Tarte Holiday 2015 Limited Edition: Light of the Party Makeup Set

I got this beautiful palette from Sephora before Christmas and to be honest I was a little skeptical, this holiday set got mixed reviews. Well I wanted to make a post to let you all know that this set is beautiful in every way! I am SO glad that I got my hands on it. I got a lot for my money.

The Tarte holiday gift set includes a mini Lights, Camera, Lashes 4-in-1 Mascara and a double-ended makeup brush, a takeaway palette in a mirrored recess inside the lid, and a 24-shade eyeshadow palette

This Holiday set cost $59 at Sephora. 

 Tarte Light of the Party takeaway palette shades:

• bronzer: Social Butterfly
• blush: Amazed
• highlighter: Pink Champagne
• shadows: Popcorn Strand (matte rose ivory) and Wrapped Up (matte pale pink); Dancer & Prancer (shimmering pink taupe) and Shining Star (smoky metallic bronze); Yule be Surprised (matte chocolate) and Mulberry & Bright (deep shimmery plum with sparkle)

 

Tarte Light of the Party eyeshadow shades (from far left, top row):

• Sugar Cookie (soft ivory); In a Flurry (shimmering pearl); Fizz the Season (champagne); It's Snow Time (glistening white); Eggnog (matte yellow cream); What a Wonderful Pearl (pearl matte white)
• Miracle of Light (bronze gold); Rum Pum Plum (matte rose plum); Tartetini (matte light pink); Baby it's Gold Outside (shimmering rose gold); Peach on Earth (matte peach); Come What Grey (matte slate)
• Under the Mistle-Taupe (shimmering taupe); Ring-A-Ling (plum mauve); Fireside Chat (dusty rose); Party Favored (matte tan); Gingerbread Mansion (auburn); Chrome for the Holidays (silver)
• Sleigh Watch (matte dark chocolate); Mulled Wine (matte plum); Cocoa What Fun (matte cocoa); Black Velvet (matte black); Haute Chocolate (matte chestnut); Midnight Kiss (matte navy)

Guys I am truly perplexed as to why this got mixed reviews. In my opinion this entire set does not disappoint at all. The bronzer and blush are beautiful, the eye shadows are pigmented and blend beautifully. Honestly the only negative I can come up with is the bulky yet beautiful packaging. If you can still manage to get your hands on it through amazon or ebay or whatever it's totally worth it.

Thanks for stopping by!

Anastasia Beverly Hills Self-Made Palette Review and Swatches

Hey loves! So today I get to share with you the beautiful ABH Self-Made Palette. I got this gorgeous palette from my friend Becci. I was beyond excited to get this! 

This retails for $35 and comes with fourteen shades 0.025 oz of product per shadow (0.35oz total)

Details-

This limited edition, fashion-forward eye shadow kit is the ultimate makeup artist's palette. Fourteen shades - ranging from a neutral taupe to obsidian black - deliver intense color, so you can create an endless array of custom looks.

Shades:

• Pink Champagne (rose gold with a titanium finish)
• Metallic Plum (dark plum with a metallic finish)
• Self-Made (deep bronze with a satin finish)
• Witchy (khaki gray with a sparkle finish)
• Blush (light beige with a duo chrome pink finish)
• Blossom (lilac pink with a metallic finish)
• Buttery (buildable beige with an ultra-matte finish)
• Deep Purple (amethyst purple with a titanium finish)
• Treasure (ultra-light Champagne with a metallic finish)
• Hot & Cold (rum brown with a metallic finish)
• Sherbet (ultra-light peach with a velvet finish)
• Isla (sea foam green with a duo chrome gold finish)
• Spirit Rock (galaxy black with a sparkle finish)
• Hot Chocolate (rich, cocoa brown with an ultra-matte finish)

Here are my arm swatches on my olive skin tone. (no primers were used for these swatches)

This is my first ABH palette and these are very pigmented and creamy shades. I am obsessed with this palette and so grateful to my friend that was so sweet in picking this up for me! My favorite shades are Pink Champagne, Sherbert and Hot Chocolate. 

This is a great Holiday gift for sure! Another perk is the double ended brush it comes with. The brush is actually of great quality and it works wonders to apply and blend out the shadows. 

Get it while you can since her palettes have a habit of selling out pretty quickly.

If I am not mistaken this palette is already sold out at Sephora but I did see it was available at Ulta.

Here is a very simple yet beautiful look I did with this palette.

Here is what the box looks like

The beautiful packaging.

Price: The price is very reasonable especially for a high end foundation. I've paid a lot more for other foundations.

Packaging: I love love love that it comes with a pump and has a beautiful frosted bottle, the packaging is truly sleek and beautiful.

Longevity: I always wear a primer with all of my foundations and this one will last me all day. About 6 hours before my natural oils start coming through. I will usually either blot or powder up and that will do the trick for even more hours. Please keep in mind that I have combination to oily skin.

Quality: The quality is superb! I have tried A LOT of foundations and this one is so beautiful I love everything about it! Great for youthful, mature or anything in between. This is a gem!

Overall Rating: In case it isn't already obvious I give this an A++ overall rating. I HIGHLY recommend you get a sample or just take my word for it and give it a try.

- See more at: http://unlockyourbest.blogspot.com/#sthash.XwdLRhkF.dpuf Let's rate this:

Let's rate it:

Price: VERY reasonable for a high end makeup palette.

Packaging: It's a sturdy cardboard package with a magnetic closure a nice size mirror and I love that she included a double ended brush. Very nice.

Longevity: I always use a primer and they last all day with no fall out or smearing. These shadows are a dream to wear.

Quality: Amazing, very pigmented and creamy.

Overall Rating: A++ Get your hands on it ASAP!

Thank you so much for stopping by guys, it truly makes me so happy to blog for you guys. Thanks again Becci for my beautiful palette.

Much Love,

Price: The price is very reasonable especially for a high end foundation. I've paid a lot more for other foundations.

Packaging: I love love love that it comes with a pump and has a beautiful frosted bottle, the packaging is truly sleek and beautiful.

Longevity: I always wear a primer with all of my foundations and this one will last me all day. About 6 hours before my natural oils start coming through. I will usually either blot or powder up and that will do the trick for even more hours. Please keep in mind that I have combination to oily skin.

Quality: The quality is superb! I have tried A LOT of foundations and this one is so beautiful I love everything about it! Great for youthful, mature or anything in between. This is a gem!

Overall Rating: In case it isn't already obvious I give this an A++ overall rating. I HIGHLY recommend you get a sample or just take my word for it and give it a try.

- See more at: http://unlockyourbest.blogspot.com/#sthash.XwdLRhkF.dpuf

Tarte Empower Flower Amazonian Clay Collector's Palette Review

Hello my lovelies, hope you are all having a fantastic week. I got a few goodies for my birthday this year and this lovely palette was one of the many things I got spoiled with. I have to admit that Tarte has never really caught my eye, a brand that I never felt I had to have, BOY was I wrong!

This beauty is a Sephora exclusive limited edition eye and cheek palette. This palette retails for $42 but I got mine on sale for $36. I am not sure how long the sale will last but if you want your own click here to be sent to the Sephora website.

This palette contains:
- 8 x 0.024 oz Eye shadow in Compassionate (cream shadow), Vivacious (rose gold shadow), Pretty (bronze shadow), Powerful (dark brown shadow), Energetic (taupe shadow), Eco-chic (light plum shadow), Charitable (soft pink shadow), Glamorous (dark plum shadow)
- 2 x 0.15 oz Blush in Trustworthy (nude mauve), Empowering (rose nude)
- 0.15 oz Bronzer in Park ave princess™ (shimmering)

I am honestly a little surprised that I loved this palette so much. I am usually obsessed with warm tones verses cool tones. This palette is definitely more cool toned then warm. They do offer a few warm shades and they all work so beautifully together. The eye shadows are very pigmented and smooth as butter. They aren't at all chalky and have no fallout.
As for the Blushes I didn't expect much from the Charitable color the very light shade and let me tell you it is the prettiest shade ever! Especially for my complexion. It gives that subtle (but pigmented) gorgeous color, it's very natural looking. The other blush is very pigmented and a little goes a very long way. As for the bronzer, where has that been my entire life? I'm in LOVE! I have not put this palette down since getting it. I have used it every single time I've done my makeup lately.

Here are just a few looks I created with this palette.

Let's rate this palette:

Price: The price point is excellent given that you get to try out 6 colors and each contain 0.03 oz, so you get 0.18 oz of product total. The full size retails for $24 and contains 0.10 oz

Packaging: The packaging is cute, practical and sleek.

Longevity: It truly can last all day. As mentioned above keep away from greasy foods and you will be A-OK.

Quality: The quality is amazing on these liquid lipsticks, I have zero complaints. They go on so creamy and smooth and aren't overly drying this is a superb product.

Overall Rating: In case it isn't already obvious I give this an A+ overall rating.

- See more at: http://unlockyourbest.blogspot.com/2015/11/stila-eternally-yours-liquid-lipstick.html#sthash.bGxGvRWP.dpuf

Price: The price point is excellent given that you get to try out 6 colors and each contain 0.03 oz, so you get 0.18 oz of product total. The full size retails for $24 and contains 0.10 oz

Packaging: The packaging is cute, practical and sleek.

Longevity: It truly can last all day. As mentioned above keep away from greasy foods and you will be A-OK.

Quality: The quality is amazing on these liquid lipsticks, I have zero complaints. They go on so creamy and smooth and aren't overly drying this is a superb product.

Overall Rating: In case it isn't already obvious I give this an A+ overall rating.

- See more at: http://unlockyourbest.blogspot.com/2015/11/stila-eternally-yours-liquid-lipstick.html#sthash.bGxGvRWP.dpuf

Price: Very reasonable for a high end makeup product and a product that offers you 8 eye shadows, 2 blushes and one bronzer which makes it perfect for travel.
Packaging: It is very girly and slim. I love that it offers a big mirror and that it isn't at all bulky.
Longevity: These eye shadows, blushes and bronzer will last all day long without the need to reapply.
Quality: Perfection! My friends tried to tell me for months to give them a chance and I am honestly not sure what took me so stinkin' long to give it a go. I LOVE TARTE!
Overall Rating: A++ I am so in love with this palette, I highly recommend that you get your hands on it!

OK guys thank you so much for stopping by today. I loved this Tarte palette so much that I purchased another limited edition Christmas Palette. I will eventually do a review on that palette as well, but I am going to open it on Xmas not any sooner.

Have a fantastic day!

Much love,

Ipsy October 2015

Hey loves hope all is well I got my ipsy bag pretty early this month, I am pretty excited about that. I am actually really liking most of my products too!

Let's start with the MicaBeauty cream eye shadow in Bronze

 

This is such a beautiful shade, it reminds me a lot of the Colour Pop shade "Kathleen Lights". I am pretty excited with this shade, it is gorgeous. I wore this shade the day I got it and for the entire weekend just because it was new and because it's the perfect fall shade. It lasted a long time and didn't crease, so kudos to MicaBeauty.

Moving on we have the Lavanilla Laboratories

This mini roller ball fragrance is very beautiful. I am a huge lover of the vanilla scent anyways so I knew I would like this. It warm and rich, it lasted all day on me (which is rare).

Next up we have the Ayres Sunrise Hand Cream

This one is a dud for me guys. I don't like the smell or the film it seems to leave behind, it was just not for me. Not at all a fan.

Next up, the Emite Make Up Tweezers

So I actually really liked these tweezers I like that they are angled and that they came in there own little container so that I can throw them in my purse and have them on the go. I like the way they performed. Great little tool.

OK to finish off we have theBalm Cosmetics Meet Matt(e) Hughes

This is my favorite product in this months bag. I love the shade, the texture and overall the lasting power. I love long lasting lipsticks and this one is a great mini addition to my collection.
Here is a snapchat picture I posted of me wearing it.

This is in the shade Committed. I love everything about this liquid lippie :). Follow me on snapchat for more silliness user name: daysio

 Those are all my goodies for this month. Thank you so much for stopping by.

Much Love,

Favorite Fall Palettes

Hey guys so as a beauty lover I have accumulated a few palettes along the way. I love all of my palettes and use them often. I wanted to share some of my favorite palettes for the fall/winter time. When I think of fall I immediately think of warm tones, don't you?
So here I have a combination of older, newer and unfortunately some limited edition discontinued palettes.
These are some of my favorites. Lets start with the Balm Meet Matt(e) Nude Palette:

I love that this palette offers all matte colors. This has amazing shades and is super easy to travel with. You have 9 big eye shadows with great color payoff and a variation of warm, cool and neutral shades. 

Next up is the Kat Von D Monarch Palette:

Let me start out by saying that Kat Von D knows her stuff, she is quickly becoming an obsession of mine! This isn't my only Kat Von D palette but it is my only fall favorite one. The quality of her shadows are amazing and they last forever. You get 12 shades in this palette and it truly is beautiful!

Now let's talk Too Faced Chocolate Bar:

This original chocolate bar is amazing in every aspect. I own the semi-sweet too but this one is by far my favorite of the two. This has beautiful colors and it smells amazing! Perfect Fall palette for sure!
This palette offers you 16 shades total. All rich in color payoff and phenomenal lasting power.

Ok this next one is the Morphe Colab with Jaclyn Hill: (unfortunately no longer available)

This is such a beautiful palette, seriously you guys all I have to say is Jaclyn is amazing and knows her stuff. She put me onto Morphe and I love their eye shadows and brushes. These are such beautiful shadows. 28 shadows total. They don't sale the palette anymore but you can buy these individually.

Somehow I am sure you all expected an Urban Decay Palette listed somewhere, well I have one and it's the newish amazing Naked Smoky Palette!

I think this is one of my favorite all time palettes! No joke it is gorgeous. I have created so many fabulous eye looks with this little jem! This offers 12 shades that are perfect and compliment each other so beautifully.

The next one is a more affordable palette, it's the Revealed 2 by Coastal Scents:

This palette is great, especially the price point. The colors are beautiful and they offer good color payoff. There is very little fall out and just a tad bit powdery but nothing bad, trust me. This includes 20 beautiful shades.

Last but certainly not least is the bhcosmetics It's Judy Time Palette: (Also no longer available)

So this palette is a colab with another YouTuber, Judy and it offers 12 lovely eyes shadows. This was also very affordable and the colors are beautiful. They are so rich in pigmentation with little to no fall out at all.

OK guys these are my Fall Favorite Palettes!
I hope you have enjoyed my little post. Thank you so much for stopping by.

Have a kick ass day!

Urban Decay Naked Smoky Palette Review

Hey guys, hope you had a great Labor Day weekend, I was fortunate enough to have the entire weekend plus yesterday off. I usually will post Monday's and Thursday's but I decided to take the day off completely.☺

So let's talk SMOKY palette.
This is my favorite Urban Decay palette yet. I have to admit I only own one other, the Naked2 (which isn't a favorite at all). This one however is thebomb.com!

I purchased this palette on sephora.com for $54. It includes 12 eye shadows and one dual ended brush. One side of the brush is a blending brush and the other end is a pencil brush.
Fill Weight: Eyeshadows: 12 x 1.3 g POIDS NET/NET WT. 12 x 0.05 oz

Nine of the shades in it are new High, Dirtysweet, Slanted, Dagger, Smolder, Password, Whiskey, Combust and Thirteen, and the other three, while not completely new, will be available again exclusively in the palette Radar, Armor and Black Market.

What you see is what you get: High (champagne shimmer w/micro-glitter), Dirtysweet (medium bronze), Radar (metallic taupe w/iridescent micro-glitter), Armor (metallic silver-taupe w/tonal sparkle), Slanted (light metallic gray), Dagger (medium charcoal w/micro-shimmer), Black Market (jet-black satin), Smolder (deep plum-taupe), Password (cool taupe matte), Whiskey (rich brown matte), Combust (soft pink-taupe) and Thirteen (light beige satin).

My thoughts!
I am obsessed with this palette, it is so beautiful. I can say it has quickly become a favorite in my life. here's the thing, you can create a ton of different looks. I've created full blown dark (traditional smokey eye looks) and lighter more simple eye looks.

Lets rate this palette.
Price: Typical for an Urban Decay and or high end makeup line palette.
Packaging: By far hands down the prettiest of any Naked palette out and Palette I own overall. It has a magnetic closure and it's perfection.
Longevity: These eye shadows last all day. I do use my Urban Decay Primer Potion eye shadow primer underneath them and they last the entire day without budging.
Quality: They are smooth and super easy to blend. Surprisingly they have very little to no fall out at all. This is a top notch palette with excellent quality shadows.
Overall rating: A+ I am sure you all could tell that would be my rating based on how I have been raving about it.

I wanted to share one of my looks (which by the way was my first time using this palette).

Well guys thank you so much for joining me today. I 100% recommend this product to all of you, this is a must have palette in all beauty lovers collection.

Well guys thank you as always for visiting me today. I hope you all have a fantastic week.

Much Love,

Kat Von D Shade + Light Eye and Studded Kiss Lipstick Palette Review

Did you guys miss my makeup posts? I missed posting makeup stuff for you guys.
Here we have the gorgeous Shade + Light Eye Palette. OMG guys, I really don't need another matte palette but I "HAD" to have this! Not only do I consider myself the queen of warm shades, this also offers neutral and cool shades. Basically this is set up to be three quads, you will see them broken down below.

These are highly pigmented shades and blend out seamlessly! They're long wearing over a primer and don't fade or crease through out the day.
You don't have to stick to the intended quads, you can pretty much use any color in and of the quads and they work well together. This is not your usual matte palette guys this is a must have in your collection. This is so beautiful and rich in color payoff. I haven't been able to use it as much as I would like, but the few times I have, I've gotten a ton of compliments on my makeup and it's just perfection!

Next up is the Studded Kiss Lipstick in Love Craft. This I got a sample size from my Sephora perk points. I wanted to test out the consistency and the wear on these lipsticks before I purchased a full size one.  I am obsessed, I will be purchasing a few of her full size lipsticks. The pigmentation is on point and the lasting power is as well. The packaging is perfection, I love this packaging more then any of my other lipsticks.

Let's talk price, I purchased this palette at Sephora for $46 and the Studded Lipstick in a full size would cost you $21.
Here are some swatches for you guys.

Quad 1:
Laetus, Samael, Solas and Lucius 

Quad 2:
Lazarus, Saleos, Shax and Liberatus

Quad 3:
Ludwin, Succubus, Sytry and Latinus
Lastly here is one simple but beautiful eye look that I created, plus a lip swatch of Love Craft.

The Colors I used for this look were Laetus as an overall color, Lazarus as a crease defining color Saleos to deepen the crease, Liberatus as the pop of white on the lip and finished it off with a little Shax in the outer V to deepen the look at bit.

Ok so let's rate this palette.
Packaging: Beautiful, Kat Von D makes everything appealing to the eye.
Price: $46 Typical for a Palette, worth every dime especially with the amount of product you get.
Longevity: Lasts all day
Quality: Amazing. Perfect color payoff and little to no fall out.
Overall rating: A+
Side note, this rating also applies for the studded lipstick A+ all the way!

This is now officially my new favorite palette ever and that is saying a lot! It use to be the Too Faced Chocolate Bar, which I still love but Kat Von D out did herself with this palette. I love everything about it.

Alright my friends that does it for this long review, thanks for stopping by today.

Much Love Always,

June Monthly Favorites

Hello lovelies and welcome to July, I thought today would be a perfect day to share my June monthly favorites, enjoy!

I want to start off with my two ZPalettes, I LOVE, LOVE, LOVE these SO much! If you are interested in getting your own, I purchased mine off of the Makeup Geek website. They have super cute ones now, mine are a couple of their older ones. I have my palettes filled with Makeup Geek eye shadows, MAC, Coastal Scents and Morphe eye shadows. The best part of these palettes is that they are customizable. You can buy the colors and shadows that suit you. I consider myself the queen of warm/neutral shades but I wanted some fun bright colors for spring and summer. I went a little crazy and got a ton of shades I would normally not wear. I figured it would be fun to step out of my comfort zone.

Next up is the delicious  Dance 'til Dawn Tropical Tango from Bath and Body Works. I love a lot of their candles but this one was a first for me and it smells SO good! As it says it's very tropical so basically it's fruity, perfect for the summer! It makes me want to be in a tropical paradise like Hawaii. It's like a mixture of mango and pineapple, or at least that's what I think of when I smell it. I have been burning this nonstop this month as you can see in my first picture above, I only have a few more burns left. 

Next up is the itCosmetics Bye Bye Under eye concealer. Some of you might know that I have pretty bad under eye bags and dark circles. Something I struggle with on the daily. I saw mixed reviews on this product but decided I would give it a whirl. Ok so first of all I picked up the shade tan for Medium skin tones. this has on orange undertone which is suppose to be great for hiding those nasty dark circles. I have to say that I love this product but understand the mixed reviews. #1 It is a thick creamy consistency which feels a little sticky or tacky. #2 this product doesn't set on it's own it stays tacky so you can set it OR #3 because it's so creamy if you have dry under eyes this works wonders because you don't have to set it but a little creasing can occur. It really isn't bad at all, I promise. I loath creasing and this has very minimal creasing. I really like this product. 

Next up is the much raved about Smashbox Photo Finish Primer Water. So I actually got a sample of this in my Birchbox subscription which I cancelled but I was SO happy to finally get this because it was so raved about. Honestly I felt that with my combo skin it would make me a greasy mess, it didn't. Especially during these hot months, I love it. I use it after I moisturize and before my regular primer and it has this neat cooling sensation. I can't say that it makes my makeup last any longer but I do enjoy it and will continue to use it until I run out.

Next is also a Smashbox product, it's the Photo Finish Foundation Primer Pore Minimizing. I love it! It does such a great job at minimizing the appearance of my pores and keeping my Tzone from being overly oily.   My Holy Grail primer has been the Benefit Porefessional and now I get to add this one to the mix, I do love them both equally. In many ways they are very similar, yet different. For instance, they both have a skin tone texture and both do a great job with hiding the pores but this Smashbox one is just a tad bit thicker. All you oily girls, or combo skin girls out there I say give it a try. It's worth the money. 

OK on this next product I did a full review on it, click here to see the review. All you really need to know is that it's amazing!  

So this Hard Candy setting spray is actually pretty good. I try and test out a lot of setting sprays and this one is honestly not bad especially if you look at the price point! It's not a holy grail by any means but it's a great drugstore alternative. It does a great job at setting my makeup and it does a great job at prolonging the wear of my makeup. It does not last all day by any means but it does last a good 4-6 hours, not bad at all. It does have a strong cucumber smell, which I don't personally mind but others might.  

Next is the Sonia Kashuk Undetectable Cream Bronzer in Warm Tan. This is actually the first cream bronzer I  have ever owned, crazy I know. I really like it. I do use it to bronze my skin and then set is with a powder bronzer. It gives the prettiest glow. This is not for my fair girls out there, this color is a little too warm. You can however buy that lighter shades. 

I left the best for last. Revlon Colorburst Matte Balm in 210 Unapologetic. This is a new color for me, not my first colorburst but this color is so beautiful! I love it, it is VERY pigmented and very bright. It's such a gorgeous color for the summer. I have been wearing minimal makeup with a bam in your face lip color! These are so soft and creamy, they don't bleed and they last for a long time! They leave a beautiful stain on your lips even after you eat or drink. This is a must have product and if you don't like this bright color they have a ton to choose from. I personally own three and I want more!

Ok guys those are all of my faves for this month. I would love to see yours if you have a blog or YouTube account or anything you may want me to check out. Just leave me a comment or send me a private email. Thanks for spending time reading my post today. 

Have a wonderful day!

Much Love,