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December 5, 2013 By Cassie Leave a Comment

Urban Decay Vice 2 Palette Giveaway

Urban Decay Vice 2 Palette Giveaway on southeastbymidwest.com

Since I was traveling yesterday and I’m wanting to spend time with my puppy, who I missed terribly, I thought a good post for today would be a Giveaway. Now this isn’t a just by myself giveaway for a small prize. Ohhhhh no, due to the fact that it’s close to Christmas I thought I’d participate in an Urban Decay Vice 2 Palette Giveaway with

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November 29, 2013 By Cassie Leave a Comment

Ipsy November 2013 Reveal

Ipsy November Reveal on southeastbymidwest.com

“This post contains affiliate links. For more information please visit my disclosure page.” Just as a bit of an explanation, and in the interest of full disclosure, my Ipsy Reveal IS a bit late but there is a reason for that. Ipsy ships their bags via DHL so while I live in South Carolina and the bag comes from North Carolina (quick geography lesson those

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November 21, 2013 By Cassie 26 Comments

Katniss Catching Fire Makeup Tutorial

Katniss Catching Fire Makeup Tutorial on southeastbymidwest.com

Due to the fact that Catching Fire comes out TOMORROW! (I’m so stinking excited btw) I thought we’d take a one day break from the Holiday Gift Guides and I’d bring you a makeup tutorial. This is the Katniss Catching Fire Makeup Tutorial, and is a look I did inspired by one of the looks Katniss wears in the movie. Here’s the specific Katniss look

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November 20, 2013 By Cassie 20 Comments

Holiday Gift Guide: Makeup for “Guru’s”

Holiday Gift Guide: Makeup for "Guru's" on southeastbymidwest.com

It’s time for the third holiday gift guide in my series. Monday’s Holiday Gift Guide was Makeup for Beginners, while Tuesday’s Holiday Gift Guide was Makeup for Intermediates. Can you guess what today’s Holiday Gift Guide is? 1 | YSL Babydoll Mascara On Monday I mentioned that a clear mascara would be good for a beginner, and yesterday I mentioned that when that beginner was

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November 19, 2013 By Cassie 21 Comments

Holiday Gift Guide: Makeup for Intermediates

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Yesterday I mentioned that I was doing a two week Holiday Gift Guide extravaganza. I kicked off the start of my series with a Holiday Gift Guide that focused on Makeup for Beginners. Today’s Holiday Gift Guide is a step up from that and focuses on Makeup for Intermediates. 1 | Urban Decay Naked Palette Urban Decay’s Naked Palette is a palette that all makeup

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November 18, 2013 By Cassie 16 Comments

Holiday Gift Guide: Makeup for Beginners

Holiday Gift Guide: Makeup for Beginners on southeastbymidwest.com

I’ve decided to do a two week Holiday Gift Guide series which will focus on different areas. These areas will include makeup, perfume, nail polish, and fashion to name a few. To start off this two week extravaganza I decided to start with a Holiday Gift Guide that focuses on products for the makeup beginner in your life. 1 | Maybelline Dream Fresh BB Cream

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November 14, 2013 By Cassie 22 Comments

Birchbox November 2013

Birchbox November Reveal on southeastbymidwest.com

“This post contains affiliate links. For more information please visit my disclosure page.” After last months Birchbox I didn’t think that they could keep up the streak of my getting good boxes. I was wrong, my second box back is awesome. Oh and make sure to check out the video below because there’s a special guest that makes a fly by appearance! The Unboxing: Isn’t

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November 13, 2013 By Cassie 19 Comments

Highend Makeup Kit

Highend Makeup Kit on southeastbymidwest.com

Yesterday I showed you a Drugstore Makeup Kit that had good quality products for decent prices. Today I’m going to show you a Highend Makeup Kit that has products that have even better qualities but with a heftier price tag. That being said, the prices for these products are more than worth it. In the interest of full disclosure I will say that I have

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November 12, 2013 By Cassie 21 Comments

Drugstore Makeup Kit

Drugstore Makeup Kit on southeastbymidwest.com

I’ve seen quite a few people doing their versions of a Beginners Drugstore Makeup Kit. Usually these kits are under $50, I’ll be completely honest and tell you up front that this kit will be around $60 depending on what discounts you can find etc. I could have gone with cheaper products to fall below that $50 mark, however, I wanted to use products that

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November 7, 2013 By Cassie 24 Comments

CoverGirl Flamed Out Mascara Review

CoverGirl Flamed Out Mascara Review on southastbymidwest.com

Yesterday for my WIWW post I posted one of my favorite makeup looks to date. For some reason that day all the makeup just came together and looked gorgeous with hardly any effort. That particular look also had one of my favorite drug store mascara’s to date, which is why I’m doing this CoverGirl Flamed Out Mascara Review. To start out with I got the

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