+ Sugarpill Sweet Heart Palette $34 at sugarpill.net I've really been loving this palette ever since I got it from IMATS in June! The colors are super bright and it really was a steal considering how pigmented the colors are and how huge the eyeshadows are! The packaging is cardboard, which a lot of people might see as a negative but I find it really sturdy for cardboard. I'm just a little worried that the flap might start to get flimsy after a while. My favorite color from this palette is Midori (the green) it looks gorgeous on the lid or smoked out!
+ Sugarpill Hysteric Loose Eyeshadow $12 at sugarpill.net I really love the way this shadow looks on my outer v. It's dark enough to be used alone but light enough to be a nice lid color. I don't know why but I like how the packaging reminds me of the older MAC pigment packaging.
+ Bobbi Brown Gel Liner in Black Ink $21 at Sephora After my fluidline collection video a lot of people recommended Bobbi Brown gel liner so I snatched up this one at IMATS since it was at a discount. The price kinda puts me off since it's $21 a pop! (Fluidlines are only around $16?) But I do like how smooth these apply. AND I just heard that you can use these on the waterline! I haven't tried it yet but that definitely is a +1 in my book.
+ NYX Retractable Liners in Purple & Aqua Green ~$4 Drugstore liners are generally miss for me but I love how smooth these apply and the best thing is it actually goes on my waterline! I've yet to find a drugstore liner that will apply to my water line so this one totally tripped me out. The fact that it's only around $4 makes me wanna go out and buy all the colors!
+ NYX Soft Matte Lip Creams $5-6 @ cherryculture.com I don't own too many matte lip products because my lips are always super dry and it makes it end up looking kinda weird so I was kind of skeptical about these at first but they're not completely matte. Their the most moisturizing matte lip products I've tried. I still have to put on lip balm before I apply but I like the way it looks on. I like the smell too, it kind of reminds me of cinnamon with something else. I want all the colors of these, too!
I just posted this on YouTube yesterday? I HATE how long YouTube takes to upload because I swear it took me two days to upload it! I have to leave my computer on all day, which kind of sucks! I think it's because I record in 720P HD, but I just hate waiting. I'm always paranoid that I repeated favorites from past months, but these really ARE my favorites because I use them ALL the time, not just the month that I'm talking about them in. This month is mostly MAC because I brought practically ALL my MAC products with me since I wanted to do a collection post. I'll probably take pictures today and upload them who knows when!
+ MAC Select Moisturecover Concealer in NC42 $14 at MAC stores or maccosmetics.com I've been using this for quite a while. The little tube comes with SO much product! I don't have a lot of blemishes but I always conceal my under eye circles. I usually put MAC Studio Finish concealer first then this over, because the Studio Finish concealer can be kind of cakey, this smooths it out and evens it out with my skin tone. I do use this over my red blemishes and it covers it perfectly. I hate how the doe foot applicator gets kind of dirty after a while, but I don't think you can help that. I don't recommend this if you have oily skin though, because it might make you greasier.
+ MAC Bite of An Apple Blush $18 from the MAC Venomous Villains collection I'm sorry that I didn't get a back up of this! I've been loving this color A LOT. I started using it after I did a post on it and I just fell in love! I think it's my first matte blush but I really like how it's not shimmery and gives me the perfect cheek glow.
+ MAC 266 Brush $19.50 at MAC stores, or maccosmetics.com My favorite angled liner brush of all time! I've tried quite a few - Coastal Scents, EcoTools, etc. - and nothing compares to my MAC 266. It's the perfect width and perfect angle - I go crazy when I can't find this brush!
+ MAC Blacktrack Fluidline $15.00 at MAC stores or maccosmetics.com This little post has lasted me forever AND still hasn't dried out on me. True to its name it is fluid and glides like buttahh on my lids [with a clean 266 brush of course!] It's my go to eyeliner. I've used Stila smudgepots before and those dry up super quick!
+ MAC Bamboo Eyeshadow $14.50 at MAC stores or maccosmetics.com I love using this as a highlight color because it's SLIGHTLY lighter than my skin tone. It's matte so it's not shimmery at all and it complements neutral looks AND smokey eyes for me perfectly.
+ Urban Decay Psychedelic Sister Eyeshadow $17.00 at Sephora or $54.00 for the UD BOS III at Sephora I have this in my BOS III - I didn't notice til I was editing my video that my BOS mirror is cracked! AH!! lol I don't even use that mirror, but I'll probably be posting swatches from the palette in my next post. This purple is super vibrant - I always get complimented when I wear this on my lids. I haven't found a purple this pretty in a long time, I think I've already dented this color in the palette from using it so much!
I put up my favorites video a little late but here it is!
FAVORITES + Wet & Wild Brule Eyeshadow $1.99 I've seriously been loving this eyeshadow ever since I got it. Maybe it's because it reminds me of MAC's Brule, kind of, and MAC's Brule was the very first MAC eyeshadow I ever got. The wet and wild shadows are s pigmented and I don't know why I have a thing for highlight colors!
+ MUFE Duo Mat Powder in 209 $32 I really thought this powder might have been over hyped but I'm really glad that I got it. It gives me enough coverage to hide my blemishes WITHOUT concealer and it doesn't feel heavy or look cakey on my face at all. I was just so amazed that no matter how much I put on my face, it didn't look cakey! Plus it's so lightweight, I can't even tell it's there.
+ MAC Cut A Caper Lipstick $14.50 Sometimes pinky nudes look funny on my skin because I'm more tanned, but I really like the way light corals look on me. I just ran out of my Cute-ster lipstick and I was looking for something similar and I think I actually like this more. I think it's a luster finish? Which one of my favorite finishes.
+ Kat Von D Cathedral Lipstick $18 Mine isn't a full size but the sample I got from Sephora, but I'm really loving the formula. It's really creamy AND pigmented! My lips are always super chapped so I need a lipstick that kind of moisturizes and I feel like this does that.
+ Sephora Rounded Crease Brush $17 This is my absolute favorite blending brush that I own! It's just the right amount of stiffness - it's not too soft but not too stiff either. I think it's comparable to the MAC 224 but I don't own that one so I can't really say.
+ Urban Decay Naked Eyeshadow [Naked Palette $44] Again with the highlight colors! This is one my favorites from the Naked palette because it doubles as a highlighter and blending color for me.
+ Urban Decay Sin Eyeshadow [Naked Palette $44] This color is amaaazing by itself. It really brightens my eyes by itself - sometimes I just use this and highlight and I'm ready!
REJECTS - EOS Lip Balm ~$3 I did a review on this lip balm - it was a complete miss for me.
- Tokidoki Blending Brush [set is $35] This came in a set of three and this was my least favorite of them. It's not really good at blending but kind of more for outer v, but then I feel like the brush head is too big for just the outer v. It's cute though! lol
I finally posted my June Favorites & Rejects! I didn't have that many things because I've been too busy to do my make up all the time so I only put on a full face on the weekends when I go out! But here's a little more in depth blog about my favorites & rejects.
FAVORITES
[in random order] + MAC 130 Brush I LOOOVE this brush for my liquid foundation. I just checked the MAC website and it is still online. To me it's kind of an expensive brush because it's $38 but I looove it. I have the MAC 109 and I used to use that for foundation but anyone who owns one knows that shit sheds like crazy! But I liked it because it has a smaller brush head and gives me more control. I've tried the 187 for foundation and I really don't like it. It turns out streaky on me if I do use a 187 for foundation I only do it with powders. But the 130 is amazing because it's so small and dense. I feel like it blends everything out so much better and NO shedding! At least not for me!
+ TOKIDOKI BASTARDINO PALETTE You can totally tell that I bought this palette for the packaging! I was really disappointed in the Tokidoki make up line in general because I wanted to buy ALL of it! But I didn't like the colors and the pay off when I actually saw it in person but this palette was the only one I really liked and I knew I would use it. It's perfect if you're on the go and you wanna do a natural look but the only thing is the palette is really big and bulky! =[ But it's still cute! The color payoff in the browns is awesome but the green eyeshadow (Bastardino) isn't too good. I had to swipe it twice for the color to be pigmented. Another downside is Riposino and Bastardino have chunky silver glitter in it and I did experience some fall out when I used it but it didn't bother me too much. But I loooved the browns in this palette because they reminded me of some of my favorite MAC browns like Riposino reminded me of MAC's Time & Space [my favorite brown lid color] and Mummeto reminded me [kinda] of Espresso but a little more reddish brown.
Tokidoki Palette Swatches L to R: Carnivora, Riposino, Mummetto, & Bastardino
+ MAC HIPNESS BLUSH I'm really surprised how much I like this blush! When I first saw it at MAC, I thought it might have been a little too light but since I have a darker skintone it's actually really buildable on me. I can have a light coral flush or make it super pigmented and I really like it!
+ STILA KAJAL LINER IN ONYX At first I hated this eyeliner because I was like WTF it swatched super black when I first saw it in Sephora but when I got it, it wasn't as dark and it practically fell off my waterline when I first used it! But since I already bought it (sometimse I'm too lazy to return things!) I figured I might as well try it out for a little longer and I'm glad I did! When I started sharpening it, the color got a lot darker and it stayed on a lot better. Idk what's on that first layer! lol It's really soft too so it doesn't scratch my waterline and I just love how BLACK it is! I tried to use my MAC Technakohl on one eye with the Stila on the other and Stila definitely wins hands down!
+ MAC CREME CUP LIPSTICK I was soo dumb I freaking lost my first Creme Cup lipstick on vacation in Hawaii! =[ I took it with me to the club and I guess I was too drunk to notice what happened do it but it wasn't in my wristlet the next morning! UGH! haha But I loved it so much I went out and got a new one! I have a hard time finding nudes that don't make me look like Snooki from Jersey Shore!! It's a really pretty light pinky nude and I feel like it goes with everything! I've been wearing it this whole month with my next favorite..
MAC Creme Cup Lipstick
+ MAC OYSTER GIRL LIPGLASS I've had this lipglass forever but I haven't really used it because it ended up being too light. Sometimes I used it to tone down darker lipsticks, but ever since I found MAC Creme Cup, I looove that color combo!!
MAC Creme Cup Lipstick & Oyster Girl Lipstick
+ MAC FASCINATING RUBIES SMOKEY EYE PALETTE I always reach for this palette! Sometimes just because Carbon's in this palette but whenever I have no clue what I wanna do, I always go for the smokey eye. I can do brown smokey, gray smokey, even brown & black smokey. It's really versatile in terms of smokey eyes and in my opinion, Satin Taupe and Carbon are definitely MAC must haves! This came out for Holiday 2008 so it's not available but like I said, Satin Taupe and Carbon are really all you need!
MAC Smokey Eyes Palette
REJECTS
+ L'OREAL 360 FACIAL CLEANSER I really wanted to like this cleanser, but I don't. I think the little scrublet - which you can pop out - is really cool because it's different and I feel like it does get all the make up out, but the cleanser itself I really didn't like. IDK if you can tell from the picture but I really have been using it for the past month - it's halfway gone! - and I just don't like it. When I use it without the scrublet it just didn't take out anything I felt like my Mary Kay cleanser cleans my face a lot better. It just doesn't give me the clean feeling that I like but I do love the scrublet! It's gentle and really cleans deep! I wish they sold it separately
+ MAC SUNTINTS IN FULL OF GRACE I have super chapped lips all the time and I love MAC Tendertones so I thought it would be similar to it but it's not. I'm not sure if it's the SPF in it (It's SPF 20) but it feels kind of oily? I'm not sure how to describe it. I feel like it sits on top of my lip but it doesn't moisturize it like I expected it to and I think it was $14? Which is a LOT for a lip conditioner thing that doesn't work!
I know I said my next post would be my haul but I swear I'll put it up soon! It's the week of my finals so I have a ton of shit to do this week!
