Welcome To Amber At Dawn!

So I know its been awhile.... a long while. :(

I was out of work this summer because I had surgery. While housebound I realized how much I have missed blogging.

I decided to give my blog a makeover. I combined my blogs and now have a new name (shout out to my boyfriend who thought of it).

I will have posts on all kinds of topics. I do not want to limit myself and hope to keep expanding on the different topics I post about.

Right now the plan is for new posts every Friday. With random posts on other days every now and then. I am going to try really hard to get a post up every week!

So if your still here with me from my old blogs, thanks for sticking around.

 If your new, welcome! :)

~amber~

Outfit Of The Night: Going To A Wedding (Dress & Makeup)

This post is long over due. I tweeted about about going to a wedding back in June (my boyfriend's sister got married). I wanted to share what I wore and the makeup look I did.

I ended up having to look for my dress last minute and dragging my boyfriend with me, which was interesting. We apparently have very different opinions on what looks good on me. After looking all day, going store to store it came down to two dresses. I ended up going with this one:

I got the dress at Macy's. I really liked how the hem of the dress is different lengths. The shoes(which are not tied in the pic) I have had for years, and I don't remember where I got them but they are super comfy which I love. I have trouble walking in heels and since I am tall I hardly ever wear them. But these shoes I was able to wear all night while most of the woman had abandoned theirs. 

For makeup I brought a lot:

I ended up going with a neutral eye:

And a bolder lip: 

For my hair I didn't do anything to it (besides brush it of course) expect use a little bit of sea salt spray which I was cautious to how much I used since it was the first time I ever really used it in my hair, and I was not sure how I would like it. I ended up not really using enough to do anything.

Sorry it took me so long to get this post up. I hope you all had a fantastic summer!

~amber~

Another Update!

Hello all! Just a quick post to say hello, and I am still here. I have not abandoned this blog.  Working two jobs just hasn't left me a lot of time to do the quality of posts I would like. I really want to get back to posting on a regular basis but I do not know when I will be, hopefully soon.  I am still here though and I thank you if you have stuck around. I just noticed today that I hit 1000 page views even though I have only posted one new post in the past several months. Thank you if you are still checking out my blog. Even though I am not posting on a regular basis, I still check my blog on a regular basis. So feel free to leave comments, I will read them. It would be awesome if you followed me (that way you will definitely know when I post a new post) if you haven't already. You can follow me with bloglovin, just click the link in the side bar. You can also follow me on twitter as I often tweet when I post something new, as well as other randomness.


Till next time,
~amber~

March/April Favorites!! & Update!!

 I had started writing this post when it was the beginning of April and now April is over! Crazy how fast this past month has gone. So why haven't I posted in a month? Well I am working two jobs now and I have been adjusting to my new schedule. I hope to get back to posting on a regular basis soon. 

I really wanted to share my March favorites and since I have been still using and loving all the beauty favorites in April I figured I would make it a combined favorites for March and April.

Beauty

CoverGirl Clump Crusher Mascara- Love this mascara! It hardly ever clumps.The formula is not to wet which I like. I love the way it makes my lashes look. There are days when I don't wear any eye makeup expect this mascara. 

Burts Bees Toner- I really like this toner. The smell isn't bad and I did see a improvement in my skin as long as I kept up my skincare routine (sometimes I get lazy which I know is so bad!). The only thing I don't like is how small the bottle is and how fast I end up going through it. The price is around $10, so it is a bit on the more expensive side considering the size of the bottle compared to other toners.

Dove Detangler Spray- I don't know why I hadn't been using a detangler considering I have the kind of hair that loves to tangle. This stuff is great. It really does make it so much easier to brush out your hair. Wet or dry. Plus the smell is nice. I recently cut my hair short again so I don't need this as much as I did when I had my long hair. But I still do use it. I give a few sprays when brushing my hair out in the morning or after a shower.

 Maybelline Baby Lips in Melon Mania- This is a color I wouldn't normally get. I decided to pick this up after hearing some people talk about it on YouTube and I am glad I did. It gives just the right amount of color to your lips. I love that with baby lips you don't need a mirror to put them on but yet you still get color. This is definitely a great color for Spring/Summer.

Non Beauty (For March)

TV Shows

The Killing- I watched the first two seasons of this show in like a week or so. It is so good. Most cop/detective shows the cases get solved within a episode or two. The first two seasons revolve around one case. You may think that is drawing it out way to long but when I was watching it I definitely did not feel like it was. The third season is starting up in June (I think) and will be a different case. I am looking forward to it. 

The Walking Dead- So the ending was not as crazy as I had thought it would be.  Still this show keeps me on the edge of my seat. I actually ended up re-watching the whole first season in March. Gotta love a show that you can re-watch and its like your watching it for the first time again. 

Till next time,
~amber~

Celebrating My Birthday!

My birthday falls in the middle of December a month that is always crazy (when I was in college my birthday would always fall right between classes ending and finals starting).  Even though my birthday was last month I still wanted to share how I celebrated. My actual birthday fell on a Tuesday this year. So on my actual birthday I had to work. Then I just went out to eat with my mom and step-father.

I celebrated my birthday with my bf the weekend before. We did a overnight trip down to Atlantic City and stayed at Revel, the newest hotel on the boardwalk that opened up in 2012.  Since we stayed on a Sunday night we were able to get the room for a pretty reasonable price which included 2 drinks from one of the bars and room service for breakfast the next morning. If you can travel at off peak times definitely do it,  you can end up saving a lot!

 The hotel itself was huge and gorgeous. Also it being decorated for for the holidays was a added bonus. Unfortunately the weather when we were down there was rainy and cold. So when we did venture out onto the boardwalk and to the other hotels we didn't stay out long and we quickly returned to our hotel.

Our room was pretty awesome too. Very modern. With the TV remote you could control all the lights in the room! Also all the rooms have doorbells. Even though it was rainy out I took a picture of the view from our room.

Good thing I did, the next morning when we woke up it was so foggy you could not see a thing out the window.

I also was super excited to find that the little soaps, shampoo & conditioner, and lotion they leave you in the bathroom were from Bath & Body Works! 

After we checked out our room, we had a late lunch, and explored the hotel.Then we ventured outside but like I said returned not to long after. We then got dressed for dinner. Since I was celebrating my birthday I thought it would be nice to dress up a bit. I wore a lace dress (the belt came with it) that I got at Kohls, some black tights and black heels that I have had forever.

My bf had on dress pants and a nice button up shirt. I kept my makeup and jewelry pretty simple, and just wore my hair down. 

We ate at one of the many restaurants in the hotel.The food was very good, (sorry I forgot to take a picture but I had meatloaf). We also had some yummy Sorbet for dessert. After dinner we walked around a the hotel some more. This hotel has so many lounge type sitting areas, we joked that we should have tried to take pictures of us sitting in each area. Then we had our drinks that came with the room package. 

I told the bartender what kind of drinks I like and he made me one that he had come up with himself so it has no name. It was very good though!

Once it got past midnight we decided to call it a night. The next morning we had room service for breakfast. My first time ever having room service. It was also yummy! The picture I took on my phone didn't really come out so I am not going to post it but I had waffles and my bf had french toast and we split a order of turkey sausage. 

After we checked out and put our bags in the car we came back in so we could get each other a memento from the gift store. I got my bf a shot glass because he has a collection and I usually get him one when we go somewhere new. And he got me this t shirt. I thought it was fitting since we had room service for breakfast. 

 He also got us each fake casino chips with Revel on them and I got a postcard with the hotel on it.

And that was how I celebrated my birthday with my bf. I will leave you now with a picture I took when were driving there of a restaurant we passed.

Till next time,

Amber