Also I'm contemplating an eyeshadow palette no buy (the larger palettes). I LOVE palettes and had been looking at a few for various upcoming sales and holiday shopping. Then I was thinking to myself that once again a lot of the colors look the same. Also I'm pretty sure I already have similar colors in my stash already. I have a decent amount of palettes right now and eyeshadows in general. The only ones that I know that I really want is the Urban Decay Smoked palette and maybe Laura Mercier's new one. I'm also toying around with the idea of a nail polish no buy. So stay tuned...
Ok enough babbling and let's get into the favorites!! Some of these items I could have included for September but oh well. Here they go.
Eyes
I played around with two ready eyeshadow quads this month. The Ready eyeshadow quad The Truth has been raved about. I picked it up since I love the Ready eyeshadows and I love neutrals. I've used it and I liked it but I wasn't wowed by it like everyone else. Well I guess something finally clicked for me this month and well I love it lol! Usually when I wore it, I was wearing "traditionally" with light colors on the lid and deeper colors in the crease. Nothing wrong with that. This go around I wore the two brown shades on the lid and crease. I was like we likey a lot. The other ready quad I used was The Happy Place. This quad has some gorgeous colors and some I would never think on wearing together but they work. These are some of my favorite eyeshadows. They go on smoothly, easy to blend and have great lasting power. So I can probably myself sticking with these and leaving the larger palettes alone like I mentioned at the beginning of this post.
So I've been on the hunt for "the" mascara for my lashes. Dare I say I think I've found my HOLY GRAIL mascara *insert shocked face*. I pulled out Bare Minerals Flawless Definition this month and I have been LOVING IT!! It does it all for my lashes. It lengthens, separates and gives me volume. I love the "brush". It's fine-toothed comb brush and not your traditional mascara brush. I can build my lashes to my hearts content, get hard to reach lashes and the wand itself is not big. I'm kind of over large mascara wands. I'm going to play around with the remaining mascaras I have but I will definitely, definitely keep this on on hand!
Shopping my stash for eyeshadows to play around with I came across the L'Oreal Hip Duos. I have a bunch of these and I love them. I don't do really elaborate eye looks. 2 to 3 shades at most. So these duos are perfect. One the duos I fell in love with last year was #908 Mischief. I watched one of makeupbytiffanyd's tutorials on a blue smokey eye and wanted to recreate it. I looked at this duo and it was perfect to use for the look. I wore this look at a lot last fall/winter and pulled the duo out around the middle of the month and have been wearing it pretty often. Two my other favorite Hip Duo are #106 Sculpted (neutral) #818 Saucy (pink/purple).
The eyeliner I used with the Mischief L'Oreal Hip Duo to create the blue smokey eye was Mally's automatic eyeliner in Black Navy. I love her colored eyeliners. I also have her liner in Sailor which is a navy blue shade and it probably would work as well with the look. It's not a harsh as black but still nice and gives definition to the upper lash line.
A quick mention of Lancome's Hypnose Drama mascara. I've mentioned it before but I wanted to mention it again. This is one mascara that will definitely stay in my stash.
Lips
Was going through my lipsticks and came across Mary Kay's Bronzed lipstick and decided to play around with it. It's a great everyday lipstick for me. I can't explain the color. It's not red or brown. I guess a mix of the two but it doesn't look red on my lips. It has a satin finish. So you can thrown it and and not worry about a gloss and it feels nice on the lips.
Been playing around with another nude lip combo this month. Wet n' Wild's 902C Bare it All and Smashbox's lip gloss in Flirt go well together for my skin tone.
I picked up MAC's Yung Rapxuel that was released last month. It's a deep purple lipstick. When I got it and swatched on the back of my hand I like it and all but something was nagging me. When I got home that evening I pulled out Revlon's Va Va Violet. I swatched the two against each other on my hand. I even put one on each lip and shoooooo nuff they are the same! On my lips I couldn't really tell the difference between the two. Needless to say I was kind of pissed that I spend $15 on a lipstick that I pretty much already had. I could have returned it but I didn't. I do really like it and wore it a lot this month. It wears really well throughout the day. So I will be wearing the heck of this one and keep Va Va Violet on injured reserve for now lol. So if you missed out on or plan on getting Yung Rapxuel don't sweat it. Go get Va Va Violet and save yourself a few dollars.
I picked up two more red lipsticks from Revlon *head palm*. I got Certainly Red (true red) and Cherries in the Snow (fuchsia red). Both are gorgeous. If you're a red lover check them out. They probably dupes to some of the MAC red lipsticks.
Outrageously Fun is a lipstick that's a part of MAC's Glamour Daze collection. I think it's my new go to pink lipstick. Trying to fight the urge to get another one.
CVS had buy one, get one free on Wet n' Wild again this month. I ended up getting two more Mega Last lipsticks. One I have been loving is 908C Sugar Plum Fairy. It's a dupe to MAC's Rebel and I've heard a lot of people saying that they like it more so than Rebel. I love how it wears. After eating, drinking and such it has a lip stain effect on the lips. It's a pretty plumy wine color. I can see myself wearing this a lot during the cooler months. Shoot even when the weather gets warmer.
Sheesh didn't know I have 7 lipsticks until I took the picture!!! And then forgot to take a pic of the gloss. *head palm*
Face
Don't know if I've talked about it in a post #brainfart lol. But I have to shout out my Bare Minerals foundation. I have both the original and matte versions. I wear the matte more so than the original. I have tried Bare Minerals years ago when they only had the 4 or 5 shades. Now that have like 50-11 shades! Ok not that many but it's a lot. This is the first brand that I can wear more than one foundation shade! I have Golden Deep and Warm Deep. I don't have many foundations. The few I have I like and don't really want to be bothered trying others. Same goes with concealer. What I love about this foundation is that you don't look made up, the coverage is buildable but never gets cakey and I don't feel it on. Some foundations I've worn and as the day progresses I'm like ok I need to wash my face right now! Another plus is that the jar lasts a long time and you have to trip over it going bad. The new Ready foundation has been getting mixed reviews but I'm going try it for myself and judge.
MAC's Extra Dimension Skinfinish in Superb is a powder product that you can use however you like. Most people use these a highlighter on the face or blush. I included it in the "face" section but I've been using it as an eyeshadow for the last couple of weeks lol! I've been using over the Maybelline Color Tattoo in Bad to the Bronze with Covergirl's Brown Smolder eyeshadow in the crease. I wore this look for like three days straight. A good go to eye look that you don't really have to think about. I did wear it as a highlight as well a few times and it's very pretty. It's described as a soft peachy nude with shimmer.
Nails
I picked OPI's Pink of Hearts 2012 from Ulta. It's their polish set for Breast Cancer Awareness Month. At first I was going to pick up the Essie polishes. I didn't think there were that many and then I couldn't decide which ones I wanted. So I saw this set and went with it. It comes with I Think in Pink and You Glitter Be Good To Me. The pink polish is a nice pink that I think will work on a variety of skin tones. I was worried at first because sometimes if it's a creamy milky kind of pink it doesn't look good on me. The glitter polish is pretty with fine pink and larger fuchsia colored glitters.
Maybelline released some limited edition Fall 2012 Fashion Week Color Show nail polishes. I was only going to get 2 or 3 but my simple self ended up getting all 6 *head palm*. Keeping with the pink theme for the month I used and fell in love with Pink Cosmo. It'a metallic light pink shade with some champagne action going. It's nice light pop on the nails that's good for everyday wear.
When I got the Revlon lipstick in Cherries in the Snow, I also got the nail polish in the same fuchsia red shade.
This and That
I've been on a candles kick for a while. Picked up two candles from Tuesday Morning. For some reason I thought this was a thrift store. Boy was I wrong!! I picked up two huge candle in Creamy Vanilla and Pumpkin Spice. These candles give off a nice scent without even burning them. I had the Pumpkin one sitting on my desk at work for while before I brought it home. They smell so good. I want to go back and check out the other scents. They were only $10. A better value than they ones at Bath & Body Works. I still may mosey over then when the have another sale but even if I don't I happy with these candles.
Now I'm going to talk about a pencil sharpener. Yes a pencil sharpener I've had a hate hate relationship with pencil liners like Urban Decay's 24/7 pencils because they are a bitch to sharpen. Sharpeners I've use before pretty much would eat the pencil up so I wouldn't sharpen them. I had decided to no longer buy pencils like this since I could never sharpen them. So I debated on get Urban Decay's sharpener which has good reviews. It's $10. I was going to get the Loco Ocho pencil set that has a sharpener included. Then I was like no to paying $10 for a sharpener and no to getting the set. So I took to Google and searched for dupes. Essence's sharper came up in quite a few hits. So I said next Ulta run I would check it out. I was over at CVS and was looking at the Essence of Beauty items. I saw a dual sharpener that looked similar to Urban Decay's and the Essence one. It was on $2 and some change. So if it didn't work, I wouldn't trip to hard at tossing it. I got home that evening to test it out and it works!!!! I sharpened like 3 pencils and was pleased. So if you're looking for a good sharpener check out the Essence of Beauty one at CVS if you don't have an Ulta close by to check out the Essence one.
I've kind of been obsessed with all things social networking and technology related lol! I still go pretty hard with Twitter. Instragram is everythang! If you're on Instragram follow me (thatcrazy8). I post random stuff but I also post items I picked, lip of the day products and so on. My Droid Razr Maxx is never too far from my reach lol. I picked up a new hard phone case from eBay that I've been loving as well. I want a tablet but don't know if I was to go the iPad route, Android tablet or check out Barnes & Noble's new HD tablet.
Food wise I've been on a salmon cakes kick. Last year I came up with a way too broil them in the oven. I got tired of frying them and wanted to without all that oil. They are quick and easy! They've been a go to for dinner and lunch during the work week.
And there you have it! I've been thinking about posts for next year and I think I'll do a top 3 kind of a thing. Maybe top 3 hits and misses. Sounds like a plan man!
Alrighty on to November and Thanksgiving!!! *chomp*
Love palettes too! I don't even wear eyeshadow often, but I love a great palette. Thanks for the reviews. Those salmon cakes have me craving some now! Looks delicious!
ReplyDeletePalettes are great. I like having eyeshadows already together versus dealing with a bunch of individual eyeshadows. And yes the salmon cakes were good :D Thanks for stopping by :)
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