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Blog Schedule Update!

February 25, 2015 Katie Marie Leave a Comment

Really quick, I want to get on here and let you know that my blog schedule is going to change up a bit. Starting this week I will only be posting twice a week — Mondays and Thursdays (So the next beauty post will go up tomorrow). I’m not sure if this will be my new schedule from now on, but it will be for the next several months.

I’ve been finding myself worn thin between traveling, being a wife, and putting out quality posts for you all. And since the next few months will only get busier as we prepare to move and my husband has some down time to spend with me, I think this is the best way I can balance everything.

Who knows, maybe once we move and my husband starts radiology residency (and I never see him anymore, lol!), I’ll be able to go back to my usual, 3 posts a week, schedule.

I was really torn while making this decision, but I think — in the end — it’s for the best. I hope you all understand and aren’t too disappointed in the lack of posts in the months ahead. Stick around — I am hoping this schedule isn’t forever!

So, the new schedule, once again, is Mondays and Thursdays at 7:00am, PST. And you never know….sometimes I may surprise you with a post in between 😉

Love y’all!

It Cosmetics ‘Your Most Radiant You!’ to be Featured on QVC October 14th!

October 13, 2014 Katie Marie 2 Comments

I’ve shared a few QVC‘s Today’s Special Value with you in the past — once featuring It Cosmetic‘s CC Your Way to Beautiful Skin and then another time featuring their IT’s All About You collection. Today I have yet another wonderful collection by It Cosmetic’s that will be featured on QVC’s Today’s Special Value TOMORROW, October 14th, starting at midnight!

If you’re not familiar with how QVC works, each day they decided on one item to feature as a “Today’s Special Value”. These items are offered at an exceptionally low price beginning midnight (ET) until 11:59 PM (PT) that day.

About It Cosmetics

Developed with leading plastic surgeons and dermatologists, IT Cosmetics® creates clinically-proven, innovative problem-solving makeup and skin care products that harness cutting-edge, anti-aging technologies and high-performance skin-loving ingredients to provide you with serious beauty solutions that help you look and feel your most beautiful!

Co-founder and CEO Jamie Kern Lima, who suffers from rosacea, sparse brows, hyperpigmentation and problematic skin, works hand-in-hand with plastic surgeons and dermatologists to create innovative, high-performance products with a laser focus on solving women’s beauty problems. Prior to launching IT Cosmetics, Jamie Kern Lima was an award-winning TV news anchor. She also graduated Valedictorian from Washington State University and received her MBA from Columbia Business School. IT Cosmetics is sold in ULTA Beauty Stores nationwide, and is a top color cosmetics brand on both QVC and The Shopping Channel Canada.

For more information, please visit www.itcosmetics.com – IT’S truly your beauty, but better™!

Your Most Radiant You! 5-Piece Collection

The five-piece collection includes Celebration Foundation Illumination and the brand new CC+ Radiance Ombré Blush to help you achieve your most luminous skin. Be one of the first to experience the worldwide launch ofHello Lashes Extensions that will give your lashes a reason to wink! It comes paired with the No-Tug Gel Eyeliner to give your eyes the attention they deserve.

Help transform your complexion and eyes with makeup that looks and feels like your skin but better for your most radiant you!

This was the first time I was able to receive the collection before the collection went live on QVC, so I’m really excited to share with you my own pictures and initial first impressions of the products! Let’s take a look!

The collection comes safely packaged in this box, complete with an informational booklet on each product and a few samples of other It Cosmetic products.

Celebration Foundation® Illumination Full Coverage Anti-Aging Foundation

This foundation provides full coverage and illumination to your skin. Infused with peptides, hydrolyzed collagen, antioxidants and skin-loving ingredients to nourish your skin and to help skin appear younger-looking, Celebration Foundation Illumination will never crease or crack and is also infused with Drops of Light Technology®.

My First Impressions: I own another It Cosmetics powder foundation that I really love, so I am pretty confident that I will love this one as well. It’s so buttery soft and swatched very pigmented and creamy on my finger. The brush that it comes with seems a little useless, but I am sure I’ll find some other use for it in my makeup routine. 🙂

New! Hello Lashes® Extensions 24HR Mascara

This brand new mascara helps you achieve the look of false lashes. This five-in-one, clinically proven 24-hour wear mascara features the blackest black melted nylon fibers infused into our volumizing and lash-loving Hello Lashes Mascara to help you achieve long, thick and dramatic lashes in one quick coat application! Infused with lash-enhancing and conditioning ingredients, including vitamin B5, peptides, collagen, proteins and green tea.

My First Impressions: I haven’t tried this on my lashes yet, so it’s really hard to give you a first impression. But I can tell you that the wand looks very promising — I like that the end of the wand is feathered out, instead of just cut blunt. This means I’ll be able to get the inside corner of my lashes really well, which is something I like to do. The formula appears to be very black and very wet, so definitely promising.

New! CC+® Radiance Ombré Blush

It Cosmetic’s brand new blush is the perfect balance of color and luminosity, blending from matte to pearlized radiance – it’s a blush and highlighter in one compact. Formulated to minimize the appearance of pores and fine lines, this anti-aging, color correcting formula in the perfect pink shade of Je Ne Sais Quoi® is beautiful on all skin tones.

My First Impressions: I love the idea of a pearly highlighter and matte blush in one compact. I admit I’m a little skeptical of how this will work over a longer period of time — not sure if the two will become mixed together. But I plan to be careful and take advantage of this matte blush. I love matte blushes!

No-Tug® Waterproof Gel Eyeliner

This gel liner is clinically proven to remain waterproof for up to 12 hours without tugging the delicate eyelids. Highly pigmented and anti-aging in both
its application and its ingredients, this eyeliner is formulated with skin-loving hydrolyzed collagen, silk, rose and antioxidants.

My First Impressions: I like the color that they give you in this collection — it’s a brown/black. So I can use it for those days that I don’t want a deep, dark black, but I do want something with more pigmentation then a brown. I swatched it on my arm, and it hasn’t budget a bit. I’ve rubbed it multiple times, to see if it will smear or fad, and it’s held up really well.

Heavenly Luxe® Double Airbrush Foundation Brush

This brush features dual fiber brush hairs that flawlessly work to blend foundation onto your skin and help blur away imperfections. You don’t need to be an expert – IT does the work for you!

My First Impressions: It Cosmetics brushes always feel and look extremely high quality. The price tag on these brushes are pretty high, though, so the fact that they always include a brush in their collections is really nice.

This brush is super soft and, because it has different length bristles, it almost feels feather-light when you brush it over your skin. I can totally see how this would give you an ‘airbrushed’ appearance. Not sure if you would be able to get a full-coverage application, but I think it will be perfect for those every-day makeup looks. 🙂

Details on It Cosmetic’s QVC Feature

Your Most Radiant You! Five-Piece Collection goes beyond beauty. This Today’s Special Value® is scheduled to debut on QVC®

Tuesday, October 14, 2014 at midnight (ET)~ PIN IT ~

I received one or more of the products mentioned above from It Cosmetics in the hopes that I would mention them on my blog. Regardless, this does not guarantee a review or feature on my blog. I only share information that I think will be useful for my readers and I only recommend products I have personally used.

Welcome to ‘From My Vanity’!

August 11, 2014 Katie Marie 4 Comments

I am so excited to announce to you the new face of my blog! It’s kind of sad to let go and say goodbye to “Legacy of a Writer”, but I am SO excited to continue the adventure with “From My Vanity”. 😀

Thank you all SO much for the title suggestions you gave me during the giveaway. There were so many good ones! If you could ask my family, they would confirm the fact that I wavered between so many of them for a long time!

But, From My Vanity finally won out.

I made the grand transition this morning and while there are still a few quirks I need to iron out (like make a blog button and get the sidebars in order), the blog facelift is pretty much complete.

I have updated my About Me and Policies & Disclosure page — and I’ve also added another page, Advertising/PR. Go check them all out and let me know what you think! Leave it in the comments below this post — for some reason I can’t get the comments to work on my pages. But I’ll be working on that!

I also had to update my Twitter and Facebook accounts. So if you are following me on Twitter, my handle is now @ladykaty92. And on Facebook, I will eventually be closing out the one you have ‘liked’, so please visit my new page and ‘like’ it at www.facebook.com/ladykaty92.

Those are the only two social media accounts that have been changed so far. Instagram and Pinterest will stay the same, and I am in the process of changing Bloglovin’. I will keep you posted on that. 🙂

I hope you all like the new look! Share it on your social media, if you do! Let’s get some more beauty and fashion lovers to join and keep the conversations on here lively. 😀

I’ll be back on Wednesday with a new post. See you then!

The Suggestions are In and Now the Work Begins (Blog Renaming)

August 4, 2014 Katie Marie Leave a Comment

Before I get into today’s post, let me first start off by saying how amazing you all are! On my “I’m Renaming the Blog! (Details Below)” post, the suggestions and recommendations were just pouring in the whole week! I received over 100 comments — thank you all so much for sharing your suggestions with me! They were so creative and gave me lots of ideas that I would never have thought of on my own.

A peak at my notepad filled with your suggestions!

Since there were SO many awesome suggestions, it’s going to take me a little while to think through them all and decide. But over the next few days I’ll start making changing on the blog! The first one being, of course, changing the url and name. It’ll probably take me a few days to get everything ironed out and looking well. During the process, though, I would love to hear what you all are thinking of the changes!

If you check out my blog and see some of the new changes over the next few days, feel free to leave me a comment on this post below, telling me what you think of it.

Whenever I am completely done with the facelift of my blog, I’ll be back with another post explaining all the changes — and also give you a sneak peak on what kind of posts to expect from me in the future. 😀

I’m so excited about this, you guys! Thank you all so much for your support! 😀

I’m Renaming the Blog! (Details Below :-)

July 28, 2014 Katie Marie 132 Comments

I feel like I haven’t posted in forever! But, while I haven’t been posting, I have been working behind the scenes! I’ve got some exciting posts planned for this blog, but first — as you already know from the title of this post — I have some big news to share.

I will be renaming — or rebranding — this blog! 🙂

I’m sure you are full of questions, so I will try my best to answer them thoroughly in this post. But if I have missed a question, please leave it in the comments below and I’ll answer it. 🙂

Why Am I Renaming the Blog?

There are several reasons for this. The biggest one, though, is that the niche for my blog has changed drastically in the past year. When I decided on the name Legacy of a Writer, I was exclusively devoted to reviewing books. About a year ago, however, my schedule started to prohibit my ability to read often. So I started blogging about other stuff — other products, games, makeup, and skincare. As I went through Cosmetology school, I really grew a passion and enthusiasm for makeup.

With my love for beauty and a desire to bring you guys more reviews and tutorials on makeup, I feel my blog title isn’t really accurate anymore. I don’t want to confuse my readers or the companies I work with by saying I blog about beauty and my title suggests reading.

Another big reason for changing my blog — and more specifically my URL — is because I recently got married and no longer have my maiden name. I am not really sure what I was thinking when I picked my maiden name as my blog URL — *palms forehead* — ah well, who knows! But since I am going to be changing my blog name, I thought it was a good time to change the URL as well. 🙂

Does that make sense? If you’ve become a recent beauty follower, let me know if you had similar thoughts when you subscribed to my blog. Did it confuse you? Make you wonder?

Will the Changes Effect My Followers?

No. I’ve been doing a lot of research and reading up on this (one of the reasons I’ve been absent for so long), and I believe I can change it without it effecting you at all. 🙂

Of course, I will have a new website URL, so you would need to update any bookmarks you have set up…or just remember the new URL. 🙂 But if you’re a follower of my blog, you should still remain a follower of this blog and get the email subscriptions (if you are signed up for that).

What Will the New Blog Name Be?

That is where you come in — my awesome followers! 🙂

I have a couple ideas in my head for a blog name, but none that stand out from the rest. So I want to make you all a part of this transition! Give me some ideas for a blog name. Tell me what you think my blog name should be!

My blog objective will be to bring you reviews, tutorials, and hauls of skincare, makeup, and other products. These will be things that I would personally use in my own skincare or makeup routine — so, reviews to you that are from my ‘vanity’ or ‘beauty room’, so to speak. 🙂

So please leave your comments! If you have just one suggestion for my blog name, or if you have a hundred suggestions, leave them below! 🙂

There’s a Giveaway Going On?

Yep! I thought this would be a fun way to celebrate my announcement! As usual, all you have to do is enter in the Rafflecopter form below. But don’t wait — this giveaway ends in one week! Rules for this giveaway are at the bottom of the form — in short, though, USA only, must be a follower, and must be 18 years or older. 🙂 The giveaway form will close on Sunday, August 3rd, at midnight.

What’s the prize? Well, it’s an assortment of makeup! They are all full size products (except for the fragrance) that are brand new. I originally swatched the NYX eyeshadow palette, but it’s in perfect condition and has been disinfected, so all good!

I’ve listed all the products in the form below, but the total value of this makeup bundle comes to around $70! (I don’t know the exact price, because two products are not sold in the US.)

a Rafflecopter giveaway

Thanks for all your love and support! I’m really excited to be rebranding my blog and renaming it. I can’t wait to share my passion with you all! 🙂 Thanks for being such an awesome group of followers! I love reading your comments!

A Little Announcement

July 7, 2014 Katie Marie 3 Comments

Right now I have a little “lull” in my product reviews and giveaways, so I am going to take this time (shouldn’t be more than a week) to do some much-needed cleaning, re-organizing, and re-vamping of my blog.

I’m not sure what all this will entail, but I really want to organize things and continue from here with a clean and well-functioning blog. 🙂

If you have any advice for me — any ideas or blog posts you would like to see in the future — fashion tips, makeup tutorials, monthly favorites, etc — PLEASE share them with me in the comments below! I want to write posts that are helpful and useful for you!

I hope you guys will like how things progress when I come back. 🙂

Stay tuned!

QVC’s ‘Today’s Special Value’ will be featuring BRAND NEW It Cosmetics Products SOON!

June 13, 2014 Katie Marie Leave a Comment

I’ve got some really fun and exciting news for you all today! I’ve done this before in the past — with QVC’s last It Cosmetics deal (that I will be reviewing on here very soon!). If you missed that money-saving deal, you’ll like what I’m about to tell you. 🙂

It Cosmetic’s new All About You! Collection will be launching for one day only on QVC next Saturday, June 21st!

Yep, that’s right! And this time, I’m able to bring the news to you sooner, so you can be ready to tune into QVC or hop on QVC.com bright and early on June 21st. 🙂

About IT Cosmetics®:
IT, which stands for Innovative Technology, is all about
Clinically Proven, Skin Loving, Problem Solutions! Founder Jamie
Kern, who suffers from Rosacea, Sparse Brows, Hyperpigmentation and
problematic-skin works hand-in-hand with a team of plastic surgeons to
create innovative, high performance products laser
focused on solving women’s beauty problems.

I’m sure you’re curious what will be included in this 5 piece collection from It Cosmetics, right? Well, I’m happy to share with you that not only will this collection include 3 QVC® Customer Choice Beauty
Award winning products, but the other 2 products are brand new launches that will be available for the first time ever in this bundle — available from midnight ET June 21st until 2:59 AM ET June 22nd for an exceptionally low price, only while supplies last.

So let’s break down the products for you!

IT’s All About You! Your 5pc Customer Favorites

IT Cosmetics Today’s Special Value – 1 Day ONLY on QVC!

1) Celebration Foundation®

Achieve your most flawless, beautiful skin with
Celebration Foundation®, the 2013 QVC Customer Choice Beauty
Award winner for “Best Foundation”. This full coverage, lightweight
anti-aging foundation rich in skin-loving peptides, hydrolyzed collagen,
silk and more, helps you attain a perfect, airbrushed
complexion in 30 seconds!

2) *Limited Edition* Heavenly Luxe™ Dual Ended Complexion Perfection Brush

Use the NEW multifunctional 2-in-1 Heavenly Luxe™ Dual-Ended Complexion Perfection Brush
to swirl circles into the foundation and buff onto skin to get flawless
silky full coverage that feels like you’re wearing nothing.

3) Brow Power® Universal Brow Pencil

Finish your most beautiful you with the most powerful step in your beauty routine, your brows!
Brow Power® Universal Brow Pencil, is the two-time QVC Customer
Choice Award winner for “Best Brow Product”. This universal, long wear
eyebrow pencil is infused with cutting edge, brow-enhancing ingredients
that coat each hair, while adhering to the
skin, making it easy to naturally transform thick or thin brows to
create the look of your brows but better™. In a universally flattering
shade, Brow Power® Universal Brow Pencil is customized to work with all
hair colors to create a bold look for everyone!

For lighter hair, apply using lighter, softer strokes and for darker
hair, apply pressing hard to deposit more color. As a finishing touch,
lightly brush through brows with the spooly brush to create a natural
polished look. As always, for every Brow Power®
Universal Brow Pencil sold, IT Cosmetics will donate one to the
American Cancer Societies’ Look Good, Feel Better® program to help women
face the effects of cancer with confidence. To date, IT Cosmetics has
donated over $4 million in Brow Power Pencils to Look
Good, Feel Better®.

4) CC+™ Radiance Palette (BRAND NEW!)

Now it’s your most radiant, luminous, perfectly lit skin in a compact! Introducing the
NEW CC+™ Radiance Palette. This palette includes three new
color correcting innovations! The CC+™ Brightening Finishing Powder,
CC+™ Matte Bronzer, and the CC+™ Flush Blush, each anti-aging talc-free
powder includes color correcting pigments that
enhance and even out the appearance of your natural skin tone, while
boosting the warmth and radiance of your skin. Real Silk and Collagen
work to blur the look of fine lines and pores.

— The CC+™ Brightening
Finishing Powder is formulated with Drops of Light Technology™,
using light-reflecting microspheres to provide your skin with the look
of healthy illumination without glitter or shimmer

— The CC+™ Matte
Bronzer is formulated with anti-aging peptides and hyaluronic-filling
spheres to keep you skin smooth and hydrated. Hydrolyzed
Collagen, Vitamins A, C and E, Grapeseed, Green Tea, Silk and Aloe
treat your skin to a powerful boost of antioxidants and healthy
moisture, smoothing out fine lines and wrinkles.

— The CC+™ Blush not
only flushes your cheeks for all day wear, but is also infused
with anti-aging powerhouse ingredients including Amino Acids, Plum Oil,
Cherry Oil, Hyaluronic Acid, Pomegranate, Jojoba, Aloe, Seaweed Extract
and Grapeseed that work together to give cheeks a boost of healthy
hydration.

5) Waterproof Bye Bye Under Eye® Anti-Aging Concealer (BRAND NEW!)

Last – but not least – say hello to the NEW Clinically Proven All Day Waterproof version of two-time Customer Choice Beauty
Award Winner for “Best Concealer” Bye Bye Under Eye®, now
loaded with additional anti-aging skin loving benefits plus clinically
proven for all-day 12-hr waterproof coverage.

Start by warming up a pin
sized amount on the back of your hand, then
gently tap the concealer onto the areas that need extra coverage and
blend with fingers or use the multitasking Dual Ended Complexion
Perfection Brush to ensure flawless application. Infused with
anti-aging technology to not only cover, but to make your skin
appear younger at the same time, Bye Bye Under Eye® Waterproof stays
true to its original Bye Bye Under Eye® Concealer formula, providing
crease-free coverage to camouflage under eye discolorations with ease,
while hydrating to ensure a beautiful well-rested
appearance.

IT Cosmetics®
IT’s All About You! 5pc Collection will be a Today’s Special Value
offered at an exceptionally low price while supplies last, for
ONE DAY ONLY.

You can get this deal on QVC, the QVC apps, and also QVC.com on June 21st, 2014 from midnight to 2:59 AM ET the following day.