Archives: August 2010

Physicians Formula is really stepping it up lately with their cosmetics! I never used to be attracted to anything they offered but recently I came across this beauty in the drugstore and wanted to try it out.

This is from the Shimmer Strips Pop collection, and this is for blue eyes. Of course really anyone can wear it, but these colors happen to really make blue eyes especially POP!

There are nine shadows in this palette and it comes with a little (useless) sponge applicator.

I don’t know why, but I was expecting these colors to fall flat. I expected chalkiness and just general “blah”. I was sooooooo wrong. Compared with most other drugstore shadows I have tried these might be the best.

First of all they are very soft and smooth. No gritty feeling, no chalkiness, no patchiness. Secondly, they are very opaque. Just a couple swipes (and just one for a couple of them) and you have major saturated color. Love!

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Color Club has a huge new fall collection out called Untamed Luxury. It includes two sets of 7 polishes each; one called Indulgence and one called Diamond.

Today I have Indulgence for you since it was my favorite of the two.

This collection features some amazing cremes and shimmers and a frost for good measure.

The formula was totally outstanding as per usual with Color Club. Their polishes are always like BUTTAH!

Pretty In Platinum

Pretty In Platinum is a frosty silver/white. Wow this is a seriously hot white, it might be my favorite one now. It went on so opaque I barely even needed a second coat. It is a tiny bit streaky but nothing horrible.

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Hey there!

Check out my August Favorites video, and please subscribe if you haven’t already!

This was filmed on my iPhone 4, so it looks a little wonky, sorry! Still trying to decide what HD camcorder I might purchase.

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-VV

Say hello to my (new) little friend! Benefit’s POREfessional Pro Balm is an amazing new product. Basically it is a translucent balm you apply wherever you have obvious pores showing, and it helps to conceal them.

The shizz works people!

Last time I was getting my brows done at the Benefit Brow Bar, the woman doing my brows applied some of this over one half of my face. She handed a mirror to me and said look at this half compared to that half. I was blown away. The difference it made was pretty amazing. The half she applied it on looked so much smoother and really helped hide my (sorta large) pores. The other half of my face now looked horrific. Kidding. Kind of.

Not only did it work like magic on me, it feels really nice. It’s very silky and smooth. You can easily just apply it with your fingers, and it blends in quite nicely. Nice mild scent as well.

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Sonia Kashuk will soon be releasing a new holiday nail collection trio called Reach For The Stars for Target. Yes holiday, already…On that note, I wonder if most people understand that we are still in summer until September 23rd? It seems as though most people think summer ends in August, but it doesn’t! And yes, fall is end of September through end of December, even though a lot of people feel as though November/December are winter. THEN winter starts on December 22nd. Ok now that our 2nd grade lesson is out of the way…:)

Target is in fact the only place you can find this collection, so I am sorry if you fall in love and don’t have access to Target stores!

This is my first time trying out Sonia Kashuk nail colors and I am kind of disappointed. Let me clarify. The colors were beautiful, I loved all three. The brush quality was pretty bad though. All three of these brushes had wonky pieces that stuck out at weird angles. Also they felt really cheap and “plastic-y” when applying the polish. They did cover nicely in two coats.

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