Price: $5 * Buy At: Target * Size: 0.44 oz The Wet n Wild Contouring Palette in Dulce De Leche is a duo featuring a matte highlight and contour powder. The duo comes in a fairly large, circular compact with a clear lid. Both shades come with quite a bit of product, and since the pans are so large, it is easily fits most brushes. The powders have a smooth, silky texture. They are a bit powdery and do kick up some excess product in the compact, but it does not affect the final result. Both colors have great pigmentation, as you can tell in my swatches. The contour shade looks quite natural on the skin--it’s not too warm or too cool, and it blends out very easily. Since the highlight shade is matte, it is geared more towards brightening up and setting the skin, than to give a glow. As far as drugstore contour products go, I definitely think that this Wet n Wild duo is a great product, in addition to being super affordable. XOX ♥
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Price: $6 * Buy At: ColourPop Website * Size: 3.2 g The ColourPop Ultra Matte Liquid Lipstick in Jellies is a muted dark royal blue with a matte finish. The Ultra Matte Liquid Lipsticks come in a long clear tube and have a typical doe foot applicator. Jellies has a thin formula that applies opaquely onto the lips. As you can probably imagine, the formula does feel drying on the lips, but it does tend to feel more comfortable as wear goes on. The product will have a very good wear time, as long as you don’t rub your lips together or eat oily or greasy foods, as it will break down the color. Jellies is definitely not a color for everyone, but if you are familiar with my preferred lip colors, you would know that I love bold, edgy colors like Jellies. Blue lip colors are having a bit of a trend at the moment, and Jellies is a very affordable way to try out the trend. To add some comfort on top, I will sometimes use the Nyx Soft Matte Lip Cream in Moscow which is a navy blue. This will give you the lasting power of Jellies, but with more moisture on the lips. XOX ♥
Price: $25.50 * Buy At: Zoeva's Website * Size: 10 x 0.05 oz The Zoeva En Taupe Eyeshadow Palette contains ten shadows that are predominantly cool toned. Zoeva advertises that the shadows are formulated without parabens, phthalates, mineral oils or fragrances. The En Taupe Eyeshadow Palette comes in a thin cardboard package with a magnetic closure. There is no mirror inside, but that really doesn’t matter to me at all. I received a bad batch when I first bought this palette, but Zoeva was very kind and quickly sent me a new one, with shipping covered, which makes me love the company even more! The palette comes with three matte shades that are great for the crease and one matte highlight shade, which I appreciate. The rest of the palette has some shimmer, three are dark and two are light. I would compare the formula of the shadows the most to Urban Decay, as they are smooth without being super soft, and have nice and even pigmentation. I wouldn’t call the pigmentation super intense like Lorac shadows, but they are easy to apply and they blend out super easily on the eyes. A variety of eye looks can be achieved using only this palette, but a deeper brown or black would be nice to use in combination since there aren’t any super dark shadows. XOX ♥
How To | Step by StepTo avoid the look being too cool toned, I started off with a warm color as a transition shade in the crease and along the lower lashline. I used Combust from the Urban Decay Naked Smoky Palette. Then I applied the Nyx Milk Jumbo Eye Pencil on the inner portion of my lids to make the teal pop. I also went in with the Sephora Jumbo Eye Pencil in Taupe on the outer portion as a base for the darker shadow. To deepen up the outer corner of my eyes, I used ..... also from the Naked Smoky Palette. I went back and forth between intensifying the color and blending it out. I used this shade also in the crease and along the lower lashline. Now for the fun part. I packed on the bright teal shade from the Nyx Brights Ultimate Palette on the inner half of my lids and as the highlight for the inner corners. To blend the teal into the dark lashline color, I applied a bit of green from the same palette. To make the look more dramatic, I used a black liner for my tightline and waterline. As per usual, I applied mascara to my top and bottom lashes. This time I used Benefit Roller Lash and Jordana Best Lash Extreme. To add some more drama to the smokey eye, I applied the Eyelure Volume 101 lashes.
XOX ♥ Price: $2.99 * Buy At: Kmart * Size: 0.11 oz / 3 g The Jordana Sweet Cream Matte Liquid Lip Color in Mango Sorbet is a bright red-orange liquid lip color with a natural matte finish. The Jordana Sweet Cream Matte Liquid Lip Colors come in a clear tube with a classic doe foot applicator. The product has a subtle vanilla scent, but it is not sickly sweet or overpowering. I find the formula to be a mix between the Nyx Soft Matte Lip Creams and a matte liquid lipstick. It has a moussy texture, but it sets more on the lips than the Nyx Lip Creams. Mango Sorbet is intensely pigmented and applies super smooth and evenly to the lips. Since it doesn’t dry down completely like a matte liquid lipstick, it doesn’t appear or feel drying on the lips, giving the lips a smooth appearance, not the “desert mouth” that some super matte lip colors tend to give. Mango Sorbet is an intense, vibrant color and the formula works well with it. I would only use a matte liquid lipstick for a bright lip color. Mango Sorbet doesn't have quite the wear time as the ColourPop Ultra Matte Lips, but it does stay on the lips better than a lipstick. XOX ♥
Price: $42 * Buy At: The Balm Website * Size: 9 x 0.9 oz The Balm Meet Matt(e) Nude Palette is made up of nine neutral eyeshadows. The Balm always has the cutest packaging. The Meet Matte Nude palette has a guy (assumingly named Matt) on the cover and the back of the palette says that Matt is 6’2” and has an occupation of eyeshadow palette. The palette is cardboard and flips up, it has a mirror on the lid, but it does not stay open on its own. The colors are arranged in a pretty random order, which I think is funny and unique. As the "size matt(e)rs" tagline suggests, these shadows pack in a lot of product. Each pan contains 0.1 oz, compared to 0.05oz which is the typical shadow size. The shadows are soft, but I wouldn’t describe them as buttery. Pigmentation is fairly consistent across the nine shades and they all blend pretty easily. Meet Matt(e) Nude has a good variety of colors--it's got highlights, transition and crease colors and they do not all share a similar tone. You've got both warm and cool shades in the palette. If you were wondering, the Meet Matt(e) Trimony and Meet Matt(e) Nude palettes are very different, and do not have any similar shades, so I would not recommend one over the other. XOX ♥
Price: $22 * Buy At: Ulta * Size: 0.11 oz The Too Faced La Creme Color Drenched Lipstick in Unicorn Tears is a sheer pink with blue iridescent shimmer. The Too Faced La Creme Color Drenched Lipsticks come in a nice quality gold tube. The product inside is cut at a flat angle, different than a typical lipstick. In the tube, Unicorn Tears appears to be a bright pastel blue, but somehow it has a sheer pink base. On the lips, this pink and blue combo looks like a gorgeous pastel purple, but you can still distinguish between the base and the iridescent shimmer. Unicorn Tears is super comfortable on the lips, it has a slick moisturizing feel that is somewhat balmy. This is a formula that I could see myself wearing on a daily basis, that is how nice it feels on. XOX ♥
Price: $4.99 * Buy At: Ulta * Size: 0.52 oz The Essence Lighter Skin Sun Club Matt Bronzing Powder is a bronzer designed for people that are on the more fair side. The Sun Club Bronzing Powder comes in a large compact with a clear lid. Because of the product’s light shade, I do not have to worry about going overboard like I do with most other bronzers. Even though the color is light, it still has very nice color payoff. The product gives warmth and color to the face, but does not make it look orange or muddy on the skin. The Sun Club Bronzing Powder applies and blends very easily on the skin, making it very foolproof! So, while this product is not geared towards everyone, (Essence also has a darker bronzer) I think it is absolutely great for anyone with a fair or even light skin tone, as bronzing is not always so easy. XOX ♥
I have never done a fully drugstore makeup look, so I figured it was about time! I typically do not share what makeup I am wearing on my face or brows, but since they are all drugstore items, I will for this look. On my face I used the Maybelline Fit Me Foundation Stick in 115, the Essence All About Matt! Powder, and the City Color Be Matte Blush in Blackberry. On my brows is the Nyx Eyebrow Gel in Blonde and I set them with the Nyx Control Freak Brow Gel. How To | Step by StepAfter evening out my lids with the Nyx Dark Circle Concealer and setting it with the same Essence Powder that I used on my face, I applied my transition shade. I used The Nyx Hot Singles Eye Shadow in Coquette all over my crease. To further deepen up my crease, I used the KOCO (by Beauty Brands) Eye Shadow in Starlet, which is a darker version of Coquette. In the outer corner of my eyes, I applied All About Nude from the Essence How To Make Nude Eyes palette. I didn’t use too much of it since this is intended as an everyday look, but you definitely could darken it up for some more drama. For my lid color, I used the Makeup Revolution Romantic Smoked Redemption palette. The shades in this palette don’t have names, but I used the the shimmery mauve shade all over my lids. I also highlighted my inner corners a bit with the matte ivory from the same palette. On the lower lashline, I used the same two crease shadows: Coquette and Starlet. I used Starlet right along my lashline, and used Coquette to blend it out. To finish off the look, I curled my lashes and applied the L’Oreal Voluminous Carbon Black Mascara and the Essence I <3 Extreme Mascara.
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