Drabby to Fabby Friday!

I want to thank the ladies who participated in the Fabby Feet Giveaway! I had several entries but only a handful actually followed my rules! In order to enter to win the giveaway you MUST link a Drabby to Fabby picture from your blog to mine through the Mr. Linky Widget at the bottom of each Drabby to Fabby post!

I am excited to announce that the Winner of this fantastic Fabby Feet Giveaway is...

Stephanie from Slacker Mom!

I used random.org to select my winner and each entry who had the Drabby to Fabby button on their blog got another entry!

My friend Wendy aka knitwit got two entries because she participated two times! WTG, my Fabby friends!!

Our next Drabby to Fabby Giveaway is all about putting your best face forward! Check out this 69 Piece Cosmetics Kit from Ulta!

One lucky winner will get this gorgeous case chock full of goodies to keep you looking Fabby all year!

To enter the Fabby Face Giveaway be sure to post a Drabby to Fabby entry on your blog and then come back here with the link to your post and add it to Mr. Linky at the bottom of this post! Add the Drabby to Fabby button and earn an extra entry to all the DTFF giveaways!

This week we are focusing on eyes. We want sultry smoky eyes that grab attention, because let's face it, we all hate the plucking and preening but when it comes down to it we loves that attention! Not to mention the feeling of looking smokin' hot from time to time!


Dipaola Momma: Hey you hawtie Cheesecake mom! I'm in serious need up a vampy type makeover for SITScation in Vegas next weekend. I don't want to show up amongst those super cool bloggy babes looking like dees!

Sure there isn't much I can do about the mini Grand Canyon slowly forming there between my eyebrows. I figure I'll need to go to the HomeDeePot's Do Her Yourself workshop to get enough Spackle to cover the lovely, if 30 years behind past their expiration date, freckels. Wait I guess now they are considered age spots right? So what if I've had them since I was three! Note to Mom Nature, thanks so much for that one. So what's a DiPaola Momma to do my friend? I need some serious drabby to fabby help!

Cheapskate Mom: I just got my Ulta catalog in the mail! I love Ulta! They have everything a girl could want or need and when you become a member of Ultamate rewards you actually earn points that can be redeemed off purchases or their salon! They have makeup artists in store who are willing to help with beauty tips. You should check them out!

DiPaola Momma: You mean there is life outside Sephora? Tell me more about this Ulta you speak of.

Cheapskate Mom: oooh Sephora! Love them too, but I go to Ulta because my points add up and at the end of the year I get like $30.00 off my purchases! Ulta also has all the hair care products found in salons and many times they have a buy one get one deal. I love their liter sales... not to mention the $3.50 off a $10.00 purchase certificates I get once a month! I need to make a trip over there to get some hair serum, my hair gets frizzy in cold weather...I'm getting off track now, aren't I?

DiPaola Momma: {Winds whisk by as she blows out the front door, credit card and hope in her handbag} Ulta here I come! Wow this place has got it all! Now all I need is someone to show me what the heck to do with ALL of it! Left to my own devices I'll probably end up looking more Tammy Fae than any girl in her right mind should. What do we have here? A helpful expert who happens to strongly resemble Amy Adams? Meet Little ULTA Annie

DiPaola Momma: Hi Annie I'm the stay at home mom of four kids, I write a blog because I figure I'll scare off other people's kids if I venture out in public looking like this. I'm going to a bloggers convention in Las Vegas in two weeks. HELP turn me from drabby to fabby and make it stick!

Annie's solution? Smokey Eyes. It's a simple technique with a big POW payoff!

Here is what she recommended:

• The warm brown color is used over the entire eye stopping short of the browline.
• The lighter color is intended to use as a highlighter.
• Apply the highlight color to at the brow line continuing down to the inside corner of the eye.
• The black is your smoke (in my case more like a smoke screen, do you see them wrinkles, honestly where the heck did they come from?!).
• With your brush place a small mark (or dot) just to the outside corner of your lid. This will be your guide dot, the point at which you'll stop with the black shadow to save yourself from attracting every male raccoon in a 40 mile radius.
• Using your brush paint a "V" that starts at your lid along the lash line and extends into the crease of your eye. Don't take it any further in than mid-center of your lid, lest you look like your significant other went Jack Dempsey on ya.
• Fill in the "V" with the black shadow applying it more heavily at the outer edge to give our eye a longer look.
• Go back with the all over color you first used to blend in any lines. Apply black eye liner to the upper and lower lids.
  
  And waaaa laaa you have vamped up FABBY smokey eyes!
  

Cheapskate Mom: Holy cow, woman! I ain't gonna lie to you...you kind of scared me there with those drabby eyes! Wow! You look amazing! Ulta Annie did a mahvalous job!

DiPaola Momma: Oh Annie also gave me another great tip I'd NEVER heard of before. Apply your eye makeup BEFORE your other makeup (including foundation). This keeps you from having to retouch or blend out any "crumblies" that might fall off your application brush.

I also got another super Fabby tip from our friend Lisa Lee over at Learning Beauty Daily!

To get the best use of your mascara and a flawless (non-clumpy) look-- just swipe the wand through a kleenex tissue before applying. This removes all the excess mascara and gives you an even application!

Mascara should be replaced every season---every time you open your mascara and use it, you are contaminating it with bacteria from the wand to the tube.

Ok ladies! Are you up to the Drabby to Fabby Challenge? Get those eyes a-poppin' and don't forget to grab your camera! Post your Drabby to Fabby pics!

To enter to win the Fabby Face Giveaway You can post any photo of yourself going from Drabby to Fabby between now and October 23rd! It doesn't have to be on a Friday! Just be sure to link back through Mr. Linky!

For an extra entry to each Drabby to Fabby post you participate in just grab my button and post it on your sidebar!

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I can't wait to see those peepers!