Hi everyone!  Sorry for the mini hiatus (I’ll pretend like you guys were going through withdrawal..), and I hope everyone had an amazing Labor Day Weekend!  Can you believe we’re already in September?  Seriously, that’s beyond cray cray.  I myself enjoyed the long weekend with seeing Bruno Mars in concert (such a talented performer!), finally registered for the baby, enjoyed yummy meals with great friends, received our maternity photos back (yay!), got asked to be a bridesmaid in one of my oldest friend’s upcoming weddings, and more!  Unfortunately it may have been a bit too much excitement on my 7 months pregnant body because I’m now feeling a little under the weather, womp womp.

Anywho, do you ever get overwhelmed with how many options there are in the land of foundation?  Are you left puzzled as to what product to get for your specific type of skin, the coverage you want, the formula you prefer, and the price point you want to stay in?  Well, the masterminds at Sephora have come to the rescue!  You can now filter all of their foundation options by selecting by brand, coverage, finish, formulation, ingredient preferences, skin type, sun protection, and price point!  Could they make it any easier and helpful?!  Oh wait, they can.  They have teamed up with Pantone and have developed Color IQ, where you can stop by a store and get color matched from over 1,500 finishes.  Once you have your Color IQ number you can shop products to find your perfect match!

I need to stop in a store to determine my Color IQ number, but in the mean time I put the website to the test.  I selected that I want a full coverage, selected matte as well as radiant finishes (keep my options open!), and normal and dry skin.  It then provided me with 36 options to choose from!  I was then able to sort by relevancy, new, top rated, price low to high, etc.  Of all 36, I’m left wanting to try out Kat Von D Lock-It Tattoo Foundation as it received amazing ratings and reviews and also comes in 18 colors.  Yes, 18!

Which foundation matches all of your criteria?

Xo,

Leah

I know I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again, I have some crazy brows with minds of their own thus I’m always trying ways to keep them tame and to fill in my couple of bald spots.  The new Benefit product Gimme Brow certainly has me – well, raising my brows.  Apparently this tiny bottle and wand can make a big impact with its innovative brow-volumizing fiber gel as it adheres to skin and hair creating brows where before there were none.  Since sometimes pencils and powders can look unnatural, this gel is buildable for natural looking brows, coming in two different shades; Light/Medium and Medium/Deep.

In a consumer panel survey, 94% said it made eyes appear more open, 97% said brows looked fuller, 100% said it looked natural, and 100% said it was easy to apply!

Looking forward to trying this out and seeing how much it can help my brows!

Xo,

Leah