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A Few Of My Favorite Things Palette: Review ♥

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Hey everyone!

Too Faced Cosmetics recently released a new palette called “A Few Of My Favorite Things”. I saw a few youtubers talking about the palette and once I saw the eyeshadows that came with it, I instantly decided that it had to be mine. Being that I love sparkly eyeshadow rather than matte, I felt that this palette was appropriate for me, especially for outings. The colors are beautiful and the pigmentation is incredible. The set comes with 20 eyeshadows, 2 blushes, 2 bronzers, 1 mascara, 1 lip product, and a cute cosmetic pouch that everything fits right in.

The Packaging!
Anyone who knows me, can tell you that I am a total sucker for packaging and this, my friends, is a prime example of how marketing wins again. First of all, I don’t know any girl who is not obsessed with Chevron anything. I mean, I’m a girl and I have a whole Chevron wall in my living room. Does that make me crazy? let’s hope not. Anyway, on top of the beautiful Chevron Print, they chose the perfect color packaging. The mixture between gold and pink is just so beautiful and girly. I truly love it. 

The Eyeshadows!

The eyeshadow colors are just incredible! Honestly, The pictures I show you do not do them justice what so ever. They are creamy and pigmented. I love that most of the shades have a shimmer to them because I find that shimmer looks great with my skin tone, so I tend to reach for those types of eyeshadows rather than matte ones. I do have to say that the matte colors were a bit chalky and a little difficulty to blend out but that isn’t a deal breaker for me due to the fact that there aren’t many matte colors. I deff. think my favorite colors are Tinsel, Bluff, and Party Time. They look like they’re one color but in the light it reflects into a different color. Tinsel turns greenish, Bluff turns purplish-blue, and Party Time has this blue silver reflection. SO beautiful. Coquet is also one of those types of shades but I found that when applied it just looked gold, there was no pink at all so it’s sort of misleading. Here is a closer look at the eyeshadows:

First Row
Second Row
Third Row
Fourth Row
This Palette not only comes with these gorgeous shades of eyeshadows, but it also comes with 2 blushes and 2 bronzers. I’ve tried the bronzers on their own before this palette and they were basically my skin color so unfortunately, it doesn’t really do anything for me. The blushes on the other hand are visible on my skin tone but I deff.  think they would look better on lighter skin tones just because they show up more vividly. Here are some swatches of both blushes and bronzers:
As I mentioned before, the palette also came with a mascara and a lip product. The mascara is so good! I have been eyeing this mascara for a while but hadn’t heard anyone really rave about it so decided to wait on it. I’m so glad that it came with this palette because I’ve honestly fallen in love with it. It makes my eyelashes look long and curled without me having to use an eyelash curler. Usually I apply two coats of three different mascara’s but lately I have only been using this one and that for me is a HUGE deal. so, yay! for less of an eyelash struggle in the morning!
The lip product on the other hand, I am not really a fan of. It is supposed to be a lip plumper type of product and I do think it works but, for one, the color is terrible for my skin tone, so I couldn’t pull it off even if I wanted to. And two, my lips tend to always get extremely chapped and dry during the fall and winter months, so I struggle with lipsticks because they tend to bring out the flakiness and dry skin, unfortunately, this lipstick is no different. You will see in the picture that my lips not only look pale, but they look so chapped and flakey. I tried using a lip scrub and moisturizing before application and that did not work either, I honestly think it made it worse. Gross! I deff. will not be using this product on my own lips at all. 
 Here is a close up picture of the mascara and the lip product: 

And last but not least, There is also this cute little makeup pouch that comes with the palette. The palette, mascara, and lip product all fit into this pouch perfectly so you can carry everything with you if you have to travel. How cute is it?

Price: $56.00 USD (Valued at $436.00 USD)
Where can you purchase? Sephora.com, Toofaced.com
Overall Thoughts: I am obsessed! I think it’s an awesome deal and totally worth it. I will be doing a few YouTube videos featuring this palette so you guys can see how the colors look on the eye! I would deff.  recommend this palette for any season because of the variety of shades!
hope you enjoyed!
xo, 
   Jess ♥

Bold Fall Makeup Look ♥

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Hey Everyone!

Fall is my favorite time of year when it comes to makeup! It is much more socially acceptable to wear sparkle, dark, and bold makeup during the fall and winter since the summer is more for effortless natural makeup. With that said, you know I couldn’t resist wearing my dark vampy lips in this video!

PRODUCTS USED:
  ♥ Urban Decay Primer Potion
♥ Benefit Stay Don’t Stray Concealer & Eyeshadow Primer
♥ Lorac Pro Palette – Garnet, Taupe, Espresso, Nude
♥ Bhcosmetics Party Girl Palette
♥ Tarte Maracuja Creaseless Concealer -Tan
♥ L’Oreal Voluminous Smoldering Eyeliner -Blackest Black
♥ Maybelline Master Duo Liquid Eyeliner – Black Lacquer
♥ Maybelline Rocket Volum’ Express Mascara – Black
♥ Maybelline One By One Volum’ Express Mascara – Black
♥ Maybelline The Colassal Volum’ Express Mascara – Black
♥ Maybelline Lash Stiletto Mascara – Blackest Black
♥ Neutrogena Healthy Skin Foundation – 110 Honey Beige
♥ Bare Minerals Matte Foundation – Golden Tan
♥ Lorac Tantalizer Highlighter & Matte Bronzer Duo
♥ MAC Mineralized Blush- Love Joy
♥ Maybelline Volume XL Seduction Plumping Lipcolor Lipstick – #520 Crimson Crush
♥ MAC Satin Finish Lipstick – Media
xo,
   Jess ♥

Mini haul ❤️ – Ulta

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Hey everyone! 


The other day I made a quick trip to ulta to look for the new L’Oreal la’ laque and le’ matte lip colors but unfortunately my Ulta did not have them. I was so dissappointed that I decided to look around and see if something else could fill my void of a new lip color. 

As I wandered through the NYX aisle I remembered that many of my fellow youtubers have been raving about the lip butters! Prior to this I had never tried them so I decided to pick one up. I decided to choose the color creme brulee, since it was a nice nude that could pretty much go over any lipstick.I used it the next day and absolutely fell head over heels in love with it! 


After falling madly in love with my creme brulee lip butter I got an email the next day from Ulta saying that all NYX products were now 40% off! Well, that must of been a sign from the makeup gods above because how else could i resist!? Such an amazing deal on such a wonderful product! Later that day I made my way to Ulta and picked up a few more lip butters. 

I bought the colors: Strawberry parfait, Eclair, Cherry cheesecake, Peaches and cream, and Tiramisu.

I also noticed that Revlon products were also on sale for 40% off so since I was in serious need of a new bronzer (my beloved lorac bronzer hit pan & is sort of pricey) I decided to give their photoready bronzer a shot. We shall see if it makes it into my favorites this month! 

In the same aisle as the revlon and NYX i noticed there was a whole shelf of baby lips products. I was never a HUGE fan of Babylips because lets face it, unlike 80% of the makeup lovers out there I felt like they dried my lips instead of moisturized them. I sort of looked past them until I saw they had a new product! Baby lips Dr. Rescue medicated balm. Anything medicated has to work right? Right. So far I have been loving thia product! I had a few cuts on the sides of my lips from I think a fever or just the temperature change and ive been trying everything to get rid of them but of cours nothing has worked. Well, this worked! It healed the cuts and I actually feel like my lips feel moisturized and renewed. Lets hope it keeps working! I think I want to try the colored ones too, I got the mint one because it was easy and I could wear it whenever.

With that said, that concluded my mini shopping spree at Ulta the past few days. I also recieved a cute cosmetic case from benefit as a gift. I suppose forspending  a certain amount? Who knows. The case is really cute, cant wait to travel somewhere so I can use it! 

What have been your latest Ulta finds? 


Xo,
    Jess

Purple Eyeshadow Makeup Tutorial ♥

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Hey Everyone,

I apologize for not posting in the past few weeks. I have been brainstorming ideas and trying my best to have enough ideas to be able to post on here at least every other day. My goal is to post at least 3-4 times a week. So once again, I apologize and I hope you guys can bare with me as I am going to begin posting more frequently starting this month. I have made this a priority!

Anyway, Here is a look I came up with for fall. I absolutely adore playing with fun colors and combining different colors together. I was really into the color purple that week and decided I wanted to go for a cute purple eye look. I added a bit of gold to make it more “fall-ish” since gold is normally a “holiday” type of color I figured that would make the look more “fall-ish” and less “summer/spring-ish”. We all know it is important to follow with the season trends, right? sure. When it comes to makeup, I am the last one to follow season trends because I just love playing around with colors so much that I would probably wear anything, anytime!

I hope you guys enjoy this video! Thank you for reading my blog & watching my video! If you like it, please subscribe to my channel so you can always be updated with my latest videos! I also love interacting with you guys so leave me a comment if you’d like to chat 🙂

PRODUCTS USED:
 ♥ Urban Decay Primer Potiom
 ♥ Maybelline Color Tattoo – 05 too cool
 ♥ Lancome Color Design Eyeshadow – Trendy
 ♥ MAC eyeshadow – Soft Brown
 ♥ Lorac Pro Palette – Deep Purple, Cream, Gold, Black
 ♥ Benefit Stay Don’t Stray Concealer & Eyeshadow Primer
 ♥ L’Oreal 24 hr Infallible Gel Liner – Blackest Black
 ♥ L’Oreal Voluminous Smoldering Eyeliner – Blackest Black
 ♥ Maybelline Rocket Volum’ Express Mascara – Black
 ♥ Maybelline One By One Volum’ Express Mascara – Black
 ♥ Maybelline The Colassal Volum’ Express Mascara – Black
 ♥ Maybelline Lash Stiletto Mascara – Blackest Black
 ♥ Neutrogena Healthy Skin Foundation – 110 Honey Beige
 ♥ Bare Minerals Matte Foundation – Golden Tan
 ♥ Tarte Maracuja Creaseless Concealer – Tan
 ♥ Lorac Tantalizer Highlighter & Matte Bronzer Duo
 ♥ MAC Mineralized Eyeshadow- Love Joy
 ♥ L’Oreal Colour Riche Balm – Plush Plum
 ♥ Laura Mercier Lip Glace – Violet
xo,
Jess ♥