Small Sephora & Bath & Body Works Haul

I decided to stop into one of my local Sephoras today just to look around and i saw that they had the urban decay sustainable palette and I've been wanting it for a little while now and finally decided to buy it, I also bought a small too faced pink leopard bronzing powder. After i looked around at Sephora i decided to run down to Bath & Body Works because i had a coupon where you could spend $10.00 and get a signature item free so i bought Hawaii coconut body spray and got orange sapphire body spray for free. Not only did i do that but i picked up two travel sized lotions in the newest scents, it's called the coconuts and i bought coconut mango and coconut pineapple, they also had a coconut passionfruit but i never have been into the passionfruit smell so i didn't purchase it. It's just a small haul for now but I've very happy with the items I've purchased and I plan on doing reviews soon!

Urban Decay Show Pony Shadow Box

Urban Decay Show Pony Shadow Box

Purchased From: Sephora

Price I Paid: $16.00

Grade: A+

Colors left to right starting on top: Snatch, Mildew, Flash, Painkiller, Smog, Toasted, 24/7 Eye Pencil in Zero

My Opinion: This is a item I've been wanting for awhile now, which this item is also known as the Urban Decay Preen palette. For all of the Preen lovers out there, this shadow box has all of the exact same colors as the Preen palette. I tried to order this item though Ulta, when they had the Preen palette, and they would ALWAYS leave the Preen palette out of my order so after getting fed up with Ulta over them always leaving my most wanted item(s) out of my orders I went to Sephora and saw this wonderful little palette and put it in my cart right away along with a few other items, and received this in the mail four days later. After buying the naked palette I've been obsessed with Urban Decay palettes and after buying this I'm now even more obsessed, if that's possible. This palette comes with 6 eyeshadows, 1 24/7 eye pencil and 1 travel size original primer potion, each and every eyeshadow is stunning all of the shadows have a nice shimmer some have glitter. If you don't like shimmery/glittery eyeshadow this product probably is not for you, however personally I LOVE shimmery and glittery eyeshadows. Just like with all Urban Decay products the quality is outstanding, the colors are all very pigmented, and not at all powdery, and caused me no eye irritation. I really have nothing bad to say about this product for the price it's a STEAL! Highly recommend buying if you don't already have this shadow box, you wont regret it!

Sephora Haul

Since Sephora had a couple of things I've been wanting, and seeing as how my last Sephora haul was this past Christmas i decided to place a small order. I've always loved Sephora and always been very pleased with the service I have received there and this time is no different. Sephora sent me all of the items I ordered, and I received my order within four days of placing my order which to me was outstanding, with other places it's taken me anywhere from 7-10 days or longer to get my purchases.

Haul includes:

Urban Decay Show Pony Shadow Box

Stila Artist Inspiration Palette

Stila Stunning in Sayulita Collectible Beach Palette No. 1

Stila Fabulous in Fiji

Free Deluxe Sample Too Faced Primed & Poreless

Free Sample Lola by Marc Jacobs

Free Sample Ole Henriksen Sheer Transformation

Free Sample Eshu face scrub

NYX Ultra Pearl

Purchased from: CherryCulture

Ingredients: Mica, Iron Oxides, Titanium Dioxide

Price I paid: $1.99 each

Grade: A-

My Opinion: These little bottles pack a huge punch of pigmentation, these are probably one of the most pigmented eyeshadow products I've ever used. If you buy these I can't stress enough that a little goes a long way. All of these are also very shimmery but not glittery which I love. For $1.99 this product is a steal, I love these little bottles so much. They may not seem very big but you will probably have each bottle a long time because it only takes a very tiny amount to do your whole eye. These have excellent staying power, I used each of these without a primer and let me tell you they last, and last. Also these do not bother my eyes at all, I've worn these several times and never had any sort of problems out of them, and they have no smell so if you are sensitive to that these wont be a bother to you. I only really have one complaint, seeing as how these are loose power these can be messy to apply and use, but considering how much i love these I'm willing to overlook that part and do a little work to remove any sort of fallout or mess that may occur. These also do not have to be used as eyeshadow, these can be used anywhere you want a touch of color and shimmer. I highly recommend buying at least a few of these, at the price you can't beat it.Again this is a product that i prefer to buy from Cherryculture due to the price but you can also pick these up at Ulta but they will be a little more expensive there.

NYX Round Lipstick

Purchased from: CherryCulture

Price I paid: $2.50

Grade: A-

My Opinion: I absolutely love these lipsticks I really don't have many complaints with these lipsticks. These are very creamy, moisturizing, and all these shades are shimmery which I love. I like that these have the lipstick colors in the bottom, so you can always see what color you are picking up without even removing the cap. With these lipsticks what you see as far as color goes is what you get, and I also love the fact that NYX has a ton of color selection to choose from with these. To me for $2.50 these lipsticks was defiantly worth the buy, another thing that I like about these lipsticks is that even though they are a cheap lipstick they do not feel like one, when i put these on I feel as if I've just put on one of my more expensive lipsticks. These do have a bit of a smell to me, they smell a little like suntan lotion or maybe a little like soap, but the scent is very soft and pleasant and I really don't mind it at all, in fact i kind of like it. Even though I do think these are wonderful lipsticks I do have one complaint. I do not like the fact that the color labels are on the lids because if you have the lids off of 2 or more at a time and do not pay attention you can easily get the caps mixed up and forget what color is what if you have several shades that are almost similar. Which is exactly what has happened to me when I did this review. i started taking the caps off and wasn't thinking and now I have 3 of the colors mixed up and now I'm not sure what color is what. I'm so used to lipstick shade colors being on the bottom that when I took the caps off I didn't think to pay attention to the caps, and set them to the side. so now the only colors of these five that i know for sure is Darling and Jupiter, the other three are totally mixed up, which is why i didn't label all of the colors in the photo. Other that that I'm very happy with these lipsticks and in the future I'm sure I will be buying more. If you want to try these for yourself you can pick some up anywhere NYX products are sold or you can do like me, you can buy from CherryCulture since they have the best deals on NYX products.

Makeup Storage and Makeup Table - Updated

There is a whole new updated post on my blog at this link if you are curious about what my makeup table, storage and collection looks like currently.
http://glamorous-addiction.blogspot.com/2012/01/makeup-table-storage-and-collection.html

Well after trying to go with a pink and black theme for my makeup area, that did not work out. Seeing as how our overall theme is beachy, classy, blues, greens, brown, tan, and gold....pink and black for my makeup area wasn't getting it at all! Plus to me after I started working with it, the pink theme didn't feel very grown up to me, even though I love pink i hate to say it but I've grown past it. So after contemplating taking my makeup storage area back, since it was the awful pink and black color, my husband came up with the idea of painting it for me, so finally i agreed to let him paint the drawers (and now that I've seen it painted I've been thinking about painting the outside shell of it brown). So my husband took me to several local stores and let me pick whatever theme color and things that i wanted for my makeup area, and i decided to go with Tiffany blue, which blends wonderfully with our overall theme and looks a heck of a lot better than what it looked like when i first started my makeup area project. My husband reluctantly gave in and did let me purchase a few acrylic organizers which turned out nicely, which he cringed at the plastic but given that it was just 2 tiny pieces, has learned to live with it. I'm still not finished with my makeup table seeing as how I need a mirror or two, a bench / stool, maybe some brown paint and some various other little odds and ends that I have planned however I would say my makeup storage, beauty bookcase, and makeup table are 75% done.

what my makeup storage area looked like before (I did not paint it pink and black when we bought it, it only came in pink and black)

Painting Day!

After!

My makeup table with a new theme

DIY Nail Polish Rack

I've been wanting a nail polish rack for sometime now, and thought i wanted an acrylic nail polish rack, however my husband pretty much talked me out of the acrylic and talked me into getting something wood, which would look nicer. Well after looking for what seems like forever we found out they do not make nice nail polish racks, we couldn't even find an acrylic one form a reputable store. So I looked around some more and stumbled upon this, which my husband stained for me, and you know what? I LOVE IT, who needs an acrylic nail polish rack when you can make your own!

Color Before Staining

My Makeup Storage & Stash

When i bought my makeup table i thought i knew exactly what i wanted as far as makeup storage and the overall look would go, I was wrong. I thought I'd get those muji containers and call it a day, however my husband wouldn't let me bring anything plastic in the house, he wanted me to get something nicer and preferably cherry wood drawers like the muji drawers. Well that's what i wanted as well, which i did look for long before i bought my makeup table and i knew no such thing existed, at least not that i could find, because honestly i wasn't keen on plastic either. Well my husband went on a quest to find me better makeup storage. Well he finally realized they don't make cherry wood drawers like the Muji containers however we did find one gem, it's not cherry wood, but it is wooden, and very good quality, very heavy, and way bigger than i had planned.

While at first i had my reservations about it, i thought i could sit it under my makeup table so we went ahead and bought it, however when we bought it home it was too big by a drawer to fit under it, and too top heavy to sit on my makeup table so we had to find it a new home in the floor. Now i really like it and i'm glad i bought it. I do plan on changing the colors of it one day to more suitable colors but for now it works. Plus after getting all of my makeup in it i realized the size was perfect and my collection has a lot more room to grow now, and i also realized my makeup never would have fit in two muji containers. As for what i plan to do with my makeup table now, well i kind of have three "beauty" areas now, my makeup table, makeup storage, and beauty bookcase. The makeup table i plan to decorate  nicely, and use it to set some things on, get a nice mirror, and chair/stool, and probably place wooden storage baskets along the bottom of it. I cleaned out my beauty bookcase yesterday and threw away 99% of all my ELF cosmetics eye makeup (since it caused me eye problems) i kept two liquid liners because i thought i could use them for other things one day. I also straightened up my beauty bookcase so now it don't look cluttered. Overall so far i'm very happy with the way my "makeup storage project" is going.

NYX Haul From CherryCulture

My NYX haul came in a much smaller than expected box!

After hearing A LOT of things about NYX I decided to give it a try and decided to order from cherryculture which that was also a first for me. After looking around at all of the different products NYX has I found several things I wanted to try, in fact I went a little crazy as you can see, mostly with lipgloss / lipstick. With the gloss I got a variety of different colors. I have to admit i LOVE pink gloss but i also decided to pick up some nude shades which i don't have very many of at all. With the pearl eyeshadows, i owned two before i purchased and i loved both of those so much i decided to buy several more. I also got 3 blushes two powder and one cream, before this cream blush i had never owned a cream blush, so i can't wait to try that out. The positive things i noticed is that all my order was there, and was correct, and they packaged it very well, plus the shipping time was reasonable. I'm very excited to swatch and try all of my new NYX products, be on the look out for a lot of new reviews!

NYX Round Lipgloss Strawberry

NYX Round Lipgloss Peach

NYX Round Lipgloss Queen Of Africa

NYX Round Lipgloss Baby Pink

NYX Round Lipgloss Apricot

NYX Round Lipgloss Natural

NYX Round Lipgloss Pinky Natural

NYX Round Lipgloss Whipped

NYX Round Lipgloss Sorbet

NYX Round Lipgloss Red Tint

NYX Round Lipgloss Soap Opera Queen

NYX Round Lipgloss 24K

NYX Round Lipgloss Honey

NYX Round Lipgloss Ballerina Pink

NYX Round Lipgloss Pink

NYX Round Lipgloss Sparkle

NYX Round Lipgloss Doll Pink

NYX Mega Shine Lipgloss Pink Frost

NYX Mega Shine Lipgloss Golden Pink

NYX Powder Blush Peach

NYX Powder Blush Pinched

NYX Rouge Cream Blush Glow

NYX Ultra Pearl Mania Lime

NYX Ultra Pearl Mania Purple

NYX Ultra Pearl Mania Sky Pink

NYX Ultra Pearl Mania Mink

NYX Ultra Pearl Mania Mocha

NYX Ultra Pearl Mania Oro

NYX Ultra Pearl Mania True Purple

NYX Diamond Sparkle Lipstick Sparkling Dusty Rose

NYX Diamond Sparkle Lipstick Sparkling Salmon

NYX Round Lipstick Margarita

NYX Round Lipstick Jupiter

NYX Round Lipstick Vitamin

NYX Round Lipstick Indian Pink

FREE Cherry Culture BubbleGum Lip Balm

ELF Plumping Lip Glaze

I bought these mainly just to try them out because i was curious. Oasis is the top color which is kind of a shimmery rose pinkish color, and fuchsia which is a hot sparkling pink is on the bottom. I must say the colors are very beautiful, and i do like using the colored gloss side, which to me smells a little like berries. However the lip plumper, i can not bring myself to use, the smell makes me sick. To me the plumping gloss smells exactly like vicks save, which if you have never used vicks it's really menthol and it's stuff you are supposed to put on your chest when you have a cold and breathe it in to open up your sinuses. I never could stand the smell of vicks and i sure can not stand the smell of the plumping side of this gloss so I have never used it to know if it actually plumps your lips, however if you have a cold and want to use this pumping side as a gloss i guess the bonus part is it might help your sinuses out lol The size of each end of the gloss is a little over a inch, the whole product is 4 inches maybe a little smaller. To me it was worth the dollar because as i said i do love the colored gloss end and do use it a lot, even though i don't use the plumper i do plan to buy more of these simply just to use the colored sides. Other than the bad smell of the plumper i don't really have anything bad to say about the product. If you want to try one of these for yourself it's only a $1 and you can buy at eyeslipsface.com or any place that sells elf cosmetics such as Kmart.