Contouring!

Since I told you all that I love makeup I figured a makeup tutorial is in store. Contouring is very useful when your going to be photographed a lot. Weddings, dances, special occasions...not necessarily for everyday unless you want to have fun and look like you have AMAZING cheekbones!

Sorry my pictures are not very good. I don't have good lighting in my bathroom and only a basic camera but I think you will be able to get the idea

First moisturize and prime your face.

Then take a cream foundation or concealer much lighter then your skin tone and place it on your "high points" of your face.

Apply with a concealer brush  or small foundation brush.

I use Real Techniques pointed foundation brush.

 Center of your forehead, down center of your nose, on cheekbones, under your eye,

under your cheek hollow, on your cupids bow, and your chin.

I use Hard Candy Glamoflauge concealer in light.

Then using same brush take a cream much darker then your skin and apply to your "low points"

In your cheek hollow, jaw line, sides of the nose, temple, and forehead.

I use Revlon Photo Ready concealer in Deep 006.

Then take your favorite cream foundation in your shade and a stippling or buffing brush and

Pat or stipple your foundation over everything. 

I use Maybelline Dream Matte Mousse in 

creamy natural light 5 and a Real Techniques buffing brush. Go over your whole face in a patting motion until your whole face is covered and well blended. You wont look crazy! Just like you have awesome dimensions and great structure!

Don't forget to set everything with powder. My favorite is Elf High Definition Powder.

Then finish up your look with the rest of your makeup!

I told you my lighting is so bad! My face and chest look like different colors in this picture but in real life they are not.

A little better but not much. But you can see the angles a little better in this picture.

This is similar to how Kim Kardashian has her face makeup done.

I hope this helps you get those perfect pictures! Contouring is great because your face is not flat and looks much better with shadows, if you put just one color on it flattens it out.

Thank You and remember

Always Believe in Yourself!! You're worth it!!!

New Chapter

Things in our life are a little scary right now, but at the same time super exciting! My husband decided to quit his job yesterday. He has worked at Perkins for the last 6 years and although it has been very good to us he never loved (or even liked for that matter) cooking. He never saw himself working in a kitchen but he needed a job and it turned out he was pretty good at it. He moved up quickly and was managing in the kitchen for most of his time there. There are a lot of people there that mean a lot to us and believed in him when so many people didn't. We will forever be grateful to those people and I believe will always be great friends.

So......

Recently Steve was approached by are best friend to come work with him selling cars, at that time it was a fairly simple decision. But.... nothing can ever be easy! So the manager above him announced he was quitting.  Well that makes things more difficult! The choice now is to keep the guaranteed nice paying salary job that he hates, (but could keep doing it) or.... Take a big chance and go to a commission job with so much promise that he will be much happier at.  Huge decision!! 

Well obviously we decided to take the chance with some guidance from our best friends and Steve's new boss. I'm super excited for this new chapter in our life and think it will be good for us! I am also so grateful for Dan at Perkins for being so understanding and a true friend to us when we really needed him. He could have been selfish and tried to keep Steve there, but he wants us to be happy and do what we believe is right for our family. Thank you for believing in Steve all along and giving him a chance! I know we will always be friends!

So here's to our new exciting chapter of our lives with super good friends. I'm nervous but believe things are all going to work out and better things are in store for our family!

Thank you and remember:

Always Believe in yourself! You're worth it!

Can't Live without....

Today I'm going to let all of you know about a beauty item I absolutely can't live without. I may be a little biased because my best friend makes i,t but honestly I wouldn't use it if I didn't believe in it. So here it is...

Activated Charcoal Goats milk soup. I love this stuff!!! The charcoal pulls out impurities in your skin while the goats milk is super hydrating!  She raises her own goats so she knows exactly what they are eating. No hormones! Because seriously who wants that on there face!  Check out her etsy page!

www.etsy.com/shop/mommamcghees

She makes all different kinds! Liquid and bars, in all different scents. I hope you all check it out. Believe me you will LOVE her soap!

Thank You and remember:

Always Believe in yourself! You're worth it!

Cookies and Firefighters!

The other day my 4 year old son, Hunter wanted to bake cookies and take them to the firehouse. (we only live about 2 blocks from it) I'm not sure where he got the idea but how could I say no to something like this? So I looked in the pantry to see what we had, we decided on pumpkin cookies. But not just plain pumpkin cookies, jazzed up pumpkin cookies. To half the dough we added chocolate chips and the other half we got super fancy, LOL not really, but we added raisins, oatmeal, and pecans. They were both super good! Then we got out our craft stuff and Hunter made them a special card.

Here he is with his special masterpiece! 

He just makes my heart melt and is so special.

Then I carried the cookies because he wanted to ride his bike. When we got there he knocked on the door and waited. When the firemen answered the door they were super happy to see their surprise! They let Hunter play on all of the equipment, answered all of his questions, (there were a lot of them) and even let him put on their coat! They were awesome!

In doing something nice for someone else Hunter got way more in return. Encourage you're kids to do things with their heart so they can learn how rewarding it is. It will become second nature to them.

Thank You and remember:

Always Believe in yourself! You're worth it!

Crazy Mornings!!

If any of you are like us sometimes you need breakfast to be fast and portable! This time of year with the alarms going off at 4 am. for the hunter's in the family to start the days adventure, the last thing I want to do is get up and make them breakfast. So I came up with breakfast biscuits.  They have everything you need for breakfast in one little handy portable biscuit! I hope this recipe helps all of you out.

• 12 eggs
• 1 cup shredded cheese of your choice
• 4 1/2 cups bisquick
• 1 1/3 cup milk
• 1 package bacon cooked and crumbled (or sausage, ham, canadian bacon...)

(sorry I don't have pictures of all the ingredients, I forgot to take them since this is my first time blogging)

Scramble your eggs then add your cheese and meat.

then mix up your bisquick and milk until a ball is formed.

Next mix them both together, make sure everything is even. Using two spoons scoop out desired size you want your biscuits and place them on a greased cookie sheet.

Bake at 450 for 8-10 minutes, until golden brown.

And here they are! Perfect little portable biscuits! You can also freeze them and heat them up in the microwave as you need them. Mine made 25 large biscuits.

Hope you enjoy this recipe and it can help some of you on your crazy busy mornings.

Thank You and remember:

Always Believe in yourself! Your worth it!