ELF Holiday Essential Holiday Beauty Eye Books Swatches

This is my last set of ELF holiday products from the Target haul. Today I want to share with you swatches from their beauty books in Natural Eye and Everyday Eye. I think these could make a great gifts under the tree or stocking stuffers for teens or someone just getting into makeup. They come with 12 coordinating colors as well as an eyeliner pencil and some instructions. This would be great to travel with as well!

First up is the Everyday Eye Book

 And here are photos of the Natural Eye Book

You can get them at ELF's website for $5 or at Target for $4 Natural Eye or Everyday Eye

Darling Girl Cosmetics Swatches Part 2

Today I want to share with you my first purchase from Darling Girl Cosmetics. I picked up twelve shadows, half of them are from the Halloween collection and today I am going to share with you the other six shadows I purchased.

Sushi Flower- an amazing iridescent blue/purple with a rainbow of diamond dust sparkle

Uprising- a gorgeous color shifting copper laid over a black base. In some lights it looks purple, in some you can really see the copper. It is gorgeous!

Gargoyle- beautiful rich metallic patina'd green with coppery brown undertones

Petunia- somewhat neural mid-tone matte pink

Willow- sheer iridescent baby pink with turquoise shift

Persuasion- (I cannot find it on the site anymore)

Top-Sushi Flower, Petunia, Persuasion
Bottom- Gargoyle, Uprising, Willow

Top-Sushi Flower, Petunia, Persuasion
Bottom- Gargoyle, Uprising, Willow

Sushi Flower

Petunia

Persuasion

Uprising

Gargoyle

Willow

Swatched

All swatched over bare skin - no primer

Top: Sushi Flower, Petunia, Persuasion

Bottom: Uprising, Gargoyle, Willow

I know this post is quite late, I bought all of these during the 11.11.11 sale. I love all of these colors. I was looking for a nice light pink so I picked up Willow and Petunia. That is actually the whole reason I placed my first order with them. Sushi Flower and Persuasion caught my eye while I was perusing for some pretty golds/bronzes (uprising gargoyle). I honestly cannot pick a favorite from this bunch. They are all very pretty and I love using them!

What do you think of these shadows? How would you wear these? What other colors would you recommend for me to try from Darling Girl?

Darling Girl Cosmetics Swatches Part 1 - Darling Ghoul Halloween

Today I want to share with you part of my first purchase from Darling Girl Cosmetics. I picked up twelve shadows, half of them are from the Halloween collection. If you would like to see part two of the swatches, click here! I know its a bit late to be talking about Halloween but it doesn't make the shadows any less lovely.

Zombody to Love- sheer blackened navy with gold reflect

Crypt Keeper- blackened antique gold

Bats in the Belfry- deep murky brown with a kind of olive green undertone and sprinkles of multicolored green glitter. Fairly low sheen and on the metallic side

Pumpkin Eater- pumpkin orange with loads of green iridescence

Jack's Lantern- deep black base with a  fiery red/orange shift. This combination looks like a blackened purple especially when foiled

Candy Corn- blend of orange, chocolate brown and holographic glitters. So amazingly awesome as an eyeliner!

Top- Bats in the Belfry, Zombody to Love, Jack's Lantern

Bottom- Pumpkin Eater, Candy  Corn, Crypt Keeper

Top- Bats in the Belfry, Zombody to Love, Jack's Lantern

Bottom- Pumpkin Eater, Candy  Corn, Crypt Keeper

Bats in the Belfry

Zombody to Love

Jack's Lantern

Candy Corn

Pumpkin Eater

Crypt Keeper

Swatches

all were swatched over bare skin except candy corn which was patted over LA Splash Splash Proof Sealer eyeshadow sealer/base

Top- Bats in the Belfry, Zombody to Love, Jack's Lantern
Bottom- Candy Corn, Pumpkin Eater, Crypt Keeper

These are my first Darling Girl eye shadows and honestly, I cannot believe I waited so long to try these out. They are absolutely wonderful. I love the colors and the texture is great. My favorite has to be Jack's Lantern. It is truly beautiful. The red and orange shadow mixed with blackened purple, just cannot be beat. It is just so complex and beautiful.

What do you think of these colors? What is your favorite Darling Girl eyeshadow?

Benefit Hervana Swatches

Benefit had a one day flash sale of Hervana before it is released in January, so I picked this up during my Sephora haul. This blush is described as a soft orchid-blossom flush. There are four colors in a pinwheel pattern. The colors are lucky shell, divine peach, heavenly rose, berry delight.You are meant to swirl your brush in there and mix up all the colors and then put it on your face.

 Swatches

Swatched over bare skin 

sorry for the craziness I seem to have difficulties trying to photograph blush. If you have any tips I would love to hear them!

 Top- all the colors swirled together swatched heavily then blended out
Bottom- lucky shell, divine peach, heavenly rose, berry delight

 Top- all the colors swirled together swatched heavily then blended out

Bottom- lucky shell, divine peach, heavenly rose, berry delight

 
I like that the new packaging comes with a little mirror and I like that the top is actually attached to the box so that you cannot lose or damage the top. This blush is a nice soft pink. It is darker than dandelion (the only other benefit blush I have) so I think more people will be able to use this.

Are you going to pick this up when it is launched or are you not that interested in it?

What is your favorite benefit boxed powder? What is your favorite blush?

You will be able to pick this up for $28 at Sephora in January.

Sephora VIB Gift Card Haul

I received my Sephora gift card in the mail and picked up three things. I know a lot of people were saying you did not have to buy 50$ worth of stuff to use the gift card online, but I did anyway. I was initially only going to get a few Benefit products to test out but then I saw they were doing a flash sale of Hervana before the release in January so I added that to my cart too. I ended up purchasing Finding Mr. Bright, One Prime Day, and Hervana. I have been interested in trying out some of Benefit's products, but The Big 10 which is what I originally wanted was out of stock. I have been rather curious of their different luminizers and face products.

What did you pick up from Sephora recently? Do you like Benefit products?

Are you interested in picking up Hervana when it is released?

What is your favorite face product (primer, luminizer, etc)?

NTMS Challenge - Blue Winter FOTD

As soon as I heard what the challenge was I knew exactly what I wanted to do. When I thought of blue winter I thought "this is the perfect time to use my Kat Von D Metal Orchestra palette!!" Perfect. This look is not perfect, but it was my first attempt at something like this and I think it turned out well. I have a tutorial on the way.

What I used:

Eyes:

NYX Jumbo Eye Pencils in Milk and Electric Blue (available at Ulta)

Kat Von D Metal Orchestra Palette (available at Sephora)

[Dagger, Techno, First Class, Razor Gray]

LA Splash Spotlight Mascara (available at Ulta)

Too Faced Absolutely Invisible Candlelight (available at Ulta or Sephora)

Lips:

OCC Lip Tar in Hoochie (available at their website)  I couldn't help myself and was just looking for an excuse to use it

Brushes:

ELF small smudge brush

ELF small precision brush

ELF eyeshadow "c" brush

ELF contour brush

Sonia Kashuk small eyeshadow brush

ELF Professional eyeshadow brush (this brush seems similar as the one I used came in a gift set and I cannot find it on their site)

I do not know if I would wear it often, but I think it is pretty .

What do you think of this look? 

NARS Deep Throat Blush Swatches

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