Makeup Products I have Fallen out of Love With + 1 Acquisition

It's all about perspective. 3 makeup products that I had intense love for, a couple of which I have also used extensively, now just lie there on my vanity, pretty much idle. Let me reintroduce:

From the left:

1. Loreal Blush in 04- Rosewood
2. Urban Decay's Naked Palette 3
3. Color Pop lippie in Tulle

Maybelline Color Sensational Lipstick (540 Hollywood Red)

Price: Depends from place to place, but the price my sister got it for was 1000 Pakistani rupees.

Packaging:  Such a nice and decent looking packaging. It kind of gives a high end lipstick look. And I really like the fact that the red line of the lipsticks have red and silver packaging and the neutral lippies have neutral kind of packaging.

The Face-off: Estee Lauder Advanced Night Repair vs. The Body Shop Drops of Youth Bouncy Mask

The big 4 0 is right around the corner. It's a time when one checks for new wrinkles, a bit of sagging skin around the mouth, discoloration around the nose. Then to battle these nasties, one has no choice (eating healthy and adequate sleep are not choices where I'm concerned), but to resort to looking up reviews for a magical elixir of youth. After days of research, I narrowed it down to two products:

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Mini-Rave: Blender Cleanser

I should have taken pictures, but I was skeptical. So I went ahead, in utter desperation, for there was no way my makeup brushes could be used without a deep and thorough cleansing. After a wonderful wedding in the family, (confession: quite a bit of brush sharing went on), my poor brushes were just begging to get all the gunk off, especially my slanted Sigma kabuki foundation brush (love love love).

My sis in law told me I should use her Beauty Blender Brush Cleanser. I looked at her and it with an one eyebrow up to my hairline. Really, a glorified bar of soap? This was going to give me pristine brushes, after trying every shampoo and makeup remover? Ah well, what had I to lose, things could not get any worse right?

Too Faced Chocolate Bar Palette (review)

Who does not know about the original chocolate bar palette. A very nice neutral palette by too faced for day to day use. It is a warm tone palette.

Price:  It is available at Sephora or even online for Rs 6500/-

Packaging:  Very elegant packaging, looking just like chocolate bar and also inside it smells like chocolate.  It comes with a paper which show three different looks pulled of by this palette.Opens and inside there is a mirror which is use-able. 

Product:  This palette contains 16 eyeshadows. All sort of neutrals are in here, metallic, mattes and shimmery shadows. Out of sixteen shadows, two of them are bigger in size and one is matte and the other is shimmery.

Gilded Ganache: It is sort of deep brown shade with a hint of green mixed in it and contains golden shimmer inside. The colour payoff is good but keep in mind.. Also it is quite buildable and easy to blend.

White Chocolate: This is one of the big eyeshadows in the palette. One of my favorites from the palette reason being its matte and gets on beautifully. Has very buttery consistency to it.

Milk Chocolate: Another matte eyeshadow, a medium brown shadow, very good transition shade also can be worn on the lid. Super soft and just lovely.

Black Forest Truffle: This shadow is deep purple with lots of sparkle to it. This shadow in my opinion is not so great reason being the texture is not so good and it is not pigmented. Like when you apply with brush, you have to do extra effort to build up and it does not show the sparkle a lot.. if you use this shadow wet it will work good. Otherwise there will be a lot fall out also.

Triple Fudge: The most darkest matte and pigmented deep brown shadow. It blends easily and it builds up easily also can be used as a liner if used wet.

Gilded ganache, White chocolate, Milk chocolate, Black forest truffle and Triple fudge

Salted Caramel: okay, this shade is very pretty, orangey brown warm toned colour with excellent colour payoff. What makes it pretty is that it is another matte in the palette. The texture is very soft and I did not notice any fall out also.

Marzipan: This shade is on the peachy side with metallic finish to it. This shade is very pigmented and it has very good colour payoff.

Semi-sweet: another warm medium brown eyeshadow. Yes its matte and its very soft and blends very nicely

Strawberry Bon Bon: This is a very beautiful colour. It has good colour payoff and it is matte. It can be used for highlighting tear duct area or your brow bone. For my skin tone it cannot be used as a lid colour because it does not show on my skin.

Candied Violet:  This shadow has warm pinky sparkle to it and is very nice violet colour. I have used this wet and on its own, both ways it looks decent.

Amaretto: This colour is medium brown and it has metallic finish to it. Super soft and very pigmented and very good colour payoff.

Salted caramel, Marzipan, Semi-sweet, Candied violet and Amaretto 

Hazelnut: This shade is medium brown colour with frosted golden sheen to it. Good colour payoff and very pigmented.

Creme Brulee:  Another favorite colour of mine in this palette is this warm pure golden colour with a little metallic finish to it. Super super pigmented very soft texture and smoothly applies.  

Cherry Cordial: This is dark plum yet wearable matte shade. Since it is a warm palette overall, so this shade goes beautifully in the crease.

Champagne Truffle: This is the second big shade in the palette. A very frosted pinky white metallic shade. It can also be used for highlighting you face also. Now since I am reviewing this palette now, so let me tell you also that this shade is also in nikkietutorails too faced palette( limited edition) as a highlighter in her palette.

Hazelnut, Creme Brulee, Cherry cordial and champagne truffle

Over all: I feel this palette over all is very good. You can go from neutral eye look to very smokey eye look.. I like this palette. Will I recommend this palette to anyone? Yes I will.

Also FYI, I like this palette better than the naked 1 palette because it has more variety of colour as well as it has a lot of mattes which makes this palette more useable than the naked 1 which has a lot of sparkle to it.

Score: 9/10

Our First Z-Palette... The Experience

By 'our,' I mean my sister and I. She called one fine evening last week asking if I would like to get a z-palette, they had turned up on a makeup selling site and things usually sold out fast. Being a makeup junkie, and having so many singles just sitting in the darkest recesses of my lower most drawer, I thought, shouldn't I  have one already?

"Yes, yes, we'll split the delivery charges".

"Do you want the pink one or the zebra printed one?"

"We'll draw straws, flip a coin or something," Who was I kidding? It would have to be the zebra printed one, and she knew it.

There was some delay in the package, and for a time, all was forgotten until the phone rang this morning, "I'm on my way and I have the loot."

I made a bee-line to my drawer, pulled out my shoe box that held the poor desolate singles and few trios. Piling out the shadows and knowing it would require a complicated algorithm to derive which lucky one would make it into the new fancy lodgings.

Some eyeshadows that made the list.

Clinique Cheek Pop in No. 15 Pansy Pop

Finally! These fantastic blushes from Clinique are old news now, but how does that saying go? Old is gold. Quite a long while back my sis-in-law reviewed the couple she had and they were just brilliant. Read her review here. This product has been a long time coming and now that I have it, I'm over the moon about it.

Clinique Cheek Pop Blush in 15 Pansy Pop

Stila Eyes Are The Window Shadow Palette - Mind (All Mattes) Review

I had a resolution this year- that I'd hit pan on my Urban Decay Naked Basics Palette. It was within my reach and I would have done so by now, had it not been for the culprit which is the subject of this review today. My sis-in-law sent this beauty a while back. I had seen this palette making the rounds but it did not prepare me about the actual feel of the packaging or the buttery consistency of the eyeshadows themselves.

Urban Decay Naked Palette (The Original)

Who does not know about this palette, it is maybe the most famous palette out there, but still for those who want some info on this palette, I hope you find this helpful...