Sorry about my absence.... I have a good reason!

Okay, so actually I don't havea good reason as to why I haven't been updating my blog. But first and foremost I just wanted to say thank you to all 51 of my subscribers on my youtube channel. I love you all and I'm really happy that you're all supporting my channel :D

Onto an upcoming request.

I got a comment today asking for an olivia palermo hair and makeup tutorial for my channel. I thought that this was a great idea so that will be coming soon. So far i have the pictures I'm going to use.



this is the hair



and here is the makeup. I'm considering making the lips a little darker so that it's also kind of a holiday look. Idk.... but i hope you guys will keep an eye out for that.

xoxo,

stephanie

An Update

So, I got my hair dyed back to my natural color. I've been a blond since Halloween 2009 and my hair got really dry and dead within that time so I dyed it back to brown to have it be healthier (and cheaper). Blond is a very expensive color to maintain, so I've gone back to brown. And to add a bit of dimension I put red highlights in it to make it a bit more auburn.

 
But so far I really like it and I'm probably going to do a video on my hair soon. But first I have to do my July favorites.


xoxo, Stephanie

An Update

So I've been posting more videos and kinda forgetting about this blog lately, so just check out my channel for updates.

http://www.youtube.com/user/CheapChicBeauty13

Other than that I'd also like to mention that I am a book author (aspiring. I'm not published yet) so if you want to learn more about my books go to my other blog:

http://stephanie-evans.livejournal.com/

Everything on there is copywrited. So if you steal it, you will get a lawsuit.

Yep. So that's just a quick update on me.

xoxo,
Stephanie

Child's Play: Alice in Wonderland

Ohmigosh! I loved Alice in Wonderland when I was little and I collect little white rabbit trinkits now and then when I'm not collecting owl necklaces. And when I saw smokeypinkleopard's contest to do a look inspired by childhood, I couldn't help but do an inspired by alice in wonderland look.

I did used expensive products in this video mostly because I own the Alice in Wonderland Urban Decay palette. So here it is :D




Stay Chic!
Stephanie <3

Easy Summer Tutorial

Here is an easy summer tutorial using a maybelline eyeshadow quad.




Enjoy! And Stay Chic!

Stephanie <3

Bronzed Beauty

I think self tanner is the best invention since butter. I mean it's good for a lot of things.

1. It's 99.9% Cancer Free
2. It makes us polar bears not feel so white
3. It keeps us from being mixed up with vampires
4. It's easy to apply

I mean the list could just go on and on about why I love self tanners. They're inexpensive and they don't give you wrinkles because there are no UV rays to break down the cells in your skin. Personally I use the Banana Boat Summer Color tanning lotion which literally turns my vampire-esq stomach to tanned perfection in literally 2 hours.

I mean, they're awesome.

I think everyone should get off of their towels and into their houses with the AC blasting and self tan instead of sitting out in the sun, getting wrinkles, and potentially cancer.

So... I'm glad I realized this before I get too old. So heed my advice please so we can find a partial cure to skin cancer!

Stay healthy and chic,
Stephanie <3

Princess of Perisa: A Make Up Look

Hey everybody. So today I did a Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time makeup look by recreating the smudgy-sunkissed-bronze look that Princess Tamina (played by Gemma Atterton) wore in the movie.
Now I love video games and interestingly enough my dad was playing this video game when I was being born, so I have history with these characters. I've always loved video games that become movies or vice versa and I can be quite the nerd when it comes to a movie plot like this. I loved the movie with all the action and comedy between Dustan and Tamina. All around it was very entertaining and I decided that I want to be Princess Tamina (since she's a] beautiful and b] can kick butt) so I decided to recreate her look from the movie.

This was the inspiration:

And here is the video:





Stay Chic,
Stephanie <3

My Summer Foundation Routine!

Hey everyone so today I uploaded the video for my Summer Foundation Routine.

I really like this routine because it's quick and easy and it doesn't melt off my face like some do and also it's really easy to apply and takes roughly 5 minutes to do. Now the reason the video isn't 5 minutes is because I'm talking a lot, but when you don't talk it goes much quicker.

So I hope you all like it and enjoy!

Stay Chic,
Stephanie <3

Kaya Scodelario Look

Well, here it is, the first video is up. I turned it into a look for less, doing one eye with expensive brands and the other with drugstore brands.

Stay Chic,
Stephanie <3

Errand, Errands, Errands!!!!

My day tomorrow is going to be filled with errands and I'm not looking forward to it. I hate running around to places like the grocery store or the bank or even the gas station.... But I understand why they're necessary. Sometimes I wish I had a clone or a robot that would do it for me so I could stay home and sleep in. :,(

So, no openings for filming today, but I'll try to fit it in tomorrow and I have no where to go on Wednesday, so that will be another adventure in my attempts to film.

Also, just another thing that I'm thinking of adding to the channel is my weight loss over the remainder of the summer and just some meals and exercises I do, or my workout regimen, idk if anyone would really be interested in that, but, I'll post them up just in case.

And another thing.... Stephenie Meyer came out with another book called The Short Second Life of Bree Tanner, and I'm reading it just because I have nothing better to read at the moment, so I might do some kind of review on that as well, even though it really has nothing to do with beauty, well, I guess smarts and brains can be beautiful, so I'll weave it in here somehow.

Stay Chic!
Stephanie <3

First Look: Kaya Scodelario

Since I live in the United States, we don't get the pleasure of having the UK show Skins on our televisions, so for me, I had to watch it online. To be honest, I preferred the second two seasons rather than the first two. While I did find Tony Stonem to be "oh so cute!" I found his sister Effy to grab my attention more with her laid back, rocker-chic style and matching smokey-eye makeup. And I found a new love for Freddie in the second set of people on the show. While I won't be doing any spoilers on the show, I will say that it definitely held my attention and if it had teams like Twilight does, I'd be totally on Team Freddie (although I do have a soft spot for JJ).

But from this show came my inspiration for my first makeup look:

I really like how she has the slight smokey eye but a natural lid with a slight pop of color to accentuate her blue eyes. And if you switch what kind of color you use on the lower lash line, it can go with any eye color.


So I'll try and film over the next few days if the lighting works out, so I'll post again once it's up.

First Few Videos Coming Soon

Hey everyone, so I'm planning to put up my first few videos within the first week of June now that all of my final exams are done and over with. I'm thinking about starting with the usual room tour and makeup collection first (even though the collection isn't that big) since I kind of had an OCD clean freak moment where I reorganized 75% of my room (I left out my closet and dresser drawers, because they're kind of monstrous and would overwhelm me with disorganization). So I hope to get those up soon and once I put in my drugstore.com order I'll do my top 10 summer favorites tag because I had to refill on some products and I'd like to show everyone what I got, so maybe it'll be a haul as well.


Also, for all of you Forever21 lovers, right now they're having their Memorial Day sale and I'm going to be putting in an order for some things this weekend. But ya'll should definintly check it out because they always have really cute things. And I'm really into their embroidery tops, they'll be really cute for that whole "Romantic" summer look.

Stay Chic,
Stephanie <3

It has begun...

Hello Blogging World, I'm Stephanie and I'm starting a beauty channel on Youtube called Cheap Chic Beauty (but since that actual name was already taken, I'm using this one instead: http://www.youtube.com/user/CheapChicBeauty13).

On this channel I'll be doing what all the other Youtube Beauty Gurus do, making "how to" videos on makeup, hair, fashion, and other beauty related things. Except this channel will be different because (since I'm not insanely rich) I don't have the money for the expensive MAC products and neither do most of the population. So I'm going to do a channel all about how to use the great, reasonably priced products from places like Target, Wallgreens, drugstore.com, eyeslipsface.com, CVS, and other generic drugstores.

That doesn't mean that I won't agree to review the more expensive products, but I won't be using mostly them like some other people do.

Now I'm not bashing the other wonderful makeup gurus and I understand that a lot of them pay for their products with their own money from their jobs, etc. But for me personally, even with a job I can't afford those products, so I figured I'd share my knowledge with the rest of you.

Stay Chic,
Stephanie <3