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First I would like to discuss the price because as a general bargain shopper that I am, I always either look for sales or products that are inexpensive with great reviews or recommendations. These palettes run for $8.95on the CoastalScents.com website and let’s be honest, we know we can get them cheaper because Coastal Scents practically always has an awesome sale. (Best Time to buy? Black Friday and Cyber Monday sales of course… Oh and the 4thof July sales are usually pretty good!) You get 12 dime size shadows for this price and the compact includes a large mirror. A cute aspect is that each palette represents a different city. The quality of these shades depends on the individual palette. I only had a problem with one or two of the shades and I believe that was due to glitter or what looks like glitter flaking the shadow off when…

So for my birthday week/ Spring Break week I went down to florida for Phillies Spring Training which was amazing. I had lunch and dinner with family on my birthday and I got to go see Oz with my friend and my boyfriend. I had a amazing week and this photo is from Opening day for Oz the Great and Powerful. The colors used for this were: Urban Decay : Skimp(inner corner and brow),Baked (lid), Bender (crease and blended upward)and Cobra (crease). The Balm : runaround rebecca (top of crease color) I had a Christening on St. Patty’s Day so I decided against bright eye makeup but what did you do on St. Patty’s Day? Did you wear green or is it just another day for you? Personally I wear green almost every day, it’s my favorite color! If you haven’t seen the movie you really should check it out,…

So if you haven’t heard Disney is releasing a movie by the name of Oz the Great and Powerful and clearly in the title you can tell what its about and boy am I excited. To make it even better Urban Decay and OPI have released Oz collections! The movie is released one day before my birthday on March 8th. It was originally going to be on my birthday but personally I think this works out better for me! The Urban Decay palettes (here) are GORGEOUS at $49 a pop including the lip product. I personally am dying to get my hands on the Theodora palette all the colors I use regularly or well similar colors. The Glinda palette has more fun and innocent colors. The packaging looks amazing and the great thing is it looks like they are the pop out pans that you can put any color in…

Hey All, I start school tomorrow so I wanted to have at least one thing up. I’m going to plan to post twice a week, work it into my schedule. Try to pick certain days or something. I miss blogging! Anyway so here is the look, I’ve worn it a few times, slightly different ways.      Obviously the photos are from two different days. I used liquid liner on the day with the brown shirt, and a soft blended charcoal pencil (barely noticeable) on the day with the bright purple shirt. What I used: Urban Decay eye shadow pencil in Sin (all over lid) Urban Decay eye shadow pencil in JuJu (in crease blend with finger) NYX jumbo eye pencil in MILK (base for multicolor eye liner) Coastal Scents Creative Me Palette Coastal Scents 88 Color Palette (to enhance some of the Creative me colors for transition blending)…

This is a bit of a bold fun look, to be honest unless it was halloween I would not wear this out lol but it was totally fun to mess around with. If you’d like to see a tutorial on a look very similar to mine check out the video at the end of this post! As usual I used a variety of products at both cheap and higher prices. I decided to do a “Sailor” inspired look after wanting so badly to get the MAC Sailor stuff and knowing it would be entirely unreasonable to do it. Anyway, I wish the flash didn’t wash out the color so much (I did this at night so no natural lighting sad face) because the eye shadow on my lid was straight up GOLD haha. Crazy right? If you like experimenting you need this color seriously. It’s by Glamour Doll Eyes in…

So in April, I purchased the Mrs. Bunny Travel Collection. All the brushes that I wanted were in the travel size and hey if I can save some money by purchasing the travel size then so be it lol. Upon arrival it of course had lovely packaging and each individual brush was packaged inside of the container itself so they wouldn’t get messed up which I love, shows me they care about their product. I’ve washed all of these and not one of them lost hairs which I thought was awesome. All of the brushes have the sigmax HD fibers. They are as soft as can be, remind me of a Revlon brush at the super store, which reminds me I still need to get that brush haha. This collection includes: E30 Pencil Brush E40 Tapered Blending Brush E55 Eye Shading Brush E65 Small Angle Brush F30 Large Powder Brush F40 Large Angled Contour…

So I still have my nail polish that I won in their cardboard boxes since lets be honest, I need proper storage for my nail polishes lol there isn’t enough room! I was thinking about that China Glaze Riveting color (the bright orange jelly) but I was feeling a little…edgy? So I went with darker nails using the matte finish grey of Stone Cold (also China Glaze) on eight of my fingers and the bright Riveting on my thumbs. Topped with ELF’s Matte Finisher. I even did all of my toes in Riveting! On a totally side note, sorry I haven’t been around much, I’ve been busy in life. I do have quite a lot of swatches already photographed and reviews that I want to get done though! Still working on getting some Nail art posts up. Talk to you soon!

So a little over a month ago I received my samples from Virus Insanity. All of the samples that I purchased were duo-chromatic and they have quite a good selection.  I had 5 samples, I tried to get a variety of colors but I mostly picked cool tones ones. I honestly can’t remember if I had picked a collection or individual shadows. Their names are: Bad Luck – Lavender color with a blueish-greenish-pinkish reflex Black Cat- plum/navy with purple reflex 13- Light, Soft Pink with silvery-white reflex Step on a Crack – Green with a gold reflex Incubus – Navy Blue with a lighter blue reflex and maybe a hint of something else I think the color that I like most applied on my arm was Bad Luck but for whatever reason I haven’t gotten it to apply very pigmented yet. All of the other colors apply wonderfully especially the darker colors. The sample sizes run at…

So I did my first Make-up Tutorial. Lighting wasn’t so hot and my skin has been an utter mess (I don’t much like wearing heavy foundation). But It’s a pretty simple, basic “No Makeup” look apart from the lips. I mention most of the products as I go but I’ll have a picture of them all as well. This is my first attempt at a video Makeup tutorial so any pointers, tips or tricks are welcomed! I tried to keep it short but apparently I talk A LOT lol.

Okay, so I’ve posted about this one time before however I will still let those who don’t know in. The Soap Box is a subscription service by FortuneCookieSoap.com (Which if you haven’t their products you should!) It is somewhat similar to a birchbox but in this case all of the products you receive are FCS products and are bath and body (usually). The box is $19.99 and the Spring Box sold out in less then 15 minutes because they only had 99 subscriptions. This time around they were offering 500 on top of those that have subscribed already so assuming no one backed out you could say they sent out around 600 (minus the subscriptions that are left) and YES that means there ARE subscriptions left, and you absolutely have a chance to get one! (48 left atm) Don’t let the price fool you though because in every box you also get…