Limited Edition: Benefit Cheeky Sweet Spot

I think that the Cheeky Sweet Spot palette is the best. Thing. Ever. I mean it has almost all of the benefit box o' powders except for like one or two or three. This set contains Hoola (.17oz), Dandelion (.14oz), Coralista (.17oz), Bella Bamba (.17oz), Rockateur (.17oz), Sugarbomb (.21oz), and you get a Watts Up! (.05oz). That is a lot of product, this set retails for $36 USD and is available at Ulta, Sephora, and Benefits website

Dandelion, a nice soft shade. It would be really hard to see this on darker skin tones.

Bella Bomba, was a little powdery. I also expected it to be a much deeper pink.

Sugar Bomb, also would not be the best on darker skin tones.

Hoola, I've had this one before. It is a rather neutral bronzer though it does lean a smidge orange.

Coralista, I had high hopes for this blush and aside from being a litter powdery, as you can see above. It did not let me down.

Rockateur, this would look really pretty layered over other blushes, as it is on the light side.

All six of them

 I don't have any complaints over Watt's Up! I think it looks beautiful on any skin tone. I think these blushes for the most part would show better on lighter skin tones. Like the deathly pale people like me haha. Other than they aren't the darkest of blushes I really like this little kit and would recommend it. It is a fabulous deal!

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Candle Hoarders Anon

I hoard candles. Sometimes I forget don't want to burn them because they are so beautiful and smell so beautiful! I recently branched out from the usual Bath and Body Works candles because Target had cheap yummy smelling ones! I picked up two or their scented soy candles, that's the only brand name I could find on them, in Vintage Linen and Sweet Spun Sugar. They both smell awesome but aren't soy candles supposed to burn super amazingly?

I've only been burning one so far, Vintage linen, but it doesn't burn evenly at all which is kind of a bummer :(.

Pardon the wax, it looks really nasty in this picture

 Vintage Linen smells like fabric softener, like how you always want those fresh cotton scents to smell but they never do and the Sweet Spun Sugar smells exactly like cotton candy. What I'm curious about is if the cotton candy one will smell like burnt sugar when it's burning? Haha that smells nasty.

These unfortunately were both just summer scents, they have though since released a bunch of yummy fall scents. I would say if you don't mind uneven wax pick some of these up. They are $5 USD for the smaller ones and $10 USD for the bigger ones. Both of the ones I have a the smaller $5
ones.

 

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e.l.f. Eyebrow kit

This kit. I have a love hate relationship with. It frustrates me because I always accidentally make my brows too dark or I look like I literally did absolutely nothing to my brows. Though as I have experimented I have found the perfect combination. Before I was using the wax and then the powder which usually resulted in me looking like I have alien eyebrows and then I was just using the powder and that did some but not too much. I have found that using the powder on my inner brows (closest to my nose) and the wax, very lightly, on my outer brows works the best for me.
I have this kit in medium and I have medium brown hair. Oh also for reference I have light/medium skin.

 Onto the actual product. This product as mentioned above has a powder and a tinted wax and comes with a dual ended brush, a fluffy end for the powder and an angled end for the wax. The wax is dark brown and on the neutral to cool end of the spectrum. The was is soft and easily blended, it has about 50% opacity, meaning it does not look exactly like whats in the pan when you rub your finger in it. It is easily buildable, but I recommend cleaning that end of the brush very regularly because it does get kind of clumpy and nasty.

The powder side of the kit is a lighter brown color, it is matte. It too is easily blendable and has a fairly decent opacity.

Powder on the right, wax on the left

Wax on the right, powder on the left

Overall I do enjoy this little kit, when I actually do my brows, once you find a good way to use it for yourself it works a whole lot better. You will need a setting gel if you have unruly eyebrows, which thankfully I don't have. Though I do recommend the e.l.f. clear brow and mascara. BUT you need to use a light hand otherwise you have icky goopy eyebrows.

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Sephora Formula X

 These nail polishes have received a lot of hype. I recently got my hands on two different types of the Formula X polishes. I got Invincible, a light nude-y colored one, and Phenomena, a neon purple. They both apply nicely, but I have one question. What is up with the fake caps? I tried to twist it off and obviously that did not open the polish. I feel like all nail polishes have these weird pseudo caps. Thankfully the mini polishes don't have the same pseudo cap, so I didn't have as much of a problem getting into the mini one.

 The mini one I have is Invincible as mentioned above it is a light nude-y color. It leans a little to the pink side of nude. Though it is much too light to look like you have no polish on. Invincible needs two or more coats as it does apply a little streaky, they both do to be honest. It dries to a normal shiny/dull-ish finish. You will probably need three coats just to be safe.

I do have a full size of the neon purple, Phenomena. For both of the polishes there is nothing really special about the brush. This polish requires more than one coat :( The first coat does look more magenta than purple, so be aware. After two coats the polish is pretty opaque but even after two coats it looks way more pink than purple. In some lights, like yellow incandescent lights, it does appear more purple. But in fluorescent lights it looks super pink.

Pseudo Cap

  So all in all, will I go out and buy more immediately? Probably not. They are nice but they are pretty similar to drugstore nail polishes, though they do go a day or more longer without chipping than regular drugstore polishes. Though a polish comparable in both look and wear are the CoverGirl Outlast nail polishes, except they don't have the pseudo cap! :) stardoll

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