Grand ol' Urban Decay Give Away!

 Yes, the latest and most artfully designed eyeshadow palette from urban decay is up for a giveaway!
15 ALL NEW eyeshadow colors from neutrals to metallic colors which are all the rage for fall...to a new matte, inky black....and the packaging turns into a cool keepsake box when you're done with your shadows! How cool and glam is that for recycling your packaging!

I got two of these. One for me and one for one of you!
I know not everyone can win, but it's fun trying and I will try to do more giveaways...it's my favorite to be able to give you guys something fun from me! Yes, it will come packaged and mailed by yours truly!

AND DON'T FORGET I'm also doing a "BLOG" only give away for all my loyal blog family...

CLICK HERE TO ENTER to win the totally sold out 15 year Anniversary Eye Pencil Collection going for twice it's retail price on Amazon and crazy bids on ebay!!!

NOW for the RULES for the

 URBAN DECAY 15 YEAR ANNIVERSARY EYESHADOW PALETTE:

You must be a  SUBSCRIBER to me on Youtube

You must enter a comment below the contest video on youtube.

You can live anywhere in the world - I'll ship it to you!

You can comment multiple times, bu each comment must be different. (No copy and pasting of the same comment over and over, it will get marked as spam by youtube)

CONTEST BEGINS 8-23

and will end midnight (my time, PST) on Saturday 8-27

Winner will be announced on Sunday 8-28 on this blog.

Have fun, and now watch the video for extra rules on commenting if you missed them already!

Disclaimer alert: Urban Decay did not pay me a penny, toothpick, or anything to do this giveaway. And lil' ol' me will be packaging and shipping this to the winner!

I can't wait to see who wins!!!
palettes of hugs, kandee

It's time for an "I love you!" Giveaway- with URBAN DECAY's hot new stuff!

Happy Monday! It's been a while since I had a giveaway...and since I was sick and didn't upload a video last week, and everyone sent me sweet get well comments... I wanted to thank everyone for sending me love...so I thought I'd do a love giveaway!

I got the super duper Urban Decay 24/7 Glide On Eye Pencil  15 Year Anniversary Collection (say that 5 times fast)...and it is so awesome....15 eyeliner in every color!!! And I got another one to give one of you! These are sold out everywhere and very hard to get...they originally sold for $92 (great value considering it would cost $264 to buy them separately with the grindhouse sharpener)...
but they are selling on Amazon and ebay for over $229 now!

The 15 shades (And there's 6 new shades in the set, which are in pink and bold):

• Stray Dog – shimmery brown taupe

• Corrupt -  dark metallic brown with silver sparkle

• Bourbon – brown with teeny gold glitter

• Midnight Cowboy – beige with gold sparkle

• Baked – bold bronze

• Stash – dark green/gold

• Mildew – deep green

• Perversion – blackest carbon black

• Electric – bright aquamarine

• Binge – navy blue

• Ransom – bright iridescent purple

• Asphyxia - pinky iridescent purple

• Rockstar - darkest eggplant

• Zero – zealous black

• Uzi – gunmetal with grey sparkle

RULES: (easy peezy)

Answer this question below: (only one entry per day, until contest ends)

Which color do you love the most? 
(answer in the comments below this post only - please if you see anyone commenting on facebook or twitter...please let them know that the only comments that will count are the ones below this post on my blog...thanksie!)

Contest will end August 25, Thursday (no comments after midnight, my time PST, will be counted)

winner will be announced by friday.

and to win you can live anywhere....I'll ship this bad boy wherever you live!

and I doesn't matter too me how old you are..winners can be 7 or 97.

(and no urban decay did not pay me to do this...and yes I will also be shipping it and paying for all the shippin' myself too. Before anyone starts thinking all weirdy.)

Wait til you see what else I'm gonna give away on youtube!!

Happy Monday...hope this makes the week a little more fun!!!
lovesicles, kandee

Beauty for your Teeth: Teeth Tattoos?

(source: JapanTrends)

As you know....

I try to bring you guys the most cool, up-to-the minute,

 most practical beauty and style tips around...

and if "Tooth Tattoos" doesn't say practical...

I don't know what does?!?

Missing that certain something with your smile?

BLAM! Add a lady bug to your lateral incisor.

You've whitened your teeth to a level "blindingly white" and still not getting the sparkle you want?

BLIM BLAP SHAPOW! Add a bling to your bicuspid or cuspid.

ok, this is not new, nor is it a tattoo, but it's from the same Japanese creators that are setting trends in Japanese temporary teeth tattoos - a temporary tattoo is placed with special glue, said to last a few days.

Or say you are a real devoted fan of  Prince William and the princess, formerly known as Kate Middleton:

(source: randomization)

The real deal is:

Teeth Tattoos are not a new Trend (note the British guy above, did that months go in the UK)- And Steven Heward, the Tooth Artist, has been tattooing teeth for 30 years, here in the USA. Look at these! He is amazing- these are paintings on teeth! For tooth-crying-out-loud!

(Source: the tooth artist)

Say you want to get a picture of your boyfriend (horrible idea, just an example) or the next best way to one-up your Justin Bieber fan-friend...

get a picture of the "Beebs" permanently "tattooed" on your tooth by the Tooth Artist, himself.

 Take that everyone that said teeth tattoos are a new thing.

 Maybe you only want to dazzle up your choppers for 24 hours-
 a pair of red lips on your front tooth or maybe a smiley face emoticon anyone?

 www.smileshop.com has been selling these babies too!

They say the "teeth tattoos" will stay in place for 24 hours, depending on your oral habits. Pen chewers, this may not be for you.

I think you have to have this done at the dentist.

What do you think? Is there anything you'd get tattooed on your teeth?

This is one tutorial I will NOT be doing.
your plain ol', boring toothed, Kandee

Ombre Hair: Ombre YAY! or Ombre NAY?

Just say Ole' it's time to Ombre!

Ok...so Ombre isn't that new...it's been around for a while now, I know.

And if you're were like "Om-what?!?"...

OMBRE HAIR is like "recessionista hair color:

no need to touch up your very often if you just highlight the tips!

WHAT IS OMBRE REALLY?:

(insert bit from a chat about hair color trends now and what's in the future, with my homey, the famous Mr. Kim Vo. Wait til you here my post on what's in the future...I LOVE it!)

The Ombre look, looks (for the most part) like a natural sun-kissed look...like you're a beach babe that lives in the sun, which has lightened the ends of your hair...but your "new, darker roots" and grow-out haven't really kissed the sun yet. That's the basic idea of the look.

Reccessionista-lights baby!

Low Maintenance...Wallet friendly..and even though most celebs and the fashion world already showcased this look last year....I still think it's got a more "not too much work" look too it that I still like.

HOW DO THEY DO IT?

The darker roots to light effect is done useing  a French hair technique called balayage.  Balayage is painting hair color or lightener right onto the hair with a brush, which give a natural, more "done by the sun" look. Instead of the old conventional method of using foils, which most times creates a lovely line of demarcation (hence you have stripes or spots in your highlighted hair). The highlights are painted straight onto the hair with a brush, which give a more natural sun-bleached look; instead of the conventional foiling method used for highlights which often leave a line of demarcation or as some would say, "what the leopard spots did they do to my hair?"

Who's ROCKED the Ombre?

 Alexa Chung said "Hip Hip Ombre!"

Drew Barrymore said "Ombre Ole"..last year.

and Sarah Jessica Parker said "Ombre in the City"...
So what do you think?
 Do you love or loathe the Ombre? Or do you just think the Ombre is so passe?
or maybe you say: "what the hay, I'll try Ombre?"

 good hair days..your kandee

ps. if you want to see a picture of me with my very first DIY highlighting experience, and I was 16 CLICK HERE! ha ha ha enjoy that one...

Glamour Magazine's: Kandee does Katy Perry Make-Up Look

I was so excited I was inside the September issue of Glamour Magazine....
I forgot to tell you guys they have a special "Glamour Kandee Exclusive Make-Up Tutorial Video"!

Glamour asked me to create a special look for them...and I was inspired by this sultry look that Katy Perry had here:

(please note I could not replicate her soft lighting..mine came out a little more harsh and shadowy, photo lighting is not my forte....but you'll see in the video  I wasn't standing in direct sun light....like in my picture...ha ha ha)
-Katy Perry's make-up always includes her classic black pin-up eyeliner, but this look is softened my the golden-taupey shadow
-and there is always something both delicate and a little sexy about a pale nude pair of soup-coolers (aka lips)

So have fun watching this "you-won't-see-this-on-youtube" make-up tutorial!
Yeah! Yeah it's make-up time!

OR CLICK HERE TO WATCH IT ON GLAMOUR.com and you'll get to read the article that they wrote for the Glamour website about yours truly!

lots of love and heaps of GLAMOUR....your kandee

The next wave in nails: 3D nail decals!

 "what's on your nails?!?"....I got asked that all day! hee hee
It is the Sephora Nail Bling - in the white basket weave, which name doesn't match...
they look like little diamonds on your fingers and sparkle like liquid silver on your nails.

These don't even compare to the Sally Hansen Nail Stickers...these are wayyyy better. These babies are great. They went on super easy, no drying time, because they are just nail decal-sticker polish. Even the sales girl at Sephora, where I bought mine said these were amazing and wayyy better than Minx!

They kinda remind me of diamond plate, you know that stuff that tools boxes are made of:

Pictures don't do these babies justice.
They feel like they are are as strong as this tool box too. And when I took them off, my nails felt stronger and sturdier too! They lasted for days, and would've lasted longer but I took them off. I've heard when applied to the toes they've lasted for up to 3 weeks!

I got tons of compliments on them....everyone stopped and asked, "what is on your nails?", "where'd you  get those?", "how'd you do that"...because they are like having 3-D nails...they feel so cool and textured- so not like, flat ol' polish!

If you wanna give them a try my other favorite was the gold bubbles...

bling-it-on...nails...bling it on....
these nails are so fun!!!
love love love, kandee

make-up in the car...

(and no I'm not driving...ha ha, I'm just a backseat-make-up-applier)
what had happened before this picture was taken in the car, after landing at LAX airport at 8:20am...
(what lipliner is that you ask? It's a bright orange lipliner from Make-Up Forever, Aqua Lip liner in 17C...it's been my "fun color" MUST of mine,  for months now. It is ridicuoulsy long-lasting, water-proof, saliva proof, doesn't transfer onto anything - even little babies foreheads you kiss. They use this on the artists that perform in Cirque Du Soleil that need to be waterproof.)

midnight-3:30am
type blogs, pack  and still trying to "create" outfits, and keep putting a little baby that's teething -back to sleep every half an hour, shower and do my hair and make-up until 3:30am
(yes...notice how no sleep fit into that schedule...ha ha ha)
load up the car and little traveling guests

4am- to the time this picture was taken at about 9am
check bags, go through security, fly on a miniature plane,
land, get bag with all the outfits I spent hours preparing, find person driving us to set (for the show I was working on, can't wait to tell you....some days I just want to jump up and down and tell God, "thank you soooooo much for blessing me!!!!!"...only God knew all those days I felt so down and depressed in my past, and could never imagine that my life could or would ever get better...that He had this in store for my future! If things are bad right now...please just keep waiting...you have a sparkling, jump up and down day waiting for you too, you can't see it, but it's there! I promise...just keep resting in that hope!

i had no mirror...so I was so glad I brought the new 15 year Urban Decay palette that has mirrored packaging (see above picture-roonie) and the mini-mirror in the NAKED palette helped out too!
I must say, I was quite impressed with how well my lipliner came out despite applying it in crazy stop and go traffic!

 leaving LAX airport on the way to the set...my make-up had already been on for hours and hours, except my lips...I save those for very last. (they get messed up the easiest and I was doing a fun bright color)

Good thing I know how to cover up bags and rings under my eyes...I was tired on the inside but didn't let it show in the outside! When I got to set I had no time to do any  touch-ups, just throw my outfit on, spray some weird hairspray on, they had in the bathroom...and run.

I feel yucky...off to go drink lots of water, hope my eyes stop hurting and that my sinus pressure takes a hike...
giant airplane cargo size amounts of love... your kandee with a box of tissue close by

Click here to see what I did as soon as we wrapped filming...yay!