OPI Nail Lacquer in Rainbow Connection

Let me just say that I am in love with this nail polish. It literally has every color from the rainbow in beautiful chunky glitter. How cool is that? It looks good over everything, especially really bright colors. When I first saw it I knew it was the nail polish for me. It looks like a party. I love it over blue and it looks almost Christmas-y over red. This is probably the best glitter nail polish I have ever owned!

For anyone interested, it just came out in the Muppets OPI nail polish collection. Get it while it's still available!

Clinique Redness Solutions Foundation in 01

So first off, if you have really fair skin, don't purchase foundations from Clinique. I can't even begin to explain how frustrating it is for me (with my alabaster skin) to buy these foundations from Clinique in the store where they look great even on the jawbone and then go home and see I look orange. This is in the lightest shade that Clinique has to offer but it still isn't light enough. When they color matched me in the store, they tried to convince me to buy 02 but luckily I was smarter than that.

I do like the product even though it makes me look like Lindsay Lohan. It covers up my excessive redness like no other. I think this will be perfect for summer when I'm just a little darker and when I have awful sunburns. It's also very water resistant. If this was in my shade it would be my HG foundation. It does not move off your face. One way I get around the color problem is to just put the foundation on my red patches and use my MAC foundation on the rest of my face. Another way I do it is to mix my MAC foundation with the Clinique foundation. This works too.

If you're fair, I would avoid this product. You can get others from other brands that I'm sure work just as well. If you can accurately match to one of the colors and you have redness problems I would definitely invest in this as it works really well. Clinique gets 1/2 out of 1 points for this just for sheer lack of color selection.

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L'Oreal HIP Shadow Duo in Wicked

When first discovering Sephora and all the high end brands of make-up there are, I started thinking that drug store make-up was inferior. We all know this is sometimes true but it is also sometimes better than high end brands. Certain things like Covergirl LashBlast tend to trump high end brands, but it only tends to be a couple of products from a company that compete. I'm happy to say, though, that L'Oreal is as close to high end as drug store brands come.

This duo is simply amazing. It's easy for a quick look. The colors look great together, one shimmer one matte. The pigmentation is amazing. I think the eyeshadow is better than anything sold at Clinique or Lancome, and it's way less money. With this you can go dark and dramatic or just pop the purple into the corners of your lids for a little oomph with the gold. It's perfect for a day when you don't have enough time to do anything too labor intensive.

L'Oreal is really stepping up to the plate! I'll have to try their pigments next. Please leave questions and comments and subscribe!

Clinique GWP

07 Super Strawberry

From Left to Right: Chocolate Chip, Stone Violet, Single Shade From Pink Chocolate Quad, and Single Shade From Blushing Nude Trio

From Left to Right: Chocolate Chip, Stone Violet, Single Shade From Pink Chocolate Quad, and Single Shade from Blushing Nude Trio.

Anyone who knows me knows that I can't resist a gift with purchase. They also know that Clinique isn't my favorite brand of beauty products. Clinique and I definitely have a love-hate relationship. I hate their eyeshadows but I love their all over face color. I hate their foundation (because the lightest shade makes me look like I have a bad spray tan) but I love their lip products. So you can see how difficult it was for me to decide whether or not to purchase something in order to get this. I eventually did and I'm of mixed minds about it.

So first of all, the bags. Clinique doesn't skimp on these. Clinique always gives gorgeous, well made bags with their GWPs (unlike other brands, *cough* Lancome). I've been using the bigger bag ever since I got it as a travel make-up bag and I love it (I sleep at my dad's house once a week). The bag is something that they would charge you $25 for at a fancy boutique so I really think it's worth it. They even give you a mini bag that could be used as a coin purse or even a cell-phone holder. I have bags from Clinique GWPs past and I love them all. 1 point to Clinique.

Dramatically Different Moisturizing Lotion. Not my HG moisturizer but I do like it. The only problem is that Clinique gives it away with everything. If you walk near a Clinique counter, odds are that you'll end up with a sample size of this moisturizer. You won't see me complaining though, I love the stuff. I only wish they would give away something else for a change. 1/2 point to Clinique.

7 Day Scrub. I enjoy this scrub but if I used it every day, I'd have no skin left. It's pretty abrasive but is great if you exfoliate once or twice a week. This is another thing that Clinique includes in every GWP. I think I have enough to equal a full size of this and I will never need to buy it. Again, I wish they would give away something else. 1/2 point to Clinique.

The Mascara. I can't wear the standard Clinique GWP mascara. It makes my eyes hurt. It does this for my sister too and actually gave her a sty. I don't know what it is about the Clinique mascara that is so awful for us but I just can't use it. 0 points to Clinique.

The eyeshadow quad. I don't like Clinique eyeshadows. I think they aren't pigmented enough and sometimes you can't even see the matte eyeshadows. However, I was pleasantly surprised by this quad. Although it is by no means the quality I would expect of Urban Decay or MAC (and others) it isn't half bad. It gives a cute natural daytime look. I would never ever purchase it, but as a bonus in a GWP it's pretty good. Also, the applicator is useless. I thought to myself, "Oh wow they put a brush on this!" but it's the worst brush ever. Just throw it out. 1 point to Clinique.

Finally the Chubby Stick. I don't know why but I thought the Chubby Stick would be full sized. Unfortunately it's not. However you do get a good amount of product and I love it. I have another Chubby Stick in Mega Melon and I am in love with it. The fact that I could get another Chubby Stick in this GWP was one of the main factors in my decision to get the GWP in the first place. The color is great, it smells great, and it has the perfect effect on my lips. I will definitely be purchasing more Chubby Sticks in the future. 1 point to Clinique.

So all in all this GWP got 4/6 points in my opinion. It was almost worth it just to get the bags. Will I get the next GWP? Probably, unless it just has things I already have in it or hate. I'll just buy more Chubby Sticks!

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