Maybelline Dream Bouncy Blush in Peach Satin

This is another one of those drugstore products that has come out in the past four months and become super hyped. Everyone has been purchasing these lately.

So here's the deal with this blush. It's a creamy consistency that squishes. I won't say that it bounces because when you push it in, it doesn't bounce back into shape. It leaves a beautiful color and a smooth, creamy, matte finish. I have applied this with my fingers, a brush, and my beauty blender. Of all these methods, I suggest the beauty blender (or any other sponge) the most. Fingers just aren't as good and my brush left hairs on the surface. 

Unlike the color tattoo eyeshadows, I do like this product. I don't think it deserves all the hype that it has been getting, but I do think that it is a pretty good blush and I want to get more colors. I have been using it quite frequently recently as cream blushes are better on dry skin.

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Physician's Formula Shimmer Strips

Left: Natural Glow Right: Rosy Glow

Natural Glow

Rosy Glow

I found both of these in my local Price Chopper for $6 a piece... Can't beat that! I've been looking at Physician's Formula a lot lately for Highlights because they have such beautiful shimmery shades! These have been compared to a couple higher end brands (Dior I think).

First of all, There is a great range of color in these palettes. I'm obsessed with highlight colors so this is great for me. If you use your brush in different areas of the palette you will get different overall colors on your cheeks!

Natural Glow probably should be called peachy glow. It's very peachy but I love it. You have to be careful with the darker colors if you have lighter skin because they are very pigmented! I've used the top most highlight color on my eyes, temple, nose, and cupid's bow. Rosy Glow isn't as pigmented as Natural Glow but it is very pretty. The colors are more of a blue-toned pink color.

Check these products out! They are perfect all in one face color!

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Buxom Mix and Mingle Set

 

From left: Sydney, Sasha, Monaco, April, Tokyo, Starr, Miami, and Naomi.

From left: Sydney, Monaco, Tokyo, Miami, Sasha, April, Starr, and Naomi.

So I'm trying the Blogsy app for my iPad. Blogger plus didn't work for me because I store all of my pictures on Google Picasa and Blogger Plus didn't support that. The reason I keep trying to post from my iPad is really just one of convenience. I use my iPad much more than my computer, plus if I start doing videos this app supports YouTube integration as well. So far this is good except I can't caption my pictures.

Anyways, on to the review! I mentioned this set awhile ago in my post about what I received for Christmas. Unfortunately I was being lazy then and haven't gotten around to reviewing it until now. I promise I won't keep doing this in the future. I realize now how annoying it is when someone posts about something that is no longer available to sell. I thought I would review it anyway, though, because I know some of these are available in full size on their own. Right now I am working on a back log of products I have to review. In the future I will be reviewing products within a week of purchase.

Anyways... Buxom (a Bare Escentuals brand) makes AMAZING products! (Check out their mascara wand, it's insane!) My favorite though are the Big and Healthy Lip Polishes. They smell amazing like caramel or something, they aren't sticky, they plump your lips, and they have great colors! If you don't like lip plumper than these might not be for you but give them a try and see!

My first experience with the lip gloss was from a $10 mini Bare Escentuals kit last year. It was a tiny version of Dolly and I wore it a ton. (I still have some left though) Then I went out and bought a full size in Bunny, a very light pink. I was shocked at how large the tube was. My only other high end lipgloss purchase before that had been MAC and their tubes are pretty small (especially for the price). I then bought one in Roxanne which is a full color one and it comes with a brush instead of a doe foot which all of the others come in. I only really purchased Roxanne because, well, that's my name and you never see it anywhere (except that god awful song). Then, for my birthday my best friend Becca gave me a set of one of the lip glosses and the Buxom Big and Healthy Lip Stick (the pencils in this kit are that), and I fell in love with that! So I was thrilled when she gave me this kit for Christmas which has four of each in it!

The products in these kits are not full size. There is a ton of product in them though. Buxom could probably get away with selling them at full price instead of the huge ones. One medium sized lips gloss like the ones in this kit (I say medium because the Dolly I have is ultra tiny) is probably the same size if not larger than a MAC lip glaze. They are also a great value. I'm not sure how much this one cost but I have seen ones with just one lipstick and lip gloss for around $14 which is the exact cost of a MAC lip glaze.

When I saw the products in this kit I loved them instantly. There is a good and wearable range of lipsticks, and the glosses are so beautiful! They are much more sparkly than the other ones that I own, each gloss has multicolored micro glitter in it which makes it that much more beautiful!

First of all the lipsticks. Sydney is a very pale slightly pink nude. Of all the colors I was most afraid to try out this color but it is actually very pretty looking. It's the perfect neutral color. Next up is Monaco. Monaco is a pretty rose color and is very flattering. Tokyo is the darkest color in the kit. It is a red-berry color that would be best worn at night time. The last lipstick, Miami, is bright pink. This is actually probably the least wearable color in the kit, and yet it is still very easy to pull off.

Now on to the Lip Glosses. First up we have Sasha, a gorgeous sheer nude with gold micro glitter. Each gloss goes with one of the lipsticks (I paired them together in my first picture) and this one goes well with Sydney. April is a light pink with silver and pink micro glitter. This one doesn't exactly match the color that I paired it with, Monaco, but they do look nice together, it's very sheer as well. Starr is a sheer plum color with gold and blue micro glitter. The glitter in this gloss is the prettiest to look at of all the glosses. Finally Naomi is the most opaque of all the glosses. It is a super bright pink with pink and orange micro glitter.

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Maybelline Color Tattoo Eyeshadows

Top Left to Right: Too Cool, Tenacious Teal, Tough as Taupe. Bottom Left to Right: Bad to the Bronze, Audacious Asphalt.

Left to Right: Too Cool, Bad to the Bronze, Tenacious Teal, Audacious Asphalt, and Tough as Taupe

Everyone say hello to the first huge overly hyped product of 2012. People are calling these an exact dupe for MAC paint pots. Everyone is raving about these on youtube and in blogs. Well I'm about to give an unpopular opinion.

First of all, the colors that I purchased (minus the blue) are the only neutral colors that they have put out. Every other color is very bright and vivid. If these are going to be the dupes for MAC paint pots they are going to have to put out more neutrals. None of these colors make a good neutral base for eyeshadows in my opinion. I love champagne colors like Stila Kitten and MAC Bare Study for bases.

Although the range of color isn't anything to talk about, they do swatch beautifully. Here is my theory. Everyone who has raved about these has primarily swatched them. Because they aren't the most wearable colors, people have probably reviewed them based on the swatches. If I was reviewing them based on the swatches on my hands I would say how much I loved them. How long they stay. How they don't wash off when I wash my hands. How they stayed better than Stila and MAC's equivalent products... Yadda Yadda Yadda.

Here's the deal. Yes they do swatch beautifully. I love looking at them swatched on my hands. But on my eyes it's another story. I do not have oily lids. I never have creasing problems. My eyeshadow usually never budges. But no matter what I do, I can use primer or use it by itself, this product creases on me. I don't know if I'm special in this, but it is the most frustrating thing. All of the color will migrate into my crease. I always end up with a line of color tattoo in my crease. It's not attractive.

I really tried guys. I wore these every day for a week and I tried different primers under it. I am very disappointed with it. I wanted to like this more than anyone can possibly know. Some of them stayed better, but the color faded really quickly and it was just no good. I'd be interested to see if anyone else comes out and says they hate this.

Let me know if they work for you. If there is some secret trick for getting these to stay in place let me know as well. Please leave questions and comments and subscribe!