DON'T waste your money!

I'm very disappointed in this product! Never before have I been so excited to try something and been let down so terribly....twice! Normally I love all things Maybelline for drugstore products and was too excited to see another mascara come out. I'm always on the look out for a good mascara that is gonna give me volume as well as length since I have puny little eyelashes. There was a lot of hype around this product especially for the things I wanted. I purchased one tube and somehow it got lost in the dark abyss of my backseat so I bought a second hoping that I would love it and have an extra when the first reappeared. At first I wasn't impressed but rarely am the first use so I gave it another shot and used it for about a week. It flaked, smeared, clumped and wore off incredibly fast, we're talkin record time here. I threw it in the corner somewhere hoping to never see it again. A few weeks go by and I decide to clean my car to find the original tube and magically it was just chillin in plain sight. Tried that one this morning and it's way worse than the first! I'm so disappointed and hope that the next maybelline product I purchase is way better because it breaks my heart to have to bash one of their products...let me know if you have a different experience with it!

more Benefit love...

benetint is a cheek stain and highbeam is a gorgeous highlighter.

Both of these products from benefit are two of my favorites. They're shown in the travel sizes because they were purchased as part of a kit. I've had them both for about six months now and use em a couple times a week. The best part about both of these is they are pigmented enough that you don't have to use a lot to get the desired effect.

I have naturally rosy cheeks, but sometimes like a little more color but don't want a powder. Having oily skin I find it difficult to work with a cream blush because it clogs my pores and ends up looking cakey. With benetint it goes on a little thicker than water but dries smooth without and oily residue. It's not meant to give you a ton of color but can be built up if you want a really dark flush. There is also PosieTint and it's more of a pinky tone.

Highbeam is an amazing highlighter that most people use only under their eyelids, but I've found a couple other uses. You can swipe it under your eyes for a quick brightener under your foundation or powder as well as across the top of the apples of your cheeks and down the center of your nose. It's not a glittery brightener, it just gives a nice sheen that will catch the light giving the illusion of fresh dewy skin.



upcoming blogs....

I'm currently working on a few series if you will. I've got a bunch of drugstore mascaras that I've bought over the last few weeks that I plan to review and my foundation routine that I will do as one big post and then individually review each product. It's taken me a while to get the products down that I like and reach for consistently. Keep an eye out for those to begin within the next few days!!!

My FAVORITE eye primer ever!!!!!

Benefit F.Y.Eye!

I love using the MAC paint pots as a base and sometimes as a primer, but only when I know that it's going to be a light day and my makeup won't have to work. However, on days that I go in to work as a Nursery manager, outside sweating all day....I HAVE to use a real primer. My skin is very oily and without a primer my eye shadow will consistently crease no matter how good of quality the shadows are.  Eye primers absorb any oil on the eyelids and helps control oil so that eyeshadow doesn't crease and lose it's intensity.  I've tried TwoFaced Shadow Insurance and Urban Decay Primer Potion (UDPP) and they were both ok....but F.Y.Eye works best for me. It matches my skin tone and goes on incredibly light weight so it doesn't feel like I have layers of makeup on my eyelids. There's absolutely no shimmer or sheen like UDPP in Sin so F.Y.Eye won't change the way any eyeshadows are supposed to look. Each person will be different and most people RAVE about UDPP and swear by it and a few others say the same about TwoFaced.

The bad news is....Benefit discontinued this eye primer. The good news is....they replaced it with a similar product called Stay, Don't stray that is supposed to be the same formula. The even better news is the packaging is a pump vs. the pot which makes it easier to use if you have fingernails!!!!! Stay, Don't Stray retails for $24 at sephora....

Smashbox primer

Photo Finish Primer (retails at sephora for $32-$49 depending on size)

I was a little skeptical of this product in the beginning because of the consistency since I have oily skin. It can feel very thick when going on and since I'm acne prone I was afraid it was gonna make me break out! I got this little travel size and tried it out and fell in love. It's a silicone based product and fills in any imperfections from acne scars, large pores, wrinkles and some scars. I let a co-worker try it out because she was very self conscious about her acne scars and could find anything to help. I put the primer on her face and put foundation over it to show her how it worked and when she saw herself she was amazed at what it did. with the primer on, she had no scars and the smooth skin she had been missing for so long. I won't recommend using this if you're going to be out in the sun or sweating a lot because those are the times I have noticed breakouts. There are also colored ones to correct discoloration as well as fill in. There are other primers out there that aren't silicone based if the texture does bother you...Sephora has one that feels more like a lotion as well as Bare Escentuals. In my opinion the silicone based fills better for deeper imperfections but the other two are better for daily use.

(retails for $15 but varies depending on size)

(retails for $21 both at sephora or directly from Bare Escentuals)

color correctors...same pricing as clear one.