Beauty Sale Deals for Week of June 19

I always find myself browsing the sale section on Ulta and Sephora.

Once in a while, I would come across a sale deal.

There were a lot of colors before but right now only Tarte's Cheek Stain in Blushing Bride is on sale for $16. I think it's a good deal if you want to try the cheek stain cause it's like 50% off.

There are also many other tarte palettes and Nude skincare has sets that are also on sale.

I've never seen an EOS lip balm for $0.87 before. Not even when the lawsuit was making waves so if you're one of those that has to have every color the Honeysuckle Honeydew flavor is on sale. Right now ULTA has all EOS lip balm on a BOGO1/2 so even better.

Any exciting sales happening this week?

Home Exercises to Achieve A Better Posture

Get It Beauty Season 2 Ep 8 Recap: Improve Your Posture and Makeup Tips for the Summer

I spend all day on my bed when I am studying and watching TV on my laptop, so I am pretty sure my posture isn't that great. I got interested when Get It Beauty enlisted physiotherapist In Young Ah to  teach the audience how to improve your posture while staying in shape.

However I am skeptic as to if these exercise would work. Like the first exercise you are leaning forward when you squat down and then raise one leg which makes my body all unbalanced. It feels like I am contorting my body instead of improving my posture. However since it's shown on TV and a physiotherapist is showing the exercise, it seems to have credibility. Bottom Line: I don't know if these exercise work. I only saw this from TV and felt that it is interesting so I am sharing it with you guys. Do it at your own risk as I am not responsible for any injuries resulting from completing these exercise.

1. spread you leg shoulder width apart.

2. lean forward and squat.

3. raise your arms when going down.

4. keep you hips straight rise back up and raise one leg

it helps tighten your hips.

Best Golden Nail Polish Selected on Get It Beauty

Haven't wrote a post on the top products from Get It Beauty because the show didn't have a best product section for the last couple episodes. I started getting bored out by the show after not seeing the best product selection so I didn't watch the show for awhile. I am glad, they continued their Top Product Section.

On episode 11 of season 2 of Get It Beauty they rated the best golden metallic nail polish. 

Get it Beauty ep 9 Boy Group Idol Makeup

Korean Boy Group Idol Makeup

We have seen a trend in makeup where boy group are wearing lots of dramatic makeup.

In episode 9 of Get It Beauty, it shows tips on getting makeup that male idols wear.

The most noticeable makeup the guys usually have on is eyeliner. Once you say eyeliner, G-dragon's name comes up.

However there are also lots of other male idols that are known to put on eyeliner such as

Exo's Baek Hyun          Infinite's Sung Gyu           Shinee's Key                 Block B's Zico

In this episode, SPEED were special guest and they demonstrated the eyeliner look on one of the boys. I forgot his name but he looks so cute.

After the makeup, he instantly became cool.

The makeup artist took a chubbier black eyeliner and lined the eyes in the front and end of the eyes, keeping the center unlined. Then blended. Repeated the same underneath the eye.

The second type of makeup they demonstrated was Exo's Xiumin's shading makeup
It was just blending beige eyeshadow and giving her strong eyebrows

Then they demostrated Exo's Baek hyun's burgundy eye makeup

first use a burgundy color under the eye, darker near the ends and gradually getting thinner near the middle.
then use a darker burgundy color to line the eyes and give more contour.
the most important part is gray colored contact lens.

Lastly the most dramatic makeup seen sported by male idols were the vampire makeup seen on Vixx.

The tip here was to tightline the top and bottom eyes entirely with a black liner. Then using a normal flat paintbrush, cut some bristles away so it becomes jagged. Moisten the brush then dip it in black eyeshadow and draw it across the top part of the eye and out. Instant drama.

I don't know about anybody else but I was expecting them to do a blind testing. I basically watch Get It Beauty to see which item they find is the best in their category but for the past two episode, the show didn't reveal any Blind Test. Wish they would bring it back. :)

What boy makeup trend do you think you would try?

For me, I think the burgundy makeup would look pretty nice on me.

Thanks for reading,

VanillaDreamCream

Get It Beauty Ep 8 Brides Special

Recap of Tips from Get It Beauty Season 2 Episode 8: Brides Special

The new trend on weddings have changed from large princess like weddings to small close knit weddings.

This episode Lee Hyori's wedding which I though was one of a kind. Another famous person who also held a small scaled wedding was Mark Zuckerberg

Hyori only invited a close group friends. She took all her wedding photos herself and held her wedding at her home. Her honeymoon was a roadtrip around Europe.

To keep up with the trend of small weddings, its fitting to do your own makeup


Wedding Makeup- the makeup artist calls it the fairy makeup

1. use white mascara underneath brown colored mascara- the lighter color makes eye pop
2. use gold eyeshadow. use one shade for the entire makeup.

place one dot in the center of eye

one underneath at end of eye

another on the center of cheeks and then blend out-the  on cheeks looks more brown

a peachy nude color on the lips

Tips for natural wavy hair

1. Pull up your hair into a high ponytail.
2.Then curl your hair.
Putting your hair in a ponytail instead of letting your hair down makes it a lot easier to curl your ahir yourself.

Getting a messy hair bun

1.pull you hair in a high ponytail.

2.Rake your hair up and backwards. 

3.Then pull the top layers a tiny bit out for some volume. 

4.Then braid the hair and hold it at the bottom with an elastic.

5.Then main point. Hold a couple pieces of hair at the bottom and push the rest up until it squishes all up and then wrap the rest into a bun and bobby pin in place.

6.After lightly rub your crown so that its a bit messy.

7. rake your hair up and back and with your hand in place spray hairspray and hold for 2 second. Repeat through the rest of your hair line and this will hold all the tiny hairs in place.

Did you know they sell pure vitamin C powder? I had no idea until this episode. The dermatologist said to mix the vitamin C powder with your normal moisturizer.

Pyramid makeup-

1.Another surprise, the makeup artist dipped her pointed foundation brush into moisturizer , rubbed it in well and then swirled it into her guerlain powder. What!! that's a total no no in my book. Mixing moisture with powder. She said to make sure not to put too much powder on the brush and since she is only highlighting the face lightly, it shouldn't clump that much. By moisturizing your brush first, it makes the powder less powdery and more of a shimmery and glowing feel. She then dabbed the highlighter on her forehead, nose bridge and side of nose. Make sure the highlight on the side of nose does not extend beyond the eye area.

2. using a small brush, place brown shadow near the top lash line. 

3. dust shimmery eyeshadow on the top inner half

4. blend a coral shadow on the entire top lid

5. add highlight to the center, right underneath the brow.

How to prevent tears from ruining your makeup

If your makeup is not waterproof the makeup artist said to cry with your face down so the the tears doesn't drip down your face and will drip directly down to the ground.


I think for this episode it is best to watch the actual video since the pictures does not do justice for how pretty the makeup looks. It is the best natural makeup look.

Thanks for reading,

VanillaDreamCream

Best Lips Top Coat Blind Test from Get It Beauty

Best Five Lips Top Coat Chosen by Blind Testing on Get It Beauty 2014

The average person from New York retouches there lips 20 times a day. A Lip Top coat would allow for a longer lasting lip.

1. Anna Sui Lip Color Top Coat - $20 for 8ml

• contains powder to minimize oil so there's less smudging
• had the highest votes from both professional, Better Girls, and Online Voters

2. Holika Holika Beauty Top Coat-$8 for 5.3g

3. Clio Virgin Kiss Lip- $9 for 4g
its not stick














4.Etude House Color Lips-fit #WH901-$7 for10g
has silicon to to keep lipz moisturized. Is good for flakey lips. But Yoo In Na claimed it smudged her lips more than the #5

5. Dessange Paris Long Wearing Lip Gloss and Top Coat Duo Lip Gloss Stick-$20 for 3.5 g
gives long lasting moisturization

 guest Kim Ji Min was also back as guest host with special appearance of Jung Sam Mul makeup artist who has worked with kim tae hee, boa, lee hyori, kim yuna, tang wei

How to apply makeup naturally like a professional

Tip 1: you have to maintain a good skin: shouldn't being using the same products for all seasons.

 Using a finisher which acts like a primer to keep your skin hydrated and while also giving you a glow.

Tips 2 Adding dimension to your face to bring out natural features to your face using the thin and thick method.

You shouldn't apply a same layer of makeup all over your face because there are thick in thin skin.
Feel your vzone, areas jutting out are vzone- that is where the thick skin is and your need to apply a thicker layer of makeup. Your star zone, around nose, under the eyes, and above the lips are where thinner skin is located.

She uses a cushion type of foundation compact (aka bb cushion) and starts patting from the top of the V line down to the chin and then up the cheek area so that there is more makeup on the outer edges of your face. After blending out, use whats left on the cushion to pat the rest on your forehead and the thinner areas

 Tip 3: bring out freshness using warm and cool method.

 Around the eyes where its bluish with dark circles  and the upper lips are where there's fine hair is the cool zone. The cool zone is where it makes you look tired. She suggests to put a highlighter on those areas starting from under the eyes blending down to laugh lines where you smile around the mouth.
How to put on blush- sweep color onto a brush  and tap the color in the circular motion around your apples of cheeks.

Tip 4: Show and Hide method.

 When you draw your eyeliner,  don't draw it with the same thickness. It should be thin right above the pupil of the eyes and should be thicker near the outer corners of the eyes. Start at the outer of the eyes with thick lines then make it thin in the middle and then thick again near the inner tear ducts.
For eyeshadow use a base color and a darker color. Take the dark color starting from the outer edge and work the way into the tear duct so that the outer edge is darker. Pat the lighter color on the center of the lids so that there is less color on the edge and more color in the middle. When applying mascara do the left and right motion then up and down motion.

For the lips she uses a cubed shaped lipstick to shaped the v area so that it emphasizes the lines well. However i felt that the model already had nicely shaped cupids bow on her lips so her lips were nicely defined. But my lips aren't shaped like that, I don't know if I would be able to make such nicely defines lips with just that lips stick. The brand she is using is VDL expert color lip cube. The lipstick looks really neat. I have been eyeing that lipstick ever since reading it from some korean beauty blog.

sidenote: all three host are wearing incredibly cute dresses today. I especially like Jaekyung's white cutout dress.

Thanks for reading,

VanillaDreamCream