My Thoughts:

I am so glad I found the Stila One Step Correct. Instead of having to buy  green, yellow/peach, and purple correctors, it’s all in one bottle! Plus, it’s a primer! It helped with evening out skintone , brightening your complexion, and oil control. When I applied the corrector, I noticed a pleasant cooling feeling. It was quite relaxing. The subtle shimmer the corrector has helped create a healthy glow. I love how it feels so light and is absorbed very quickly. It doesn’t feel like other primers on the market. It’s more of a gel-like serum. It’s a pricey primer, but a little goes a long way.

My Thoughts:

I love how soft and creamy the Kajal eyeliner is. I also love how pigmented the eyeliners are. However, I do not love how much it smudges and transfers. It is best to avoid this eyeliner because it will smudge and smear within a couple of hours even with a primer. If it smeared to create a sexy, smudgy, smoky look, I wouldn’t be complaining. Instead, it travels all over and around your eye creating a I-just-rubbed-my-eye-and-now-my-makeup-is-all-over-my-face look. Not attractive at all. It’s very difficult to apply a thin line so applying to the lower lash line is out of the question. Also, because the pencil is so soft, it’s difficult to sharpen. It gets really annoying when you have to sharpen after every use. Stila Kajal Eyeliner is definitely not worth $18. I wouldn’t get it even if it was free. It’s best to avoid it.

My Thoughts:

Too Faced Lip Insurance Primer was surprisingly moisturizing. Usually lip primers are dry and bit difficult to apply. My favorite feature of the Lip Insurance is it came in a tube with a wand instead of a lipstick tube. It made applying the primer so much easier. The primer is a white gel-like substance, but when you apply it, it goes on clear. When I applied it, it didn’t feel sticky or heavy at all. The key is to wait a minute or 2 after applying the primer before applying lipcolor. The primer won’t keep your lipcolor lasting all day and night. Let’s face it. With all the eating, drinking, and licking of lips there is no way any lip color is going to stay put even with primer. However, it does an excellent job of keeping the color from bleeding and fading. All you need is a thin layer. It’s one of the best lip primers I have used so far. It’s very rare to find a lip primer that doesn’t dry out your lips.

My Thoughts:

Pros:

• works great with both cream and powder shadows
• prevents creasing and fading all day long, but not as long as Urban Decay Eyeshadow Primer
• goes on smooth
• more sanitary (than Urban Decay Eyeshadow Primer)
• you can squeeze out all of the product (unlike Urban Decay Eyeshadow Primer. To get out all the product, you have to cut open the bottle)

Cons

• its got a greasy feel/texture
• the product separates. Sometimes when you squeeze the tube, oil comes out first then the primer

neutral nude shade is universally flattering

custom airless pump is sooo easy to use? just a dab’ll do ya!

My Thoughts:

NO NO NO NO! NO! I’m sorry to say Benefit’s Stay Don’t Stray is not a very good product. Truthfully, I did not notice a difference between using Stay Don’t Stray and not using a primer at all. As you know, I have super oily lids so primer is a must for me. This primer was not able to keep the eyeshadow from creasing and fading. I think it made the creasing worse. Is that possible? I know people have complained about the pump dispensing too much product, but I didn’t encounter this problem. Instead of pushing the pump all the way down, I only pushed the pump maybe 1/3 way downward. Just enough to dispense a drop.  A good thing about the primer is that it did even out my eyelid’s skin tone. Overall, it is best to avoid Benefit’s Stay Don’t Stray. There are so many eyeshadow primers on the market that are much cheaper and work much better.

My Thoughts:

This is a gel-like primer that does an excellent job of keeping eyeshadow and eyeliner stay put and crease free. It also goes on colorless! I love that it isn’t sticky and is matte. The primer keeps the color of the eyeshadow and eyeliner staying vibrant too. I have to say $24 is quite expensive, but a little goes a long way. I haven’t decided if it’s better than Urban Decay’s Primer Potion or Too Faced Shadow Insurance, but it is another eyeshadow primer you can try if Urban Decay and Too Faced didn’t work for you.

A sampler set featuring 10 of Sephora’s favorite bronzers and luminizers.

What it does:
Create believable, sunkissed color, year-round, with this one-of-a-kind sampler set stocked with 10 of Sephora’s most-loved bronzers and luminizers.

This set contains:
- 0.02 oz Bare Escentuals bareMinerals All Over Face Color in Faux Tan
- 0.17 oz Josie Maran Bronzing Argan Oil
- 0.04 oz Lorac Tantalizer Baked Bronzer in Golden Bronze
- 0.08 oz Too Faced Pink Leopard Bronzing Powder
- 0.16 oz SEPHORA COLLECTION Nail Polish in Bright Red
- 0.09 oz Benefit High Beam
- 0.08 oz TEMPTU RETOUCH Highlighter in Gold
- 0.2 oz Smashbox Artificial Light Illuminating Lotion in Glow
- 0.09 oz Tarte EmphasEYES Waterproof Clay Shadow Liner in Bronze
- 0.39 oz Korres Monoi Oil Bronzing Powder in Sunglow Light

My Thoughts:

The kit comes with sample sizes of different products that is perfect for summer: bronzer, highlighter, nail polish, and more! My favorite product from the kit is Too Faced Pink Leopard Bronzing Powder. I may have to pick up the full size version once I use my sample up. This is a great buy if you love trying out new products and want to find out which products work for you but don’t want to shell out the huge amounts of money. Not only that, these products are great sizes to travel with. If you’re still a little hesitant, you do get 1 full size product in the sampler kit: Korres Monoi Oil Bronzing Powder and that is valued at $28. Come on! What are you waiting for? Get it!

Looking like you rolled out of bed flawless and fabulous is a celebrity secret, and one that careers have been built on! Now, you too can look like you were “born perfect” with this gorgeous collection of naturally nude shadows that will have you looking super neutral yet drop-dead-gorgeous for any occasion. Shhh! Nobody needs to know you didn’t wake up that way.

The collection contains everything you need for a range of on-the-go eye looks in one easy-to-pack palette. The pure-pigment shadows provide a range of essential matte neutrals and soft shimmers for the perfect balance and variety. Plus, Jerrod’s three easy-to-follow, step-by-step instruction cards show you how to create the perfect naked eye look for any occasion. This is a kit that will work for shadow novices and makeup addicts alike!

My Thoughts:

I am such a sucker for palettes. I also love palettes that help you match up colors for a beautiful look. This Too Faced palette comes with instruction cards that help you create 3 easy looks. This palette is very similar to the Too Faced Natural Eye Kit. The differences between the 2 palettes are that this palette is more darker than the Natural Eye Kit and features more cooler colors. The shadows in the Naked Eye palette are also more matte than shimmery. I love both kits dearly. If I had to choose between the 2 kits, I would choose the Naked Eye over the Natural Eye. I feel you can create more diverse looks with the Naked Eye than the Natural Eye. The shadows are all long lasting and pigmented. You get what you pay for.

My Thoughts:

Ugh! As if liquid liner wasn’t difficult enough to apply, Make Up For Ever Waterproof Eyeliner makes applying liquid eyeliner even more difficult to apply! I feel the wand is just too long and the brush is too thin to control. If you mess up, good luck removing it. It is seriously smudgeproof, budgeproof, and waterproof. The thin brush allows you to draw a super thin line, but it’s just not worth it. Since it’s difficult to control, the eyeliner ends up all over your lashes. Quite the mess I tell you. It’s best to avoid this eyeliner. I was very disappointed.

My Thoughts:

Laura Mercier Loose Setting Powder has got to be the best setting powder I have ever used or tired so far. I was introduced to the powder by a Sephora SA who was begging me to allow her to give me  makeover. You know how many companies claim their powder to be translucent but really they aren’t? You end up with a Casper/Vampire-esqe white face right? Well, this loose setting powder is truly transparent. I did not notice a white cast after I applied the powder. I even layered a thick layer just to make sure. Still no white cast. It’s a sheer powder that feels so smooth and soft. It is also very light weight. I love the finished look I get after using the powder. It gives my complexion a natural, flawless finish. I think it even brightened it! The powder keeps my face oil and shine free for about 5-6 hours and helps makes my makeup long lasting. I admit the $34 price tag nearly made my heart stop, but I think it’s worth it. A little goes a long way. Even with daily use, this will last you months and months. I cannot rave enough about it! Many thanks to the Sephora SA who introduced Laura Mercier’s Loose Setting Powder to me!