Autumn Lip Favorites

Here are some of my picks for Autumn Lip colors. They're all perfect for the Fall months and cold weather!

1. NARS Audacious Lipstick in Bette - Dark Red

2. MAC Lipstick in Dark Side - Deep Burgundy

3. YSL Rouge Per Couture Kiss and Love Collection Lipstick in Le Rouge - Perfect Deep Red

4. Colour Pop Lip Pencil in Grunge - Cool Toned Plum Brown

5. YSL  Rouge Per Couture Glossy Stain in Le Nu - Deep Nude

6. MAC Lip Pencil in Spice - Plum, Nude

7. Bobbi Brown Lip Color in Berry Punch - Bright Berry

8. Rimmel Exaggerate Lip Pencil in Innocent - Brown, Nude 

What are your picks?

xo Emily

Brown Eye (Shadowed) Girl

One of the best things about the transition of Summer into Fall is that your makeup and wardrobe transitions just as the seasons do. 

One of my favorite ways to spruce up my makeup in Fall is by utilizing beautiful browns, plums, golds, and warm toned shadows. Today's look uses one of my favorite eyeshadows from one of my favorite palettes - the Tarte 'Golden Days and Sultry Nights' palette. I go back to this palette all the time because it has 5 amazing shadows - a shimmery brown, true gold, shimmery green, matte brown, and matte white.

For this look, I blended the brown shimmery shadow into my crease - building color until it's deep and dark. Then, I patted a mixture of the gold from the Tarte palette and 'Beige' from my Lorac Pro 2 Palette, blending those two shadows into the brown shimmery shadow. For a little pop of color and fun, I used the green shimmery shadow in my inner tear duct and lower lash line. 

To keep the look a little more subtle and 'Autumn-esque' I used a brown liner. I find myself really opting toward brown liners lately because they're a little less harsh, but still give the same effect as black. 

I used L'Oreal's Infallible Lacquer Liner in 'Espresso' to line my eyes and create the cat-flick. The formula of this product is so perfect - it's creamy and smooth and goes on easily. I love this product so much!

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I used my Nars Creamy Concealer under my eyes and then used my (newly-acquired and OH so LOVELY) Anastasia Beverly Hills Contour Palette to set my under-eyes. I used that same Anastasia palette to contour, bronze, and highlight. I have been loving experimenting with this palette and I'll be doing a post on it soon.

To finish the look off, I used YSL's Rouge Volupte Shine Lipstick in 'Pink in Paris' - one of my favorite lipsticks of all time. 

Do you like this look? How would you transition your makeup into Autumn?

xo Emily

Sunday Style: Star Sweater

Happy Sunday! I hope everyone had a wonderful and relaxing holiday weekend, I know I did. It was amazing to just take some time with family. I'm sad to leave home to go back to school and New York, but I've got a concert and event and lots of fun things to do when I get back (not to mention a lot of homework and finals to prepare for). It's only three weeks until I'm back home so I'm just excited to get this semester done!

I've got an outfit for you today featuring one of my favorite sweaters - I got it from H&M a few years ago and it's held up surprisingly well. I paired it with a black dress I got at a boutique in my hometown and then made it a bit fancier with tights and boots!

I love the detail on the skirt part of the dress

Sweater: H&M (similar style) | Dress: Swank Boutique (similar style) | Tights: Uniqlo | Shoes: H&M | Lipstick: YSL Rouge Volupte 'Nude Beige' | Earrings: Forever 21

♡

xo Emily

My Everyday Fall Makeup

Today I thought I'd share my everyday fall makeup, which I wear almost everyday in fall. The products and application vary somewhat from week to week and I usually vamp it up or change my routine for special occasions or nights out but this is pretty much my everyday look!

I usually go for a color scheme that emphasizes dark browns and red/gold tones as well as shimmer!

 

The Tuesday 10: Autumn Recipes

Hey guys! I'm doing a new post on the blog today, something I call 'The Tuesday Ten', which is just a weekly list of 10 things I've been loving. Today's 10 is Autumn Recipes. 

As we enter November, I've been spending a lot of time making awesome Autumnal recipes. I think that it's the perfect time for baking delicious cookies and muffins and cupcakes and lots of other things. 

I like to peruse the Food Network and check out my favorite blogs to find inspiration. Here are 10 awesome Fall Recipes to get you in the mood for Thanksgiving and Christmas.

1. Almond Macadamia Milk from CupcakesandCashmere.com

2. Raspberry + Italian Plum Walnut Crisp from TheRoamingKitchen.net

3. Cheddar Pecan Dip from CookingChannelTV.com

4. Spinach and Cheddar Souffle from HouseBeautiful.com 

5. Penne with Butternut Squash and Goat Cheese from FoodNetwork.com

6. Carrot Cake with Cider and Olive Oil from SmittenKitchen.com

7. Harvest Apple Salad with Grilled Chicken and Candied Pecans from Annies-Eats.com

8. Butternut Squash Soup with Bacon and Apple from FineCooking.com

9. Caramel Apple Cheesecake from CookingChannelTV.com

10. Apple Cider Floats from FoodPlusWords.com

Yum!

♡

xo Emily