She strikes again...

The junkie in me has struck again. I just put in an order over at cherryculture.com. I feel like I haven't purchased makeup in so long and as I was looking at my collection today I just felt sad. Which lead me to my computer and then to cherryculture and then to my wallet. But at least I got free shipping! *soft sigh* And seeing that I recently did a post about people that only buy one brand of makeup, it was only fitting that I purchased only NYX products. I know, I know shame on me. Anyway I will do a review after every thing gets here. Oh and I'll do another post about things I plan to buy in the near (or not so near) future.

Just to name a few

*Picture me in the cosmetic version of Brown Sugar* "So when did you fall in love with makeup." If you've never seen the movie Brown Sugar then just... never mind. But the question is, when did you fall in love with makeup? For me the year was 2007 and I was just a kid at home watching youtube videos thinking "I wonder if I can do that?" So I went out and purchased some Loreal eye shadow duos and went to work. Don't judge me they were all the rage when I first started doing makeup. I practiced and practiced until I got pretty good. But it wasn't until I saw Erin over at scandalousbeautyonline.com that I realized that I could do what I loved and make money. Since youtube was a large part of my start I've decided that I will share some of my favorite youtubers with you all.

I'm linking their names to my favorite looks by them

Colouredbeautiful
MissLBailey
Ulovemegz
EnKoreMakeup
Goldenchild789
Gossmakeupartist
Heather123
iCRAiZ
LetzMakeup
lilpumpkinpie05
MissChriss82
Scandalousbeauty
SongbirdDiva4Life

Shew those are just a few. I will post more random videos I watch later on...

Im probably going to be upset with myself for this

But, I want to create a look book. You know almost like an online portfolio. I haven't put too much thought into it, it was just one of those ideas that hit me and I thought it may be interesting. I do know that I will not start on it until after I have finished a project I have for class... Oh hey Ms. Smalls girl. Moving along, let me know if that is something you would like to see from me in the future.

Train case progression

So I told you ladies that I am working on my professional train case. The first step to that would be the train case! Well not really I'm probably not going to purchase the train case until I run out of storage for the things I'm going to put in the case. Anyway here is the one I'm looking at. Cute huh?!

Ultra calming facial demo

I love Dermalogica's ultra calming products. Great for sensitive and sensitized skin. So I found this demo of an ultra calming facial and decided to share. Enjoy!

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Review: Smashbox Try It Kit

Ok so I bought the Smashbox Try It Kit some time ago at Ulta on a mini shopping spree. I had been interested in Smashbox products for some time because I had heard a lot about them and thought the try it kit was the perfect way to get a taste of some of their most popular products. The kit comes with the photo finish foundation primer, photo finish lid primer, limitless eye liner (in onyx), hyperlash mascara (in blackout) and lip enhancing gloss (in illume). Now all of these products are small hence try it kit but you do get enough to really get an idea about the products.

Photo finish foundation primer: For those of you familiar with Dermalogica products this primer will remind you of barrier repair. I compared the ingredients for both of these products and they are very similar but I would say that the photo finish primer is a little more comedogenic. It's a really smooth silicone gel like substance it just glides on the skin and does not leave it oily and you only need a little bit. My foundation looked great all day. I'm defiantly going to add this product to my fave list.

Photo finish lid primer: No. Just no. I had high hopes for this primer but I was unfortunately let down. I tried it both with and without a eyeshadow crayon base and my shadows still creased. I used this product several time and always the same result CREASING SHADOWS. :(

Limitless eye liner- I'm always on the hunt for great eye liners that don't smear through out the day and this one is it! If I put this eye liner on at 8:00 am it is still there when I go to take it off at night. Perfect.

Hyperlash mascara- Ehh it's mascara, not much to say after that. I do like the wand though.

Lip enhancing gloss- I was a little put off by the "lip enhancing" because I already have all the lips I need, but once I put this lip gloss on I loved it. I don't know if the lip enhancing means that it is supposed to be lip plumping or just make the lips look better. Either way I loved it, it smells great (like cupcakes yum!) The color is almost clear so you can put it over lipstick to give it a shine or put it on by itself and go right out the door.

I enjoyed this try it kit and think it would be great if a lot more companies did something like it to allow the customer to get introduced to some of their most popular or newer products. I'm defiantly going to be purchasing the photo finish primer, eye liner and the lip gloss in full sizes.