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Back to the Earth EOTD and mini review 2!

Hi everyone! This is the second installment in the B2TE week series. Click HERE to purchase the items used. All the other installments are under the label of B2TE week.

Products Used:

Base: Lumene, UDPP(lower lash line), NYX Jumbo Pencil in Yogurt

Eyeshadows:

1. Egyptian Sands: Used in the inner corner, 1/3 of the lid. This color is similar to Sun God, but has more yellow tones and it is deeper in color. It is also more pigmented and packs on better in general. Would I repurchase? Absolutely, just not in the 10 g jar. 5 grams is enough for me! I have a ton of these gold family shadows, but gold must be my fave. I just love it and colors that have goldness in them

2. Penny Loafer: Used in remaining 2/3 of lid. This is an interesting color. I don't think that you can see it there but it is almost a 2 color- in-one-deal. If you pat it on, it is a brown/bronze with intense shimmer. If you start blending it out (as I did on the outer edges and into the Egyptian Sands), it turns a reddish, coppery color. It looks great if you mix with the Egyptian Sands because you just get a gold/copper. This shadow reminds me of Petrilude's Tutorial on one of the Kryolan Paints (I think, maybe?). It is yellow, but with force and friction, it goes green. He's on youtube. If I could, I would definately get this again. It's cool.

3. Electric Purple: Used on lower lash line (1/2 outer). I normally never use powder eyeliner because it doesn't stay on for me. My tears must be acidic or just a natrual makeup remover LOL. It cuts right through any powder shadow. BUT I am not doing this forever so I'm trying to use as many colors as possible in 1 look so I can do these mini reviews and cover as much as possible. This color( if packed) looks like PUrple Dragon. Maybe if you spread it out, you see the shimmer you see on my swatch. I'm on the fence on this. I have many purples and I have a very shimmery purple already. I'd like it as a random free dample, but probably not purchase on my own. Oh, the pigmentation beats Revlon matte shaow in Augergine. I love that shadow too.

4. Northern Lights: Used on the lower lash line (1/2 inner). Lovely blue-lilac color with tones of shimmer. I found it sheer compared to the Electric Purple, but it blende very well and gave it the Electric Purple some gleam. I freaken love purples. I would totally buy this again!

Mascara: Almay 1 coat lengthening, Estee Lauder projectionist

Let me know what you think!

Toodles<3

Back To The Earth EOTD and Mini Review

Hi! I will be doing this everyday all week. All the eyeshadows will be exclusively Back To The Earth (
HERE

) mineral eyeshadows and I will be doing mini reviews. Then over the weekend, I'll put up a cumulative review of everything in general.
Products Used

Base: Lumene, UDPP (bottom lash line), NYX Jumbo Pencil in Yogurt

Eyeshadow:

1. Sun God: It reminds me of UD Honey eyeshadow dupe, but it isn't as yellow and it is more shimmery. I would definately repurchase this! I think that it's a great addition to the gold family. There is a good amount of fall out, but not as bad as TF shadows. If you do need to clean up, don't put a base on the lower lash line. Wait until you clean up everything. I used it in the inner 1/3 and the innwer coner/tear duct ar color.

2. Golden Rose: I don't see as much "gold". I feel like it's more of a deep pink/rose color, with some brownness. This is unbelievably pigmented. I had to go back and legit, wipe some off with a wet wipe because I could blend the shadow up to my brow and still have some leftover on the brush. If you pack it on the lid a lot, it gets browner, but it does remind me of a rosy color. Assuming I somehow run out (in 10 years) I will be repurchasing. Just a thought, it could make a great blush color. Please use a light hand and REALLY tap off the excess. I used this on the remaining 2/3 of the lid.

3. Purple Dragon: This is more of a matte color for me, even though it looks glittery on the website. It could be a case of pot=/= eye. I get that a lot. I would describe this as a black inflused with some purple. It's not black, but it's not purple either. I think that it would be great if you don't want the complete harshness of black, but you don't want the intensity of a purple either. Again, so pigmented that I dipped my brush into the pot once for both eyes. I don't see myself using this too much so I think that if I were to reorder, I'd like this as a sample instead. I used it on the outer outer 1/6 ish.

Eyeliner; Sephora Brand Flashy Waterproof eyeliners- Flashy Copper- in inner 1/2 of lash line

Almay I-color eyeliner- Brown Topaz- Outer 1/2 of lash line.

Mascara: Almay one coat lengthening mascara

Estee Lauder projectionist mascara

Let me know what you think!

Toodles<3

Back to the Earth Swatches

Hey everyone! Happy Mondays? not really. Today, a new swap came in! I swapped with the owner of the online store- back 2 the earth. It is a vegan company and yes, they do ship internationally. I haven't tried them out yet so I'm not going to comment, but I do have some swatches up! I will be doing a review later this week (see Friday or the weekend?) after I try them out. I will also be depotting the samples out into small pillboxes.

Samples: 14 of them! The baggies are placed in the order in which they appear on the hand.

Just at first glance, some pigments seem to be dupes of each other or that they are very similar. For example, the Purple Dragon and Midnight Rider and True black all seem to be black. Except the MR and the PD have other undertones. Do you see some other HE brand dupes here? I think that Electric purple COULD be a dupe of MAC young punk (based off of other people's swatches) and perhaps Sphinx is a dupe of UD smog? Maybe? maybe? maybe? Do tell me.

I think that they are will unique enough to add decently to my collection. There are 30 some colors on the website. Also, it sells for 3 dollars for 5 grams and 5 dollars for 10 grams. AND there are so many different assortments (ie 6 5 gram jars for x amount). AND if you don't know what you want, you can get sampler sets. AND you can buy other things such as jewelry, soaps, aromatherapy stuff, etcetcetc

Toodles<3

New Year's Eve Hauling

My family usually doesn't do anything on New Year's Eve mornings and afternoons. We only do something at night, aka go to someone's house and eat, so my mom let me go to the mall. Actually, this is possibly one of my favorite times to shop at the mall becuase

1. There are still leftover sales from the after xmas stuff. I mean it means that you bascially have to pick through the leftovers, but there is still a large selection so it's not that bad.

2. The people level is down. Seriously. Most people are probably at home cooking, resting, doing whatever so the amount of people in the mall isn't too bad. On Black Friday, and Saturday before xmas, the lines are 20 people long, stores meant for 10 people have 30 people in them. The amount of body heat being produced is so nasty. Ugh. It would be better if it were the summer becuase then you could wear shorts and t-shirts and not worry about lugging around huge and nasty jackets. And, there's A/C to offset the body heat.

Here are my purchases:

LtoR: Sephora Professional Lip Brush (#61), MAC Studio Finish Concealer in NC30, Victoria's Secret double Lip balm in Citrus Squared

Comments: I hate how the lip brush doesn't come with a cap! Usually don't people carry it with them? But it's okay. I found another reusable packaging (from Essence of Beauty) to house it in. But it's 10 dollars (which compares to MAC 19.50). So it's more of a mid-priced thing. I really liek the MAC concealer except for the minor fact that it's for my forehead only. Apparently, my forehead is NC30 while the bottom of my face is NC25. Nice right? I know that my forehead is darker but I didn't know that it was THAT much darker. =0= Really? Well, I'm on a no sun diet so maybe I'll get it to even out eventually. The Lip balm turned out to be .54 cents becuase it was 40% off and I had a remnents of a gift card for 4 dollars. Yay!

Boots from Square One Comments: I love these boots! I orginally wanted a pair of flats (clearance for 5 dollars!) but they didn't have my size. Then I tried on some long boots but they were kinda gross on my feet. I didn't like how the toe was like a square. I wish that I could find some affordable boots that had a round toe. But, there are pointy toes but I like them. They were inexpensive. The only thing that I have issues with in the store, is the sizing. Somehow, I'm between 7.5 and 7. While at other stores, I'm an 8. Their 8's are humungous. And also, during the NYE sale, most of the sizes were gone, but it's okay! I still got something great. I love that store, I need to go back again. I bought grey boots from there (they're posted in some other haul thing in september. I'm way too lazy to find it XP).

Expect more great things in the future!

Toodles<3