Thanksgiving Day to Night Makeup Tutorial

Products:

Kat Von D Tattoo Concealer * Light (Not shown)

Rimmel Match Perfection Concealer * Fair/Light (Not shown)

Too Faced Shadow Insurance 

Anastasia Beverly Hills * No. 2 Cafe Americano * Matte Cream and Matte Coco Brown

Too Faced Glamour to Go II * Brown Shades

Maybelline Gel Eyeliner * Expresso

Rimmel Scandaleyes Eye Liner * Purple

Rimmel Lashaccelrator * Black

Tarte Amazonian Clay Blush * Dollface

Kate Moss for Rimmel Lasting Finish Lipstick * 05

Blistex Lip Medex

Anastasia Beverly Hills * No. 3 Milky Way  

Watch the Tutorial!

Too Faced Joy to the Girls Eye Shadow Palette 2013 Holiday Collection Review and Swatches. HD Photos and Video!

***UPDATE***

After having the palette and using it daily for a week or so, so I could try out every single eye shadow, I ended up returning the palette. While I LOVED the colors (and packaging!) and some of the shades were amazing, several of the shades (such as Prancer, Sugar Plum and Yule Log) were completely unusable. They swatched beautifully, but did not wear well AT ALL. Even over primer they'd crease (horribly) and my biggest peeve - and what prompted me to return it- was if you tried to apply some of the shades, you first had to build up like crazy (hello fallout city!) and if you tried to build it DISAPPEARED. Completely. I was really sad to return this; it was an early birthday gift and I was super happy to get it. I posted an originally positive review due to the fact that some of the shades were excellent (snow angel, mulberry, cookie dough come to mind) and created beautiful looks. As a disclaimer I swatched all the shades and wore several before giving my review, and I stand by that portion. In the interest of the holiday season I wanted to post my review in a timely fashion, so I didn't wait to wear ALL the shades. I've learned my lesson and in the future I will wait to wear all shades first. I hope this helps! Honesty is my #1 goal, and trying to help people so I had to update my review.

Best wishes,

Elisabeth

Hey Everyone,

I know it's a bit early - but I'm already gearing up for Christmas and New Year's - I'm prepared to sacrifice Thanksgiving to get there. 

In keeping with this mad dash towards the holidays, my wonderful family gave me an early birthday gift (December baby over here!) and it is the Too Faced Joy to the Girls Eye Shadow Palette from the 2013 Holiday Collection. I love it! Listed below is an in-depth review on each shade, the packaging, price, ideas for looks, and my general thoughts on the palette. I also filmed a review video with live and finished swatches, as well as a makeup tutorial using this palette! Please feel free to leave thoughts or questions below, I always answer back!

Best wishes
<3 & :)
Talktoyoulaterloveyoubye

Elisabeth

Packaging:

Cardboard material. Thicker and taller than the average palette. Slightly bulky and impractical for travelling/storage. Magnetic closure. Gold polka dots on an aqua background. Pattern design by celeb. decorator Mary McDonald.

Price: 

$46 dollars. $275.00 value.

Available:

Wherever Too Faced is sold!

Shades:

Cookie Dough: Matte light brown with warm undertones. Opaque, blendable and the perfect transition color.

Cheers: Metallic Mauve with micro-shimmer. Opaque, blendable and a lovely lid color. 

Prancer: Glittery bronze gold. Chunkier formula and harder to apply. Some fall out. Beautiful color though.

Sugar Plum: Plum with gray undertones and silver glitter. Opaque, beautiful color for the outer third of the eye. Glitter kind of disappears when applied though.

Mulberry: Darker matte brown with reddish-purple undertones. Pigmented, smooth and a wonderful crease color.

Snow Angel: Matte vanilla cream. Pigmented, smooth and creamy, perfect base and highlight color.

Powdered Sugar: Matte nude with pink undertones. Pigmented, blendable and a great base/highlight shade.

Too Too: Girly pink with iridescent shimmer glitter. Fairly opaque, but another one where the glitter seems to vanish when applied to the lid.

Yule Log: Rich chocolate brown with loads of bronze shimmer glitter. Opaque and easy to blend, but the glitter vanishes when applied. WTH??

Chestnut: Medium cocoa brown with micro-frost. Easy to blend and great for a lid color or as a transition color. 

Twinkle: Metallic old gold. Fairly opaque and a beautiful lid color for an evening out or the holiday season.

Joy: Aqua pool blue with micro-pearl frost. Opaque and easy to blend. Great color for the lid or as an inner highlight.

Spike the Punch: Baby pink with golden micro-shimmer. Great as a highlight or for a subtle hint of shimmer on the lid.

Chimney: Slate color with a beautiful blue-grey sheen. Opaque and blendable. Very versatile color, can be used on the crease, lid, to deepen up a look or as a liner.

Coal: Matte black with grey-brown undertones. Fairly opaque and easy to blend. 

The palette comes with:

Three look idea cards.

One full-sized LashGasm mascara.

Mascara:

Personally not my favorite. I found the formula to be a bit tacky and cause my lashes to stick together. It's an obvious looking mascara. 

Overall thoughts:

On the whole, I'm very happy with the palette. Over primer the shadows last all day with no problems or creasing. Almost every shadow is a hit and it gives you a huge range of looks to create. A good blend of mattes, shimmers and glitters. Lots of neutrals and every day colors, as well as a couple of fun shades and party ready shades. 

Don't Forget to Check Out my video review and Makeup Tutorial!!! Thanks! :)

Makeup Tutorial

Review

Madcap Makeup Monday

Hey Everyone,

I hope you had a great time last week and that this upcoming week is fantastic as well! Here is a brief overview of what products I used this week. With cooler weather coming, I've been all about the cliche colors of brown, bronze and olive. Wine colored lips can't be far behind!

Best wishes,

Elisabeth

Maybelline Baby Lips in Peach Kiss

Tarte Amazonian Clay Bronzer in Park Ave. Princess

Anastasia of Beverly Hills Eye Shadow Palette in Cafe Americano

Revlon ColorStay Mineral Lipglaze in 535 Eternal Blossom

Too Faced Shadow Insurance

Rimmel Lash Accelerator Mascara

Wet N' Wild Color Icon Eyeliner in Copper

Tarte Amazonian Clay Blush in Doll Face

Rimmel Match Perfection Highlighter/Concealer in Fair/Light

No. 7 Eyeliner in Brown

E.L.F. 32 Eye Shadow Palette

Kat Von D Tattoo Concealer in Light

Madcap Makeup Monday (On Tuesday!)

Hey Everyone,

Sorry that I'm a day late! Technical difficulties, I can't get my photos to upload all of a sudden so this post isn't going to be overflowing with images - grrr! I hope you enjoy anyway and I hope for all our sakes' that I can figure out the mystery of the unloadable images!!

Best wishes,

Elisabeth 

P.S. I have a Fall series coming up soon with Fall Favorites, a look-book, recipes and more!! Be sure to check back! :)

Products:

Wet N' Wild Comfort Zone Palette (Review coming soon! Lots of MAC Dupes in this one!!)

Maybelline Color Tattoo in #10 Fierce and Tangy (Tutorial with suggestions on how to wear orange eye shadow will be posted soon!)

Kat Von D Tattoo Concealer

Maybelline Baby Lips in Peach Kiss

Tarte Amazonian Clay Blush in Doll Face

Rimmel Match Perfection Stay Matte Powder

Urban Decay All Nighter Setting Spray

Too Faced Galaxy Glam Eye Shadow in Amber Asteroid

Too Faced Shadow Insurance

Maybelline Gel Eye Liner in Expresso

Anastasia of Beverly Hills Eye Shadow Duo in Power Lunch

Anastasia of Beverly Hills Eye Shadow Palette in Cafe Americano

Maybelline Color Tattoo Eye Shadow in Lavish Lavender

Maybelline Color Tattoo Eye Shadow in Barely Beige

NARS Lipgloss in Super Orgasm

Rimmel Match Perfection Concealer/Highlighter

Rimmel Lash Accelerator Mascara

Tarte Amazonian Clay Bronzer in Park Ave. Princess

Quick and Easy Smoky Eye Tutorial

Hey Everyone! Hope you're having a great day. I've recently become obsessed with a mono-tone smoky eye - I lay all the credit for the inspiration at the platform heels of Grav3yard girl and Leanne Woodfull. They're are amazing YouTube Goddesses :)

I thought I'd try my own version of the look in an ode to them. Here are my results!

Best wishes,

Elisabeth 

Products Used:

Kat Von D Tattoo Concealer - Light

Maybelline Baby Lips in Peach Kiss

Tarte Blush in Dollface

Too Faced Galaxy Glam Eye Shadow in Amber Asteroid -  Full review and swatches here

Rimmel Match Perfection Concealer and Rimmel Scandaleyes Kohl Kajal Eye Liner in Black -  Full review and swatches here

Maybelline the Falsies Flared Mascara 

Madcap Makeup Monday

Hey Everyone,

I hope your week is off to a great start so far! It's been pretty simple lately, but without further ado I'll share what I've been loving over the past week.

Best wishes,

Elisabeth 

The products of the week:

Too Faced Glamour to Go II - Full review and swatches here

Anastasia Eye Shadow Duo in Power Lunch

Anastasia Eye Shadow Palette in Milky Way -  Full review and swatches here

Kat Von D Tattoo Concealer

Revlon Colorstay Mineral Lipglaze in Perennial Pink 538

Maybelline Baby Lips in Peach Kiss

Tarte Blush in Dollface

Too Faced Galaxy Glam Eye Shadow in Amber Asteroid -  Full review and swatches here

Rimmel Match Perfection Concealer and Rimmel Scandaleyes Kohl Kajal Eye Liner in Black -  Full review and swatches here

Maybelline the Falsies Flared Mascara 

Elf Golden Bronzer

The perfect peach nude. Moisturizing and inexpensive, easy to wear, smells good and great for beginners!

I use this as a highlighter more than a bronzer. Allegedly this is a dupe for Dior's Amber Diamond. I wouldn't go that far, but for $3 it's a decent highlighter.

Eye Shadow: Too Faced Galaxy Glam Eye Shadow in Amber Asteroid -  Full review and swatches here

Eye Liner: Rimmel Scandaleyes Kohl Kajal Eye Liner in Black

Mascara: Maybelline the Falsies Flared Mascara 

A tutorial on this eye look can be viewed here!!

Madcap Makeup Monday

Hey Everyone,

Welcome back to another week of Madcap Makeup Monday! This week I tried to break out some different products from what I've been using so you don't feel like you're reading the makeup blog equivalent of Groundhog Day! 

Wet and Wild Comfort Zone Palette- I used the cream shade as an inner corner highlight

Anastasia Eye Shadow Duo in Power Lunch

Kat Von D Tattoo Concealer in Light

NYC Smooth Skin Pressed Face Powder in 701A Translucent

Maybelline Baby Lips in Peppermint and Pink Punch

Burt's Bees Sun Protecting Lip Balm with Passion-fruit

Benefit Posie Tint

Clinique Lash Doubling Mascara

L'Oreal Colour Riche Caresse Wet Shine Stain, Rose On and On 184

Maybelline Color Tattoo in Barely Beige 100 

Maybelline Gel Eye Liner in Expresso 

Maybelline Color Sensational Lipstick in 815 Glisten Up Pink 

Tarte Amazonian Clay Bronzer in Park Avenue Princess 

Too Faced Glamour to Go 2 - Full review and swatches here

Rimmel Match Perfection Concealer/Hightlighter in Fair/Light - Full review and swatches here

Rimmel Scandaleyes Eyeliner in Black - Full review and swatches here

Kate Moss for Rimmel Lasting Finish Matte Lipstick in 101 - Full review and swatches here

Best Wishes,

Elisabeth 

One Brand Review: Too Faced

Hey Everyone,

Today's one brand review is on the products I have from Too Faced. Overall I like the brand. It was my number one makeup brand for a few years, pretty much when I was just really getting into makeup. As I've explored other companies, it's slipped a little from number one. I still like it and use many of the products I own, however I have not purchased a new item from them in many years.

The company:

I like their principal - they don't test on animals, which I like. As someone how currently has four rescue mutts that I love dearly and volunteers (when I get the chance and not often enough!) at an animal shelter, I do support that.

They also have this adorable girly, cutesy packaging to all their products. It can be a little impractical for travel, etc, but it is really cute.

I have found that while I really like the company, the products - at least the ones I have- don't amaze me when I compare them to others. The lip glosses are cute, but not something I'd repurchase. The eye shadows I have are amazing colors and I love them, however they aren't super pigmented and I cannot get them to last all day on me. The blush and eyeliners are fine, but I have others that do a better job.

The end result:

Don't get me wrong, I am not bashing on Too Faced. I probably own more from this one company than any other, but I've found other products that I love more or work just as well for me at a better price. I bought most, if not all, of these items on clearance and I enjoy what I have. I just don't reach for it as often as I'd like.

 = Personal favorites!

The Products:

Galaxy Glam Baked Eye Shadow

 Moon Beam - swirled royal blue, black and white

Amber Asteroid - swirled brown and gold

Deep Space - swirled emerald, black and white

Swatches are shown with both wet and dry application.

Pinch My Petals Blush - Pinky-Mauve with grey undertones. Almost Invisible light gold shimmer

 Shadow Insurance - Invisible

 Perfect Eyes Waterproof Eyeliner

 Perfect Storm - grey-black with silver glitter

Glamour to Go II (2) 

These shadows don't seem to have a name so quick rundown:

The bottom shadow on my arm is the upper left shadow in the palette. Sorry I didn't do a better job defining what's what! Below that are the four lip glosses and the last photo is of the blush!

This is what happens when it falls out of your luggage from the top shelve of a closet! Whoops!!

Liquif-Eye Shadow Collection: From Upper Left to Bottom Right:

1/2 Ooh & Aah: Charcoal grey with silver glitter

1/2 Ooh & Aah: Silver Satin

Exclusive: Bright shimmering turquoise 

1/2 Full Frontal: Shimmering bronze

1/2 Boy Toy: Slightly shimmering pink rose

1/2 Steel Magnolias: Shimmering citron green 

Oscar: Slightly shimmering light peach

Exclusive: Moss green with almost invisible shimmer

Exclusive: Bright blue-based purple

Vixen: Shimmering grey with purple tones

1/2 Fantasy Island: Shimmering Mermaid sea foam green 

Exclusive: Matte charcoal black 

 Eye Shadow Duo: 

Sexpresso and Peach Fuzz - sheer peach with lots of gold glitter and matte chocolate brown 

Girls Dig Pearls Lip Gloss:

 Shell - light pink with iridescent, duo-chrome pink, purple and iridescent white shimmer

Mirror Shine Lip Gloss:

 Damn I'm Hot - Sheer red creme gloss

Smoky Eye: From Upper Left to Bottom Right:

Cream: Matte cream color

Fawn: Slightly shimmering taupe

Bronze: Slightly shimmering golden brown

Sugar Cookie: Satin beige

Wicked Green: Slightly shimmering emerald

Midnight: Slightly shimmering navy

Black Suede: Matte black

Black Spark: Charcoal grey with silver shimmer

Silver: Silver satin

Naked Eye:

In the buff - matte cream 

Pillow talk - pale taupe with tiny silver shimmer 

Like a virgin - matte medium brown taupe 

Birthday suit - light beige with silver shimmer

Satin sheets - light pink satin with a duo-chrome gold reflect 

Unmentionables - Charcoal grey with silver glitter 

Pink cheeks - pale pink with white iridescent shimmer 

Lap dance - a darker taupe satin with plummy grey undertones. Very unique. 

Stiletto - matte jet black  

What is your favorite makeup company? What company do you have the most products from? What do you think of Too Faced? Let me know in the comments!!

Best wishes,

Elisabeth <3