Quick and easy makeup routine:

Hi, guys, it's Lissette and this is my day to day makeup routine. I'm very simplistic when it comes to my makeup unless I have a special event or reason to get all dolled up. The products that I used are:

• foundation: L'Oreal aqua mineral foundation
• eye shadow mini palette: Estee Lauder (colors are shimmery white, brown, beige, and purple)
• eye liner: E.L.F liquid black eye liner
• mascara: E.L.F black mascara

How to:

1. apply foundation to conceal any blemishes
2. using an eye shadow brush apply a light beige color as your base color to your whole eye lid and underneath the brow
3. add the shimmery white to the corner of your eyes 
4. brush on the beige color to the center and just a little bit towards the outer part of the lid
5. apply the darker color (which was the purple-ish color) to the outer part of the lid and along the bone above the eye lid
6. using the liquid liner start from the middle of your upper lash line (just above the eye lashes) and continue on to the end of your eye where the upper and lower water lines meet then make it into a winged eye liner line
7. lastly apply mascara

+ blush and lip gloss is recommended for this look but it is totally up to you
+ song: Off to the Races- Lana Del Rey

Simple and healthy salad ideas:

Eating healthy can be difficult sometimes with all the temptations and dedication required, if you want to shed some pounds. Here is a simple salad that is healthy, delicious and low in calories.

what you will need:

 Spinach or lettuce

 Tomatoes

 Onion

 Asiago cheese

 Balsamic vinegar and olive oil

 Paprika

1. First you need to wash the spinach leaves or lettuce thoroughly
2. chop up the tomatoes, onions and cheese
3. put all of the ingredients together in a bowl
4. add balsamic vinegar along with a little bit of olive oil
5. sprinkle on some paprika

Voila, you have a delicious and nutritious salad!

Make snowflakes dance:

 

Honestly I could never imagine  a Christmas without watching Tchaikovsky’s famous ballet, "The Nutcracker", where today’s DIY comes from (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xFsh80k2u30&feature=related). This is by  far my favorite Christmas DIY J and just for fun I created a link to watch the full ballet on YouTube; but take your snow flakes from the previous tutorial and make them dance!

Step 1: find your ballerinas by googling ballerinas

Step 2: find three different ballerinas, trace them on to a sheet of copy paper, then cut them out

  Step 3: Next you cut a circle in the middle of the snowflake and slip it on to the ballerina, making it a cute    snowflake fairy!

This cute holiday decoration is easy to make and if you tie a string around her arm you can hang it from ceilings, Christmas tree or house

How to make it snow in Florida:

What you need: PAPER AND SCISSORS

 1. Take a corner of one side and fold it downwards so the paper looks like a triangle cut in half with left over paper on the end



2. Cut off the excess paper

3. You end up with a triangle

 4. Fold a side of the triangle so it lines up with the middle

 5. Fold the unfolded side over the already folded side

 6. Cut off the two overlapping corners to make it a triangle again

7. Triangle!

8. Cut out random shapes and designs

9. You have a unique snowflake!

 10. Make a ton then throw them around

 11. Get a friend to roll around in them as well

DIY:

 

 

 

Julia likes making hair bows and she will be putting up some tutorials on how to make them, soon! :)

Wrecked

 

the aftermath of Julia experimenting with makeup


Today after almost having the house burn down Julia wanted to experiment with makeup and take artsy photos. I gave her my makeup pallette and she began to put on some of my eye shadow. We began to fool around and then we both ended up dropping the eye shadows and needless to say the pictures show it all. Messy, messy, messy.


 



 



Then she decided to apply the crumbled eye shadows to my whole face to see what it would be like

 

I can't even get into how long it took me to clean all of this off my face and body. Julia, please just stick to your crafts.

- Lissette

 

 

 

 







The ladies behind the blog: Lissette

 

 

 

Lissette: Teenage years are never the easiest for girls and especially not for ones who are born with optic nerve hypoplaysia, like how I was. Growing up with such a defect was no walk in the park, and until my recent surgery in August I have had major issues with confidence. We've all experienced many phases throughout high school in search for a permanent identity and as a senior I would like to establish my own title, learning different things and improving myself before I head off to college.

The ladies behind the blog: Julia

Julia:  Since forever, I've day dreamed about the day when I finally shed the skin of my pure awkward, self questioning, zit faced, semi-fatty and completely oblivious (and pardon my cliché) caterpillar physique to adopt…anything else. Particularly a skinny healthy and beautiful girl, whose is headstrong, dainty, crafty, clever, cute, and ultimately unorthodox…but somehow works. And now that I'm 17, a senior and sit just as caterpillar-ie as I was the same day I dreamed up the fantasy; I realized that in my quest to magically have someone sprinkle fairy shit on my face and poof me to awesomeness- I understood that if you want to be the person of your fantasy you have to create it by failing and flailing all the way. It's not going to be easy, but if you have things any other way, it's not beautiful. if you help a caterpillar out of the cocoon it will die never knowing the sky. No, you have to let it struggle and flail until it creates it's magic and sours higher than ever. this blog is about reaching new heights in a healthy and wonderful way, I welcome you join me…or don't but I'm done with ordinary I want to be...