NYX Lipstick & Lipgloss Swatches

Swatches of my current NYX lip collection. I've split them up into 4 different categories since I have products from 4 of their different lip lines...enjoy my loves!

 

First up NYX Glam Aqua Luxe lipstick - The aqua part is right it feels moisturizing like lip balm but its lipstick, and these are defiantly glam, they are stock full of glitter, very fine glitter so its not chunky feeling on your lips, these are quite fabulous!

Both pictures L to R: Pink Jewel, Aurora, Glory, Holistic, Splendid, & Elusive

 

NYX Lip Smacking Fun Colors lipsticks - The packaging is different but these are from the same line

No glitter just regular lipsticks that wear fabulously .

Both pictures L to R: Jupiter & Violet Ray (my current favorite for fall!)

 

NYX Glam Aqua Luxe lipgloss

glittery & fabulous just like the lipstick version

Both pictures L to R: Disco Playground, High Society &  Paint the Town

 

NYX Butter gloss

So if you haven't been using these soft buttery sweet smelling glosses you need to get them asap! My most favorite NYX lip product of them all.

Both pictures from L to R: Merengue, Crème Brulee & Apple Strudel

 

 

 

NXY cosmetics swatches

I've been on a NYX kick the last week & a half. Ulta had 40% off then I was in a department store and picked up a few NYX lip products so here goes the swatches!

Lipstick: Violet Ray Lip Liner: Nude

 

Butter Gloss: L to R : Merengue, Crème Brulee, & Apple Strudel

(These smell so good you will want to eat them)

 

Love in Rio: Segredos de Giselle , Love in Florence : Meet my Romeo, Loose Pigments: Nude

 

Loose Pigment: Nude

Love in Rio: Segredos de Giselle

Love in Florence : Meet my Romeo

 

(of all the eye shadow colors I think NYX shimmers are wayyyy better than their mattes. I would never buy a matte NYX color without swatching it first.)

 

Concealer stick in fair & Auto eyebrow pencil

concealer stick in fair & eyebrow pencil in light brown, I think.

The concealer looks ok swatched but on my face its crap. I have the HD concealer by NYX also and I also have not had good luck with that.

 

 

September 2013 Ipsy My Glam Bag

My Ipsy bag has FINALLY arrived & according to the tracking code they sent me it sat in Georgia for a week...why? I understand the free shipping but that irks me. I checked my Glam Room as soon as it opened up because I can't help myself , so I knew what I was getting.

If you don't know what Ipsy is its a monthly makeup/beauty subscription program. Its $10 a month and you will receive 4-5 full size or deluxe size products based on the beauty quiz you take.

My first look.

This month's theme is Classic Beauty.

Loving the blue bag!

 

This is the sample card from Michelle Phan;s new make up line, she' s the creator behind Ipsy/Glam bag. The blush & eyeshadows in the bottom right corner are the samples, I don't ever have too much luck with sample cards like this but we shall see !

 

Since I peeked at the Glam Room I knew what I was getting.

 

In the glam room my nyx eye shadow was grey and I was excited but it came and it was blue so that wasn't a good surprise for me, I'd rather have the grey or something more neutral. In my last month's Ipsy bag I received an eyebrow pencil so getting another one wasn't too impressive and another mascara, its my favorite product but this will stay closed for a while because I have too many open right now. I was happy with the tinted balm because I needed a new red lip color!

 

 

                                                          NYX Single eye shadow - 4.50
                                                  Cailyn Cosmetics Tinted Lip Balm - 19.00
                                                       Elizabeth Its so Big mascara 19.99
                                                        Star Looks Kohl eyeliner 12.00
                                                    Victoria Jackson Brow Pencil 14.95

 

Swatches from L to R : Cailyn tinted lip balm in Big Apple, VJ taupe brow pencil, Star Look Kohl eyeliner in Obsidian & NYX eyeshadow in velvet suede (I wasn't impressed with the sheer blue color but the texture of this eye shadow is amazing. I am so in love with the smooth buttery way this shadow glides across my skin!)

 

 

Not counting my super cute makeup bag the total in cosmetic products is $70.44! Um wow defiantly worth the $10!! So if you are interested and want to sign up >> Join Ipsy Now!<<

NYX on HauteLook

NYX will be on HauteLook until Friday at 8AM Pacific time. If you haven't been over there they have a lot of great deals including eyeshadow & lip color sets for as low as $11.00 , Lip trios for as low as $7.50, Three piece concealer sets for $8.50, Blush trios for $9.00, Lash trios for $7.00 and MUCH MORE! Some sets are already SOLD OUT so hurry !!!

                                                        >Click Here to visit HauteLook<

What I wore today 7-30-13

I thought it would be fun to post a blog about what I wore today.. on my face (:

 

                                         This is the "base face" I've been wearing this week.
                                          FYI: I applied my foundation with a damp beauty blender sponge

• E.L.F. eyebrow kit in medium
• L'Oreal Visible Lift foundation in natural buff
• Milani Baked Blush in Berry Amore
• Maybelline cover stick concealer in corrective yellow
• Maybelline Fit concealer
• Wet N Wild Coloricon Bronzer in Ticket to Brazil
• Ruby Kisses bronzing powder that I use as a high light
• NYX stay matte but not flat powder foundation in nude
• E.L.F. eyelid primer
• NYX matte setting spray
• NYC Cheek Glow blush in west side wine
• Not Pictured : Hard Candy face primer

 My eye shadow colors for the day ! I used the Wet N Wild palette in Walking on Egg Shells but traded out the brown crease color for the Klean Color baked eyeshadow in Toffee

 

My favorite part ! Mascara !!!!

Jordana felt tip eye liner in black -  L'Oreal Voluminous Million Lashes -  E.L.F. 3 in 1 mascara -  Rimmel Scandaleyes -  Rimmel Max Bold Curves

 

 

I always keep a little chapstick on my lips while I'm doing my make up, then my Strike a Rose baby lips, then a little bit more pink with my wet n wild lipstick in Nouveau Pink & topped off with my Milani Crystal gloss in Raspberry Icing

 

The finished product. I wore this look while running errands and grocery shopping & please excuse my wild eyebrows, I'm trying to grow them out so that they can be shaped they way I want this time!

 

Kissy Face Selfie alert. Check out those cheek bones. lol.

 

Hope you guys enjoyed my what I wore today blog & remember to follow my blog!

 

 

Beauty Haul 6-17-13

These are some things I picked up yesterday mostly drugstore but I did pick up the NYX at a department store. I am beyond excited to start using these asap !! I picked up the Clearasil acne clearing gel while I don't have bad skin I do have the occasional breakout . The FIT concealer because I've heard amazing things about it and I love the FIT collection by Maybelline ! I used to use the Maybelline Great Lash mascara a while back and I liked it, well at Wal-Mart they had the 2 pack on sale for $5 !!!!! Do we really think I was going to pass that up? Um no!!! I'm still on the hunt for a blush that I absolutely love so Hard Candy's Fox in a Box is my next contender. As I've said before I LOVE the NYX setting spray so I decided to try the NYX foundation & powder (yayy!) and last but not least I've had the Loreal Million Lashes mascara on my -to get- list for a while and I really like the shiny gold packaging! lol. & some super good news... I've recently gotten on the Ipsy make up subscription list so I will be blog reviewing my bag of goodies each month and I could not be more excited !!!

Beating the Heat !

I recently purchased this bottle of magic online from Ulta. I've seen several YouTube vlogs where they finish their make up with a "setting spray" so I decided I'd give it a try. So began the research on finding the one right for me. A lot of the ones I looked into seemed a bit pricey and I really didn't want to spend the cash on something I've never tried before so that brought me to NYX Cosmetics . With the price tag of $7.99 ...a BARGIN compared to the others I had looked at running about $40.00+ for the same size bottle ! Once my jewel came in the mail I couldn't wait to apply a full face and spray away. The first week or two I was applying it and then heading to work and was aww like yayy it works then I got to thinking I really want to test this stuff out so the past two days I've been off work & Josh (fiancé) and I have taken the boat to the lake. Sun, water, sand, wind, heat & sweat. What a better way to test the working power of a finishing spray that promise to keep your full face on. So with full face applied and bikini on we were off to the lake ! Two days in a row of 5+ hours in the sun, on a boat fishing and tanning and even a little swimming and I still had a full face of make up to wash off in the shower ! So ladies and gentlemen this product is amazing ! I will be purchasing another bottle and they have a dewy finish so we will have to try that one. But the matte is amazing and I would recommend it to anyone ! It was great on the boat so I imagine it would be great for other summer outdoor activities BBQ's, baseball games, theme parks, hiking, biking...use it and let me know where you wore your NYX setting spray and how it worked for you!