HIP/NYX/Milani/Prestige/e.l.f.

Here are the swatches from my recent drugstore hauls. :)

The first pic of my 'haul' didn't include the other NYX lippies that I got after taking that pic lol. I am very pleased and satisfied with NYX round lipsticks. They are very rich in color and very smooth. I'm sure you'd have to touch up throughout the day since they aren't long-wearing lipsticks but nonetheless, they have such a wide array of colors to choose from. bold and daring to natural and neutral. i love nude lipsticks so i think i got about 3 or 4 of them. i like circe and echo. i forgot to do a side-by-side swatch with MAC Siss (my HG nude lippie) because I know one of them must be somewhat similar. For $.99 you just can't go wrong. And if you think of it this way, you can have 14 lipsticks for the price of ONE MAC lipstick lol.

I filled up my e.l.f. quad with the last 3 e/s pans that KMart had left. Ivory and Pink Ice are ehh..but I like Golden Glow and Dusk. They are very smooth and silky they almost remind me of veluxe pearls, very blendable and easy to work with. They are very vibrant with a base (i used UDPP).

I am officially in love with Milani nail lacquers. I only used one coat of each for the swatch. There are a few more that I wanna get. I liked how Jaclyn did the swatch for her nail polishes. :)

I was drawn to the new packaging for Prestige eyeshadows and I liked the candy colors. I like Iguana and Cloud 9.

Also picked up some HIP stuff because Don Quijote (grocery store) in Waipahu had them on sale for the cheapest I've seen. I believe the duos were $5.25 (originally around 8-9bucks a pop) and the color cream crayons were..6-something? Anyhoo, I don't ever recall seeing them for that cheap so I caved. The black crayon is, of course, similar to MAC's Sharkskin shadestick. The crayons are very will pigmented and very vibrant in color. They glide on very easily. I was also surprised with the light blue in the showy duo-it looks similar to MAC Parrot. :)

Have a safe and Happy Easter everyone!




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i'm crazy...i know.

Okay. I took the pics last night but had to fix/resize them to show the best true color of these things. Now I haven't done any swatches. Only for the 3 NYX lipliners that I got. I'm having some trouble taking pics of swatches because I'm not sure how to use all the settings on my camera to get it focused clearly and to show the true colors of them. I seriously give props to all the other ladies who devote their time and patience to their blogs. It really does take time and dedication. I'm always amazed at how a lot of beauty blogs out there are updated so often. I just wanted to say thank you, you know who you are. ;)

So here are the pics that I have so far. Today, after paying all the bills, (phew!) I finally got to stop at Walgreens to check out their cosmetics. I picked up some stuff-again. Mostly lip stuff (liners, gloss). Also picked up a new mascara to try out. I went to Long's and the whole Physician's Formula line was 40% off including the new organic/mineral stuff. I just got 2 of their baked wet/dry e/s. They are really pretty! I couldn't pass it up. But I'll have to take a shot at getting pics of those babies tomorrow (hopefully). I hope this drugstore makeup thing doesn't get too out of hand. ..Did I actually just say that? It might be too late. Sometimes I feel so awful that I'm getting all these things but I'm so glad and grateful that the hubz can still support this outrageous, ridiculous, obsession that I have with makeup. I mean, I haven't gotten into any real trouble with him yet about it but if this continues...oh god. I don't even wanna think about it. lol. Anyway, here they are.





Top: Cash Flow P/P
Middle: Sassed Up IPP, Strawbaby L/S, Not So Innocent L/S, Utterly Frivolous L/S, Hipness blush
Bottom: Squeeze It L/G



Hipness Blush (you've all seen this before I know lol)



Sassed Up IPP



It's too cute! ;)



still working on the swatches for these..





Some travel size jars to make some tinted lip balm...we'll see how that goes.







e.l.f. elements - custom compacts. I'm actually impressed with this. Can't believe the compact was $1 as well as the e/s which is a really nice off white with subtle shimmer. The compact is like a white pearl version of MAC's 4-pan. but it comes with a dual sponge-tip/brush applicator (not in the pic, it fell out). and it has a mirror. i love it!



More e.l.f. stuff, (which i've already swatched but still having trouble taking the pics) and they are all so pretty!



WNW megaslicks l/g, WNW l/s, and maybelline mineral power blush in fresh plum



1 jordana l/s and 5 n.y.c. l/s



NYX l/l - natural, coffee, pinky (if i remember correctly)

I really hope I'll have some time tomorrow for all the swatches. Hopefully the kids will take a longer nap than their usual half hour. lol. Read More...