Wet 'N Wild Palettes!

I absolutely LOVE Wet 'N Wild! It is such an overlooked makeup line that really has great quality. Everything from their blushes, mascara, and eyeshadows - I am addicted!

I started out with the Petal Pusher palette, which is amazing, then I heard so many reviews about the Comfort Zone palette. Of course, I had to jump on that bandwagon pronto, and I'm glad I did! I am in love with this palette. All of the colors are so pigmented, and I don't have anything like them in my collection. A couple of months ago, I had a real fear that they might discontinue the palette just because anything I LOVE gets discontinued! So I ran out and bought a backup of it LOL.

Moving on...a couple weeks ago, I decided that I wanted to try out the other palettes since I had such good luck with these two.

From left to right: Knock On Wood, Blue Had Me At Hello, and I'm Getting Sunburned

While the colors in this Blue Had Me At Hello palette are so striking, they aren't AS pigmented as they look to be. I still am pretty happy with it though, because I find the lighter colors to be more pigmented and creamy than similar colors in an Urban Decay palette I have. My favorite is the silvery-blue eyelid color which is the 5th one from the left on the swatch pic and the 2nd one from the top on the left side on the palette pic. It's super velvet-y soft and you barely have to touch it to get highly pigmented color. I haven't done many looks with blues like these, but I'm definitely going to play around with these.

These 3-color palettes are adorable! They look sort of similar, but they can create different looks. I have a Fall makeup look that I create with the cranberry color on the lid, the lighter brown in the crease, and the gold color in the inner corner. These palettes are so versatile and I think I'm going to have a great time creating more Fall looks!

 

 

Not a great picture detailing my Fall makeup look that I mentioned before, but hopefully you can see what I did. I love the cranberry color for Fall!

 

Anyway, I tried to start a YouTube channel this weekend, but I just wasn't happy with the quality of the result, so I'm going to stick with blogging and pictures! Leave a comment, and Have a wonderful and safe Thanksgiving!!!

New Goodies a la Sephora + WalMart !

Sorry! I know I have been gone for a quick minute, but I really need to get back in the swing of blogging. It's something I really love, to just bring girls reviews of all kinds of products. I am addicted to Youtube makeup reviews and tutorials, so I want to do my part for you guys. I am even thinking of maybe creating a Youtube channel like some of my favorite gurus. That's still undecided though.

Anyway, since I have been gone, I have still been shopping, so I have a ton of new products to review. Enjoy and leave a comment/questions for me below.

 

Urban Decay Skull Shadow Box, lipsticks in Gash and Midnight Cowboy

 

This was, admittedly, my first Urban Decay makeup pallette and lipsticks. I heard so many great things about this brand, but I wasn't highly impressed. I found I got more pigment from my Wet N Wild palettes (especially Comfort Zone). But this pallette does have some cool colors that I don't have in my collection, and they are very pretty. On the other hand, the lipsticks are great! I ended up getting them for $3 each, and I fell in love with the packaging right away. I got Gash, which is a dark burgundy-ish red and Midnight Cowboy, which is a slightly shimmery nude. I love these because they are SO creamy and I don't even need to put a chapstick or anything underneath. They are very pigmented and very pretty. I forgot to take swatches of these, but if you google them, you'll find tons of swatches.

 

Skull Shadow Box: $12, Lipsticks: $3/each on sale @ urbandecay.com

 

TokiDoki Airways Palette

 

This was too adorable to pass up. A cute, tin "lunchbox" type packaging opens to reveal 8 beautiful eyeshadows. I've read alot of reviews that describe these shadows as powdery and chalky, but I found them to be beautifully pigmented and not chalky at all. Comes with a cute keychain named Donutella. Get it? LOL

 

Airways Palette: $15 on sale @ sephora.com

 

The Lippies:

- Rimmel Moisture Renew Cream Lip Gloss in 245 Berry Bliss

-Rimmel Lasting Finish Lipstick in 066 Heather Shimmer

-Revlon ColorBurst Lip Butter in 085 Sugar Plum

-Revlon ColorBurst Lip Butter in 030 Fig Jam

-Rimmel Mositure Renew Lipstick in 380 Vintage Pink

 

I just got the Revlon Lip Butters a couple days ago, but I am IN LOVE! I had been hearing so much about them on YouTube, so I finally gave in and jumped on the bandwagon. I love these colors so much! I got Fig Jam, which is a brown-y burgundy shimmery color. It's a gorgeous Fall color without being too vampy. It's great as a stain, but can easily be built up into a darker color.

Sugar Plum is a beautiful plummy-mauve color that is also great for Fall. I'm probably super obsessed (and always have been) with mauve lipsticks! These lip butters live up to their hype, with beautiful color like a lipstick and lots of moisture like a lip moisturizer and sheen like a gloss. Plus the packaging is super cute in a quilted pattern.

 

Revlon Lip Butters $6.48/each @ Wal-Mart

 

My favorite lipsticks currently are from Rimmel. I had one, but I wanted more, of course. I picked up Heather Shimmer, mainly because my name is Heather (pretty lame, huh?). But I ended up picking a great color - it's a pinky-brown color, pretty similar to Fig Jam, but it can be built up to be a darker, sexy color.

I also got Vintage Pink, which is not pink at all! I hate that the name is so misleading, but I checked online before I bought it, and read that it was more plummy-mauve than pink. And that's why I bought it, because I had been looking for a deep plum color and I LOVE it! So Vintage Pink is not pink at all, but a great color nonetheless.

 

Rimmel Lipsticks $4-5 @ Wal-Mart

 

Tarte Clean Slate Deluxe Primer Trio + Benefit Hoola Bronzer

 

This trio comes with the 360* creaseless 12-Hr Smoothing Eye Primer, the Poreless 12-Hr Perfecting Primer, and the Flawless 12-Hr Brightening Primer. I have already tried the Urban Decay Primer Potion and use the Elf Eyelid Primer religiously, so I wanted to try another YouTube favorite primer from Tarte. Honestly, they all work pretty much the same, which is a good thing. But I think for $1, I'll stick to the Elf brand. The full size Tarte Eye Primer is $19 for a .39 oz tube. It's a great primer and a great brand, but for $18 less, Elf wins. If you are dead set on trying these, get the trio, which is alot cheaper when you just want to test it out.

 

Tarte Clean Slate Deluxe Primer Trio $9 @ sephora.com

 

The Hoola bronzer by Benefit is another YouTube favorite. I'm pretty new to bronzers, but I heard many good things about this one. When I found it in a Benefit sample set with other things I wanted to try out, I knew I had to get it!

 

 

 

I love how pigmented it is, and how you don't need to use alot to get a good contour. This small sample is going to last me for awhile. I really like the color and the look it gives me, but I'm not sold 100% on the full size price, which retails at $28 for .28 oz package. Also, while I really do love this bronzer, I think it is breaking me out. I'm not too sure if this is the culprit yet, but I am only breaking out a little only where I happen to apply this bronzer (hollows of the cheeks and jawline). I hope it isn't the reason, because it's a great product.

 

Benefit Hoola Bronzer $28 @ sephora.com OR get the Tan About Town set for $12 @ sephora.com (which also includes a small Some Kind-A Gorgeous cream-powder face makeup and a small tube of Bad Gal Lash mascara.)

 

 

Tarte Picture Perfect Curler and Deluxe Lights, Camera, Lashes Set

 

I decided to try this out because I needed a new, improved eyelash curler that didn't pinch my lids or rip out my eyelashes! I decided to spend a little more on this set, and I believe it was totally worth it. This Tarte curler is so adorable with it's pink/purple handles, and it makes my lashes curl without the pain! I also think I found my Holy Grail Mascara in the Tarte Lights, Camera, Lashes mascara. It is absolutely remarkable how my lashes just pop! They look instantly long and volumous! I ordinarily use Maybelline mascaras, which are great mascaras, but my lashes look way sexier with this Tarte one. I have already decided to shell out the $19 for the full size mascara.

 

Curler + Deluxe mascara set $16 @ sephora.com OR the full size Lights, Camera, Lashes mascara $19 @ sephora.com

 

EcoTools The Everyday Collection

 

This adorable set comes with 5 brushes in a natural cotton and hemp little cosmetic brush holder. I have quite a few brushes, but I love EcoTools and couldn't resist this set. It comes with 5 brushes: Angled Blush Brush (which I plan on using with my Hoola Bronzer since it needs more blending in), an eyeshadow brush, an angled eyeliner brush (which I love, because my current favorite thing to do is line my eyes with a black shimmery eyeshadow instead of a liquid or pencil liner - stays all day even on the waterline!), a detailer brush, and a concealer brush. I love that these are all natural, earth-friendly, and soft on your face - not at all scratchy.

 

EcoTools The Everyday Collection $10.98 @ WalMart (pretty good deal, seeing as how I bought ONE foundation brush from EcoTools at Walmart for $10)

 

That's it! Leave any comments or questions below, and also let me know if you've tried any of these products and if you love them/unlike them as much as I do!

 

*Should I start a Youtube channel???*