L'Oreal Infallible 24HR Eyeshadow Review

Hello! Today I wanted to do a review on some great shadows I have, the L'Oreal Infallible 24hr shadows. I featured one of these shadows in my Navy Smoky Eye look you can see that here :)

Ok so L'Oreal says these are 24 hour, waterproof, crease resistant and fade resistant. Now, I can't speak for the 24 hour wear or the waterproof claims, but all the rest are true. I'm not really even looking for an eyeshadow to be waterproof or last 24 hours, it seems unnessicary to me.. These shadows are awesome regardless.

Let's start with the packaging, super cute. Very sleek. Love it.

Next the shadow itself, it is a pressed pigment and it's probably the softest eyeshadow I've ever encountered. When I first swatched one, I was amazed. They're so soft and blendable and just all around great quality.

With A Twist & Bronzed Taupe.

Midnight Blue & Glistening Garnet

Ahh! Do you see how beautiful these are! They're all so pigmented and shimmery. The obvious different one is With A Twist, its a little more sheer but it's such a unique color from any that I own. It looks beautiful over matte black shadow, hmm tutorial idea?! :)

One thing I wanted to talk about that I touched on in my Navy eye look was these apply better with your fingers, IMO. You can totally make them work with a brush, I just think it's a lot easier to use your finger.

This line of shadows has such a range of color, I think there is about 20, give or take. I know I've seen a few new ones in the drugstore recently.

I hope you enjoyed this little review! I really love these shadows and plan on picking up a few more in the future. They are a little on the pricey side..anywhere from 7-9 dollars is what I usually see them for, but they are totally worth it! Do you on any of these eyeshadows?!

Thanks so much for reading!

--Nicole.

 

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Halloween Look #2 Simple Masquerade Look

 

Hi there! This is going to be a quick post. It's not so much a tutorial, but I did this cute, super simple look today and wanted to share it with you & tell you how I did it.

-I started by outlining the shape I wanted the mask to be with an angled liner brush and matte black shadow.

-Next I took a medium lavender eyeshadow and filled the whole thing in.

-Then I took a slightly darker purple shade and blended it around the inner edges.

-Next I worked on the eyes.. I blended a dark pink shadow all over the lid, the crease and the lower lashline. I lined the bottom lashline with a black liner and set it with a matte black. I used a liquid liner on the top lashline, winging it out. I applied some false lashes, the same ones I used in my navy smoky eye look I posted yesterday, which i discovered are Eyelure Naturalites Eyelashes in 120 I believe.

-I then filled in my brows, I wasn't sure if I should or not.. Since it's a mask and all.. But I did and I liked it better.

-Finally, I took some gems I bought in the scrapbook isle, and glued them all around the edge of the mask using lash glue. I used varying sizes and no real pattern.. I found the best way to do this was take a small detail brush and paint a line of lash glue and work in small sections. This part was the most time consuming.

Here's the picture with no filter, so you can see the colors better! Thats basically it. I debated on even posting this because it was so easy, but it was a lot of fun and I thought some of you would like it!

*A tip I have is apply your foundation and concealer ect before..I didn't think about this and had to improvise.

Also the lip color I used it something I made. I've really been wanted a super true lilac lip color.. I've been mulling over purchasing Limecrimes D'Lilac but I just haven't. I used NYX jumbo pencil in milk, a bright purple liner, and a little bit of Chapstick. I mixed it up in an empty shadow pan. It's working just fine!

This is a look you can do so much with, different colors, different shaped, different gems! You could add some filigree type design with black liner, really the sky's the limit with a look like this. Make it your own!

I hope you enjoyed this post, and thank you so much for reading!

--Nicole :)

 

 

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Navy Smoky Eye

 

Hi ladies. Today I have a Navy blue smoky eye look. Today was a very productive day for me and that's always a nice feeling for a Sunday. I'm excited about this look because it's using a product that I've had for a while and really love. If you want to check out how I did this, click below! :)

Big ELF Haul.

Hi there. Today I bring you an ELF haul because I still have no control over my spending. But it's ok because it's elf and it's all super cheap! The most expensive thing I bought was 5 dollars, can't beat it. I haven't browsed elfs website in a year or so, they had a lot of new products so I got a bunch of stuff to try out.

So if you want to see what I picked up, click below :)

Fall Nail Polish Fun!

I've been meaning to get this post up for a week or so but hey. I wanted to share with you some of my favorite polish colors for this time of the year!

Going from left to right..

1. Essie "No More Film" I love love this color. It's a super dark blue. Basically a blue black. I have it on my tootsies right now and it's just a great color, especially for fall!

2. Sinful Colors "Muse" I bought this polish last year around this same time, in a halloween display. I'm not sure if it's part of the regular line but sinful colors offers so many options I'm sure they have something just like it. I wore the heck out of this last year and I probably will again this year. It's a beautiful, dark, stone grey color.

3. Rimmel "Satin Black" I've talked about this before, just a great, black polish. It's so shiny you almost don't need a topcoat. It reminds me of shiny leather. Love it. Black nails are always an excellent choice in my eyes.

4. Revlon "Fashionista" This polish is so pretty I can't even! I've used so much of it. I'll need to get another bottle soon. It's a dark turquoise blue color. It's actually almost the exact same color as my living room, that's the only reason I bought it. Then I fell in love with it!

 

Sorry the picture is kind of crappy quality!

1. Essie "Rasberry" I actually talked about this polish in my favorite pink polishes for summer. It's just such a versatile color. It really is a true Rasberry color. I usually choose this over a red polish, it's more flattering on my skin. I get a lot of use out of this polish!

2. Revlon "Bold Sangria" This polishes name describes the color perfectly, bold sangria! It's such a dark, plum Berry color and I LOVE it. This color is always in for fall.

3. Wet n Wild "Haze of Love" What a cute name right? Wet n Wild always has cute names.. I bought this polish a couple years ago and have worn it a ton. It's a perfect red wine color! My bottle is almost empty! They did change the packaging of the megalast polishes and I much prefer the new bottle and brush so I will definitely be picking up a new bottle!

4. Revlon "Cayenne" This is a great polish! It's a metallic red with some gold tones to it. It's different from all my other red polishes. I wear it a lot around christmas time, it just puts me in the spirit!

So those are just some of my favorite fall polishes. I couldn't write a blog post with them all because it would include 500 nail polishes, not really..but seriously..

I hope you guys enjoyed this post, and I hope your enjoying fall so far! I know I am. I've been doing a lot of playing around with makeup and halloween looks and I really excited to show you all! I'd love to do a tutorial but it's so hard to show in pictures.. And I don't have an actual computer to edit any videos on..that's a work in progress! I'll do my best though!

Thanks so much for reading!!

--Nicole

 

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Jordana 12 HR Made to Last Eyeshadow Pencil Review!

So browsing Walgreens the other day, I was came across these Jordana Eyeshadow Pencils. I had read some good things about them, so I decided to pick one up in Endless Emerald. I get home, swatched it, and died. It was so so beautiful. Now, any pencil can swatch beautifully, the thing I loved so much about this was that once it set, it wouldn't budge. I rubbed as hard as I could on my hand and nothing. This stuff stays in place! As soon as I realized how magical these were I called out to my boyfriend "We have to go back to Walgreens!!! Haveeeee to!" And we did. And I bought 4 more.

The colors I bought from L-R

Eternal White, Prolong Purple, Stay-On Black, Continuous Almond & Endless Emerald.

and they all swatch beautifully!

 

Prolong Purple and Endless Emerald are shimmery glittery shades, the rest are matte.

I used Eternal White in my white smoky eye tutorial I posted yesterday, I only applied a little, so I got a sheer wash of color. You can really amp up the coverage of these if you apply more though. They will still completely set and go nowhere! It takes about 10 seconds for them to set, I'd say. So apply, and blend quickly!

 

I did this look with Prolong Purple, and just put a coordinating purple shade over top, and some pink in the crease. It really made the purple shadow stand out and look way more beautiful than it would on its own.

I have been weary of cream eyeshadows in the past, mainly because I have very oily lids. I always use sparingly when cream is involved or I will experience creasing, no matter what primer I use. With these, I used my Painterly Paint pot and for the purpose of this review, I basically covered my lid in the pencil. I blended it slightly with my finger, when I did the glitter did became a bit more apparent, but I don't mind that at all. I wore this for about 3 or 4 hours and it still looked great right before I took it off, which makes it great in my book!

I got each of these for 3.00 at my Walgreens, excellent price for an excellent product! I'm very happy with these and I think Jordana has a lot of really great products. I look forward to picking up some more of their products!

I hope you enjoyed this review! Thank you so much for reading!

--Nicole

 

 

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White Smoky Eye

 

Hey there! Tonight I wanted to show you this look I did yesterday. I liked it a lot and I hope you guys do it! If you want to see how I did it please click below :) !

 

Old Products!

If an effort to totally organize my makeup collection, I've gone through quite a few setups.. I finally have good system that I'm happy with. So during this whole process I came across some products that I really needed to get rid of. They're just old, and they gotta go! Anyway these are things I've held on to for no reason and I'd like to let you know what I thought of them!

Face Products.

 

1. Benefit Boing Concealer. I liked this. It's a very thick full coverage concealer. I didn't use it a whole heck of a lot just because I have a ton of concealers, and it dried up a bit. This one is over 2 years old and i have another new one. I think I'll start using my new one more..

2. L'Oreal Magic Lumi Concealer/Highlighter. I used this product a lot. I didn't love it though. It wasn't entirely the right color for me but it ended up being pretty sheer so that didn't matter much. I would like to check out the other colors and possibly the dream Lumi version too!

3. Rimmel Match Perfection Concealer/Highlight. I used this stuff so much! It's such a smooth blendable concealer. It doesn't have amazing coverage, but it's not necessarily marketed as a full coverage concealer. I got the 3rd lightest shade and it was a tad bit dark for me, so I went a shade up and it was just too light. So that's unfortunate but otherwise I liked it a lot!

4. Neutrogena 3-1 Concealer for Eyes. I used this a lot when I first got it. I did like it a lot and will probably repurchase once I use up some of my other concealers. It is a concealer/eye cream combo with SPF. I couldn't tell you why I stopped using it, I must have just forgotten about it.

5. Sonia Kashuk Hidden Agenda Concealer Quad. I used the heck out of this too but didn't really like it. I felt like the areas I put it on always looked cakey afterwards no matter what I did.

6. Benefit Porefessional. This is a really old sample, it's almost gone. I'm not sure I loved it, my skin is finicky.

7. Maybelline Dream Matte Mousse. I used this stuff when I was like, a freshmen in high school. I think it broke me out when I started using it again? Also I got the wrong color.

Conclusion: I buy way too much concealer...

Lips and Eyes

On the left: Revlon Soft Nude: This is a lipstick that gets a lot of hype. I see so many people loving it and I was super excited when I bought it. It looks horrible on me, like really bad. I cannot make it work. It's just too orange for my skin tone. It makes me so sad.. I've had it for so long and you can see how much I've used.. Tried so much to love it! Haha.

On the right: Benefit Lipstick in Shy: This is actually something my mom purchased but I took ownership soon after. It's a nice mid tone pink, it's just really old.

And finally Covergirl Super Thick lash Mascara: This is a fine mascara, nothing spectacular. Just another old product.

 

So those are my old products. I don't know if anyone was actually interested in seeing them, but hey!

Also I was wondering if anyone thinks I write too much in my posts? When I go over them I think to myself who the heck is gonna read all this? Can you guys let me know?!

If you did read it all thank you! If you Just skimmed it thank you! And if you didn't read it at all you just visited my blog thank you! I appreciate you all! I hope you enjoyed this post!!

--Nicole

 

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September Favorties!

I know September technically isn't over yet, but I decided I'd put up my September favorites now! I have lots of great, new products I've been loving this month. Much thanks to my horrible, horrible shopping addiction. I'm not even kidding, it got worse today! I can't be stopped. But I've been getting good hours at work and I got a tip today so I'm justifying it!

First up are the 3 lip products I've been reaching for the most. All Revlon products, didn't even realize that.. Anyway from left to right- Lilac Pastelle lipgloss, Pink Pout matte lipstick and Gumdrop lip butter.

I liked the layer the gloss over the lip butter for a really pretty lilac color. Pink Pout is a great color for everyone I believe. It give your lips a nice natural pink color and actually isn't too drying on the lips if you moisturizer beforehand.

Next I have Rimmels Stay Matte powder. I bought this a few years ago in the translucent shade and never really used it too.much. But after getting fed up with my oily skin decided to give it a try again, and I now love it!

Another face product is a Kat Von D blush in the shade Heartagram. I'm gonna be honest, the ONLY reason I bought this blush is because of the name. HIM is my favorite band, and the heartagram is their logo. It's a very dark dusty rose color. I'm very fair and I have to use it with a super light hand. But I've really been using it everyday and like the more dramatic blush look. I use to to contour a Little and am very happy with it. Plus, it will last forever..

Maybelline clear mascara, use it for my brows. It keeps them in place and looking tidy!

Next is L'Oreal Telescopic Shocking Extensions mascara. I have a review about this here. This stuff is heaven in a mascara tube. I've never been more pleased with a mascara! No joke.

After that is Maybellines Great Last mascara in So Very Berry. I've been using this so much since I picked it up. Which is funny because when I bought it I was like lol Nicole you're never gonna use this! It really does look great layered over my regular mascara and along on the lower lashes. It just adds such a nice touch! Especially for this time of year when I'm using so many warm eye colors.

Finally, we have the Anastasia Brow Wiz. I really love this brow pencil. It looks really natural because it has such a fine point. I also love that it has a spoolie on one end, super helpful! I've been pairing this with the clear mascara and my brows look fab.

Ok ladies those are my favorites for this month. I look forward to October. It's one of my favorite months! I hope you enjoyed this post, and thanks so much for reading.

Toodles. .

--Nicole.

 

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Top Coat Battle Update!

Hey there! Today I'm going to give you an update on the top coat battle I posted about a week or so ago..you can see this post here!

So these pictures were taken 3 days after my original post. 3 days may not seem like much to most of you but it's pretty usual for my nail polish. My job makes my polish wear off pretty quickly. But it's fine with me, I like to change my polish often!

The photo below shows the hand with Out The Door..

And this one shows Seche Vite

If I had to pick a winner based solely on which one preformed better, I couldn't. It would really be a tie. Even though bases on the pictures Out The Door performed slightly better.. I'd like to give some pros and cons for both polishes.

Out The Door

-Out The Door has a very thin consistency, very liquidy.

-It does dry completely within about ten minutes.

-Leaves the nails very shiny.

-Keeps the polish relatively chip free for at least a few days, probably longer if you're not rough on your nails like I am!

-it's cheap! I've seen it from anywhere between 3-6 dollars!

Seche Vite

-Seche Vite is a very thick consistency, you're suppose to let it bead up on the base of your nail and spread an even coat across your whole nail.

-It dries completely in about 5 minutes.

-Leaves nails very shiny.

-Again, keeps polish from chipping for at least a few days for me.

-It is a little more costly. About $8.00 and about halfway through the bottle, it becomes very gooey and very hard to use without buying the polish thinner for it. Plus, since you use a pretty good amount with each manicure, you go through it pretty quickly. Especially if you paint your nails as often as I do!

So, I like that Seche Vite leaves a thick coat on your nails, and it does dry completely and hard quicker than the OTD does. However, you will go through the Seche Vite a lot quicker than the OTD, and since OTD is a lot cheaper..

I like them both! But I think for now, I will be using Out The Door. I still love Seche Vite, I just feel it's more cost effective for me to use Out The Door.

I hope some of you found this post informative! It was a fun experiment for me to do! What are some of your favorite topcoats!?

Thanks so much for reading!!

--Nicole

 

 

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