35w palette

review: morphe brushes 35w eyeshadow palette

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Hello lovelies! Today I wanted to do a post on the Morphe Brushes 35w palette. It is currently not available on their website, but they should stock soon. I bought this last year in the fall, and I will admit, it's not fabulous, but there are many colors that give off great pigmentation. I have been told that their single eyeshadows perform better, but honestly, for someone who just enjoys makeup, it's not a bad palette to have! I have some photos to show you, but the eyeshadows don't have names, so I will do it by rows!



This palette is a mix of shimmery, satin and matte finishes. Some of the mattes are more chalky than the others, and some are creamy and very pigmented. 

First Row: 
As you can see, these are very light shades. (I changed up the way i took the photos next photo ha) Most of those are mattes, but some of them are very chalky. I use the first one as a browbone highlight. I don't often find myself reaching for this first row. 

Second Row: 
As you can see, the second row is still light with a random pink that i have never used, thrown in there. The third and forth I've used in a previous blog post, and I promise the orange doesn't look that chalky! I think it was because my finger was damp from that kleenex you can see in the photo to remove the shadows ;) 

Third Row: 

The first 4 I don't reach for. I used one as a blush once when I forgot my blush and it was fine, but obviously it's not a blush. The last three have really amazing pigmentation. The second from the top is more of a burgundy when on my eyelid, and the one below is very cooper-y! The top is a gunmetal gray and i have yet to use it!

Fourth Row: 


This row is my favorite. Most of the colors are similar at the beginning, but they are so buttery and soft, I love them all. This row is me in a palette.  I have the second color all over my lid today and it blended beautifully. The last two are so beautiful smoked out!

Fifth Row: 


THIS FIRST COLOR IS HOLY GRAIL STATUS. Morphe, if you could tell me what color this is in your single eyeshadows, please do because I want to buy 10 of these. 
This row has a few mattes which are great for deepening up the outer corner and crease! The second to last color, is a black with silver specks in it. The last one is a straight up black that I like to use along my lash line!  I used the third from the end color on my upper lash line today instead of eyeliner.
(Please excuse the laptop and the spotify playlist in the background hehe and yes that's a little bilbo cup topper peaking out behind my makeup brush holders)

Overall, I give this palette 8/10. I use it basically everyday, and I love using 2 colors on the second row as transition shades. 

I hope this was helpful for those of you who were looking into this! Happy Monday!

Toodle-doo!


bronzer

review: kat von d shade & light palette

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Happy Friday! I am so ready for the weekend, even though I work Sat, it's all okay! I had the afternoon off today, so I figured I would bust out a blog post that I've been meaning to do since I got this product.

I was given gift cards for Christmas and as a goodbye gift from my old coworkers to Sephora, so off I went to go lust after this palette. I had looked at it for a while, but I was originally going to get the Smashbox one, but the pricing was like 2$ off, so I didn't care.






For reference, my skintone is neutral and pale (nw15/20). I swatched all of the shades on the arm here for you to see. 

I love the pigmentation of this whole palette! I don't often use the far right two shades as I'm not that dark, but the "banana" shade in the middle, lyric, is one I place under my eyes to brighten that area so it doesn't look so dark. Sometimes I will use the first one instead, but usually the middle one. 

For contour/bronzer, I will always use subconscious into the hollows of my cheeks. If anyone needs help on contouring, just shoot me an email, but youtube is your friend in these situations. The basics is that you want to use a cool toned shade as it mocks the shadows your face would make, if you had prominent cheekbones, I use that along my forehead as well, and I also dust it under my jaw and my neck to balance things out, very lightly! Then I'll use a larger brush and use the shadowplay shade, which is much more of a warmer tone, to bronze. I like using this over my contour as it just blends things out nicely. 

It's one of the easiest steps in my routine, and the product blends so lovely on my skin. I love that the majority of this palette works with my paler skin. It makes me have hope that there are more pale friends out there ;)

QUICK TIP: If pressed for time, I will often run the first shade through the crease of my eye, and then use a bit of the darkest shade on my eye as well. Quick eyeshadow look done for running late days!

I hope you guys have a great weekend and I'll talk to you next week hopefully!

Toodle-doo!

2015 review

Morphe Brushes Review - first review of 2015!

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Hello everyone! Review for you today! I ordered off of MorpheBrushes about 2 months ago. I got a brush set, and also one of their pre-made eyeshadow palettes. (I can make that into another blog post if requested.)


I wanted to do a review on the brushes today, as I really enjoy using them in my everyday routine. The pictures I'm using aren't mine, only because my sd card has melted somehow (?? so silly) so I am unable to use that one and find my other one within mounds of boxes. I purchased the 11 Piece Pro Sable Set, and so far I have been enjoying it. 

I think my favorite is the Duo Foundation Brush, as it is DUO fiber, so it's very soft on my skin, and I like to use it as a blush brush because it applies my blush so nicely on my cheeks.  It is the second one in on the right. This set comes with 4 eyeshadow brushes, and I use all four of them for different things. The flat shader I use to apply my highlight on my brow bone. The little white tapered brush, i use to apply eyeshadow right under my bottom lash line, and the other two I use literally everyday. I use the small black blender for my transition shade (usually buck from the Naked palette), and the round blender I use to place a full lid color on. I love those last two brushes so much. They have been well used and loved. 

There are two liner brushes, and neither which I use, only because I don't use a gel liner on a daily basis, and I haven't gotten around to use the angled liner yet, but they feel very soft! 

The angled blush/contour is one I don't use daily, but I highly enjoy using to apply blush. It picks up the perfect amount of product for me. I haven't tried using it for contour yet! 

The two black bristle brushes I use for bronzer. The smaller one is called their bronzer brush, and I actually often use this to contour my cheeks just slightly. It's not too harsh, which is what I prefer. I then use the powder brush as an all over bronzer, which I find blends it all in so nicely. I do find I get slight shedding with these, but it's nothing too crazy. 

And the one I don't use is the pointed foundation brush, but I honestly love these for applying my face mask, and this brush is one of the softest brushes EVER. To me anyways. I love this brush, but I don't like to apply my foundation with these brushes too often, so these usually get used for face masks, which is great for me!

All in all, I have to say, these brushes are a great addition to any beginner. I would consider myself a little higher than a beginner, but I still enjoy using these very much. Morphe does a great job on their brushes and their brush lines. I will be purchasing from them again, as I can't wait to try some from their gun metal line.

Thanks for reading, and if you wanna see the review on the palette, let me know! Have a great weekend everyone!

Toodle-doo!   

beauty

review sunday: top 5 nail polishes

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Hello lovelies! I thought I would start a new series for Sunday; a top 5 favourites. This can range from nail polishes, like today, to makeup and to clothes. Even music and or book favourites. if you would like me to go deeper into certain products, let me know.

I'm not sure if I could really rate these polishes by favourites, but I will do my best to give you a short and sweet review.

These are my five.


1. Eternal Optimist by Essie: 
This color isn't coming off true to as it is on the nails, but this is one of my favourites ever. If you've ever seen Breakfast Club, or Pretty in Pink, it makes me feel like Molly Ringwald. It's that sort of princess sophisticated pink.

2. Vested Interest by Essie:
As you can probably already tell, I like my Essie polishes. This one is my favorite for the fall time. It's a perfect soft green that goes really nicely with any burgundy shirts and things. I love this one and I only got it last year. 

3. Stormy Night by Revlon
I don't know what it is about this one, but in some lights, it's a purple-y grey, and in some lights it's just plain grey. It's just a great fall color staple to have in your collection. I don't know if it is still sold at Revlon counters, as I got it nearly three years ago, and I'm almost out. 

4. Blanc by Essie
This baby is a new addition to my collection. It is a pure white nail polish to go with that 90's trend that is back. I remember back in high school, I was an avid Buffy the Vampire Slayer watcher, and I tried a white polish like Buffy had, and everyone assumed I had white out on my nails! Not now, I say! It is such a nice shade of white to help bring out the very small tan I have hidden under my extremely pale skin. 

5. Pocket Aces by Revlon
Looks more orange right now, but on the nails it's such a nice red-pink. I want to say it's like a strawberry red, but it's not quite. It's a red but leaning more on the pink-neon side. Some lights it looks very orange, but that's okay! It's one of Revlon's new gel envy polishes, and I quite like it! 



I just thought I would do a review today, and since I'm more into painting my nails lately, I figured it would be this. 

Let me know what you'd like to see next, and I hope you all have a great Sunday! 

Toodle-doo! 

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