Whoops! ;)

Whoopsie! I went a little crazy in the mall over the past week. I have been feeling a little down, and I guess that I went shopping to compensate; BUT I scored some really good things. 

It's bath time! (Lush!)

Hey Adventurers! I went shopping at lush here and picked up some stuff! Just wanted to show ya'll what I got! 

Target haul!

Hey adventurers! Gotta really quick haul for you and two announcements! One: Next week will be Concealer week! I review all of my concealers for you all. Two: This blog is not going to be only makeup, I'm expanding my horizons to household goods. I've really been wanting to review a few household items but I don't want to start a whole new blog. So I'm just going to add them into this one. On to the goodies!

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NEW ELF PRODUCTS?!

Hello Again Adventurers! The products above are the ones that influenced me to do August= Elf Month. I purchased some new stuff from there and was just inspired! I never would of thought of Elf to do baked anything since they sell their stuff for so cheap. I was truly shocked and am truly grateful! The items I picked up were:

4 Glossy Glosses in: Dragon Fruit(my favorite), Muted Mauve(my least favorite), Berry Blush, and Pink Candy.
2 Baked Eyeshadows in: Toasted and Pixie
2 Baked Blushes in: Pinktastic and Rich Rose
Elf High Definition Under Eye Setting Powder
Elf Conditioning lip balm in Nice and Natural
Baked Brozer in St. Lucia

Expect Reviews and Swatches in the month of August!

Which would you like to see first?


xoxoAlaina

I went shopping!

Hey guys! I picked up a few things recently from the drugstore and I decided to share them with you so you know what will be appearing on my blog, and if you want me to do reviews on specific items in this haul, go ahead and leave that down below and I'll be sure to do that for you, but lets get on to it!

• 4 of the new Benefit Plush Lipglosses in Hoola, Sugarbomb, Coralista, and Dandelion
• 2 Revlon Photoready Cream blushes in Pinched and Flushed
• Rimmel's Match Perfection Concealer in Light/Medium
• Loreal Color Riche Lipgloss in Watermelon Crush
• Clinique Chubby stick in Mega Melon
• Oatmeal soap
• Mini Bad Gal Lash
• Formula 10.0.6 Keep me Clean Facial wipes

Until next time guys(which shall be tomorrow!) 

xoxoAlaina!

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Review: Benefit's Total Moisture Facial Cream

Hey guys! I picked this baby up quite a long time ago now, and let me just tell you I absolutely ADORE this cream. This is my night cream so I put this on before I go to bed and when I wake up my skin is so soft and I don't get that dry feeling or any dry patches.

This is an extremely heavy--in my opinion-- moisturizer, and it get's deep in there, in the beginning of using this it made my skin really oily and so I stopped using it for a few but then I felt like my skin was just wishing for some moisture and I started using it again, and my skin just soaks it up and It doesn't give me that oily look any more. It could be a combination of a few things of why it doesn't over moisturize my skin anymore, but I really enjoy this product.

It comes in a jar-obviously-- and you basically dip your fingers in and rub on, which isn't the most hypoallergenic thing in the world but it has a plastic stopper(?) in the container that I leave in there to keep it sealed.

This Moisturizer costs $38, I do not pay that much for it as I get mine from the Navy Exchange which is a military only shopping center with discounts on products for those related to the military, and I would purchase this again when I get done with it. I love it that much, I'd even pay full price for it.


xoxo Alaina

Oh for the love of Chapstick!

Well, here's the story I almost completely used up my last Carmex Moisture plus which is the Grey one above and I went to the store to pick up a new one. I just could not resist all the other ones that were next to it so I went a little crazy and picked a few up.

• Nivea Kiss of Moisture
• Carmex Moisture Plus
• Maybelline baby lips
• Nivea Kiss of shimmer
• EOS in Summer Fruit

Haul: BH Cosmetics, NARS, Lovestruck, MAC

Corresponding video: COMING SOON! My eyes are really irritated so I decided no makeup today, which in turn means no filming. Tomorrow I shall most likely put up the video.

^^Sneak peek! Can you guess what I got?! ^^

Valentines gift from the husband is above! He so sweet. 

Lovestruck by Vera Wang perfume.

 

  Torrid Blush by NARS. You may recognize this blush from my wishlist. I decided to bite the bullet and get it the color is absolutely gorgeous.This blush has a some shimmer to it and is pretty true to the picture I took to it, but because of varying pixelation colors on computers, it's a coral-pink color. Very pretty.

 This is my first blush from NARS, and I decided not to get orgasm or super orgasm only because I've heard so much about them, I wanted to try something different and I've been after this color for a while. So happy about my purchase. In the swatch you can kind of see it above the eyeliner swatches. It shows up pretty well on my skintone. I love it. :D

 This is an Ombre Blush from MAC in Vintage Grape.  This picture is not color correct it appears much more purple in the photos than it actually is. It goes from a light pink and then fades into a dark purple and the purple is maybe a third of the blush. I'm excited to try it out as it swatched pretty pigmented but I think a light hand would be best with this blush.  This is my first MAC blush and product. Also pretty excited about that.

 Next up is the BH Cosmetics Contour and Blush palette. It has six colors in it. A white highlight, two pink blushes, a tanner highlight and two contouring shades.

 The white swatched well, white. The two tan colors didn't show up. The two pinks came out pretty much the exact same color and the darkest color came out pretty splotchy. It's not looking good for this palette. But I'm going to give it some time to see if I actually don't like it or not.

 

 

 The 26 color palette which contains 21 eyeshadows and 5 Blushes. Unlike the above palette most of these colors swatched very well. They all were pretty  pigmented except a few of the pastel colors, they didn't show up and they were powdery.

 

 Top row in the palette. You can see the pastel pink didn't show up very well. The color is there, but it's very faint.

 

 Second row, all the colors showed up well. You can also see the shimmer in this picture.

 Bottom two rows with the blushes at the end. These blushes were very pigmented on swipe was all it needed to transfer on to my skin.

 BH Cosmetics stippling brush. Much more dense than my e.l.f brush. This brush seems like it would actually stand up to the foundation or powder instead of just flopping over like the e.l.f one.

 BH Cosmetics 10 piece brush kit. These brushes are very soft, much softer than I would of pictured.

 Fluffy Powder Brush

 Blush Brush

 Foundation Brush

 

Blending Brush

 Angled Definer Brush

 Smudge Brush

 Fine Eyeliner Brush

 Spoolie

 Eyeshadow Brush

 

Precision Brush

 Brush bag they comes in.

 Pen liquid liner.

 Showing the applicator.

One swipe over the hand. Very pigmented and it stayed on even after trying to wipe it off. 

 Free gift for spending over a certain amount of money. The Waterproof pencil liner in Onyx.

 Typical Pencil liner.

In comparison to the liquid eyeliner it is not as black, but it is waterproof so this one was a fight to get off even with the makeup remover.

Elf Goodies. :)

Hey Guys! This is my recent stuff I picked up from E.L.F Cosmetics! I ordered late on the 9th of August and it arrived on the 15th, I paid 12 extra dollars for the 3 day shipping. I also had the 50% off studio coupon code.

These are the five hypershine Lipglosses that I purchased in the 5 box set. It included: Pink #1, Pink #2, Pink#4, Va Va Voom, and Berry Bliss you can't really see two of the swatches in the picture. The glosses are sticky but they taste good and give a little extra something to the look.

These are the two Luscious Liquid Lipsticks in Baby Lips and Nude pink. The one on the left is Baby lips, the one on the right is Nude Pink. They are very thick and give a nice coat of color. These and the Hypershine Lipglosses both have the turn bottoms.

Two Mineral lipsticks in Runway pink and Nicely nude. Nicely nude is on the right and runway pink is on the left. Each were 5 dollars on the website.

This quad came in a "Get the Look set: Beautiful Browns" they were very hard to swatch and do not really show up on my skintone. They aren't very pigmented, you really have to lay on the first two to get it to barely show up like it did in the picture.

This quad came in "Get the look: Dramatic eyes" set. The silver looks just like the matte white in the swatch, these colors are much more pigmented than the ones in the quad above.

Two Studio line Blushes in Candid Coral and Tickled Pink. Candid Coral is on the Left and Tickled Pink is on the right. The coral one didn't really show up in the swatch, but I just want to say that it's just my skintone. My hands are extremely dark compared to my face.

Four studio eyeshadows in (In this order in the pictures above) Saddle, Wild wheat(which did not show up on my skintone), Raspberry Truffle, and Sunset (which also did not show up on my skintone). Raspberry Truffle is VERY pigmented, this is one swipe from my fingers, VERY pigmented, so I'm going to need a very light hand with that one. Sunset is more orangy than wild wheat even though they kind of look similar in the picture above.

Studio Pressed powder in Buff, matches my skintone pretty much perfectly. It's showing up a little light in the picture, and it is very powdery.

Studio Contouring Blush and Bronzing Duo. The pink is a little light and I thought that the bronzer was going to be a little darker, but that's okay.

Two Essential eyeliners in Coffee and Black. These came in the "Get the look" sets. They're soft but not too soft, and they go on creamy. Very pigmented. Coffee is on top and the black is on the bottom.

Two Mascara's, I don't have much to say about these because I can't use them. They're not hypoallergenic.

A Under the eye concealer and highlighter in Light. They only have 3 colors and this is the middle one. The packaging isn't smooth, it's grippy. I haven't used it so I don't have much to say about it.

Two Matte lip colors one in Natural and the other in Coral. The coral one is on the bottom and the Natural one is on the top. The bottom colored section pops open to act as a sharpener.

All of the brushes I got. I picked up the 11 brush set, and essential Eyeshadow and blending brushes, and the "Get the Look" sets came with a smudge brush, so I have two of those.

The High Definition Powder.

And Two Eyelash curlers from the "Get the look" sets.