Benefit's Countdown to Love Advent Calendar 2013

So I am a big lover of advent calendars. I always got the candy ones as a kid growing up. So when I heard that Benefit was doing an advent calendar I knew that I was just going to have to get it. Lucky for us it has gone on sale on the Sephora website so we can order it now.

The calendar is just like any advent calendar and it has little pop up doors that reveal a sweet surprise. You get lots of great travel sized products from the Benefit line and a Bracelet, Necklace and Barrette.

I know I will be getting it for myself, especially being Rouge with the free shipping.

Here are the contents of the calendar.

This set contains:

- 0.25 oz "That Gal"

- 0.25 oz The POREfessional

- 0.08 oz High Beam

- 0.08 oz Sun Beam

- 0.08 oz Benetint

- 0.08 oz Chachatint

- 0.08 oz Posietint

- 0.22 oz Ultra Plush in Coralista

- 2 x 0.22 oz Ultra Plush in Sugarbomb, Dandelion

- 0.1 oz Hoola

- 0.1 oz Dandelion

- 0.1 oz Coralista

- 0.22 oz Ultra Lip Gloss in A-Lister

- 0.14 oz BADgal Lash

- 0.08 oz Stay Don't Stray in Light/Medium

- 0.02 oz BADgal Liner Waterproof in Black

- 0.1 oz It's Potent Eye Cream

- 0.3 oz Total Moisture Facial Cream

- 0.08 oz Ooh La Lift

- 0.25 oz Girl Meets Pearl

- Bracelet

- Necklace

- Barrette

Check it out now on Sephora.com

Benefit Cosmetics GWP

Today while I was out I saw that Macy's was having an event free make overs and lots of free gifts with purchase. I sent my mother over to get her makeup done. I walked around and looked at all the different things that were for sale. Most of the gifts weren't anything I really wanted.

I saw the bag that they were offering at Benefit and I really wanted it. I love the design on the bag and I love makeup bags. ( I am actually in the market for the Snow White and the Huntsman bag, because I adore it. I have a Cinderella bag and about a million other ones.)

The gift with purchase was gotten if you bought 3 items. So I bought 3 of the mini kits, mostly because I love mini bottles and it was the best way for me to try out a lot of different products for a lot less money. This way I have quite a few products to try out for you rather then one product. I like the odds better. I am really bad about trying to get the most out of my purchases. So you will always see lots of stuff from my posts and my cash.

I bought 3 of the mini sets. One was even discounted to $9. The sets I got were:

Tan About Town

The total moisture kit

and the poreless deluxe kit which I don't have a picture of because I gave it to my mother.

the GWP I got from this was gorgeous and some deluxe sample sizes

July Giveaway More Nail Polish Yay

Alrighty so today I went to walgreens, and they had these wet'n'wild sets that had 8 polishes in them in a cute little clear plastic carrying case. I really wanted the case, and for $9.99 how could I turn it down. 4 megalasts and 4 of the fast dry. I love the fast dry so I thought why not, you can never have too much nail polish right? So I went for it. I realized there was a chance that I was getting a couple of doubles and thought well if that's the case, I know some lucky followers who are going to benefit.

So I'm having another easy contests to giveaway some polishes. I love writing and more so love sharing with you what I love. So this giveaway will be for 2 wet'n'wild fast dry polishes in

The wonder Yellows

and

FuchsiaRama

I really love both colors. Plus you will get some Revlon nail files to make your nails look really nice.

Now for the contest.

Giveaway is simple.

Mandatory entry is follow me. email followers are greatly appreciated. I know I need more fan base. :) And leave a comment saying you follow me and your email(you can do the yournamea(at)gmail(dot)com ) you follow with so I know you entered.

Optional Extra Entries will be simply leave a comment on another post. Something worth while not just hi.

I will put all entries into Random.org and find a winner.

So follow me and win some nail polish.

Contest starts today 7/7/2012 and ends on 7/20/2012

I really look forward to making friends with all of you makeup enthusiasts and with other makeup bloggers. Have a great weekend and good luck.

Eye Kandii Cosmetics - First Indie makeup review

Today I have the pleasure of showing off some makeup I bought off Etsy.

The shop is http://www.etsy.com/shop/EyeKandiiCosmetics. I was searching for samples and kits to try out some small companies makeup and start writing about smaller brands and give me the chance to play with things I haven't had the chance to enjoy when I ran across her shop and picked up some samples because I liked the colors. I got a eye shadow sample grab bag that contained baggie samples and a product. Now I'm a sucker for surprises and since I'm wanting to try things I thought why not go this route and let her be my first review.

I got the products really quickly. They were waiting for me after work less then a week after I ordered. I was excited and opened the envelope. To my excitement there were lots of goodies to enjoy. I got a blush, a lip gloss, an eye shadow and samples. Not all the samples are labeled but that's fine by me. I can't wait to try them all. wear it on my lips for a full day.. but trust me that day is coming. :D

So first off we have the lip gloss. It is called Coral Kiss Lip Treatz Vinyl Lip Gloss. I am in love with the color. In the container it looks Neon Pink. If you know how much I love neon you'd be excited too. Here's a swatch of the color. I LOVE IT. It looks like shiny glossy lipstick. It comes off clean. I like the feeling of it. It feels moisturizing. I haven't gotten the chance to wear it on my lips for a full day.. but trust me that day is coming. :D

Next is the Jelly Bounce Blush in Honey Tan. Right off the bat I know it is far to dark for me as a blush. The color is almost a bronze color, very pretty. It seems to dry quickly so I can't use it as a eye shadow which I sometimes do with blush. I use everything for everything, lol.. but I might use it as a highlighter for myself. It has a nice creamy texture and feels soft going on. I really like it. The container I got is 20g and contains Vitamin A and E. So I like it and will find a use for it for sure. Not the best picture.

Next up is the eye shadow I got. The color is green and it is called Mojito. I already like it. LOL. The jar is completely full glad I didnt have it tipped when opening.. Haha. I'm bad about that. The color going on is a light shimmery green (dry) or a more neon looking light green over primer. (I used Elf eyelid primer.) The picture on top is the primed eye shadow and the bottom is the dry eyeshadow by itself.

I'm not going to do the samples today. Since I don't have any mini ziploc baggies to put them in once I cut them, so there will be another post on them.

Over all I am extremely pleased with what I purchased and I can see more eye shadow and lip vinyl in my future. I can't wait to try other colors out.

So go over and check out her shop, it's worth the money and you are helping someone pays bills and thats a good thing :)