Happy Friday, y'all. Now which of you ladies, moms or dads have wanted to spank Bieber lately? His fan girl beliebers would like to spank him probably in a more 50 shades of grey type of way, but that's neither here nor there. Well, below Zach Galifianakis calls all us Beliebers "Beaners". This small hint leads me to believe Justin's going to release a new album in espanol. The first single will feature shouts outs to Netflix and Juicy J of course will lay down the fire lyrics regarding lollipops. Justin of course will sing the chorus of "Hola, Puerto Rico!" He will then give some rap shout outs to Mexico while eating ten tamales drizzy Drake drizzled with hot sauce in an El Camino... Finally, Justin will finish the song by taking pics of your girl, even though she's not a model & then make her call him Papi... or Rick James...
Check out the music video "Lolly" here. What do you think? Other than the fact that Justin just needs to go ahead and throw out all the shirts in his closet? He does, indeed, look good shirtless. Personally, I think all the chicks and guys look way too young to be dancing or talking about lollipops in such a way. Good were the days when lollipops were simply sugar on a stick. Throwbacks to the 1980's, friends!
Finally, Kanye & Jimmy Kimmel are feuding. Click here&hereto hear all about it. Then to make you shed a slight tear for something a little more worthwhile, click hereto learn more about what good Justin Bieber is doing in the world. He's been bringing awareness to a great cause. We've gotta' admit... he's a good guy. If you were that rich and famous at his tender teen age, wouldn't you be doing some nonsense? Praise the Lord social media wasn't around when I was a teenager. For real. Communication, both good and bad, moves at the speed of light these days. And haters are going to hate. Why? It's what they do. Duh.
Ooh, la la... baby don't be shy.
Baby come with me & I can help take you on vacay!
I can take you up. I can take you home.
Girl, where you wanna go with these travel size beauties?!
Comment below the post or tweet to @makeupthebay with #TravelSizesRock to enter the giveaway.
With that being said, Dos Equis should give me a lifetime supply of this ballistic, bayonet-supporting beverage. Just so you know, a bayonet could technically be thrown or launched into what one would call a ballistic missile...
Anyway...
As long as you la la la la la la la love Q-tips, read on my darlings!
Q-tips Precision Tips, $3.29
Get them here from Walgreens.
The first person to comment below this blog post or tweet to @makeupthebay with #qtips gets a pack of Precision Tips as well as a purse pack of Q-tips.
Q-tips Purse Pack around $.99
Mostly found in-store @ major retailers
Precision Tips are awesome for manicures because they're more precise & less cottony at the tip. The purse packs are awesome for traveling, purses in general and especially on-location makeup artists.
If I said your smokey makeup look could look better by way of Q-tips, would you hold it against me?
(I think not.)
It's fairly easy to mess up a cat eye winged eyeliner look. It's also really hard when working with dark eye shadows to ensure that you don't end up looking like a raccoon by the end of the application.
Today's giveaway is for The Makeup Guard Card! YES!
The first person to comment right below this post or tweet to @makeupthebay with #makeupguardcard gets it. Hit me up, baby... just one time!
If this nail art was your boyfriend, he'd never let you go! Amika teamed up with Dashing Diva to make this awesomeness you're soon to call your fingernails! This pattern is Amika's Obliphica design.This is a hot print I got at the Premiere Beauty Show that are fairly hard to find. You can purchase them here through Amika, but you have to buy the entire kit for $39.95... but it's quite fabulous for $39.95, might I add.
Any who, comment below or tweet me with #amika to enter the giveaway for this awesome nail art.
If you like blingy and colorful hairdryers, straighteners, or etc you go get you some Amika. For real. I've got dibs on the giraffe print. They also have a popular Cynthia Rowley that's really hot right now.
Cuz all around the world...
people want to wear Glowbys in their hair!
Now's your chance. On the giveaway block today are five sets of these wonderful fiber-optic hair extensions.
Comment below this post or tweet me to enter.
Yoda says your chances of winning are strong with the force!
I mean, even Taylor Swift loves them. Read about it here. Heck, we even used them to light up Battle of the Strands at the Premiere Orlando Beauty Show! (We totally rocked it, by the way. Also, stay tuned about the Battle of the Strands Finals in Vegas. Either we're the favorite of the 1st runners up or you can help vote us to go. Did I mention I love my readers lately?!)
Giveaway Numero Uno on Britney Spears & Justin Week is Extrashade!
We can't say enough good things about this product. Not only is it capable of shielding SPF 30 rays, this company also supports cancer awareness & support initiatives.
We were lucky enough to speak to the owner & score some Extrashade swag that even Justin Bieber would be proud of.
What's nice about Extrashade is that it works for all ethnicities, but keeps the multicultural shades in mind with all it's non-ashy & good for hyperpigmention qualities in tow.
WE JUST WANT SOME SUNSCREEN TO LOVE... OOOH!
Signed,
The Sensitive Skin Complected
Comment below or tweet to @makeupthebay for your chance to win a bottle. We love the comments! Keep them coming!
The general public knows that the sun's toxic...
Avoid the hyperpigmentation on your face. You'll spend months to years correcting it...
Trust me.
Starting on Hump Day, we're blaring Britney Spears and Justin Bieber for an entire week of giveaways! Be sure to check out the blog.
So, you want in on the giveaway action?
Each post's giveaway period will be valid for an entire week, or until someone comments or tweets to me. Enter! Enter! Enter!
All you have to do to enter is:
comment below the product's blog post OR tweet to @makeupthebay
about what product you'd like to win. Enter one giveaway or enter them all! I'm just happy to spread the beauty swag love!
Look.... even Justin Bieber approves of this swag, yo! I mean, like, if I ever talked to him & he recognized my existence, he would!
Fo' sure...
The dance moves in this video are Phat with a capital P. With all the black and whiteness in the above video, what immediately comes to my weirdo makeup artist mind is highlighting and contouring a.k.a. "hac-ing".
So many women are into this these days! Two out of the ten competitors in this year's Allure Beauty Blogger Awards even spoke about it in their first challenge. While mentioning the awards, you should go vote for your favorite blogger. Each week they're giving away swag to voters that even Justin Bieber himself would approve of. Place your votes here. Yup. Just go ahead & make these bloggers even more famous so I have even more competition. Thanks...
Whoever had the opportunity to do her makeup
daily for the show must of had a lot of fun.
I'm jealous ;o(
Any who, highlighting & contouring is something that is usually done for TV & film. The concept is that you highlight the parts of the face that you want to stick out & then darken or contour the parts that you hate. Contouring can create cheek bones even on Mimi from the Drew Carey Show. For Riz-eals, yo! We mean zero disrespect to the actual person behind this character, by the way. Highlighting can also give the appearance of a perfect nose even if you yourself despise your honker.
Generally speaking most women do in fact bronze themselves. However, please allow me to advocate that most don't put it in the correct spots to really accentuate their features.
If you're a powder diva, you'll want to use a matte bronzer with no sparkle for the absolute best effect. Now, stop bronzing your whole darn cheeks and just put the bronzer right below your actual cheek bone. Then, to make your cheekbone pop, slap on some sparkly vanilla-ish or gold-ish shade to a fluffy brush. Tap off the excess & then go to town right above where you put the darker powder which should be exactly on your cheekbone. This should also be the area where you put your blush.
Need some inspiration?
Read these books!
Can't afford to purchase these in this economy?
There's this fab place that exists...
It's called the "Library".
<<< Now, take a look here <<< to the fabulousness I call Kevyn Aucoin. You know him as the beauty Lord with that huge beauty bible called "Making Faces" & "Face Forward". If you've never done this before, I'd highly advise you to do it with creams or creamy substances first. Then, when you get the hang of it move onto liquids. Oh yeah, and obviously you'll want to blend in this look to our left with a sponge or MAC's "Don King" Brush #187 Duo Fibre Face Brush available here for $42. Please also notice that the highlight color you choose should be at least 1-2 shades lighter than your actual foundation color & the contour color should be at least 1-2 shades darker. The colors you choose also depend on how chiseled and skeleton-like you're trying to become. Oh, just go ahead and choose black & white. Then get back to me about how stinking long it took you to blend it out! Heh. Heh. Thanks, guys. I'm here all night... trying to look like the Grim Reaper, that is.
This dude even shows you how to highlight your decolletage & cleavage. But I say rock on with your bad self and cue in Gerard Butler because This is Sparta! One can even do these techniques to achieve what I like to call "spray on abs". Furthermore, pass on the note to Gerardy boy that I've got an open page protector reserved just for him in my vertical organization I call my "Binders Full of Men"...
Kids say the darndest things. Am I right or am I right?!
Sure, parents all over this universe think that their kid is the cutest thing since Justin Bieber was birthed. But seriously, mine's the cutest & I will scream it to this earth, the entire galaxy & to infinity and beyond. (Cue in Buzz Lightyear!)
It just so happens that occasionally I watch YouTube. Shocker. I know.
Any who, we were all around the computer & put the original "Girl On Fire" by Alicia Keys video on. Shortly after the chorus, my six year old goes, "Oh no! Quick! This girl is on fire! Somebody grab the water & put her out!" I about died. I laughed so hard that I probably could of gone into cardiac arrest erstwhile peeing my pants.
Now let's move on to a couple days ago...
"Mommy, you know if when I grow up and don't have a lot of money, I'm just going to live in a box. Or a shelter with a tent over it so I don't get wet." Dear God, let's hope not I think to myself.
Me thinks this little one thinks homelessness could be compared to playing camp in a tree house.
"No, honey. You will have money because you're very smart. You've got your whole life in front of you to decide what you'll do for a career & I have no doubt you'll be successful. (Because Mommy's screwed up so much in her life that she won't let you go down those paths... lol.) And if you don't have money, you'll just keep living in our house until you have the money to get your own." Now, let's move on to last night...
"Mommy, are we friends with China? And does Japan speak Chinese or what?"
I paused to think about how I could answer this fully loaded question. I told him that pretty much the USA is friends with most every country, except North Korea. China speaks Chinese & Japan speaks Japanese. The Koreas speak Korean and so on. Yeah. You try explaining what different dialects are to a six year old. Then also try to explain what a dictator is versus a democracy. It ain't easy. Not to mention it's an awkwardly uncomfortable conversation.
"So, can I go visit North Korea?" Ummm, not if I have anything to do with it.
"OK, well I want to visit Japan instead." Very well, very well indeed. Give me a moment to just tell you all that it is so sad that at the tender age of six, this kid has to learn that not every country operates like America. I mean, who really wants to tell their children that other countries want to not only kill them, but wipe them off the face of the entire planet? We are so blessed to have food, tolerance, love & respect for one another in this country. Praise the United States! Amen.
Anyway, the next time your kid won't eat his delicious & abundantly provided dinner, just tell him that there are kids starving in third world countries. I grew up hearing this rhetoric & now I tell my own kids that. I'm still alive to talk about it. Maybe with a little extra poundage around the saddlebag area, but oh well. At least I have food to feed not only myself but also my kids. Watching the tube yesterday, I saw North Korean children picking up crumbs from the dirt & putting it in their mouths. It's a seriously sad situation over there. God bless & protect them.
Today is April 10th & I don't know what North Korea has in store for this day or days after. But they did warn embassies to evacuate before this date. So, if I haven't told you lately... I love you guys. And I love my children. Thanks for reading this ridiculousness I call this blog & let's all invest in some gas masks...
Dads? Be happy I tell you not to show this movie trailer to your kids. Furthermore, be happy that Selena Gomez & Vanessa Hudgens wear bikinis for a huge portion of this Spring Breakers movie trailer as noted below. You're welcome.
It must feel pretty goodto be Selena Gomez this week. Gross over $5 million at the box office over the weekend? Check. Dis ex-boyfriend Justin Bieber on David Letterman? Check. Earn some street cred by filming with Gucci Mane? Check. Above is Selena's most recentinterview on David Letterman. I love the interview, but just gotta' say... can't a girl get a few minutes of tv show spots without someone having to bring up a recent breakup? Bon Qui Qui does not approve of this behavior. Quick! Someone call SAAACURRITY! Ruuude. Tune in around 5:30 in the video for the Justin dis, exploding fist bump style.
I just love this photo of her. Hello, woman! Elle Magazine, July 2012
Anyway,as a fellow female we approve of this "Rock on" post-breakup, pro-feminism Selena Gomez. Furthermore, as a male we approve of the whole less fabric more skin thing. If you think Alex the Wizard is going to make a polite cameo appearance in this film, then perhaps you find your way back to Waverly Place. Click here for the best Spring Breakers trailer review EVER, of all time!
Don't get me wrong... I'm a belieber and all... But it's no wonder after watching the trailer of Spring Breakers that it all makes sense now. Justin Bieber was only hanging out with Lil Twist & getting into trouble to up his street cred to equal Selena Gomez'.
For more weekend box office news and numbers, click here.
