Makeup Monday – Face in Five

Five products, five minutes, and here’s my clean, no-makeup-look, face:

1. Fill in eyebrows and wax into shape with Urban Decay Brow Box
2. Apply foundation all over with NARS Radiant Cream Compact Foundation 
3. Highlight cheeks and forehead with Too Faced Chocolate Soleil Matte Bronzer 
4. Apply mascara (it was raining, hence the tube mascara) Blinc Mascara 
5. Now for lipstick! MAC Hot Gossip Lipstick 

Makeup Monday – Smashbox Full Exposure Mascara

THE LAST FROM MY LASHSTASH BOX! Smashbox mascara’s price tag come in CHEAP at $20 – makes sense that it was the only full size one in the box.  After a year or so of using sample size mascaras, this wand feels HUGE.

As I mentioned yesterday, I have no internet at home, so I wasn’t able to take good pictures and load them from my camera.  Thus, you’re stuck with cell phone pictures:

This mascara works well for separating and “multiplying” lashes, not so much on the volume.  It doesn’t hold a curl very well, but it doesn’t rub off all underneath my eye, either.

In conclusion, it’s an OK mascara that I would necessarily buy, but I’m not mad I have a whole tube of it.

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Here is, based on my previous reviews and my memory, my ranking from best to worst of every mascara in the 2014 Sephora Lash Stash!

1. Lancome Hypnose ($27.50)
2. Smoky Extravagant Mascara ($24)
3. YSL Faux Baby Doll ($32)
4. Smashbox Full Exposure Mascara ($20)
5. Benefit They’re Real! Mascara ($24)
6. Clinique High Impact Mascara ($16.50)
7. Josie Maran Argan Oil Mascara ($22)
8. Sephora Outrageous Curl ($15)
9. Buxom Lash ($19)
10. Kat Von D Immortal Lash ($20)
11. Urban Decay Perversion ($22)

Makeup Monday: Sephora Haul

We got in from TX late last night. The trip was both way too long and too short. My little sisters are amazing. They are 14 and (almost) 16, don’t, smart, beautiful, and competitive athletes. The younger one is a gymnast doing two-a-days and online high school. On one hand, their childhood is VERY different from mine. On the other hand, it’s very similar. My BF met them for the first time and definitely bonded. He also got to experience The Crazy. The undiagnosed personality disorder type of Crazy called my mom (probably a little bit of borderline mixed with some narcissism). He now understands The Crazy, and is sad for me and with me, for my sisters.

Moving onto lighter subjects, I had asked for eyeshadow palettes for Christmas, but my mom didn’t get any because she didn’t know what colors to get. Neither do I! I’m indecisive! That’s why I delegated..Lol. needless to say, while I was there, I partook in a bit of retail therapy and will be reviewing these over the next few weeks:

• Make Up For Ever Artist Palette ($42) — I know I said I was gonna go crazy and get that neon Urban Decay palette, but I didn’t want to waste my money on highlighter orange and cherry red eyeshadow that I might wear once.  A mini palette on sale in those colors might be good, but not the whole shebang for $49.  This Make Up For Ever palette has some bold, practical colors in the rich teal and purple hues.  I’ve also never tried their eyeshadow so it is something totally new for me!
• Clinique Cheek Pop in Berry Pop ($21) — Expensive for a blush, I know, but I’ve been using bronzer everyday because the only blush I have I have is Cover Girl and it’s in this old lady dusty rose color I hate.  I think I was being practical when I bought it.  Hopefully this berry color really POPS (hahahahaha, see what I did there?  with the pun?  ohmygodI’mSOsorryI’mWAYovertired)
• Bumble & Bumble Repair Blow Dry (100 points) — SAMPLE TIME!  Now that my hair is getting longer, I need to find the right products that keep it from being super static-y without getting oily.  B&B served me well with short hair, so I’m excited to try this for free on my long hair.
• Skin Care Sample Bag (CODE: REFRESHER) — No idea what’s inside this, but I have dry skin, oily skin, acne prone skin, blackheads, red spots, etc.  You name it, I got it.  But none of it is really bad enough to warrant major intervention, so I’m just excited to try some new things.  I never really want to buy anything too expensive for skincare, because you REALLY never know if it’s gonna work.
• 3 SAMPLES (my favorite thing about ordering from Sephora online):
  • Make Up For Ever HD Pressed Powder – I already own this and love it, so getting some for free just means I won’t have to buy any for quite a while.
  • Yu Be Moisturizing Body Lotion – All lotion will go to use in -5 degree weather, though I don’t think I would every spend more than $10 on a general body lotion and this one’s regular price is $29.
  • Philosophy Miracle Worker Overnight – Another skin care item and another expensive item that I’ll never buy, but still excited to try out!

Everything gets here Thursday, so I’ll start reviewing ASAP!  And now back to catching up at work.  I’ll be less manic tomorrow.  Promise.

Makeup Monday – Red Eyeshadow

Sorry for the quiet couple days.  We drove down to Long Island on Saturday morning and back up to Boston last night.  Coming from a “broken home” I’m used to having fake Christmas – where Santa comes to one house early because he knows you won’t be there on Christmas, etc.  It was kind of hilarious watching this nuclear family figuring this out.  Even my bf asked his parents, “Well, where are all your presents?!” and I had to remind him that they would open them on Christmas with the rest of the family.  This was just the appetizer for our sake because we wouldn’t be there.  It was cute.  I received a fabulous new outdoor running shirt from L.L.Bean and got to spend the whole weekend with this guy: 

Onto the makeup.  I bought this red Urban Decay eyeshadow because I was feeling like something random and rebellious.  Then I realized that it’s difficult to wear red eyeshadow without looking sick or completely hiding it in a smoky eye.  I use a neutral matte base to temper it, apply it lightly over that, highlight the eyebrow, and darken the crease.  And I * think * I’ve avoided the consumption look:

I bought the Urban Decay eyeshadow so long ago that it’s discontinued.  The color is called Gash.  Reference to a wound? Colorful alternative for vagina? Both?  Blech.  Gross. They don’t have anything similar anymore.  The closest I could see is Roach.  I never thought I would prefer the name Roach to anything, but, yeah, that’s definitely better.

Anyway, the eyeshadow itself is great.  It goes on smooth, builds well, doesn’t crease too much, and comes in adorable little tins.  I love it and will definitely buy more, gross names be damned.