New Reviews to Come!

I have been so busy with writing and promoting my personal blog and just trying to get my name out there that I really didn't have much time to do reviews.

I have a lot of things I will review in 2013 (some you will also see on my personal blog), so stay tuned!

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Katie

72 warm color power eye shadow #72-2XW

I really like this palette because it's all nude colors, which is what I wear 90% of the time.  I actually don't wear much eye shadow in the summer, and leave the more intricate looks of mine for when I go out for an evening.  This is also a great palette for blue eyes because there are a ton of peachy shades.  All of the shadows range from matte to satin to shimmer.  The only downside of the quality is that some of the shades are very powdery, so you have to be careful how you handle the whole palette.

I bought this palette from lifeng201010  (http://myworld.ebay.com/lifeng201010/?_trksid=p4340.l2559) who is a top rated seller on Ebay.

Kellogg's Fiber Plus Antioxidants in Chocolate Chip

These are like CRACK!!!!  Best granola bars EVER if you are a chocoholic like myself.

Sleek iDivine Palette Review Part One

This weekend I got my first Sleek iDivine palette in the mail. iDivine is a U.K. mineral-based eye shadow line, so you can use them wet and the eye shadow won't seal over like regular eye shadows.

 I ordered Storm #578 on Ebay:

The colors are very pigmented and you get 12 eye shadows for around $15.00  I paid $14.60 from seller gift-ideas-store (link: http://stores.ebay.com/giftideascosmeticperfumestore )

There are nine shimmer shadows, light golds and peaches as well as silver, slate and dark blue (some swatches):

 and three matte, a light brown, a dark brown, and a black  (swatches):

I have another palette on the way but I won't be getting it until May 10th at the earliest.

P.S.: I use this for cleaning off my hands when I swatch, Wet n Wild Eye Makeup Remover:

I would never waste my good eye makeup remover on swatching, so I just use this.  It's very cheap and gets the job done.

The Journals of Louisa May Alcott

(Originally posted in my personal blog)

 All about Louisa: http://www25.uua.org/uuhs/duub/articles/louisamayalcott.html

From amazon.com: From her eleventh year to the month of her death at age fifty-five, Louisa May Alcott kept copious journals. She never intended them to be published, but the insights they provide into her remarkable life are invaluable. Alcott grew up in a genteel but impoverished household, surrounded by the literary and philosophical elite of nineteenth-century New England, including Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, and Nathaniel Hawthorne. Like her fictional alter ego, Jo March, she was a free spirit who longed for independence, yet she dutifully supported her parents and three sisters with her literary efforts. In the journals are to be found hints of Alcott's surprisingly complex persona as well as clues to her double life as an author not only of "high" literature but also of serial thrillers and Gothic romances.   Associate editor Madeleine B. Stern has added an in-depth introduction to The Journals of Louisa May Alcott, the only unabridged edition of Alcott's private diaries.


The end of the book is boring because Louisa doesn't pay much attention to it at all towards the end of her life, I have to say. The first two thirds of the book are great though. I loved reading about all the writing she had published in her life.

Physician's Formula Matte Collection Eye Shadow

I have two quads so far: Classic Nudes and Canyon Classics.

Classic Nudes:

Canyon Classics:

The texture of these eye shadows are very smooth and buttery (which is what you want with mineral mattes).  There is a lot of fallout when you apply (puffs of product cloud out around you if you're too rough applying it) so your best bet is to use a primer on your eyes and pat the color on, then blend.  The stay power on both is pretty impressive: I rubbed the swatches I had on my hands pretty well and it took a minute for them to fade away almost completely.  I haven't tried them on with a primer, so I'm assuming they'll last at least 8 hours with one.

BR 40 color mineral eye shadow palette

Some of the colors have more color payoff than others dry.  Try the lighter colors that need to be applied and blended a lot wet and that should help make them darker.

This is the case it came in:

My particular palette has one eye shadow that keeps popping out but I'm sure some superglue will help it to stay in:

They are mostly shimmers and satins but there are a few matte colors among them.

All in all this isn't a palette for mature skin but has a lot of colors that can stand alone.

Coastal Scents Blushes and Shany 40 Palette Review

Yesterday I got my order of Coastal Scents Professional Blush Palette and Shany 40 Eyeshadow palette in Boutique.

Coastal Scents:

I'm impressed with the pigmentation and color payoff for them being only $15.  They range from neutral  terracotta to peach to hot pink.  Any color you need is here.

Shany 40 Eyeshadow palette in Boutique:

The only thing that annoyed me about this palette is the fact that the black was cracked and managed to get all over the palette.  I didn't realize that some of the black also managed to wind up on my bed, and I woke up with black streaks all over my left cheek and nobody told me this morning.  Thanks Mom!

Update: I had to pry the back out of the kit because it was so crumbled.  Black eye shadow spilled everywhere and I just spent 10 minutes cleaning up.  I'm not mad about the eye shadow crumbling: that happens all the time when you order a palette through the mail, but it just HAD to be the black one that broke. Just my luck!

Other than that, great color payoff and vibrant pigmentation for 12 bucks. (not including shipping).


All of these are from amazon.com, where you get free shipping if you spend 25 bucks or over.  I got all of my palettes from amazon: I don't order many eye palettes from eBay because I know I'll be guaranteed my order coming in 5-7 days when I order from amazon.  So both of these items cost me $30 with no shipping charge.

Party City pinata fillers

I did not purchase the pinatas for Spider Man or Spongebob, just the candy fillers.  To me they seem like a rip off, since the way they package the candy, you'll get one little bag with like, one or two jelly beans in it.  It just seems like such a blow to the ecosystem for me and I'd rather go to WalMart or something and get bags of candy bar miniatures and gold coins or something.  I'd only do the pinata with the pinata filler if your kid is demanding that EVERYTHING be Spongebob, Spider Man, etc.

L'Oreal Studio Secrets

Rosecha is something I have inherited from my mother.  Right now my particular case is not that bad, but I can tell that it could get as noticeable as it was when my mother was in her 40's.

This product, however, erases this problem for me.

L'Oreal's Studio Secret Primer in #2

Green counteracts red and pink, so when you put this primer on and work it into the skin, the Rosecha goes away.  It lasts all day as well, so it has made its way into my list of "must haves".  

I actually used to use the Physician's Formula green mineral powder corrector, but my skin gets so dry it just  made my skin look cakey.  This liquid is great for those with dry skin.  I pop this on along with a pore minimize and some tinted moisturizer with sunscreen, and my face is good to go for the day (I also use very little powder to set my makeup because of my dry skin).