Congrats to Our Facebook Fan Winner!!! Beautyburg Will BBL....

Wonder who won all this awesome Wonder Woman stuff?!

Hi Everyone!  I know it's been a long time, and it seems like I just went completely M.I.A.  It's been personally really a difficult, busy and stressful time in my life.  I have tried to find balance with Beautyburg and life outside of it, but at the moment, it's not really possible to keep everything juggling.   With a lot of sadness and guilt, I am taking a short break from blogging.  You may see posts here and there, but at the moment, I cannot commit to it in the same way as I once did.  This was a really difficult decision for me, as I would seriously get sleepless thinking about how I am letting people down by not posting enough.   I hope that you can hang on while I take a little break, but I really want to be back soon!

With that, I would like to thank you guys for being such awesome followers, readers, fellow bloggers!  Thank you for checking in and for all your kind comments and emails.  Beautyburg is almost at 2000 followers and almost at 1800 fans on Facebook!  That literally blows my mind!

Now onto our winner............ the winner of this wonderful Wonder Woman stuff is Hristina!  Congrats Hristina!!!!  Thank you everyone else for participating!

IMATS New York - Student Competition Fantasy Beauty!

A Student entry for the Character/Prosthetic Mythological Creatures Theme Competition.

On Day 2 of IMATS, there was a second student competition that explored more of the elaborate side of makeup.  Sunday's competition was focused on the theme of Fantasy Beauty.  Student finalists had three hours to transform their models from mere mortals into their crazy fantasy vision.  I was incredibly impressed with the work that these artists were doing.  Also, I was taken back by the patience of their models!

A student at work.

All prosthetics were homemade by the students. 

Backstage working on their models.

Airbrushing

Every detail of thought of... even the nails.

The finished models!

This model was really in character.

 

Amazing!  This is straight out of a fantasy movie!

Everyone was amazing talented, and I could never do what they do.  Have you ever thought about fantasy makeup?  If you were going to create a mythological creature look... what would it be?

Weekly Doodles Vol. 002 - Life Beyond Beauty.....?

 

Beauty is my obsession.  I devote all my free time on it.  My wallet fears it.  But what's life beyond beauty?  What else is there?  Let's examine these questions in this week's Weekly Doodle.  Feel free to leave your responses in the comments! 

1. Fav non-beauty related hobby?


2. When not spending $$$ on beauty, what else do you like to buy?


3. Reasons why beauty is only skin deep?


4. So.... then what makes your life beautiful?

IMATS New York - Gurus Celebrity Sitings! Meeting Some of My Favorite YouTube Beauty Gurus!

 Koren of EnKore Makeup

I know what you're going to say.  I'm so slow to report on my IMATS trip!  But I still have a lot of great coverage to share.  One of my favorite parts of IMATS was meeting some of my favorite bloggers and vloggers in person.  I felt completely star struck by seeing all of my favorite gurus that I spend hours watching.  Everyone was so sweet and welcoming!   I totally felt a little fanatical!   Thank you to everyone I met!  I hope you will be in IMATS LA!

Koren from EnKore Makeup was at a Make Up For Ever Pro social I went to on Thursday and again at IMATS.  I had actually lost my voice because of allergies and had to really muster up my strength to say hi!  He was so sweet!

 BEATFACEHONEY (love her!) and me

I absolutely LOVE Tatiana Ward, aka BeatFaceHoney.  First, she does some really gorgeous tutorials and has a beautiful voice.  Second, she has one of the most entertaining personal channels on YouTube.  Her friends are all so fun and adorable, plus you gotta love a Philly girl, right?  Subscribe to her makeup channel here and her personal channel here.   She put up a video on her IMATS experience on her personal channel and here as a tutorial!

 E, Julie G and me

I was so excited to see one of my favorite YouTube gurus, Julie G.  She is so delightful and sweet in person.  The same bubbly personality you see on her videos is how she is in person!

 Julie G, she's so pretty!!!!

She did a great video on her channel that covers her experience at IMATS.  Click here to see it.  Don't you love her coral dress?!

 Lauren aka Queen of Blending.  Look at her amazing cat eye!  Rrr!!

Seriously YouTube royalty!  The Queen of Blending was working the Obsessive Compulsive Cosmetics booth.

 Queen of Blending's bling bling nails and phone!  Don't you love her more?

 Queen of Blending.... blending on Miss January at the OCC Booth.

 Josh aka Pertrilude

I could imagine that he was totally at home at IMATS.  I love his tutorials!  He does such amazing artistry stuff.

Miss Teen USA, Kamie Crawford, loves makeup too!

Ahhh I just love revisiting these photos!  IMATS was such a blast and I can't wait for LA!

Congrats To Our Winner! Spring Basket Giveaway! Allergy Help?

We have a winner!

Happy Easter/Passover/SPRING Everyone!  Is anyone else seriously suffering from allergies this season?  This year has been really bad for me personally!  I went back to New York and lost my voice from allergies!  I had never heard of such a thing.  Now I'm back in California and I can't seem to kick the stuffiness!  I even got a Neti pot to help.

Well enough about the dampers of the spring season and onto our winner!  We had amazing response to this giveaway.  I loved reading some of your favorite things about spring.  Many of you enjoyed flowers, the weather and changing into fun colors!  Some of you shared unique pleasures of spring like trench coats, birthdays and a general spirit of renewal.  Thank you for participating in this giveaway!

Congratulations to MadamLuck who is the winner of our giveaway!  I love it that so many of you are bloggers/vloggers/beauty addicts.  Check out MadamLuck's page here.

To everyone else, we still have our Facebook Fan giveaway going on until the end of the month.  After that, well I'll have to think of something special! 

I hope you're enjoying spring.  If anyone has some allergy remedy recommendations, please leave it in the comments!   I'm seriously desparate!

IMATS New York - Inglot Freedom System! Make Your Own Palette Mayhem!

Freedom System at the Inglot booth at IMATS!

One of the biggest and definitely most popular booth at IMATS was Inglot.  The line for Inglot never seemed to diminish throughout both days of the show.  The poor exhibitors working the booth must have seriously been exhausted by the end of the show.  I don't think they got a second of rest over the span of two days.

What everyone was waiting for was the Freedom System palettes.  It's Inglot's mix-match-make-your-own system.  You can create palettes with face powders, blushes, eyebrow cremes, eyebrow powders, creme concealers, lip colors and of course eyeshadows!!!!  I got in VERY early on Saturday and was actually the first person to make a palette at IMATS!  I made two 20 pan eyeshadow palettes.  The prices are going up in May, and with the 30% discount at the show, it was necessary to get forty eyeshadows!  The price of the 20 pan square eyeshadow palette at the show was $72 (regularly $95).

Blushes

Face powders

Cream Concealer

Brown Collections - powders and cremes.

Eyeshadowssssssss..........

So many gorgeous shades!

Neutrals!

Palettes can be made in round or square

This was the counter prior to anyone touching it!

Before long there would be a crowd swarming this stand!

Greyscale...

Pinks!

 

 It was hard to pick only 40!

  My finished palettes!

If you missed IMATS, you can still order your palette online at http://inglotcosmetics.com.  Try to buy now before the price increase in May!  But even with the increase, what you get for your $ is still a great value.

IMATS New York - Eve Pearl Makeover At IMATS!

 Beautyburg's E gets her makeup done at Eve Pearl.

Eve Pearl, 5 time Emmy award winning makeup artist, knows a thing or two about looking good on camera.  At her booth at IMATS, makeovers were going around the clock helping women (and men) go from good to great.  Beautyburg's E volunteered, extremely willingly, to be a test subject for an Eve Pearl makeover.

If you haven't checked out Eve Pearl's site, I definitely recommend doing so.  There are some serious night and day transformations.  Dark circles, disappear!  Acne scars, vanished!  Hyperpigmentation, concealed!  Really amazing stuff. 

E before.  Such a natural beauty, but she wanted to add a little drama to her look and define her eyebrows.

This is E's BEFORE photo.  

E in a chair getting ready to get made over.

Mable from Eve Pearl handled E's makeover.

E's makeover was being broadcast at the booth at IMATS.  Check out those Emmys!

Others could watch E being transformed!

Eve Pearl products.

Mable puts the finishing touches on E's face.

And she's done.  False eyelashes and all, this makeover took less than 10 minutes!  Bravo Mable for being so speedy!!!!  There was a line of anxious makeoverees waiting.

 

E's AFTER photo.  Her but better!!! 

For more information about Eve Pearl, go to www.evepearl.com.  Products that Beautyburg recommends are: Salmon Treatment Concealer, HD Dual Pressed Powder and HD Dual Foundation.