Hi Guys and Dolls!
Another month has gone by already! December seemed to go by in a flash! How was your holiday? I tried all sorts of new things in December, but here’s my list of stuff that I used or loved the most!
Hi Guys and Dolls!
Another month has gone by already! December seemed to go by in a flash! How was your holiday? I tried all sorts of new things in December, but here’s my list of stuff that I used or loved the most!
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Hi Guys and Dolls! I was recently sent a few Heavenly Natural items from the Shimmer Network to review. So Bam: Here you go.
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Hi Guys and Dolls!
Here’s the last video I’m going to do in my Sephora Holiday looks sorta-kinda series. I hope you like it
I’m sorry this will be posted after Christmas, but I didn’t think it would get many views on Christmas, LOL
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HOLY TOLEDEO!
I just found out today that Urban Decay is coming out with a Alice In Wonderland themed Book Of Shadows! OMG OMG OMG! I’m totally obsessed with Alice In W, and Urban Decay, SO this is SUPER DUPER exciting to me! Apparently they are using their best selling eye shadows and simply re-naming them (for instance, I’m guessing “Midnight Tea Party” is really midnight cowboy?)
This will have 16 eye shadows, two 24/7 liners, and a mini UDPP in the genie bottle (hopefully this will have the adjusted wand just like the one that comes with the Show Pony palette).
I’m pretty sure I’m going to buy this, even if I do have some doubles.
What do you guys think?
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Hi Guys and Dolls. I did another of the Sephora Holiday Catalog Inspired looks! I hope you guys like this, it doesn’t photograph very well, but it looks SO COOL in person! People go NUTS when I wear this green, but I provided two dupes that are dead ringers for it! Please take the poll at the end of the post to help me decide which videos/blog posts you guys are interested in.
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Hi guys and dolls! As you can guess from the title, I’ve decided to start doing monthly fave videos. Everyone seems to really enjoy this type of video, I myself love them, and they seem like easy videos to make. Not that I’m trying to take the easy route, but making my life a bit easier is pretty high on my priority list right now.
In truth, I’ve been wanting to do them for a long time, but I always feel like I need to properly review each item first, and for me, that’s sort of a hassle. Then I had an ephiany: the monthly faves videos sort of ARE a mini review for each item, DUH! So here’s my first monthly fave video, and a mini review of each item. Some of these you’ve seen me review before, some of these are things I’ve kept mum about!
First up is Rimmel Lasting Finish Intense Wear Lipstick in “Celeb”. I first tried this brand/type of lipstick back in 2006, and at that time I had “Alarm” (a dark red I bought for a Sally the Rag Doll Costume). For some stupid reason when I became full-fledged obsessed with MAC I bought their Russian Red Lipstick, and gave Alarm to my then- housemate. I bought Airy Fairy last winter, and I love it; I always use it for light lip looks (it’s sort of a light nude pink with very subtle gold sheen).
I’ve been dying to get Celeb, but it’s never in stock when I look. Rimmel was recently 50% off at my local Walgreens, and they only had one “Celeb” in stock, and the top had been smashed into the cap (GR) but I bought it -and sanitized it- anyway. Celeb is a deeper, warmer nude-pink than Airy Fairy. For me, it’s somewhat similar to my natural lip color, so I’d call it a nude lipstick. I myself am not really a fan of the flesh-tone lip color thing that a lot of people call nude. To me, nude should be somewhat similar to your lip color. Anyways, Celeb is a very creamy lipstick, similar to a MAC Amplified Cream finish. It has sort of a Chocolate (or is it cinnamon) smell that I like and dislike at the same time. The smell dissipates after about 3 minutes, so it’s not a major deal. Rimmel says this lipstick formula gives you 8 hours of wear, and I really wouldn’t know about that. I for one think lipstick starts to feel weird after 2 hours, so I always remove and re-apply. I’m also not a fan of eating with lipstick on ( have you ever seen your lipstick on your sandwich? that means you’re eating your lipstick, ICK!) Overall, I think celeb is a great creamy, warm, nude-pink that feels smooth an moisturizing on your lips. This is about 5.99 at drugstores.
Celeb Rimmel Lasting Finish Intense Wear Lipstick
I already reviewed the Hard Candy “Nobody’s Perfect Concealer Palette” so in the interest of keeping this post a bit shorter/not repeating my self too much, I’ll simply link you to that review. This was somewhere between 5-8 dollars at Walmart.
I said I didn’t want to repeat myself, (sigh) but once again, I already reviewed the Urban Decay 24/7 Liners so here’s a link to that post (blogging is getting easy, LOL). What I will say is that I’m pretty much obsessed with these. I want all the colors. Hopefully I’ll be getting some of the MUFE Aqua Eyes liners so I can do a comparison
these are normally 17.00 on the urban Decay Website and at Sephora and Sephora.com
The Migi Velvet Liner was sent to me for review purposes by the same company that makes the Migi Nail Art Pens that I previously reviewed/demoed . Basically, this is a liquid liner pen it’s like drawing on your eyeliner with a VERY fine tipped marker. Several companies make eyeliners like this, one that comes to mind is MAC . I can’t find out how much is in the Migi pen, and I searched the pen itself, the Migi Velvet Liner site, & the packaging, so who knows, the MAC one could have more or less in it. If I remember the MAC one wasn’t completely smudge proof, but the Migi one is. I put it on in the morning, ant it’s right there exactly as I had it when I come home 9-11 hours later. I can get a SUPER thin line with this and I love it! It has a slightly shiny finish as well, which is a nice break from the Matte blacks I normally use. I will say I only like the Black color, the green and the blue seem a bit sheer, and I really don’t like how the pens are not color labeled.
Last but not least, “Worth My Weight” Sephora by Opi nail polish. This is a gold (hence the name, ha-ha) glitter polish with silver 3-d silver glitter that is far more that the sum of it’s parts. Applied on the nails is had a rough almost matte finish and appears cool-gold. When you apply a top coat, the gold deepens and warms up! One way or the other, I feel like this polish could work for everyone. It dries lightning fast, and since it’s Limited edition, I only have 3 words: FREAKING GET IT! even if you hate it, you can give it as a gift to a friend or in my case, a kid sister. The only thing I don’t like is that the brush is humongous. The only other Sephora by Opi nail polish doesn’t have such a big brush, so I don’t know if the glitter makes it bigger, or if it’s something they did because it’s a LE shade, but it’s like a big nail polish mop. But seriously, Just look at this polish, it’s clearly worth it!
Blurry to show the 3-d Silver glitter OOOOHHHH
Thanks for stopping by my blog and reading my LOOOONG blog post!
<3 Cora
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Hi Guys and Dolls! I hope you’re all having a great week and are looking forward to the weekend!
Why I decided to Have a Giveaway now & have a Contest Later:
As my Twitter followers know I’ve been going back and fourth on this contest business. Have it now? Have it later with more Prizes? Overall the votes have been close to 50-50, but they were leaning more so tword postponing the contest. As of yesterday, I had decided to just have it now, since my Two Year youtube anniversary was yesterday.
But a few things have changed my mind.
For one, I don’t like to have tons of contests. Mini Giveaways on twitter, sure. Really, need to do that more often since they are so fun and sporadic, they are in no way a ploy to gain more subscribers/followers, just rewarding the ones I have. But big contests on youtube take a lot of time and energy, and are a lot harder to judge than they look. It’s the holiday season, and I know I’m busy with my new job, but I also know other people are busy as well, so less people would be able to participate.
More over, I do want my next contest to be big. I want to buy stuff with you guys in mind, and have time to gather fantastic sponsors. I want to be able to have a few winners, sort of like “Best in Show” “Miss Congeniality” and stuff like that. I want to give people an opportunity to win who are crazy talented, and are just getting started, but have a lot of heart. I also want people who can’t do videos to have a chance to win something. Also, perhaps after the holidays, some of you will have new makeup to play with? SO I’ll be delaying the big contest until January.
How To Win:
You have to be subscribed to my youtube channel.
http://www.youtube.com/user/vintageortacky
Enter a Comment Below with your YOUTUBE USER NAME IN THE COMMENT stating that you’d like to be entered into the giveaway.
Only enter once. Multiple entries will be deleted.
This is open to everyone, domestic and International.
If You’re under 18, ask a parents permission.
Giveaway entries must be submitted by December 18 at 11:59 PST
Thanks for participating in my giveaway, and for being a part of my blog and youtube channel. Also I need to note that Sigma sent me brush sets for review and giveaway purposes.
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Hey everyone, I’m sorry this blog post is SUPER short (I’m TIIIIRED< lol) Basically, I said nearly everything I wanted to in the video, but I wanted to add one more thing: Hard Candy doesn’t test on animals! YAY
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