Soap & Glory Glow Your Mind Nourishing Cleansing Balm is on the loose at Ulta! This is Soap & Glory’s first cleansing balm ever! The $13.99 cleansing balm is 3.3 oz in size and contains a mix of marula, avocado, apricot, and jojoba oil.

This sounded amazing until I read the how to use instructions. At first they say it’s a balm t milk consistency! Ok, that sounds right but they proceed to they proceeded to confuse me in two areas the first of which is the fact that meant to be used on a wet face. As far as I’m concerned it’s no longer a cleansing balm if you’re using it on wet skin. But secondly and most odd is the fact that it acts as a peel. Say what? Apparently it has AHA and BHA ingredients to act as a gentle peel but in reality it comes from harmful lemon oil. That being said I’m a bit wary of applying this on my eyes even though it says it’ll act to remove waterproof mascara.

I always find products like this confusing as it just wants to do too much. Just pick one thing to excel at. Be a great cleansing balm but don’t try to be a peel as well. It’s just too confusing when you’re throwing so many tasks into one simple product.

Am I right?

For those interested Soap & Glory Glow Your Mind Nourishing Cleansing Balm is available now at Ulta.

Where to buy

Ulta

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Make Up For Ever Matte Velvet Skin High Coverage Multi-Use Concealer ($27) launched today in 22 shades today at sephora.com and I’m wondering could it be the next Tarte Shape Tape Concealer? Same larger applicator, matte, full coverage, hmmmm! Sounds like Tarte Shape Tape doesn’t it? But guess what? I like Shape Tape and to this day I haven’t really found a Make Up For Ever Concealer I actually like. I dunno why that is either…! But I’m tempted by Matte Velvet Skin High Coverage Multi-Use Concealer! I could be convinced to try this one especially with the natural matte finish promise.

The formula is full coverage and provides a blurring effect with a water, sweet, and transfer proof formula that’s lightweight and what they dub as “airy”. That sounds very promising! Now to find a shade as I can never find a good Make Up For Ever shade that to fit me. What do you think of this formula? Think it’ll work for you?

Make Up For Ever Matte Velvet Skin High Coverage Multi-Use Concealer is available now at Sephora.

P.S. Happy Monday! How was your weekend? We had some odd weather where it was randomly raining on sec and crazy humid the next. But it was nice overall! Beautiful blue skies, bright sun, but oh my god humid. When the rain came it brought a ton of humidity with it. I felt like I was melting yesterday. We got up really early to go to Bear Mountain and at first it was very cool but as the day progresses phew it was hot as Hades. It was so worth it though because the view was breathtaking. But now my legs are about ready to fall off today 🙂 Haha…!

What did you do this weekend? And which concealer did you use so it didn’t melt completely off? 😉

Where to buy

Sephora

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My Melody x Kuromi x Wet n Wild Blushlighter Palette ($7.99) is a new, limited edition blush and highlighter palette with a quad for four shades inspired by Sanrio characters My Melody and her rival Kuromi. The palette is part of the new Wet n Wild x My Melody x Kuromi that launches on July on July 21st at wetnwildbeauty.com and sanrio.com as well as at ulta.com (in stores as well), Walgreens (in stores) CVS (in stores), and at target.com.

I’ve already featured the Wet n Wild Kuromi Eyeshadow Palette in a review I did last week. That palette is exclusively dedicated to shades inspired by Kuromi but the Wet n Wild x My Melody x Kuromi Blushlighter Palette is actually split into two shade groupings one that represents My Melody and the other Kuromi.

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