Another day, another 14.0 Ready Eyeshadow Palette! The Bare Minerals The Bare Metals Ready Eyeshadow Palette ($40) is a new delicious nude palette inspired by the metallic trend sweeping the makeup world on the moment that includes 14 gorgeous nudes, bronzes, and natural shades for eyes.
I must be getting old because I’m really amazed at the amount of time makeup brands spend on social media nowadays. One of my reader’s, Sarah, pointed out that she wished brands spent more time on formulas versus promoting them on social media and I found myself nodding in agreement.
I’m just amazed at how much time and energy goes into promoting an eyeshadow palette or a mascara release nowadays. There’s Snapchat where hundreds of daily clips are uploaded from a variety of different people that work at the brand showing sneak peeks, swatches, and tutorials featuring whatever the release might be. Not to mention on Instagram where we get beautiful high resolution shots of the release on a variety of adventures like at some tropical secluded beach with pink sands and the ocean in the background, a perfect aqua hue or under the Eiffel Tower tucked into a basket of croissants. Hell, that palette goes on more trips than the average person does haha…! Apparently, when you do some major release that means it’s time to travel all around the world with it.
I’ve become a bit jaded as a blogger so, I see all these promotions and I tend to roll my eyes slightly at it because I feel it’s a tad overkill. But I understand they are essentially using a free medium to promote sales and who wouldn’t utilize that kind of business model to do so? It’s a no brainer making money across social media right?
But are your favorite makeup brands spending way too much time on social media to a point it gets annoying?
Urban Decay Meltdown Makeup Remover Lip Oil Stick ($15) ensures I’ll never to resort to using my reapplication makeup hack for long-wearing lipstick throughout the day. I actually dislike long-wearing lipstick because it’s a pain to remove and touch up through the day. Once you apply it, it’s pretty much bulletproof and it’s not going anywhere until you remove it with an oil-based makeup remover of some sort. I typically resort to saturating a cotton pad with micellar water, sticking it in a little ziploc bag, and carrying it around with me so, I can remove my lipstick and reapply it fresh throughout the day.
But Urban Decay Meltdown Makeup Remover Lip Oil Stick is a WAY easier way of doing things.
Pretty Vulgar Cosmetics launched on Sephora.com and damn, it’s all sorts of pretty. With a range of lipstick, eyeshadow palettes, concealer, and more this princess-y collection will definitely give you a Korean Beauty vibe. For old school Korean beauty fan girls and guys you might just remember a brand called Jadilla J which had a similiar princess-y packaging as Pretty Vulgar does!
Let’s take a peek at this line and see what we might need.
Dunno about you but I get sucked into the Target vortex every single time I enter the store. Recently, my best friend had to wrestle a Victoria Beckham Paper Doll Book from the death grip on had on it. Apparently, I’m too old for paper dolls.
Typically Target runs consist of, “I’m going to buy toilet paper!” and suddenly, you’re walking out the door with $300 worth of stuff in your cart and not a single roll of toilet paper in sight.
Try to avoid the makeup, skincare, and beauty aisles as Target is filled with some new goodies that I think I’ll have to go back and snag. Along with that missing toilet paper, of course.