Woww...I'm an addict. Yes, I was back at Urban Outfitters today and I feel like a makeup doctor.
I purchased two more stila palettes (floral chic palette and trendsetting in tokyo, the collectible travel pallete no. 3).
The floral one was $1.37 and the Tokyo one was $1.39. Have a look at them before I fixed them up. WARNING: Pretty nasty.
Gross, right? With the help of cotton swabs, cotton squares, toilet paper, and hand sanitizer with a high alcohol content, I fixed these babies up.
The first one with the deep blue is trendsetting in Tokyo and the second is floral chic.
The colors:
I decided to use pics this time because of the super glittery black shadow that just has a peace sign...like, with a hand.
These palettes were just SWATCHED. hehe.
Top are the floral chic shades. I started both of these rows with the convertible colors.
After I took the pictures, I realized that when I was closing the Tokyo palette, sake, the shade that was super destroyed, had powdery fall-out all over the place. I mixed two eye drops onto the surface of the shadow making it really creamy. Now it's dry. There's less fall-out when the shade is sealed. But once you use quite a bit again, add a drop or two more. A bit of a pain. Oh well.
The eye-drop trick is great if you're traveling with a very powdery shadow. It also can turn a shadow into a nice liner, and it's a lot cheaper than products like this. Plus you might already have some around. :)
So, for Christmas my aunt gave me a $50 Urban Outfitters giftcard. :)
Since I have a UO around the corner, I've been back 3 times since I got the giftcard, and it's not even 2011 yet! They've been having a mega-sale. So far with the giftcard I have bought:
-Cargo Pro Picks Collection ($86 value, retail $39), $10. -Lip Gloss (no idea what brand, just a gloss, retail $8), $1 -Button-front skirt (retail $50), $5 -Suede Flats with a metallic bows (retail $40), $10 -NYX white eyeliner (not on sale), $3.50
So, since I can't tell you the brand of gloss, and this is a cosmetics blog, I'll just talk to you about the Cargo Pro Picks Collection and the NYX liner.
Cargo Pro Picks ___________
I am stoked about this kit (yes, stoked). It contains an eyeshadow quad with green, purple, blue, and white, along with my personal favorite mascara and lipgloss of the moment, plus a cool lipliner I will tell you about later.
Quad:
The quad is the most disappointing product. The shadows appear to be very pigmented, but on the eyelids, you really need to build up a lot of product for any real color. Just sort of a meh for me. Plus, green, purple, and blue aren't really my colors. And I have a lot of highlight colors, especially now with my Urban Decay shadow in Skimp. But the rest of the products are just so great, I don't care about this.
Mascara:
I got the blu-ray mascara. It is my favorite! The applicator looks like a comb, it is one sided. It is the best mascara I have ever owned, keep in mind, I have not owned too many, I'm bad at remembering to replace them. I'm so glad I got this kit too, because had I not, I would be stuck with my new UD Skyscraper mascara. :(
This lengthens, separates, defines, you name it. I love this product. On its own, I think it goes for about twice the price that I got the whole kit.
Lipgloss:
Simply the best gloss I have ever tried. A nice coral-y color with just enough shine and shimmer, but not sticky at all. It even comes with timestrip technology, a small strip you put in the cap of the gloss, which is marked with the numbers 1, 3, and 9. These are months. The strip will fill up as the gloss gets older. When it reaches the 9-month mark, Cargo recommends you replace it...well, of course they do. Best. Gloss. Ever. I would probably buy it again at retail price. I might check UO to see if they have another kit.
Lipliner:
This is called the reverse lipliner. I had too look it up to find out how to use it. It's a fair pencil you apply just outside your lipline and blend so that you dont have to darken your lipline, just lighten what's around it. An innovative, young approach to lipliner. However, I think it goes for around $17, so you might just use this trick with a cover stick you already have or something.
I love this kit so much that if I run out, I would probably buy it for retail price and gift the quad? Four full size Cargo products (discontinued at Sephora, still sells at ULTA) for not $86, not $39, but $10! Wow, I struck a bargain. <3
Oh, I forgot about the NYX pencil. It's not that creamy, but it won't smudge...it's a white liner, what do you want me to say...go buy it from NYX for four bucks if you want one.
Ok, not really. But I'm so happy that you've decided to take part anyway. On this blog, I will be writing reviews, sharing opinions and tips, describing my hauls, and giving you the best insight I can on beauty and makeup and cosmetics and hair and skin and nails and everything in between. I am just getting started in this big digital world of blogs and youtube channels and shopping. Help me learn, and I will at least try to help you. Sorry to bore you with that little introduction. It's time to get down and dirty. Or clean, that is.
