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Feeling Radiant, Bubbly, & Ziggy Zaggy

Have you entered my Cowboy Boot giveaway from Boot Barn yet? No? you should! 🙂

Outfit Deets:

You guys, this is what I wore to my sorority sister’s wedding last weekend. I’m going to be honest with you. The reasons for purchasing this dress were two-fold:

  1. I needed a new dress because the last time I bought a dress was like… I dunno… a long time ago.
  2. I AM OBSESSED WITH IT. I saw it on Fedora Boutique’s facebook page and couldn’t run to the store fast enough to try it on. And then I tried it on. And BOOM. I knew it needed to be mine. (But don’t fret, if you love it too, ModCloth has it!)

Because I like to keep it real, I thought I would also show you my “getting ready” process AND tell you about an amazing company in the process.

Nicole, the FABULOUS woman who runs Radiant Cosmetics, contacted me a little while back and asked about sponsoring the blog. When I told her that my sponsorships go to our Kenya mission trip, it turned out to be a GREAT fit! It turns out that she, too, loves the Lord and launched Radiant Cosmetics to help fight human trafficking – another issue that I happen to be really passionate about. 20% of Radiant’s profits go DIRECTLY to an organization located in Austin, Texas that is housing young girls who’ve been rescued out of the sex trafficking industry. Amazing.

Anyway, you’ll be hearing more about Radiant I’m sure, but she did send me a few products to try, and since I was getting ready for the wedding, I thought it would be a perfect time to give them a whirl.

Nicole sent me an eyeshadow “Alchemy”, a brown eyeliner in “Brownie”, and a lipgloss in “Blush.”

So yeah, please excuse the TOTALLY awkward up-close nature of this next set of photos:

I took the same photo before and after I put my makeup on. And I used ALL of Radiant’s products along with a couple of my own that I had previously.

Now, a note – I have CRAZY sensitive skin. Like, I am allergic to EVERYTHING. I don’t know what it is. I have the WORST luck with eye shadows making my eyelids all itchy and irritated and it’s embarrassing and lame. I’m also allergic to like a bajillion lipgloss / lipstick / chap stick brands. I have no idea why.

Radiant’s products didn’t make me itchy, irritated, or swollen all night. In fact, I couldn’t even tell I was wearing them. I was SO EXCITED.

Here’s the Alchemy Eyeshadow on my hand. Super pigmented and went on pretty smoothly.

This is the Brownie eyeliner. I LOVE IT. It went on so smooth and I didn’t feel like it was choppy looking at all. I am NOT great at putting eyeliner on and it was even easy for me. I also love the little smudgy thing on the other end of the eyeliner. I don’t know what the smudgy thing is called… but I like it.

Again, excuse the awkward up-close nature of this photo, but I wanted to show you what the eyeshadow and eyeliner looked like when I put them on. For my final look I did end up using a few other colors to give some definition around the eyes.

And about this lipgloss… other than it being the perfect shade of pink… it smells SO GOOD. Seriously. I kinda wanna eat it, but I don’t think that would be wise.

…ANNNNNND I forgot to take pictures of me doing my hair. But I did my hair the way I did it that one time I did a HAIR TUTORIAL. Oh man, remember that? So, if you wanna know how I did my hair, you can watch that incredibly embarrassing video.

But, this is me all finished!

Apparently I’m not good at taking pictures in hotel rooms with husband.

that’s better. me and the hubster.

me and my grandlittle claire. you might recognize her from amy’s shower last week. claire also happens to share my affinity for diet coke. i love her.

me and janeberry. jb was one of my bridesmaids, she was my roommate in college, and i love her. a lot.

I love Phi Mu weddings because you know that there’s always going to be hilarious photobombs and tons of dancing.

me and the beautiful bride, jessica. (i still swear she looks like sarah jessica parker) 🙂

Yeah, so photo overload in this post. But what can I say? I love photos and I love my friends and I love basically “scrapbooking” some of my life on this here blog.

Anyway. Happy Wednesday, y’all. All for now!

Linking up today with The Pleated Poppy, Rolled Up Pretty, Sailor Spy, Rae Gun Ramblings, and Transatlantic Blonde.

84 Comments

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  5. Molly, I love this!! What a gorgeous dress, and the color is perfect on you! The wedding photos are also super adorable.

    And thanks for all the sweet comments! They really do make my day.

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  8. You are so RADIANT dear, love your lovely lovely smile. This is such a wonderful dress, fun and flirty and lotsa funk too. The make up is amazing, great tips dear. And seems you have a wonderful time at the party. Following u now on bloglovin. Lets keep in touch and have a great week!

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  14. Beautiful! Girl, you are stunning and the dress and makeup just enhance it all! 😉 And what an amazing sounding company. So cool. 😉 I’ll have to check them out.

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  17. You are such a stunner lady! Your make-up is amazing. Can you come do mine? 🙂 And can we spend a moment on that dress. It’s so unbelievably amazing. I love it! And the colors suit you so well. Oh and those shoes again…you are killing me…heading over to Target.com right now…

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  19. You are equal parts gorgeous, and cracking me up! That dress is beautiful – the colors are perfect on you, and you could not have paired with a better necklace! Radiant’s products seem amazing, and the shades are so flattering on you! Looks like it was a fun wedding. 🙂

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    1. thank you so much, beth!and yes, you should totally check out Radiant – i love supporting small companies like that where i know the money is going to a good cause

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  26. I can see why you were obsessed with that dress!!! I love the color combo!! It looks like you had so much fun at the wedding. I bet your group of friends is a ton of fun. 🙂 Also, your new makeup looks lovely! I’m so bad at makeup. Like, seriously. Yours look so pretty!

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    1. yi-chia thank you SO much! AH and i’m so glad to know i’m not the only one. i think it’s things with beeswax in them (at least i think) or i think lip stuff that has alcohol in it. but YES, the Radiant lipglosses didn’t cause me an allergy at all!

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  30. You look so beautiful Molly and I am in love with that dress! Thanks for sharing the makeup routine too, what a great eyeshadow shade. Looks like you had an amazing time at the wedding and gosh darn I officially NEED one of those bubble necklaces.

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  31. Molly, that dress is amazing – I love the colors together, and the pattern is so fun! And you look just gorgeous, that makeup really suits you! Looks like you had a blast at teh wedding! 🙂

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  34. Oh I love that dress – I pinned something similar but in black and white. Its so nice to see lots of pictures of you and your friends *sniff* I miss my best buddies – they are away in other cities/countries right now – but back to you….The Faithful Sisters indeed (I looked it up!)

    Oh – and we had a guy come talk at our Church the other week about the work he is doing with freeing slaves – mostly children. Man its awful and it makes me really sad, and I’m working on what I can do to help him out BUT the next time I need makeup I’ll check out Radiant. Thanks for the tip.

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    1. thank you SO much, NIN! 🙂 Faithful Sisters indeed 🙂 🙂 – and yes, you should totally check out Radiant. Nicole (the owner) just has such a huge heart and a heart for service and it’s one of those things where i feel good supporting a company where i know where the money is going and who it’s supporting

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  37. gah! love that dress so much i want to have it. excellent choice. those COLORS!

    now off to decide what one wears for their first day of work…

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  40. Okay that dress is gorg and the colors are PERFECT (read in Horton’s voice from Horton Hears a Who – and if you haven’t seen that, well, I just sounded ridiculous) – and “grandlittle?” I love visiting just to boost my lingo. love ya’ girlie!

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    1. lol thank you so much sky! i did used to be an english teacher… so you know, vocab is my thing. but for real my husband always looks at me funny when i tell him about my grandlittle or my twin or something. and then i’m just like, “look, it’s sorority talk, okay?” hahaha

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  41. This post is made of win, especially since you’re wearing an adorable ModCloth dress. You should wear dresses more often…even though it’s about to be fall. 😛

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