Color Tattoo Pure Pigments Eyeshadows

Hey Guys!!

Today's post is a new to the drugstore item. I happened to spot these at my Walgreens and I picked up 4 colors. I did haul these in a video and promised swatches. The 4 colors I picked up are Potent Purple, Never Fade Jade, Barely Brazen and Breaking Bronze. Swatches below!

Never Fade Jade is a gorgeous jade color just like the name implies. This reminds me a lot of Edgy Emerald from the cream shadow color tattoo line

Barely Brazen is a light champagney color. This one reminds me a lot of Barely Branded from the creme shadow metal collection

Breaking Bronze is a really gorgeous golden bronze color. I don't think I have a Color Tattoo creme that matches this one

Potent Purple is a beautiful shimmery purple. The color matches Painted Purple from the creme line, but where that one is matte, this one is a shimmer. Beautiful color!

These are all so smooth and easy to blend. They are a little bit messy because they come in a sifted jar like many other loose shadow pigments do, but they are so creamy/buttery feeling and you don't need a lot to get a lot of color pay off. I have a feeling these are going to last me for a really long time! I'm definitely going to pick up more colors!

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My Picks - Beautifully Disney Wickedly Beautiful Collection

Hey guys!

Today's post is another one made with beautysets.com. I just can't get enough of that site!

I've had a couple of people email me and ask me what are some of my absolute favorite items from Beautifully Disney's Wickedly Beautiful Collection. Someone asked me because she is going to Walt Disney World and wants to know what I think before buying anything. So, I put this together to show what my 4 absolute favorites are.

Let me say, however, that I love pretty much everything from this collection. All the colors are pretty and the shadows are awesome quality. For a full review/swatches of the nail polishes and swatches, click here. These are just the items that I find myself reaching for the most, and in fact I bought a backup of the lip gloss that I featured because I'm obsessed and wear it to work daily when I just want to slap something on and head out the door!

Have any of you gotten anything from this collection? What do you think? Do you have favorites?

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Pastel Eyes Palette from Forever 21 - Swatches + Review

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Today's post is about a palette I saw a little while ago at Forever 21, but I didn't wanna get it because I didn't think it would be that great. I looked up swatches and reviews and between all that and Emily from Beauty Broadcast saying it actually was pretty good, I decided to go pick it up... and I'm very glad I did! I love this palette! The best part? It was $6!! Yes, only SIX DOLLARS!

Pastel Eye Palette from Love and Beauty by Forever 21:

None of these colors have names, but they are gorgeous. They are all super pigmented and go on really smooth. This whole palette is shimmer supreme. There is no matte shades at all, but I love shimmer so its really okay! The only thing is that only half of this palette is "pastel" the other half is bold and bright. I don't think that's a bad thing, but I kinda wish there was a pastel minty green in here..... I'm just obsessed with mint greens! 

Below is a look I put together with this palette:

For this look, I used the first color in the palette, a creamy color in the inner corner, the copper color on the lid, the silver on the outer corner, and the teal smudged along the lower lashline. I really love how it turned out, and I really love this palette. Its going to be perfect for summer!!! I'm planning on going out and getting more stuff from Forever 21 to play with. I'll post it up when I do!

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Cinderella Storylook Palette Tutorial

Hey guys!

Coming at you with another beautysets.com tutorial I made, this time for the Cinderella Storylook Palette from Sephora.

I can't rave/obsess enough over these Storylook palettes. Not only are they Disney-themed, but they're beautiful and pigmented! I can't wait for the release of the next one (rumored to be Little Mermaid... though just a rumor)

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Jasmine Storylook Palette Tutorial

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I'm trying something new today. I was watching Beauty Broadcast Live this morning with emilynoel83 on YouTube and she was telling us about beautysets.com where you can make tutorials and lookbooks and things like that and it makes it really easy, so I decided to give it a shot and I made a tutorial that someone had asked me for weeks ago.

Beautysets.com was really fun and I really love how my tutorial turned out. Check it out!

Let me know if you guys like this and I will continue doing tutorials like this both for nails and makeup. This might be the easiest way to me to do picture tutorials and things like that when I don't have a ton of time to film and edit a video. I really love this!! Thanks Emily for turning me on to this website!

Check out Emily's Blog and Channel. She's fantastic and one of my favorite beauty bloggers!!!


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Lorac Pro Palette - Swatches + Review

Howdy!!

Today on the blog I have swatches of the Lorac Pro palette and a mini review.

All the names in this palette describe the color perfectly, so I won't be doing a color breakdown like I usually do. That being said, on to the pictures!!

I love how sleek and pretty this palette looks. The only downside to the packaging is that it gets really dirty, really quickly because of the finish. Its kind of a satin-y kind of finish to the cardboard  and it attracts dust and shadow like no other!

I love that this palette has one row of shimmer and one row of matte. Makes for a huge variety of looks that can be created!

The Matte Shades

The Shimmer Shades

All these shadows are beautiful and smooth, almost creamy even the matte shades (which really impressed me!). They are gorgeous and so easy to blend and I gotta say, I'll probably reach for this more than my Naked 2 Palette! My favorites in this palette are Gold, Slate, Black, Mauve and Sable (which I use for my eyebrows) Overall, its a beautiful and fantastic palette to work with! So happy I broke down and got it.

This palette is $42 and can be found at Ulta, Sephora, or loraccosmetics.com

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Color Tattoo LE Summer 2013 - Swatches!

Hey guys!

I know, I know, I haven't posted in a while. I've been super busy, but now that I'm not working on a show, I FINALLY have time to blog and do videos again *happy dance!*

I was recently at Walmart and I found the Summer 2013 Color Tattoos by Maybelline which I was dying to find. Duochrome creme eyeshadow that doesn't budge on me? Yes, please!!!

Swatches taken in sunlight

Waves of White is a white base with a beautiful green/teal duochrome.
Lavish Lavender is a metallic lavender - gorgeous for spring!
Icy Mint is the least pigmented of these. It is a metallic mint. Really pretty, but really sheer *sadface*
Seashore Frosts This color is like a sunset in a bottle. It is a blue base with a beautiful coppery gold and greenish duochrome
Blue Paradise Blue base with a purple/green duochrome
Cool Crush Silvery base with a pink/blue/teal duochrome

Then, I got an idea to swatch these over black.. and oh my!!!

Swatches in Sunlight over black

Overall, I really love these. I'm wearing Blue Paradise today and I wore Seashore Frosts yesterday (MY FAVORITE!!!) And they both creased a tiny, tiny bit, but after hours of wear. I really love the color tattoos in general and these are duochrome. All I can really say is *drool!*

Here's a video I posted on these: 

And a random picture of my Oscar (Ozzie)... because I can! :D

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St. Patrick's Day Look

Hey guys! I did my first ever tutorial today for a St. Patrick's Day look. Check out the video and then scroll down to see better pictures and a list of what I used.

And here's pictures and the products I used:

Eyes:
Wet n Wild Fergie Shadow Primer
Maybelline Color Tattoo in Edgy Emerald
Mac Lucky Green
Urban Decay Kush
Kat Von D Sugar Skull and Hard Luck (From Memento Mori Palette)
Bare Minerals Big and Bright Eyeliner in Oz
Merle Norman Soft Touch Eye Pencil in Golden
Revlon Colorstay Eyeliner in Black
Maybelline Mega Plush Mascara in Black

Cheeks:
Elf Blush/Bronzer Duo (Just used the blush)

Lips:
Urban Decay High Gloss Lip Color in Glinda

** Some great alternatives to the MAC, Urban Decay and Kat Von D Colors can be found in Wet n' Wild's Comfort Zone 8-pan Palette and their Dream of Greenie trio :D

Hope you enjoyed my first ever tutorial!!

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Cinderella Storylook Palette - Swatches and Review!

Hey everyone!!

To continue the theme of Disney Week to celebrate the release of Disney Parks Beautifully Disney makeup line, here is swatches and a review of the Cinderella Storylook Palette by Sephora! (Check out swatches of the volume 2 Jasmine Palette Here)

Such gorgeous packaging!!

My favorite thing... it comes out completely!

Maiden is a metallicy magenta

All Aglow is a light copper

Destined is one of my favorites from this palette. Its a gorgeous light blue with a strong golden shimmer.... almost a duochrome

Cinderelly (I can't help but singing this song when I see this name). This is the only color in this palette thats kind of disappointing. Its a really beautiful seafoam green matte, but it isn't spectacularly pigmented. It works well to try to build up, but it isn't pigmented at all from the get go

Pumpkin Coach is a really pretty creamy matte color with some glitter

Ballgown is a pretty shimmery white

Kill Joy metallic dark silver

Fairy Godmother Satin-type finish periwinkle blue

Glass Slipper Shimmery baby blue

Royal matte royal blue

This is my favorite row of shadows

GusGus Metallic gold

Charming  Metallic creamy color. Best highlight and inner corner color for me in this palette.

Chateau Metallic medium brown

Palace Metallic nude - nice lid color

Drizella Bronze. This is definitely one of my favorites in this palette. Great lid color for me!

Cinders This is a gorgeous black with gold glitter

Jaq Metallic taupe.

Midnight Blackened blue with light blue glitter

A Wish matte highlight off-white color

Rococo Shimmery burgundy

Not the best picture, but I used Charming in the inner corner and browbone, Palace all over the lid, and Rococo in the outer V and crease

Overall I love this (and the Jasmine) palette. The colors are so gorgeous! This palette is really good for neutrals, smoky, and metallic neutrals whereas the Jasmine palette is more colorful. 

Staying Power:

I wore the Jasmine Palette yesterday and had my eye look on for a good 16 hours, and when I got home, my look was still intact despite work in the morning and a long day at Disneyland which included seeing World of Color from the front and getting soaked. I did wear it over a Color Tattoo, but even with that other shadows rub of, but these shadows stayed strong. I'm loving the staying power of these palettes!!!

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Jasmine Storylook Palette - Review and Swatches

Today I have swatches of the Jasmine Storylook Palette from Sephora.

I'm a Disney nerd so I had to have this pallete, and I gotta say I love it more than the Cinderella one (as far as the colors). I will have swatches of Cinderella in a few days to continue with Disney week theme.

So, without anymore delay on to the pictures!

My Haul from Sephora :)

The Palette! Its so gorgeous!

The Makeup. BEAUTIFUL colors!

Blue Oasis is a almost matte baby blue with just a tiny, tiny hint of shimmer.

Trust Me is a beautiful metallic magenta

Abu is a taupey metallicy brown

Ali Ababwa (Its there, I promise!) Is a matte skin tone neutral color

Sultana is a neutral metallic with a pink undertone

Friend Like Me is a metallic blue.

Master Gorgeous purple!

Cosmic is my favorite from this palette, its a perfect rose gold metallic.

Cave of Wonders is a pretty yellow... don't know when I will ever use this though!

Sand in the Glass is a pretty shimmery creme color (its a cream color not white like the swatch)

Lapis- Matte turquoise (LOVE!)

Mystical Wonder (I know its spelled wrong... oops!) Is a more blue toned purple than master with some glitter in there

Rajah is a shimmery orange

Arabian Sunset. Coral with gold glitter. Its so pretty and I'm sure I'll use this a lot to brighten up the crease/transition area

Bazaar is a medium brown with a hint of sheen to it

Thrilling Chase. WOAH this bad boy is pigmented. A little bit will go a really long way for blush with this. Its a beautiful dusty rose with gold shimmer/fine glitter
Golden Sands. This is the "bronzer" of the palette. I would never use this as a bronzer. Its way too shimmery. I will probably use this as an eyeshadow, but I don't *think* it will work as a bronzer to me. I will have to try it before I absolutely knock it, but I don't think it will look good.

This is the eye look I got using this palette. I used Sand in the Glass in the tear duct area, Cosmic on the lid, Blue Oasis a little bit in the crease, and Friend Like Me in the Outer V/Crease area. I'm very happy with how this look turned out!!

I absolutely LOVE this palette and the Cinderella palette. I'm so happy I bought this. I will get so much use out of these colors and the blush. The packaging is the cutest ever and its Disney. It basically can do no wrong. Besides it being cute, the colors are so pigmented. The only one that's a little 'meh' is Blue Oasis... it swatched weird, but it works pretty well over a base

I hope you enjoyed this post! I will have a video up soon about this palette and my haul :)

Thanks for reading!