Stocking Stuffer Ideas For the Beauty Lover! Part 2!

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Part 2 of the stocking stuffer ideas for the beauty lover in your life! Today I have 4 out of the many ELF kits that are available this holiday season! These are available at Target and many places makeup is sold. I personally have seen all of these at my local Meijer, as well.

The first set, also the largest that I have to share, is called the All About Nude 32 Color Eyeshadow Palette. It comes with, surprise surprise, 32 eyeshadows, the elf Eyeshadow Primer (which is really good, by the way!), and two brushes: a flat brush and an all over shadow brush. This set retails for $10!! A great gift for pretty much anyone, as there are nudes but also a few pops of color!

Next we have the Glossy Glam Lips set, which retails for $5. This has 3 lip glosses in subtle shades, including a clear shimmer, peach, and bright pink. These have quite a perfume-y smell, which I don't mind but I do know that some people are sensitive to scents so I wanted to mention that tidbit.

Next, the Shimmer Eyes 5 piece eyeliner set, retailing for $5. These are wooden pencils but each pencil has a built on sharpener on the lid, so you never have to worry about finding a sharpener! These are surprisingly creamy for wooden pencils! Four of the five eyeliners have glitter; only the white is glitter-free.

Lastly, for the lip lover! The Long Lasting Lips kit includes two of the Moisturizing Lipsticks, one Long Wear Lipliner, and one Lip Lock Pencil, which can act as a primer or as a clear lipliner to prevent feathering and bleeding. This kit retails for $10.

Lipliner: Natural Blush
Lipsticks: Berry Kiss and Pink Mink

Have you spotted these elf sets anywhere? Elf is such an affordable brand and this is a great way to get a lot of bang for your buck and deliver a fantastic gift, at the same time!

Talk to you soon!
Amanda

PUR Cosmetics Eye Polishes - Swatches and Review!

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I have swatches of the new PUR Cosmetics Eye Polishes! These have an all-in-one formula that act as a primer and shadow in one. Each eye polish comes with a silicone applicator to help apply color evenly, while minimizing excess.

The shadows come in 6 shades: Caviar, Velvet, Silk, Cashmere, Satin, and Suede. Let's look at some swatches and I have a few Face of the Day pictures to show you at the end!

Caviar is an olive green with gold shimmer.

Velvet is a beautiful plum with fuchsia shimmer.

Silk is an apricot with champagne shimmer.

Cashmere is a champagne pearl. This eye polish had a thinner consistency than the other colors when it was swatched but it applied just fine when applying to the eyelid.

Satin is a pale pink pearl.

Suede is a bronze pearl.

I used all of these and really enjoyed them! The texture was different, sort of like a whipped, thin mousse-y consistency. I was worried they would be really wet and take forever to dry but that was not the case! They applied smoothly and evening and were blendable but also didn't feel wet.

This is look using Velvet:

And here is Caviar.

Have you tried the Pur Cosmetics Eye Polishes yet? What do you think??

These retail for $26 each. Pur Cosmetics is available at Ulta or via their website.

Talk to you soon!
Amanda

butter LONDON Shadow Clutch - Swatches and Review

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butter LONDON recently released two ShadowClutch eyeshadow palettes, complete with interchangeable eyeshadows. I have swatches of one of the palettes and two of the duos to show you today!

The Natural Charm palette comes with 6 primer-infused, oil absorbing, skin-balancing shadows that pack on true color payoff. The colors in this palette are:
Linen - Matte Vanilla
Quartz - Warm Beige Sheen
Camo - Dark Khaki Sheen
Camel - Matte Nude
Citrine - Coral Sheen
Leather - Matte Chocolate Brown

As I mentioned, you can slide the rows of eyeshadows and change out one or more colors, if you choose. There are 4 duos available to change up your ShadowClutch shadows. 

The Moody Blues duo has Sapphire, a blue satin and Sequins, a mint satin eyeshadow.

The Fancy Flutter duo has Feather, a beige satin and Plume, a duochrome that shifts from red to blue. 

ARE YA SEEING THAT DUOCHROME?!

I was really impressed with these eyeshadows, they are soft and creamy and blend easily. Because they are so soft, they are a bit powdery and there is a little bit of fallout. However this is easily brushed away.

I used these eyeshadows for a week and really enjoyed them. I do wish you could purchase an empty palette to store the extra shadows. Maybe someday!

Have you tried any butter LONDON cosmetics? What do you think? Do you like these colors??

Talk to you soon!
Amanda

Maybelline The Blushed Nudes Eyeshadow Palette

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Maybelline just released a Blushed Nudes 12 shadow palette, exclusive to Walmart. I happened to be in Walmart a few days ago and saw this so I had to get it, of course! This obviously looks to be comparable to the Urban Decay Naked 3 palette but with a $9.98 price tag, much more affordable!

This palette comes with two sponge tip applicators.

Top row swatches, with no primer:

Bottom row swatches, with no primer.

I haven't had the chance to wear this yet but at first swatch, this palette seems to be a little better pigmented than the original Nudes palette, thankfully.

As far as I know, this is not limited edition but as I mentioned before, it is only available at Walmart.

Talk to you soon!
Amanda

NYC Individual Eyes Palette in SoHo Grand

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NYC Individual Eyes palettes are an affordable drugstore option for eyeshadows. The palettes are about $2.99, depending on where you live.

I have the SoHo Grand palette to review today, which is a purple palette and that's right up my alley!

Each palette comes with a cream eye primer and highlighter and 4 eyeshadows.

These colors are really pretty and I especially love the brighter crease color! I swatched these over the primer that is included in the palette.
In direct sunlight:

Regular daylight:

The highlighter shade can be applied over the shadows to create a soft metallic look. I could not capture that in photos but it was very pretty! 

What do you think of these NYC palettes? Have you tried them before?? 

Talk to you soon!

Amanda

NYC Midnight Beauty Collection!

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Today's post is a little bit different but something I'm excited about! I have some makeup to review today! New NYC makeup, to be exact! Whoo!

Now, if you follow me on Instagram, you might notice that I've become more and more into makeup recently. I've always loved the pretty packaging and colors but am finally getting more acquainted with wearing it! Great concept, right? Use the products you buy! So hopefully I will be reviewing makeup on the blog here and there. I will probably schedule those posts as weekend or Tuesday or Thursday posts and keep the nail posts MWF. Cool? Sweet!

Expert Last Lip Color ($1.99). I've never used NYC lipsticks before and THEY SMELL LIKE CHERRIES!!! WHY didn't anyone tell me this?! MMMMMMMM, so good!

Red or Alive, 1, 2, and 3 swipes (from right to left and yes, I know that's super backwards!)

Immortal Vixen - 1, 2, and 3 swipes, again right to left. This color terrified me a bit in the tube because it looks really dark but I was glad it was a little more sheer. It could definitely be built up to a more opaque color but it's nice to have the option to wear it a little more sheer, for those of us who want the beautiful color but maybe don't want to wear super vampy lips all of the time.

I wore this color one day and it was a little bit drying as it dries to a semi matte finish.

Individual Eyes Custom Compact in Hate The Night ($4.99)
These shadows are pretty basic colors, but staples that most women will want to own. I used the primer all over my eyes, let it set for about 30 seconds and then started applying shadows. I used the
All Over Lid, and lighter crease color on my eyes and the matte black crease color as an eyeliner and then the highlighter on my brow bone. They seemed quite pigmented to apply and there was almost zero fallout, which is awesome because eww fallout.

The shadows wore well throughout the day and didn't fade or blend away. I did notice some creasing by the end of the day. I have a hard time finding any eyeshadow primer that stays put as well as my Milani Eyeshadow Primer!

I do like that the plastic cover for this can be removed but also has notches in the plastic so you can easily replace it in the shadow pan when you are done using the eyeshadows. There's also a little groove for the sponge.

One swipe of each eyeshadow over the primer included in the palette.

Liquid Eyeliner ($2.99)
The applicator on this eyeliner was a brush and as someone who is not even remotely a liquid eyeliner professional, it was a little bit difficult to achieve a straight line. And the line was thicker than I would have liked.

The first line is the thinnest I could make it without wiping product off of the brush, the middle line is how it applied the most easily and the third line is after wiping product off of the brush. I did leave a swipe of this on my hand for about 5 minutes and it still smudged when I tried to wipe it off.

Okay, liquid eyeliner and I want to be friends. We do. But we're sort of frenemies right now. It's mainly my fault, I am not very patient.

You can purchase NYC Products basically everywhere... Target, Walmart, Rite Aid, CVS, Walgreens. They are very affordable and a great quality for the price! I'll be checking out some more lipsticks, for sure!

Talk to you soon!
Amanda

ColourPop Eyeshadow Swatches!

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If you are into makeup at all, you might have seen ColourPop cosmetics appearing just about everywhere in  your social media feeds. I first heard of them through Coffee Break with Dani on YouTube and well, I just had to try them. Let's just say... the obsession is real!

There are 54 single eyeshadow colors and several 4 piece sets which I believe contain some exclusive shades. They also just released 32 lippies and lip pencils! Eeek!! I seriously want all of them!! Well maybe not the blue or green lippies. I don't think I could pull that look off :-p

Anyway, I have swatches of 13 eyeshadows for you to scope out today and you can see them in action in this video!

Each swatch is one swipe with no primer!

From Right to left:
Sequin, Get Lucky, So Quiche, I <3 This

R-L:
Envy, Cricket, Dare, On The Rocks, (and Sequin)

Top row:
Deck, Hammered
Chipper, Ibiza, and Pop Rocks

I am completely in love with these eyeshadows! They are pigmented, fun, AFFORDABLE, and just really delightful! Get you some ColourPop and tell them I sent you! Actually, they probably don't care, but you can if you like, haha!

Talk to you soon!
Amanda