My Favorite Hair and Makeup Products

What woman doesn't want to talk about hair and makeup?! New products, trying new things, tips and tricks, colors... the fun goes on.
Being in cosmetology school, I've learned a lot of tips and tricks. Some I use, some I use only on clients. So today I decided to share with you all whats in my cosmetic bag!

These are my every day go to products. I don't know what I'd do or look like for that matter without my dream team.
Lets start with my hair products. These are just some that I use every day: Bed Heads Ego Boost Moroccanoil Luminous Medium Hairspray Catwalks Thickening Gel Riccis Head Trip Locked Up Root Booster
At school we sell Bed Head, Catwalk, and Riccis products. So of course I have a ton of them floating around. You can buy all but the Riccis brand in stores. I highly recommend Ego Boost if you have split ends and need a lightweight leave in conditioner. Moroccanoil Hairspray is the best hairspray on the market. It's slightly expensive but it's fabulous for your hair. And with short hairstyles, you need a lot of spray. Catwalks thickening gel is freakin amazing! If you have thin and/or fine hair that won't do anything, buy this product NOW! I have both thin-fine hair that hates volume or being thick, I bought this and it looks like I have triple my normal hair, I get tons of volume, and a little goes a long way. Riccis Locked Up is a root booster to help boost volume from the root and help to give you the upmost volume. Mix that with the thickening gel and you're a sexy hair goddess.
** Also amazing tip: if you want a post makeup finishing mist that'll help your  makeup last all day, spray hairspray on it! It's better than a finishing product. It's sticky at first but once it dries, you can't even tell**
My go to eye makeup: Urban Decays Naked 2 Palette Maybellines Dark Brown Eyebrow Pencil Maybellines Falsies Mascara Mally Volumizing Mascara elf gel eyeliner
If you aren't great at doing eyeshadow or making a smokey eye, the naked palette is fool proof. You can mix all the colors or a couple and create a sexy simple look or sexy smokey eye. Nicole's eyeshadow color tip: Most people think to match the color of their eye to the eyeshadow... NEVER DO THAT!! One thing most women don't realize is  just how important eyebrows are for the final look. A filled in eyebrow is super sexy. You don't even need an eyebrow pencil, you can use eyeshadow!! I use both. Try it and let me know what you think. I use two mascaras- one for volumizing, one for length. Both of these together makes my eyelashes look fake and sexy as hell. Gel eyeliner is the new thing and let me  tell you, I'm so glad I tried it. Now I won't go back to anything else. Sometimes if I want a fine line I'll use my felt tip liquid eyeliner. But for $3 this gel liner is bangin!!! 
Last but not least, my face makeup: Covergirl Trublend foundation Physicians Formula bronzer Mac blush
I go between liquid and powder foundation, right now I'm rockin the trublend. It's lightweight and blends perfectly. Physicians Formula to me has the best bronzer out there. I haven't found another bronzer like it. Put the bronzer OVER the foundation and you'll forever have a sexy glow. Don't forget to blend down through the neck, nobody wants a tan line. The Mac blush was gifted to me, it's verrryy pigmented so I put a little on and boy does that little go a long way. Never put blush on below your cheekbones, start at your apple and swipe upward over your bone.
Hope this helped or gave some insight into awesome and generally cheap makeup purchases. Next time I'll talk about contouring and highlighting.