasia released “Pure Hollywood” and everyone went nuts over it?? Well, when I finally got my hands on it, it looked like chalk on me!! Womp womp.

While you’re watching this video you might be thinking that some of these colors aren’t even close to being brown and my theory for that is… erhm my skin is brown! If I wear a shade super close to my skin color then the lippie will look nude, if there’s any pink in it it’ll look mauve and if its super cool toned then it will lean towards grey. The only shade that really truly looks brown on my complexion is (perfectly named) “True Brown K” by Miss Kylie Jenner. And to those wondering, no they are not repackaged Colourpop cosmetics liquid lipsticks. The formula is completely different but you cannot beat Colourpop’s range of colors or price point!

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27 Dec 2015 Travel

What’s in my Travel Gear Bag? | Cameras & Gadgets

Hello from London!

I’m recuperating in our hotel room after a very long day of travels and I’m finally ready to share my camera/gear collection with you! Obviously I filmed this when I was in Mexico two weeks ago but I held off on posting it because of the holiday. I thought I’d squeeze it in before I post my New Years Eve tutorials this week – because who wants to wait another week?! I’ll list the items in order of the video but I’ll include all of the little accessories that I didn’t mention in the video here as we go. Enjoy!

PS don’t forget to enter to win an all-inclusive trip to Mexico HERE! Contest is open until New Year’s Eve!

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