Get Ready With Me: Wishing for Spring

Here in the Midwest, we've started off March with extremely cold weather. When we get into this season of "will the weather ever get warm???" impatience, I tend to get, well, impatient. So! Today I modeled my look after that excited/impatient/anxious for Spring feeling.

What's that? You want to recreate this lovely spring-inspired look? Well, then... Come along and get ready with me. (The snarky bit of me is currently criticizing the cheesy bit of me for that transition.)

Okay, to start off with... MAKEUP!

So, what I used was...

• Dr. Brandt "pores no more" Pore Refiner
• ALMAY Clear Complexion Concealer
• Covergirl Clean Liquid Foundation for Sensitive Skin
• ALMAY Smart Shade Loose Finishing Powder
• Rimmel London Volume Accelerator Mascara
• bareMinderals Eye Shadow (I used "Ice Queen" but I don't think that's still available. BUT: the color "soul" looks really similar.)
• ChapStick Hydration Lock in Vanilla Cream
• NYX Soft Matte Lip Cream in Prague

Okay, so, start off with your regular old bare face. 

Yikes, look at all that acne and discoloration! So, then I moisturized my face (I use Clindamycin Phosphate Lotion which came from a dermatologist, so... whatever you use is fine). Then, I waited about five minutes before priming my face with the Dr. Brandt's "pores no more" Pore Refiner and covered up splotches/discolorations/acne with the ALMAY Clear Complexion Concealer. 

Okay! So, I think I mentioned in my Feels Like Spring Purple Makeup Look Tutorial... I don't really remember what I named it... Blogpost, I really really like the Dr. Brandt "pores no more" that came with my February Birchbox but it's expensive so I'm looking for a dupe. I did buy the Maybelline Baby Skin Instant Pore Eraser, but it's slimy and less effective. And I am going to take Taylor's advice and try out Benefit's Porefessional. But do you see the transformation of my face just by adding the "pores no more" and concealer? Seriously, that's like, someone with nice-ish skin going makeup-less. 

Which is to say, I'm thinking that the "pores no more" might be worth the splurge. Assuming Benefit's Porefessional isn't this kick-ass. 

Okay, after about 5-10 minutes after applying the primer and concealer, I added my Covergirl Clean Liquid Foundation for Sensitive Skin, which is a new liquid foundation I'm trying and... I'm probably going to keep looking around because it's kind of thin for my liking. I mean, it's fine, for now, but... I'm going to keep looking. Then, after another 5-10 minutes, I finished my face with the ALMAY Smart Shade Finishing Powder. 

I didn't use blush or bronzer today because, to be honest, I'm still experimenting with it and don't want to go to school without a look I've completely worked out. 

Now, just like last time, I used the bits of time while I was letting my face sit to do other important things. Like, my hair and my eye makeup. 

Right, well, I didn't just drop my hair down from the towel and throw on a bow and have it look like that, but this is really going to be more about my makeup than my hair, so... I pretty much just tossed in some hair-managing oil and a bit of mousse to maintain my curls a bit and then slapped on a bow. So, I didn't just drop my hair down from the towel and throw on a bow, but if you want to believe that illusion, I'll take it. It's not terribly far off.

So, for my eye makeup. Pretty basically, I coated my lids in the bareMinerals "Ice Queen" eyeshadow and then coated my eyelashes in Rimmel London Volume Accelerator. Then I looked like this...

Ah, lovely, yes? Okay, so, then I applied my ChapStick Hydration Lock chapstick, which is nice. Like, it smells nice and feels nice and is just a really nice chapstick. And I topped my lips off with my NYX Soft Matte Lip Cream in Prague which I LOVE. Seriously, I think I love it just as much as I love my NYX Soft Matte Lip Cream in Tokyo. I am 10/10 a NYX Soft Matte Lip Cream fan. (I talked about this in my February Favorites video, but these are probably the best lipsticks I've ever used. I mean, at least for me, because most other lipsticks get super splotchy and faded on my lips really quickly.) 

Anyway, before I show you the final product, we should talk about one more thing... my nails. I don't usually do my nails because it's not my forte, it's time consuming, I usually mess them up as soon as I finish them, and I tend to peel them off within a day. BUT I did my nails last night, and they looked pretty good...

I did a pretty basic pink base coat, then I added some light purple polkadots, and then topped them off with a transparent purple top coat. 

Also, side note, by the time I started writing this blog, I had peeled them all off. So, you know. 

Anyway! Finished look time: 

Awe, pretty, right? (I 110% do not know how to write this sort of blogpost, how obvious is that? Terribly obvious or only sort of kind of obvious?)