Top 14 of 2014! Makeup Favorites

Hello beautiful people!

 I didn't do a monthly favorites post for December because I wanted to do a post that included my favorites for the entire year. I picked some of the things that I purchased in 2014 that were my favorites and that I used the most. This post is going up a little bit later than I wanted it to, and thats mainly because I used my new camera I got for Christmas to take the photos, and I'm super lazy when it comes to actually blogging from my computer (I'm so lazy that I take the photos and blog from my phone >.<). Also, I know that pretty much every blogger and youtuber has done posts and videos on this already, so sorry if you are tired of seeing the 'best of beauty' posts lol!

Top 14 of 2014

My two favorite foundations that I purchased this year are the Estee Lauder Double Wear foundation, and the Covergirl Ready set Gorgeous Foundation. I love both of these a lot, and I really recommend checking out both of them if you are in need of a new foundation! The Covergirl one is definitely my most used one out of all the foundations that I own. 

Two of my other favorites this year came from Hourglass. The Ambient Lighting Palette and the Ambient Lighting Blush in Mood Exposure are two of my most used makeup items. I use the palette everyday and the blush is one of my favorites that I own. Silly me forgot to take a picture of them other than the packaging. Lol fail. 

The next two come from Nars. You all know I'm a huge fan of their cheek products! The first one is the Nars Laguna Bronzer. This is my all time favorite bronzer. I just purchased the full size a month or so ago because I used up the one I had that came with the blush duo. The next item is the Nars Almeria blush. I'm so obsessed with this blush its not even funny. It's such a unique color and I can't get enough of it.

These are my four favorite palettes I purchased this year. The first one is the UD Naked2 Basics palette. It's a great neutral palette for everyday wear. I used this one almost everyday and it's great if you are a fan of the Naked eyeshadow line like I am. 

Next is the Makeup Forever Artist shadows. These are the ones that you choose which colors go into your empty palette. These are super nice and really great quality!

The Too Faced Cat Eyes palette was another favorite of mine this year. The colors in it are gorgeous and I'm seriously in love with the Cheetah print packaging. 

Last for eyeshadows is the Maybelline The Nudes Palette. This is by far the best drugstore eyeshadow that I own. I love this palette so much and its another one I used on an everyday basis!

My two favorite and most used lipsticks are Mac Faux (left) and Mac Viva Glam 2 (right). They look similar here but Faux is more pink toned, and Viva Glam 2 is more brown/nude.

My favorite scent was Gucci Guilty. This stuff smells like heaven! If you haven't smelled this before, please go do so! It's amazing!

The last for my favorites this year is my set of Sigma Brushes. I believe I bought these last March. It was a set of 7 brushes on promotion for Jaclyn Hill on YouTube. I'm very sorry these are gross and dirty, but I use these everyday and they are amazing. I did have my F80 fall apart on me and Sigma was kind enough to send me a new one! 

This concluded my favorite post for 2014!! Thank you all for reading!

What are some of your favorites for 2014? Let me know in the comments!

Sephora VIB Sale Haul

Hello!!  Today I'm going to share what I picked up during the Sephora VIB sale! I think I missed out on this sale last year, so I was pretty excited for this one! I  picked up a lot of things that I normally wouldn't have spent money but did since everything was 20% off. I was also hoping to make Rouge status during this sale, but I sill have about 115 more points to go! 

This is the bag they gave everyone who shopped at the sale. I don't know if this was online also or only in stores. I was pretty excited because it's so cute haha! 

This one is just a repurchase for me. I'm almost out of mine so I thought I would get one while I had a coupon. 

This is the Hourglass Mineral Veil Primer. I have been wanting a new primer because my skin has been acting up lately and I'm not sure if it was the primer I was using. I've heard so many great things about this primer, and when I was in Sephora I told the lady who was helping me about my skin issue that I mentioned above and she immediately directed me to this one. I'm really excited to try it out!

This is the Houglass Ambiant Lighting Palette. This is something I've wanted for a long time but just never thought I would get. I knew right away it was going to get with the coupon!

This blush is from the Nars holiday collection and in the color Almeria. This looks more red in the picture than in person. I'll do a review on this with swatches later so you can see the color better. This was discribed as a 'tan rose'.  One of the ladies who was helping me put this on my cheeks and I fell in love! Which also leads to my next purchase below haha. 

And this is the Nars Yachiyo brush. This was a splurge for sure but after seeing it in action in the store I had to have it lol. The lady using it on me said this brush is great for contour, blush, and highlighting. 

This is the Gucci Guilty perfume. I had total intention of getting the Lavanilla Pure Vanilla perfume but I got a sample pad of this in a sephora catalog, and I heard someone on YouTube talking about this so I just smelled it out and put it on out of curiosity. I knew I wanted this one instead because it smells so freaking good! I put in on in the store today around noon and the scent lasted all day! I'm talking until 8:30 pm when I washed it off. Talk about long lasting!

If any of you have tried this products before let me know what you think of them!! 

Did you pick up anything from the Sephora VIB sale?? If so let me know what you got in the comments!