"Glam Green Glitter" Holiday Makeup

Salut mes belles!! Christmas is right around the corner, so today's look is once again reflective of the holiday spirit using green as the quintessential color of Xmas. If you know me and have been following my blog for a while, then you know that green in not typical in my color palette and I only embrace it on special occasions. Today is that day and I'm wearing green proudly, thanks to Motives Cosmetics whose green glitter is the prettiest I've ever laid my eyes on! For this popular look, I'm mixing up a couple of styles, particularly "East meets West" rocking a celeb-inspired fringe and some gorgeous exotic hand-made earrings from my fave Eastern jewelry line Innaya Couture.

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Fit for a Queen: Exotic Makeup & Headpiece

Hello beauties! It's Tutorial-Tuesday on my blog, but I've got much more to share. Today's exotic look was inspired by the gorgeous turquoise headpiece from my favorite Eastern jewelry line Innaya Couture and put together using all Motives Cosmetics. The beauty of this headpiece surpasses any makeup, so instead of matching the colors and attempting to reproduce the wow-factor of this piece, I re-interpreted the look with glittery jewel tones and Eastern-style cat eye liner. This modern take on Eastern makeup is a fresh complement to traditional jewelry and balances it out in a way that's wearable and approachable.

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Friday Night Makeup: Exotic Liner & Pink Pout

Salut mes amis! Today's look is simple, effective and a bit edgy -- I'm going for a sultry, exotic cat eye liner and updating my every day work look to a fierce night look! I'm using all Motives Cosmetics because Motives liner is one of the best I've tried and makes this look super easy to achieve. Liner is sort of my specialty and I'm very excited to present my first ever "Cat-Eye Liner" Pictorial-Tutorial!! Shall we?

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