Sephora Brand Single Eyeshadows Review

Hello all!! Today we're going to talk about my three (I actually own four, but I own two of the same shade :P ) Sephora Brand Colorful Eyeshadows!

I own three like I said,

Swan Song, a pale, matte baby pink.
Buttered Popcorn, a shimmery barely yellow off white.
Hidden Treasure a metallic, glittery olive green.

Swan Song, is one of the BEST matte's I'v ever used, it's up there with ABH's mattes for me!! I use this to set my eye primer, to highlight my brow, and if i'v taken my crease shade too high I use this to buff it out!

Hidden Treasure is a touch dry, and doesn't work well with a lid brush. I'v found the best way to use this stunner of a shade is to swirl my finger through the pan, and then pat it firmly onto my mobile lids! This way I get no fall out, and it stays put all day!

Buttered Popcorn is a very pretty lid shade, and inner corner shade! It has no fall out. And is soft!! It's slightly dry like Hidden Treasure. But It's workable in my opinion! I also adore this as a cheek highlight!

Price: $13 regular price, $7 on sale.

Pros: Easy to blend out, Lasts all day over primer, true to pan.

Cons: Slightly dry textured, SLIGHTLY difficult to work with.

Overall: 8/10

My Most Loved Highlighters

Hey all!!

I'm a highlight junkie. I love the look of a dewy, sheeny, cheek bone area; What can I say?

I like strong highlights. That's a personal preference. But each of these can be buffed and sheered out, except for two of them!!

These are my current most used highlights!

From left to right:

Colourpop Perilune - a glittery green
Colourpop Flexitarian - A metallic champagne/peach
Colourpop School Is Fun - A white gold

Coastal Scents Lemon Chiffon - a bluey green shimmer
Coastal Scents Elven Gold - a intense yellow shimmer
Colourpop Honeymoon - a glittery blue

Essence Pure Nude Highlight - a beige subtle sheen
Sephora Brand Baked Luminizor 01 Stardust - A white gold
Make Up For Ever ME-512 - A gold metallic


Are you a highlight fan? What are your favourite highlights?

Sephora Brand Smokey Eye Shadow Palette

Good morning!! Today we're talking eye shadow!

This is a eye shadow palette I bought for my mother last year, so unfortunately it's Discontinued now, But I'm sure if you do like it, it'll be in some blog sales!

Anyway!

 
At a glance, this palette looks right up my alley! There's a matte cream, there's a green, a purple, etc.

The texture is kinda all over the place on this palette, some are CREAMY, and dense, and buttery! Where some of the matte's are sheer, patchy, and dry!

I find this palette hard to create cohesive looks from, there's one matte crease shade, and that's a light greyish colour. Which would be good for cooler toned people than myself! But for me, I find I'm having to pack a matte brown single when I travel with this palette. 

Overall: I feel neutral on this palette, I don't HATE it, but I'm not IN LOVE with it! I'm thinking of depotting the two shades I really like from here, and putting them into my travel Z palette!

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?

Sephora/MAC Christmas Haul!

My family gave me money and said for me to buy part of my Christmas gifts. That way I get exactly what I want/need in the correct size/shade.

Last year, I bought a bunch of "grown up" clothes.

This year, I ordered/bought makeup that i'm missing in my collection!! I own more than enough lipsticks to last me years, and this past year between IMAT's Toronto, and just online sales, I'v built up my eye shadow stash to where I'm super happy!!

But, I have very little base or face products! I find foundation, concealer, powder etc very boring compared to my beloved lipsticks. I have ZERO foundations that match my winter skin. All of my foundations match my very tan summer skin. And I go through Powder like WATER, because of my oily skin!

Enough chatting! Lets see what I'm getting for christmas!

From MAC (Which was 25% off the last four days so I saved $55 CAD) I got:

Blot Powder Medium Dark (I'v used this before in Medium, and it was way too light. But I adore this powder)
217 blending brush (I got the smaller handled one, But I'v been on the market for a nice blending brush)
Brow Set in the darkest shade (I'm all out of my current brow gel. And this was $15 with the sale so!)
Set Powder (It's 30g's of loose powder. My oily ass skin is in heaven!)

Duo fiber blush brush (My current blush brush, is 10+ years old and rest in peace it's starting to shed like mad)

Brush cleanser (I currently use a bar of soap to clean my brushes, but I want to try this for between washes)

Studio Fix Fluid spf 15 In NC20 (I use NC25 in the summer from about May to September, so I'm going to try this shade for the in-between months)

And for a sample, I chose Prep + Prime Radiance Yellow primer (I'm ALWAYS down for new primers!)

Moving on to Sephora! I had my VIB $20 off card and used that towards this purchase!

Estee Edit Pore Vanishing Stick (I had a sample of this, and I fell in love! so I'm going to try the full size)

Make Up For Ever 5 Pan Concealer/Corrector pallet #1 (I choose the yellower one, with the green concealer as I'm yellow toned with redness!)

NARS Sin Blush (I'v ALWAYS wanted this blush. Oh my goodness. It's a berry with a golden shimmer. Perfect for this time of year!)

BITE Beauty Amuse Bouche Lipstick in Jam (I had a mini of this lipstick, and I wore it every day for a week until it broke. So I'm purchasing the full size!!)

Three perfume samples! I'm in LOVE with two of the perfumes/colognes, and the one I want to try!

3 Piece BUXOM Lip gloss/stick set (This was a throw in, But I do want to try the formula's and the shades are total shannon shades!)

Lastly!

BITE amuse Bouche lipstick mini in Licorice (I wanted to try this shade as well! So I figured why not!)

Urban Decay Naked Smokey Pallet (50% Off! I know this got mixed reviews, but I figured for half off I'll try it, and the shades in it are TOTAL Shannon shades as well!)

Benefit PoreFessional (Again I'm a face primer Hoe! So I'v been wanting to try this for a long time!!)

Anastasia Beverly Hills Lip gloss in Potion (I redeemed 100 points and got this mini as well!! I'v always wanted to try these lip glosses because of Christine from Temptalia. So I'm super excited!)

That's it for my haul!! I'm extremely happy with what I'v ordered and will be getting on Christmas day!