Valentine's Day Precious Pink Makeup Looks

"Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind." 

-- Shakespeare 

Valentine's Day. 

A day dedicated to celebrating love and relationships. Everyone seems to feel differently about this holiday but regardless, you cannot deny that love is everywhere. Wait, or is that hearts & candy? ;)

When I think about my most memorable Valentine's Days they are not when I've been in a relationship. Sorry fellas! Maybe someday that will change, but I'm not disappointed by that! I've had good Valentine's Days in past relationships, but nothing that sticks out as truly special. My truly memorable moments are filled with celebrations of love...just different forms than romantic. I always celebrate with friends or family. One of my best friends, Jessica, and I have been each others Valentine's for years. We always buy each other a gift and a card and when we can see each other on Valentine's Day we do something fun! I think the problem a lot of people have with Valentine's Day is they get caught up in loneliness and dwell on the couples around them.
We should all look at Valentine's Day differently. Appreciate where you are in your life, right now. Are you single? Great! That means the person for you is still getting perfected for you. Timing is everything, you meet someone at the right time in both of your lives. So enjoy your time being single, get to know yourself, appreciate all you have to offer the world. Be happy standing alone because it will allow you to stand strong beside another person in the future.
Above all, celebrate LOVE! Celebrate the love you have for your friends, have a friend date ( Like me!), celebrate the love you have for your family, and my favorite...celebrate the love you have for your pets! We are surrounded in love and it's something we should celebrate every day, but what is wrong about having a special day to recognize (even more) just how wonderful LOVE is?? Nothing. 

I asked my sister to model these  "Precious Pink" day & evening makeup looks in honor of this romantic day! I think Valentine's Day is a perfect time to have fun with color and make a fun and feminine pink statement!

Precious Pink - Day Look

A quick way of turning any day look into an evening look is taking a darker eyeshadow and applying it in your crease for definition and drama, For Precious Pink I took this soft pink to a brighter pink and darker purple evening look. The most vibrant and easy change you can make is your lip color!! In this case, I took her dusty rose day lips to a bold bright hot pink. It changes the look completely.

Precious Pink - Evening

Bringing some bold, beautiful, colorful  lipstick brilliance to your Valentine's Day is super easy!
Here are  a few colorful options for you that are some of my go-to pink shades. ;)


Kat Von D: Backstage Bambi / Lime Crime Velvetines: Pink Velvet 
I am a sucker for long-lasting, matte, liquid lipsticks. 

Lancome Rouge in Love: Sequence in Love / Midnight Rose
Vivid long wear lipstick. 

NYX Cosmetics Matte Lipstick: Tea Rose/Perfect Red/Pure Red
 Long-wearing, highly pigmented, matte lipstick. Most of NYX Cosmetics are Gluten Free also!

Lime Crime Lipstick: Centrifuschia/Poisonberry/Countessa Flourescent/Airbourne Unicorn
Highly pigmented opaque lipstick in brilliant shades.  

 Whether you are taken or single may your Valentine's Day be truly magical and colorful. Paint your holiday with love and laughter. Fill your day with joy! Celebrate the love around you all while you confidently rock that bold lipstick!  

PS: When in doubt, cats are always the best unwilling Valentine's. Haha.

Makeup Links:

Lime Crime 

Kat Von D 

Lancome 

NYX Cosmetics

Thank you to Kimmi Kat for being my model, and posing for these photos! 

 Bisous,

Nina Grace

Clairol Nice 'N Easy Announce Christina Hendricks as Brand Ambassador!

 

 Nice 'n Easy Shift a Shade Campaign.

Clairol announces Christina Hendricks as Brand Ambassador!

Christina Hendricks is the face of  Nice 'n Easy's new Shift a Shade Campaign, inspiring women to shift their hair shade and they may just find their true hair color!

You will find Christina Hendricks on every "Hottest Redheads" list there is. She is widely known as one of the most beautiful gingers in the world. Can you even imagine her character on Mad Men without red hair? Christina Hendricks was meant to be a ginger! As Nice 'n Easy would say...red is her TRUE shade. But yet, she wasn't born with it! Christina Hendricks is naturally a blonde! Christina, just like myself, was completely enthralled with Anne of Green Gables. She coveted Anne's ginger hair! Thus started her love affair with those red locks!

It Was Destiny.

Christina Hendricks joining Nice 'n Easy's campaign is not surprising. if anything it's expected, destined even! The first time Christina Hendricks dyed her hair red she used Nice 'n Easy! She has remained devoted to the brand and color ever since!
She says “I’m so excited about being the new nice’n easy ambassador; it’s a product I’ve been using ever since I went red. I love that the results from nice’n easy are so natural looking; I know it’s going to turn out natural and beautiful and I don’t have to worry about it.”
Christina Hendricks is the perfect example of someone finding the hair color that was meant for them through hair dye. I'm a true believer in Nice 'n Easy's idea. I know a lot of people who have hair color that they SHOULD have been born with! Just because someone isn't naturally born with a hair color doesn't mean it is any less WHO WE ARE! Can you imagine Christina Hendricks not being the fiery, stunning, magnificent red head that she is? It makes her stand out, enhances her features, and looks perfect with her skin tone.

Maybe She's Born With It?

Nice 'n Easy Permanent Color Crème is available in 56 shades. Each one blends three salon tones that work with the shade variations inherently present in hair, for a beautiful color with natural-looking tones and highlights.
Clairol Brand Director, Jacky Ouyang, says  “Christina Hendricks truly embodies Nice ’n Easy and especially the Shift a Shade campaign which is about finding hair color that is true to you; color so natural-looking that no-one would know it wasn’t the color you were born with – it’s the perfect pairing.” 
Now, I obviously do not have natural hair color, I have turquoise hair! Plus, for many years I was platinum blonde so my idea of "normal hair color" is platinum blonde. I love the idea of women finding their true selves no matter what the color and feeling the best they can about themselves. If a pump up in hair color makes you smile and gives you confidence... GO FOR IT!!  Pretty much everyone in the public eye has enhanced their hair color to make it the color they feel the best in, and a lot of them have us fooled in believing they were born with it!  That is what is great about hair, you can experiment with color. It can always be changed.

Embrace The TRUE You!

Looking forward to seeing these Christina Hendricks campaigns! They start this month. Best of luck to everyone on their hair journey, and remember to always embrace your TRUE self, and your true hair shade. You want to be a gorgeous ginger? A brunette vixen? A blonde bombshell? DO IT!! The world is yours! Rock that hair, darling!

Ciao,
Nina