Tuesday, July 27, 2010

Beauties Factory Haul & Swatches

So last week on Wednesday I received my order from Bf-beauty.com. Not too long ago I heard about them from lady @ Glitter is my Crack... .  At $1.50 for a pan the size of MUFE eye shadows, I thought why not give these a try and if they suck, then it's not something I'd cry over.  I picked up 10 colors to try out, but I was really curious about their matte shadows since good quality matte e/s are hard to come by. I also ordered a 20 pan empty palette and some false lashes as well cause u can never have too many false lashes! I was impressed with the shipping since I placed my order on a Thursday night and got an email Friday morning saying that they already shipped it. I just did the standard airmail shipping which they stated on their website takes about 5-14 working days but I got it in 4 business days so that made me happy.  They also included a lil freebie, some faux nails which I probably won't use but it was a nice gesture anyways.


First impressions of the shadows: These shadows are a hit or miss. Now I can't speak for all of the shades since there are a TON of colors to choose from but I was a bit disappointed with some of the matte ones that I received as they were not as pigmented and a bit chalky.  The first 2 pics were swatched on bare skin, no base at all. On the 3rd picture, they were swatched on top of MAC PRO Pure White Chromaline, & 4th pic swatches were made on top of MUFE Aqua Cream #4 Snow.  Click the pictures to enlarge...
I'm gonna play around with these and see how well they apply and stay on my lids. So when I do get some good use out of these, I will do a review.

I'm also excited because less then 2 weeks ago, I was contacted by Selina from Cellnique to try out some products from their line for a review and I received them today! I got 2 things which were the Skin Action Sebum Gel & the Advanced Bio renewal Masque.


I'm going to test these out for at least a month before giving it a thorough review so be on the look out for that! Till next time lovelies!

EDIT 7/27/10 @ 3:00pm- I forgot to list the prices of some of the stuff....
If you register for an account on BF-Beauty.com the prices of their stuff are slightly cheaper than if you don't. It's free so you might as well sign up!

For example the eye shadow pans are $1.50 but if you register for an account it's $1.45. Also the empty 20 palette is originally $8.99 but it cost me only $8.72. When you register, you get 20 points which is worth $1.00 that you can use towards your order and everytime you order you get points as well to use for the next purchase. Also what I need to mention is that shipping was DIRT CHEAP. My order came to about $30.00 just for the items without redeeming the points yet and shipping was only $1.20.

They also sell pre-made palettes, brushes, hella lashes which are cheap too, and many more things. Check them out and if you guys do, I'd love to see what you hauled!

Saturday, July 17, 2010

GIVEAWAY WINNER

Hey everyone! I know I'm late in announcing the winner. I didn't realize it was gonna take me that long to check if everyone was a follower and see if they followed all the rules to add them to the list. I had 173 comments turned in and I checked each and every one of them but only 159 were valid due to the fact that some people weren't a follower of my blog, some didn't even have a blog and some of their blogs were pretty much just full of giveaways. So without further adieu, the winner is:

Khristine from RandomnesswithKhris


I'll be sending you an email soon and you'll have 24hrs to contact me back! Thank you to everyone who entered and to all my new followers! If I haven't checked out and followed your blog yet, please leave me a comment to let me know so that I can. 

Saturday, July 10, 2010

Birthday gig; Kim Kardashian inspired

So last night I did makeup for a client whom I've known since elementary school. Erika contacted me and asked if I could do her makeup for her 25th birthday and I said YES of course! I asked her if she had anything in mind for what kind of look she wanted or to just bring a picture so that I could work off that and she linked me to these 2 pictures of the gorgeous Kim Kardashian. 




The looks are similar as far as the face and lips goes but she wanted a mix with the sharp angle of the shadow lifting and the smoked out bottom lashes but didn't want it too dark.  Here's the look I did for her. Simple right? I wish I took a before picture cause I always like to see the transformation.  Hope you guys like it!


Products used:
Face:
SmashBox Photo Finish Primer
MUFE HD foundation
MUFE  5 camouflage Cream Palette 
MAC PRO Invisible set powder
N.Y.C. Sunny Bronzer
La Femme Blush in Peach Sparkle
MAC Accentuate Sculpt duo
Eyes:
TFSI
L'oreal HIP Crayon in Perfectionist
NYX Black (Lid/Lower lash line)
MAC Satin Taupe(Lid/Crease)
MAC Wedge(Crease)
MAC Ricepaper (Highlight)
MAC Shroom(Inner Corner/lower lash line)
MAC Blacktrack Fluidline
Miss Adoro Lashes #43
Lips:
NYX Smokey Look Mega Shine l/g

GIVEAWAY OFFICIALLY CLOSED

My giveaway is now closed. Thank you to everyone who entered and welcome to all my new followers!
Please be patient with me as I tally up the total along with the extra entries. I should have the winner announced by mid next week at the latest! Hope you all have a great weekend!

Thursday, July 8, 2010

My 100+ followers giveaway ending soon

Hey lovelies! Just reminding you all that my giveaway will be ending in about 26 hours from now @ 11:59 tomorrow night. Click here if you haven't entered yet. Good luck everyone!

Also, I will be posting up more close ups of my haul from IMATS along with the pricing soon. I haven't gotten a chance to do any postings cause I was gone for a week for my husbands family reunion and it has left me feeling a bit jet lagged.
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