Have you ever heard of The Allure Beauty Box?
No, well let me tell you about it. If you love beauty products and a great deal you are going to want to know about this awesome box.
This is a box of full sized beauty products ( hair, nail, skin and makeup etc.) that is sold at a great price. Also a portion of the sales goes to charity.
Allure offers these boxes usually three times a year. They always go very fast. Your best chance to get one is to be on the site when they go on sale. I was lucky enough to be able to buy the September Box.
If your looking for more information check out the site for The Allure Beauty Box here.
~amber~
Yesterday while I was out picking up some groceries at Target I picked up NYC Matte me Crazy Mattifying Top Coat.
I paid $1.72. I have been wanting to try out the matte nail look for awhile now. While I really like NYC makeup, in the past I found that their nail polish chipped really easily (at least the few that I had tried) so I stopped buying them. But since my budget doesn't allow me to go out and get one of the more expensive matte top coats right now I decided to give their polish another go. I am really hoping that it works well and I end up liking it. I will do a review after I try it out.
Till next time,
amber
Hello everyone! I have been talking about writing this blog post since the summer and I am finally doing it! Here is my review* and also collection of Sinful Colors nail polishes. Over the summer I picked up and tried this brand for the first time. You can find these polishes at most drugstores and stores like Target and Walmart. I think they retail for around $1.99. I ended up really liking these polishes and I now have a collection of 8! I am sure it will grow in the future.
I like these polishes because:
- How affordable they are. You can't beat $2 for a nail polish. I only have a few higher end polishes. Not only because I am on a limited budget but you can find some drugstore polishes that are just as great as the higher end ones and cost so much less.
- They apply very nice. I have never had any problems with applications. I usually do two coats and I am good to go. I don't really know exactly how long it takes for them to dry since I usually give my nails extra time to dry because I get so annoyed when I do my nails and then mess it up right away.
- They are long lasting. I do use a top coat over them as I do with all my polishes now. Over the summer I had two colors that I wore constantly and I could go days with little to no chipping especially if I kept my nails short as I usually do.
- There is a wide variety of colors. Keep in mid though that some stores have more than others, like my Rite Aid carries more colors than my Target. So if you are looking for a particular color you may have to check out a few stores to find it.
My collection:
The colors I have are (starting at the top row left) 369 Ruby Ruby, 5162 Seaweed, 101 Snow Me white, 2 Black On Black, (second row bottom left) 921 All About You, 62 Purple Diamond, 947 Mint Apple, 952 Hazard.
Here are some of my past posts using Sinful Colors polishes:
and my latest nail post, the black polish I use under the glitter polish is a Sinful Colors nail polish:
A few of them I have yet to use.
In closing I will say that I definitely recommend these if your looking for a good inexpensive nail polish.
Till next time. :)
*This is not a sponsored post. All opinions are my own. All the polishes were bought with my own money. :)
Hello all, thought I would share some of my recent beauty buys/purchases. Includes some makeup items, some nail polishes, two perfumes and a random hair accessory. All these items were accumulated over a few weeks.
I will start with makeup.
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I repurchased Maybelline Mega Plush Volume Express mascara (waterproof) in very black. Mine was getting dried up and I had been using it since I originally purchased it in June so it was time for a repurchase. I really like Maybelline mascaras.
Urban Decay eyeshadow primer potion in original. I had been using a primer I got from NYC line, but I really wanted to try the Urban Decay one since I have seen it used in so many YouTube videos. I have been using it for a few weeks now and so far so good.
Next up is Wet n Wild Walking on Eggshells eye shadow trio. BudgetBeautiful on YouTube mentioned this product in her August Favorites video and since it is only $2.99 I had to check it out. I tried it out today for the first time and my first impression is I like it. I think they will be great neutral colors I can wear to work.
And lastly is Maybelline Color Tattoo in Barely Beige. I read about the limited edition Color Tattoo shadows on a few beauty blogs, especially this color. This color caught my interest as well since the only thing I have close to such a neutral color is the CoverGirl Shadowblast in Beige Blaze and I find that one just alright, I don't really like the whole wand application. So I happened to see it at my Rid Aid one day when I had stopped in to get something else ( I almost didn't see it). They only had one left so I grabbed it. I am glad I did. I really like the color, its the perfect neutral eye color for me to wear to work when I don't want to skip shadow but I don't wanna look like I am wearing a ton of eye makeup.
A closer look at the shadows.
Next up nail polish. I haven't used any of these polishes yet.
I picked up two more Sinful Colors polishes. A matte white called Snow Me White. I figured a basic white is a good color to have on hand. I wanna get a basic black polish too ( 9/8/12 update:While at Target tonight I picked up the black Sinful Colors polish called Black on Black). Then I picked up the sparkly All About You because it reminded me of China Glaze Electrify from The Hunger games collection which I was sad I missed that collection. I also picked up a Maybelline Color Show polish in Impeccable Grey because I really wanted to try their polishes. I picked up a Sally Hansen Strengthening Top Coat because I wanted to try another type of top coat.
Next I picked up 2 perfumes recently.
Purr and Curious
I picked up Katy Perry's Purr in a roller ball because I wanted something I could put in my purse and because I wanted to try the scent and see if I liked enough to buy the regular bottle of it. I am currently looking for a new scent, so if anyone has any suggestions send them my way. I also picked up a 1.7 fl oz bottle of Britney Spear's Curious. I had the big bottle of this fragrance when it first came out. I remember liking it back then and re-smelling it now I still like it. I had to toss my big bottle of it though cause it sat in my room at home unused when I went away to college and when I got finally moved back home it wasn't any good and I think the spray part was broken as well. So I got myself a small bottle of it at Tj Maxx cause it was cheap. Love the bottle too.
And lastly I got a hair accessory when I was at Walmart.
They had a 2 pack of the ribbon hair ties for only $2. 9/8/12 update: tonight at Target I noticed that they had a 3 pack of these hair ties 2 packs for $5 (not the $5 each as I had thought) or 1 for $2.50. I picked up 2 packs of them even though I still have yet to try them. Hopefully I will like them and they are as good as everyone on YouTube says. They definitely look prettier than just a plain old elastic hair tie.
What are some of your recent beauty buys?
9/10/12
I figured I would add this to this post since its only a few things. On Saturday along with going to Target I also stopped into Bath & Body Works. I had been waiting for their full line of fall scents to come out cause I wanted to get a fall scented lotion for my bathroom. After smelling all the scents I ended up going with the scent that had already been out for like a month, Sweet Cinnamon Pumpkin. I had a coupon for a free small mini candle so I picked up one in Leaves. I also had a coupon for a free sample size lotion of their new scent Cashmere Glow so I also picked that up as well. Just put some on now and the scent is pretty nice. I love these size lotions cause they are perfect for your purse. Plus you can't go wrong with free. The best way to know when they are going to offer a coupon for a free sample lotion is to like them on Facebook. You can claim it and they email you the coupon, and then you can just show them on your phone the coupon, you don't have to print it out.
Till next time. :)
