Meet Matt(e) Nude palette spotted!

Just wanted to share this, I was on Hautelook and noticed that the recently launched theBalm Meet Matt(e) Nude palette is available for half the price!! :D get it get it!!

image from theBalm website

In case you want to use my link to join Hautelook here it is: http://www.hautelook.com/short/31eAB (clicking the link on top will give me as reference too)

January Glossybox 2013 Canada

One word came to mind when I opened this month's box. Underwhelming. Let me show you pictures first.

January box~

It's as small as my pinky! I'm worried that after swatching I won't have any products left to use XD

Look! I found the Curel's twin that I received in November Glossybox!

Wella Professionals Brilliance Leave-in Mousse: 190g full-size @ $17.99

Too Faced Lip Injection Extreme: hard to tell how much product is in this so I'd guestimate around 0.01oz which is a value of $1.40

Burt's Bees Naturally Nourishing Milk and Honey Body Lotion: this is a deluxe sample size of 25g, which values it at $1.91

Nivea Essential Lip Care: full size at $2

Glossybox Best In Moisture: that is the description given for the Curel hand cream found inside my box. Description on product card says "It's almost our birthday and to start the celebration we want to share the gift of soft, pampered skin and lips! For January, we've picked out our favourite, most moisturizing products from our first year of Glossybox!"~ value: $3.99

Beauty So Clean Cosmetic Sanitizing Wipes: 12 wipes cost $3.13

Overall value $30.42 plus tax, I guess that's still a gain? :)

(please don't take these values seriously, I'm just procrastinating BIG time from studying but thought this would be fun, I have no idea if these numbers are right~~ haha)

My thoughts:

I've always been happy with my Glossyboxes even though we've only received products from drugstore brands, at the very least I felt I was always trying something new. But starting off the year with similar products from 2012 is less than impressive. Seeing Wella, Curel, Beauty So Clean in my box left me disappointed, but the slap in the face has to be the tiny Too Faced lip injection sample they included in this month's box. It's almost like they listened, but not very well... I had cancelled my subscription mid January but had considered resubscribing so that I can get the Anniversary box, however this left such a nasty after-taste I am no longer sure... What do you think? Would it be worth the 19$?

I decided to end off the post with this picture... a box full of hand cream and body lotions I received from mostly my beauty subscriptions... Please excuse my sarcasm in this post... but blogging should be an outlet :)

Revlon ColorBurst Lip Butter: Swatches

Hello lovelies~

Like many others, I decided to jump into the lip butter wagon last year, unfortunately due to the change of weather, allergies and other issues with my lips I didn't get to test them out until much later... mainly because by the time my lips were okay I had forgot about them... this post was started some time ago, but I finally decided to share my 2 cents :)

I'm not really consistent eh? the last one had to be photographed on the wrong side of the tube -__-

from top: Lollipop, Cherry Tart and Tutti Frutti

Overall Rating *** / 5 (1 = worst 5 = best) If not for the adverse lip reaction, I would have loved these. These creamy lipbalms wear very nicely,  are moisturizing and give a lovely hint of colour.

Price **/5 (1 = soooo cheap! 5 = pricey!) I thought that the price is decent for what you get.

Packaging Quality ****/5 (1 = worst 5 = best) Cute and playful. I love having colour in my makeup bag and these fit the bill. I feel that the opacity of the cap is a nice touch to the design as a whole. I think that it managed to look fun without looking too 'kiddish' or cheap. I like the clicking sound when you put the cap back on. Cap off, it reminds me of my beloved Dior Addicts :)

Scent? Sweet? IMO, not too irritating.

Would you buy this product again? If I didn't have a bad reaction to these, I think I would love it. It provides decent moisture for everyday use and I felt a wide range of colours for a tinted lip balm (mind you I'm not very adventurous with lip colours...) 

Awesome find - Purse organizer

This is so random, but I am so excited about this I HAD to share it :)

I saw this on TeamBuy and was too stingy to buy it at whatever price it was... and then I found this on ebay for $4 and free shipping so I correction, my husband bought it for me :) I love that it is compact and fits nicely in my purse. The organizer holds everything in place so that I will always find what I need when I need it.

I chose the orange one because it just seem to be the colour I've been obsessing over lately... :) I can't help but have a silly big grin on my face for all the compartments. I might actually be able to eliminate the makeup bag and simply use the zipper compartments, but I haven't decided that just yet... What do you think? :)

Week 2: Eyes painted

The first week I took up this challenge I did a lippies post, and for week 2 I chose shadows. As shown in my makeup storage and collection post (here), I have a lot of eyeshadow palettes, so I will be doing more posts in the following weeks of eyeshadows. Here are the eyeshadow palettes I've used in the past week. 

For reasons I cannot really explain, this picture makes me very happy :) I love eyeshadows

Monday: Smashbox Eye Shadow Trio (Vanilla, Champagne, Brazilian Bronze.)

• This was part of a Sephora VIB 500-points perk a while back. I love carrying this in my makeup bag until the darkest brown (Brazilian Bronze) popped out of the pan... So sad~~ Anyways, this is a lovely trio with great pigmentation, easy to apply and the colours were perfectly put together, definitely a fave for this eyeshadow addict. The fact that it was free, is pure awesome :)

Tuesday: Maybelline Expert Wear Eyeshadow in Designer Chocolates

• This is my favourite drugstore palette/quad ever! I would choose this over some of my high-end palettes. The cranberry/purple/red shade is one of my favourite colour. I bring this palette to work on days I'm too lazy to put makeup at home and eventually work these colours onto my lids over the day. Quick and simple, portable and beautiful! This palette is proof that you don't have to spend a fortune for great colour payoff and lovely quality. Picked this up at the L'Oreal warehouse sale a while back, best $3 spent :)

at night: Lancome Color Design eye palette (Filigree, Tropique Glow, Island Kiss, Simmering and Lézard)

• I changed my look for our Tuesday meet, kept it simple and neutral~~ Started the week off lazy with pretty fool proof colours :) This shadow palette reminds me of the Naked 1 palette, but with some pinks. Lovely palette I got from a Lancome gift set that was on sale at DFCC. Lovely steal :)

Wednesday: Clinique Colour Surge Eye Shadow (Pink lollipop, Sugarplum duo, Crystal berry and Come Heather trio)

• This eyeshadow palette started my collection. This palette is perfect for more playful and awake look. I love the purples in this palette (especially now that I'm back in my purple phase.)

Thursday: Smashbox - Heartbreaker Eyeshadow palette in Hot Date

• Of all the palettes I used this week, this has to be my least favourite palette. The shadows are too soft and therefore hard to apply evenly, another fault was the amount of fallouts, it was particularly disappointing considering how much I enjoyed my free Smashbox trio~ Another reason this was kind of a derp buy for me is because the teal colour was not very flattering on me if it decides to show up at all~ I couldn't wait to go home to take these shadows off~

Friday: Urban Decay Naked 1 palette - (Virgin, Naked, Buck, Darkhorse and Half Baked)

• I LOVE THIS PALETTE. I lusted it from the first day I set eyes on it, and it is still one of my most reached for palettes. My only issue with this is that on a weekend trip to my in laws, this is just too big a palette to carry around (I'm also paranoid that I might break one of the shadows if I move it around too much.) In any case, I had a lot of time Friday morning so I played with a few of my favourite shadows from this palette and created another daytime smokey look~ Darkhorse is such a gorgeous dark brown~~ *drools* I will stop here because I'm sure most people have heard enough about this specific palette. :)

Sorry that this post was a little late on being posted, the swatching actually took a long time to do and then the cropping and uploading... I have a new level of appreciation for bloggers who consistently do so many swatches on their blogs! Very time consuming!

Anyways, I was thinking that I will do blushes for week 3, what do you think?? Yay or nay??? It better be yay! JK :)