How I got from nuptials to naked.

My fiancé is not your average Prince Charming. He likes fishing and hunting and romance isn't his strong suit. He has his own version of romance and I love it.

The birth of our daughter was a mess. He was a 12 hour drive away at work. He literally made it there 10 minutes before she was born. That evening, after all the visitors left our hospital room, we were sitting in silence, admiring our girl and he says to me "so, you still wanna marry me?" I just kinda laughed at him but then he pulls out the ring. I was stunned. The best good-kind-of-crazy day.

 

We decided to have a small wedding at the lake we like to go fishing at next year on July 27th. I'm over-the-moon excited! So, I go crazy trying to plan everything. Dress shopping, venue, food, photographer..... Hair and makeup??!?? The venue is basically in the middle of nowhere. The closest place to get hair and makeup done is 5 hours away.
Shit.
I have a baby only a few months old, her dad works away and I haven't even entertained the thought of putting on makeup in weeks. I mean, I know how to...sort of. I know how to do my every day kinda makeup. But... Wedding day makeup? Have to see pictures of it every day of my life makeup? Uhmmm... K... No.
Where does anyone turn to to find the answers to life's great questions? Oh hey, YouTube! I watch pretty well every Kandee Johnson video ever. She's amazing.
Now I've always been a drugstore makeup kind of lady but now I'm scouring YouTube for makeup tutorial videos and it's all MAC this and Chanel that. This high end stuff can't really be that much better than my good ol' Covergirl, can it? I set out to find out for myself.
After a trip to Sephora, the MAC counter and a couple of online purchases (seriously, my bank account still hurts) I figured I had enough to start my experiment.

I seriously can't stress enough how much I love EVERYTHING that I bought. It just makes makeup easier to do. I swear if they ever discontinue the naked palette by Urban Decay I'll be lost. I know I'm basically the last person on earth to discover it but wow, just wow. I love, love, love neutral colored eyeshadow with dramatic black eyeliner so that paired with MAC gel liner in blacktrack is my perfect match. I'm head over heels for my Sigma brushes and the urban decay primer potion is the best invention ever. I'm still loving my Revlon colorstay foundation but setting it with my MAC powder just makes it 100x better.

This makeup thing is looking up for me. My next mission? Blush and bronzer. I hope it's as much of a bullseye as everything has been so far.

Elephant shoe!