L'Oreal Gold Dust Collection: Review & Swatches

As continuation of Mani Monday, is another glitter fest. I can't help it, I have a huge soft spot for glittery items. So when I saw these in the stores I did a little happy dance, and checked each and every shade out. If I could, I probably would have gotten all the shades, but I did the responsible thing and picked ones that I didn't have.

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Orly Secret Society Collection: Review & Swatches

For Mani Monday I wanted to review one of the holiday collections from Orly, the Secret Society. I found it on one of my trips into Sally Beauty Supply. It's sometimes hard to find polishes that are unique to my collection, but I was able to find two. Macabre Masquerade and Masked Ceremony are two of the available glittery shades. There are creams and metallics in the collection as well.

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NYX Butter Lip Balm: Review & Swatches

The newest to the NYX family (on the heels of Butter Gloss success) are the Butter Lip Balms, the stick-form balm cousin to the shiny gloss. The shade range of these balms are less than the gloss version. There are 8 colors available currently.

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Revlon Colorburst Lacquer Balm: Review & Swatches

The flip side to the Revlon Matte Balms are the Lacquer Balms. These would clearly be the traditional glossy balm version of the jumbo lip pencil product of Revlon's newer lip offerings. These are more like the Just Bitten Kissable Balm Stain in the way it works. 

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Revlon Colorburst Matte Balm: Review & Swatches

The new thing from Revlon in the lip department are the new Colorburst Balms. There are two finishes, and today I'll be reviewing the Matte Balm. There is a good range of colors from light to dark to brights. These are to be part of the permanent collection as far as I can tell, so even if the displays have been picked over in your local drug store, you should be able to find them restocked soon.

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Almay Shadow Softies: Review & Swatches

The newest eyeshadow technology from Almay are the Shadow Softies. A cream to powder formula that comes in varying shades of shimmer and matte. I found these hidden away in a corner at my local drug store.

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SquareHue December Box: Review & Swatches

The December box is the beginning of the Passport Collection that SquareHue has planned for this upcoming year. It's starting in one of the biggest fashion/beauty capitals of the world, New York. It contains two new finishes, and it's a nice mixture of colors. I'm hoping there will be a Tokyo collection in the works.

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Maybelline Color Sensational Elixir in Captivating Carnation: Review & Swatches

Maybelline may be one of my most loved drug store brands (if my many posts are not a huge giveaway). So when I saw the display of the new Elixir, the liquid color balm, in the fall I got excited. I wanted to try it out, and see if the hype is worth it.

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Mally Beauty Evercolor Shadow Sticks Collection: Review & Swatches

Holiday time is great for many reasons, but it's especially great because of the lovely "value" sets that the different brands make. Too bad it's often limited edition. That said, as the holidays near the end, these sets are not only available, but often marked down. So with that in mind, I figure it would be helpful to still review the Mally Evercolor Shadow Sticks Collection especially since the individual products are available year round even if the set isn't.

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New Purple Themed Milani Shadow Eyez: Review & Swatches

Milani has come out with another limited edition Shadow Eyez collection involving multiple shades of purples and silver/smokey eye look colors. For whatever reason, the matte shade limited edition colors never showed up in my neck of the woods, but I found these! I'm a sucker for purples, so a grabbed a couple.

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Ipsy December Glam Bag: Review & Swatches

The December Ipsy Glam Bag is the Celebration collection. This bag was actually aesthetically pleasing. I would actually not be embarrassed carrying this around. It came with only full-sized items as far as I can tell, which is a total score since the value of the items are much greater than the monthly fee.

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Meaningful Beauty Creme de Serum

To start off, I wanted to do this post on the Meaningful Beauty Creme de Serum, a product that I received for free to review from Influenster Voxbox. I've seen ads and the display of Meaningful Beauty products in the stores, and have been rather curious.  I mean Cindy Crawford is still super hot (a lot thanks to cosmetic help, but still). Combined with the fact that I actually truly enjoy trying out skin care products, made this a voxbox truly meant for me. You can go to Ulta or get it directly from the website.
Also to learn more info about the products and other offerings, click here.

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I'm Back!

So for those of you that read my humble blog, thanks! I truly appreciate it. It's been a super long time since I posted anything, and thanks for sticking with me. I had some academic things that I needed to deal with, that took up all of my free time.  As in I finally graduated from graduate school (for the second time), and took my national boards (and passed!). Then I drove close to 3000 miles across the country, and crashed for a week.  All that to say, that I now have time to do more posts, and really make this into something better (I hope).  Here's to making it an awesome 2014.

P.S. These are my two pups that I've been away from, and now have back! Kira and Nero :)

Revlon Parfumerie Polish: Review & Swatches

These new Revlon Parfumerie Polishes have hit the stores in the last month or so, and more displays of these are cropping up. It's not the first time that Revlon has promoted a polish that is meant to have a scent (last time was roughly 3 years ago), but they have revamped the look with this go-round. These retail for $4-6, making a rather reasonably priced polish. However, keep in mind that at 0.4 fl oz, it's 20% (0.1 fl oz) less than the average polish amount.

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Maybelline Gilded in Gold Collection Recap

Here is the round up of all the items that I got from the Maybelline Gilded in Gold Collection. I included the links of the individual reviews as well for the convenience. You can see the type of display I found the items in to give you an idea. Hopefully I'll be able to find the Brocades collection soon too!

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Maybelline Color Sensational Lipstick in Pink Grandeur: Review & Swatch

Here is the last item from the Maybelline Gilded in Gold collection that has hit stores (or the last of the items I bought). It's the Color Sensational Lipstick in Pink Grandeur. There is another red color as part of the collection, but I thought I would stick to this one only.

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