Click here to see what you can get for a $17.50 purchase of Ulta products. Your choice of one of three makeup collections! On the homepage you can also get a 20% off any one item coupon that you can use. Brandi, a reader asked what I would get. I told her, if she didn’t have them, that the basics would be my purchase. A black liner pencil, a liner for brows, a matte black shadow, a brown color close to your skin color (I use Wedge from MAC and Naked from Urban Decay) and a matte white would be great. With these purchases then you can get free makeup!!! Who doesn’t want that? With a good eye primer the shadows deliver great results and are worth it for someone building their makeup supply. Brandi was also kind enough to send pictures and a description of what collection she chose for her free gift.
For a grand total of $19.90, I got:
1 Black eyeliner (I wish I had paid more attention and gotten the actual pencil kind rather than the automatic one – though I also should have realized there was one in the gift)
1 Brunette brow shade and shaper pencil (have no idea what to do with the shaper, but I assume you’ve got a tutorial on that already)
1 White Wedding eye crayon.
And the gift:
Cute bag
4 tools: Contour brush (angled, flat top), blush, sponge tip, and small eyeshadow brush
1 double tip lip gloss: Cosmo and Charmed (yeah, I know you’re not a fan of glosses…) The Cosmo is rose-colored and the Charmed is very light pink – likely more of a shining agent than actual color
1 lip color: Sheer Rose
1 cheek color: Adore (dark rose)
1 nail lacquer: Pink Leather (slightly darker than the Cosmo gloss)
Pocket mirror
1 Full-size Amped Lashes Mascara in Jet Black
2 Eyeshadow Quads w/ mini mirror in tray: Trendsetter, Trendsetter, Granite, Platinum; and Pink, Pearl, Mystical, and Flirty
I just went to Walmart and purchased the Revlon Color Stay under eye concealer that they have. Do you want to try it out with me and put in your two cents? For those of you wanting to participate we will be reviewing this product from Feb. 16th-March 16th. Go out and get it and tell me what you think!!!
For the month of March I will be doing makeup looks where 95% of the makeup comes from drugstores. What are your fav items from the drugstore???
I am hoping that I get these out to you in time and I do apologize for the lateness of them. Here are two different looks for you. One more natural and then one more dramatic. These looks are great too with other colors. The more dramatic one for instance would look great with different shades of spring green!
POST!!!!! I feel like I haven’t in ages and I’ve been meaning to. Let me paint you a picture (as I try to type as quietly as humanly possible so as not to wake the “brood” in my room). I lOvE getting your emails and hearing from you in comments. I try to respond as often as I can and the pattern has been: respond, unpack a box, respond to another great email, unpack another dreaded box. Then… sickness hit. Both of my boys came down with awful coughs which soon went straight to their chests (ps we are still waiting for insurance to kick in help!). The next day my oldest came home sick with a tummy ache on top of his cold and today they both woke up with pink eye. One has it in BOTH eyes!!! I am desperately trying to keep clutter from happening around the house as “welcome to the neighborhood committees” come by (SUCH great neighbors!!!), have dinner ready for my hubby when he walks in (just cuz I think it’s cute), bathe the children often to ease their suffering of congestiveness (it’s a word right?), keep them from touching their eyes, washing clothes like crazy (AND the toys) and being so worried about them at night that I am not sleeping…AT ALL!!! Literally have been up the past week checking on them often (my youngest always seems to be on the floor by about 3am without fail) and they both just can’t stop coughing. It makes me want to cry. I usually kick/lovingly nudge my hubby when he starts to snore. But I feel so badly that he might not be getting sleep that I just let him snore because it let’s me know he is getting a good REM cycle and WHO CAN SLEEP WITH SNORING???? Not me. So if any of you live in Utah and have seen me frantically running through the medicine aisles without a stitch of makeup, bags from no sleep, a cold sore from stress and bloodshot eyes I apologize. Not a pretty sight. Back to me typing quietly, I have set them up little beds in my room so that I can just look over at them instead of getting up and going all the way to their rooms. I pray this will end, that the Lysol will last and that I can get a Valentine tutorial up because I really DO have a cute one in mind!!! For now I will direct you to Nicole for a great Valentine’s Day hair tutorial and I am going to sleep…I hope! Sorry for the personal post but I had to vent and you guys are so great I didn’t think you’d mind.
Sad but true, we all spend money on products that we regret. Here are a few of my impulse (and some not so impulse) buys that I regret. What are yours?
You all voted on the sidebar and I was amAZED at how many of you suffer from enlarged pores! Well, let me introduce you to Elsa, a follower, that suffered from this problem. After she contacted me about the issue we decided an experiment was in order! She went off in search of a bargain solution in light of the information we learned on how to kick her large pores to the curb. Take it away Elsa =)…
The pictures from an annual Halloween party was the day I REALLY noticed my pores, I was in SHOCK!! Yuck! I’m only 28! I shouldn’t be having a pore problem! I had seen a few creep up here and there but I never knew it was that bad!
I immediately emailed Jen to ask her how this problem could be fixed! I didn’t know you could get rid of enlarged pores, dumb right?? Luckily, she told me, it’s possible to get rid of them! So my mission started after Christmas- to get rid of those annoying holes on my skin.
So here are the products that I swear by, that have been giving me amazing results in such a short amount of time! A month, really!
1st The Olay Pro-X cleansing brush! Oh my goodness, this brush has been my bff the last month! I’m not usually a person that buys beauty supplies from drugstores, BUT this brush changed my life! It’s very similar to the spin brushes estheticians use when you get a facial. You know that amazing clean feel that can’t be beat? Well now you can get very similar results at home!! The next best part- is the price! It is only $29.99!! Not too bad when compared to its nearly identical twin from Clarisonic that is $200.00!! When I compared both brushes I really couldn’t tell a difference between the two, that’s how great this brush is!!
2nd I absolutely love loveloveexposed skincare! It is the best I have ever tried at clearing acne and keeping it away! I have used everything and I mean everything, pills, laser treatments, topical creams, tanning (ugh bad I know) just trying to clear up my skin and nothing worked. I swear nothing and I mean nothing works better -it’s truly a miracle line! Since using the Olay Pro-X cleansing brush twice a day once in the morning and once at night (for just one minute each time) the serums and acne lotions penetrate so much deeper into my skin now. My once enlarged pores are DISAPPEARING!! I have gotten so many compliments on my skin and even my mom noticed and said “your pores are shrinking!” I think in another month or two they will be completely invisible! That’s how great this brush and skin care line work together! I’m sold for life, so are my friends and family!
Just a little FYI- make sure to moisturize after using the brush. This brush was designed to help get rid of fine lines and wrinkles; so it’s truly amazing at exfoliating. Your skin will need some moisture put back into it though!
A friend came down to stay with us this weekend and wanted to get new shadows. Being new to the area I had to Map Quest the nearest mall and off we went while the hubbies stayed home with the kiddies. BOY could you tell it was a Saturday. The MAC counter was PaCkEd and leaking out into the walkway to do makeovers. She ended up picking up Fig 1 and Golden Rod, two BeAuTiFuL colors (insert me drooling)!!! She asked me to do a look with them and this is what I came up with. SO much fun!!!
Thank you to so many of you that shared your favorites for the month!!! Here are a few of them:
Brook loves the EOS Lip balm:
“I have horrible dry lips this winter so I started using eos it’s amazing! Love it. Read all about it on my blog cuteasabutton222.blogspot.com.”
Casey clues us in with a new skin care line:
I sell Beauticontrol and we have a new Skin Spa Facial line out and I am absolutely loving it!!!! We have these skin sensors that prescribe your own line that you need! Visit her website here.
Angie tells us how she struck GoLd with these goodies:
What I’m loving right now….and how I got to what I’m loving right now……a few years ago I started using Origins Checks & Balances face soap, LOVE it. It’s about $18 a bottle (more than drugstore brands), but seriously, the bottle can last almost 6 months. As I’ve learned, all of their products take minimal amounts to be effective. I then started using their Modern Friction. It’s sort of a microderm in a bottle type scrub, and is awesome. Then tried some eye creams, GinZing is AMAZING, for AM use only, takes the puff right out of your eyes if you have any whatsoever. I have horrible allergies, so it helps tremendously. And the newest thing they have, which I am IN LOVE with now is called Starting Over, found it a/b 3 weeks ago. I’ve been using the eye cream (I think there’s a moisturizer as well), it’s botox (sort of) in a bottle. You can feel it working. You can apply it AM & PM below and above the eye (like on the bone just above the lid). I’ve noticed a big difference, how soft my skin is in the “crows feet” area and just my whole eye area in general. I’m telling ya, it’s wonderful stuff!
Here comes Ashley with great news!!! There is another primer we all get to try =)!!!
As an emergency room RN in Las Vegas (the fifth busiest ER in
America), I need makeup which holds up for a 12+ hour shift. Aquatique
is an amazing eye makeup base. I get compliments on my eye makeup
(even at the end of my shift at times) from both co-workers and
patients. Plus, this base supposedly makes the eyeshadow waterproof
also, although I have never really tried that aspect out. (INSERT JENNI PUTTING THAT TO THE TEST BY STICKING MY HEAD IN A BOWL FULL OF WATER!!! LOL) I have
turned quite a few of my coworkers onto Aquatique!
Ever had the problem where you look in the mirror with your makeup all done only to see a dry patch of skin literally PEELING before your eyes??? Well EnOuGh with the run on sentences…check this OUT!!!
