Maegan Mariee | Thoughts & Lifestyle

Hello lovey bells!
I got the Naked On the Run palette! It's GORGEOUS. Aside from the fact that it's practically wrapped in rose gold (melts), everything inside is perfect and you never have to reach for something else. It's soooooo nice. Such a luxury product. I'm not going to do a full review, as I've written one up for Glossyfinds, but I thought I'd share with you the face I made with just using the palette alone.

How beautiful is that thing?! Ugh. Anyway, I did the basics with this, as it was late at night and a spur of the moment face. I used the rose gold colored shadow (first on the left) and used the darkest shadow in the crease and under my waterline (farthest on the right). For my eyebrows, I actually use the matte brown in there, which is just a shadow but it matches my color nicely. (Second to last on the right). Then the highlighter under my eyebrows and on top of my cheeks, the mascara, liner, lipgloss, blush and BAM! All done. The only thing I didn't use from this palette was my foundation, which happened to be E.L.F in Porcelain.

What looks have you created from this palette?

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Another book post! I've been falling a little behind on these, but my good friend Anarie posts book reviews every Thursday and since catching hers today, I thought I'd follow up with my most recently finished tome. (You can check out her blog here, by the way. SPOILER ALERT! She breaks everything down!) Now, in one of my first 'Something About...' posts, I shared with you a biography of Henry the eighth. I'm obsessed. And if there is one thing about history that I'm more obsessed about, is his second wife, Anne Boleyn. I have a necklace with her portrait in it. (I'm not joking, you can find them on Etsy here.) I'm a history buff, I've always loved history, but I will admit I'm particularly interested in the Tudor era. I want to study it and write about it, but that's getting off track. Yesterday, literally yesterday, I finished reading The Life and Death of Anne Boleyn by Eric Ives.

I breezed through this book so fast that I didn't have a chance to snap my own photo of it, but what was inside is way more important than the outside. I'm not going to get into the whole thing, because it's basically a standard biography. What makes this one so different from all the others I've read, is that it's very open minded, very common sense. The author doesn't presume to know any one thing about this woman, because the truth is that we can't. We only know what is most obvious because after her death it seems like everything was done to erase her from history. I think it's rather ironic that she is, quite possibly, more famous than Henry himself. That's just my personal opinion though, there were a lot of layers to Henry and his were mostly visible, while hers were hidden and eventually destroyed. 

If you'd like to know more about Anne Boleyn, I suggest picking up this book. Or, you can go to theanneboleynfiles.com. It's the best website for her that I've found and the founder is a historian! Fancy that! And I promise my next couple of books will be non-history related! 

What have you read lately? Recommend your favorites below!

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Happy Valentine's Day Eve everyone!
I hope your February has been romantic as can be so far! I've had an interesting month already. (The excitement never ends on my side, haha.) Anyway, I have a review for you today! It's the coveted All About Moisture set from Clinque that I lusted after in my October post here when I had a little chat with them about it. I'm very grateful to the people that sent it to me! (It was a gift that I'll treasure until the containers are empty!)

This box is a girly girl's DREAM. It's pink. The products are pink. Everything is pink and it's wonderful. When I get a new product, I love looking at the packaging. I studied graphic design in college and I will admit that if something has wonderful packaging, I will buy it purely for that reason. (Something that my fiance scolds me for.. whoops!) While Clinque went for a very simple design on this, I love how the box looks. It opens on the side, where a little purple ribbon can be found, which you pull. And out come the products! I think it's a clever design, rather than just pulling off the cover. Maybe I'm the only one that likes a good design to go with a good product?