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Beauty Scoped…February 2013

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This month actually dragged for me and I don’t know why considering its the shortest month of the year. Eh. However, this month, I really became borderline obsessed with beauty and skin care products. Here are few beauty-related items that I was really obsessed with this month.

  1. Lancome ‘Blush In Love – Peche Joue-Joue’ blush, $49 – Spring is almost here and the need for a new perfectly peach blush has arrived, too. This blush from Lancome’ is designed to compliment all skintones with just the right amount of light peach and deep coral. It’s beautiful in person.
  2. Caudalie Hand and Nail Cream, $15 – My cuticles have really been hating me recently. They are dry and crack, no matter how much or many moisturizing I introduce to them, with the exception of this hand cream by Caudalie. Not only does it nourish your hands and nails, but it also acts as an anti-aging cream for your hands. Did you know that your hands can be a tell-tale sign of your age? Well, it is, so think about that!
  3. MAKE UP FOR EVER Pro Finish Multi-Use Powder Foundation, $36 – I’m on the hunt for a new foundation. Well, I’ve actually been on this hunt for the past few months, but I’ve been coming up empty handed with bottles and tubes of foundations that don’t give me the coverage I desire and/or agree with my crazy combo skin. Hopefully, this new powder foundation by MUFE will be the one. I just ordered this and can’t to try it! You can apply it wet or dry and it has buildable coverage, which always comes in handy for me and my bi-polar, semi-acne probe skin.
  4. Perfect Formula Pink Gel Coat, $30 – When it comes to my nails in the spring and summer, I usually rock bright pinks and the occasional neon shades or orange or yellow. However, there are times when I just want to sport a clean and natural nail, but that can be hard when all those fun colors I mentioned before leaves behind yellow tinted nails. This pink gel coat seems like something I need to add to my nail polishes and treatments collection. The gel creates a sheer pink coating that not only strengthens and hardens your natural nails, but also gives your nails a barrier while bringing out the natural shades of pink and white in your own nails. I need to get this!
  5. Clinique Acne Solutions Liquid Foundation, $27 – Did I mention that I’m looking for a new foundation? Well, I’ve used this foundation in the past and from what I remember, it was pretty great. It helps prevent acne while giving you a soft and natural look and glow. I might need to pick this up again.
  6. Pond’s Rejuveness Anti-wrinkle Cream, $11.99 – This is another product that I’ve used. Actually, I’m using it now and it’s been amazing to me and my skin. I bought the small travel size for $1 at Walmart and I use it day and night and still have plenty left. It gives  my skin just the right amount of moisture with leaving a greasy film or interferes with my make-up application. This is probably the best drugstore anti-aging moisturizer I’ve ever tried and I will definitely be buying the regular size as soon as I run out of the the travel size.

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M.A.C Year of the Snake Collection

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Based on the Chinese calendar, this is the year of the snake. So in celebration, M.A.C is releasing a Year of the Snake collection that features vibrant and shimmering colors with snake embossed designs and packaging.

The Snake- inspired collection is defined by a palette of vibrant shades and shimmering finishes. Beauty Powder illuminates the skin, Eye Shadow creates striking contrasts and Pigments intensify the effect. Zoom Lash adds definition and Powerpoint Eye Pencil defines a razor-sharp line. Lipsticks quiver with lustre and M•A•C’s EXCLUSIVE packaging slithers with chic- featuring Beauty Powder, Lipsticks and Eye Shadows embossed with a gorgeous snake design. LIMITED EDITION (with design/packaging).

The collection mainly consists of permanent and re-releases of past colors and products. The collection is set to exclusively hit maccosmetics.com on January 31, 2013. Very some pieces from the collection after the jump.

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Gift Idea!: Julep Maven Box

I have quite the little Julep polish collection forming, don’t I? Well, I want more, because I’m currently obsessed with this polish line, which is actually starting to branch out into more beauty related products such as hand creams, body scrubs, and makeup.

However, let’s get back to the bread and butter, which are their nail polishes. Julep offers a plethora of rich and pigmented polishes in various textures such as creme’, glitter, and shimmer in sleek packaging for easy portability and application.

They also offer a subscription program, Julep Maven, that sends you the polishes based on a quick survey that you take. Based on the results, you fit under one of three profiles: American Beauty, Bombshell, or It Girl. After that, Julep sends you an introductory box for your profile results that contains at least 2 different polishes and some other fab goodies. Unlike, other “subscription” services, even the non-commital will even love this, because you can cancel or decline your box any time.

When you become a Julep Maven, not only will you get access to custom picked polishes for yourself, but you will also have be able to earn “Julep Jules” for referring friends, bask in saving 20% off on all products PLUS free shipping, and/or share the wealth my having your monthly box sent to a friend, because these do make AMAZING gifts! They are so amazing, even Oprah added Julep Maven to her Favorite Things 2012 list! Enough said, right?!

So, feel free to head over to www.Julep.com to find out more about becoming a Julep Maven and all of the fabulous products they are churning out over there.

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*Disclaimer – I was gifted some of the polishes from Julep. However, all opinions are my own! Yep.

 

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I Need This Scent In Every Form

My baby sister finally turned 21 this past Monday (Happy B-Day Erika!) and for the past 3 years, I get her the VIP Bag from Bath and Body Works.

In case you didn’t know, every Black Friday ONLY, (I’m not exactly sure how long they’ve been doing this) Bath & Body Works sale an actually chic tote bag filled with full size products for $20 with the purchase of $40 in products( we usually just take advantage of the 2 for $20 candles and call it done). It’s a pretty amazing steal considering that the tote filled with the goodies retails for $110 on its own and getting this bag as a B-Day gift has turned into an annual event and probably will be for the rest of our lives, as long as the offer is on the table at B&BW.

As a small token of her appreciation, she lets me pick one thing from her coveted birthday gift and call us even. So, this year, I picked out from her bag of free goodies this Sparkling Champagne Hand Soap. B&BW hand soaps are pretty fab, due to them being anti-bacterial and gentle foaming. However, this scent right here, which I believe is new, is AMAZING!

Everytime I wash my hands, I get so happy and find myself doing some hardcore sniffing as the soft foam is gentle washed off my hands and then the scent lingers for quite awhile! Sparkling Champagne has a soft scent of mandarin, pink sugar, and champagne. Ooohh…

Unfortunately, they only offer this scent in hand soap and hand sanitizer. This needs to change pronto, because I’m almost craving to have this in lotion, body wash, and body spray formula. I’m not sure about the candle version, yet, because it might be a little too strong in candle form. On the other hand….why not?! The more forms the merrier, at least for me!

Have any of you had a chance to take a whiff of this scent? You should.

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Make-Up Monday…err..Tuesday: Recent Empties #1

Some of you might not know this, but I some point in my life I was a HUGE make-up buying motha-lova, especially in college! Seriously. I’ve bought so much make-up over my life that I still have plenty that could hold me for the rest of the my life if it wasn’t for those pesky expiration dates. Yes, make-up has expiration dates!

Anyway, the older I’ve gotten, the more I’ve decided to spread my money elsewhere such as to clothes, home decor, and oh, yeah…bills. 🙁  So, when it has been coming to me running out of a make-up product, I’ve been doing one of two things; See if I already have something to replace it with OR decide if I really need it and buy a replacement that I already know works (read: No new products that I haven’t tried and loved before.)

So, here are some reviews on products that I completely used up and ran out of recently. From left to right, ladies and gents.

  • Vichy Dermablend Corrective Foundation, $29.50, Vichy – I bought this online in January 2011 while being snowed in at my apartment alone. Whenever anyone is stranded indoors with some form of internet access, there has to be some major spikes in online sales. If you have skin discoloration or moments where you need small touches of full coverage, then this is the product you need to keep in your makeup collection. Full coverage, with SPF and allergy tested and approved. This stuff lasts almost forever and I probably would’ve had this longer, but I began to mix it with another foundation (next product) so that helped me run out. The only set back for this foundation is that there aren’t many color selections, only 4 to be exact. I got the “darkest” color they offered which is Golden and it was super light on my NC42 skin. I hope they get more colors eventually, but until then find a good darker and super lightweight foundation to mix with it. I will definitely be buying this again and hopefully soon.
  • Maybelline Pure Makeup Foundation in Dark, $8.89, Amazon – I bought this foundation about 3 years ago, I believe (eekk!) when a local drugstore chain was bought out by Walgreens and they were selling EVERYTHING at drastically low prices. I think I paid only $1 for this foundation which was brand new. Dark was the closet color they had to my complexion that wasn’t too light. After some quick Google searches, it seems like this product has been discontinued, which sucks, because this foundation was pretty great. It was 50% water and oil free, which meant lightweight and great for practically all skin types. The application was really smooth and quite lovely. When I ran out of my Clinique Stay-Matte foundation, I reached for this one. However, it was still too dark for me. So, I began mixing it with just a dab of the dermablend foundation(above) and I was in love with the mixture of the two. They provided me with the perfect shade, coverage, and texture! Although it might be discontinued, you can still find some online retailers selling it, but I would be a leary about the expiration dates considering I’m not sure if or when this was discontinued. I wish I could’ve tried this in a color closer to my complexion.
  • Origins VitaZing moisturizer and GinZing eye cream, $30 and $35, Origins.com – I got these 2 items in a special set at Macy’s a few months ago and apparently they were the perfect amount to compliment each other, because I ran out of both within 2 days of each other. Nice! Anyway, I loved these guys! The eye cream is great and you can read my quick and to the point review here. The moisturizer was 2-fer! It was moisturizer, but also has a sheer tint of color, which gives the skin a nice and luminous glow underneath your makeup. I would definitely buy these products again in the future, especially the eye cream.

Okay, there you have a list of products that I emptied! I wonder what are the things I’m going to hit empty or “pan” on. Well, we’ll see!

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