Favorite Products from ColourPop

If you haven't heard about ColourPop you must be living under a rock.  They are an amazing company (in my humble opinion, of course) that creates amazing products, with a phenomenal color range for a very affordable price. They are from L.A., founded in 2014. They are friendly on the wallet and friendly with the animals, never tested on animals.  

My favorite product from ColourPop is definitely the Super Shock Eye Shadows ($5). They are a creme to powder finish product with an almost mousse-like texture. The texture eliminates any fallout you would normally have with powder eyeshadows. They are best applied with your fingers or with a synthetic brush to blend into the crease. Because of the texture, you have to keep them sealed tight when not in use.

Here are some of my favorite shades:

Coconut: satin bright teal.
Mittens: a matte plum/brown.
Glow: matte vanilla.
Porter: warm burgundy with gold glitter.
Wattles: satin beige/pink.
Cornelious: matte warm brown.

 My next favorite product from ColourPop is probably the eyebrow products.  They have two products that I love equally.  They have a brow colour ($6) that is basically like a pomade and they also have a brow pencil ($5).  I like to use the brow colour in a slightly lighter shade, I use taupe, to fill in my entire brow, then use the pencil in bangin' brunette to pencil in some hair-like strokes. This adds a little more dimension to my brows and makes them look as natural as filled-in brows can be.

dope taupe colour

bangin' brunette pencil

ColourPop probably has hundreds of different lip colors in all types of different finishes.  They have Ultra Matte liquid lipsticks, Ultra Satin liquid lips, Ultra Glossy, and lippie stix that come in just as many different finishes. It was really hard to pick my favorites but I did narrow it to a few that I love.
My two favorite lippie stix are apparently discontinued and I did not know that until writing this blog. I have one glossy finish that is super creamy and very comfortable and a matte x shade that is also creamy but has a super matte finish on the lips.
Next, is the Ultra Matte lip ($6). My FAVORITE color that I own in this is called November. It's a deep dusty rose color on my fair skin tone.
My next favorites are the Ultra Satin lips. They are a semi-matte finish that doesn't quite dry down and is very comfortable to wear. My two favorite colors are November (warm peachy-pink)  and Aquarius (soft pink-nude).

ColourPop recently launched pressed powder eyeshadows ($5) and somehow they managed to get the same amazing color pay-off as the Super Shock shadows. I haven't tried many of the colors (but I do have more on the way!) But, a couple of my favorites are: Pep Talk-- metallic peach & Going Steady-- matte dusty wine.

Pep Talk

Going Steady

 My last two favorites are the creme gel liner($5)  in Stomper (a cool toned brown). And the Super Shock Cheek Highlighter ($8) in Lunch Money (light gold).

**all of the above pictures are courtesy of ColourPop.com

I swatched everything on my arm for you guys, sorry if they aren't the best swatches but I wanted you to see what the colors looked like in real life and not just on a website.

 

I hope that you all enjoyed my favorite ColourPop products and I hope that if you haven't already tried them, that you go and order something RIGHT now! You won't regret it, I'm sure of it.

Goodnight my lovies, thank you SO much for stopping by!

Rotating Your Makeup

If you are a makeup enthusiast (ahem-- hoarder) like me then you probably have had moments where you think to yourself, "how am I really going to use all this stuff up?!?!"  I think about that a lot, and then I think to myself that my makeup makes me happy, I get to put beautiful products on my face every day, and so, I will hoard the makeup if I please!

I have found a way that really works for me to rotate all my makeup in my morning time routine. I have a little vanity set up in my bathroom that stores all my makeup and that's where I sit in the mornings to get ready.  I have everything in drawers and some tabletop storage to keep everything (mostly) organized. It works for me, anyways.

So every week I like to sit down and pick out what makeup I want to wear for that week, and really try to stick with it.  This also really helps me to figure out what products work for me the best and which ones I can live without since I do wear them for the entire week.

What I basically do is go through every drawer and mentally do my makeup in my head.  What primer do I want to wear this week? What blush? What brow product? And so on. I set it all out on my vanity so that in the mornings those are the products I am looking at.  Trust me when I say that I am not a morning person and I have to do through every drawer every morning to pick out makeup it would take me 3 hours.  And girl, I like to sleep as late as possible in the mornings!!

This cuts down on so much time for me in the mornings while allowing me to utilize all the makeup I have. I learn which foundations look best with which primers. I learn what really lasts all day on my face during my 9+ hour work day.  If I were better, I wouldn't have 6 different foundations open at a time, but I do. And I needed to find a way to make sure that I used them all before they expired.  The only thing worse than some of the price tags on makeup is letting them go to waste because you forgot to use it up!

Let us know in the comments down below if you have any tips or tricks to rotating your makeup collect! Or if you have the willpower to use up all of one thing before opening another!? I'm curious as to what you do!

Goodnight my lovies, thank you SO much for stopping by!

Oily Skin Problems

So, lately, my skin care has changed a ton partly because of the weather and partly because of one product I have been using. The winter months my skin gets so dry and I think it's because I spend so much time indoors in the dry heat. Plus, there isn't a lot of moisture in the air.

Having oily skin I was always afraid of using moisturizing products on my face or any types of face oils because I thought I already had enough oil, why would I add more?  As I got more and more into the beauty and makeup world I kept reading that you still needed good oils or moisture even though you had those bad oils. I still thought people were crazy.

I started slow and got into using sheet masks and I'd buy the moisture or hydration masks. Nothing bad happened, so I was like ok, my face feels great afterward but in the mornings I still wake up and I still need to wash my face and get this oil off, and throughout the day my skin would get ridiculously oily. I'd need to blot my face and apply powder throughout the day, everything. If you struggle with oily skin, you know.  It is a hassle. Plus, you never feel like you get the full benefits of foundations that claim to last 12 hours because, after 6 hours of work and blow-drying hair, my face is telling me that this foundation does not, in fact, last 12 hours.

I received a sample size of the Tarte Maracuja Oil that is a face oil that is supposed to give you radiant skin without the greasy feel. It is naturally rich in vitamin c and is supposed to rebalance your skin, also calming excess sebum production. This is everything I thought I needed! I gave it a shot, what's the worse that could happen, right?

I started using it, and I didn't notice a lot happening at first, I did notice that after I put it on at night, I didn't feel the need to wash it off in the morning. It had completely soaked into my skin, and it felt super soft. I was on the hunt for something to work for me. I also read along the way that washing your face too much is also bad because it strips it down too much, causing your skin to want to make more oil. So, as long as I felt clean in the morning, I wasn't washing this oil off of my face.

Fast forward about 3 months after using this oil every single night, my skin has completely changed! I'm not sure if it's just dryer now because of the weather or if it's this oil, but I'm honestly thinking it's the oil. I hardly at all get oily underneath foundation throughout the day anymore. My skin looks SO good. I'm talking I can spot conceal any redness and my dark circles and call it a day. I don't feel the need to wear a full foundation every single day anymore. My concealer looks amazing under my eyes these days, I feel like the fine lines are disappearing before my eyes! Seriously, it's that good. Tarte also claims this will firm and soften your skin. I haven't noticed any firming going on, but my skin is certainly soft.

Rewind about a week. I splurged on myself, because I have set a wedding date, and I'm trying to get my skin flawless before November! I bought a Foreo Luna Mini. It's essentially a vibrating facial "brush" used to cleanse your skin. It's a little silicone tool that you use to wash your face with. It's supposed to deep clean your skin and remove dirt, oil, and any makeup residue you may have. I had many reservations about buying this because I thought how could this little thing wash my face any better than I can with my hands? Well, friends, this little thing has been a game changer!

My face literally looked better after one time using it! I am not kidding! This is not a drill! My skin looked and felt better than I had seen it in a loooong time. I have (but they are much less and smaller now!) these little white bumps around my nose, I'm going to assume they are little whiteheads or little pockets of sebum under my skin. No exfoliator could even though them. I tried the Biore Pore strips and those didn't even remove these things around my nose. ONE TIME using the Foreo and there was less of them. Now, I have only been using it for about a week now, but I'm telling you, I will never go back to washing my face with just my fingers.

So, for the last 3 months, I have changed just TWO things in my skincare routine, and I have seen amazing results! What will you do to change your routine? Will you be trying either of these products out? Let me know in the comments down below! Also, if you have questions, feel free to ask them!

Goodnight my lovies, thank you SO much for stopping by!

***Disclaimer: I do not in anyway get paid for anything I have said about these products. The Maracuja oil was sent to me in an Ipsy Glambag that I purchased myself.