My trend picks for 2013

Hello my loves!
   Okay I know you are thinking Mo where have you been. I have been a busy little bee. I went out of town and I have just been doing a lot of business things. I was asked to do a review on the SAG awards and the Golden Globes, but to be perfectly honest, I wasn't overly impressed with the clothes or anything else. That being said I'm waiting for further award shows to review. Anyway, I'm sure most of you know what trends have been forecasted so instead of going over them all, I'll go over my favorites.

Bold/Mixed Stripes: I love stripes period. So the fact this has made its way back around to being a top trend is exciting. The bigger the stripes the better and when the top and bottom are different it looks awesome. I think stripes can look good or bad on anyone. So big girls don't be afraid to rock the stripes. I know I'm not!

I am in love with this look by Marc Jacobs. The flow of the stripes are fluid and in two directions. Fabulous!

















Mixed Prints: I didn't like how this looked at first but now I'm into it. As long as they are both cute prints that are not too busy it works. I've seen a lot of plaids with florals, however if this isn't tastefully done you can look like a crazy lumberjack.

Short Suits: I love this trend for spring. If you love your legs you can show them off while being powerful and sophisticated. I don't know about you but I'm ready to put my gams into some shorts and get my suit on.                                   

This short suit from non other than my favorite designer Elie Saab is to die for. It's so classy and chic and the bold blue color makes a serious statement.

 

 

Sheer Sexiness: The sexiest trend this season is the sheer fabric. Sheer tops, bottoms and anything else has been on just about every runway. I love the sheer looks I've seen from dresses to simple tops. They are so daring and sexy yet gorgeous and feminine and on the body they exude the confidence of the woman wearing them.

 

Ruffles: Now I personally don't favor the normal type ruffle you see on a top at Sears. I personally prefer them to be a cascading ruffle. That's just my stand point as a designer and a fashion lover. But I do love a good ruffle on a hot dress so I'm glad that's trending this year.

 

 I love this dress from Balenciaga. It is to die for. Such a beautiful cascading ruffle. Also I saw this top on severasl runways. So that's also trending.

 I would like to mention also what I don't like this season. The biggest colors this season or year is black and white. Most runways donned black and white garments and used it as the base colors of their collections. I cannot truly express in words how much that bores me. Neither of those are even colors. Black is the absence of color and white is void of color. Plus it's just really basic. This coming from a bridal designer must really be boring. LOL. Anyway not to be a fuzzy that's just my personal opinion. But I am really excited for this year. I loved things I saw on the runways, so this years fashion should be fun. Now that you know my favorite things for the year what are yours? What can we expect to see the most of in street style? Leave me a shout with your thoughts. Thank you for reading. Love you all and as always until next time...Smooches!



 

 

Merry Christmas!!!!

Hey Loves!
I hope you all had a Merry Christmas and enjoyed the day with your families. I know I did. We got my son a 3DS and he was quiet all night. Best gift we have ever gotten him. I hope you guys are ready for new years. I have several looks to post for parties and such and I have a few friends guest modeling as well. I will also be doing some features in the near future. I want to do some feature models and makeovers and also feature other blogs and talented people. So if you are interested in being featured in a post or modeling please email me at thethyckvixen@yahoo.com. Okay I'm going to go eat some more because it's in my face and then go to sleep. That's healthy huh. Love you guys and until next time...Smooches!

Sick Sick Sick

Hey Loves...
So I have been sick, sick, sick. I had a severe upper resperitory infection and sinuitusso that's why there have been no posts for a few weeks. I would like to say I feel much better now and I will be going back to business as usual. I have to get back into the know because I was on bed rest and slept as much as I could. But I don't want to leave you guys hanging any longer so posts will be up this week. I hope your all having a wonderful week and God bless you all, especially the families of Sandy Hook. You remain in my prayers. Until next time...Smooches!

Tea time!

Hello My Loves...
This weeks tea is all about how excited I am to get Tiffany D's new palette from Sigma. Now if you don't know Tiffany D she is an outstanding makeup artist that has been making videos on YouTube for several years. She was one person that really got me into makeup and wanting to be a makeup artist. If you look over to the side she's one of my favorite blogs and you can click there and check her blog out. Anyway I am so happy for her and the I can't wait to get the palette and play with it a bit. She's made a palette that can do virtually anything. It's a fully workable palette and that's what I appreciate the most. She has really sat down and done any kind of look with this palette and when you get it you will also receive a look book to give you some ideas of how to use the palette. The palette has 8 eye shadows in it and 2 gel liners. It also has a two sided brush and a two sided liner pencil. This is what it looks like.

Isn't it pretty! That was so girly of me. LOL. Sorry guys. Anyway The gel liners come in chocolate and blackout. The shadow colors are brunette, chestnut, smoke, beam, in the dark, midnight, fog, halo. Check out her blog for more information and swatches. This is a limited edition palette so get on it! Thank you for reading and as always until next time...Smooches!

(Photo from Tiffany D's blog. I do not own the rights to this photo.)

Happy Turkey Day!

Hello My Loves...
So Thanksgiving is here and we should all be filled with cheer! Notice I said should. Some of us are a little unhappy our husbands will be at work because of stupid black friday. But I'm not bitter. Okay maybe just a little bit. Anyway before we go getting up at the crack of dawn to hit the sales we will be at dinners or parties or whatever you do on thanksgiving. So special looks will of course be needed. So I have a done a couple for you to get inspired from. I hope these looks woo you into the spirit of the holidays and you guys have a Happy Thanksgiving and enjoy spending time with your loved ones. And also no matter what goes on this day or what's going on in your life, don't forget to be thankful and give thanks. You made it through another day and night in a warm safe place and others didn't have that luxury. Love you all...Smooches!

This look I call stuffing, lol. I used a neutral gold for the base color all over the eye.
Above Crease-Ben Nye-turquoise
Crease-Too Faced-coco puffed
Lid-Ben Nye-Indian copper
Eyeliner-Nyx-emerald city
Lashes-iGlam-unknown number
Mascara-Benefit-Bad Gal Lash

This one is roasted cranberries.
Black base was used on the lid and above crease area to bring more depth to the colors.
Lid-Maybelline color tattoo-bold gold (over top of that is Too faced-honey pot)
Gold Glitter-Nyx
Outer V-Ben Nye-purple haze mixed with Nyx-volcano
Crease-Nyx-volcano
Above Crease-Ben Nye-purple haze
Mascara-Benefit-bad gal lash
Lashes-iGlam-unknown number


(Please excuse my photo taking ability. I am working on taking better photos and lighting and such. If my natural lashes are distracting I'm sorry. They go straight down naturally. All products were bought and paid for by me.)

Gems of the month!!!

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So as you guys know I am a working professional makeup artist and you also know that I like to use less expensive makeup. Reason being, I believe in being a well rounded artist and learning to work with every type and form of makeup. I can use anything from no name 99 cent store makeup to MAC, Makeup Forever (a favorite), Smashbox (also a favorite) to any other brand you can think of. I can also use stage makeup and mineral makeup and I also make some of my own. I love making something out of nothing and I enjoy experimenting. That's why I'm letting you guys in on my diamonds in the rough. When I find a product that I think works well for anyone in any stage of makeup I will gladly let you guys know about it. That way you can learn on the cheap stuff and work your way up into the expensive stuff. I'm a mother of two so if it's not something I must have I will work with what I can get...okay. Not to mention many of my clients enjoy being introduced to brands they may not have heard of otherwise, as well as being able to easily access them. Anyway, after my incessant rambling here are the products of the month.

Products of this month are: Kleancolor True Self Luminous Moisturizing Foundation, NYC Lipsticks, and Kleancolor Everlasting Lipsticks

Kleancolor True Self Luminous Moisturizing Foundation. I bought 1-Ivory, 4-Nude, 8-Caramel, 12-Mocha. I love how easy they are to blend and how sheer they are but they are buildable if you like more coverage. I give these 4 stars out of 5.

These shown on my hand which is not ashy thank goodness are NYC lipsticks. Colors are 312 chiffon on top and 308 retro red on the bottom. Chiffon is not my favorite color but blended with other colors is nice. 2 stars. Retro red however is the most amazing red. It has the most beautiful punch of color that looks good on anyone. I love it so much and give it 5 stars.

Here we have my new favorite fall colors. These are from Kleancolor and they are 738 cranberry mix on the left and 754 blackberry on the right. They both look so good on and I love them matte and glossy. These are easily my favorite lipsticks of the season and are stockpiled in my kit. 5 stars!








These are my gems for the month. I hope you guys can find them and try them out for yourselves. I also hope you guys are having fun with fall colors and trying new things this season. Give me a shout. Until next time...Smooches!

American Music Awards

Hello My Loves...
So as some of you may know tonight was the American Music Awards on ABC. Normally I don't watch the AMA's but this time I had no choice because my husband had the other television and Revenge wasn't on due to the awards. To sum it up I thought it was fabulous. I like the concept of having all or most genres in one award show as well as a slew of actors. The makeup and most of the gowns and tuxedos were amazing and the styling was fantastic. I really enjoyed it. It was a treat for the eyes. My favorite points of the night were PSY doing his Gangnam Style dance with M.C. Hammer. I loved that! I also really enjoyed Pink and her performance was a-ma-zing! I loved the choreography of her dance and the symbolism it had. I also enjoyed Carrie Underwood because, well, she's fabulous. Without further ado here are some of my favorite looks from the evening.
(All photos were from yahoo.com and google.com. I do not hold any rights to these photos or otherwise copyrighted materials.)



 

Here we have Pink looking amazing. I love her and I think she is amazing! Her hair and makeup are simple and chic and her dress is a great coppery gold color with just the right amount of girliness to it. Love it!

Here we Have Christina Aguilara looking sickening. I loved her performance as well it took me like ten minutes to realize those were drag queens on stage. You would think I would know better.

50 cent looking suave this evening. I thought he looked very handsome and I love the fit, cut, and color of his suit. Very nice 50.

 

To the left we have Jenny McCartney looking rather fierce in this belted black and metallic gold dress. Her hair looks amazing with the vampy makeup and subtle styling. She looked awesome.

 

Brandy looked plain great this evening. Her hair paired with her smokey eye and dainty accessories went great together. Her dress is fantastic and looks great on her. Only thing I would have changed is the shoes. They take away from the dress a bit but other than that she looks fabulous.

Moving on to the folks that looked less than great...

 

Now Chirs B you looked just plain bad. I don't know if your going through some things or what but this look is not good. Sorry Mr. Brown.

When will Tyga learn? Everytime he comes out he is on the bad dressed list. He needs to hire a stylist or fire stylist. What goes through your head when you choose an outfit like this? Whatever it is it needs to stop because it is not working.

Okay Heidi Klum we know you're a model. This dress with the round shoulders and high slit on the short skirt is a miss for me. It's really awkward and uncomfortable looking and ill-fitted. Plain and simple no.

J. Cole is a pretty cute fella. So this should have not happend. He wouldn't look bad if he got rid of the tacky, two sizes too large, red blazer and the leather t-shirt. He would look severely underdressed but not as bad. It's better to be underdressed than badly dressed. Am I right?

Moving on to the Honorable Mentions List. These folks looked nice and we thought they deserved some mention on this review.

 

Well that is it for the American Music Awards review. Hope you all enjoyed it. Who were your favorites of the night and your least favorite? Give me a shout! Thank you for reading and as always until next time...Smooches!