#letsswatchandlearn

It is National Cuddle Up Day! So let’s do a quick Swatch and Learn! #letsswatchandlearn 🤓📚 Did you know that snuggling releases oxytocin? Oxytocin, is a hormone “the love hormone”, which aside from making us feel good and comforted, also reduces pain, and helps lower blood pressure, anxiety, and levels of the stress hormone, cortisol. So get your snug on! Or hug someone (a friend, family member, pet…), hugs can be just as beneficial! (Do keep in mind we are still in a pandemic, so hug responsibly 😉) BONUS FACT: Oxytocin is also the hormone that stimulates the uterine muscles to contract during childbirth. There is a manufactured/synthetic version called Pitocin, which is used to induce labor or to move labor along when medically necessary. Swatch is from a couple of years ago, of the @colouredraine Lovelies Palette, which is no longer available. They do, however, have other beautiful palettes, including three new ones that I definitely recommend, so go check them out (link in bio)! You can also use code ALLURE on their website for 10% off! - #colouredraine #romanticmakeup #valentinesdaymakeup #makeitraine #rainesquad #makeupedit #makeupisart #eyeshadowswatches #cutemakeup https://www.instagram.com/aljureallure/p/CYZwevAu91_/?utm_medium=tumblr

Happy World Bee Day! 🐝🍯 Swatch art of @urbandecaycosmetics Naked Honey, one of my top favorite Naked palettes! 💛💛💛 I think the occasion calls for a #letsswatchandlearn series post! 🤓📚 5 fun bee facts: 🐝 Bees dance! They communicate via a waggle dance; when they find a really good food source they go back to the hive and start dancing! The angle and length of time they dance for indicates to the other bees where to find the food! 💃🏻 🐝 Bee’s wings stroke 11,400 times/min, thus making the distinctive “buzz” sound! That’s a lot of RPMs! 😯 🐝 The average bee makes approximately 1/12 of a teaspoon of honey in its lifetime! By working together though, they are able to produce hundreds of pounds a year. BONUS FACT: In order to make a full pound of honey, bees must fly 50,000 miles and visit ~2 million flowers!!! 😳 🐝There are over 20,000 bee species but only one makes honey, the honey bee! However, there are 8 recognized honey bee species. 🐝 Bees have existed for about 130 million years!! To put it into perspective, humans have only been around for ~300,000 years! If you know any other fun bee facts, please share them with us below! Let’s learn together 🙃. - #worldbeeday #urbandecay #udnaked #crueltyfreebeauty #nakedpalette #beeday #yellowpalette #yelloweyeshadow #neutralmakeup #eyeshadowpalette #urbandecaynaked #makeupart #bodyart #makeupfeed #nakedhoney #swatches #makeupswatches #primerpotion #makeupeditorial #eyeshadowswatches #urbandecaycosmetics #urbandecaymakeup https://www.instagram.com/p/CPG1j8gjEIE/?utm_medium=tumblr

🌈🦜 Nothing like color to cure the Monday blues, right?! 😉❤️🧡💛💚💙💜💖 Continuing the throwbacks to some of my previous rainbow swatches in honor of Pride month. 🏳️‍🌈🙂 This one is a swatch art I did of the @bhcosmetics Take Me Back To Brazil 🇧🇷 Palette (hand drawn on my leg). I used @kvdveganbeauty Tattoo Liner in Trooper and Ink Liner in Hemingway to draw the design and @milanicosmetics Eye Primer. This swatch art was actually part of my Swatch and Learn #letsswatchandlearn series where I shared some facts about the beautiful scarlet macaws. 🦜😊 Hope you guys enjoy it! 😚 #bhcosmetics #rainbowmakeup #colorfulmakeup #pridemonth #pride2020🌈 #pridemakeup #takemebacktobrazilpalette #swatches #swatchartist #makeupswatches #tattooliner #kvdveganbeauty #undiscoveredmuas #hudabeauty #eyemakeup #eyeshadowswatches #makeupart #makeupisart #pridemakeup🌈 #colorfuleyeshadow #makeuplife #beautycommunity #makeuplovers #summermakeup https://www.instagram.com/p/CCCHdLYDCd5/?igshid=2iduka69tg1e

☿💜 This Mercury Retrograde I can deal with 😌😍 Luckily as of today actual mercury retrograde has come to an end… well for now… until the next one… which starts on my birthday on June 18th 😳🤦🏻‍♀️😅♊️ Thank you for the wonderful and thoughtful gift universe 😙 (not sarcasm). I digress… the @hudabeautyshop Mercury Retrograde Palette, I must say is one of my favorite palettes that has released in at least a year! It’s just beautiful and fun, while also being perfect for everyday… and the packaging 👌🏻. Swipe ⬅️ for swatch video 🎥 and more pics. Fun fact: During mercury retrograde, mercury is not actually moving backwards, it is just an optical illusion that makes it look like it is. You know how sometimes when you are in the car and someone drives past you, you feel for a second like you are moving backwards, or vice versa? Well, that’s the same principle. #letsswatchandlearn 🤓📚 Regardless, it doesn’t seem to keep it from making things more interesting for us here on Earth a few times a year for a few weeks. 😄🤷🏻‍♀️ #hudabeauty #mercuryretrograde #hudabeautyshop #shophudabeauty #huda #hudamakeup #swatches #swatchart #swatchartist #eyeshadowswatches #makeupswatches #glamswatch #makeupdaily #makeuplifestyle #makeuplovers #makeupobsessed #undiscoveredmua #igmakeup #makeupvideo #makeupfanatic1 #amazingmakeupart #eyeshadowpalette #makeupart #bodyart #makeupgeek #makeuplife #shimmereyeshadow #mercuryretrogradepalette https://www.instagram.com/p/B9mkvAqHcYB/?igshid=153z0lxda8bpt

🍓How Berry Cute?! 🍓 ☺️ Hey guys! Here is my swatch art of the Berry Cute Palette by @colouredraine! (As per usual these are all my own design 🙂) Which one is your favorite? I also thought I would take the opportunity to do a #letsswatchandlearn !!!… because guess what, berries are not what you thought they were 😧🙊 As it turns out, strawberries, blackberries, and raspberries are not berries!!! However, bananas, tomatoes, cucumbers, eggplants, grapes, and many other fruits/vegetables, that we not normally think of as berries, are! How interesting?! The botanical definition establishes that a berry must have two or more seeds, and it must develop from a flower with one ovary. Strawberries, raspberries, and blackberries, have flowers with more than one ovary and therefore do not make the berry cut 😬 … instead they are aggregate fruit. Bonus facts: The little subunits on blackberries and raspberries, each come from an individual ovary and are called drupes, and each drupe contains a seed. Strawberries, instead of having drupes have multiple achenes which are the little yellow seed looking bits on their surface. Outlines using @katvondbeauty Tattoo Liner in Trooper, and leaves are Coloured Raine Liquid Lipstick in Ivy. #aljureallure #aljureallureswatchart #colouredraine #berries - #eyeshadow #motd #makeuplovers #makeup #makeupaddiction #beautyhaul #makeuphaul #instamakeup #instabeauty #makeuptalk #makeupgoals #budgetbeauty #swatchart #swatch #swatches #tattoo #queenofheartspalette #cosmetics #indiemakeup #ilovemakeup #wakeupandmakeup #makeupmania #springmakeup #eyeshadowpalette #crueltyfreebeauty

🤓 This week’s Swatch and Learn #letsswatchandlearn is about the periodic element, Neon! And it features @katvondbeauty ELL in Witches and @iwantjessesgirl gorgeous Glow Stix Lip Gloss in Red Dawn! Can we just take a moment to appreciate how absolutely awesome this lip gloss is?! 😍❤️❤️❤️ Give me a second to recover… ok, let’s get started 😜 Neon is a noble gas, it was discovered back in 1898 and it’s name is derived from the greek word “neos” which means, “new.” It is actually odorless, tasteless, and colorless, however, when it is electrically charged it creates a beautiful reddish orange light, and when it is mixed with other gases it can produce all the colors of the spectrum; that is how neon lights come to be. In other words red neon signs contain pure neon and all others contain other gasses to create the different colors. It’s most common use as you probably know is for those advertising “neon” signs we were just talking about, such as those found in Las Vegas, NYC, or the doors and windows of so many businesses. Also, since the liquid form of this fun element has over three times the refrigerating capacity of liquid hydrogen and 40 times that of liquid helium, it is an important element for cryogenics ❄️ (maybe a topic for a future Swatch & Learn 😉). Surprisingly, neon is actually the fifth most abundant element in the universe, however, it’s presence on Earth is rather minimal at 18 parts per million or 0.0018% . Bonus fact: According to Neon Library, the first neon lamp to be displayed went up in Paris on December 11, 1910, and it wasn’t until 1912 that a sign was first commercially sold (also in Paris) 🙂 - #aljureallure #aljureallureswatchart #swatchart #iwantjessesgirl #myjessesgirlhaul #everlastingliquidlipstick - #eyeshadow #motd #makeuplovers #makeup #makeupaddiction #beautyhaul #instamakeup #instaglam #instabeauty #makeuptalk #influencer #hairandmakeup #swatch #swatches #breakingbad #katvond #katvondbeauty #kvdlook #tattoo #lipstick #lips #trivia #crueltyfreebeauty

This week’s Swatch and Learn #letsswatchandlearn is in honor of tomorrow’s Total Solar Eclipse! 🌒 Solar eclipses are not as rare as you might think, on average they occur twice every three years! However, an eclipse that can be seen from the U.S. West Coast to East Coast is far more rare. The last time a solar eclipse was seen from coast to coast was almost a century ago on June 8, 1918! Even more rare though, is the fact that this is the first solar eclipse since 1880 that will occur only over the United States. While some other countries will be able to see a partial eclipse of the Sun, they will not see totality. So, when do solar eclipses occur? Well, apparently they can only happen around New Moon due to the alignment of the Earth, Sun, and Moon at the time. Now, as tempting as it will be to look at this beautiful and rare eclipse with your naked eyes, it is definitely not safe to do so. But why is that? Looking straight at the Sun on a regular day is already not recommended since it outputs more light than our eyes can handle, and since your retina doesn’t feel pain, you won’t even know it is burning 😬. Eclipse viewing is even more dangerous for your eye not because it is brighter, but because everything else gets darker. This tricks your eyes into dilating, making them extra vulnerable to an all out UV assault. Also make sure to refrain from taking pictures with your phones or cameras, unless you have the proper solar filters, as the sensors are just as delicate. You’ve been warned!! Starting in Oregon, the eclipse will then move to ID, MT, WY, NE, KS, IA, MO, IL, KY, TN, NC, GA, and SC. So if you are going to be in the U.S. tomorrow (August 21) particularly in the above states, you are in for a treat. The next solar eclipse that will be visible from the U.S. will not happen until 4/8/24! 🎨 Deets below! 👇😊 #aljureallure #aljureallureswatchart #swatchart #bhcosmetics #galaxychic #eyeshadow #motd #makeuplovers #makeup  #makeupaddiction #beautyhaul #instamakeup #instaglam #instabeauty #makeuptalk #makeupart #influencer #cosmetics #hairandmakeup #swatch #swatches #tattoo #trivia #nyx #crueltyfreebeauty #astronomy #eclipse #solareclipse #eclipse2017

This week’s Swatch and Learn #letsswatchandlearn was inspired by @nyxcosmetics Soft Matte Lip Cream in “San Juan”! 🇵🇷 🌊🏝 Here we have La Rogativa–The Procession, a famous bronze sculpture that stands in La Plazuela de la Rogativa near La Puerta de San Juan. In 1797, when British troops, led by Sir Abercromby, took control of the city of San Juan the governor ordered a rogativa (public prayer). The procession, which started after dark, was led by the bishop and consisted of mostly women who carried bells and torches while they sang hymns and prayed. Upon seeing and hearing this, Sir Abercromby believed it was evidence that reinforcements had arrived. Realizing that they did not have enough men and would soon be outnumbered, the British retreated. How about that?! 😯 Today, the sculpture of the bishop and three women commemorates this event, which is believed to be the birth of “puertorriqueñisimo”–local patriotsm– since it was the first time that Puerto Rican civilians fought for their island. The plaza where the sculpture stands also offers a magnificently beautiful 180 degree view of the bay of San Juan. Have any of you ever been there? I would love to go! 💙🙂 … A couple of other fun facts about this beautiful city 🙂 -San Juan, the capital and largest city of Puerto Rico, was founded in 1521 making it the oldest city under U.S. territory. However, St. Augustine, FL, which was founded in 1565 is the oldest city in the continental U.S. -It was also originally named City of Puerto Rico and the entire island of Puerto Rico was named San Juan, so they basically just traded names 🔀 - #aljureallure #aljureallureswatchart #swatchart #nyxcosmetics #lippielove - #eyeshadow #motd #makeuplovers #makeup #makeupaddiction #beautyhaul #instamakeup #instaglam #instabeauty #makeuptalk #influencer #cosmetics #modernrenaissance #hairandmakeup #swatch #swatches #tattoo #lipstick #lips #trivia #nyx #nyxsoftmattelipcream #crueltyfreebeauty #puertorico