HellCats Halloween How-to

Hey Chicas!


I know its early but for all of those planners out there, we like to know what is going on before Halloween comes, so I thought I would give some makeup and hair tips on some costume ideas.  If you have more ideas on what you are going to be, let me know and I'll do a makeup tutorial on them!


 Here is my HellCats version of the competition to get into Regionals.  I chose the character Marti, because I love her! 

The picture to the right is of her, and the picture to the left is obviously me!



The look is great it would be good for any cheerleading costume.  The bold makeup is very pretty and noticeable but still not unwearable, but I wouldn't recommend you rockin' this at work.  I used all drugstore products except for one which was a BedHead product but can easily be duped by any blue, it was just the only one I had on hand.  So the list of prodcuts are:
Eyes
Primer:  Loreal Magic Perfecting Base
Eyeshadow:
Base - Annabelle Mono Eyeshadow Vanilla Chillia 
Gold - Annabelle Mono Eyeshadow Gold Digger
Brown Base - Annabelle Mono Eyeshadow So Foxy
Light Silver - ELF Shadow Palette in Drama
Dark Silver - ELF Shadow Palette in Drama
Highlight (white) - ELF Palette Shadow in Drama
Liner Upper - Maybelline lash line stiletto in black
Liner Lower (black) -ELF Palette Shadow in Drama
Mascara - Revlon Fantasy Lash in Black

Face
Contour - Milani Sunset Duos
Highlight - Hard Candy Blush Crushed in Honeymoon
Cheeks - NYC Mosaic Face Powder in Pink Cheek Glow
Design - Annabelle Smudgeliner in Electric Sapphire
Gold Star Sticker
Sparkles - Two Option 1. Annabelle Gold Digger or 2. Lola Gold Sparkle Facial Powder

Lips
Bonnie Bell Liplites in Creme Brulee

All products are from the drugstore, and farily priced, all colors can be used in your regular makeup routine.  All the brushes that were used are ecotools, and in the travel set sizes, they are awesome brushes and can be purchased at Atlantic SuperStore!

These colors really give you the exact same colors as on the show.  I have a comparison picture of the work I'm so proud of!

The eye on top are Marti's from HellCats, and the lower ones of my peepers!

I'm just as pleased as punch with this look!  Hope you enjoyed it.  If you'd like to watch how to get his look step by step, check out the video below!

Hope this gives you a great start to the week!  And remember it never hurts to rock the attitude that cheerleaders have either!  Be positive!!

Caitlin xoxo

Rainy Days

Hey Chicas!

So I thought that I would just write a short little blog post...if that is possible as mine are always soo long it seems.  I have found some awesome bath and shower products that are under $5 at Wal-Mart.  The video shows the information pretty good, so I just thought that I would share.

Have a great weekend!

Caitlin xoxo

Pink Sugar - Dupes!!

Hey Chicas,

So Pink Sugar is THE popular scent, and at Sephora they always seem to be sold out.  Its on their top sellers list, so needless to say its hard to get.  But I have come across two very very similar alternatives to the famous Pink Sugar Scent: Hard Candy, and Delicious Cotton Candy.

I have made a youtube video discussing it, if you would rather hear me discuss this then read the actual notes that make up the perfumes...check out the video below (ps..you could always subscribe to me too...thanks)

The rest of this post discuss the notes that each perfume has...I'm gonna use colors to show the ones that are similar between them.

Pink Sugar & Hard Candy will be blue.
Pink Sugar & Delicious Cotton Candy will be Purple.

Pink Sugar, Hard Candy & Delicious Cotton Candy will be fuchsia.

If you want to buy Pink Sugar from Sephora, you can check it out on their website .  Sephora’s description of Pink Sugar scent is "Stylish and lively, with a distinctive personality, Pink Sugar takes you on a journey through the pleasures and flavors of childhood with a playful blend of vanilla and caramel.” 

The actual notes that make pink sugar are: Bergamot, Sicilian Orange, Raspberry, Fig Leaves, Lily of the Valley, Licorice, Strawberry, Red Fruit, Cotton Candy, Vanilla, Caramel, Musk, Wood, Powder.

Hard Candy can actually be purchased at Sephora, or they say that they carry it, but then doesn't show any products...so I don't know. I know that Wal-mart carries thier makeup, I'm assuming they will have the perfume too?  Guess that I should have checked on that one...lol

Just so that you can compare the notes the site states that Hard Candy contains:
Top notes are: white tea, rhubarb and pink pepper;
Middle notes are passionfruit, jasmine and rose;
Base notes are cashmere musk, vanilla, caramel and cedar.


Obviously they are slightly different, but the end results are soo similar (4 notes), the way they are organized the smell comes off the same...basically.  The base notes make them similar, but it is the top and middle notes that make Hard Candy a little more floral (maybe more mature?).

Delicious “Cotton Candy” is another option that is created by Designer Gale Hayman Fragrance. The actual notes include: citruses, bergamot, cotton candy, lilly of the valley, fig leaves, brown sugar, licorice, vanilla, caramel, cedarwood, and musk.

So Delicious "Cotton Candy" is almost idential to Pink Sugar,  the citruses, is very similar to sicilian orange, so really the difference is so minute.
Pink Sugar scent is a wonderful scent for all year round, no matter the season.  Hard Candy and Delicious Cotton Candy are wonderful alternatives.  As I said in the video, (at least I got rid of the orange face!) I'm not even gonna bother looking for Pink Sugar anymore, I have the Getaway kit, and the two other perfumes (that are almost exact duplicates)...I'm set, and I don't feel that I'm missing out on it at all.



Just wanted to present you guys with an alternative to Pink Sugar, if you couldn't get your hands on it.

Caitlin xoxo

Leah Miller Inspired Look

Hey Chicas!

I  was watching So You Think You Dance Canada the other night.  And I fell in love with Leah Miller's look from the show.

This is the best picture that I could find of her makeup...... if you watch the show, you'll know the look I'm talking about.  It was such a nice change from all the smokey eye dark colors we have been seeing the past few years.  The gold eyes really sparkled and showed up against her skin, and made her look naturally beautiful.   But of course that isn't hard when you are her! :)

So of course I had to try to recreat this look at home.  It is really easy once you see it done, a few colors and that's it.  You could add more colors, but why make things harder then they need to be.  So I hope that you can see the similarites in the two looks....the video I think shows it a little  better. 

So these are the products that I used for the makeup look.  Not that many when you think about it.   Quo Eyeshadow - Quo Quad in Angel - Bronze & Champagne (dupe Covergirl Golden Sunset - First Light and Golden Sunrise)        

Mascara - Revlon Fantasy Lash 3 coats
NYC Mosaic Face Powder - Pink Cheek Glow
Hard Candy - Blush Crushed in Honeymoon
Beauty Rush - Lotta Colada

 To the left are the swatches for the dupes of the Quo Quad Palette in Angel, it is fairly old, and at my shoppers they didn't carry any single Quo eyeshadow...strange I thought but whatever.  I actually already had a good dupe, that I likely should have used in the tutorial but didn't because I forget I had it...oppsie.  The top colors are from colorgirl Golden sunset (L-R) Golden Sunrise, First Light.  And the bottom swatches are the Quo Quad (L-R) Bronze, Champagne.  The Covergril one is totally more gold then the Quo ones so it may even be close to Leah Miller's actualy look, plus the pigment is awesome!



Hope you enjoy it!

Caitlin xoxo

Q&A- Blind Pimples

Hey Chicas!

This is hopefully going to become a weekly thing here on CaitlinChic.  I had a reader send me an email caitlin.chic@hotmail.com, and ask me a question:

"I have a super important question for you, I have been getting a lot of blind pimples lately, with lots the past few days, on my mid to lower cheeks. I haven't been eating junk or greasy food or changed my facial treatments..any suggestions?"

source: bellasugar.com.au

This is a very common problem among everyone, and what a lot of people seem to think is that food is directly related to their breakouts....not entirely soo.  There are some foods that will cause issue with your face, but its the way your body is reacting to that food, and it comes out through the skin, you may even have an unknown allergic reaction to something in the food, and instead of the standard not being able to breathe (which is totally serious and I'm not trying to lighten it up) you will get the breakout instead.

The weather has started to shift, and your skin is reacting.  In the winter or colder months your skin doesn't overturn the cells as quickly, this causes dry skin to be standing in the way of your fresh new skin cells showing.  Between these layers is when your will get breakouts, because oxygen can't get in and the natural sebum and oils occurring on your face are then trapped between the layers, causing the breakout.  A solution would be to exfoliate your face a little more regularly with a salicylic acid or benzoyl peroxide scrub, do this at night (your face should be red afterwords) and then use your spot treatment on the area.

A lot of bloggers/youtubers seem to tell you what you can do to solve the problem in the terms of products...but if you don't really understand why you will continue to have the problems, because spot treating issues will not resolve the underlying ones.

Another issue is what are you doing to your face during the day.  Are you resting your hand on your cheeks alot, this can cause a transfer of oils and lack of breathing of the skin.  Are you washing your hands enough?  I know it is simple but are you?  When we are coming into flu/cold season, just a thought.  Did you start up in the gym again, are you working out in your makeup?  When you sweat the pores open and before they can release the sweat they have to take in the makeup, and then gym equip (gross and dirty) and if you are wiping your face its likely the cause.  So honestly think about what your face goes through in the run of a day, is anything different?

So a blind pimple is really a papule: a solid, elevated lesion less than 0.5 cm in diameter.  They rarely are able to turn into a pustule.  The pore is clogged farther down then a standard pimple is.  Avoid all want to pop it or pick.  Don't do it!! Because it is soo deep in the skin, you puting pressure on it will cause it to spread farther out in the skin, giving you more papules/pustules.Placing a hot face cloth on the area for increments of 10 sec until cool will help to bring anything (aka. pus) to the surface.  Also, increase the number of fluids you are taking in during the day especially water, to help flush your system.

Hope this helps!

Caitlin xoxo

Perfect Pouty Plum Lips

Hey, Chicas!

Yeah so I'm pretty sure fall is here.....rain, cold, leaves falling.  Yeah, it is here.  But the good thing about September is the fall fashion!


http://lucastomaszewski.deviantart.com/art/Rouge-130933917

 You can always take your makeup ideas from the runway, well not straight from the runway, they may need a little more fine tuning, you could say. 

All of purple is dominating the fall 2010 makeup trends.The falls hottest color is purple, or plum or any other incarnation of the color. The shades which can range from deep dark eggplant to lilac can be worn on your nails, lips and eyes. With such a selection of colors you can decide who you want to rock this trend.  

My previous post discussed the Plum look for the eyes, and there is a youtube tutorial on that as well, if you are interested.

But Lips should not be ignored.  I honestly think that lips are the easiest way to stay on trend, you can keep everything else about your makeup the same and just change the lip color and you have a whole new look.  Or at least that what I tell myself, to feed my slight addiction to lip products...hehe.....but we are not talking about me here so....

I took the purple lip trend a little farther, and tried to shoot to birds with one stone, and did a tutorial on how to make your lips look bigger.  So this tutorial will not only show you a great lilacily color but how to do it so your lips look perfectly plump and kissable, the bigger the better!  Please remember that making your lips look bigger can be done with any color, not just the purple.



I love the purple trend and will be rockin' it all season long!

Enjoy getting plump pouty plum lips!

Caitlin xoxo


Items mentioned:
Lip Balm: whatever you got.
Lip Linner: Annabelle Pink Rose
Lip Stain: Covergirl 400
Lip Stick: Revlon Colorburst Lilac
Highlighter: Hard Candy (blush) Honeymoon (any other highlighter product would work)
Bronzer: Milani Sunset Duos (any matte bronzer, or even dark powder would work)
Gloss: Stila (the purple one..lol there is no name, any purply gloss would work)
Gloss: Rimmel Jelly Glamour (clear)

Fall Plum Eye Makeup

Hey Chicas,

YouTube is not liking me too much today...I have tried to upload not once, not twice but like 5 times!  Talk about annoying...*breath in breath out*

(thanks mom for taking the pictures, I just couldn't get mine to look right).

Plums, mauves, and purples, are very in this fall.  In a soft, romantic type of application.  Nothing to harsh, or dark, dark...not saying that you can't have dark eyes, but it will have to be blended and used with lighter softer colors to balance it out.

So this is the look that I came up with.

I personally think it looks nice and light, free and soft, for autumn.  I kept all the colors in the pink-purple-grey range, but in a very wearable way.  So you can still rock the purple/mauves/plums in a nice and even professional look.

I used a brand called Natural Beauty, that I purchased from Winners a few weeks ago.  There were still quite a few there today, so I think you could still get your hands on a set if you like.

The kit was only $15, like seriously only $15 for 3 mineral eyeshadow and brushes and eyeliner!  Please, like I could avoid buying that!! haha

So this is what I got in the kit (gosh, I wished I had kept the package...oh well).Sans the crease brush...that baby is missing.

I'm not going to discuss the application method of this look, for that you can watch the youtube video on how to get the look here.





The swatches of the colors are shown to the left.  So from left to right:
* Sweet
* Temptress
* Glamorous

You do not have to use these exact ones, there are always dupes out there to be found.  If you want dupes, for Sweet, a sparkly frosty light pink.   Temptress, a matte mauve like a browny purple.  Glamorous, a sparkly deep purple with gold specks. I was browsing through shoppers today and found 2 different dupes that I think would work well....Maybelline quad in Lavender Fields (not super pigmented though very soft), Covergirl in Dance Party (usually more pigmented then Maybelline), and finially one that I think would be best, but you'll have to use another lighter shade if you want the exact look I have is L'Oreal HiP in sculpted.

And if you have other colors you would like to use.  feel free.  It is only makeup. Wear it, and work it to fit your style and color you like.  I'm simply doing it for the trends but any color would work!

This is the look that I have....the youtube video may have better representation of true colors.



Here is the list of products that were talked about and/or used in the turtorial.

Eyes -
Two Faced Shadow Insurance
Natural Beauty Mineral Eyeshadow           
-Sweet
-Glamorours
-Temptress

Annabelle Mono Eyeshadow - Vanillia Chilla
Revlon Fantasy Lash Total Definition - Blackest Black

Cheeks - Cameo Makeup Palette Blush - Pinky Purple

Lips - Revlon Color Burst - Lilac

Standard Eyeshadow Brush, small crease brush, large crease brush, small percision brush, and small angled brush.

Hope you guys enjoyed this, and experment with the trends to fit you.

Caitlin xoxo