Week 9+10 Empties!

Yahoo!  Lots of empties the past 2 weeks!

 

 

I will start with the obvious non-emptied foundation bottles to the left.  L'OREAL True Match Lumi in W1-2 is just too light/pink for me.  I'm going to send this to my sister.  L'OREAL True Match in W-3 is too pink as well.  I'm wondering if the W means pink and the C means yellow?  Can someone help me out on that?  If that's the case, no wonder I can't find a match!  I also have tried N1-2 in LUMI and that was too pink as well.  Let me know!  The Shiseido Sun Protection Liquid Foundation in SP30 is too light for me as well.  I'm thinking I need SP50 for the summer.  It has a SPF of 42 which is perfect for me.  This might be too yellow for my sister but I will send it along anyway.

Just the Basics Shave Cream, which I didn't know was a cream but thought it was a gel when I bought it at CVS didn't not work for me.  I let my 3 year old play with it in the bath!  My legs are pretty sensitive and this gave me instant razor burn.  I didn't even finish shaving my leg.

Dr. Bronner's Magic Soap in Lavender.  It's the ultimate multi-tasker.  Will repurchase in both this flavor and all others.  I'm going to start using it as a natural cleanser as well for the house. 

Neutrogena Triple Moisture Deep Recovery Hair Mask is pretty good and it's at the commissary so I can pick it up with my groceries.  I will repurchase.

Julep Mask Noir was okay.  It's super messy and difficult to wash off your hands after application.  It also stains white face cloths.  Who would have thunk?  I might have another application but I'm going to skip it.  I do like the peel off aspect of it.  My face was soft after using it.  I didn't see any other results though.

Suave Smoothing Body Lotion with Cocoa Butter & Shea.  This has a great, fresh scent.  I would consider picking this one up.

Trader Joe's Coconut Body Butter.  My last one!  I need to get down to Wilmington and replenish the supply!

Amlactin Moisturizing Body Lotion.  This lotion stings, not just after shaving either.  After every time.  Yikes!  Alpha-Hydroxy acids hurt y'all.  But they are good exfoliators.  Maybe this lotion will be better for me in the summer.  Ouch.

Estee Lauder Advanced Night Repair Eye. This lasted forever.  I even thought it was empty and was still able to use it for a few more weeks.  It's finally empty.  I will repurchase the cream version, Advanced Night Repair Eye Synchronized Complex.  I saw pretty good results after using 2 samples of the previous.  When I went to purchase the full size, the sales associate steered me towards the serum.

Organix Hydrating Macademia Oil Shampoo & Conditioner.  I picked these up, well on clearance of course, but because I loved the hair mask.  These were very drying.  I added avocado oil to both of them and they were tolerable.  Avocado oil makes every shampoo and conditioner better.  I won't repurchase.

Epielle Facial Essence Mask Collagen with Vitamin E.  I bought several of these during one of Big Lots 20% off sales.  They are 60 cents a piece.  They are nice and cheap.  Alcohol is the 6th ingredient.  Not super happy about that.

100% pure coconut nourishing body cream.  Initially it smells a little funny, earthy, raw but later in the day it smelled really nice. I liked that I could smell it throughout the day too.  Really nice ingredients too.  I might need to pick this up.

Caldrea Aromotherapeutic Body Lotion in Coconut Fig Leaf.  If I could smell like this for all the days of my life.  I would buy buckets of this stuff.  I saw that Caldrea is on Vitacost but not the lotion.  $22 for 8 fl. oz.  If I win the lottery...

Kiehls' Fig Leaf and Sage is another scent that I love.  I tried the body cleanser it was luxurious. $24 for 8.4 fl.oz.

 
Derma Doctor DD cream was too dark so I couldn't really test it out since I'm in the public eye a lot!

Kiehl's BB Cream is really nice!  It has an SPF 50 and smells of sunscreen but the coverage is nice.  I would pick this one up if I didn't have any other BB creams in rotation.

There are a few other oils and serums but since they were 1-2 use foil packets, I can't really formulate an opinion of them after such short time use.

Oh I was thinking that they Smashbox Photo Finish More Than Primer Blemish Control was actually green like the package, but it isn't.  I was thinking it was a color correcting thing.  Oh well.  But I still would like to have a full size of this around for days when I need a blemish treatment. 

I actually finished a perfume sample!  Victoria's Secret Bombshell.  I will be purchasing a full size.  I liked this one a lot.  One day I will share my perfume sample "collection."

Makeup from the carpool line

After dropping off my daughter to school, I drop my son off at Preschool. I don't stop home in between for the 10-15 minute wait, so I get to the Preschool early and sit in the carpool line before the school doors open. It's a quite organized system of dropping off. So much easier than parking my car, getting my son and my younger son out. Walking into the school, saying goodbyes and then struggling to get my younger son back into the car for the trip home. He wants to stay with his big bro so sometimes there are tears. Love the carpool line!

So this morning I brought my new AVON Expert Mega Palette and went to work with the 7 minutes that I had.   Before I left I moisturized my face with AVON Platinum Day Cream and put on my custom blended mix of Missha #21 and #23 BB cream, set that with Rimmel Stay Matte Tranlucent powder and Benefit Erase Paste under my eyes. I forgot about the blushes in the palette so before I left I swept on some Milani Luminous.   I also primed my lids with Missha perfecting eye base. I forget what exactly it is called.   lol

Here's what I came up with!

Everyone I'm sure was wondering why I was taking pictures of myself in my car at 8:43 in the morning.  My son sure was.  "Oh, you are taking more pictures of your eyes mommy?"  

The sun is really bright this morning too.  It's about 40 degrees and everyone is walking around in huge winter jackets with hoods up and scarves.  I'm sure that will be me next winter when my blood thins out...  40 degrees is sweater weather for me coming from NY/Massachusetts.  lol

So the colors that I used...

I used the first color (dark shimmery taupe) on the left in the second row as my lid color.  The next color (medium reddish brown) as my crease and outer v color.  I used the 5th color (chocolate brown)in the same row to blend out the crease.  I used the last color in the first row for my brow lighlight and the color to the left of that (5th color in first row) as my inner corner highlight and swept it across the inner 1/3 of my eyelid.

I used the 5th color in the second row along with the 1st color to line my lower lash line.  To finish off the look I used my Christan Siriano for Victoria Secret Makeup Kohl liner to line my upper and lower lash line as well as my lower waterline. 

7 minutes, boom, done.  I wasn't racing to get my eyes done in a certain time frame, well it needed to be done before the carpool line started but since everything was there so neatly contained for me, it took no time at all. 

Oh and I used only 2 brushes.  Advance Techniques deluxe crease brush to blend and a Sonia Kashuk shader brush.

Maybe I will make this a series on Monday, Wednesday and Fridays!  What do you think???

Almay EOTD

I had 5 minutes to get my makeup and clothes on and run out the door this morning.   The kids asked for pancakes and never one to disappoint, I delivered upon that request!  I get up at 5 to study for 2 hours before waking the kids up at 7.  I'm trying to get through a 100 NCLEX questions a day.  I wake up in the middle of the night going over questions in my head.  It's insane!!!

So I grabbed Almay intense i-color trio for greens 004 and went to work.  I put the pink shade all over the lid and took the dark green into the crease and outer v.  I used the light green as an inner corner highlight and to blend out and soften the dark green in the crease.  WnW Brulee went above the light green and as a brow highlight.  Finished the look off with Christian Siriano for VS Makeup kohl black liner to line my upper lash line, lower line and lower waterline.  I then took the dark green to smudge out the kohl liner along my lower lash line and also too the pink and put a little of that under the green.  I put on coat of Rimmel Lash Accelerator on.

I love how this came out.  My camera is acting even more wonky.  Can't wait for Black Friday.  A new camera is definitely going to be the focus of my shopping excursion.

Victoria Secret Beauty Rush Soothing Lip Balm

This stuff is amazing!  It pumps up my lips as well which is an added bonus. There is a slight hint of peppermint and coconut oil.  It also has Aloe  Barbadensis Leaf extract for more moisturizing.   My lips feel amazing when I reach for this balm.

It comes in 4 shades, pink sugar, soft pink, clear and nude.  I have the soft pink.  For $7 you get a ton of product in a 18.5 g tin.

Right now they are 2 for $12 or 5 for $20.

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