Hard Candy Baked Blushes!

Hallo schöne menschen!! I literally just got back from vacation yesterday night, it was a long drive.. 13 miserable hours in a car that almost stopped in the middle of the road.. luckily we were in Jacksonville ( Just a BTW this was written a good two weeks ago... so yes I am alive). Any how, I had saved this draft ( Draft saved total of 3 times -__-) from before I left to quickly get up when i got back. These blushes don't have the best memories for me because when I got them all it was either 1. because while we were waiting for my beloved dog, buttercup, at the vet they told us to go grab lunch or go do something for about an hour. And 2. because the only way you can get your hands on these blushes is by stumbling your way into Walmart. To me Walmart is just the worlds biggest contradiction. I won't bore you with my Walmart rant, but I will say that those people who started "People of Walmart" were on to something.

On to the actual blushes. I first picked up the "Honeymoon" blush.. thinking it would be a nice highlighting color because it looks quite similar to MAC's mineralize duo blush in "Moon River". As I have both, I can say that this doesn't show up to great on my skin.. and maybe it's because I am so fair, and I just have a certain luminosity to my skin already ( Well shucks Megan, don't tut your own horn.).. But it wasn't that noticeable.. dry. Wetting the product makes for a nice glow to the skin. I think maybe this would work on medium to dark skin tones better. And I find myself hesitant to say that because I thought it would work on me and I am NW15. Definitely cooler skin tones would look best in this but, anyone could wear it and make it work. I should mention that I really like the packaging on these blushes, easy to open and close, its cute, I like the font ( I find fonts on products are more important that people come to think), and I like how pretty baked blushes look. They make you want all of them because each one is unique in the sense that they all have different veining.

Next blush I recieved as a gift. Some really nice woman on Makeup Alley sent me a care package after my dog died. She included this blush and a couple other things. I was beyond grateful for her kindness. But this blush is perfect for fair/light, and maybe even medium skin tones. It is a pinker/ rosier version of MAC's Dainty. Because it is baked it gives that nice glow to the skin that makes you just look very healthy. It has just the right pigmentation to it. Not to sheer, but not so pigmented you have to use a stippling brush and barely tap it in the pan. If you have a warmer skin tone this would be lovely for you, but if you are a fair skinned cool lady, like myself, it gives you a nice Rosy flush that complements what your natural flush should look like.

Today is Friday, and I would like to inform you all that school for me kicks back in on Monday. I have mixed feelings about it. I feel like this will be "My Year" so to speak. I have hardly any classes with people I dislike or need to steer clear of. I have good solid people in my core classes, and I am getting more self confidence as I get older, which is a good thing. As a recovering Anorexic and Bulimic, I am glad I am becoming more comfortable with my body. I also am working on a Fashion Blog and started to follow a bunch of really inspirational fashion bloggers. So yeah. That's all I wanted to say, hope you all have a great day!
-Megan 

Chanel Vitalumiére Aqua Foundation Review & Swatches

I Love trying out different foundations. There, I said it. And normally I would have yearned to try this one.. but because I was ( I did just use past tense! ) incredibly fair, I wouldn't have even considered it because they typically don't make foundations that will match the NW5-10 ladies of the world, and if they do they are either straight up white and are too thick for my taste. So I decided that I would get some color, wouldn't be that hard to get any sun.. I live in Florida.. though I had to be careful to not burn and actually get tan. Anyway.. this is just a long explanation to say that now I am around NW13-15 instead of NW7-10. That being said, I do have some strong pink undertones, but not terribly pink. I would say 80% pink, and the other 20% peach. Knowing all of this I picked up this foundation because I heard it was light coverage, and provided a natural finish. 

As I said before, and as you can see above I got BR10. The "BR" signifies beige rose which is pink toned, while purchasing just the "B", signifying beige, is yellow toned. I noticed in store that the "BR" shades run slightly darker than the "B" ones. I would say this one is a perfect MAC NW15. I found it to be a little to dark for me. I noticed that if I blended this out it would match my skin, but if I barely blended it.. I found myself to resemble some what of an Ompalompa :)

Shaking this foundation is crutial!! I tried it straight up from the squeeze tube at the counter and stared at the watery nasty-ness on the back of my hand. Then I read, duh, and shook it and it was normal. Since this foundation is water based (which is good for oily and acne prone skin) it feels better on your skin. If you try this foundation alongside a oil based one.. you just feel better about applying the water based one. This will sound strange, but you know that commercial that has a guy (?) sitting at the diner and a girl hands him his pie, and then she goes for the whip cream.. and she simply asks "Oil, or cream?" and then she says it again to bring home the point of the commercial. WTF would you want oil on your pie? WTF would you want oil on your face? Yeah I just compared a face to a pie.

Many people out there on the beauty internet, from what i've seen at least, seem to complain about the packaging of this particular foundation. Its a squeeze tube, instead of one of Chanel's signature glass bottles. I actually like it, because the first foundation I ever tried was a squeeze tube.. I guess it brings back some nostalgia.. but I like that it gives you the control to decide how much product you want. I think it slightly modernizes Chanel foundations. It also makes it great for traveling, no glass means no nasty surprise in your suitcase or fear of being clumsy and dropping it. I guess most people thought for 45$ you would get fancy packaging.

 As you can see, above you can kind of see the separation of water based-ness mixed with the actual pigmentation of the foundation. 

I expected this foundation to be a lot of things. I found in the end it has more of a definite light coverage, but the coverage really depends on how much you blend it. I read other peoples blogs before buying this on how it was light coverage, sheer coverage, and medium coverage. I know now that it all depends on  your preference. As for the finish, I would say a natural finish. By that I mean semi-matte. Though it has a slight matte finish to it, it still makes you look surprisingly glowy.. not so much dewy, but glowy.

I overall really like this foundation!! It wasn't love at first sight but when I let it set for a couple hours, I really found to love this! When I get a little more color I won't have to worry about blending though :) It feels a little heavier than a tinted moisturizer, which is good for daily wear. 

Oh by the way, I found out I am going on a road trip!! We are leaving on July 23rd, and planning on going and stopping in Savannah, Georgia..Myrtle Beach, South Carolina.. Boford, North Carolina.. Washington DC, and the ultimately stop where we are all from Ohio. I will be trying out a bunch of different products, so yeah ;]

Have a lovely Day!

-Megan

Stila Sparkle Waterproof liquid Eye Liner in "Bora Bora" Review & Swatches

Bonjour! Aujourd'ui I am going to review the new Stila waterproof liquid liner! I would say I got this a couple weeks ago and it was something that I swatched in the store, and it was so vibrant and pretty that I absolutely needed to have it in my life ( story of my life, lol)! I put it on the night I bought it to go out to dinner, and It was great! It didn't move. I will say that I did notice that these liners look suspiciously similar to the ones MAC, and Illamasqua launched around the same time. I must say that even though I loved this on my eye, I was really disappointed with it. 

COLOR:

 I do really adore these kind of mermaid colors, its my weakness! Great color, especially if you were graced with brown eyes.

PIGMENTATION: 

This sucker is about as pigmented as they come. One swipe, and eyegasm all over the place. I'm not exaggerating the tiniest bit either. I tested some other colors out, but I found this one to be the most pigmented.

WEAR:

 It wears so good, that i couldn't get it off my eye! It was the most dreadful thing I have experienced. Even after going to town with my makeup wipe, and then a Chanel eye makeup remover it wouldn't come off. It stained my eye for 2 days. And nothing would cover it, so I was stuck with wearing the blue eyeliner look for in total 3 days. This makes me sad, I had high hopes. This is in fact TOO waterproof!

APPLICATION:

 It applies like I said suspiciously like the MAC and Illamasqua ones. The applicator and packaging is identical just with a different brand name printed on the label. It isn't realistic with this kind of applicator to want to put on a thin layer, it always comes out to be more of a medium to heavy thickness.

PRICE:

 22$ for 0.05 oz. Which is WAY to overpriced for such a small amount of product.

Overall:

I would not repurchase this, I am not a fan of stila liquid liners in general anyways. If you want one similar to this get the Illamasqua one. I have the MAC one and when you take it off the eyeliner balls up in tiny balls and beads off your eye which could scratch your eye and cause some serious damage. And of course this eyeliner stains so opt for the Illamasqua one.

Bobbi Brown Corrector Concealer Review!

Bonjour!

This past weekend I went to Sephora, and noticed that they finally have a section of Bobbi Brown. Since I got their early enough, practically no one was in the store so I got the pleasure of looking around the new stand, by my self, without other people hovering over me waiting for me too leave so they can look!  I was so excited about this, mostly because of the fact I wanted to try Bobbi Browns face products because they look light enough for me! I was completely right! Unfortunately the one thing I really wanted to try was the skin foundation, they only had the second lightest shade, porcelain. For me I am definitely Alabaster because of the fact that all of Bobbi Browns face products tend to lean more yellow. Since I am textbook cool, I would definitely be Alabaster which has some yellow in to counteract redness, but has the right amount of pink to work. In the concealer it is all different. The one i ended up picking up is the one in porcelain Bisque. This has pink undertones in it, as you can see in pictures below, and since my arm is basically even skin (meaning no splotches of red/pink/discoloration) it shows a tad bit off in color, but still a good match. On my actual face it's gorgeous! matches really nicely, and since it is a corrector concealer it counteracts all the colors you don't want on your face, like red for spots, and blues and purples for under eye areas. I find that i like this more for spots and blemishes more than on the under eyes, because it creases on me because it is pretty full coverage. The concealer itself is very creamy and pigmented. I would say depending on how much you use it is a medium coverage to very full coverage concealer. I think this is great for us cool, incredibly pale skinned people. I think guys could get away with wearing this even because Bobbi brown designed this to blend perfectly into peoples skin tone. Because in all truth no one has completely pink undertones. Even if you are super cool toned like me, you still have some yellow pigment in your skin. I love this concealer and this has replaced my favorite concealer.. which is the Kat Von D tattoo concealer in Porcelain.

Tarte Amazonian Clay Blush Swatches & Review!

Hello Lovelies! Sorry I haven't updated this in a while, spring break was last week and I really didn't feel like doing much of anything. This week was back to the old grind, and today was Saturday so I thought I should put up a new post. Because of all of the bloggers and YouTubers in the beauty world were raving about these blushes, I thought I would give them  go. I went to sephora and fell in Love! These are everything and more of what you hear and read about. The pigment is fantastic, and so is the saying power. The swatches that you see below I kept on my arm all night, slept with them on my arm.. and when I woke up they weren't as bright but still, they stayed on all night! That's pretty nice, considering that I am a wild sleeper!

So supposedly the founder of Tarte Cosmetics went on a trip to the amazon, and found at the bottom of the Amazon river a "groundbreaking" new clay that is supposed to make dry skin more moisturized and oily skin less oily. Interesting, I think... do I think that it lives up to it's claim? Well, I have fairly normal skin.. (not to oily, and not to dry.. though more dry) so I am not the best judge for saying if this works or not. I found that it doesn't break me out, I tested it for two weeks and nothing. I really like these and would recommend them!

GORGEOUS COLOR! DO YOU SEE THE GOLD FLECKS?!?! *DIES*

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Top: Amused

Bottom: Blushing Bride

Top: Amused

Bottom: Blushing Bride

Lime Crime Lipstick Swatches!

So I think it is time for me to review these since I have had them since July of last year :P Anyway I know there is a lot of "Negative" feedback over this company but I really don't see why. I don't really have a side in the war, but I will say that I like Lime Crime's products. After I got these lipsticks I started seeing videos popping up all over about how horrible these lipsticks were. In my opinion I think they are creamy, maybe a tad drying when your lips aren't properly moisturized but not more than any other lipstick. I think the lipsticks are creamy, extremely opaque, and come in unicorn packing. That alone was motive for me to buy them! I think the only negative I found with these are they wiggle a bit ( meaning the lipstick inside the tube, like it might break almost). That is it. I am going into this will a clear mind, and nothing is altering my opinion on these. I think they are good quality, they are a little pricey for the amount that you get (which is a little under what you would get with a MAC lipstick, which is $14, while a lime crime lipstick is $16). Overall i really like these! My favorite is D'Lilac, the purple!!

From Left to Right: Styletto, Cosmopop, Great pink planet, No she didn't, D'lilac

Top to Bottom:  Great Pink Planet, No she Didn't, D'lilac

Top to bottom: Styletto, Cosmopop, Great Pink Planet

Napolean Perdis Dramatic Eyeshadow Quad Review

Packaging:

So this packaging is very appealing due to the sultry woman on the packing, but It very much so reminds me of a chanel quad maybe a little more of a rectangle shape and the clasp is kind of stiff to open, because it is a very hard plastic. It is semi compact so you could definitely throw this into a purse... not so much a clutch.

Price:

The price if I remember correctly was around 32$- 38$. Was this palette worth that in my opinion, No not even close. If I made this ( based on everything) I would price it around 15$-20$.

Quality/ Pigmentation:

The quality of this palette is meh... It isn't great but it isn't that bad. The pigments swatched over primer ( above) is about average. The eyeshadows look almost identical to Chanel ones ( not the color, but the shape) and the pigmentation is okay swatched on your hand, but on your eye the pigmentation quite frankly is kinda sucky. I will have to try other primers with it on my eye but I was seriously disapointed! As for the individual eyeshadows my favorite is the black. Soft, smooth, and so black its blue. The white color is a silvery/ greyed/ white... hard to describe. The purple is a cool mid toned purple with blue undertones to it. The blue shade is a darker bright midnight blue? Get that analogy? It is very close to Blue flame but less dark.

Overall:

Overall I would rate this a C. I probably wouldn't have wasted my money if I knew the pigmentation on my lids would be so bleh ( the black is the best one!!). I will give it another try but I wouldn't waste your money if you don't absolutely NEED it. You can get this @ Ulta :)

Archetype Cosmetics Review & Swatches

Let me start out first by saying that I did not get these from the actual company meaning that I did not order them from their website, but I swapped with someone on Makeup Alley for these because let me tell you that I LOVE the names of these pigments!! Seriously I love halloween and creepy names so these "rung my bell" if you will.

My initial reaction was that these pigments in the bags were gorgeous!! They have nice duo-chromes and look really special and unique. I was happily surprised when I swatched them and they turned out beautiful, and The swatches below are all dry. Can you imagine what they look like wet??

I don't have that many Con's to these mainly because I swapped for them and didn't buy from the website. I have heard that it takes more than forever to get your order from the owner. I have heard insane stories of people not receiving their order until after they filed a paypal dispute and it took 3-4 months. I would HIGHLY suggest getting these ( if you are interested) via swapping. I can't put a negative tick mark on these pigments because I love them!

My only Cation to you all would be to swap ( can't stress enough) and if you do order from them be prepared to wait a while. Look at other blogs that actually did buy from their website, and make your decision based off of your gut and knowledge.

But I give these products an A++