Beauty Purchases 8/19/21
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8/24/21

Bought several things ths week.  At the grocery store I bought:

 

Gold Bond Ultimate Radiance body lotion - comes in a pump bottle but is thick almost like a body butter.  It is my go-to body lotion.

 

Maybelline cream eyeshadow in white - I'll use just above my eyeliner, not like the white eyeliner that is popular with the younger set, but more like a highligher.  I hve been using a powder, but the cream won't drop bits of eyeshadow onto my eyeliner. 

 

Tonight, I did some shopping on the Too Faced site.  Topcashback has 12% cash back on the site.

 

Lip Injection Liquid Lipstick in color Filler Up

 

Pretty Rich Diamond Light Eye Shadow Palette

That's the 3rd eyeshadow palette in the last couple of months, so I shouldn't need any more for a long time.  16 colors $49 on sale for $20.  

 

Crystal Whips Shimmering Liquid Eye Shadow in shade Totally Whipped

$22 on sale for $9.  I went back and got this since it put me over the limit for free shipping.  I had considered it earlier, so at least I wasn't just buying something I didn't really want to get the free shipping.

 

Also received notice that my AD Skinn Pep-40 face cream and serum was shipping.  Ouch $$.

 

 

 

Honored Contributor
8/25/21

@Katcat1 

 

I don't know where you live, but where I live it's August.  NOTHING flies by in August.  I've been wondering if it's almost Sept since around Aug 7th Smiley Surprised

 

Kayali #28 (sold out at S)

HUDA BEAUTY - KAYALI VANILLA | 28 1.7oz/50mL

CP Sonic Bloom

ColourPop Sonic Bloom Eyeshadow Palette | Ulta Beauty

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Honored Contributor
8/25/21

@Icegoddess 

 

Please let me know what you think of this palette's quality.  Not if you like the colors or not, that's subjective.  But the quality, consistency, texture, pay-off of the product.  I bought it over a year ago on eBay from a highly rated seller with lots of sales.  I can't think of any e/s palette I've bought that was so unusable!  Hard, crumbly, chalky, glitter that just fell off in chunks, patchy at best.  I'm very familiar with Too Faced and have a lot of their products but this was like it had every bit of it's moisture sucked out of it.  I got my money back but it wasn't easy.  I might have had to get eBay involved.  Bought it in Nov 2020.  Seems like a lot longer than that.  Seller has 99.8% positive rating w/ nearly 4000 sales.  One of those exceptions to the rule Smiley Sad

Honored Contributor
8/25/21

@Icegoddess 

 

I LOVE that Crystal Whips Shimmering Liquid Eye Shadow in shade Totally Whipped!  And the price is too tempting.  If I can find a code for free shipping, I'm grabbing it.  Wish me luck...I need a new eyeshadow Smiley Wink  Wonder if my lip glosses are on sale Smiley Happy  They ARE!  The $22 Rich and Dazzling lip glosses are also $9.  Thank you thank you thank you!

Honored Contributor
8/25/21

@Icegoddess 

 

I have all buy one of these Rich and Dazzling lip glosses.  Bought them when they were 1/2 off and a couple on eBay.  This is so hard since lippies are my weakness but I'm only ordering 3

Sunset Crush

Crazy Rich

and my fav, Hustlin'

And the Crystal Whips in Pop the Bubbly.  This color is just like a MAC Lipglass I purchased a couple of years ago (maybe 3).  A gold with pink reflects.  Thank you SO much for sharing the good deal Smiley Happy  

Crystal Whips Shimmering Liquid Eye Shadow

Honored Contributor
8/25/21

@monicakm    I am not familiar with the KayAli?  Is it perfume?  Also, I do know Tiffany but what is it?  It is a pretty picture.

Honored Contributor
8/25/21

 

@Katcat1 

Kayali is a series of fragrances from Huda Beauty.  The one I currently have is Vanilla 28.  It is straight up warm vanilla

Fragrance Family: Warm & Spicy

Scent Type: Warm & Sweet Gourmands

Key Notes: Vanilla Orchids, Tonka Absolute, Amber Woods

HUDA BEAUTY - KAYALI VANILLA | 28 3.4 oz/100 mL

The one I'm waiting for Sephora to get is the latest one, Invite Only.

 

Why Invite Only Amber Could Be KAYALI’s Best Fragrance To Date…
“For Invite Only Amber, I wanted something opulent and irresistible - tasty notes of voluptuous dark cherry, creamy and decadent chocolate hazelnut, smooth honey de Provence, sweet vanilla and precious oud - the combination is rich, provocative and sumptuous.”

Seduction in a bottle, this bold, irresistible juice envelops amber resin and Madagascan vanilla mixed with Black Cherry, Honey de Provence and Tobacco Leaf to immediately pull you in. Touches of rose and citrus leaf create a soft yet tantalizing finish, leaving an incredibly long-lasting, hypnotic sillage behind you. Stimulate your senses with top notes of succulent black cherries rolled in roasted hazelnuts and tobacco leaf, glazed with Honey de Provence which marries insatiably with the mid notes of citrus leaf, rose centifolia and rose damascena for alluring depth and dimension. This contrasts with the woody, sensual base of Madagascan vanilla, sandalwood, amber resin, cypriol, musks, patchouli and benzoin to create the ultimate atmosphere of seduction and empowerment.

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Honored Contributor
8/25/21

@Katcat1 

 

Tiffany&Co?  It's the famous jewelry store with the little robin egg blue jewelry boxes.  Not sure I understand the question.  It's a canvas print that will go perfectly in my bathroom at the front of my tub. It's either a 20x20 or 24x24.  The lipstick canvas is much smaller at 10x15 and will go on the other side of the bathroom where the potty alcove is and below a wall sconce.  The room is 11x11.  It'll work Smiley Happy  The Tiffany canvas will go where the brown frame is.  That was supposed to be temporary, hiding an outlet and a tv plate.  It's been there for 10 years Smiley Surprised  The color of blue in the perfume bottle picture matches the blue on the wall and in the beach canvas.  Wish you could see that glittered wall irl. The glitter looks an inch thick.

 

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Honored Contributor
8/25/21

@decaf 

 

I got the med and I'm a light.  The match couldn't be better.  I don't know what kind of magic this Korean makeup has in it but 3 shades and it seems to work for most.

I don't think 'll repurchase it.  Looked good at first.  Actually it still looks ok for it to have been on for 12 hours (NO SWEATING) Smiley Happy  But it's a bit drying and I put everything on under it just like I would any makeup.  Under the eyes is a BIG no-no!  I think it created crinklies!  I'll use it but it (maybe) won't be for every occasion.  BB Cream...maybe it's supposed to be for more oily skin and blemishes??  Google says it's a "blemish balm" or a "beauty balm".

Honored Contributor
8/25/21

@monicakm wrote:

@Icegoddess 

 

Please let me know what you think of this palette's quality.  Not if you like the colors or not, that's subjective.  But the quality, consistency, texture, pay-off of the product.  I bought it over a year ago on eBay from a highly rated seller with lots of sales.  I can't think of any e/s palette I've bought that was so unusable!  Hard, crumbly, chalky, glitter that just fell off in chunks, patchy at best.  I'm very familiar with Too Faced and have a lot of their products but this was like it had every bit of it's moisture sucked out of it.  I got my money back but it wasn't easy.  I might have had to get eBay involved.  Bought it in Nov 2020.  Seems like a lot longer than that.  Seller has 99.8% positive rating w/ nearly 4000 sales.  One of those exceptions to the rule Smiley Sad


@monicakm Oh no!  I hope it's not bad.  That's one reason I prefer shopping in person.  Even though I rarely use a tester, you can tell how the palettes hold up due to all the other fingers that have been in them.  Also, you can better tell whether it's a shimmer or a glitter. I think glitter is in right now  I actually saw a green glitter eyeshadow on a news show pundit the other day, and Dana Perino who is normally very conservative makeup-wise had on a gold shimmer eyeshadow that was pretty.  Now, I would probably add a dark green or brown in the crease.  Darker shadow on the lids don't really work for me due to my small, round eyes.  

 

The BH Cosmetics palette I got recently doesn't seem to have a lot of color payoff.  However, being a baked product you can use a wet brush with it to get a little more payoff, plus you can use the darker colors as an eyeliner with a wet angle brush.

 

I have an old Tarte palette that has the most color payoff of most anything I have.  I have to be careful to just touch my brush to it or it's too much.  I often feel like I overdid it a bit with that palette, but after I get my eyeliner and mascara on it ends up being fine.  It's from a limited edition The Royal Collection, but if I remember correctly seems like it was called True Blood.  There was a TV show on called True Blood (vampire show) at the time I bought it.  Yes, I keep eyeshadows that long.