June Favorites!

Hey guys!

So I know that this is coming about a week late, since you know, its July. But better late than never right? Anyway, here are my favorite things that Ive been obsessed with over the month of June. A lot of summery colors, shimmery things, and some great brushes! 

Alright, first off perhaps a kind of boring favorite (unless you love makeup brushes as much as I do). These brushes are AMAZING. They're also cruelty free and super soft. They have synthetic taklon bristles, so unlike real-hair or natural bristles, they don't absorb all of your product and waste it. Which is super great. I have the Real Techniques Expert Face Brush, the Multi Task Brush, the Essential Foundation Brush, and the Domed Shadow Brush. My favorite is the expert face brush because its just so versatile. You can use it for foundation application, blending, blush, contouring, anything really. Another thing about these brushes is that they're so cheap. They're found in drugstores- I've only seen them in Walgreens, but you can probably find them elsewhere as well. So for a cheap, excellent, drugstore product, 10/10 highly recommend. 

It's extremely important to clean your brushes, so that your brushes last longer, and it also prevents bacteria from being spread over your face. Since I loved the beauty blender I decided to try their cleanser. And its SO GOOD. Ive never seen a brush cleanser work so well and quickly. Basically you just swoosh a wet brush (or beauty blender) around in the tin and then rinse them and all the makeup is GONE. Its actually a miracle. I got this at Sephora. It is rather pricey, but I will say that Ive had it for months now and you can't even tell Ive used it at all, so it will last you for a while. 

For the summer months, Ive been really really loving a dewey, natural skin finish for my face. Not only is it really summery, but dewey looks tend to be more light and easier to keep throughout the day. I can't stand heavy makeup when its hot like this- it just makes me feel gross and even more hot. Gross. 

Anyway, Ive been loving L'Oreal's True Match LUMI line for all my dewey skin needs. They have a primer, a foundation, and a liquid illuminator that I also love, but this powder glow illuminator is my ultimate favorite. They have a couple different colors of this illuminator, I think one was more pink, and the other was more like a bronzer. I chose this one because my face is already too pink as it is, and I was looking for more of a highlighter instead of a more brown bronzer (which it would have been on me because Im so pale). So this ones more of a cool toned illuminator and it looks so great on the high planes of your cheeks. It makes you look so glowy! Ah!

Another thing Ive been loving for the summer is an orange-y lip. Ive tried a lot of orange lippies, and many times they're more of a gloss or sheer color or they're REALLY bright like highlighter orange. I love both, but this lipstick from the Rimmel Kate Moss collection is the perfect middle ground. Its the color 110. Its not super bright orange, it has a little coral in it. But its also incredibly pigmented as all Kate Moss Lipsticks are. All of the lipsticks in this line are incredibly pigmented, amazingly creamy, and they also smell really good. Which might be weird, but its true. They all go on so well and have insane staying power as well. 

For summer, I really appreciate a moisturizing lip product. Usually lipsticks kind of dehydrate my lips, especially if they are a matte shade. This lipstick is more of a cream finish, and it is absolutely the most moisturizing lipstick I've ever tried. Thats true for the whole Kate Moss line, but this one especially. 

For a while, I had incredibly dry skin on my face. My face felt rough and painful and dry and uncomfortable. Makeup did not sit well on my skin at all, and I have no idea where it came from. I usually have combination skin, but usually my skin leaned towards too oily rather than too dry. So I was desperate for a moisturizer that could save my skin. I tried other Neutrogena moisturizers, No7 moisturizers, and pretty much everything I could find. And NOTHING worked. One day I was in Walmart of all places with Boyfriend, and I saw this. It is for Extra Dry Skin, and it claims to "instantly quench skin" which sounded perfect. And it cleared up my skin literally after one use. I put it on at night and my skin was almost back to normal the next day when I woke up. It was incredible. This moisturizer is also oil free, fragrance free and dye free, so its great for my sensitive and combination skin.

Another summery shade of lipstick for you. Im loving this barbie pink color. Its the color 585 Persian Melon from Revlon. Ugh its so creamy and pigmented. And so summery. Ugh. Creamy finish. Moisturizing. Thats it.

As far as music, I'm loving Chris Thile's album How to Grow A Woman from the Ground. It has a great blue grass feel which I always love during the summer because Im outside or farming most of the time.

Ive also been watching Gran Hotel on Netflix. Its so bad. But so good. But we all watch terrible TV during the summer right? Its basically an extremely dramatic Spanish hotel drama. If you are bored and have nothing to do, plz watch. Because you'll love it. And watch all the seasons. Sorry not sorry.

Thanks for reading guys! 

XOXO