Kat Von D: To Conceal or Not to Conceal?

I have several things I use a good concelear for...I love to use them for my ridiculous under eye circles, the redness around my nose, and blemishes that might come up, and some unsightly veins on my chest. (Don't worry, I'll explain later!)

I've been searching for the perfect concelear for a very long time. One day, while searching the shelves at Sephora, I came across the Kat Von D display. I'd heard a lot about her concelear, and decided to give it a whirl.

***DISCLAIMER***
The Kat Von D Tattoo Concelear is not used by itself to cover a tattoo.  There is an entire systems that includes a concelealing pencil, the concelear itself, a matt powder and a fixing powder.  So please, before you decide that you hate this product because it doesn't do what it says it does in the title, don't!

The conelear itself comes in about 12 mL for $20 to $25, depending on your store. Straight away, I wasn't exactly blown away by the packaging.  The designs on the outside are amazing, but I do NOT like the tube.  There's no applicator, and it's quite easy to dispense too much of the product. Despite that flaw, the concelear itself is AMAZING!!!! 

It's an extremely light weight formula that feels good on your skin as well as lasts all day long.  It also comes in a variety of colors, so it's really easy to find one that matches your skin tone: You do want one, however, that is slightly lighter than your skin tone.  And you definately don't need a lot of product to cover your face. It only takes about a pea size amount to do my under eye circles, my nose redness and my blemishes.  In fact, I bought the concelear in Late August, early September, and I still have over half a tube left, and I use it nearly every day!! 

Overall, I will definately be buying this concelear again.  You get a lot of bang for your buck with this product. 

L'Oreal Box Hair Dye Review

I have been dying my hair out of a box for years.  Hair color is just not something I feel the need to spend lots of money on, especially when I can buy the color from a box and get results that I feel looks just as good. I have seen so many commercials with Beyonce flaunting her radiant hair color from L'Oreal. (Which, lets be honest, there's no way Beyonce dyes her hair from a box.)  I decided, however, to give it a shot.

I picked up a box of L'Oreal Healthy Look Creme Gloss Color. The shade I decided on was 5G (aka Golden Truffle.) It was about 9 bucks at Wal-Mart.

When I opened the package at home, I was seriously overwhelmed by all the tubes and bottles in the box.  It came with standard instructions and a pair of really "fancy" plastic gloves.  In all, there were 4 seperate components to this hair color.  The first was a tiny tube that I was instructed to rub on the ends of my hair to prep them for the color.  I did as instructed.  I then mixed a large tube of color into a bottle of developer and shook for 2 minutes, also as instructed.  I applied the hair color, let it set for 30 minutes, rinsed in the shower and applied the 4th tube, a conditioner designed to protect the color.

Overall, I have to say I will probably not buy this product again.  First and foremost, there were entirely too many components to sort thru and mix and use.  I really could have used about half of the tubes.  Secondly, the smell of the product was the most horrible of any hair product I've ever used, salon or otherwise.  The smell stunk up my bathroom and made my eyes water.  It was nearly unbearable.  Lastly, the color itself wasn't as fantastic as I'd hoped it would be.  It came out much darker than I expected. (My hair was already a mousy brown color, and according to the back swatches, it should have came out just slightly darker with some golden under tones.)  It turned out a very mat, dark brown color with hardly and gold undertones.  (I'm hoping that some of the darkness will wash out today.) Also, I really feel like 30 minutes is far to long to have the product sitting on your hair.

I think, from this point on, I will just stick with my cheap, 3 dollar box of hair color.

Hey Ya'll!

I can't say that I've ever actually said the phrase "Hey ya'll" to anyone.  However, under the current circumstances of blogging, I feel that it is the most appropriate greeting I could give (on the off chance that more than one person reads my blog.)

My name is Paige and I am a 22 (nearly 23) year old nursing student.  The medical field is always where my heart has been, and I have been working at a hospital for the past 3 and a half years. 

Growing up, I never really wore more makeup than the traditional powder blue eyeshadow and mascara that every teen in my middle school wore growing up.  Recently, however, I have become increasingly interested in makeup.  I have been buying and using everything from drug store brands to MAC and Sephora brands.  I've been watching tutorial after tutorial after tutorial on youtube, and recently started wearing makeup on a daily basis.  It's become this artistic, therapeautic outlet for me, and I love it.

I'm going to start reviewing various products and posting my views here.  If there's anything that you'd like me to give a try, let me know and I'll do whatever is in my means to try!