My makeup trial!

January 21st already?! Man, this month has been crazy. And getting crazier. More on that next week...talk about shaking things up.

This weekend I went home to Chicago for a late family Christmas party! It was great getting to see everyone and we ate a LOT of food. It was wonderful.

Also, my cousin is doing my makeup for the wedding, but she lives in California and I haven't seen her in two years! We were worried about getting to do a trial. But then she ended up coming out last weekend! So I finally got to see her again, and she did my makeup trial (yay!)

Here were some of the inspiration images I pinned:

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Because we're getting married in late October, I wanted to try the dark lip thing just to see how it went. I wear very little makeup on a daily basis (conceal raccoon eyes, put on lip gloss...that is my morning routine) so I was worried it would be too much for me. I tried to find some pale/brunette people wearing it to give me an idea, hence the photos above.

And the result!:

Definitely love the lip color! It was fun being really made up for our late Christmas party, even though I immediately tried to explain to everyone "It's the makeup trial! I don't always wear fake lashes!" It was a pretty big relief to be able to fit in a trial.

Happy Wednesday!