Face Care: Exuviance

So as many of you beauties know washing your face is very VERY important, it's just like brushing your teeth! And i'm not going to go on an preach to you that I have perfect skin or don't forget to wash my face after a long night out, smudged smokey eye, and a missing falsie eyelash later because everyone has their days. But what I will say is you should try to aim for washing your face twice a day, once in the morning and once at night.

Washing your face at night is for the obvious reasons, to take off makeup, dirt and just the day's craziness  off your face. BUT in the morning it's also important to scrub, scrub, scrub because when you sleep new skin cells are forming so in the morning you need to wash away all the old skin cells so the new ones can come through and breathe! Plus washing your face in the morning helps you wake up a little more and feel refreshed...at least for me it helps wake me up in the morning :)

Exuviance face wash

While at ULTA the other day the makeup artist started using this face wash on me and just feeling it on my face I fell in love! It's called "Exuviance" and conveniently enough you don't need to use water or anything like that. Just put a couple pumps in your hands rub it all over your face then wipe away with a towel, and it's as easy as that! And your skin not only feels super fresh and silky after, it doesn't extremely dry out your face and  make you feel like you just had Botox like other face washes do. But if you have naturally dry skin like I do then a light moisturizer can most definitely be used. So convenient you can even use it in the car...I may or may not have been guilty of doing this, what can I say i'm a busy girl! :)

STAYBEAUTIFUL!

XOXO,
Ashley

DIY: Homemade Lip Exfoliator

When it comes to beauty it's not just all about the makeup that stands out, it's the prep work before hand. I'm sure everyone has exfoliated their body at least once in their lives (or if you're like me and totally obsessed, because of the smooth buttery skin result afterwards) but no one thinks twice about exfoliating their lips. Why not? Don't you want those silky smooth also?

Good news! You don't need to pay a fortune for high end lip scrubs, nor do you have to endure that horrible taste either. You can create a completely effective lip exfoliator right in your own home, and it's easy too! All you need is two ingredients, that's right just two. How can you even think twice? It's easy, effective, all natural, and most importantly inexpensive!

Here's What You'll Need!

• Pure Honey (you can also use your favorite lip balm, though I like using honey because it's all natural and tastes yummy also)
• Granulated Sugar

And the application process couldn't be simpler! 

Step 1: Apply a pea sized amount of honey to your finger

Step 2: Press your finger into the sugar, until a desired amount sticks to the honey 

Step 3: Now apply this to your lips, and begin to exfoliate using the same finger. After about a minute or so, remove your honey/sugar mixture with a damp cloth and finish up by applying your favorite moisturizing lip balm to your lips!

There are many benefits to making your own lip scrub, not only are you saving money but you are also not putting your lips through treatments with chemicals that could potentially damage them. If you keep up with this religiously, and use this treatment a few times a week you will see a dramatic decrease in those awful chapped lips. Enjoy your kissable lips!

XOXO,

Alyssa

NARS Mekong and Galapagos Eyeshadow Review, Swatches, Photos

I have been seeing a bunch of NARS eyeshadow swatches lately (or maybe I've been searching for them to convince myself to buy a few more) and I have completely fallen in love with Galapagos, which is a rich bronze with beautiful golden flecks, not chunks of glitter but a very mature sparkle. And Mekong, which is a beautiful espresso color infused with the same lovely shimmer in gold. So of course after seeing these I had to make a trip to Sephora to pick these beauties up!

They can both be paired together to create a beautiful, dramatic smokey eye without using black. I personally love creating a smokey eye using brown, especially using dark espresso colors like Mekong in the outer V to really make it pop followed by lining my lash line with Urban Decay's Glide-On Eye Pencil in Bourbon! I love many other NARS products, and I can officially say I can add these two to that long list as well.

NARS Mekong

NARS Mekong

NARS Galapagos 

NARS Galapagos

From Left to Right: NARS Galapagos, NARS Mekong (No Base)

From Left To Right: NARS Galapagos, NARS Mekong (Over Urban Decay's Primer Potion)

From Top to Bottom: NARS Mekong, NARS Galapagos (No Base)

From Top to Bottom: NARS Mekong, NARS Galapagos (Over Urban Decay's Primer Potion)  

Left Group (Urban Decay's Primer Potion) Right Group (No Base)

I hope this helped any one teetering on whether or not to purchase these! They are beautiful eyeshadows and can be used to create a gorgeous neutral eye, or be vamped up to create a seductive smokey eye! Stay gorgeous.

XOXO, 

Alyssa

Hello Beauties!

I figured our first post should explain a little bit about why we created this blog in the first place. For the obvious reason we are two girls who have an unhealthy obsession with makeup. Not that it's a bad thing.. because trust us, it isn't. You can expect a range of different things on our site, from reviews, hauls, swatches, tutorials, to personal posts about fashion and every day life.

After becoming obsessed with makeup, and all the fabulous blogs that are currently up and running that I obsess over, I can only hope that we can bring to you the useful posts that my favorite blogs do! When it comes to products though, what makes our site unique is two different opinions by two different people so you can get a very good idea from two point of views!

With that being said, I hope you all enjoy TheBeautyCraze! We made this to enjoy further our passion for makeup, and we hope you enjoy too!

XOXO,
Alyssa and Ashley