Monday, October 31, 2011

Sugarpill: Burning Heart Palette

Hey, I know I promised my beautiful readers I was going to be doing a full review of the products I've purchased from Sugarpill Cosmetics.



In my first purchase I got thr Burning Heart Palette ($34 USD) that includes Flamepoint, Poison Plum, Love+, and Buttercupcake.




Flamepoint is a very bright matte orange. Highly pigmented


Next is Poison Plum, this is a very deep purple, (if you saw the very first Barney you can have an idea). This is also a color that can be used year around and it can be combined with almost every color you can find. The down part is that every time I put it on I am never able to take it off completely and it leaves a very noticible stain on my lids or crease. It also has a little bit of shimmer.



Love+, is a beautiful intense red that if combined the rigt way any girl can rock it like a rockstar, I adore this color for very dramatic looks, uwing purple, black, orange or white. Gold or silver also go very well. If used with an angle brush just as a liner it looks beautiful giving just a hint of color that would make any eye pop.



Last but not least Buttercupcake is the ultimate yellow, I've spent years looking for the perfect yellow and it wasn't until I got this palette that I found it, the texture is silky and it blends so nice is perfect. I wear this color almost everyday because I love how it looks by itself, with the other colors, with gold, with brown, other shades of yellow, greens, every color goes with it. 


If I would have to grade Sugarpill products I would give it A+++ because they are easy to use, the blend flawless, they are vegan (which is a plus) their colors go with almost every skin tone the packing is gorgeous (even though is a little heavy) and they have a mirror (another plus).
Why get this palette?


You will not find colors so true in todays cosmetic market. I can say I love this more than MAC, yes the palette is 34 USD but the shadow pan is the size of a MAC blush, what means that you get a lot of product for the prize.





On the next review I will be talking about more Sugarill stuff so stay tuned.

Announcement, soon I will start recording tutorials for you tube and posting them here so stay super tuned.

Friday, August 12, 2011

FOTD: LOUD!

I can't call it anything else but loud. When I was wearing my natural makeup yesterday, I felt lifeless, like I had no direction. Today I just went all the opposite. I just couldn't help it. What I regret is not having a black light to show you that my shadow glows in the dark


Here are some of the pics (sorry for the quality, they were taken with a phone camera even though is 8MP is not as good as a real camera)




Products used:

Face:

Revlon Colorstay Foundation in Rich Tan


Cheeks:

MAC Wonder Woman Limited Edition Blush in Amazon Princess

Eyes:

Kat Von D High Voltage Eyeshadow Insurance in Skin
NYX Eyeshadow base in White
Inner corner: NYX Single Eyeshadow in White
Middle: Sugarpill Buttercupcake
Outer corner: Neon Pink from Sleek iDivine Acid Palette
Crease: Sugarpill Poison Purple & other purples from the Sleek iDivine Acid Palette
Browbone: NYX Single Eyeshadow in White
Maybelline Falsies Mascara


Thursday, August 11, 2011

FOTD: NATURAL


Well today I've decided to start doing my face of the day, and will post images of my make up for the day.


Today I was going for a natural look, with a cute cat eye. BTW this is the FIRST time that it's come out so great.

Products used:

Face: Revlon Colorstay Foundation Rich Tan
Cheeks: Pink Manly Palette

Eyes: Kat Von D High Voltage Eye Primer
Neutrals of the Manly Palette
Maybelline Falsies Mascara


Random Comment: Since my Manly palette has visited the floor on many occasions many of the colors have broke what palette do you think I should get... Coastal Scents 88 or NYX Box of color (122 colors)???


Monday, May 16, 2011

My Crazy NYX Cosmetics sale experience!

I’ve been expecting the NYX Cosmetics 12 year anniversary sale for a week Most of their items would be $1.20. Today was finally the sale (starting at 12 PM PST until 12 AM PST) I’m in Eastern time so I knew it was going to start at 3 PM ET. My first intent to get in the site was at 3:01 PM (I was here all along to be from the first in.)


Then the problems began:


  • NYX did not prepare their servers for such bizarre sale.
  • They never thought that social networking was going to be such a huge impact on their sales.
  • I take a wild guess and was not prepared for the servers to crash right in the middle of the sale. (They warned people that they had limited quantities, and to get in the site ASAP so you could get what you wanted)
  • People are upset because they can’t get in and shop for the things they wanted.
  • It was an hour into the “sale” the site was still down. Worse than that they had to take it offline.



It was 3 and half hours since the site crashed. I was still waiting because I really want some of those products they are offering =)


After 4 hours of trying nonstop to get in the site I gave up, I figured no one was going to be able to shop anyways because the page was not responding.


 I woke up about 8 am and I got in to see if I could do my final purchases, I put everything I wanted in my cart (took me about an hour or so to do it). When it was time to checkout forget it. It was a nightmare. I remember this sale last year and I don’t know if it was the lack of traffic or what but I could check out fine with no problems or hassles.


The reps from NYX said they were prepared for the traffic the site was going to have; many things say the contrary though. After almost 4 and a half hours of trying to checkout I fail, and finally I give up.


Share your experiences.

Saturday, May 14, 2011

Ebates: get cash back for purchases

I want all of you to know that every time I post something on my blog I make sure that it works and that is legitimate.

So let me talk to you about this site called Ebates.com This is a wonderful site I stumbled like a week ago where you receive cash back's for every purchase you make (so literally you are spending less than you think you are). You can get up to 26% cash back on purchases.

You can find almost every site imaginable. From Home Depot to Sephora (which BTW offers 12% cash back). At one point I thought it was fake but today I got a notification on my email that they were giving me the 12% of what I spent back. Cool isn't it? Know what is the best part? You can receive your money either by check or via PayPal (which I find COOLER). Well again check that site out. Register, don't hesitate I can assure you it is NOT fake! =)

Here is the link if you didn't click on the top one www.ebates.com

Try it! =) and give me feedback onces you've tried it once.

Friday, May 13, 2011

E-Shopping Haul: Sephora, MAC & FaceFront

Hello to all my gorgeous readers. Hope you are having a nice day.

This Sunday I ordered a couple of things online that I've been wanting to get and some that came out that day and I got because I liked it. 

From Sephora I ordered the Stila Long Wear Lip Color in Exhilarating which is a gorgeous matte hot pink lip color that is really amazing. I am in love with it and it is definitely worth the $20 I paid for =).


I was also dying for an orange lipstick, when I checked my email and MAC had free shipping. I ordered MAC Amplified Neon Orange Lipstick $14.50 and for it was worth I bought MAC Pro pan refill Purple Haze (matte deep purple) $11.00.












Then I saw in Facebook that FaceFront Cosmetics had added some new swatches of cyber gel (which I previously owned in Black Jax) I ordered 2 Painters Blue and Red Hot $9.50 ea. plus 4.95 shipping.






I loved everything I got. In a couple of days I will post some reviews of these cyber gels from FaceFront and also will post some other stuff to.


Bonus! SWATCHES =)

Stila Exhilarated & MAC Neon Orange


Stlila Exhilarated with flash

Stila Exhilarated without flash

MAC Neon Orange with flash

without flash


Top to bottom
 FaceFront Painters Blue cyber gel  & Red Hot cyber gel


Wednesday, May 11, 2011

Rio Make Up Series: Nico

This is my take of Nico in makeup, he is a yellow canary. He is also Pedro's best friend.


Products used:

Face: 

Foundation: Revlon Colorstay Rich Tan
Powder: Revlon Colorstay Medium-Dark
Blush: MAC Kissed by Sunshine (Bronzer)

Eyes:
Base: FaceFront Survival Paint & NYX Yellow Jumbo Eye Pencil
Inner corner: MAC Blanc Type
Outer corner: Matte Yellow
Liner: MAC Chocolate Eyeshadow
Mascara: Maybelline One by One mascara

Lips:

NYX Beige Mega Shine Lipgloss