Nails

Is it me or does anyone else have polishes of a certain color that they can put on their feet but not on their nails, and vice versa? Since summer and spring is coming up, I've decided to get into my nail polishing phase again. After a disastrous U.V. gel incident on my nails, I had to stop painting my nails and started to use this nail hardener, that I swear brought my animal claws back. My sister has nicknamed my nails as animal claws since they are always s strong and sharp, that they can scratch you pretty deep. I really don't know what its called, since it is written in a different language, but I've been told to stop using it if I get side effects of horrible nightmares. WTH? How wrong is it that its side effects are nightmares? Freaked me out but I still used it with no side effects, and my nails are stronger and ready for more summer nail polishes, especially now that I am on the search for a mint green inexpensive polish.

EOS Lip Balm

Yes, I buy things that I have seen you tube without necessarily researching it first. I can’t stop my shopaholic impulses. So after watching one of Ricebunny’s videos where she uses an EOS Lip Balm, I waltzed myself into Rite Aid, and saw it dangling from one of those hooks right in front of the door, and Bam! It was a sign from God telling me to buy this. It looks so different, cute with its neon green color, but little did I know that it was a little Easter egg shaped chapstick filled with lies.

Before:


After:
Around my lips and lips themselves are naturally dry, the rest of my face is extremely oily, and I usually use the Palmer’s Coca Butter stick, and that is extremely hydrating. This did nothing for my lips and the product really didn’t stay on for a long time. It had a strange plastic smell on it, and it was around $3. Noooo! What have I learned from this lesson? Don’t do impulse buys but while that stop me next time? Probably not. Btw, here is what the Milani lip glosses look on top of the EOS Lip Balm without anything on. On may pale skin tone, it stands out and makes all of my acne scars around my chin stand out as well and it leaves pink glitter behind after you wipe it off.

Shine Baby

Get your highlighters out. No not the yellow… I have an obsessive compulsion to mark every single line in my text, but don’t really need… highlighter, but the let your skin glow and shine ling of highlighter. I couldn’t stay away from Benefit and to my shame I ended up getting the Legally Bronze kit ($35), from Sephora. I didn’t get the eye bright, that I still am lemming, but instead I fell in love with the full sized products. FULL SIZE, in case you didn’t get that, FULL SIZE. I wanted the high beam, but restrained myself because of all the other highlighters that I’ve been picking up to assuage my craving for it, but failed. Epic Fail. So while I wait for it to come in the mail, I will flame the fires of guilt and look at what I do have.

After I put on my foundation, I usually put this on my cheekbones and down my nose. The Smashbox Artificial Light, Flash, Luminizing Lotion gives a metallic sheen to my face, and for some reason I would describe this as fluorescent. I really don’t see any shimmer when I blend this in, but it does give a bright sheen to the face. I put a dot of it on my arm and next to it, I blended some out.

Then I put Revlon’s Mineral Finishing powder on top of it with an extremely light hand. This stuff can make you look too glittery if you use a heavy swipe with your brush. Despite the finishing powder label, I will not put this all over my face and reserve that treat for one of my favorite highlighters of all time


Revlon, I’mma let you shine but Guerlain is the best finishing powder of all time. Of all time (Kanye moment). It may look like a glittery mess, but don’t be fooled, when blended with a big brush all over your face lightly, I glow. Not glitter, but glow and my skin instantly looks better, and I’ve gotten many a compliments. It has a old lady floral smell but screw it.

One product that looks decent but I can’t get over the texture and how heavy it feels, is the WetnWild Mega Glo. It feels like I’m putting something sticky on my face and it doesn’t blend well. At first I thought that this was a powder, but nope it a sticky mess. It’s currently discontinued and I can see why.

So in honor of my new and coming Benefit’s High Beam. That was a showing of my highlighters and we more than welcome High Beam it into our family. Should I also extend the welcome at for the Bronzer as well?

Amuse eyeshadows

I don’t have a lot of makeup. I swear. Every time I stop myself from buying something that I so dearly need, I pat myself on the back. That Sephora cart has seen many things come and go, but I always manage to look next to may makeup stash and make the heart wrenching decision to let them go. For instance, the Wonderland palette was something that I had to get, but after learning that they were just old colors with new names and looked through my stash, only to find

Yikes! Okay, put that back and slowly walk away... no don’t you dare head for that Benefit stand. One of my eyeshadow palates that I was recently looking through and horribly neglecting was the cheap yet fairly impressive Amuse frosty eye shadows.


It is frosty and vibrant and these are swatches with no primer beneath them.

So next time I contemplate buying any frosty eyeshadows, I am going to be thinking of these and once again, hopefully be patting myself on the back. Oh who the hell am I kidding, I’m like a delusional alcoholic and will definitely be back buying that eye bright that I ‘ve been eyeing. Argh! Control yourself woman.

YSL Faux Cils

I’ve complained about the amount of snow and bad weather in my first post, but WTF? Look what happened in two weeks!

My dream of chilling on a beach is not far behind because for the past couple of days, it feels as if spring is already here. The weather is nowhere as nice as it probably is in Cali or Florida, but I am so happy about this weather that I really don’t care about the beach anymore, as long as the weather stays like this.


To go along with the eye theme, one of my favorite volumizing mascara is the YSL Faux Cils in High Density Black. The price is a steep $30, and I warn you now, if you already have long lashes, you are not going to get much length from this mascara. The wand is smaller compared to the bigger ones, such as Diorshow or the Prestige, and there is a slight floral scent, which isn't overpowering. I haven't had any flaking, but have had slight smudging problems when I don't have the Dr.Fiver on. But this is natural because almost all mascara smudge on me when it comes into contact with my oily skin. This is what my natural lashes look like.


This is with one coat on curled lashes. Excuse my wonky eye.


Two coats.


No flaking or smudging with a slight floral scent, that I can tolerate. While for me this will not be a staple in my makeup drawer (too Pricey), but my sister states that she would repurchase this. On her, she claims that this mascara gives her the effect of tight lining without a eyeliner, so she can wear this without any other makeup. For me, I prefer the Maybelline Colossal Mascara over this one.

Curling Your Lashes

Does anyone else have wonky lashes that never get curled even after using an eyelash curler? I usually have the outer corner eyelashes never properly curled because they never really fit in any eyelash curler. I have tried the Revlon, Elf and Shu Uemura curlers but neither have they been successful in curling all of my lashes in one try. I have to go back with a mini curler, which makes my outer lashes curled longer than the other. But I have tried the Sephora heated eyelash curler that I stole from my sister's makeup stash and now have claimed it as my own.



Waiting for this to heat up never takes long, and the comb help me reach and get every lash curled. Yay! The curls are natural looking and hold nicely. The battery life isn't long and it uses AAA batteries. But I don't use this of often only because I think that this may damage your eyelashes in the long run. If applying heat to your hair with a flat or curling iron is bad, I suppose it does the same to your eyelashes. I use this when I want flirty lashes and pair it up with my volumizing and lengthening mascaras instead of putting on falsies. Now I am totally going back and raiding my sister's stash for more goodies.

Etude Dr. Fixer

For me, this thing is necessary, and when I say necessary, I mean this is HG, will buy this over again, and if it somehow becomes discontinued, I will fly over to the headquarters of Etude and beat the crap out of somebody. This is basically a mascara sealer. I have severely hooded eyelids, where the top portion of the eyelid touches my eyelashes. On top of that I have oily skin, so let me ask you a question. What happens when oily skin comes in contact with non waterproof mascara? A hot looking mess, it looks like I just finished watching the Lion King with the father dying over again on repeat after a eight hour day.

I don't like waterproof mascara because that tends to be bad for the lashes as well as it still not lasting because of the oils in my skin, but this product makes the mascara last and not smudge all over. I've even been caught in the rain and while my eyeliner smeared, my mascara did not. It's clear and doesn't do anything to volumizes or lengthen, just makes the resistant to any form of abuse. It doesn't dry out my lashes, nor does it have a horrible scent. The only downfall is it's inability to stay sanitary. After swiping this on my lashes with the wand, the wand goes back in the tube making the clear gloss turn murky and grey. What I now do is take a clean spoolie, just get a tiny bit of the stuff on the tip and swipe the spoolie over it. That way, I don't double dip and it keeps the product clean. I am on my second tube and have a backup of it, and will buy this on ebay again. It's about tweleve dollars, and more expensive than a tube of drugstore mascara, but if you have the same problems with mascara, you definitely need to pick this up.

Etude BB Bright Cream

Does anyone else have one product that they are dying to get rid of? My answer would be a double hand in the air while jumping out of my seat, screaming at the top of my lungs yes. Argh, I don’t really want to waste this product so I am slowly making my way through it but there are some lonely BB creams sitting in my drawers waiting their turn. I usually wear nothing but concealer and powder, but when I need more coverage, about once a week, I will break out the BB cream.

This is the Etude BB Bright Cream with Aloe Extract, SPF. 15, in #2. It is 2.17 oz and it is huge. To get a comparison, I put this next to my unopened (because I can’t finish this) Missha BB cream, and this thing is a bit taller and wider. But do not be fooled. I checked the amount of product in each and while Missha has 30 ml, the Etude is a bit more than double the amount (converted oz to ml and got 61.5ml) and cheaper.



This is a great medium to full coverage BB cream and you can layer on for even coverage. This is good since I have a ton of acne scars and this cream will blur out the scarring on my face. I have been using this for several months and still haven’t broken out from it, but that could be because I don’t use this daily. This has no shimmer and a matte effect, and it my skin looks almost airbrushed and hazy (not in these horribly shot photos). Ahhh! My skin looks horrible, so be warned for future photos.




Apply with either a foundation brush or a damp sponge but do not use your fingers. I tried this and my sister told me that I looked cakey. Don’t think that this is a horrible product except for one thing. The scent. It smells like children playing with their mother’s makeup and spilling it all together to create this odd floral mix of, I can’t even describe it. It’s just like Revlon’s Colorstay foundation, which has that odd smell, so does this, it is overpowering and does not fade. This alone would not make me repurchase the product, as well as the fact that I got this on my trip in Korea and won’t go back there for a long time. I feel like I’ve been talking about products that I don’t like but to liven up the mood I will be writing about products that I love soon.