Price: $7 * Buy At: Ulta * Size: 0.22 fl oz / 6.5 mL The Nyx Tinted Brow Mascara in Blonde is a light taupe colored brow gel. It is a bit warm, but noticeably cooler in tone than most blonde brow products. The Tinted Brow Mascara comes in a thin colored tube with a black lid. The wand has natural bristles in a corkscrew shape and gets smaller as it gets to the tip. The applicator is small, but not anywhere close to being as small as the Benefit Gimme Brow. This product doesn't swatch very well on the skin, but it has great color payoff when applied to the brows. The gel sticks to the brow hairs very well, but not on the surrounding skin, which makes application very quick and easy. The color can be intensified a bit if you apply two layers, but not by much. It sets pretty quickly on the brows and keeps the hairs flattened down and in place. The gel makes the brows feel a bit hard, but not as much as the Anastasia Brow Gel. I did not find the product to flake or fade throughout the day. The only downside to this product is when worn alone, it gives a sort of messy appearance, at least on my slightly thicker brows. This may be what you are looking for if you prefer a more natural brow, but I personally wouldn't use this product by itself. This shade isn't one I personally would use on my brows, since it is lighter than my natural brows, but I could use this shade for the front of my brows, since it looks more natural to have the front lighter than the tail. XOX ♥
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Price: $2.49 * Buy At: Kmart * Size: 2.2 g / 0.8 oz The Jordana Blush Powder in Coral Sandy Beach (38) is a mid tone neutral coral with a bit of a sheen. The Jordana Blush Powders come in a small plastic compact with a clear lid that screws on. The sheen gives the cheeks a bit of a glow and helps to make the skin look healthy. Coral Sandy Beach would work best for light to medium skin tones and I think the color would work great in the spring and summer. Coral Sandy Beach has a very smooth and soft texture and great color payoff. I found the blush to last an average amount of time. It didn't last as well as the Tarte Amazonian Clay blushes, but I didn't find the wear to be an issue at all. Like all the other Jordana blushes I have purchased, Coral Sandy Beach blends out effortlessly on the cheeks and is of course super easy to apply. The formula of these blushes is amazing and I would suggest it to anyone, especially since they are so affordable. XOX ♥
How To | Step by StepTo create a nice white base for this look, I applied the Nyx Jumbo Eye Pencil in Milk all over my lids. For the bright blue in the crease, I started off with Bolt from the Sleek Ultra Mattes V1 Brights iDivine Palette. I put this color all the way from inner to outer crease, creating a bit of a cut crease. I also made a clean edge with some makeup remover to mimic the liner that I applied later. In addition to blending out the blue crease with a fluffy brush, I applied a bit of green, Dragon Fly from the same Sleek palette, into the crease to make the color match my eye color more. I applied a white shadow, Inglot #418 over the white base, and using an angled liner brush, I applied a white wing under the blue crease. To line my eyes, I used the same green shadow as before. To make it apply more like a liner than a shadow, I dampened my liner brush prior to dipping it into the shadow. With the green, I lined my lids, made a wing right under the white wing, and I lined the inner corner of my eyes. I didn't apply too much color to the lower lashline, but I took a bit of the blue and green shadows from before and lightly applied them below the waterline. To make the look even more dramatic, you could line the waterline with black liner, but I chose a white liner. I curled my lashes and applied the Urban Decay Perversion Mascara and the Jordana Best Lash Extreme Mascara. On my bottom lashes I used a teal Great Lash Mascara, which was limited edition.
XOX ♥ Price: $6.50 * Buy At: Ulta * Size: 3 g / 0.11 oz The Nyx Simply Pink Lip Cream in Flushed is a medium light cool toned pink with a balmy finish. The Simply Lip Creams come in a classic twist up package. Each Lip Cream is colored to match the product color, which makes it very quick to find the color you're looking for. Flushed has a very thin formula that really resembles a lip balm. Because of this, it is quite comfortable and moisturizing on the lips. Flushed had good color payoff when swatching on the skin, but it took a decent amount of building up on the lips to achieve the look in my lip swatch. As you can typically expect with a balmy lip product, Flushed doesn't have the longest wear, but it is very quick and easy to touch up on the go. XOX ♥
Price: $18 * Buy At: Sephora * Size: 4 g / 0.14 oz The Anastasia Dipbrow Pomade in Medium Brown is . Medium Brown is one of three shades that are new releases for Anastasia's brow products. According to the Anastasia Shade Chart, Medium Brown is designed for light to medium brown hair with cool or ashy tones or pastel shades of hair with light to medium skin tone. If you want to find your shade, you can find the chart HERE. The Dipbrow Pomade comes in a nice glass pot with a black plastic lid. The product inside is very smooth and creamy; I've had this product for over two months now, and I haven't found the product to dry out too much. The Dipbrow Pomade is quite pigmented and gives the look of fairly opaquely filled in brows. While you could use this product to make your brows look fake, if you don't use too much product, the pomade can give the look of quite natural brows. I like to apply the pomade with a small angled brush, and I find it to be very quick and easy to apply. Throughout the day, the pomade doesn't fade or move, and the product is very water resistant. I really love this product and have been using it every day on my brows since I purchased it. XOX ♥
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