Tarte Make Believe In Yourself Eye and Cheek Palette Review

Hey all!!! I'm back with a review, of one of my current fave palettes!

From left to right swatched is:

Myth - Matte pinky taupe
Magic - Dark golden bronze metallic
Wings - Copper Metallic
Marvel - Minty green metallic
Trance - Silvery taupe metallic
Fairy - Blue Purple Metallic
Mystic - Light icy blue Metallic
Dream - Blue Shimmer (This one was the least shimmery out of the shimmers!)
Crystal - Golden Lilac Metallic
Pixie - Pink with Gold shimmer
Highlighter - Opalecent white



Look #1 - Trance, Magic, and Wings!

 Look #2! - Fairy, Mystic, Dream, and Marvel.

Look 3# - Myth, Crystal, Magic,

Cheek Swatch of the highlight.

Overall: 9.5/10!!! 

This is a smooth, creamy, easy to blend palette!!!

Great Palettes for travel!

I travel quite a bit, and I'd like to think I'm good at packing makeup for short, to long trips!

These are my favourite, "I only have room for one palette in my bag but I need options" eye and cheek palettes!

Here are all of my favourite traveling palettes, Some are custom made, and some came with the shades in them!

                                        

Here, we have my BELOVED Anastasia Modern Renaissance palette. I can get at least 5 looks out of this palette. So this is my favourite for week/3 day + long travels! It's mostly warm shades, with mostly mattes. Which with my hooded eyes, I love! It does have 3, or 4 shades with differing levels of shimmer. So I can get complete looks out of this! I'v also used the MR for my cheek looks too! I love to use, Love Letter as blush with a stippling brush, and either Vermeer or Primavera as highlights!

Below the Anastasia palette we have my Medium Z palette with everything I'd need for a multitude of different looks! I have my basics that I "need" like a light matte cream, a matte brown transition, two deeper browns for deepening up looks, and it has a bunch of different shimmery lid shades!

At the top here, we have my custom blush/cheek palette. I have anything I could need cheek wise in this small Colourpop Palette! I have a matte Plum blush, a shimmery golden pink, a sparkly watermelon pink,  a red/cranberry blush, two highlights, one warm and one cool. And a shimmery bronzer!

Then to the left, we have my well loved Tarte Tartelette Tease palette! It has a light matte cream, a light matte lilac, a satiny plummy shade, a glittery golden browny shade, a matte deep brown, and a matte purple! I can get one or two looks out of this palette, and I love it for over night, or two to three day trips!

I wont go on too much about my Sugarpill Feline Fancy quad, as I reviewed it a few days ago. But I love this quad for blush/bronzer/highlight, AND for easy eye day or night looks!

Here we have my Make Up For Ever Trio. There's Matte, warm brown M-646, Shimmery, Purpley/Plummy D-826, and Light, Metallic, Golden ME-512. I use this trio as a eye and cheek palette! I'll use the matte brown in the crease, then pack the purpley plum onto the lids and blend up into the crease, And the shimmery Gold to highlight! Or, I'll use the matte brown to lightly bronze, the Plummy Purple as a blush, and the shimmery Gold as one of my favourite highlights! So it's very easy to toss into a small bag and have options!

Lastly, I have my MAC Quad. I have from top left going clock wise: Mulch, Embark, WoodWinked, and Nylon. I can get 3 looks out of this quad. So I love to bring this quad, and a cream shadow. And I'll be able to get SO much variety!!

I hope this helped or inspired you!! What are your favourite palettes for travel?

Sephora Tarte 2017 Birthday Gift Swatches and Thoughts

Hello!! today's a quick post, with my thoughts on the Tarte Birthday gift from Sephora!

In the Tarte birthday gift, you receive:

1mL of Tarte matte lip paint in the exclusive shade Birthday Suit
1.5G of Tarte Amazonian Clay Blush in the exclusive shade Paaarty

To cut to the chase, these are TINY ass samples. The Lip pain was made in the USA, and the Amazonian clay blush was made in China. (make of that what you will)

Both shades are very neutral, and "nude" on my skintone. I know these would NOT work on super dark, rich skin. Which SUCKS. In my opinion they should have done a super pigmented rich blush shade, because those are more universal. Fair skinned people can buff and sheer it out on the cheek, and dark skinned people can layer it up once or twice. You know?

This is the Lip paint in the shade Birthday Suit on my NC20/25 Skin tone. It's about as "nude" as I would ever go, personally. I have never tried the matte lip paint formula before, and I don't know if it's just this shade? but this feels SO grainy on my lips. it feels like I did a lip scrub and didn't wipe/lick it off. It helps if I apply it all over, and then blend it in with a warm finger. But still. Weird.

Again, this is my first time trying the amazonian clay blush formula. This is a pretty matte pinky nudey shade on me. In the photo above, I have about three layers of it on my cheeks buffed in. It was slightly hard to blend, but I will be honest and say, I don't use or own any matte blushes, so I'm not used to the way they buff and blend. So! I think this will be a good blush shade for days where I'm wearing a bright lip and just want a hint of something on my cheeks!


Overal: I don't know! I like the blush, but could live without the lip paint.

If you've gotten this sephora birthday gift, what do you think?

Tarte Tartelette Tease Pallet Review

Good morning! Today I'm bringing you guys a review of the Tarte Tartelette Tease pallet!

I really do like this pallet, and would bring it with me when traveling in a HEARTBEAT.

The formula is very smooth, soft, and slightly powdery!

This is a very small pallet!! It's smaller than my cell phone!!

It holds six eye shadows. Four are matte, one is lightly shimmery, and one is full on metalic with shimmer.

Here is all six swatched from left to right. These are ONE swipe each. And as you can see, these are incredibly pigmented!! I ADORE the pigment of these shades!!

From left to right we have:

Whisper - Matte cream
Crush - Metallic/shummery golden browny taupey shade. My favourite in the pallet
Heartbreaker - Matte cool brown

Wink - Matte light Lilac
First Kiss - Satiny Plum/purple
BFF - Matte Dark Purple


Pros: Great mattes! Not chalky or stiff/dry. Very smooth and easy to blend, even for a shitty blender like myself.

Cons: Vanilla scented?? I'v never seen this mentioned in reviews of this pallet. But when you open it its very strongly vanilla, which I know can cause reactions to some! There's no light crease shades, as a hooded gal I NEED a matte crease shade. And the two darker shades are a bit too dark/intense for a transition/light crease. I find I have to spend extra time blending these out.


Overal: 8.5/10!

Sephora Haul! Tarte, L'Occitane, MUFE, Sephora brand.

I placed a "Small" order on Sephora last Thursday!! And by Monday morning it was waiting on my porch!!

I payed for three items, and got 13 samples/deluxe samples/one full sized item for free!!

This is everything layed out that I got!!

I bought, Makeup Forever Mist and Fix spray in the travel size, A L'Occitane sampler with two mini hand creams and a tin of solid shea butter, and lastly I'v been PINING after the Tarte Tartlette tease pallet since it came out and I swatched my good friends pallet of it!! It's been out of stock for months. And I finally got my greedy hands on it!!

Free things I got:

4.5 ML of Josie Maran 100% Argan oil.
Lancome Energie De Vie "Smoothing and Glow boosting Liquid care" - 5ML
Sephora brand Colourful Cheek Ink Gel in 01 Peony - 10G
Sephora brand Pearl sleeping mask - Full sized
FRESH Vitamin Nectar Vibrancy Boosting Face mask - Sachet
The Estee Edit Pink Peony Over night Water pack - Sachet
AHAVA Clear, Purifying Mud Mask - Large Sachet
Versace Eros - Perfume sample
Atelier Cologne Bergamote Soleil - Perfume Sample
Victor and Rolf - Spice bomb (I have flower bomb and really like it so I'm super interested!)
Tory Burch - Jolie Fleur Verte - Perfume sample
Tory Burch - Jolie Fleur Bleue - Perfume sample
Tory Burch - Jolie Fleur Rose - Perfume Sample

Also as a toss in, here's me wearing Whisper, Heart Breaker, BFF, and Crush from the Tarte Tartlette tease pallet:

Thank you for reading!!