Hello everyone! I'm back...sorta. I know I said I'd only be gone for about a week, but somehow that time stretched to almost a month. Wow, time flies by.
First a bit of an update. I have had a change to my job situation, which will mean longer days & more time focused on work...and less time for blogging. Having said that, I have missed the blogging world and all my blogosphere friends and am looking forward to catching up with all of you. A special thanks to those of you who have reached out to me & left either an email or comment wondering where I am. That was very sweet and I appreciate it so much! I hope you'll be patient and stick with me as I transition through all this and try and fit everything in to my life.
Just for fun, here is a bit of a look in pictures at a few things I've bought, or gotten in the mail, recently. I'll be sharing my thoughts on some of these, if you have anything in particular you want to know more about just let me know.
Looking forward to catching up with you and your blogs...missed you too!
Tracy
I thought it would be fun to occasionally post a product or two and my favourite way to apply them. I know that people have different methods of applying the same product so I thought it would be interesting to share these kinds of ideas. Case in point is a product I've talked about before,
This is my beloved Maybelline Dream Mousse concealer, which I know is the favourite concealer of many. My favourite way to apply it is by using a fluffly blending brush, such as my QUO pictured here. I daub the brush lightly into my concealer, tap it under my eye where I want it and then blend it lightly using small circular motions. I find this gives me the lightest coverage that is well blended, and I never seem to get any creasing when I apply it this way.
So now that you get the idea. Since I've already talked about the concealer before I thought I'd add another product today, my MAC paint pot in Painterly. I love this paint pot and use it often as a base under my eye shadow. If I'm not going to wear eyeshadow, I often still apply some painterly to my eye just to even out the skin tone & hide any discoloration. Put some mascara on & you're done!
My favourite way to apply this paint pot is with this Eco tools brush;
This brush isn't marked but I believe it is the eye shader brush. It comes to a bit of a point on the end and is perfect to get right into the inner part of my eye. It's also quite thin, which is perfect for this purpose as product doesn't get embedded in the eye brush causing you to use up more than you'd like.
I also find that if I use a brush I tend to apply my paint pot more smoothly than if I use my finger. Often when I used my finger I'd feel like I was tugging a bit on my eye to apply this. The brush allows me to apply the thinnest of coats, which is great because too much of a paint pot and you've got a bit of creasy gunked up mess. Or at least I've managed to achieve that in the past.
I hope you like this idea & I look forward to doing more posts like these. Please leave me a comment and let me know how you apply your favourite concealer or paint pot type product!
