As you may know I haven’t had a lot of success with Drunk Elephant Skincare and it got me wondering why it wasn’t working for me. What was I doing wrong? What wasn’t I experiencing the great results everyone else was?

Recently, I hauled two of the Drunk Elephant Holiday Gift Sets in the hopes I’d give the brand a second chance to see what it was I was missing and much to my dismay I didn’t really see better results. Even more recently I purchased the new Drunk Elephant Protini Polypeptide Cream, which I love by the way, but I still felt like the rest of my routine with their products just simply wasn’t working out.

So, I did a little research, I reached out to Drunk Elephant, and here is why their skincare might not be working for you (and me).

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Walgreens started stocking up their Valentine’s Day displays at the end of December but I felt it was WAY too early to talk about it. It’s always a rush to the next season in stores isn’t it?

Anyway, I ran across some really cute offerings that I thought I’d post about. Not sure if anyone is interested in any of this but I always love kawaii beauty goodies and there are quite a few items at Walgreens you might want to peek!

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Happy Weekend! I thought I’d start off your Friday with another quickie makeup news briefing because if nothing else the makeup world is never boring.

I’m happy to report MAC Prep + Prime Fix+ in Rose, Coconut, and Lavender have returned! If you’re a MAC Fix+ fan I’m sure this is exciting news for you. I’ve actually reviewed all of these in the past if you want to jump back into the archives and see what I thought of them! You can snatch them up at maccosmetics.com.

In other MAC news, their new Weightless Water Concealer is now available at ulta.com, nordstrom.com (Free Shipping), and at maccosmetics.com. For a hot flash it came in stock at Ulta and went out of stock but all shades are now available. I purchased it and will review shortly. I’m quite excited about this one and have hopes it’ll be nice and thin yet have good coverage! We shall see!

And finally MAC news bit of the day they have relaunched their entire makeup brush line with new synthetic bristles and they are available now at nordstrom.com.

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I wanted to start a new section around here for makeup news briefing that way I can compile some of the more interesting topics in the makeup and beauty world happening during the week. What do you think?

Hopefully you like the idea.

Here’s what’s happening this week!

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Is that eyeshadow palette you’re buying at Ulta brand new? Maybe not! Ulta has been accused of selling used makeup this week by a former employee on Twitter who claims her managers instructed her to resell returned makeup and to put it back on the show. Allegedly they even instructed employees how to clean used makeup with alcohol, allow it to dry overnight, and proceed to repackage it and pop it back on the shelf.

The employer, known as Fatinamxo on Twitter, said, “They even taught us how to clean eyeshadow palettes and let it dry over night so it can be repackaged and sold the next day,”� “Managers would get pissed if they saw items in the damage bin that looked resell-able.”�

She also reached out to Ulta corporate about the situation and was told the following, “I contacted corporate and I was surprised to hear her say “well when it comes to mascaras we definitely want to be hygienic ” I immediately cut her off and said what about lipsticks? And foundation? They are reselling everything that they can clean up and make “new”� again.”

Wait, hold up, let’s go back to, “well when it comes to mascaras we definitely want to be hygienic”. Are you telling me that someone at corporate sort of confirmed they do resell mascaras?! It certainly sounds that way.

Ulta has since tweeted a reply about looking into these allegations but it’s still rather concerning that they might be reselling returned/used makeup. No one wants an eye infection or something worst like herpes.

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