This year's free birthday gift from Sephora's Beauty Insiders program is from Makeup Forever. The gift includes deluxe sizes of the Smoky Extravagant Mascara and the Rouge Artist Natural Lipstick in N9. The Makeup Forever Smoky Extravagant Mascara has a large natural bristle wand in a cone shape. The wand of this mascara is huge! It is almost the exact size of my eye, which makes applying the mascara quite difficult. The tip of the wand also tends to clump the lashes together, so I would suggest wiping off the tip each time before application. As for the results, the mascara makes my lashes look okay. It doesn't do anything crazy for length or volume, and it frequently leaves my lashes stuck together. The photos show two coats of the mascara on my top and bottom lashes. The Make Up Forever Rouge Artist Natural Lipstick in N9 is a darker, neutral red color with a creme finish. This lipstick doesn't give off an opaque color, which is fine with me given the nature of the lipstick's color. XOX ♥
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Price: $25 * Buy At: Ulta * Size: 6 x 3 g / 0.1 oz The Pop Beauty Pouty Pop Crayon Kit comes with six full sized jumbo lip pencils. The kit includes the shades Fuchsia Flirt (fuchsia), Rose Romance (neutral pink), Petal Passion (clear), Coral Crush (hot pink), Apricot Adore (coral) & Barely Bitten (peachy nude). All of the shades in this kit have semi-sheer, but buildable pigmentation, with the exception of the clear shade, Petal Passion. The Pouty Pop Crayons have a smooth feel and glide onto the lips. I think that the crayons feel very comfortable on the lips and are a quick and easy lip color that isn't high maintenance. The crayons don't need to be sharpened and just twist up when needed. However, since they are the twist-up kind, the product can easily fall out of the packaging. XOX ♥
Price: ? * Buy At: Sephora * Size: 0.5 fl oz / 15 ml The Sephora Glossy Gloss in 04 Maple Syrup is slightly brown tinted gloss with glitter. The gloss comes in a clear, squeezy tube. I believe this gloss can be found in the sale section of Sephora, so not all stores will carry this particular color. I do not know the price of this gloss because this was given to me as a gift. While you can see a slight nude tint to the gloss when swatched on the skin, it looks pretty clear on the lips, just leaving glitter. I was hesitant when I saw the glitter in this gloss, but the glitter does not feel gritty or annoying on the lips. Maple Syrup is slightly tacky on the lips, but feels very comfortable for the most part. The gloss' consistency is a bit thick, but not thick. The gloss also tastes good, not that you should be eating it. XOX ♥
Price: $3.48 * Buy At: Walmart * Size: 4.4 g / 0.15 oz The Maybelline Baby Lips in Rose Rush is a limited edition slightly cool toned pink shade from the new Pink'd collection. Rose Rush comes in the classic Baby Lips packaging, this time with a pink tube with darker pink writing. Although Rose Rush looks like a fairly warm pink in the tube, it appears much more cool toned swatched on the skin and the lips. Like all of the Baby Lips, Rose Rush is sheer, but can be built up for a darker color. It gives the lips a bit of shine, but it still looks like a lip balm on the lips. Rose Rush has a fruity scent, similar to the shade Peach Kiss. It has the same, thin but moisturizing formula that all of the other Baby Lips has. This isn't the longest wearing lip balm on the market, but it has a great feel on the lips. XOX ♥
Price: $3.99 * Buy At: Ulta * Size: 1.4 oz / 4 g The Nyx Extra Creamy Round Lipstick in Orange Soda is a pale peachy orange lipstick with a cream formula. Orange Soda comes in the typical black plastic Nyx tube. Orange Soda's formula is very opaque and easily cancels out the natural color of the lips. This can give a washed out appearance, but I really like pale lip colors, although they aren't for everyone. It has a very creamy, smooth formula that doesn't feel thick on the lips. As you can see in the picture of Orange Soda on my lips, this color can look a bit patchy due to the pale color, but I'm sure the appearance can be improved by exfoliating the lips and or applying lip balm prior to Orange Soda. The Extra Creamy Round lipsticks aren't the longest wearing lipsticks, but I don't mind reapplying a lip color every few hours. XOX ♥
Price: $18 * Buy At: Ulta * Size: 5 g / 0.18 oz The Pop Beauty Blush Beam in Bare Beam is a shimmery highlighting blush made of five different shades. The first shade is a light neutral pink, the second shade is an orange, the third shade is a peach, the fourth shade is a peachy pink, and the last shade is a champagne. The texture of the product is pretty smooth, and the color glides onto the skin easily. All of the colors are quite shimmery, but I do not experience too much fall out. I think that only a few of the colors in the Blush Beam could work as a blush, but the way that each color is in a small strip, it's difficult to just pick up that one color. You could pick up one color with a small highlighting brush, but I would typically just swirl all of the colors together with a blush brush. When mixed all together, Bare Beam gives a subtle peachy glow that would be great to give the skin a dewy look for spring or for summer. (The rightmost swatch in the photos is all of the shades blended together) You could also easily use this product for eyeshadows as well, since eye brushes would fit nicely in the small strips of color. Any of these shades would make a pretty, shiny lid color. XOX ♥
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