Gong hei fat choy friends! The Lunar Year looms ahead and we can hope and pray it means good things for 2021! Of course, their are no shortage of Chinese New Year Makeup Collections including a new E.L.F. Cosmetics Lunar Year 2021 Collection featuring two gift sets. Correct me if I’m wrong but this is the first time I’ve seen a Lunar Year Collection from E.L.F.! Don’t get too excited though as it isn’t a makeup collection really but more two gift seats featuring re-promoted items. That’s pretty much the norm though for Lunar Year Makeup Collections! Everyone really calls it in and just does red packaging! MAC is probably one of the few brands that does an entire launch around the Chinese New Year!

Let’s take a look!

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Do you know how to apply your Hyaluronic Acid the right way? You might be surprised to learn you’re doing it wrong! I always find HA reviews online interesting because many expressed how dry their skin felt after applying Hyaluronic Acid! Dry? That can’t be right!

Hyaluronic Acid is humectant. It acts like a sponge and draws moisture to your skin while helping to retain that moisture. It’s one of the best things you can use if you have dull, drier skin as it acts to pull in moisture and plumps up your skin. And as I always say, well hydrated skin is not only happier skin but also younger and brighter skin. I personally have duller, drier skin and my number one way to rid myself of dullness is moisture. If you’re well hydrated your skin will look a lot less duller and you’ll get back that natural luminous glow.

If you’re experiencing dryness directly after Hyaluronic Acid you might just be applying it wrong!

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Ahhhh Angel! I have such a love hate relationship with you! Perhaps the new Mugler Angel Nova will help me to love more and hate a little less. Angel can be an overwhelming scent experience due the heavy dose of patchouli. That patchouli has a seriously hard kick and when you present it to someone like me who likes sweet gourmands it can be a really hard pill to swallow. Honestly, I’d rather bath in Flowerbomb than mist myself down with Angel. It’s just too harsh! Too loud! Too HEY HERE I AM! I wanna meet the man out there that actually thinks Angel is sexy. I always feel like Angel is an intimidating force of nature that men probably smell and curl away in absolute agony when their girlfriend or wife wears it.

But if nothing else Thierry does know how to make good on the Angel juice and create other more interesting blends from it. Angel Muse? Totally love it! Completely different from the original Angel and quite lovely. This is why I never overlook an Angel release. I know Angel can make the haters a little wary of trying out something new and different with the same name but I promise you some Angel releases are good ones!

As with most fragrance launches Mugler always does a big push for Spring seasonal launches as Valentine’s Day nears. Angel Nova Eau de Parfum arrives just in time for the romantic season ahead. This is a fruity floral with notes of raspberry and rose but sadly, the base does contain akigalawood which is fractionated from patchouli oil. That akigalawood is going to make or break the fruitiness of the raspberry and the delicateness of the rose. It might compliment but not overwhelm the fruity floral notes or it might just take over them! It’s really hard to say with Mugler perfumes! They can go either way! We’ll all have to smell it and see how it turns out.

Mugler Angel Nova Eau de Parfum is available now!

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Ulta

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Colourpop Valentine’s Day 2021 arrives on Feburary 3rd and it marks the 6th collection that launched since January 1st. So, what have we seen so far? The Animal Crossing Collection, the Lunar Year Launch, the new lip masks, the Wild Child Collection, The Cloud Spun Collection, the Love Struck Quads, there’s more, help me out here! Well, thank you Colourpop! I’m officially overwhelmed and it’s just now February 1st.

Ironically, I’ll bitch and whine and piss and moan when Too Faced, Urban Decay, and Tarte are launching collections too quickly but when Colourpop does it I’m all, “OOOO SO PRETTY!!” Must be the budget beauty friendly prices that do me in. But you can legit just sink your entire retirement into Colourpop! I picture people buying like every single collection! It’s not too farfetched considering how quickly it all sells out. The day of launch is typically 10AM PST and by 11PST most of it is gone. Obviously they are doing something right.

This collection includes three new pink, rose, and red Love Struck Eyeshadow Palettes plus three new heart shaped blushes that look like the old Too Faced Love Flush Blushes! They also have a few Fourth Ray Beauty items, a heart mirror and a highlighter. Oh and a face stamp! Are we still doing face stamps? The palettes and blush are the star of the show though!

Do I need any of this?

Absolutely not.

Do I want some of it?

Yeah. I’m a sucker. Here’s my money Colourpop do what you will with it!

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Colourpop

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I have my doubts that Urban Decay Wild West Eyeshadow Palette was supposed to pop up o Zulily first but it did somehow and here we are! The Urban Decay Wild West Eyeshadow Palette is a Spring 2021 launch with 12 new shades inspired by California’s deserts, endless skies, and Joshua Trees.

Update: The palette is now available at sephora.com!

This palette contains twelves shades with a mix of pale peaches, metallic bronzes, deep greens, and turquoises in matte, shimmer, metallic, and matte finishes. Apparently it has a launch of February 8th at sephora.com but I can’t confirm that. I do know that Urban Decay reached out to me late last month about a new launch but I was only able to give them my shipping into and other info was going to follow closer to the launch date. I imagine that PR mailing is this new Wild West Eyeshadow Palette.

Ironically the news of the Wild West Eyeshadow Palette comes so soon after I posted how much Urban Decay has changed and how the quality just wasn’t what it used to be. I expect no different from this launch unfortunately. There’s nothing really innovative here! It’s a very pretty palette but if you were hoping that Spring 2021 would bring some bold, pigmented rainbow hued eyeshadow palette from Urban Decay I’m sad to say that’s not happening here. It’s very Estee Lauder Bronze Goodness of them though isn’t it? The turquoise paired up with the bronze-y browns! I’ve always been a fond fan of that combo but not sure I need all these brown shadows in my life! My collection of brown and natural eyeshadows is pretty vast at this point!

But I’ve never said no to more…!

We’ll have to see of the Urban Decay Wild West Eyeshadow Palette brings some quality our way as that might make us overlook the redudant shade line up!

Are you excited about this one?

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Sephora

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