Simple Holiday Makeup

Hey everyone! I hope you are all having a fabulous weekend! Today I wanted to show you a super simple holiday makeup look. This can be worn day or night and literally takes 10 minutes at the most to do! I'm not sure if you guys enjoy these kinds of posts but they are my favorite to do so I hope you enjoy! (:

Alright, the first thing I do is make sure my face is clean and moisturized! 

The next step really helps speed the process up and helps make everything simple. I am going to start off by using a cream highlight and contour. To achieve this I am using Revlon's Photoready Concealer, I use a shade thats about 2 shades lighter than my foundation. To contour I used NYX HD Concealer, this time I used one 2 shades darker then my foundation. I then used my regular foundation (recently I went back to an oldy but a goody, Revlon Colorstay). I blended everything out using my Real Techniques Sponge. 

Next I quickly threw on some blush, and highlight and did my eyebrows. You can see me doing this in my "Everyday Makeup".

I am in love with this eye look for this winter. It is so simple and can pretty much be worn with ANYTHING! I start out by using my Urban Decay Naked 2 palette. (I only do my right eye so you can see the difference)

I start off by using the shade "Tease" and blend that all over my lid and into my crease.

I then spray a flat shader brush with a makeup setting spray and pick up the color "Half Baked". I pack this all over my lid. Spraying your brush helps to intensify the color.

With a more defined crease brush I used the color "Snakebite" and focused that into the outter "V". I then took a blending brush and made sure everything was blended together. I then went in with "Bootycall" and highlighted my brow bone and the inner part of my eye. The eyeshadow is complete! 

The next thing I did was create winged eyeliner. I don't usually go for eyeliner but I felt like it really brings the look together and makes it look a little more glam. 

I topped everything off with some mascara, and the eye look is complete! Simple right?

The final step to bring everything together is the lips. I wanted to do 3 different lip combos so you can have a choice for what you feel most comfortable in. I went with a nude, red, and a dark purple. I personally love me some dark lips but I know its not for everyone.

Here is the nude lip. I used ELF's lip crayon in "In The Nude", topped with Revlon's lipgloss in 

"Peach Petal"

Here is the red lip. I used NYX lip liner in "Auburn" followed by NYX Xtreme Shine lip cream in "Absolute Red".

The third and final look is the dark purple. I used NYX lip liner in "Plum" followed by NYX Simply Vamp Lip Cream in "Bewitching", and topped off with NYX Butter Gloss in "Devil's Food Cake". (As you can tell Courtney loves her some NYX lip products.) 

Those are the completed make up looks! I hope you enjoyed and i'll be sure to do more makeup looks for you guys because they're my favorite! Have a safe weekend!

Love Always,
The Crazy Collards

Our Big Day

Yay! Finally I have had enough time to get this post created and published. This will probably be my favorite post so far because come on; it was my wedding day guys!! First off my wedding day could not have happened without all the help from my family and friends so thank you, everyone!! You guys were awesome and made mine and Zack's day so special.

   Okay well I am a bit of a control freak so everything I did for my wedding (like literally almost EVERYTHING) I made myself. Pinterest was a huge help but in the end I went with everything that I thought looked best. Our theme was "Country", so I stayed with very natural color scheme. I wanted it to be more of a country chic wedding; I didn't want the colors to be to overpowering. The color scheme we went with was Light peach, Brown & Gold. It was so perfect for me because colors aren't really my thing (I’m very neutral).

  As far as the decorations go, you guessed it. I made them all myself. I loved how everything turned out. It was perfect. (I wish I had more pictures of the small details that went into everything but ya cant have everything.) (; 

    My favorite part of my wedding was the bridesmaid & groomsmen clothes. I loved the simply country look I went with and I thought it turned out perfect! I loved everything that I found and all the women & men wore it perfectly. Especially Joey, he was working that sling like a champ!

I made the girls tutu's as well.

   The day was perfect and I could not have asked for anything better. It was just what I imagined it to be, simply yet chic and fun. I could not ask for anything better and I am the luckiest girl on the planet to be able to become Mrs. Collard. Zack is my best friend and I could not think of spending the rest of my life with anyone else. I hope you enjoyed this post and check out some extra pictures from the day. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

     

                                                                             

  I just want to take a moment and brag a little about my amazing husband. Life would not be life without him. He is my sunshine to everyday. I never have a dull moment with him in my life. He brings me such joy and happiness it sometimes overwhelms me. I am so blessed to have had the chance to meet my soul mate and begin this walk through life together. I love beginning and ending every day in his arms. I love you baby. To the moon and back.

Love always,
                     The Crazy Collards