Collective Drugstore Haul

 

I'm back! I figured out my camera issues, thank god. So I'm here to show you some stuff I've bought at the drugstore over the past couple weeks. Some hits and some misses in here! Click below to see :)

Valentines Makeup Look- Naked 3 Palette

Naked 3 Everyday Rose Gold Smoky Eye

Hey there! Today I wanted to show you a quick look I put together with my new Naked 3 Palette! I'm totally in love with it, I've used it everyday since I bought it! If you'd like to see my post with swatches, click here. If you want to see how I got this look, click below!

Makeup Geek Utopia Pigment Review

Hi everyone! I hope you all had a good weekend. Were currently snowed in with almost a foot of snow! So what better time to blog. Today I want to review Makeup Geek Pigment in Utopia. I've seen so many people using it lately and it looked so beautiful I knew i needed it. I've loved Marlenas videos on youtube for so long and was excited to try her products out! I'm happy to say this did not dissapoint :)

Packaging: Plastic pot with a screw off black lid. You get about 2 grams of product. There is no sifter.

This particular pigment is one like I've never tried before. It's not a traditional loose powder pigment but more of a flaky shimmery glittery pigment. It's very light and fluffy to the touch. I'm not very accustomed to using pigments, so had to work with this a bit to get it. I found a method that works for me though.

Utopia without flash

Utopia with flash.

 

Gorgeous, right? I can't even.

I had such a hard time photographing the swatches. They really don't do this pigment justice but my eye look shows it better. So the swatch in the far left is done using nothing but the pigment itself. It kinda just went everywhere, not very effective. The next swatch is done by wetting the brush with the pigment on it. Much more effective but left a couple bumps where the pigment collected. The next swatch is done on top of a primer. It basically did the same thing as the wet method, clumped up a bit. They were easy to smooth out but I wouldn't want to deal with that on my lids. Which brings me to my last method. Eyelash glue. I spread a thin layer of lash glue down then applied the pigment. It came out much smoother, and lasted much longer. So in my opinion, lash glue is the way to go. Unless you have some kind of mixing medium, I however do not.

Here is the look I created! I used it on my lid only, the lower lashline is half baked by Urban Decay. You can really see just how beautiful this pigment is! I love it so much. I did get quite a bit of fallout with this but I expected that. If I plan on using this Ill just do my eyes first. I'm really happy with this product and can't wait to purchase some other MakeupGeek products! I paid 6.99 for this for Makeupgeek.com

Have you tried any makeup geek products? What should I pick up next?? :) I hope you all enjoyed this review and thank you so much for reading!

--Nicole xox

 

NARS Pro-Prime Smudge Proof Eyeshadow Base Review

 

Hello again! Today I have another review, on the NARS Pro-Prime Smudge Proof Eyeshadow Base. That is a mouthful. I've been hearing more and more good things about this product and I'm so glad I purchased it! If you'd like to read my full review, please click below!

Kat Von D Eyeshadow Trio "Beyond Redemption" Review

 

Hello again! I'm here to do a review on a new Kat Von D product I picked up on sale at Sephora a few days ago. The True Romance Eyeshaodw Trio in Beyond Redemption.

It's no secret that I love the Kat Von D line, she has so many amazing products. My collection is growing! Also it's no secret that packaging gets me good, and that I'm in love with the band H.I.M. My first purchase from Kats line was the Everlasting Face Shaper Blush in the Shade Heartagram. The only reason I purchased that blush is because of the name (the heartagram is HIMs logo) it's a dark dusty rose color I probably wouldn't have picked up otherwise. I ended up loving it and I wear it all the time! Beyond Redemption is the name of a HIM song..this is another example of how names, packaging and being a crazy fan girl caused me to make a purchase!

 

 

Beyond Redemption is a trio of blue eyeshadows. A shimmer, a matte and a glitter shadow. The compact itself is just slightly bigger than a NARS blush so there is quite a lot of product inside. The packaging is plastic and features a clear top with roses and Kats logo. It's very light, but I wouldn't say it feels cheap. It's a push button to open, not loose at all and it closes very tightly. The packaging is win for me.

Onto the shadows.

First up is a shimmery ice blue color. This is my favorite, and it's my opinion the best quality shadow in the trio. It's very smooth and pigmented. Would look great on the inner corner of your eyes.

Next is a matte cornflower blue shade. This shadow is just as smooth, just not as pigmented. It's a bit patchy but you can smooth it out. I definately don't own a shade like this.

Finally we have a darker blue with silver glitter. I do not like this shade. I had to swatch it 3-4 times to get the color to show. The others I only swatched once. It feels gritty to the touch. It's just not very impressive. I'm not usually partial to glitter shadows anyway..

So, 2 out of 3 shadows are pretty good. I own the Ladybird palette, and all of those shadows are amazing. I've swatched many of her other palettes too and was always impressed. I found this little guy in the sale section of my Sephora, it was only ten dollars. Some people tend to stray away from blue eyeshadows, think Mimi from Drew Carey, but I love color and think you can always make it work! Even though this isn't a "blow me away amazing eyeshadow trio", I still like it. I'm just a collector and sometimes I buy things for crazy reasons! I'm sure some of you can relate :) I haven't gotten around to doing a look with some of these shadows yet, but I plan to soon and I'll definately share it with you guys! There are others in this True Romance Trio collection but I have not swatched them so I can't speak for their quality. I know there is a neutral/burgundy one and a green one.

Pros

Nice packaging

2 good shadows

On sale!

Good amount of product

Cons

Blues aren't very versatile

Dark shade is not impressive

And those are my thoughts on this product! I feel like I may have rambled but I was kind of torn on this product! I love it, but not for makeup reasons, haha! If you're curious about trying some Kat Von D eyeshadows, I'd recommend her 8 shadow palettes.

I hope you enjoyed my crazy review! Thank you so much for reading :)

--Nicole xox

 

 

 

 

 

Easy Bright Blue Liner

 

Hi there! It's been so long since I've posted an actual eye look, and I've really been anxious to! I went to Sephora to exchange a product the other day and walked out with the same product and this new bright blue liner. It's Urban Decays 24/7 liner in Electric. It. Is. Beautiful! I know this look has been done so many times by so many people, but I'm really enjoying it and thought you might like to see how I did it! It includes a mini review on the liner too :) I didn't take pictures of the actual steps, but it's very simple. So here we go!

Products used: Urban Decay Naked Basics, 24/7 Pencil in Electric & Maybelline Great Lash in Teal Appeal.

I'm sure most of you are familiar with these liners, they're some of my favorites! I use Perversion everyday. Electric is a bright turquoise/teal color with a slight sheen to it. It glides on so easily. It stays put it my waterline, but regardless I always set it a powder on my lower or upper lashline.

 

Please excuse my brows, dear god.

- I started with a primed lid and blended Naked 2 above the crease.

- Next I took faint and blended it right over Naked 2.

- I applied crave all over my lid, then took a tiny bit on the tip of a blending brush and blended it into Faint.

- Highlighted with a matte white shadow. I could have blended this a bit more, meh.

- I heavily lined my lower lash line with Electric, bringing it into my inner corner also. I set it with a translucent powder.

- I applied falsies and black mascara to the top lashes, and Teal Appeal to the bottom lashes!

And that's it! easy but bold and fun! I really love this liner. I've only ever owned zero, perversion and whiskey 24/7 liners but now I think I'll venture out into the other colors! I picked mine up at Sephora for 19$.

I hope you all liked my post, and thank you so much for reading!!

--Nicole xo

 

Covergirl Lash Perfection Mascara Review

 

Hey there! Today I have another mascara review for you. Covergirl Lash Perfection Mascara. This is actually one of my favorite mascaras, I've gone through so many! I recently decided to repurchase after the Falsies Black Drama fiasco. I should always just go with what I know..if you want to see my review on this mascara, click below! :)

Review: Maybelline "The Falsies Black Drama" Mascara

 

Hey lovelies! Today's post is a review on a new mascara, Maybelline The Falsies Black Drama. I am running low on my current favorite (L'Oreal Telescopic Shocking Extensions) and decided instead of repurchasing, I'd pick something new up. If your interested to see my opinions on this mascara, click below!

Dramatic Pink & Purple Look

 

Hey there, today I bring you another eye look. This is slightly similar to one of the first tutorials I posted on a purple smoky you can see here. But it's much more dramatic and still different. If you want to see how I got this look, click below! :)

Icy Blue Eyes

 

Hello everyone! Today I wanted to share a fun, easy look I did. In a way it was inspired by my nail polish, Sinful Colors Gorgeous. If you want to see how I got this look, click below :)

Halloween FOTD

 

Hey ladies! Halloween was yesterday, and I didn't do anything. I rarely do on the actual day because I work. BUT, I always do some festive makeup look. This years is a little more tame than last years, I was really feeling the color purple. I've been posting a lot of face of the days lately, I just haven't had a ton of time to write up great posts. I'm hoping to have a couple reviews up in the next week! If you want to see the products I've used for this look, click below. :)

All Drugstore Purple & Gold FOTD

 

Hi ladies, today I'll be showing my makeup for today that features all drugstore products. I did the drugstore tag a couple days ago and was inspired to do this! If you want to see the products I used, click below :)

Everyday Eye Look

 

Hiiiii. My post today is going to be on the eye look I wear when I just want something quick and cute. Also, I think this is only my second neutral look? Crazy. I own 500 neutral palettes. Not really but ya know. You'd just think I'd do more neutrals. I just love color so! If you want to see how I do this look, click below :) it's super easy!

UD Vice 2 Tutorial: Simple Green Eyes

 

Hello there! Today I bring you a simple look using my new Urban Decay Vice 2 palette. I'm just in love with it. I don't own a whole lot of green eyeshadows so I wanted to do a simple, wearable look using "Damaged." If you want to see how I achieved this, click below :) also: I wanted to point out that some of my pictures just look horrible and I really can't figure out why. My skin looks very splotchy and weird in the picture after the jump, and looks completely fine in the final pictures. The only editing I did to any of the pictures was cropping so I just don't understand! Also, they do not look like that in the originals, I'm at a loss, anyone have any ideas?

 

1. I started with a primed lid, and applied the shade Damaged all over my lid with a flat shader brush.

2. Using a dome shaped crease brush, I buffed a little Stash into my crease.

3. With a larger crease brush, I applied Rewind in the crease. This ended up overpowering Stash but I just wanted to show you exactly that I did. I also took a bit of Naked 2 from the Naked Basics palette to help blend out Rewind. I took a short smudge brush and applied Damaged along my lower lashline. I also applied Shellshock to my inner corner.

4. To finish up, I applied W.O.S to highlight, I used a Rimmel Soft Kohl Kajal liner(in I believe Jungle Green) on my water line, and added some winged liner using the L'Oreal Infallible Super Slim liner. Yes, I used liquid liner with a felt tip! I feel like since I bought it, I had to make it work. It's actually a really nice liner! I also applied red cherry lashes in #43.

 

Annnndd that's it! It's easy but looks fancy. I really can't wait to do some other looks with this palette. If you want to see my full review on this palette you can see that here :) thanks for reading everyone, I hope you enjoyed this post!

 

Urban Decay Vice 2 Palette Swatches!

Today I bought something life changing, just kidding..but seriously. When this palette first came out I didn't pay much attention to it. I just recently took a real good look at the swatches and couldn't believe I shrugged it off. It's so beautiful! So pigmented! Never again will I neglect a new Urban Decay palette, especially a limited edition one. Technically, my lovely gram bought this for me. We have early christmas and I used my money from her to get this! Thanks gram, I love you! If you'd like to see swatches and a mini review of these shadows, and you know you want to, click below!

Halloween Look #3 Orange Smoky Eye

 

Helloo hello! Today I wanted to show you how I did this smoky orange halloween eye look. I went to the Cider Mill and and tonight was the season premier of Walking Dead so it's Halloween festivities all around today! If you want to see how I did this, please click below!

Colorful Smoky Eye

Hey there! Today's gonna be kind of a quick post. I created this look earlier and really wanted to share it with you, but unfortunately I didn't take pictures along the way so it's not going to be much of a tutorial. My Bold and Bright palette was staring me right in the face today saying play with me! So play I did. This look is really fun, colorful and dramatic. As you know, I'm not afraid of color!

I started this look,with a white base, NYX JEP in Milk, blended all over the lid. This made the colorful shadows really stand out.

 

Bottom two on the left picture, center on the right.

Next I took a lime green shadow, and applied it to the inner third of my lid. Then I took a bright light blue and patted it on the center of my lid, then took a bright fuchsia/purply color and put that on the outer third of my lid. You're going to want to spend a bit of time blending all these shadows, since they're all so different it's going to take some effort.

Next using a matte black shadow on a tiny blending brush and blended it into my crease, all the way towards the inner corner.

Then I applied some more Milk under my brow and used a matte white shadow to highlight, dragging it down and blending with the black. I applied the purple, Blue and green shadows along my lower lashline, tight lined and applied liquid liner, falsies (Red Cherry 106) and mascara. I cleaned up the edges with a makeup wipe and concealer.

I really wish I took pictures along the way but I was kind of just going in blind and ended up with this. It's kind of similar to my Sunset Eyes look you can see here just much more dramatic.

--Nicole :)

 

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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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 :) !