Here's my $180 make up haul in the last month and a mini review!:
*From left to right*:
The Body Shop: Great sale in their roseflower collection 3 items for $15! I'm such a sucker for packaging! I love it. I bought from Toronto Eatons and Kitchener Fairview Mall.
Lipsticks: shade 02: honey, roseflower shades 02: true pink and 01: soft pink.
Roseflower blush shade: pink - beads of powder on top, when I swirl my brush on, not exactly great quality.
Roseflower Radiance stick shade: 01 - I was going to use it as a cheek highlight but it smells bad and it has next to no pigment and random glitter bits, it's a no.
Sparkle eyeliner: silver
Drugstore: Random white eyeliner from Rimmel... Lost mine had to replace it. The pencil is kind of hard and not that pigmented. So sometimes I light the tip over a lighter for 3 seconds to soften it before I apply on my eyes.
Adorned with Grace Minerals: Free shipping to all Canadian orders!! How great is that? I got 2 stippling brushes from there, since I heard some good reviews. I got a big and a small one together for close to $20. What a deal! At Mac, similar brushes would be $45 and $50! It did shed with the first wash, after that, it didn't seem to shed anymore, and it's so soft! They also packaged it really nice. Most likely ordering again for their samples. 2 thumbs up!
Mac: They had 25% off everything on their online store plus free shipping for orders over $75! I almost never buy things from Mac because it's so expensive, so this sale was my opportunity to splurge on the things I've been eyeing for a while!
Penultimate Eye liner: It fades a bit in 5hrs or so, not really water proof as it claims. I like it that it's good for travel compared to my Mac fluidline. It's not a harsh dark black and it creates a very fine line, which is more natural than the fluidline.
Powder Blush shade: Style - Nice coral colour with slight gold frost. I love the colour only to realize I have a similar blush colour! It's similar to All Smilse from Everyday Minerals but EM is matte not frosty.
Studio Finish Concealer shade: NC30 - I haven't used it yet. Heard many great reviews, and I needed a new replacement, since my Vincent Longo concealer is almost finished.
Fix+Rose: Pretty disapointed. I heard many raves about this mineralize water. But at the end of the day I spent $20 on a small bottle of water to spray on my face. It didn't really do anything for me, might as well spray normal water over my face. The scent was okay, didn't love it or hate it. I didn't notice it prolonging my make up. But then again, I don't wear much make up.
Grand Duo Mineralize Blush shade: Earth to Earth. I was really torn about getting this or the shade Hot Planet, but settle for this hoping to get a nice summer glow and the great reviews from Makeupalley, but was slightly disapointed. It wasn't pigmented enough for me. The highlight side didn't show up when used alone on my NC30 skin. I guess you can mix the two shades but still I wish it was a bit darker and pigmented. Maybe I should've got Light over Dark instead.
Smashbox: I got a double sided liner and eyebrow br
ush an
d gel liner online from ebay for I think it was $25usd. What a great deal I thought since the brush alone retails for $30 around, and then the gel liner retails for around $20. But then when I got my package, I think I've been scammed! I think it might be fake! It didn't come with a box because it was from a set that included the brush and eyeliner. The brush looks okay, but the jar of gel liner feels like cheap packaging. Can someone confirm if it's real? I guess I'll update when I go to a Smashbox counter to compare.
Here is a size comparison to a quarter and my Mac Fluidline on the left.
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That's just the make up, I've also spent around $350 on clothes -_-. Gonna go back to my shopping drought now!
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