This is the third one of these Bite Beauty Luminous Creme Lipstick Duo ($12.00) in my collection and I hope they continue to make more (I say that every time). I also have Violet/Palomino and Tangerine/Ligonberry. I like both and this one isn’t really an exception, although it is different; this one is the nude duo of the bunch. Bite Beauty Luminous Creme Lipstick…
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I love it when things are free and they turn out to be so satisfying and worth my while! The Bite Beauty 250 point reward from Sephora is one of those things! The reward includes a mini (and I mean mini) tube of Bite Beauty’s Luminous Creme Lipstick in the color Bellini accompanied by a lip gloss in the same…
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With fall rapidly approaching (I already see the leaves changing colors and feel the temperature cooling down at night), I wanted to show you all lip swatches of the Stila Stay All Day Liquid Lipstick in Bella and Venizia from the Birchbox x Stila collaboration. Stila Stay All Day Liquid Lipstick Bella (bottom) and Venizia (top)
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I don’t typically like surprises, but I do like happy accidents 🙂 ColourPop Tulle from their Ultra Matte liquid lipstick line is one of those happy accidents. Out of the batch I ordered, I thought I would like this one the least, but I have literally been reaching for it more than any other lippie this past week or so. …
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I am really impressed with Sephora’s Colorful Shadow and Liner Pencils ($14.00). I had a chance to try out the color dark taupe shimmer. Sephora Colorful Shadow and Liner Pencil – Dark Taupe Shimmer; lower lash line is Kiko Intense Colour Long Lasting Eyeliner in Metallic Malachite
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You know the feeling you get after a night of dancing and sweating that by the time you get home, you just know your makeup looks a hot mess and has probably melted off your face? I often feel like that when I go out, in part to my oily skin and also because of the humidity this time of…
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I mentioned here about how curious I was about the new Make Up For Ever Ultra HD Foundation sticks ($43.00). So I finally went to Sephora to pick up a few things and had a chance to swatch them.
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Sephora is running Beauty Appreciation Week, awarding Beauty Insiders twice, three times, and four times the points depending on the level of membership you have (I’m VIB). I went in to pick up necessities: my staple mascara Lancome Hypnose Drama mascara in Excessive Black and an Urban Decay 24/7 Waterproof liquid eyeliner in Perversion; in addition, I walked out with…
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Last week, I introduced a Chanel Illusion D’Ombre cream shadow from the new fall collection called Rouge Gorge. I’ve had time to test it out and asked Angela from Beautyandthecat to co-star in this post with me to show how it looks on different skin tones. Chanel Illusion D’Ombre in Rouge Gorge
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ColourPop released a line of liquid lipsticks about a month ago ($6.00). Silly me thought I could just go on their website and stock up on the day of release, but I was met with very slow and unresponsive servers. After about 2 hours of trying to check out, I gave up. The next morning I woke up to check…
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There are a lot of things I have been eyeing for the past month, some of them new, and I thought I would share them (aka, be an enabler). I first noticed the Tom Ford Shade and Illuminate Palette a few weeks ago. I liked the Sleek Face Contour Kit a lot more than I thought I would and always have my eyes open for…
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This weekend I picked up two of the Sephora Collection Colorful Shadow & Liner Pencils ($14.00). These are supposed to be high-pigmented, waterproof, and long-lasting. I was curious as to how they would perform against the Make Up For Ever Aqua Matic Eyeshadow Pencils. I picked up the colors purple and dark taupe shimmer. I love that they come in…
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I have been eyeing the shade Ayesha from Kat Von D’s liquid lipstick line ($20.00). The color (described as a rich lavender) is so unlike anything I would have ever thought of wearing, but the more I looked at it, the more I wondered if I could pull it off… Sooo I went to Sephora to test it out. What do you…
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I’m not gonna lie, I bought this sheet mask for the the packaging. I’m not usually much of a sucker for marketing ploys, but I often need an “after night overtime” mask lol. I wasn’t expecting much from it but I’m actually quite pleased! After a 90’s coverband concert, champagne, and Jack Daniels, I woke up in the morning exactly…
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These babies are part of the Birchbox x Stila collaboration, in a kit called Stila Look at Me ($20.00). I have wanted to try out the Stila Stay All Day Liquid Lipsticks forever, but the Summer colors just looked so bright, I was kind of scared to invest in them. So when I came across this little Birchbox trio, it was like…
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After my stint with Charlotte Tilbury’s Mona Lisa, my interest has peaked with cream eyeshadows. There’s no real reason for it besides I stayed away from them for a long time thinking I wouldn’t like using it. I was aware of Chanel’s Illusion D’Ombre shadows but was a little bit turned off because of the descriptive phrase “intensely shimmering long…
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I was so excited for the launch of the new colors of the Kat Von D Everlasting Liquid Lipsticks ($20.00). After careful examination of the colors on the Sephora website and stalking the Kat Von D Beauty instagram, I decided on Mother and Double Dare (review to come). Mother is described as a dusty mauve pink but on me it’s…
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I have been wanting to try some of the products in Tyra Banks’s new cosmetics line and was so excited when my sister dropped the Sculpt in a Stick and the Light in a Stick on my counter. Eyes lit up like fire; it was like she read my mind. I was very excited to try them out and ended…
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The Kat Von D. Metal Crush Eyeshadows ($21.00) are brand new, highly pigmented, metallic eyeshadows. I was so distracted by the launch of her newest shades of liquid lipstick, I had no idea eyeshadows were accompanying them. I went into Sephora to see what I could see, and was very surprised when I saw these. A single rub of this…
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Well, it’s actually a bee and a snail and I guess they had a baby and produced this mask… First off, I had a like-dislike relationship the Benton Snail Bee High Content Mask Pack ($3.00). I really love the construction of the mask, in particular the eye flaps that allow you to cover the area underneath your eyes. I was…
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