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Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week: Swim

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The Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week Swim for the 2013 collection, was held in — no better swim-suit place than Miami Florida from July 19-23, 2012. Make Up For Ever was an official sponsor for the event and worked with some of the top artists in the industry with the swim suit designers for next year’s collection. No surprise there!

Make Up For Ever is always on trend, coming out with some great products. The artists applying the makeup to the swim suit models played a very important role, as make up needs to be smudge-proof, sweat-proof, and melt-proof during the hot humid summer. As you all know, Make Up For Ever continues to bring it with their collaborations and makes waterproof eye makeup, which I’ve blogged about in the past. Also!! If you are unaware, Make Up For Ever is the official make up for Synchro Canada and its senior national teams. See? Water.Proof.

Below are some official images that were shown at the MBFWS in Miami. So exciting!!

Mara Hoffman (images courtesy of Getty Images)

Love this shot! Mara Hoffman (images courtesy of Getty Images)

Mara Hoffman (images courtesy of Getty Images)

Her smokey eye is perfect. Luli Fama (images courtesy of Getty Images)

Cia Maritima (images courtesy of Getty Images)

This is why I’m a huge fan of Make Up For Ever.

This was not a sponsored blog post, you guys already know how much I enjoy their products.

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Make Up For Ever—You’ve been busy

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I’ve been blogging a lot about Make Up For Ever products a lot recently, but that’s because they’ve been busy coming up with some great products for us all to buy!

They have recently come out with a product called Eye Prime. Make Up For Ever’s first eye shadow primer. A crucial makeup item to lust after if you have oily eyelids, such as myself. It’s the only oily part on my entire body. I don’t get it, really.

A versatile nude color. It’s time to prime — psh look at me rhyme! I should claim that slogan. For eye primers, you can either wear it on its own to brighten your eyelid area, or wear it underneath eyeshadow to help intensify your shadow colors even more.

Make Up For Ever has also released some new Aqua Cream colors. These are completely smudge-proof and waterproof, which won’t crease, run or transfer. I haven’t had a chance to swatch any of the colors in store yet, but you can see how many colors there are from the photo above. Plus, all of them you can apply on your cheeks for a bit of a glow, or even the lower colors to your lips as well.

Since there is a variety of colors to choose from, it’s going to be so fun to play with them for the summer. You can wear them alone of layered with eyeshadow. Have fun with it and buy a few of the Aqua Cream’s, since you can also mix them together. There’s an infinite number of looks you can do with these eye-catching hues.

Make Up For Ever Eye Prime ($25) and Aqua Creams ($26) are now available at Sephora stores across Canada.

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Not so necessary cosmetic haul

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As mentioned, I went to Toronto on Saturday to meet up with Priya at Luminato where she was there working with Vichy.

Yay us!

After our meet-up I ended up going back towards the downtown core of Toronto and shopping mostly at the Eaton Centre. Normally, I’d head straight to Yorkville and do shopping there. But that routine usually happens the same way every time I visit the city. So I decided to stay at the mall for the majority of my day. Until I got lost a bunch of times. Then I had enough and went home ;)

I’ve never tried Victoria’s Secret cosmetics before, but due to me popping into the store unexpectedly during their Semi-Annual sale, I scored. Scored 50% off their makeup. Sweet. No welding equipment here, just beauty and cosmetic things!

All of the purchases. So many purchases. Unnecessary. But so fun.

VS Beauty Rush blush: dollface  // VS Concealer palette.

I have yet to try the blush, but the concealer palette is pretty waxing and difficult to use. I’m not sure I like it. Right now I’m using Sonia Kashuk hidden concealer palette that I LOVE.

VS Beauty Rush – Dazzleshine lip gloss.

Yves Saint Laurent lip products. So luxurious.

Glossy Stain and Lip stick, but reversed when swatched on my hand.

Make Up For Ever Smoky Lash, my go-to mascara.

Buxom lip glosses in the shades Katie, and Bunny. I’ve used so much of this lip gloss up that I thought I’d buy another shade. It has a really interesting formula on your lips. It gives a cooling sensation to the lips! Such a nice feeling.

The colors next to each other again.

Bobbi Brown foundation stick and a bronzer! I have the Bobbi Brown Luminous foundation which I now wear on a daily basis. It has a nice dewy natural finish to it. The foundation stick is a little more long-wearing and has more coverage.

Anastasia’s Brow Wiz in the color caramel. On the right you can see the smallest of strokes you can create with this. Last year, a guy at Sephora filled in my eyebrows and I liked the look so I decided to finally pick this up. He must have been a pro at it, because I can’t re-create this look at all. I’m questioning myself now to whether or not I picked up the correct color. I purchased Caramel, and I looked on the Anastasia Beverly Hills Brow Wiz site, and I’m confused. Maybe next time I’ll pick up Medium Ash??

If there’s anything you want me to elaborate more on, regarding my cosmetic haul. Let me know!

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