Favorite summer colors

Coral and teal are the two colors I've seen most this spring/summer and I love it... probably too much. My closet, purse, and bathroom are full of these colors! Here are a few cute things I've come across or purchased lately...

Shirt - ModCloth

Skirt - ModCloth

Lipstick - Tarte

Polish - Butter

Bikini - TopShop

Purse - Forever 21

Shoe - Lulu's

Eyeshadow - Sephora

Pants - Target

Perfectly Pink Pout

Here's how I do it...

1.) Lightly exfoliate

2.) Apply lip balm. Blot off excess.

3.) Apply nude liner around natural lip line.

4.) Fill in lips with nude liner.

5.) Apply color with lip brush. Blot. Apply a second coat.

6.) Swipe concealer or powder around the edges of the lips.

It's as easy as that!

Enjoy.

What I used...

TARTE FRXtion Sugar Exfoliator & Lip Balm

AVEDA Nourish-mint lip definer

NARS pure matte lipstick

TARTE Provocateur Mineral Pressed Powder

Featured Friday

What better person to feature this Friday than my good friend, 
Mary Meghan Mabus. 
 Growing up in Tupelo, MS, this southern belle is one of the most talented photographers I know! Her love for photography started out as a hobby, but has since flourished into quite a thriving career. She enjoys shooting different genres from live entertainment and landscape to weddings and portraits...and much more. 

I had the pleasure of doing hair and makeup for one of the brides she shot a couple weeks ago.

Please visit her blog

Mabus Photography

Weekly fashion inspirations

Free spirit

 

  

 

 

Wild child

 

 

My week in photos

It's been another good week with great friends and my sweet puppy dog.

This summer is vibrant

Kevin.Murphy Color.Bug

Color without the commitment.

I love changing my hair color and I do so probably more than my hair can handle (Thank God for conditioning treatments!).. So I recently started using Kevin.murphy products in my salon... LOVE! One product I discovered by this brand was Color.Bug. It comes in purple, orange, and pink. It's totally harmless and completely temporary!

Wear it over the weekend and wash it out for work Monday. It works like an eyeshadow for your hair! So easy!!

Here's how I apply it.....

1.) Wrap a towel around your shoulders to protect your clothes.

2.) Apply a hair product like a light texturizer or pomade
 (Anti.Gravity oil-free volumiser also works great) to dry hair...This helps the color adhere better to the hair.
3.) Rub Color.Bug onto your hair wherever you want.
4.) When you're finished applying the color, 
give your hair a shake so excess pigment can fall out.
5.) Enjoy being awesome.

Want to make this color less vibrant or pastel?
Spray dry shampoo such as Kevin.Murphy Fresh.Hair on the color!

Kevin.Murphy website.
Here is Audrey Kitching's Color.Bug experience. 

Featured Friday

This week I want to show one of my favorite artists, 

Charmaine Olivia.

Charmaine Olivia lives in San Francisco as a full-time artist and model.

Using oil and ink as her main forms of media, she creates the most unique works of art from rainbow-haired mermaids to fierce ship captains. 

Her attention to detail and soft blending are perfection!

                                                 

Charmaine Olivia's website

       

This summer is bright

Neon bright!! 

I'm seeing a lot of neon this summer and I've got to say, I'm pretty into it! I even bought a neon yellow tank top recently... It only accentuated the hellacious sunburn I got at the beach last Monday, but I proudly wore it anyway. I just love bright colors, albeit in small doses.

Would you wear neon?

Sunglasses - Ray-Ban

Purse - Nasty Gal

Shoe - Jeffrey Campbell (Lita)

Bracelets - Refinery29

Polish - Essie

Dresses (left/middle) - Lulu's

Dress (right) - Urban Outfitters

What's in my bag

Here are some of my beauty product obsessions that I've been carrying in my purse lately...

1.) Kevin.Murphy Fresh.Hair - Dry shampoo

2.) Kevin.Murphy Anti.Gravity - Oil free volumiser

3.) Tarte - Creaseless, waterproof concealer

4.) Cargo - HydraBronze

5.) Urban Decay - Complexion primer potion

6.) Smashbox - Lip enhancing gloss - Illume

7.) Smashbox - HyperLash

My week in photos...

Here's my week in Instagram photos..

 

 

Obviously, we had a blast in Panama City Beach and Destin/Fort Walton beach!

I wish I could've stayed longer.

<3