Mint Julep Masque Review

I've been looking for an inexpensive face mask for a while but all I kept coming up with were those clear ones that look like dried plastic wrap on your face and I have never had much luck with those for clearing out my pores, now I do like the "calming cooling" ones that clear up redness and make your face feel refreshed but I wanted a heavy duty clean out my pores mask because my pores (especially on my nose) have been out of control lately !!

Queen Helene -The Original Mint Julep Masque - $2.47 @ Walmart

*This product claims to help dry acne, rinse away blackheads & shrink enlarged pores....

 

Its a thick consistency, clay-like if you will and smells like...mint gum . I used that small amount to cover my entire face and some of my neck with a medium coverage. When I applied it at first it kind of burned, like a tingle burn but nothing too bad & it went away soon after.

 

Goes on green...& I tried to apply it evenly but...oh well its even enough.... minus the missed spot on my forehead?! lol

 

 

During the 15 minute wait that it recommended on the tube I did a little catching up with some Cosmo.

 

...After the 15 minutes it says to rinse off with warm water & wash cloth...it really came off so easy ! I just did a warm damp cloth and wiped it off. It didn't leave my face sticky or anything.

 

*Verdict - I will be using this mask again !! It really did clean out my pores ! The pores on my nose are smaller and mostly blackhead free now. It made my skin so smooth and not dry and tight feeling at all !! I keep rubbing my face because its so smooth !! I probably wont do my entire face again for a few weeks because my skin is pretty clear but I will be doing this on my nose frequently to keep those wild pores at bay and any other problem areas like my chin . I would defiantly recommend this to a friend and would buy it again. And will defiantly try out other products by Queen Helene .

 

 

Ulta, Target, & Ross Haul

Had a girls morning and played in the make-up at Ulta then went over to Target to pick up some things I was wanting to try and then I found a new brush at Ross finally ! I bought a new foundation and its not in a bottle or pump...wahh! We shall see and I needed new eye brushes yay for ELF umm and a brow bar finally !!! And I needed a new hair brush but really was not wanting to spend $20 on one...that just seems crazy to me! I've had this ELF eye shadow palette in my online checkout bag for ever it seems and I was like umm I don't want to pay shipping until I find a few more items to add to the basket but then I get into Target and its there so now its mine (: can't wait to play in these and see how they turn out.

Too Faced - Natural Eye Collection - $36

 

At Ulta I came across this eye shadow palette but I really didn't want to spend $36 on the whole thing when I only wanted two colors *Honey Pot - um the MOST beautiful gold shadow ever , its perfect and *Push Up - I would wear that as a crease color everyday !!! But I checked the single eye shadows in store at Ulta and they didn't have those colors so I'm on an online hunt for them because I really have to have them !!!

*Update* I checked the Too Face website & they don't have it in a single shade by itself that I could find but I did find it in a duo with cocoa puff (that's the brown right next to honey pot) and I could see myself using CP too so I think that's what I'm going to go with ! And these colors were really nice so I may go ahead & buy the whole palette?! Also the ELF eye palette that I bought today for ($6!!!!) has an exact dupe for the Honey Pot color...which I discovered after I got home and actually swatched some of the colors so then again maybe I will get on ELF's website & see if I can find it. Wahh so many choices !

NYX, Hard Candy, & Vitabath Review

Just a few products I bought a couple weeks ago & have been trying out (:

Hard Candy Glow all the way luminizer -$8.00 @ Walmart

I've really really been wanting to try out a cream/liquid luminizer. I like my powder one but I thought maybe a creamy one will work better or give me a "glowyer" look. I'm still trying to figure this stuff out. I do like it so far but I would like to try mixing it with my primer and a few other things like that but so far I've worn it on the tops of my cheek bones above my blush, the bridge of my nose and the browbone. I like it and I like that sheen it gives off . It looks good in the glowy way not oily yuck face. They do have a more golden color that I'd like to try also !

 

Vitabath Bodywash in Dreamy Pink Frosting - $7.99 @ Vitabath

I've never used a Vitabath product and I bought this solely because it smells dead like sweet yummy frosting. But really it does. I want to eat this stuff. And its pink (: The first time I used this I used it as bubble bath and its was foamy and bubbly for a few minutes but the bubbles left quickly which was sad but it made my water and the whole bathroom smell like a bakery so I was satisfied with that. When I used it as body wash it didn't lather as much as I wanted it to but I did smell yummy and I smelled yummy for a little while . After my shower I used my vanilla lotion from B&BW to further the sweet scent so without the lotion I'm not sure how long it would have lasted. I won't be buying this again since I like a good lather and this just didn't have the lather behind it. But it does smell good. And my skin doesn't feel any more moisturized or anything like that so it just basically smelt good. But I'm fine with that since that's why I bought it to start with.

 

This is the picture shown on the website. Mine didn't turn out that pretty so I thought I would add their picture in there too!

 

NYX Jumbo Eye Pencil $4.50 each

I have been eyeing these pencils for a while and not having ever used an eye pencil I was like how am I going to draw on my eye and it work out? I did a couple test swatches at the store and I liked how the colors came out on my skin but I didn't know if that how they would look on my eye. I've been wearing my bronzy colors over brown powder eye shadow just to give the powder shadows more depth and shimmer and I like it but everytime I try to draw directly on my eye it moves my contacts around so I'm going to have to apply this on a no contact day or before I put them in but I do have high expectations for these. Now the lavender that I have I wear on my brow bone and my inner eye to brighten and highlight and its amazing ! I know lavender sounds crazy but I tried the shimmery white pencil and it looked like I was in middle school trying to play dress up but the lavender gives the light shimmery highlight I want without being too cakey white and you honestly cannot even tell that its lavender ! I haven't noticed that these crease but I've also been wearing them with the ELF eye lid primer and with packed powder shadows so I can't say that if you wore them on a bare eye alone that they wouldn't crease. But they do seem to have good staying power I wear them all day and they still look good at the end of the day.

 

These are the pencils I bought 625 Sparkle Nude , 614 Lavender , & 611 Yogurt

 

 

in the same order L to R : Sparkle Nude, Lavender & Yogurt

Sparkle Nude is a lighter tan-brownish color , the lavender is a light shimmery lavender that is almost white as you can tell and the Yogurt is the shimmer bronze. Which I'd never eat yogurt that was bronze colored but that's just me. But over all I like this product a lot and will buy more of these !

 

 

 

 

 

 

Mascara Combinations - *Updated Often*

Mascara is my favorite beauty product and after I've tried a ton of them and start getting bored with them I start layering and combining them to see what I can get them to do and see if I can maximize their ability to make my eye lashes look like they have been touched by the beauty gods themselves ! This will be a post I continually update as I come up with more combinations good & bad. Because not all combinations come out great.

Today I appled Million Lashes first on top & bottom then Max on top & bottom also then finished up with some instant lash on the bottom to fill in some of the places that I couldn't get to with the bigger brushes. AMAZING lashes. But really ! I curled my lashes before hand like always applied a few coats and let it dry then lightly curled them again and another layer of Max on the top lashes and they were beautiful and lasted over 10 hours. So I was very satisfied with this combo and will be using it again!

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Rimmel Max Bold Curves - WNW Mega Protein - Maybelline Falsies volume express

-Rimmel Scandaleyes - NYC Sky Rise (in order)

Ok I know 5 mascaras seems like a lot but I'll explain. I layered the top & bottom lashes with the Rimmel Max Bold & WNW Mega Protein. Falsies on the top lashes then I lightly recurled my lashes then scandal eyes on the top then sky rise on the bottom.

 

My 5 mascara eye lashes !

 

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NYC Instant Lash - Rimmel Scandaleyes - Kleancolors Baby got high definition

 

Today before my nephews birthday party with my NYC,Rimmel & Kleancolors eyes...I'm still wearing them right now and that was at 4 this afternoon (:

 

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L'Oreal Voluminous Million Lashes - Rimmel Max Bold Curves

I apply the Rimmel first then finish up with the Million Lashes. Amazing lashes everytime !

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Maybelline Great Lash - Maybelline Falsies Volume Express - Covergirl Lash Blast Volume

 This is the order I apply them in. And my eye lashes always look great. This is my "goto" combo !

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ELF 3 in 1 Mascara - WNW Mega Protein - NYC Instant Lash

I just tried this trio out today & I am in LOVE. And I even took a picture which I forget to do most of the time . This is the order I use these in also.

Pay no attention to the crazy face. You should see all the other pictures lol! But these are the lashes that the ELF,Wet N Wild & NYC produced. Um beautiful !!!!

 

 

 

 

E.L.F. Cosmetics Review

These are a few ELF products I picked up a few weeks ago to try out. I've never ordered from them until my friend Heather was going on and on about them one day so I bought a few things to try out. They have a wide varity of beauty products to try so it was kinda hard to pick !! And very inexpensive products so that's always nice (: you can order their products online on E.L.F. Cosmetics or a few stores I've been in carry them Walgreens, Target & KMart. And also right now during the month of July they are celebrating their 9th Birthday so check out the website for the great deals they have going on !
                                  
                              ELF All Over Cover Stick - $1.00 (I use Apricot Beige)
I had doubts about this all over cover stick because it was only a dollar but let me say I love it ! It comes in 7 colors so there is a shade for most skin types . Oh and it smells yummy , like fruit...which is odd for a concealer stick but its a good odd (: I don't have trouble blending this out and the stick is easy to use . I will be buying this again !

ELF Essential Brightening Eye Color in Butternut - $1.00

This is the quad I have with the light tan, peachy tan, brown and bronzy brown...this picture doesn't do the colors justice because they are nicer in person. I've used these colors together and with other eye shadows I own. They aren't the most pigmented but for a dollar they do the job. Although I wouldn't say they are eye brightening but the colors are nice and I use the bronzy brown as a crease color often. There are 12 different quads in the brightening collection and there are a wide range of colors. Overall I think these are nice little quads and for a dollar I would buy this one again or one of the other colors they have.

 

ELF Studio 3-1 Mascara $3.00 (This is also in my 10 Under 10 post)

This is the most expensive ELF purchase I made. And it is worth way more ! I am beyond in love with this mascara . This was a first for me with this style brush with the little ball on the end and I love love !! I should have bought two tubes. It goes on clump free, looks good alone or layered with other mascaras, it makes my lashes look a mile long and it last! And that little ball is great for getting in the corners and hard to reach places and for adding a little extra to the tips of my lashes to give them a lengther look !

 

ELF Bronzing Brush - $1.00

 

ELF All Over Brush - $1.00

 

The bronzing brush I actually use to apply my highlight power and its great for that since its a smaller angled brush. Sometimes I use it for blush or bronzing but not usually. And the all over brush I just haven't been that impressed with. Its not fluffy enough for me. I like a super fluffy brush for my all over powder and bronzing that I do. But I will say that these brushes don't shed all over me even after I wash them which that impressed me a lot considering they were only $1.00 and I've had much more expensive brushes just fall apart and shed all over me. I would buy more brushes from the ELF line.

 

ELF Essential Eye Primer - $1.00 in sheer

The color says sheer but its more of a light tan color which is fine since the other eye primer I have is a shimmery silver and the ELF primer creates a more neutral base and its kinda sticky which I like because it keeps my loose shadows in place !

 

 

Overall I was really impressed with the E.L.F. Cosmetics and I will be buying more from them!

 

Ipsy My Glam bag Sneak Peek #4 July 2013

 

It looks like Ipsy will be sending us the Coola Sunscreen in our July Glam Bags. This is probably the product I am least excited for because I already own sunscreen but it will get used around this house most likely by Josh because he's always fishing and outside and I have to cover him in the stuff or he will burn up !  I've never owned any Coola products but I've done a little research and it seems that their whole line is organic and they do have lip balm that looks like something I would like to try . Hmm maybe by the time they get to my bag they will be giving out the lip balm. I would be interested in that !

Ipsy My Glam Bag July 2013 Sneak Peek #3

I am getting REALLY excited for my first Ipsy Bag to come all of these sneak peeks are so exciting !!

 

This is what Ipsy posted on their Facebook/Twitter account and after a little research I THINK & HOPE its the BH Cosmetics Malibu eye shadow & blush palette .

 

And these are pictures I found on BHC website BH Cosmetics Malibu Palette

 I know these colors aren't for everyone but I would LOVE to try them out (:

 

 

*UPDATE* It looks like we won't be getting the entire palette in our bags which is :( but just a sample of 3 colors from the entire California line Hollywood, Malibu & San Francisco. 

 

The Sample California set that will be in the Ipsy Bag