Happy Halloween! A Last Minute Costume with Hair and Makeup!

There are two kinds of people when it comes to dressing up for Halloween. Those who plan their costume ahead of time, and those who wait until the last minute and then panic. I used to be the former. Now I am the latter. I don't know what happened. I tend to just lean on makeup to be my costume if I do anything at all. 

If you follow Opening Ceremony's blog, you probably saw their post called "Hairstyle File: Get Your Freak On With Bumble and Bumble." I got to work on this super fun shoot over at the Bumble and Bumble salon/studio/university/mecca/palace/wonderland here in NYC and add some complimenting makeup looks to hairstylist Misha Golebiewski awesome your-hair-can-be-your-costume styles. Last minute costume? No problem. Opening Ceremony and Bumble and Bumble have you covered. The Bride of Frankenstein look is calling my name. Head to their blog to see all the juicy details and how to create these looks yourself.

Lately Loving...Trader Joe's Pumpkin Body Butter

I am usually obsessed with Trader Joe's Coconut Body Butter. So recently when I popped in to the store for some groceries and saw this magic tub of awesome, I tossed it in the cart, no questions asked. Holy great pumpkin Charlie Brown! Shea butter. Pumpkin seed oil. Grapefruit extract. Orange peel extract. Rosemary, chamomile, lemon, ginger, guava, kukui, vitamin E....bits, bobs, and extracts galore. Sweet and fruity but warm and pumpkin-y. And it is thick. Like thick, thick. So I like to mix it with some Bliss Naked Body Butter to make it easier to spread around. I'm a human. Not a toasty bagel, geez! Anyway, if you can snag one of these do it. This is the stuff autumn dreams are made of.
 

How to Wash Your Brushes in 36 Seconds or Less

So if you follow me on Instagram, you've probably noticed I am really loving Clean Brush. I went in blind a month or so ago and bought the 4 oz Rose Goat's Milk shampoo and the 4 oz Lemon Olive Oil. I love anything lemon, and anything rose. Lucky for me those are two of the scents available! I wanted to try out one of each option for formula comparison.

Fun fact: the Olive Oil one is vegan! Fun fact: the Goat's Milk is killer at brightening white fibre brushes! And best of all, these are all made with natural ingredients. No chemicalactisyphilochloridanicouside whatchamacallits all up in your brushes. So I fell in love instantly with these.

They make the task of washing brushes SO easy and fast. Like, stupid fast. Most makeup artists dread getting home from a job, knowing you need to go lean over the sink for ever getting all the grime out of your tools. Clean brush makes the process easier, and smell a lot nicer too. I just got my hands on some Eucalyptus Spearmint versions that are not for sale on the site. As soon as they arrived I broke those babies open to give my personal brushes a good clean. And thought I'd make a silly little video to show you just how awesome Clean Brush is! This is only the second video I have ever made, so forgive me. I'm a makeup artist, not a film maker! Enjoy!