Mauve/Gold Eye Look w/ Matte Brown Lips

My most favorite part of the day is getting ready. I love the process. Listening to music, talking with my roommate, creating a look, and bringing it all together. 

Today I used NYX/Too Faced/BH Cosmetics to create my Monday mood. 

I'm gonna go ahead and go through my makeup step by step! 

1. Primed face- Too Faced Hangover Primer
2. Lip Mask- Tarte Maracuja Lip Scrub
3. Eyeshadow- Carli Bybel palette mauve/gold colors
4. Eyebrows- It Cosmetics! Brow Power Brow Pencil (Chocolate)
5.Foundation- NYX HD Foundation
6. Pressed powder- It Cosmetics! Pores no More pressed Powder
7. Concealer- NYX HD concealer (under eyes, bridge of nose)
8. Bronzer- NYX Matte Bronzer (medium)
9. Blush- Too Faced Love Flush Blush
10. Highlight- Carli Bybel Highlights 
11. Lips- NYX Lingerie Liquid Lipstick "Teddy"
12. Setting Spray- NYX Matte Finishing Spray


This look was so much fun to create and I love that everything I used today was affordable! 


xx
Elizabeth

Cheesy Chicken Enchiladas

When I was growing up, I would always always beg my mother to make enchiladas. They were my most favorite meal. At all family functions, dinner parties, church events, and school functions, everyone would always ask her to make them, where they would beg her for the recipe all night relentlessly. She got the recipe from my Grandmother, who got it from my Great-Grandmother.

I'm tellin' ya, these suckers were good. They were a household name in our town, and I couldn't get enough of them. I always had it on my birthdays and whenever I got to choose what was for dinner. At 18, my mom finally gave me the recipe before I moved to Florida. 

...I have decided to release the secret. It's a good thing my grandmother doesn't know how to use the Internet, or she would be on her way to Indiana right now to give me a piece of my mind. 

In all seriousness, these are easy to make, they don't take too long, and they are usually ALWAYS a hit. :)

Ingredients:

1 tablespoon butter or margarine

1 medium onion, chopped

1 (4.5-ounce) can chopped green chiles, drained

1 (8-ounce) package cream cheese, cut up and softened

3 1/2 cups chopped cooked chicken breast

8 (8-inch) flour tortillas

1 small jar of jalepenos 

2 (8-ounce) packages Monterey Jack cheese, shredded

2 cups whipping cream

1 tablespoon of Red Hot (or your favorite hot sauce!)

Instructions: 

Melt butter in a large skillet over medium heat; add onion, and saute 5 minutes. Add green chiles; saute 1 minute. Stir in cream cheese and chicken; cook, stirring constantly, until cream cheese melts.

Spoon 2 to 3 tablespoons chicken mixture down center of each tortilla.Put just a few jalepenos on top of the chicken mixture. Roll up tortillas, and place, seam side down, in a lightly greased 13- x 9-inch baking dish. Sprinkle with Monterey Jack cheese, and drizzle with whipping cream/Red Hot

Bake at 350° for 45 minutes.

Enjoy! 

Elizabeth

Recent Makeup Purchases/Organizing Vanity

Hello Lovelies~

Makeup is something that I've definitely always been interested in, and I've been wearing it since I was 14. Through the years as trends and demand have changed, I have become much more into it, and I would like to think that I'm pretty good at it, too. :)

I could seriously spend hours (and I often do) watching makeup tutorials on YouTube. Honestly that's where I learned 75% of my makeup routine. It's a great tool for makeup application, product info, skin care, hair care, and what brushes/applicators to use.


While I love wearing makeup, I don't like spending hundreds of dollars on it. In the last year or so, I've found that there are several brands that are comparable to the expensive brands, and work just the same (if not, better!) NYX Cosmetics, BH Cosmetics, Milani, and Pixi are some of the brands that make AMAZING products, that don't cost $30 a product! While I love Too Faced, Tarte, Buxom, and Smashbox, I don't buy strictly from them; and that is what has saved me soooo much money while shopping!
I'm going to post all the products I use on a daily basis; as well as my eyeshadow palettes! I'm probably going to have to write a whole separate post on my lipstick... there's just too much LOL.

Moisturizer- Neutrogena Grapefruit Oil-Free Cleanser ($8.99, Walgreens)
Lip Mask- Tarte Maracuja Lip Exfoliant ($16, Sephora)
Primer- Smashbox Primer Oil ($42, Ulta)
                                  OR
             NYX Studio Perfect Photo Loving Primer ($12.99, Ulta)
*Eyebrows- It Cosmetics Universal Brow Power Brow Pencil ($15.75)
*Foundation- NYX HD Foundation ($17.99, Ulta)
*Finishing Powder- IT! Cosmetics Bye Bye Pores ($11.99, Ulta)
*Concealer- NYX HD Photo Concealer ($4.99, Ulta)
*Blush- Too Faced Love Flush Blush ($26, Ulta)
                                OR
             Pixi Beauty Blush ($8.59, Target)
*Bronzer- NYX Matte Bronzer ($8.99, Ulta)
*Highlighter- Carli Bybel Palette (amazing deal - 14 shadows, 3 highlights) ($25.00, BH Cosmetics)
*Eyeliner - NYX Vinyl Liquid Liner ($6.99, Ulta)
*Eyeshadow- Carli Bybel Palette, BH Cosmetics Galaxy Chic Palette, Too Faced PB&J/Return of the Sexy Palettes, Buxom Palette, NYX Rockstar Palette, Urban Decay Vice Palette, NYX loose eyeshadows, Glitter Injections Pressed Glitter, and Mica Palettes (anywhere from $12.50-$60)
*Mascara- Ulta Twice as Nice ($12), Too Faced "Better than Sex" ($23), Too Faced "Lash Injection" ($21)
*Lipsticks- NYX, Too Faced, Lorac, Tarte, Smashbox, Dose, Anastasia Beverly Hills ($10-30)
*Finishing Spray- NYX Matte Finishing Spray ($9)

Those are the makeup products that I use on a regular basis, and in the order of which I use them.


Thanks, y'all!
Love you!

Here's a few links to my favorite YouTubers:

https://www.youtube.com/user/nguerriero19
https://www.youtube.com/user/lustrelux
https://www.youtube.com/user/CarliBel55
https://www.youtube.com/user/MsRoshPosh