My favorite foundation: Chanel MAT LUMIÈRE.

You can tell I really love this foundation. Even though it is $54 a pop, I’m on my second bottle of the stuff already. It has the gorgeous, signature Chanel logo on top, and the bottle itself is a nice, weighty, luxurious glass bottle. It has a good pump mechanism and each pump is just perfect for my whole face.

I find that this foundation is not a flat matte but rather a nice, soft silky matte. It definitely holds up beautifully throughout the day, and looks incredibly natural and feels like I’m not wearing anything on my skin at all. I’d say it’s about medium coverage but very buildable.

The texture is suuuper buttery and beautiful. I love this foundation! It doesn’t make my flaky spots on my oily/dry combo skin more exacerbated, but it also holds up against oil build up well on my skin throughout the day. I easily get 12+ hours of wear on this.

I really do feel like this is HG (Holy Grail) status and clearly I’m already repurchasing this. I would recommend this for all skin types during the summer, and oily skin types during the winter.

“Just Chill” make up break down.

This is a make up info post for the outfit I posted on Thursday titled “I promise we will just chill.. just chill.” It was a really fun look to do, and the cheeks/lips combo was somewhat unusual for me.

I generally love a really pink, cool-toned cheek, but on this occasion, because I was wearing such a pretty, beige/yellow toned maxi dress, extremely pretty, extremely romantic, but extremely warm, with all these bronzy, brown, warm-toned autumn colors, I decided to try to work with warmer colors, with a splash of frostiness.

I wear brown smokey eyes pretty often, so this is nothing new. However, I went with a peachy, apricotty cheek, created with a mix of Bobbi Brown Shimmer Brick (Apricot), Dior Harmonie Blush (Coral Riviera), and Nars Orgasm. Also, for an extra glow and to diffuse light on imperfections, I blended everything together all over the face after everything (but before mascara!) with Guerlain Meteorites in Teint Beige. They are seriously my HG setting powder. I set my foundation with something else (a generic translucent-ish powder), but the Meteorites are seriously where the magic happens. It blends together everything so wonderfully and adds a subtle glow to my skin that is just right but never sparkly, resulting in the beautiful, subtle, and never over the top glow that you see on my nose, chin area, and forehead (the cheeks are the help of the Bobbi Brown Shimmer Brick). Seriously my Holy Grail product for the face.

I hope you will enjoy the full, super-detailed break down below as well as some more photos, all below the jump:

EOTD: NARS Kalahari.

NARS Kalahari is my favorite easy workday look. Here I’m wearing on my eyes, NARS Kalahari duo, All About Eve duo, and Mekong single shadow. On my cheeks I am wearing NARS Albatross and Chanel’s Rose Petale from their Jous Contraste series.

Sneak preview: Photoshoot with Sherry Lu.

BCBG Dress, Nine West platform sandals.

I did a photo shoot recently with the lovely Sherry Lu, and this is a sneak preview she sent me of the photos that we did! It is such an amazing photo and I just cannot wait for the rest of the photos.

Eyes:
A mess/variety of stuff–mostly Naked palette by Urban Decay.
Dior DiorShow Iconic Extreme Waterproof Mascara
Urban Decay 24/7 Eyeshadow Liner in Zero
NYX Jumbo Eye Pencil in Milk
False Lashes by.. I don’t even know anymore.

Cheeks:
Chanel Rose Petale

Lips:
Stila Grapefruit Lip Gloss