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I purchased the Too Faced Totally Cute Eyeshadow Palette ($36) that recently launched with Too Faced Fall 2016 Collection. I have to admit the Totally Cute Palette is totally bogus. This eyeshadow palette comes in a pink compact that simply reads “Too Faced” across the front. But wait, there’s more! It comes with stickers, yes stickers, that you can use to decorate the palette with.
This is where things get a bit juvenile and childish! I should explain myself a little more before I call anything immature. I’m a lover of anything and everything cute. I remember when the Sephora Hello Kitty launched and I squealed my way through tons of posts about it. I became rather defensive when someone commented and said I was being childish and it was stupid that I wanted to carry around a Hello Kitty Compact. I get it! Not everyone is a child at heart and not everyone loves cutesy makeup. That’s me though. The cuter my makeup packaging is, the happier I am! Too Faced has always been very cute in packaging and most recently things have seem to gotten even cuter with the launch of the Peanut Butter and Jelly Eyeshadow Palette as well as the Sweet Peach one. But it seems like the Totally Cute Palette jumps the shark a little bit!
I guess there’s a line to be drawn when it comes to too much cuteness! Sitting down and decorating my palette with stickers feels a little too childish to me. And dare I say, a bit of a waste of time as well. Too Faced includes not one, not two, but three sheets of stickers with the palette. Mind you, you’ll never be able to use all of these! I ended up decorating the palette for this review and I purchased the palette for the same reason. All in all it isn’t something I’d have purchased if I didn’t get requests to review it. Not only is the color selection one I didn’t like but also the entire sticker thing just threw me for a curve ball.
But, I’ll admit, I had some minor fun decorating the palette. Once you start getting into it, it’s rather fun. I was worried the palette would look stupid or kitschy after I was done. But the stickers actually looked good and rather seamless with the pink background of the compact. Will they last through uses? I’m not sure. Right now they are fine but will daily use you might notice peeling! But hey, you have three entire sheets so, you can always start over if they do peel off. I tucked the extra ones into my planner as they might see better use there!
I should say, the stickers aren’t really something you absolutely need to take advantage of. If the eyeshadow shades in the Totally Cute Palette are your thing but the packaging is silly to you. No problem! Just don’t bother with the stickers. The actual compact is a simple pink and perfect for minimalists!
But now that we chatted packaging, let’s talk contents!
The It Cosmetics It’s All About You! Customer Favorites Collection is the upcoming QVC Today’s Special Value for June 2016. The It Your Customer’s Favorites Set includes four full size It Cosmetics products and will be available this weekend on QVC!
I know many, many of you are It Girls and Guys and you’re always excited when there’s a special set available at a low price. This particular set actually introduces a brand new product to the It Cosmetics Collection which is Je Ne Sais Quoi Hydrating Color Awakening Lip Treatment. This is a hydrating lip treatment that contains essential butters and oils which promises to give lips a perfect pink tint.
The set also includes a supersize version of It Cosmetics CC+ Illumination Color Correcting Illuminating Full Coverage Cream (2.53 oz).
Let’s check out the rest of the contents!
My Play by Sephora June Beauty Box arrived and I thought I’d do a quick unboxing. June’s Play Box is called The Minimalist and contains an assortment of nude, minimalist makeup and beauty options.
You likely already subscribe to Play but if you never heard about it before I’ll give you a brief low down. Sephora launched their own beauty box service last Summer and made it available in select cities. Just recently they had open enrollment for the box which actually quickly became closed again. Upon launching June’s box they again opened enrollment for the box. Place your name on the wait list and you’ll get an invite to sign up next month. That seems to be the way they are working the subscription as with each new box launch they sent me an invite to sign up (I’m already signed up but I keep getting invites after my box ships). So even though enrollment is wait list at moment you’ll likely get an invite to join next month when July’s box ships!
As you may already know I got my first Sephora Play Box last month and I was a little disappointed with the contents. If I’m being honest, I really didn’t like the June contents however, they were much more generous compared to last month’s offering. So, in this case, it’s only about personal preference! Some of these items aren’t really what I enjoy using but as far as actual value, this box contains a nice assortment of goodies for the $10 price tag.
Here’s a look!
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Sorry for the lack of posts. There have been a few hiccups with the site I’m trying to figure out at the moment. There’s a wild plugin causing some unusually high CPU usage which might be causing lag you the front end for all of you! Sorry! But I’m working on getting it sorted. You should be golden at the moment as site seems to be loading fast. It’s mostly the back end that’s giving me some headaches!
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Mine has been a bit crazy!