Holiday FOTD | Classic Red Lips

I'm on a roll with all these Holiday makeup looks and FOTDs! Wooo!

So if you read my last post on the Zoya Mystery bag, then you know I recieved a red lipstick from them. I was excited because red lips are way out of my comfort zone, but I wanted to play around with this lipstick for Christmas! To pair with the red lips, I went for a gold/bronze smokey eye. 

Face products 

Covergirl Ready Set Gorgeous foundation, Mac Pro Longwear concealer, Rimmel stay Matte powder, Nars Laguna bronzer, Hourglass Ambient Lighting Palette, Benefit Rockateur blush, Zoya red matte velvet lipstick, j cats lips paint over top of the red. 

Eye Makeup

I used the Maybelline Nudes Palette, and the Cailyn Eye paint I got in my Ipsy bag for my shadow. Loreal Lineur intense and Loreal Silkissime pencil liner. Tarte Lights Camera Lashes for my mascara. 

I hope you all enjoyed this holiday makeup look! This might be the last one I do since christmas is in a week!! 

What makeup look will you be wearing for the Holidays?

Drugstore FOTD Featuring Maybelline 'The Nudes' Palette!!

Hello everyone! I've been meaning to do a drugstore FOTD post for a while! I feel like I've been using a ton of great drugstore products lately, and this is a great way to share them here on my blog. The only two things I did not use from the drugstore are my primers, and eye brow products and that is because I don't own any of those that I like! Other than that, everyone I from the drugstore! 

Let's get started! 

For my Face 

-For my foundation I used the Nyx Invinsible Fullest Coverage Foundation. I was testing this foundation out at the moment, and will do a review soon! 

-For concealer I used the Covergirl Ready Set Gorgeous concealer. 

-For setting powder I used the Rimmel Stay Matte. 

-For my blush I used the Physicians Formula pH Matchmaker blush in Natural. 

-My bronzer is Nyc Bronzer in Sunny. 

-I used the bronzer from the Elf Ariek collection for my highlight. 

For my lips 

I used Nyx butter lipstick in the color Pops Explosif and Nyx butter gloss in the color Madeleine. 

For my Eyes

For this eye look I used the new Maybelline The Nudes Palette. I did a review on this in one of my last posts, so check that out! 

-I used the second to last shade on the top row and blended it all over my lid and crease. I used the last shade in the top row directly in my crease and blended it a little into the outter corner. I also used this shade on my lower lash line. I used the second to last shade on the bottom row (light champagne color) all over my lid. 

-I finished off the look with my usual L'Oreal liquid and pencil liners, and the Miss Managa Mascara!

I hope you all enjoyed this post and thank you for reading! 

Maybelline 'The Nudes Palette' Review

Hello!! A month or so ago I heard that Maybelline was coming out with a new Palette called 'The Nudes'. I knew right away I wanted this palette for a few reasons.  #1. I'm a sucker for neutral palettes, #2. I've never tried any Maybelline eyeshadows before, but always wanted to because they are quite raved about for a drugstore eye shadow, and #3. I haven't really seen Maybelline come out with a palette other than the quads and trios they have. So naturally I was really curious and drawn to this palette.

I actually found mine at a local target, which was weird to me because the target by my house rarely gets newer makeup in right away. I have also heard this can be found at Walgreens if you are interested.  

The packaging is pretty sleek and small, great for traveling. This is super affordable at $9.99. 

Top picture taken without flash, bottom taken with flash. 

This palette has a range of 12 beautiful colors, both matte and shimmer (5 matte,  7 shimmer). This has both cool and warm tones, and the browns are more on the taupe side which I absolutely love. 

Here are all the swatches. The first 6 being the top row, and the last 6 are the bottom. These are swatched with no primer underneath. 

My thoughts-

-First I want to say that the color pay off for these is much better on the eyes than they are swatched. When I swatched them they seemed kind of chalky and not as pigmented as I hoped. So my first initial reaction was a little disappointed, but when I put them on my eyes I totally changed my mind. 

-Since I never tired any maybelline shadows before, and since they are really talked about in the beauty community, I kind of had high expectations for this palettes. I don't think my expectations were totally met, but I wasn't totally disappointed either. 

-I think this is a really great palette for the drugstore. The pigmentation isn't the greatest, but it isn't bad. It's certainly not a Naked or Lorac Pro Palette, but I'm still really enjoying it! It's definitely one of the better drugstore palettes that I have tried!

-The shadows look really pretty on the eyes and I'm super happy with the looks that I have been doing. I especially love all of the matte brown colors. The are so great for transition and blending shades. I have been using this a ton since I bought it. 

This is a palette that I think is worth checking out if you can find it! I will be doing a look with this palette in a drugstore FOTD post very soon!

Have you tried out this new Maybelline Palette? If so leave your thoughts on it in the comments!

Makeup Haul #15- Self Tanners, Drugstore Makeup, and too much Lipstick

Hello! Yes I realize that I just did a haul post not too long ago, but I'm guilty of being bad again. I'm seriously going to try not to buy any more makeup for the rest of this month! 

Let's start off with things from the Drugstore 

From Ulta I picked up the Nyx Invincible fullest coverage foundation. I have never tired any Nyx foundations before so I thought I would give this one a go (Review coming soon!) The second item is the new The Nudes Palette by Maybelline. I was so so so excited about this! I first heard about it a while ago and I've been searching for it! I found this one at Target! Also, a review on this soon! 

The next items are ones from Walgreens. I picked up two products from Jordana, which is a brand that I've heard about but never tried before. The first one is an eyeshadow stick and the second is a super gorgeous turquoise liner. The next item is a single eyeshadow from wet n wild. Unfortunately I ripped off the label so I don't know what color this is in. 

I picked up quite a few lip products. The first is a Nyx Butter Lipstick in the color Pops Explosif, and next to it is a Nyx Butter Gloss in the color Madeleine. These two pair really well together! The next is a Jordana lip crayon in the color Nude Chic. This is pretty sheer but it does give a nice light berry color, and it smells amazing! The last one is one of the new Crystal Baby Lips. These don't have a name on them, but this is also a sheer wash of color that has shimmer in it. 

High End And Self Tanners

 First I picked up the Lorac Self TANalizer gradual tan and body bronzer. After using a delux size of this, I knew I wanted to splurge and pick up the full size. 

Sorry this picture is crappy but this is the Victoria Secrets Self Tan tinted lotion. This is one that I've heard really get things about and it was on sale for $10! 

Next is two lipsticks. One from Tarte, and one from Bite Beauty. I've always wants to try the bite Besuty lipsticks and this one is a two sided lipstick that was at Sephora for $12. It was in the section where all the delux sizes are by the checkout. Pretty good deal! And obviously these Tarte Lipsticks have super cute packaging! 

The first swatch is of the Tarte lipstick in the color Plummy Rose. The next two are from the Bite Beauty lipstick. The first swatch is in thr color Lychee and the second and darker one is Musk. 

So I realized that basically all of these lipsticks I got are like the same color/shade. LOL fail. But it's ok because that's that color I like to wear the most! 

This concludes my haul post! I hope you all enjoyed and thanks for reading!