Coastal Scents Revealed 2 Palette

Hubby saw this pallet online and purchased it for me.

First let us get some business out of the way:
🏢 Purchased from Amazon.com but can also be purchased from coastalscents.com
💵 Purchase price $19.95 same price on coastalscents.com
✉ Hard cardboard packaging with snap closure.  Sleek and travel ready.

Color desciption:
💄 Colors vary from pinks, to plums, to browns and shimmer to mattes.

Final opinion:
The shadows are creamy and easy to apply and blend.  There is very, very little fall out.  The colors are very vibrant and pigmented and did not shift with or without primer use.
I love everything about theses shadows and packaging as they are easy to travel with.  I give these shadows 😻😻😻😻 (4 out of 5 kitty cats).

Maybelline 100 Year Celebration Limited Edition Lipsticks

To celebrate 100 years of providing beauty, Maybelline has released the "Queen of New York limited edition collection.  There are 5 Color Sensational lipsticks in the collection and I have 3 to chat about. 

First let us get some business out of the way:
🏢 Purchased From: Bed, Bath and Beyond.  They can also be purchase from Ulta, Target Walmart, Walgreens or CVS Stores.
💵 Purchase Price: I paid $5.59 each but have seen the prices vary from $5.50 to $7.49.  Look out for sales as Ulta sometimes has Maybelline products on 
      sale buy 1 get 1 at 50% off
✉ it is the same packaging in a lipstick twist up tube

Color description:
💄 Berry Chic - a berry color with a luster shiny finish
💄 Magenta-Bulous - a fuchsia color that has a blue shift.  This is the color I am wearing in the pictures below
💄 Strike A Rose - a frosty peachy pink with a golden sheen.  I would compare this color to NARS Orgasm for those of you who know this
      NARS color

Final opinion:
These are creamy, hydrating and highly pigmented lipsticks.  They glide on smoothly and do not shift or bleed throughout the day.  The color lasted a great deal of hours, and even after eating and drinking the color was still there due to minor staining of the lips.

I am a Maybelline Color Sensational self professed junkie so I would highly recommend purchasing the lipsticks in this collection.
I give these lipsticks 😻😻😻😻😻 (5 kitty cats).

Ruby Kisses Color Design Lipsticks

I purchased these lipsticks from my drugstore for $0.99, they can also be purchased from Rubykisses.com for the same price.  There are 23 colors in the collection to choose from and I was able to acquire 5 for my collection, as this is what was in stock at the time.  The colors that I have are Shiny Bronze, Shiny Copper, Shiny Orange, Ice Princess and Fuchsia.  

The claims on the website for this product are that they:
Have a rich and creamy formula
Are long lasting with intense color
Have a semi matte finish

I have been working with these for the past week and my final opinion on the product is they are creamy with no drying effect.  The color lasted about three hours even thru eating and drinking before I had to re-apply.  The color is very intense, and did not bleed.  Some of the colors had a metallic like finish that I loved.  I give the product and formula  out of 5 kitty cats.  I will be purchasing more colors to add to my collection as for $0.99 these did exactly what they promised.

Until we meet again don't forget to live and play in color. 

Just Fab

Received these shoes as a gift from a really good friend who soooooooo knows my addiction to heels.  The shoes were purchased from justfab.com.

Just Fab is a website that offers:
* Free exchanges and shipping
* 20% off your first item
* The hottest styles only $39.95
* Personal styling by professional stylist
* New style every month

The website offers personal matching, having you take a quiz that helps narrow down your likes in order for you to be personally styled and matched with hand picked shoes from their stylists.  The site also sells handbags and jewlery.  Currently the site is having a site wide sale 2 pairs for $39.95.

My opinion of the shoes - they are very well made and came carefully packed.  The material is soft and the shoe fits weĺl.  The shoes run true to size, and were very comfortable after wearing them for about 4 hours. 

My final opinion is a thumbs up 👍.  I will definitely become a member of the site and will be shopping there often.

Thanks for your time and don't forget to live and play in color.

NYX Intense Butter Gloss

Like the NYX prismatic eyeshadows in my previous post,  these intense glosses were also hard to get a hold of.  After several store searches I ended up also ordering these on the ULTA website.  There are 12 glosses in the intense butter gloss range and they sell for $6 each online at Ulta.com or NYX.com, and in Ulta stores.  At the time of my purchase Ulta had them on sale for buy 1 get 1 50% off so I purchased 4 colors.

The colors that I currently own are Spice Cake, Tres Leches,  Chocolate Crepe and Toasted Marshmallow.  First off I have to say that all of these colors are HIGHLY pigmented with amazing color payoff.  The applicator is very soft and each dip into the tube with the applicator produces enough color for your lips.  The texture is smooth and gloss applies very smoothly and the colors are beautiful and sexy.

Downside to these glosses - there is no staying power.  After eating a meal the color was gone.  There was some staining of the lips with the darker colors, but it was very patchy.  The color also bleeds outside of your lips even when a colored lip liner or anti feathering liner was used.  When worn if not eating or drinking, the glosses would last at least two hours before they started to fade.  When eating or drinking they did not hold up to the perssures.

Overall, I was not very impressed with the lasting, staying power or the fact that there was bleeding of there colors.  I was however impressed with the pigmentation and the texture.  Would I buy anymore of these?  No I will not.  In my opinion they are not worth the $6 just for color pigmentation or texture.

Gloss pictured in Spice Cake.

NYX Prismatic Shadows

So first off I have to say I have been trying to get my hands on these shadows since January 2015.  I have been to Ulta stores here in West Palm Beach, Miami and in Orlando and have not been able to locate them as they have always been sold out.   This should tell you how popular these shadows are.  Finally I gave in and purchased them on Ulta.com and the waiting game began.  I received the shadows in the mail on Friday and could not wait to give them a try.

My opinion........... I absolutely love, love them.  The shadows are highly pigmented, smooth and I encountered no fall out.   The colors transfer beautifully with a brush and when I used my finger.  They were easily blendable and the staying power is amazing.  I wore the colors for about 7 hours and there was no fading or shifting.

I currently own 6 of the 12 colors.  The colors I own are Tin, Frostbite, Smoke and Mirrors, Girl Talk, Fireball and Golden Peach. I purchased these as mentioned from Ulta.com.  Regular price is $6.00 a pot, however Ulta does have a sale currently underway buy 1 get 1 50% off. I fully intend to purchase the remaining colors in the collection.

One word to the wise, be careful not to drop the pots as the shadows  can shatter.  If this does happen do not fear they are still very usable and gives the same effect.

Have fun and don't be afraid to play with color.

Shany Bold and Bright Collection in Vivid

Shany Bold and Bright Collection in Vivid contains 120 vibrant colors.  The palette comes with a mixture of matte and shimmer colors that are long lasting and smudge resistant.  The colors can be used both wet and dry.  When used wet the shadows present in a more dramatic way and the colors are more pigmented.  When used dry the colors are also dramatic but present is a softer manner.  The colors can be used to create casual, formal or dramatic funky looks. 

The palette includes pinks, oranges, yellows, blues, greens and more.  The half inch square eye shadow palette contain two pans with 60 colors in each pan.  The pans are seperated by a plastic film to protect the product.  There is a ribbon on the end of each pan for easily removal of each pan from the case.  The case is sturdy and built for easy travel.

The shadows were easy to apply with either a brush or your finger and I found them to be very rich and creamy.  I used the shadows to create the look below, and incorporated a total of six different  colors in to my look.  I wore this look for approximately six hours and did not notice any shifting of the shadow or smudging.

The product is of high quality and very easy to work with.  There was very very minimum fall out and clean up was a breeze.  Removing the shadows was also a snap.  One swipe of a make-up remover cloth and bye bye product.

Overall I was very highly impressed with the product and would recommend the palette to someone who loves to play with color.  The palette can be purchased fromm the Shany Cosmetics website for $18.00.