An Engineer's Beauty Diary

Hello and welcome back to my blog! I know I've been a bit absent since the re-branding, but I'm ready to jump back into blogging with a new blog post coming to you every day, so keep a lookout and check back! I'm also trying out a new style and structure to my posts, so please leave me a comment letting me know if you like this new structure better or if you have any other suggestions! Today, I'll be giving you all a review of the Lush Coalface Cleanser. I found this cleanser about 2 years ago, and I can safely say that it has had quite the hand in changing my skin. If you've been reading my blog for a while, you'll know that I have very acne prone, sensitive, and oily/combo skin. I've struggled to keep to a skincare routine that would work for me for many years now, but, I've been sticking to this cleanser and despite its appearance, is doing wonders for my skin! Without further ado, let's get into the details! Q: How much does it cost? ...

Hello and Happy Sunday! Today's post is going to be something a bit different, as it isn't going to be anything to do with beauty, but a post to help out my fellow university students who are on the lookout for their first internship. If you're looking to get your very first internship, the idea can be extremely daunting. I was overwhelmed and had absolutely no idea where to start, when to start looking, and how to get noticed enough for an interview with a company. So, today, I'm here to hopefully give you 3 simple tips that you can do right now to put you one step closer to getting your first internship. As I've only had experience with the Engineering side of internship opportunities, I can only discuss that. I'm not too sure how other majors go through the internship process. Tip # 1: Attend Career Fairs If your school offers a career fair, get dressed up in your nice, fancy business clothes, and get ready to shake hands! I cannot stress this tip enoug...

Hi everyone; I hope you're all doing well. I'm back today with a review of the Urban Decay All Nighter and De-Slick setting sprays. As someone with extremely oily skin, I'm used to my makeup getting greasy and sliding around in a few hours. The caveat with me though, is that I don't like to use setting powders. I have acne, and I've found that lots of setting powers would break me out because there's too much silica or talc in them. One example is the Laura Mercier Translucent Setting Powder which I've done a review on  here . Thus, I turned to setting sprays in the hopes that it'll cure my oily skin woes. Ulta was having the Urban Decay setting sprays for 40% off for one day only during the holidays so I picked up De-Slick and All Nighter to try out. Here are my thoughts: De-Slick:  This one is aimed for oily skin and claims to control oil and keep the skin matte. Here are the claims on the back of the box: I'm sad to say that this d...

Hello everyone; I hope you're all doing well and are having a wonderful New Year!! One of my top resolutions for 2017 is to be more consistent with blogging because I do love everything about beauty and I want to share all the new products, tips, and tricks with every single one of you. For anyone new, I'm so happy to have you here and thanks so much for joining in on my beauty obsession. Now, onto the actual post. 2016 was a good year filled with so many challenges, especially this past semester at college. That being said, I still found time to discover some amazing products that will stay with me this year. Let's jump right in! Face: bareMinerals Complexion Rescue: This is marketed and described as a BB, CC and tinted moisturizer rolled into one product. I would say that this feels more like a tinted moisturizer than anything else to me. This gives sheer to light coverage and looks extremely smooth and natural on the skin. Having oily skin, this does give me q...

Hey everyone; I hope you're all doing well. As promised, I'm doing another post and today, I'm going to share with you all my summer foundation essentials. 1. Sunscreen: The best sunscreen that I have found is this CoTz Face sunscreen for lighter skin tones. It's a great primer that absorbs oil and protects your skin at the same time. This is a mineral sunscreen, meaning that the main ingredients consist of titanium dioxide and zinc oxide. You can find this  here  for $19.99. I'll be doing an in-depth review on this sunscreen in a later post. 2. Foundation: The foundation that I have been wearing everyday this summer is the Nars All Day Luminous Weightless Foundation. I have this in the shade Fiji and Gobi. With this foundation, I don't even need a concealer because it has such great coverage. Since it's summer right now and I do have a bit of color, I'm using Fiji by itself. I will also be doing an in-depth review on this foundation in a post c...

Hi everyone! I would like to begin this post by apologizing for my long time away from blogging. I'm not going to bore you all with the details, so today, I thought I would kick off my return to blogging with a review on the Laura Mercier Translucent Loose Setting Powder! You can find the small size of this powder, which is the one I have, at the Sephora check-out line for $23. This small travel size has 9.3g, or 0.33 oz of product and comes with the signature Laura Mercier velour puff. As I'm sure that the both the full and travel sizes contain the same product, I'm going to jump straight into the review. This broke me out. Badly. I don't know what it is that caused me to break out from this, but anytime that I wore it, it caused me to get quite a few under the skin bumps that eventually cleared away when I stopped using this powder. I was hoping that this powder would control my insanely oily skin, but it didn't hold up that much longer than my drugs...

Hey everyone; I hope you're all doing well! Today I'm bringing to you all a review on the NYX Baked Blush in the shade Chiffon. There are 12 shades that retail for $6.99 at Ulta and Ulta.com. Without further ado, let's get straight into the review! Chiffon is a gorgeous light to medium tone bronzy, peachy, pinky, shimmery shade that works wonderfully for the summer time. It's not so shimmery that it looks obnoxious; it has fine shimmers in it that make the skin look like it's glowing. The blush has a nice pigment to it, but not so much that you have to be careful with how much to apply. This has definitely become my go-to blush for everyday. Ulta has 40% off right now on NYX products, so if you'd like to try out this color or some other colors, these blushes are around $4 for now!  If you're afraid of how shimmery this is, don't be! It may not look like much as a swatch, but on the cheeks, it translates amazingly and doesn't have ...