I LOVE Sephora's Angled Shadow Brush

I had seen some tutorials on YouTube that used a large angled brush to apply a contour color to the crease and outer corner, so I decided to invest in one for my own collection. I went to Sephora and purchased Sephora's Angled Shadow Brush #20 and I LOVE it. I've seriously been using it everyday. This brush is extremely soft and precise. Honestly, you can use this to apply eyeshadow to your lid and to put darker colors in your crease and outer V. Definitely a must have in every girl's makeup collection!

Giveaway: Win a $20 Sephora Gift Card!

Hooray - I've reached 20 subscribers! I want to thank everyone for reading my blog and commenting on the products I've talked about. I really appreciate it. And since I appreciate it so much, I wanted to do a little something for you. I'm going to give away a $20 gift card to Sephora BUT I am setting up a little contest to get it!

A co-worker (Nikia you cannot enter this!) gave me a photo of this woman (see above) who says the trick to getting young looking skin is by rubbing Vaseline upwards onto your face every other day. The person closest to guess how old this woman is will win the gift card, which I will mail out to them (nationally or internationally)!

Comment under this post with the age. I'll send an email to the winner. The giveaway will end next Saturday morning, January 23, at 9 a.m. Eastern Standard Time. That's when I will announce the winner on my blog (and the age of this woman). Good luck!

Tarte Takes on Chapped Lips

Each year I dread the change of summer to fall/winter because I know what it means: chapped lips. NOTHING seems to work on me - not Vaseline, regular chap stick, Soft Lips, Carmex, etc. So I was talking to a makeup artist in Sephora about my chapped lips a few months ago and she recommended Tarte's fRxtion, a natural sugar and lip balm duo.

I absolutely LOVE this product. It's only $11 and it works great. Basically, you take the dark tan side and rub it all over lips, then use a Q-Tip to buff the dead skin off. After that, you apply the white moisturizing side to your lips.

Plus, the packaging of this product is so cute - it even includes a little mirror! If you have chapped lips that just won't go away, I think this product is well worth the price.