"Rambling's with Ali"

"Rambling's with Ali" is just that....me (Alison) rambling about life and general stuff. I will save the silly and funny details of how I settled on the name for a later post. For now, I wanted to share a make-up tip I thought of (not that it's an original idea or anything....you could've been doing this for years).

You know when you are putting on eye shadow it can flake/spread around your eye? Well, this kept happening no matter what brushes I used. I found the ones that come in the compact ususally end up losing their cushioned tip long before the eye shadow is gone. When I use my more somewhat "expensive" brushes, they seem to flake/spread eye shadow on my face as well. Well one day I thought of using a q-tip for applying my eye shadow. It worked and I love it. No more "flying" eye shadow on my face. The q-tip is good for two colors...one color for each end. Toss in the trash and it's done.

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One other beauty tip I learned from one of my car-pool friends (I carpool with two lovely ladies). This tip came from Kristi. I shared my q-tip/eye shadow idea and then she gave me a tip on using a cotton ball to put on blush. I tried it and liked it. It works also. I told Kristi and Laurie (carpooler) that they were going to be a part of "Rambling's with Ali" from time to time.