February Beauty Wishlist

Yeah, yeah, February is the month of love or whatever. Aren’t my little pink hearts enough? This post will not be filled with products I just can’t wait to buy and try out on Valentine’s day because, well, eff that. Instead this post is all about getting ready for summer, and for summer I am loving products in shades of peach and coral.

I’ve included a few peachy coral beauties from NARS, Fresh, and Deborah Lippmann, and Benefit Cosmetics. I’m looking forward to creating a look with these that I’m predicting will be my go to summer look this year. Of course I can’t go piling orange on my face if it’s red, which mine usually is, so I’m set on finding the best color correcting primer out there. I’ve had success with Smashbox’s Photo Finish, but I really like the way “amazonian clay” sounds and Tarte’s CC primer has great reviews, so I am dying to try it!  After reading this post on Lauren Conrad’s blog The Beauty Department, I’ve started using baby oil before and after I shower. It is working wonderfully so I think I’m ready to upgrade to something a little more luxe like L’Occitane’s Almond Supple Skin Oil. And finally, on a note completely unrelated note, I need like ten of these UNII Palettes to put together some eyeshadows and blushes from various palettes I have lying around. And even though I’m going to be enjoying being single bitter this Valentine’s Day, I may give out some beauty suggestions! We’ll have to wait and see.

 

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Benefit Haul

I have always loved Benefit Cosmetics: the beautiful colors, the pretty packaging, the awesome brow bar, and my girl Tia who kicks ass at waxing brows. The Benefit counter at the Belk in my local mall was having an event. You know, the kind where they do your makeup, you spend a bunch of money, and they give you a travel bag with some samples. Totally worth it.  Anyway, below is everything I ended up with. The sun beam, benetint, It’s Potetent! eye cream, and Total Moisture moisturizer were all small samples that came with my gift. (My roommate also got chachatint *scowls.*)

My thoughts? The lollitint is a very pretty purple, and happens to be Pantone’s color of the year, so I feel good about getting it. The longwear powder shadow goes on smooth and light, you have to use a lot if you want it to really show. These two colors (milk it! and bingo!)are amazing! I’ll try to show you guys a look with them later… think T-Swift at the Grammys. As I’ve mentioned before, I have huge pores and my nose tends to get pretty oily throughout the day. The POREfessional: agent zero shine fixes that by setting my makeup and mattifying my face. The moisturizer was nice as far as moisturizers go. I didn’t really notice a difference with the eye cream, but that could be because I only have a tiny tiny sample of it. I can’t wait to use the sun beam to create some “it’s freaking cold out here I am ready for summer” looks, and I’m pretty sure I’ll wear the benetint on my cheeks and lips while I’m at home drinking wine on Valentine’s day.  Look out for that post, it should be a good one.

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