Sephora Collection Colorista Custom Makeup Palette

I am totally loving the Sephora Collection Colorista Custom Makeup Palette.  This palette packs some major punch with 40 eyeshadows, 5 cream eyeliners, 15 lipstick/glosses, 4 blushes and 2 bronzers.  The palette comes in a sleek black case and even better is the customizable compact that is included which can hold up to 8 shadows, liners, or glosses and 2 blushes or bronzers.  There is a little tool that looks like a pointed stick which is use to lift pans out of the wells to put into the compact.  Both the large palette and the customizable compact come with a mirror and magnetic wells so the pans do not fall out.  I will say that although the eyeshadows are fairly pigmented, still use an eyeshadow primer to keep the shadows from creasing and fading and to further intensify the color.  Valued at $155,  this awesome palette retails for $36. Sephora and sephora.com

 

smashbox master class style files

ok usually i am never impressed with eyeshadow palettes and various other makeup kits however smashbox’s master class style files just made me do the side eye/raised eyebrow with interest and excitement.  this “library” of 3 portable “books” for eyes, lips, and cheeks is super cute and im loving it.  $59.  sephora.com

 

duo lights

so about that sephora brand duo bronzer/lumizer.  i dont remember the time or the day this product came into my life.  i dont even know what possessed me to pick it up and try it.  all i know is that i go nowhere without it.  as i stated in a previous post, it is a cream formulation that glides smoothly and beautifully over the skin.  use the deeper bronze color on the eyes, cheeks, and shoulders and the lighter golden shade can be used above and below the brow bone, the center of lips, cheekbones – where ever you want to put it.  i personally take my brush and swirl it around to pick up a blend of both colors and swirl it on the high planes of my cheeks, in the center of my forhead, down the center of my nose for a bronzy (is that a word), glowy, dewy look and it helps control excess sebum production.  i cant get enough.