July Beauty Favs

The Summer I feel has gone by so fast, and my favorite season will be here quicker than you know it! But in the mean time in between time let me share my July beauty favorites! I came to the conclusion on these products just because I've noticed myself reaching for and using them pretty much every day. These products are sooooo BOMB to me and I want to give a little breakdown on why I love each so much below...

1. NYX Pore Filler | This product has its best quality right in the name of the product! When I tell you this transparent smooth creamish, gelish, moose type product glides over your skin filling in any large pores and smoothing over fine lines to create the best canvas to work on....I AIN'T FIBBIN'! I initially won this product in a giveaway, and because I do not have large visible pores, I would have never thought to by it. Over time I noticed my skin changing in different seasons and one day did notice that my pores were larger than normal and somewhat distracting to me so I decided to try the product. It so effortlessly filled in all the pores I was now seeing and even went a step further and made the large hollows under my eyes disappear!

2. Makeup Forever Ultra HD Foundation | This foundation is a medium bulld-able coverage, that gives you the coverage you want without the cake look! It's summer and nobody has time to wear foundation that feels like a new face sitting on top of your own and that messy slippery slidey and messy! I apply this foundation with a damp beauty blender to whatever level I'm wanting for that day and it always gives me an extremely lightweight feel and skin like finish.

3. BOMB Eye Trio | So these three brushes will allow you to create a flawlessly blended, defined crease, sharp wing eye look with ease. The Morphe E27 brush from their Elite 1 Collection has been discontinued, but never fret there is an Elite 2 Collection, which from some research the only differences are the bristle color and softness (Elite 2 is said to be softer) and handle length. I would without a doubt believe it to work just as well, if not better at seamlessly blending out shadows in the crease while being gentle on the eyes. The Japonesque 836 or "Cut Crease" brush does exactly that. The bristles are in a fluffy kind of slanted dome shape which makes it easy to lightly place shadow in the crease area without too much pressure. The brush itself is kind of heavy which I equate with great quality and durability, but the bristles are soft to the touch. The last of the trio is the Sonia Kashuk No. 27 angled liner brush. The bristles are very tightly packed and do not move too easily making it great for creating a sharp line with gel liners. The handle is waved in shape making it easy to grip and handle steadily while creating your wing!

4. Violet Voss "Holy Grail" and "Drenched Metal" Palettes | THESE SHADOW PALETTES ARE SOOOOO BOMB! The color payoff is exactly how it looks in the palette, they glide and blend on the eye like butter, and both palettes give a limitless amount of creative freedom. The "Holy Grail" palette consists of every warm shade, transition shade, shades to smoke out, to basically create every classic shadow look. It has a mixture of both matte and shimmer shadows giving you the best of both worlds hence the name HOLY GRAIL! The "Drenched Metal" palette has fun colors to create vibrant and bold looks, while the silver shimmer reflects in the pigments will have you reflecting and glowing in the light as if you were dripping metal.

5. NYX Lip Combo | My favorite type of makeup to apply on myself is "natural" looking with just the enhancing of my natural features. Love using brown and mauve shadows, and nudes on the lips. Nude lips on ebony skin isn't always easy, but these three NYX products create my fav nude lippie! The NYX liner in "Dark Brown" (and ligh brown liner) is really a staple product all women especially melanin women should have. It can transform those light pink and off coral lip sticks that would normally make your lips look crispety cruchety chapped into beautiful lip colors you can actually wear. The NYX Lip Lingerie formula is super smooth and silk like on the lips which is the number 1 reason I love to wear it, but the shade included in the trio "Beauty Mark" is a black girl nude that can also be worn on its own. Lastly in the trio the NYX Soft Matte Lip Cream in "London" glides on the lips while also giving the feeling of being moisturized to give this lippie combo a little more dimension and POP.