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!

Colourpop Collection

'Ello all!!

Again today we're talking colourpop! I'm slowly doing reviews on every one of these products, but I wanted to show you all my collection!

Lips:

I have a LOT of their lip products as you can see LOL.

I have:
Stingraye - Ultra Matte lip (DC)
Panda - Ultra Satin
More Better - Ultra Matte
LAX - Ultra Matte
Zipper - Ultra Matte
Too Lips - Ultra Satin
Lyin' King - Ultra Satin
Drop Out - Ultra Glossy
Sookie - Ultra Glossy
Mars - Ultra Matte
Prim - Ultra Satin
London Fog - Ultra Satin
Tulle - Ultra Matte
Jonesing - CremeLippie Stick
LBB - Matte Lippie Stick
Tiger - Sheer Lippie Stick
Bossy - Lippie Pencil

I'll be reviewing and swatching these by formula, just FYI!

Highlighters:

Honeymoon
Lunch Money
Perilune
School is Fun (LE)
Flexitarian

I have already reviewed these!!


Super Shock Shadows:

Nillionair
Stereo
Hammared
Girly
Crenshaw (DC)
Paisley
Nillionair
Pardox (LE?)
Seeker (LE?)
Bae
Glitterati

I will be reviewing these soon with swatches!!

Pressed shadow:

These will be reviewed next!! I have the post written I'm just editing it now!

Bel Air - Matte light brown
Come and Get it - Duochrome Pink/Gold
Take it Slow - Shimmery Champage
High Strung - Rose gold


I used to have their potted gel liner. Which is my ALL TIME fave waterline liner. It lasts a good 10 hours on me. But it has dried out and I don't have the cash to rebuy it right this second!

I hope you enjoyed this lil peek into my colourpop collection!!

My Favourite "Neutral" Lipsticks for my skin tone!

Hello!

Today we're talking about something that I never talk about on here, simply because my heart lies with bold, vibrant, lipsticks. Never "nude" lipsticks!

I do not believe in the "one nude fit's all" mentality. The fairest of the fair's perfect nude would totally wash out and make the richest, deepest skin tone look tired!

My neck is about a NC25, but I prefer to go a tinge lighter in my foundation, so I'm currently wearing NC20 with a small amount of NC25 (or another foundation around that shade) mixed in! I have very prominent WARM/YELLOW undertones, and I prefer Mauvey/Berry nudes on myself. I do not like peachy nude lipsticks on me AT ALL.

This is my "small" collection of "neutral" lipsticks!

I swatched them in the same order I have the lipsticks lined up in, so from left to right we have:

Buxom Sinful Cinnamon - Matte finish, creamy
Buxom Sultry Mauve - Satin/Cream finish, very smooth and creamy.
Clinique Chubby stick Richer Raisin - Sheer, Moisturizing, doesn't show off flakes
MAC Twig - Satin finish, Lasts well.
Kat Von D Lovecraft - Matte finish, feels kinda silicon-y in a good way?
Revlon Rose Velvet - Cream finish, creamy!!
Buxom Dolly - Smells like caramel, non sticky, lightly tingly.

I'll use a mix and match of these for whenever I feel like I need a more neutral lip! I personally believe in wearing what YOU want, and what makes YOU feel comfortable. So for me, I'll wear a bright lip 6 days out of 7. I'll usually only wear nude lips in very conservative places, when i'm with my father's family, or when I'm in school/class!

Colourpop Highlighter Review/Swatches

Good afternoon friends! Today we're looking at Colourpop's highlighers!

I have 5 of them, and out of the 5, there's 3 different finishes/levels of shimmer/glow.

Colourpop has lots of different shades and tones of highlights. I really do appreciate them having deeper highlights!!

I have in left to right from the top picture: Honeymoon, Lunch Money, Perilune, School is Fun, and Flexitarian.

I took some ~artsy~ shots to show what the shades really look like!!

From top to bottom we have swatched:

Perilune - This is a sparkly, light green highlight.
Honeymoon - This one is a iridescent blue sparkly highlight.
School Is Fun - This is one of my favourite shades of highlight. It's a Yellow Gold shimmer.
Flexitarian - This one is hard to describe, it's a light champagney Beige? It's a metallic shade.
Lunch Money - This is a light warm white-ish shade. It's the least shimmery.

Close up's to show the finish's of them. As you can see, the two "odd" coloured one's, Perilune and Honeymoon are very glittery/sparkly with a sheer base.

The rest have a more opaque base, but differing levels of shine!

The formula, if you haven't used colourpop before, is very creamy, and soft. Their Highlighters almost feel wet to the touch, in my opinion.

I wear full coverage foundation every day, and I'v found if I pat them onto my cheek bones, it moves the foundation under it. and makes my base look patchy. So I think the best way to apply these with a full coverage base is to pat it on with your fingers, then take a synthetic brush and buff it out! This makes the product disturb the base the least for me!

Price: $8
Pros: Differing levels of shimmer, LOTS of shades, Dark skin friendly shades, Easy to apply on the run.
Cons: Can mess up base if you're not careful, Can make base patchy, they MAY sink into pores.
Overall: 8.5/10

Modern Renaissance EOTD's

Hello!!! Today i'm showing you some looks i'v done so far, with my new MR palette! I'm REALLY loving this palette. It's so lovely!

This is the first look, I did a mauvey/plummy look.

I used Tempera from lashline to brow bone to set my eye primer, then I took Buon Fresco into the crease, then I used Antique Bronze on the outer corners and outer half of my mobile lid. I then patted Vermeer onto my inner corners, and inner halfs of my lids!

Two coats of mascara later we're done!

My first successful halo eye!!! I used Tempera to set my primer, then I buffed Buon Fresco in the crease lightly, I took a packing brush and patted Antique Bronze onto my outer and inner corners, and lightly blended . I then took my finger and lightly patted Vermeer onto my lids to act like a spot light!

Add a nice vampy lip, and some lashes and you're good to go!!

Modern Renaissance Palette Quick Swatches, First Impressions, and Tutorial!

Hello, hello, hello!!

My birthday was the 11th, a few days ago, and as a gift, I was allowed to order this palette, and it came in the mail today!!

So here's some quick swatches on my skin, Some quick first impressions on the formula, and a quick tutorial I did the first time I used this palette!

So far, I'v swatched, and touched every shade, and I'v used seven out of fourteen in a look (the one below) and the formula is creamy, soft, and delicious. The two metallics/shimmers, are dense, and SO creamy. The matte's are a touch clumpy if you pick up too much, and can be very powdery!!

I'm really digging this formula though! we shall see how long it lasts on my oily hooded lids!

(It also passes the "shannon test" and I can JUST use this palette to do a whole look. AKA It has a matte cream/shade lighter than my skintone, a matte warm brown, and a matte deep brown!)

For this look, I started off with ELF sheer eyelid primer from lash line to brow bone, then I set that primer with Tempera (Matte white/cream), I took a fluffy blending brush and ran Raw Sienna (Matte orangey light tan shade) in the crease to start building it up, then I took a pencil brush and some of Red Ocher (Matte burnt red) and I ran that through the crease, but not as high as I took Raw Sienna. I took my 217 and buffed that out, then I picked up some of Antique Bronze (Satiny deep bronze) and I patted that onto my outer corners. I started by putting it onto the outer corner of my mobile lid and I blended it up onto my hood. I took a dense lid brush, and I patted Primavera (Highly shimmery yellowy gold) onto my inner 3/4 of my mobile lids, And up onto my hood a little bit in the inner corners. I blended the two lid shades where they met in the middle. Then I took a small stiff pencil brush and I packed and smoked out my lower lashline wtih Love Letter (Matte raspberry) I then took Vermeer (Highly shimmery cream coloured shade) and highlighted my brow bones, and inner corners. I then added mascara, and winged liner. And I decided to add some more of Love Letter ONTOP of Antique Bronze on my outer corners, so I took the fluffy end of the brush that came with the palette and I patted and lightly blended that!!

And that's it!! It looks like I spent SO much time layering, and blending. When in fact it took me like 10 minutes to do this!!

I'll be doing more looks with this palette in the upcoming while!! :)

Kat Von D Lock it Concealer Creme Review/Swatches

Ello!!

Today we are talking about one of my favourite concealers!

I know it doesn't SEEM like it, but most day's i'm a lowkey face makeup kind of gal. Most days, I do a mattifying primer, then I'll do three dot's of concealer under my eyes, a swipe on each apple of my cheek. a dot on each side of my nose, and a swipe up my nose bridge. Then I'll buff that all out, set with powder and move on!

That's where this concealer comes into play!!

This concealer is a very thick, and creamy concealer. It covers my redness, and under eyes very well. And it doesn't take me a day and a half to blend it out!

I use the shade Light11 "neutral" but on my warm skin, it pulls VERY yellow. So I wouldn't say this is a true neutral shade.

First photo of myself (the one with my hair down), is my bare skin. I have zero makeup on in that photo, just sunblock!

The second photo, I'd used the Kat Von D concealer to even out my skin and perfect it.

This lasts all day on my oily skin when set with a powder ( I never not powder just fyi!), it doesn't crease under my eyes (I have dehydration under my eyes thus I have some fine lines!) But please do remember, I do not have wrinkles!!

I would and have recommended this concealer to friends before, and I'm now recommending it to you all!!

Price: $34 
Pros: lasts all day, good shade match, good shade range, creamy, blendable,
Cons: Sets quickly. I'd recommend working in sections of the face with this. Could be too heavy for some.