Favorites of 2010

Eye Products:

• E.L.F. Elements single e/s
• Pink Ice
• Ivory
• Moondust
• Sage
• NYX Trio e/s- Nude/Taupe/Dark Brown
• Cover Girl e/s quad- (name?)- shade names: deep ocean/blue Caribbean/misty seas/arctic glow
• Wet n Wild Color Icon palette- 249 Vanity
• Boots No7 Stay Perfect shadow palette- 45 Beside the Sea
• NYX e/s singles
• 106 Golden Dune
• 11 Iced Mocha
• 122 Morocco
• 55 Spring Flower
• 39 Slate
• 19 Flamingo
• Rimmel Three-Sum-110 Platonic
• E.L.F. Eye Brigtening e/s- Ivy
• Urban Decay deluxe e/s- Underground
• Rimmel Glam Eyes Mono e/s- Glam Ice
• Urban Decay 24/7 pencil in Zero
• Stila Smugdepot- black
• Stila Smudgepot- Kitten
• NYX Jumbo e/s pencil- Milk
• L'Oreal Voluminous Carbon Black mascara
• Cover Girl Lashblast mascara in Black Brown 
• Clinique High Impact mascara-black

Face products:

• Bare Minerals Prime Time foundation primer
• NYX Creme Rouge blush- 11 Boho Chic
• Maybelline Mineral Power foundation w SPF 18

Lip products (not pictured):

• E.L.F. Hypershine Glosses
• Blossom
• Joy
• Mark Juice Gems
• any shade
• Victoria Secret Beauty Rush lipgloss- Slice of Heaven
• Bath and Body Works Liplicious lipgloss- Whipped Vanilla
• NYX Round Lipstick
• Thalia
• Indian Pink
• Smackers lip balm stick- Strawberry 

Body products:

• Bath and Body Works
• Black Raspberry Vanilla EDT
• " " handcream
• Warm Vanilla Sugar body cream
• Dark Kiss body lotion
• Shakira EDT (there is a 2.7 fl oz. size for 50% at Walgreens in a gift set!)

Nail polish:

• Wet n Wild Color Craze- 231 Shield
• Essence Colour + Go- 27 No More Drama (only $0.99)

Love,

Christmas Wishlist: Beauty Edition

Is anyone else as excited as I am that it's finally winter? I love everything about winter- brisk air, gloves, scarves, boots, coats, hats, hot chocolate, getting presents (great), giving presents that people really appreciate (better x10000), and just the overall cheer. Of course, in the beauty blogging world, wishlists are extremely popular, so I thought I would share mine. Please enjoy!

1) Bumpits

(source: www.bumpits.com)

While I first found these very strange, I now realize how life-saving they would be, especially the mini Bumpit. The mini ones can be used under bangs pulled back to make that cute little "poof". I also think the larger Bumpits would be fun to play around with. These are affordable and would make a good gift because I previously would not have bought these. However, if the recipient hates to go out of her comfort zone, you should probably skip this.

2) Essie nails polishes

You can never have enough nail polishes. My two favorite brands are Essie and Essence (irronic- "Ess-" begins both). Here are my top picks from the line ( I'm not including the shades I have and love- Shelter Island, Greenport, Island Hopping, and Sexy Divide). These polishes retail at $8.

-"Steel-ing the Scene"

(source: Essie.com)

-"Going Incognito"

(source: Essie.com)

3)Stila Adventurous in Aspen Travel Palette
Stila recently released a series of travel palettes themed around places like Moscow, Paris, Tokyo, etc. Each comes with four eyeshadows and one of their famed covertible color blushes. Adventurous in Aspen's e/s shades are "0.15 oz in Snow Angel (shimmering heather gray), Icicles (blue), Glisten (shimmering gold), and Ajax (black with gold sparkle), and the blush is in "Rosy (rose pink)." (source: Sephora.com)

4) Nars Lip Gloss in Turkish Delight

This is the famed gloss that Kim Kardashian usually wears in photos and is very complimentary on most skintones (or so they say). I'd like to give it a whirl. This would need to got to a friend who like makeup, or she might feel jipped. One lipgloss is $24.

(source: Google Images)

5) Nars Beauty in a Box

"This set contains:

- Essential Eye Palette - 5 x 0.05 oz Eyeshadow in Night Star (sheer peach with gold pearls), Galapagos (rich bronze with gold flecks), Nepal (rose with shimmer), Ondine (plum with gold shimmer), Thunderball (midnight gray) plus 0.03 oz Cream Shadow in Unconditional Love (peach beige shimmer)

- 0.28 oz Lip Gloss in Ophelia (strawberry nectar)

- 0.14 oz mini Multiple in Orgasm (peachy pink shimmer)

- 0.08 oz mini Bronzer in Laguna (brown with golden shimmer)" (source: sephora.com)

Ooh la la! I don't even know what to say about it. It's perfect! (except for the price- $69)

A Few Looks from Last Week

I used the Wet n Wild Palette in Vanity for these. I've really really been enjoying it for multiple looks.

For this look, I actually took the pictures after nine hours of wear so sadly, it's not nearly as pretty as when it was first applied for this look I used:

• Maybelline Mineral Power Powder Foundation in Light 2 Classic Ivory
• Stila Smudge Pot in Violet
• MAC E/S in Beautiful Iris
• MAC E/S in Electra
• MAC Pro Longwear Concealer sample in NW20
• Urban Decay 24/7 eyeliner in zero
• Loreal Voluminous Carbon Black
• Maybelline The Falsies in blackest black
• NYX e/s in Morocco
• Almay Blendable Eye Pencil in navy(?)
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