I told you advent makeup calendars are coming didn’t on? Sephora Once Upon A Castle Advent Calendar ($45) arrives today for Holiday 2018 and is packed full of beauty fun to count down the days until Christmas!
If you don’t want any spoilers don’t read ahead but if spoilers are totally your deal here’s what’s inside this cute little castle!
There are plenty of new drugstore makeup picks for Fall 2018 out there contrary to the fact we are knee deep in Holiday 2018 at the moment! I’m of the mentality I just want to enjoy Fall but the makeup world just wants to rush pass it and head right into the Holidays. So, how about we take a sec to enjoy the fruits of the drugstore makeup world for Fall 2018 today?
A brief moment and relief from Holiday 2018 yes? Who’s with me?
Here’s a few new makeup picks at the drugstore to keep an eye out for this season!
Uh oh! It’s only October and I’m already sort of bored with the Holiday Makeup Collections. Please don’t throw tomatoes at me!
One of the stand out collections this year that did surprise thus far is Too Faced Holiday 2018! The Tickled Peach Eyeshadow Palette was really, really good and so far in my testing, I am liking Gingerbread Spice as well! It’s about time that someone took notice that Holiday Collections and quality haven’t gone hand and hand for years now. It’s nice that Too Faced made some effort to improve the formula on their latest release.
However, so far, everything else has been a bit meh. Don’t get me wrong there’s a gift set here and there that I’m liking but nothing magical has really jumped out at me yet and I do feel like we are fairly deep into Holiday. That means there has to be something that I want right? Not so much!
I tend to liken the Holiday Makeup Collections to a Pyramid Scheme. Don’t laugh, it’s true, think about it.
Holiday starts trickling in around the end of August and by the second week of September we are pretty much knee deep into it and by the end of September almost 99% of all brands have launched. Obviously makeup junkies start buying at this point but there are a select few that are reserved about their purchases. Baiting their time, waiting on a sale but many makeup users are spontaneous and still experiencing FOMO. Remember, not everyone in the makeup world has been around the block as much as you have so FOMO plays an important role in a new makeup users world as well as a brand’s world as they are hopefully to capture the new audience’s attention and money.
It almost feels like they get money from the initial collections to pay for the prior collection and create more collections to get more money to pay for the last collection and so on and so fourth. Totally a pyramid but one wonders, are they making money or will Tarte end up at Target next year if you get my meaning!
A universal promo code is circulating at the moment that apparently expires on 10/10/2018 for Sephora Beauty Insiders (BI) only. I guess it’s incentive to get the lower tier reward members to spend more money! Head over to Sephora.com, log in, and use the following promo RA5764RGAW to take $15 off your $50 purchase. I can’t verify if it works as I am Rouge but from reports, I’ve been reading it’s a go (it might be targeted though).
Enjoy! Hope it works for you!
Anastasia Beverly Hills Sultry Eyeshadow Palette ($45) is a new 14 shade palette that launched for Holiday 2018 that includes 12 all new shades and two bestselling shades to create a smoky eye look. According to the brand this is a “cool-toned” palette but I’m honestly feeling like it has more warmer shades than cooler tones but feel free to correct me.
I mean I sort of get where they are going with the cooler tones as there are a few shades here that lean towards being cooler but one you start applying, blending, and fiddling around with these shades I think the looks that come out of the experience are quite warm. The palette also fails to bring together anything new or unique but it’s still an assortment of colors that I am happy to have all housed in one place none the less. The one thing you can always count on with Anastasia Beverly Hills Eyeshadow Palette is the fact the shades always work well together and that would be the case with the Sultry Eyeshadow Palette. There’s no guessing games here, all the shades just work really, really well together and it’ll be a great essential palette for work, evenings out, and plenty of sparkly Holiday looks.