I've been lazy...

I've been a little lazy re: this blog the past week. But I'm back. The boyfriend and I are watching the Phantom of the Opera 25th Anniversary on Netflix, so I figured why not post while I listen. It's his favorite musical and I've only ever seen the movie (which, honestly, compared to this show, the movie was just bad).

Hand model: Nikki

My friends and I made a mall trip last Friday. A lot of time was spent in Ulta and Sephora. Above, we were swatching basically every red lipstick Sephora carried, attempting to find one that Nikki liked. Failed. But I'm sure we'll find one soon.

From Sephora, Ulta, and Walmart

From Sephora, I picked up Urban Decay's travel liner set. It comes with three of their 24/7 Glide On Eye Pencils. One each of Perversion, Smoke, and Sabbath.

Sabbath (far left) is a navy blue. Smoke is grey. Perversion is pure black. I've wanted to try their liners for a while now. I tend to have trouble with pencil liners since they tend to be too hard and drag my eyelids. These are insanely creamy. I'm not too excited about Sabbath since my green eyes don't tend to look good with blue liners, but I'll definitely try this out a bit.

At Ulta, I picked up a few NYX items.

NYX Butter Lipstick in Sweet Tart, which is a lovely pink. NYX Butter Lipstick in Mary Janes, an almost pure red. I feel like there's a tint of pink in it when I tend to look at it. And a NYX Hi Definition Photo Concealer Wand in Green.

For those that don't know, green concealer is used to neutralize redness. I don't tend to have much redness in my face, but get the occasional breakout. A little bit of green concealer underneath my foundation and bye bye red spot. This is probably my favorite green concealer I've used. It's very smooth and blends out extremely easily.

As far as the lipsticks, I already had one of NYX's Butter Lipsticks and loved it. They're much more moisturizing than any lipstick I've owned, but I do find myself re-applying more often.

First group of items picked up at Walmart are a few of Maybelline's Eye Studio Color Tattoo Eyeshadows.

From left to right: Pomegranate Pink, a shimmery pink. Painted Purple, not really shimmery but a very bright purple. I'm not entirely sure the name of the last one. Pretty sure it's Pure Gold.

Next was Revlon's Age Defying CC Cream in Light.

 
I've mostly been using either my Covergirl Tru Blend foundation or my Maybelline BB cream, but I wanted a little more coverage than the BB cream and a little less heaviness than the foundation. So here came the CC cream. Perfect. I've been wearing this basically every day for the last week. Very light on the face, but enough coverage that with a little concealer, my under eye circles are gone.

Next purchase was Lush's Bubblegum Lip Scrub. My cousin's girlfriend, who now works with me, also works at Lush, so she picked this up for me the other day.

I seriously want to just eat this out of the jar. Which, while it won't kill you, would give you a stomach ache. It's sugar. I know I could just make this on my own, it's all ingredients you can grab at the supermarket, but I'm lazy. This tastes great and works just as well.

And my last, but not least, purchase was actually made before everything else. But it's my favorite!

Olay Fresh Effects Everything Off! makeup removal wet cloths. I had to pick up some makeup remover wipes prior to last weekend since I didn't have any at the boyfriend's house. Only grabbed these because they were on sale at CVS. I've used Burt's Bees and elf's makeup remover wipes and was afraid that I'd never find a wipe that didn't kill my eyes no matter how "gentle" the package said they were.

These? These are my holy grail right now. My face and eyes feel perfectly fine after using these. Nothing stings, my eyes don't water, and they are so soft.

I love them. That's all.

So yeah, I picked up a handful of things over the last week or so. My no buy ended, NYX went on sale. I'm still going to keep myself on a low-buy at the very least.

Shannon out.

Nails of the Week ft. Maybelline

Say hello to Maybelline's Color Show Holographic nail polish in Mystic Green (introduced in yesterday's haul post!). 

So I woke up too early like I always do and thought "F it. Let's do this." I took off my previous polish (Essie's Hide and Go Chic), filed, pushed some cuticles, and did the works. Used Revlon's Base+Top Coat. 

And here's the result:

I kinda love it. It was very easy to work with. No wonky lines while I polished. This took two coats, one looked okay but I'm not a fan of too sheer a polish. 

I ended up messing up my thumb like ten minutes after I took the picture. Go, me! But it looks fine, my nail is still all green but it looks like the polish just got scrunched up. 

Going to attempt to keep track of how long this lasts before chipping. Fair warning, I type a lot (my entire job is typing all day) so the tips of my nails tend to chip very easily. 

Aaaannnddd already thinking about next weeks color. /sigh

Target Clearance Haul

So, I am currently on a "no buy" meaning that I am not allowing myself to purchase any more makeup products. My time limit on myself is just until NYX goes on sale somewhere (a good sale!). But that doesn't mean I can't accept presents. ;) 

My boyfriend was promoted at his job a couple weeks ago and just got his first promotion paycheck. While in Target, he offered to buy me a few things, so I searched Target's clearance and here we are.

 Top Row: elf Kohl Eyeliner, 5 Maybelline Color Show nail polishes, a Covergirl Outlast nail polish, Pixi Endless Silky Eye Pen

Bottom Row: L'Oreal Infallible Eyeshadow, Pixi Beauty Blush, L'Oreal Infallible Eyeshadow

L'Oreal Infallible Eyeshadow in Bottomless Java - $3.48

L'Oreal Infallible Eyeshadow in Infinite Sky - $3.48

These were utterly creamy. I'd say a cross between a regular eyeshadow and a cream eyeshadow. These are the type of shadow where I'd do my eyes first before my face routine as there might be more fallout than normal. They're both pretty shimmery. But we'll see.

elf Kohl Eyeliner in Black - $2.55

Pixi endless silky eye pen in Iridescent Iris - $4.50

RE: Pixi - Holy creamy eyeliner like whoa. So that was my first impression. It looks pretty black when I first put it on, but once I tilted my hand towards my window, it turned extremely purple. Can't wait to try this one out.

The elf liner was a little tougher to get a thick black line from. I'm hoping that if I warm it up on my hand or something that it'll be a little easier to work with. This one did come with a smudging sponge at the end of it, so that's always a plus.

Pixi Beauty Blush in Rosy Rouge - $4.80

 I cannot wait to use this. I only have two other blushes (I think) in my collection. This one applied really easily, so I can't wait to see how it goes with a brush.

I did not swatch the nail polishes. The Maybelline polishes were $1.48 each and the Covergirl polish was $2.48. I'm probably going to start doing a Nail Polish of the Week on the weekends so that I can get some use out of more of my polishes. Be tuned in tomorrow for the first one. Now I just have to decide what color to use...