My Collection - Maybelline Color Tattoos

Hello lovelies, I decided that I wanted to give you all an insight into my collection because I feel like you are only seeing what is in my project pans, and quite frankly not everyone loves those posts, so I need to add a little more variety. Today I have my Maybelline 24 hr. Color Tattoos. I own 9 of them. I will say that no one really needs this many of these because they take forever to get through. In fact, once I get through all of these there are only 3 that I would repurchase, and that is more because I don't need the colors not because I don't like the formula. The formula happens to be one of my favorites honestly. They last an incredible amount of time on my eyes without creasing at all. The color selection is also a big win for me. I like these because they work great as bases underneath eyeshadow to really enhance the color, but they also look beautiful on their own. 

Top L-R: Audacious Asphalt, Bad to the Bronze, Icy Mint
Middle L-R: Tough as Taupe, Edgy Emerald, Inked in Pink
Bottom L-R: Barely Branded, Electric Blue, Deep Forest

I have a really solid color variety. I have purchased these over many years. The Bad to the Bronzze color is the first one I bought. Barely Branded you will see has the most use out of it, you may have recognized it from a couple of project pans that I have done (it is currently in one!). People have complained that these dry out, however all it takes to revive them is a bit of mixing with a toothpick. That is what I did with Bad to the Bronze and it works like new. When I revived Barely Branded I spritzed it with my ELF Mist and Set, but that isn't really necessary. It worked, but I felt that it made it too creamy after that. 

L-R: Deep Forest, Electric Blue, Barely Branded, Inked in Pink, Edgy Emerald, Tough as Taupe, Icy Mint, Bad to the Bronze, Audacious Asphalt

Deep Forest I bought and I was a bit disappointed in it because it wasn't as green as I thought it would be, but it was on sale so I don't mind the couple of dollars that I spent on it. Electric Blue I have used as eyeliner and it is absolutely beautiful that way. Really intense and a nice change from using a standard black eyeliner. Edgy Emerald, I wish I used this more. I bought it for a specific look, my sister-in-law has used it more than I have. I wanted to like Tough as Taupe more than I do, but the reality of it is that I do warmer looks so I don't use it too much. Also it was a lot darker than I had anticipated. Icy Mint I ordered on amazon because it was a limited edition color and I really needed it. However the formula of this one is different than the others I have tried, by that I mean I had to really build up the swatch to get it to show up. Audacious Asphalt is so stunning. I wish I did more smokey eyes because I don't really get to use this that often. Really stunning though. 

My top 3 picks and the ones that I would repurchase without a second thought are Barely Branded, Bad to the Bronze, and Inked in Pink. Barely Branded is perfect under all shadows to really make them pop. Bad to the Bronze is perfect to really bring out warmed toned shadows. It also looks really amazing on its own and just blended into the crease, so simple and easy when I don't have any time to do much. Inked in Pink makes for a really nice base as well. I think it gives a nice iridescent look to the shadows that you put on top of it. 

I recommend that you go out and try one of these. When you are in a rush they are pretty simple to just throw on and not have to worry about it. They also make amazing bases to help your shadow last all day. Which ones do you have? Are there some that you think I am missing and go check out?

Finish 7 by Spring Update # 1

Hello lovelies, I bring you all today my first update for my Finish 7 by Spring project pan. While I haven't finished anything, I have made incredible progress on everything and I am confident that this will be a successful project! 

Wet n Wild Contour Palette (Hit pan on contour side) - There is a major dip going through this product now. I have been using it everyday and I am not sick of it yet, so I guess I'll just keep going. 

Wet n Wild Coverall Powder - There is pan as well as visibility of the pan underneath. I have been really enjoying this powder. I feel like I am going through it much faster than I would the Rimmel Stay Matte Powder, but I like that this gives me a little added coverage and it is a good shade for me right now. At the rate that I am using this, it will definitely be done in 2 months. 

Wet n Wild Reserve Your Cabana - no pan and hardly a dip. I think when I repressed this I did it a little too well. I target my brush in the same spot everyday, but still nothing. The only product I am actually worried about.

dr. brandt Pores no more primer - Didn't make too much progress on this, but I am not worried. Once I get through my Smashbox primer for my finish 14 by Feb. 14 project this will be my main focus. 

CVS sample Brow Pencil in Brown - made pretty good progress on this. I use it everyday so that isn't too shocking. I don't know how far I will be able to take this pencil before I can't sharpen it anymore, but I will just keep using it until I do. It isn't as warm as I would like my brows to be so I really just want this out.

Maybelline Babylips in Yummy Plummy - I don't think I have ever made such little progress on a babylips before. I am not worried though. I actually really like the color of this one and am considering repurchasing once I am done with it even though I said I wouldn't purchase anymore of them. The color of this just works really well with the natural color of my lips.

Rimmel East End Snob lip liner - I decided that the Revlon eye liner was just a bad idea so I switched it out for this. This is a really creamy pencil so I am not too worried about finishing it. I mean look at the progress I have made in 2 weeks alone. These pencils are too creamy for my personal preference unless I am using it with a matte lipstick, which I don't wear often. I am not the biggest fan of this color so I do want this lip liner out of my collection. 

So I think I have made decent progress on everything. By next update I would have really liked to have hit pan on the contour powder and to have half of that coverall powder finished. Happy Panning! 

Ipsy Unbagging and Review - Jan 2016

Hello lovelies, I bring you all today what I got in my Ipsy bag this month as well as some mini reviews of the products. For those of you who don't know, ipsy is a monthly subscription service for $10 a month and you receive 4-5 deluxe size samples as well as some full size products. I have been getting this for a while now and I always recommend it to people who are as obsessed with getting more and more products all the time. So, without further ado I will get right into it! 

The theme of this months bag is All Eyes on You! 

Peek Natural Stain Brow Powder - I have used this a couple times and it is safe to say that I don't like it. I thought it was the brush I was using but that wasn't it, this product just isn't very pigmented. It took way too long to build up in my brows. I think when my brows are freshly done and maybe not as thick as I have them now it will be better for me. If you have a lot of gaps in your brows you would probably want to stay away from this.

Lasting Smiles Lip Balm in Peppermint - This is a good lip balm. My lips felt very moisturized and I love the mint scent. If you don't like mint you might want to stay away from this because it is a bit strong. 

Beau Gachis Paris Smudge Brush - This brush is alright. Not the softest in my opinion. It is kind of dense, but not too dense and I think that it will work nicely when you are trying to have very specific product placement in your crease. But just as a crease brush I didn't like it. 

The Balm Mr. Write Now in Jac - I like this alright. It is a lighter bronze color. It doesn't show up that great in my waterline unless I do a few passes and build it up. It is nice underneath my lower lashline though. 

Pixi by Petra eyeshadow duo in Lavender Bloom - Unfortunately I am a klutz and I dropped this. A bit of it broke but I salvaged what I could and repressed it. It still works beautifully. The colors are really pretty. The  shimmery shaded has a bronze and purple shift to it and the matte color is a really pretty lavender with pink undertones to it. I used this duo and it created a really pretty and quick look. 

So I liked 4/5 products and will continue to use them regularly. The bag is worth roughly $58, I say roughly because I couldn't figure out the price of the brow powder. Overall I am happy with what I got because I love eyeliner and brushes and lip balm. Those 3 products alone really make it worth it for me.

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Love to Project Pan!!! Finish 14 by Feb. 14 Update #3

Hello lovelies, so I tried to get this up for you all yesterday, but was in class all morning and work all evening, so I am a day late but I did make the markings on everything last night before I used them all today! I will get right into it! 

I previously finished the Rimmel eyeliner in nude, hit pan on The Balm eyeshadow single in Flirty, and finished the Benefit Porefessional primer which only counts as half a product. In total 2 1/2 products. 

To start off I will show you all what I have finished.

2 lip products out of my collection! Its the small victories haha. 

The Maybelline Babylips in Grape Vine was a decent chapstick. This was my second one of these, I don't really feel the same about the color and formula the way I used to so I won't be repurchasing this. 

Noyah lipstick in Desert Rose....I have never been so happy to finish a lip product in my life. The color was like Barbie lips on me and I wasn't a fan of the formula either. I am really proud though that I just kept at it until it was gone! Will definitely not be purchasing....ever.

Now onto the other 10 products that I need to get through.

Revlon Kissable Balm Stain in Honey. I made decent progress on this. If I use the same amount next month I will be done with it. My lips have been permanently stain though. 

Smashbox Photo Finish Primer. There was a week or so where I wasn't really reaching for primer and that kind of hurt my progress. I think if I really focus on it though I can get through it. I use it all over my face as opposed to the Benefit one that I only wore on my t-zone, so I think it will move faster than that one for sure. 

Maybelline Instant Age Rewind Brightener. This has had steady progress on it this whole project. I won't be able to finish it, but I am happy that I got to use as much of this as I did. I won't be opening the one I got in the Fair shade until I finish this so that is some motivation to really get moving on this. Maybe I will try to highlight my face with this more. 

Rimmel Stay Matte Foundation. I put this on hold for a week when I was trying to get through that Urban Decay bb cream for another challenge, but I am sure that I will still be able to get through this by next month. Now that I have school again I will be wearing this more often. 

It Cosmetics Bye Bye Undereye. I have officially given up on this. I have a love hate relationship with this concealer. I feel like it was great when I was using a bb cream because it helped cover up what that couldn't, but with the Rimmel foundation it is just too thick for my personal preference. So I am setting this aside, there is still no visible progress but the packaging has gotten thinner if you know what I mean. Like it isn't so full of air and I can move the product around in there easier. I feel like that didn't make any sense but I can't explain it any other way. 

Benefit Watts Up highlighter stick. I made the tiniest progress with this and that is kind of disappointing. I am bummed because it took me until the final month and a half of the project to figure out a way to use this without looking like a discoball when it isn't appropriate for me to be wearing that much highlighter. There is also the fact that I just keep forgetting to use this. Hopefully I make a bigger dent in this over the next month.

Maybelline Color Tattoo in Barely Branded. I won't be finishing this in the next month, but I have been making good progress I think anyway. The red line shows what I used this time around. My new goal is to have less than a quarter of the product remaining and I will leave this project happy. 

Mary Kay lip gloss in au Naturel. I haven't used this at all. I am going to really try to finish it this month though because I know that I can if I put my mind to it.

Trestiqque mini matte lip crayon in Nantucket Nude. I am kind of disappointed in my progress with this. I feel like this should have been one of the easier products to use in this project because I use it to highlight the center of my lips with just about every lip color so you would think that it would be gone already. I don't knwo, but I am going to just keep on trying to get through it and we will just have to wait till the finale to find out whether or not I can accomplish it. 

Pacifica eye liner in Fringe. Didn't use this nearly as much as I could. I will be happy to move on to another eyeliner once this project is done because this really does nothing for me. Tightlining with it has been kind of pointless, but I am going to keep using it like that.  

Well there it is. I have a lot to get through in the next month. My goal is to finish 7 products total because that is half of the total amount and I will consider that a success. I really need to focus on these products over the next month and I will see some major progress I think so that even the products I am not going to finish I will have a good chunk of them used up. Any progress is good progress right?

Goals for the finale - finish: 

Revlon Honey
Trestique lip crayon
Smashbox primer
Rimmel foundation
Mary kay lip gloss

Project Pan Roulette Finale

Hello lovelies, I bring you all today the finale for my Project Pan Roulette. I decided to cut this short because I have other projects that I am more interested in and I felt like no matter how much I used these products, they just weren't going anywhere. I finished 3 products in total out of 12....not my most successful project. I am sure that if I hold off for another month I can finish a couple more products, but it really isn't worth it to keep these products interfering with all my others. 

First the products I finished up. Previously I hit pan on my NYC Sunny Bronzer and that completed my goal. Now I have finished 2 products completely. 

1. Salon Pro Brow Pencil in Taupe. I actually miss this now because I liked the consistency of the pencil much more than the one I am now. I have another one of these to use up though, so I am not too worried about that. I liked that this pencil had some warmth in it. I would repurchase this if I didn't have a million other brow products to get through already. 

2. ELF Mist and Set. This moved pretty consistently. I decided that I wouldn't repurchase again (even though I have in the past) because the spray isn't really a mist and if you don't hold it far enough from your face you can get droplets all over. It works alright in my opinion. If I was in a pinch and needed something cheap, I would grab it again I guess. 

Now onto all the products I didn't finish....

3. Jordana Easy liner for lips in Rock n Rose. I used more than half of this, but there is no way I would have been able to finish it by next month. It is a creamy pencil, but not as creamy as the Rimmel Exaggerate lip liners. It fills the lips in nicely, this color is easy to overdraw without it looking ridiculous, and it lasts a long time on the lips. I have a back up of this liner because I love the color and formula so much! 

4. NYC City Proof 24 hr. Eye Primer. I am not the biggest fan of this. I used a bit of it, but the progress you see is from me trying to smash it back into the packaging because it broke off. I prefer something that doesn't tug on my eyes as much though.

5. Kat Von D lipstick in Lovecraft. Comfortable formula and nice color. Wish I could have used this up, but it seems like no matter how much I use it it isn't going anywhere. 

6. Bare Minerals lipstick in Get Ready. This is the same as the Kat Von D lipstick. No matter how much I use it it isn't going anywhere. I need to pair this with another lipstick though because it is a little too pink for me.

7. Artistry Light Up Lip Gloss in Champagne. This is so close to being done but I will be happy to put it on the side for a little. I am not a fan of gloss so this was a challenge to work through, but I am happy that I got to actually put it to use and not just have it sitting in my collection anymore. 

8. NYC Smooth Skin loose powder. I could have had this done, but I opted to just keep it and not waste it. I enjoy using this to bake when I do really dramatic makeup, but since I don't do it that often there would be no sense in me finishing this and buying another one. I would repurchase if I had to though since it is so inexpensive. 

9. Urban Decay Naked Skin Beauty Balm. I tried so hard to have this done for this update, I think I am actually lower than where I marked it, but I couldn't figure it out. It is funny, I put this in this project under the category as "A product I regret purchasing" but now that I have found a way to use it and I like the finish of i, I don't regret it anymore. I won't be repurchasing because it is too expensive for what it is, but I have really started enjoying using this on a daily basis for something light on the skin.

10. Stila Stay All Day Concealer. I didn't use this at all. 

11. Wet n Wild Blush in Heather Silk. Really foolish of me to think that I would be able to hit pan on a blush as pigmented as this one. I still enjoy using it though and I have worn off the imprint a bit, so that is progress I guess. 

Even though I didn't finish all of these products, I am happy with the progress. A lot of these are items that I probably wouldn't have used otherwise. You can definitely look forward to some of these being in empties at some point this year.

Daily Post Jan. 9

What's the 11th item on your bucket list?

11. Become a vegetarian for a month.

I attempted this once....it didn't last a week. I think that is why I ended up adding this to the list, just to see if I could do it. In my defense, I attempted to become a vegetarian during summer and we barbeque just about every other day, so that probably wasn't a very smart idea. I think I might actually attempt this again soon.

Daily Post Jan. 7

What book did you read over and over as a child?

I loved reading Amelia Bedelia by Peggy Parish as a child. I still have my original copy on my book shelf now. The fact that she takes everything so literally makes me laugh so hard every time! This is a book that always puts a smile on my face when I read it. However, I did read it to my Early Literacy class, and I should have thought that through before picking the book because repeating Amelia Bedelia so many times....well it becomes a tongue twister after a while! If you haven't read this you are missing out on something really incredible!