Makeup Bag Friday 6

Hi all! Thankfully, this week I picked some products I haven't talked about before on my blog, so it won't be as repetitive as last week's makeup bag post was! Hallelujah! I hope you all have had a wonderful week and I am excited to hear what products you were loving and not loving this week! Just to inform you all, I have decided to do these every two weeks. Partly because I feel like these are becoming redundant and partly because I want to get more use out of my products.

Wet 'n' Wild Megalast Lipstick in 902c Bare it All
I am pretty certain this lipstick is going bad. The top of it was all gritty and I scraped it off and it was fine, but I am still really weirded out, so I am going to declutter this and by declutter I mean toss. I really do love this shade, it is supposedly a dupe for Mac Teddy or Brave, I can't remember which one. It is a beautiful warm mid toned nude shade, that works in any season. This is one of the more comfortable colors in the megalast formula range. Once I get my lipstick stash down a little more I would totally consider repurchasing this shade!

Becca Afterglow Palette
This is one purchase I am glad I made (also I got it on sale so even better). This is such a versatile all in one face palette, that could be used for the eyes as well. It has 3 highlighter shades and 2 blush shades. Now 2 of the highlighter shades (Rose Gold and Topaz) are too dark for me so I use them as blush toppers over Flowerchild and Wild Honey, respectively. This palette also includes my favorite Becca highlighter in Moonstone. It is really too bad this palette was limited edition because I think it would make a nice addition to anyone's makeup stash!

Nars Radiant Creamy Concealer in Custard
I am still going strong on this and it is still not done! I hope by the next makeup bag it is completed! I am getting sick of it! My initial "review" of it is here.

It Cosmetics CC+ Radiance Ombre Bronzer in Warm Radiance
I don't know if you can see it in the picture but I am able to see the outline of the pan grid!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I've never used that much of a bronzer that I could see the indent of the pan grid! I'm very excited, if you cannot tell haha! Anyway I still enjoy this bronzer, but I don't think I would repurchase it when I finish it, because it's ~$34 and I am going through it this quickly, I don't think it is worth the money, BUT it is still a good bronzer and I don't regret purchasing it! Also I talked about it here!

It Cosmetics Brow Power in Universal Taupe
I am tired of this. Here is my original makeup bag where I talked about it.

Laura Geller Spackle Supercharged Fortified Under Makeup Primer
I really do like this and I am enjoying using it when I am not using the Covergirl primer I am trying to use up. I talked about this first, here.

Tarte Amazonian Clay BB Illuminating Moisturizer
This is a strange product, it is oily, but kind of thick, but also really sparkly, and has like no coverage. Granted I am not one of those people who likes full coverage foundations, but this was just really odd and I don't think I like it. Also I got it off of Hautelook and it is not available on Tarte's website anymore and that kind of weirds me out, like who knows how old it is? I actually have to use a powder with this otherwise I look like a shiny greasy disco ball, which isn't cute. I don't know what to do about this product, I may use it for 1 or 2 more makeup bags and then just call it done.  

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Makeup Bag Friday 5

Hi all! Hope you had a wonderful week! I am going to apologize right now, because most of these products I have already talked about there is only like 1 or 2 new products everything else has either already been in a makeup bag post or been reviewed. Nonetheless I hope you enjoy anyway!

Urban Decay Naked Skin Ultra Definition Loose Finishing Powder
I talked about it here, and none of my thoughts have changed. I am making a serious dent in this powder, which is a little weird since I have dry skin. So if you are interested in this just know it goes pretty fast!

Urban Decay B6 Priming Spray
I FINISHED IT FINALLY! (here)

Laura Geller Spackle Supercharged Fortified Under Makeup Primer
I talked about it here!  
I really like this even on its own, I might repurchase this after I go through primers. I probably won't because I like to try new things but I totally would repurchase this if it was on sale haha! 

Lancome Teint Idole Ultrawear Makeup Stick
First impression/review here.

Lancome Teint Idole Ultrawear Camouflage
First impression/review here.

It Cosmetics CC+ Radiance Ombre Bronzer in Warm Radiance
I talked about it here! I still really am enjoying this! However, it is easy to go a little too heavy handed! Haha!

It Cosmetics Brow Power
I talked about it here! I am so sick of this thing, the product seems to never end! Also my spoolie fell off which makes me want to use it even less! I don't know what to do about this, who knew a brow product would be the death of me?!

Nars Radiant Creamy Concealer in Custard
I talked about this here. I tried to use this as a spot concealer and that my friend did not end well. It looked super orange soooo I guess I will keep mixing it with my primer to make a tinted moisturizer. On the bright side I've noticed there is quite a bit less product in the tube now! 

Lancome Click & Glow in Lumieres Rosees
First impression/review here.

Becca Shimmering Skin Perfector Pressed in Blushed Copper
For lighter skin tones this highlighter makes a beautiful bronzey blush. Unfortunately it was limited edition. :( I personally love to use this in the summer, but I also hate to use it because the design on it is so beautiful! However, if you have Laura Geller's Baked Blush in Pink Grapefruit, you don't need this. The two are very similar! Also use a light hand, this can go overboard very quickly!

Bite Beauty Matte Creme Lip Crayon in Cafe
This was mentioned in this post! I somehow managed to finish this! Which is super exciting! I was so tired of this and I had only been using it for like 3 months! :)

Bite Beauty Amuse Bouche Lipstick in Fig
This is my favorite medium pink lipstick for spring! I love to blot it so that it creates a stain and then the color lasts longer! I love this formula, but the smell isn't my favorite, to me it smells like liquid amoxicillin, like what you got as a child.... Thankfully the smell isn't strong and it does fade quickly! I would like to get some more of these, especially like Honeycomb that colors looks super pretty to me!


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Makeup Bag Friday 4

Hi all! This week's makeup bag will be a little different, simply because I was out of town for the whole week visiting my Grandma!

Urban Decay B6 Priming Spray
Talked about it here.

Benefit Goof Proof Brow Pencil in 2
I need to find a cruelty free brow pencil like this one. I like the thicker tip because that makes it easier and faster to do my brows. However, I have the wrong shade of this, I being the dummy I am ordered shade 2, when I need shade 4. Shade 2 is way to warm for my brows but I can and will make it work because I don't want to waste it.

Nars Radiant Creamy Concealer in Custard
Talked about it here.

Winky Lux Diamond Powder Foundation in Light
This is a very glowy powder. It is a very nice very average powder, so far it has not blown my socks off, but I am very picky when it comes to powders! I need to use this some more before I can give you my final thoughts on this powder.

BareMinerals The Magic Act Palette
This was the holiday palette from a few years ago and I use it almost (almost) exclusively for travel. It has a nice selection of neutral shades and has nice options for highlighter, blush, and bronzer. When I use it I primarily use A-HA! as a one shadow look and then I switch up the blushes. I really like this palette, it is one of the better all in one palettes that have been sold. I am kind of sad it is no longer available, but I wouldn't go and pay a ridiculous amount for it on Ebay.

Covergirl Outlast all day primer
Talked about it here

Becca Shimmering Skin Perfector Liquid in Pearl
I like to mix this into my foundation/primer mix that I do nearly every day. Which is probably why I haven't been able to form a solid opinion of the Winky Lux powder. I really do enjoy this, but I wouldn't repurchase it. 

Essence Lipstick in 06 Barely There!
This is one of my favorite lipstick formulas, for a cream finish.

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Makeup Bag Friday 3

Hi all! Hope you all had a wonderful week! Here is this weeks run down of products I used, kept, and decluttered! Let me know down below what products you used and loved (or didn't love) this week!

Urban Decay B6 Spray
This has now been in my basket for like 3 weeks and it is still not done! My opinion hasn't changed from the first time I talked about it here.

BareMinerals Blush in The Stolen Heart
This is a very sheer blush, which I really like. It has a mauve tone with a little bit of shimmer and a few flecks of glitter, but the glitter does not transfer onto the face. I haven't decided whether I want to keep this or not, I think for now I will keep it but I will be revisiting it in a few weeks.

It Cosmetics CC+ Radiance Ombre Bronzer in Warm Radiance 
I would love to hit pan on this bronzer this year, I have never hit pan on a bronzer before and I think that would be so exciting. I had the realization that having twenty bronzers is useless. They are all varying shades of brown. I have gotten my single bronzer collection down to 4, granted this does not include any of the bronzers I have in palettes and I don't want to think about that right now. Rambling aside, this bronzer is a little dark for me but I really have been enjoying using it. It is very versatile because it has a matte section and a shimmery section, which could potentially eliminate the need for other bronzers.

It Cosmetics Brow Power in Universal Taupe
This item has also been in my makeup basket for about three weeks! I think this is the last repeat offender haha. My opinion of this hasn't changed from here, but the spoolie fell off of mine! So now I don't really want to use it at all! BUT I will persevere from this awful and difficult challenge!

Colourpop Ultra Satin Lip in Bare Necessities 
I'm going to declutter this. While I love the formula this color is just wrong for me, and while I can make it work, there are other lip products I would rather use than fuss with this one to make it look less neon on me. I reviewed this here.

Becca Shimmering Skin Perfector in Champagne Pop
This is a beautiful peachy gold shade, this was originally touted as a highlighter that would work for everyone and I don't think that is true. It can look a little dark on me if I use too much, but since I don't love heavy highlights, I only use it lightly and there is no dark streak on my face. I don't love this highlighter, but I don't hate it, it just does not blow me away. I think there are better highlighters at a lower price.

LOC x Tati One & Done Shadow stick in Impress Me
This is a beautiful rose gold bronze that looks very flattering on my eyes. I do wish it was a tad bit lighter, but it has good lasting power, even without a primer. I am trying to use this up this year, and I probably wouldn't repurchase it, cream sticks are just not my favorite formula of cream shadows.

Nars Radiant Creamy Concealer in Custard
This is for sure the wrong shade for me (whoops), I cannot use this as a concealer. I have tried and tried to make this color work for me as a concealer but it is just too dark and looks super orange when I do that. However, because I spent $12 on this small size I am going to use it up. It works well if I mix it with a primer and use it as a tinted moisturizer! So score! I would consider repurchasing this, in the right shade of course.

Laura Geller Spackle Supercharged 
This is another product that I would like to use up this year, I was going through my primers the other day and realized that this one was probably the oldest one I owned, which is kinda silly because I love this one, but I got sucked into the thinking that I had to use the products I don't love first because then I can spend all of my time with the ones I love, but while I was using up the other products the ones I love got older... This is a thicker primer that feels really hydrating on the skin, it is creamy in color, but offers no color correction. It does not minimize pores but it does smooth over texture issues which I really like. I would consider repurchasing this once I am finished with it.

Colourpop Lippie Stix in Oh Snap
I feel bad, I feel like I'm just tearing down colourpop in this post, because I am also decluttering this lipstick. Again I love the formula this color is just not right for me. It is a warm lilac nude and it is just too light for my skin tone and makes me look like I'm dead.

Bite Beauty Matte Creme Lip Crayon in Cafe
This is one of my oldest lip products, so it needs to get used up and moved out. Thankfully I feel like Bite lip products, because they are so creamy tend to be used up rather quickly, if you use them consistently. This is a peachy pink nude that is a little light for me, but not so light that I look dead. I believe this color was limited edition as well. Wow I had a lot of lip products in this makeup bag and I'm only keeping one haha.

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Makeup Bag Friday 2

Hi all! I realized that last week I had forgotten to include in the picture the Urban Decay Naked Skin powder! Haha whoops! Well here is a breakdown of this weeks makeup bag!

MAC In Extreme Dimension 3D Black Lash Mascara

The name makes this mascara sound really intense, doesn't it? Unfortunately it is not as intense on the lashes as it sounds. However, I do really like it. I makes my lashes look full and fluttery without being crunchy. It does not flake on me but it does smudge a little, but nothing I can't handle. It doesn't hold a curl in my stick straight lashes very well, but I haven't found a mascara that does, if you know of any good ones let me know! 

Urban Decay Naked Skin Ultra Definition Loose Finishing powder

I talked about this on last week here. 

Wet 'N' Wild Ombre Blush in In a Purple Haze

This is a really gorgeous sheer blush (my first impression here). It does not have a very long wear time, but I am really enjoying how natural it looks. It makes wearing purple blush less intimidating. Like I said in my first impression/haul it is much more on the pink end than I was expecting. Overall, though, I really do like it. 

Urban Decay B6 Primer Spray

This was also included in last weeks makeup bag post!

Colourpop Lippie Stix in Brink

Honestly, this color does not jive well with my skin, its a little too peach and super peachy lip products just don't look good on me. It is kind of hilarious that I just figured out I didn't like this one because I've used so much of it haha. Brink is a terracotta rose in Colourpop's matte lippie stix formula. It is comfortable to wear I absolute love the matte lippi stix formula it is my favorite out of all of their lippie stix finishes. Just the color, not my thing, I will be decluttering this. 

It Cosmetics Brow Power

You can read more about this here in my last makeup bag post

ELF Beautifully Bare Cream Shadow in Soft Beige

I love this, it provides a nice sheer wash of color on the eyelids and if I'm in a hurry I use this as a blush as well. These shadows are moussey and blend out well with a brush or with your fingers. They have a decent wear time without a primer as well as with a primer. I haven't noticed any creasing with this so yay! 

BareMinerals Sheer Sun Bronzer Serum

I went into more depth about this product here. This week I finished off the sample, and as I said last week I won't be purchasing the full size!

Maybelline Fit Me Concealer in shade 10

I don't hate this concealer, but I don't love it. I think it works pretty well, I think the way they arranged their shades is stupid because shade 15 is fair and shade 10 is light. I should have gotten the shade 15, because shade 10 is a little too dark for me. I like to use this as a light foundation and it works well for that. It's meh. I wouldn't repurchase it but I'm not going to declutter it.

Essence Pure Nude Highlighter 

I love this. Like I could get rid of all of my other highlighters and just have this one forever and I would be absolutely fine. Haha, now I'm not going to do that but I could. This is the most beautiful, melds with your skin highlight. It looks natural while still offering a gorgeous glow. It is not going to give you a blinding highlight, but I honestly am not a fan of that kind of highlight, I think it looks a little silly. The pure nude highlighter is a vanilla beige shade that is a little bit deeper and more shimmery that Laura Geller French Vanilla.

Estee Edit Inside Track Eye kajal in Navy Brat and Baby Blue

This product doesn't wow me. It is meant to give you a sexy slept in smokey eye, but it is almost too blendable. The beautiful navy shade blends to basically nothing. The light blue shade is meant to go on your waterline and it looks a little crazy because it is so pigmented. It also fades really fast. Both liners are so creamy which I think is the main issue, I think the best way to make this product look like it is supposed to is to put it on and sleep in it haha just kidding. I think I am going to declutter this as well. I was given this for free from Influenster a while back just so you know, and clearly that doesn't affect my honest opinions of products.

Jordana Sweet Cream Liquid Lipstick in Creme Brulee 

I really have been enjoying this, however this shade in particular goes on a little streaky which is annoying, but is easily fixed. These dry down completely matte and are of course going to be a little drying, but it isn't uncomfortable. They have a sweet scent but it also smells a little chemically. The color does change a little bit from what it looks like in the tube to what it dries down to. It looks like a cool pink in the tube but dries down as a warm pink, super weird. The first few minutes after it looks dry it is a little sticky, but that goes away after a little while. Also it is apparently a dupe for KoKo K from Kylie Cosmetics. 

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Makeup Bag Friday 1

Hi all! Today I thought I would give you all a closer look into the products that I currently have in my makeup bin. I keep all of the items for the week that I want to try out or get more use out of in a little clear bin that I got from Target years ago for $1. Each week I try to switch out the products and constantly rotate through my stash to make sure that I like everything and that everything is getting used! In this post I will show you what I have been using for this week!

 February 26th - March 3rd

Urban Decay B6 Vitamin Infused Complexion Prep Spray
This is not my favorite product, it makes my face feel kind of sticky, which is really weird. The B6 spray claims to reduce redness (which I need), minimize pores (again I need), and absorb oil (which I don't need). I think this spray is just a little bit to harsh for my skin, which is a bummer because I really wanted to love it. However, I will continue to use it up until it is gone.

Smashbox Camera Ready BB Water
I am currently trying to use up this foundation, and it still has so much, so this will probably be in a lot of makeup bag posts, sorry... This is a nice BB, however, it is not cruelty free and it pulls a little orange. I typically mix this with the Covergirl primer I am also trying to use up because if I don't it looks like an orange mask, also probably should have mentioned I have the shade fair/light. I like the formula of this foundation, because I don't like a lot of coverage, but I wouldn't repurchase it even if it was cruelty free.

Covergirl Outlast all-day primer
Now this, if it was cruelty free, I would repurchase. It has a lotion-y consistency and, while it may not help with longevity, it mixes with foundations beautifully and helps smooth out my skin. It is not technically a pore filler and does not have any silicone in it. This primer does not dry out my skin, make it feel tight, or break me out. I really like this, so if you are not cruelty free I would recommend this primer.

Nars Radiant Creamy Concealer - Custard
This shade is way too dark for me to use it under my eyes. I foolishly bought the shade that like all of the "beauty gurus" used, which I know I shouldn't have because I am so fair, but I did.... Honestly color aside, this product does not wow me. I think it is over-hyped, now I'm not saying it is a bad concealer, but I don't think it is worth the $30 price tag. However, I am probably using it wrong and the right shade would help but, I don't know, $30 is a lot for .22 oz.

Urban Decay Naked Skin Ultra Definition Loose Finishing Powder
This is the powder I am currently trying to use up, and honestly, it is not the best for dry skinned gals. Granted, most powders are not the best for dry skinned gals... Anyway, it does a nice job of setting the face without looking powdery. This is also a good option if you want one of those HD/ silica type powders without the possibility of a flash back because this is tinted! Unfortunately it does emphasize dry patches.

Laura Geller Baked Highlighter - French Vanilla
This is a creamy vanilla highlighter shade without any discernible glitters. It offers a nice natural lit from within glow. In fact this highlighter could be used as a light setting powder. I really do like this, I think this product would work well if you had a lot of texture on your cheeks or pores, without emphasizing them. The link I provided takes you to one with a split pan of French Vanilla and Portifino for $43, but check Hautelook. On Hautelook you can usually find the single pans for around $12.

Tarte Amazonian Clay Blush - Paaarty
This is the birthday gift from Sephora, so it is free (!!). This is a peachy mauve shade which looks very natural on the cheeks. I have really been enjoying these, I also enjoy the Amazonian clay blushes in general.

BareMinerals Bareskin Sheer Sun Serum Bronzer - Bare Glow
I like to use this to bronze up foundations and sometimes I put it in my primer and use it just as that (the primer and bronzer serum). I don't think I would purchase it (I have a sample), it's nice but not mind blowing. I like the concept but it is a little orange.

It Cosmetics Brow Power - Universal Taupe
This used to be my favorite brow pencil, I've even used most of it up, but the more I use it and the more I've tried other brow products I've realized that I don't like how stiff and warm this is. It is still a really great brow product, it is just not my favorite anymore.

It Cosmetics Tightline Full Lash Mascara 
This is a nice lash primer, I like that it is black and not white, makes it easier to cover haha. I like the super small wand especially for my lower lashes, however, I believe that NYX makes a super similar mascara for a much lower price.

Colourpop Blotted Lip - Lexi and Deja Vu
I love these, I reviewed these here.

Tarte Tarteist Lip Paint - Birthday Suit
Again this is the Sephora birthday gift this year. This is a beautiful mauve brown shade. It definitely dries down darker than it looks in the tube, but I have really been enjoying it! It is not drying and is very comfortable, I reviewed these here!

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