I am someone who loves to wander around any makeup department; I am like a kid in a candy store at Sephora. I love to see all the latest and greatest things in beauty and skin care and ooh and ahh at all the amazing products. I am a pretty basic girl when it comes to make up.  A little concealer, eyeliner and mascara and I am good to go! I always look but never try but I decided it was time to give some of the new trends a whirl! Currently this fall a big trend is a dark matte lip. This is absolutely something completely out of my comfort zone; I am a Chap Stick girl thru thick and thin with maybe the occasional lip gloss for a special evening. I went to Sephora and decided to try and find a color that would work for me but also venture out of my comfort zone a bit. There were so many gorgeous colors, I really loved the deep wine and burgundy shades. It has been such a huge trend this fall I knew I had to try it. I choose a Nars lipstick; I have tried this brand before and have really liked it. The color is called oxblood burgundy and while it was definitely different from my norm I have to say I didn’t hate it! I have seen this look worn with a very minimal makeup look and that was the same way I wore it. I got loads of compliments and even my husband thought it was a nice change! Another look that has been really all over the magazines and runways this fall is a bronzed smoky eye. I have a love hate relationship with eye shadow. I love it on other people, I love to own it but I hate it actually on myself. I never feel like it looks right on me. I decided to put my fear aside to give this trend a try. I knew I did not need to purchase anything new for this look as I already own 3 of the Urban Decay Naked Pallets but have never used them. I did some online research and decided to use my Naked 2 pallet and use the colors snakebite, suspect and pistol. I used these 3 to create a typical smoky eye, I used suspect all over my eyelid and snakebite and pistol in my crease and as eye liner. I was pleasantly shocked! While I don’t think I would wear this everyday it was super fun to do for a night out! It really made my eyes pop and I had a lot of fun attempting to recreate the trend! All in all I am very glad I got over my fear of trying new makeup and gave these Fall trends a go! I plan to recreate both again very soon!

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