Yes Style Clothing | Mint Green Dress ♣Review♣

I wanted to do a quick blog post on my experience on the yes style website.

Before I begin click HERE

For the website.

I was pleasently suprised with this website because it was Asian branded and that me being 5'8 and not the skinniest girl on the block, was able to fit in this dress. Not only was it pretty okay shipping (2 weeks), it was pretty affordable for dresses. This dress was $14USD around and the shipping was $10USD.

The dress itself is really nicely made, the only downside is that the slip is too short, so the skirt is almost see-through. That's okay because I am 5'8 so I wasn't expecting much in that department.

Another thing, I loved that the top part is stretchy! I was so worried since I am a bit heavy chested.

Overall I love this dress and I can see myself wearing this everyday. Great website as well!

Anna Sui Perfume ♥ Secret Wish - Review

Hey Everyone! Thanks for checking out this review for this AMAZING PERFUME! So short story with this perfume before I get started. I have been into Anna Sui for the longest time, oh and by the way if you don't know who Anna Sui is, check out this LINK!!!! Anyways, I have been just obsessed with her fashion and perfumes and even her organizational items for a really long time. I think the first time I saw anything Anna Sui, it was on StyleSuzi's Youtube Channel a long time ago. I finally decided to start a mini collection of Anna Sui's Perfume line and this is the first one. 

So let's get this review started!

Name: Secret Wish

Type of Perfume: Eau de Toilette 

Price: 1.7 fl.Oz. for $34.00USD CLICK HERE  for reduced prices.

Described directly from the Anna Sui Website: 

"Anna brings us the magic, the legends, the belief of wishes. Translucent as a fairy's wing, mysterious as a moonlit forest, Secret Wish embodies the enchanting essence of a fairytale. The instant the scent is released, a lush, ripe world opens up, filled with a bouquet of juicy fruits: fresh, sparkling lemon, summery melon, and velvety tagete, a soft, apricot-scented flower. Like fairies taking flight, it darts, hither and yon, surprising as it wafts in the air. A burst of joyful pineapple adds a note of flirtatious charm, as acidulous blackcurrant offers its mysterious facets. The fragrance deepens into a magical twilight with warm white cedarwood and sensual amber adding an intense and alluring character. Finishing with a light touch of musk, like falling star dust, it leaves an infinitely feminine wake. A fragrance that is at once as powerful as a charm, and as beguiling as a fairy kiss, it is a perfect balance of fruity and floral notes. Totally in command of a woodland realm. In a shade as soft as a fairy mist, the softest aqua dew, this is truly an elixir of fantasy and emotion.

Secret Wish, the mystical fragrance…..overseen by a fairy."

Review: When I first saw this perfume I gasped at the simple, yet gorgeous design of the bottle. It's like I walked into a faerie kingdom and the elves of the kingdom gave me this mystical water to drink to become immortal. It seriously looks almost like something out of Fern Gully.

 

 

The first scent I smelled when I sprayed the scent on my wrist was a floral scent, but it was very light. Once I let it sit a few seconds I smelled the lemon and the melon. The thing is, this is a confused perfume. What I mean by confused is that it isn't really a mature scent, but it's not really a young scent so it's perfect for all ages, if that makes sense. The scent doesn't last too long due to the fact that it is the lightest type of perfume, but if you spray it in your hair or on your clothing it will last longer.

I give this product  9/10 ONLY because it doesn't last that long.

I hope you enjoyed this review, if you liked it please leave a comment down below :)

Shimmer Lights For Red Heads and Brunettes :Review

Hey everyone! So I wanted to write a review for this product because I said in October or September on my YOUTUBE channel that I would, and I believe I have tried it enough to let you know what I think about it.

WHAT: This a a hair shampoo that is supposed to bring out the auburn of your brown hair and brighten your red/auburn hair.

WHERE: You can find this at any beauty specialty store, I purchased mine for 10.99 at Sally's Beauty Supply.

HOW: This is a shampoo that actually has hair dye particles in it which helps refresh your hair color. This DOES contain hair dye so please make sure not to use more than once a week for your hair. Put shampoo in your hair for 5 to 10 minutes, then wash out.

REVIEW: I used this hair shampoo when I was auburn and I used this maybe once a week for two months. This does bring a beautiful shine to your hair and a gorgeous tint.

I would NOT purchase this again however due to the fact that this made my hair fall out. Yes, my hair fell out. My hair really doesn't like hair dye because every time I dye my hair, I used to dye it every six weeks, my hair would always fall out more than normal. So imagine, once a week dying my hair was so damaging and thinned out my hair. Another thing, it made my hair super tangle and super straw like. It almost felt like hay. Yes, you can style you hair after and it would look fabulous, but it will still be unhealthy and tangled. You can use a conditioner with this if you are trying to brass up your red hair as a hair dye, but I don't recommend using this once a week, it totally ruined my hair.

As you can see, this is a very orange tinted shampoo, so if you wanna stay cool toned, please do not use this. I only had this on my hand for maybe half a minute and my hand is still stained so it WORKS! So if you want to spruce up your hair, this will work, but the damage is just as bad as using real hair dye every week.

If you guys have any questions other than what I have stated in this review, please feel free to ask! 

IPSY DECEMBER 2013

Hey everyone! Here is what I got in my Ipsy bag this month! If you guys don't know what Ipsy is, it's a monthly subscription of $10USD and you get almost all full size products to try out!

If you are interested here is the link : http://www.ipsy.com

Let's get started!

This month, my products came is a black embossed bag, which is great! I think I am going to use this as my Camera Bag.

This is the first item from the bag, it is an eye shadow trio from POP beauty and it's called "Bright up your life- Eyeshadow Trio in Smokin' Hot" The opacity is build able and you can create a great smokey eye with these three colors. Also, I noticed, that these eye shadows is really sparkly in the pan, but when swatched sparkle is almost all gone, which is good for people who like a more matte look.

The next thing in the bag is this lipstick by NYX called cream. It's weird because I don't usually like pearl finished listicks but this one turned out really pretty. It goes on pretty smooth and is pretty opaque.

Ugh, was so disappointed with the nail polish I got, it's like a muddy lavender and I love lavender but this was so gross. It also smelled really strong of nail polish, stronger than a regular nail polish. Anyways, this polish is by Nicka K and the color is "NY112".

Another disappointment, I'm sad to say, this is the be a...bombshell multiple stick in "Girl Crush". It is super pretty when it first glides on, I would use it a a cream highlight, but when you blend it it just disappears and all it is is just a shimmer and no color. If you like that, then this is the one for you!

Lastly, I got some lashes! I think these are wonderful. I love ardell, they are my favorite lashes. That is all!

Thanks for reading!

Outfit of the Night and Review: San Francisco's The Nutcracker!

Hey everyone! Today's blog post is about the San Francisco's Nutcracker. I went to go see that on the 12th of December and I have a few things I would like to speak about. First of all there will be spoiler's so if you are in the San Francisco and seeing the Nutcracker, please don't be mad if there are a few spoiler's in this blog post. Plus if you scroll down there will be a quick Outfit of the Night Pictures.

courtesy of sfgate

First, please tell me why the Nutcracker was the third "toy" that performed for the children,when Uncle Drosselmeyer brought the three toys out. I have never seen that in the performance before and i was sort of upset. I am also going to stress that I did not like that he was a red head, I am a red- head and I love red hair, but I'm going to be blunt here. The Nutcracker has always been a Brunette or had black hair, never light hair.

I LOVED THIS SCENE! It snowed on the stage during the snowflakes scene and I was in love of how magical everything was.  IF you were wondering, yes, there is a King and Queen of Winter in this rendition of The Nutcracker, which I thought was really pretty. I had no complaints about that, the dancers were amazing and it was just hands down, beautiful!

Now let's talk about the performances while Clara and the Nutcracker watch.

The performance I loved the best were of course the Russian Dancers, not only did they have the bet opening, but they were so energetic and awesome! The three male dancers jumped out of the Russian Eggs and it was so crazy and loud and amazing! I swear, they had the best applause at the end of the show.

The other dancer's were good as well except they added these three girls that were dressed with tutu's and garter belts flinging around these ribbons. Was not a fan. The dancers were great, but I just wasn't a fan of the characters.

Now I might be biased due to the fact that I am love with the Baryshnikov version of The Nutcracker and that one will always be my favorite, so when I found that Clara's younger character was different then the "Princess" Clara, I was sort of upset. I didn't like that there wasn't just one Clara, that they needed a "real" ballerina to play Princess Clara. I put parenthesis over "real" because the girl playing Clara as a child was good, but she didn't wear the pointed shoes so she could really dance, if that makes sense. In the Baryshnikov versions Clara was just Clara, no change in girls, she did everything.

By the way if you guys have not seen that version click HERE!!! it's honestly my favorite!!!

Oh but the ending, I did not like the way this Nutcracker did not end tragically. It was more like, she was happy after she woke up and that she just had the best dream ever, for which her Uncle intended. In the Baryshnikov version, she was torn away from her Nutcracker prince and was sadly looking out the window wondering if she would ever see him again. It was true love with Clara and the Nutcracker, but in the San Francisco Version it was a friendship and nothing more.

I feel like there should have been more to the ending then just waking up and happily running back to her bedroom.

Overall, great Ballet, not my favorite rendition of the story (with the extra characters and whatnot), but the dancers were amazing, the music was of course spectacular, and the effects were great. If you have never seen the Nutcracker and want to see this one, it's good, not old-school, but good. Very modernized in my opinion.

Our View, great Balcony seats!

The Chandelier was breathtaking!

Boots: My Enzo's
Dress: Go Jane (LINK)
Coat: Forever 21 last year
Purse: Gift

Close up was a bit weird looking, but you can see the true colors of the dress now!

Hope you guys enjoyed this post! More coming soon!

Charles Dicken's Christmas Faire!

Well, hello everyone! 

I am back with another blog post! This one is more lifestyle oriented! This blog post is all about the Charles Dickens Christmas Faire! This was the second year that I went and I wanted to share my experience with you.

By the way before I start I wanted to let you know that I will leave a link below this once my video is out so you can see live action shots of the faire, but for now I wanted to show you some of the shots I was able to get.                                     

Let's start with the fashion, this is not your typical street fair, dressing up is very appropriate for this type of fair and strongly advised. When you come to the Charles Dickens Faire you are submerged into another time; just imagine walking through doors and waltzing straight into The Christmas Carol. There is a smell of baking and booze and there are characters everywhere!

The dresses are gorgeous, but unless you are going to make these yourself, you are going to spend around $600 and up for a dress like this, trust me I looked. There are different fabrics, cuts, and styles of all of these dresses and you can't seem to take your eyes away from the beauty of the dresses.

This was actually something I didn't see last year, this woman (i'm sure) custom made her dress to be Dr. Who inspired. It was amazing!

So once you get into the faire, the first thing you see is the drink station, they have a few of those around the faire. They sell everything from soda and water to more "timely" drinks like mulled wine and Buttered Rum, which by the way was pretty good. Also, I would like to note that it is a timely drink for me because I live in America and we don't get Mulled wine and Buttered Rum here, so unless we make it ourselves, this is probably one of the few places we would find it.

 The one thing to know is most of the people are really nice, unless they are paid to be rude and it's part of their character, but most are really friendly. 

So now we move onto the shopping portion. Almost everything in the little shops are home made or vintage, and when I say vintage I mean they are from the 1800's or early 1900's. You could spend hours looking at everything and not buy a thing, but if you do want to purchase a trinket or two from the Dicken's Faire, be warned, for you will be spending a pretty penny.

Venders sell anything from home made fairy houses, to crystal skulls, to the gorgeous dresses and suits that you see everywhere, to even elven crowns and wands. Everything is unique and beautiful but quite expensive. So just be weary of that.

Let's talk about everyone's favorite subject, food! There are many different variates of food to try and experience. Of course you have the fish and chips, and the sweet nuts (which are almonds that, I believe, are covered with hot sugar), but there are also meat pies, geek food, just meat, and a lot more. There are also two restaurants like The Bohemian. I've always been intimidated by those because everyone in there has a costume on and play the part so well, I wouldn't know what to say back to them if they spoke to me. The food is actually not that expensive, it's about as bad as going to any fair really. I had Clam Chowder and Fries(Chips), and that cost me around $8.00. Not too bad.

These models were amazing! These women were in the windows of the main clothing shop that sold corsets and the dresses that most women wore to the fair. They would stand really still and try not to move, of course they would trade with other girls, or guys, every ten to fifteen minutes, but they did just an amazing job. I personally couldn't stand still in there let alone wear a corset while doing that.

So first of all, if you guys don't believe in Orbs...yea that's just "dust". Keep telling yourself that. 

There were little corners in random places of the faire that you would see not so aristocratic England. Of course you have to get your prostitutes and your pimps involved, how would the poor make money? So there were a couple of them roaming around as well asking for money and making eye contact with you. We even walked into a scene where the Pimp was asking his woman if she had made any money yet and she said no so he was about to beat her when another little man tried to fight him, it was a mess, but it was quite interesting. I hope I got that on video.

I don't want to speak so much about this area, it was where the belly dancer's would dance, I have  whole segment of this in my video that I mentioned previously and you will be able to see for yourself if you loved it or hated it.

Finally, I wanted to show you guys how my hair looked that day. That is all my real hair because I don't have one of those wigs that the girls wore with their dresses. If you guys want to see how I did this hair, I can show you in a tutorial. I looked more like Wendy Darling if anything, but I wanted to do something so I could somewhat fit in with the crowd.

Thanks for Reading! I hope you enjoyed this post! Video is up! Click HEREEEE

Make Up Forever: Aqua Eyes

Hey everyone! Today's post is about the Make up Forever Aqua Eyes. You know, those eye liner pencils that everyone knows about and say how amazing they are?  Well today I will be reviewing these beauties for you.

So this small palette has five travel sized liners that can be used for a lot of different looks. But how good are they? Make Up Forever is known to be pretty pricey and these full sized pencil's cost $19 USD and that's a bit more expensive than the Urban Decay 24/7 liners, but those are amazing!

 I've always been pretty skeptical with Make Up Forever but I saw this little palette for $10USD so I had to see what the hype was all about.

So when I first tried the black color (0L) it reminded me a lot of the Urban Decay Perversion liner kind of tugged on my top lid but once it heated up a bit it started to glide a bit better. It deff stayed put and it was sort of hard to take off with a make up remover wipe, but that's only the black color, what about the other colors?

17L (Lime Green)           11L(Purple)

So, as you can see these two colors above are a bit splotchy and they don't run too smoothly. I am not sure if it's the formulation of the eye liners or what but these were way different feeling then the next three I swatched.I am not a huge fan of these colors, I would be if they were more opaque, but alas they are not.

 0L(Black), 2L (Brown), 7L(Sparkle Blue)

 Alright, these three are my favorite! I am obsessed with the black and the brown color due to the fact is that they are nice colors and they are so opaque and they glide on really nice. They stay on forever and they make a nice clean line in more motion. The sparkled blue suprised me a lot. I wasn't expecting this to be as opaque as it actually was. This is a baby blue with a lot of sparkle in it. This glided on well as well and I think this would be a great liner for the lower lash line for a pop of color.

I hope you guys enjoyed this review! Will be posting more soon! Thanks so much for checking this out!

Rosa