Naked from Day to Night: A Tutorial

I Love this look a lot, Ive been wearing the daytime version almost everyday when I go to work.

Products used

Revlon Colorstay Foundation in sandy beige (dry)
Maybelline Dream Matte Powder
MAC Studio Sculpt Concealer
Urban Decay Naked Palette
MAC paintpot in painterly
NYX Blush in Angel
NYC Bronzer in sunny
Rimmel lipstick in coral shimmer

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HAUL: NYX Mega Shine Lipglosses and Blushes HAUTE LOOK

I did another Haul from Hautelook. This time its from NYX Cosmetics, almost everything that day was 50-70% off. It was amazing, but I couldn't really buy anything or else I'd go broke. But I thought this will be my first NYX purchase for myself, and I should splurge a little, but not too much.

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How To: Depot L'oreal HIP eye shadow duos (reuploaded)

This is how I depot and store my L'oreal HIP duos, it was starting to clutter up in my eye shadow drawer,so I decided to depot them, and store it in a palette which you can get here.

I will update on how I end up labeling my eye shadows in the palette, but for now. ENJOY!

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First Impression: Urban Decay Naked Palette

So its finally here!! My own Urban Decay Naked Palette!

 My pictures are not giving justice to how this palette looks like. 

will follow up a video review/first impressions to this post so dont worry!

12 eye shadows including 4 new ones

24/7 eyeliner duo in Zero(black) and Whiskey(brown)

Mini size Original Primer Potion

So this palette includes 12 full size eye shadows! A single eye shadow is 0.05 oz, and if you buy an eye shadow individually that's $17 each x 12, that's $204 total just for the shadows alone. So for this palette being only $44, I think that is a steal! In this palette you also get a duo 24/7 eyeliner in ZERO and WHISKEY. Both are in the permanent line. The exterior packaging is a chocolatey in color and its velvety to the touch. Its very sophisticated. Not like other the other palettes from urban decay with the unnecessary graffiti.

So today I have swatches for you, my full review will be coming up very sooon.

All the swatches does not have any primer. I wanted to showcase these eye shadows the way they are. So far my favorite all over eyelid color is toasted, crease color is either hustle, buck or naked. Virgin as a highlighter. Virgin is the lightest color in the palette. A lot of the finishes in this palette is either a satin or very shimmery. So that's a biggie for me because I like matte colors. In this palette, there's only two. Both of the matte colors can be used as transition or crease colors. Toasted reminds me of MAC's all that glitters, except that toasted is  bit on the bronzy side.


Again, this isn't my full on review, just my first impressions.

Thanks for taking your time and reading this!!

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NEW Wet N Wild Spring 2011 Collection: Trios

wSo I accidentally found these at the CVS while I was trying to stock up on MILK. Yes milk, because we had a huge Blizzard coming the following day, and I knew that CVS was the only one open 24 hours, and it was already midnight. Anyways, I have swatches of these really gorgeous palettes. They were not in the Wet N Wild Section in the Beauty Aisle. It was kinda tucked away. Which to me was very interesting.

Wet N Wild Spring 2011 Trios

 So far, all of these shadows are at least satin to shimmery. Not of them were matte, but satin and a little bit of shimmer doesnt hurt.

331 I Dream of Greenie

I'm Feeling Retro

I Got Good Jeans

I'm Getting Sunburned

Silent Treatment

Spoiled Brat

 My favorite palette/trio is Silent Treatment and I'm Getting Sunburned.  The only con I found in these palettes is from the "Spoiled Brat" palette. The Black with silver glitters isn't as pigmented and the glitters are chunky, but it doesn't show up in the swatch. Again, its a hit or miss with these palettes.

The black itself is satin but very sheer. One advice regarding blending these eye shadows, start with as little amount as possible, because again they are very pigmented and with the regular palettes, that seems to be the issue with people.

Wet N Wild has done it again with these palettes, if you are looking for more of the neutral and natural looking colors, go for the Trios in the permanent line. If you are looking for more Jazz in colors, try the New Spring collection.

These eyeshadows are rumored to replace to older trios in the color icon line, also if you got to Wet N Wild's website, these aren't even in the product line. In any case limited edition or not, these palettes are a must have. Supposedly drugstores are getting them this month, and other drugstores just got these too early, even as early as December.

For only $2.99 (US) its very affordable, and really worth the money. You really don't need to pick up all six like I did. To me, I needed to show all colors to my readers/audience, as to give theme choices and variety when deciding what to purchase.

hope this helps!!
Grace

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