The Prettiest Palette Ever!

While I was on vacation I was getting so frustrated with not having the right eyeshadow.  I brought a small Bobbi Brown palette with me, but didn't feel like the shadows were very good.  I was having to use so much shadow just to notice some color on my lids.  I bought a couple of drugstore Covergirl eyeshadows while I was there, and those were ok.  But I just kept wishing I had brought my Naked palette with me.

So I decided that I am a true-blue Urban Decay shadow lover, so why do I keep trying to fight it?

Just when I had this revelation about myself, Urban Decay sent me an email about a sale.  So I jumped right over to their website, and picked up a few shadows.

The product that I was most excited about was the Urban Decay Vegan palette.

I have seen this palette in stores, but never wanted to shell out the money for it.  I always feel guilty about spending money on eyeshadow because I already have so much at home.

Lucky for me, Urban Decay had this $34.00 palette on sale for $13.00!!

I also picked up two of their old formula eyeshadow singles.  They are calling them "vintage" now because they have their new formula eyeshadows out.  The vintage shadows were on sale for $9.00, and they are normally $17.00.  I picked up Blaze and Twice Baked.  (the funny thing is that the Vegan palette has Twice Baked included in the palette, but I didn't know that at the time)

When my order arrived at my house, I realized that I had just purchased the prettiest palette ever made.

Oh, not the eyeshadows.  The outside of the palette itself.  The eyeshadows are great, of course.  But I just love the packaging and design on this product.

The palette comes with a mini Eyeshadow Potion in Sin.   

Even the back is pretty!

Gorgeous shimmery shadows and a 24/7 liner pencil 

Would it be weird to buy a second one, so that I don't have to get this one dirty?  :)

This great sale is still going on over at UrbanDecay.com, and this pretty palette is still available.  I love it.

Thanks for reading!!

Vacation shopping at Ulta

Stopped in to Ulta with my mom yesterday.  It was raining and a little dreary yesterday, so not a great day for the beach.  I really wanted to find an inexpensive eyeshadow since I was not happy with the palette that I brought with me.  I was also looking for the Benefit limited edition London primer, which this store did not have.

I ended up getting just a few things.
Excuse the quality of these photos, I didn't plan to blog here so I only brought my iPad.

I have been wanting this particular Cover Girl eyeshadow trio.  It's called Major Distraction.  I liked the combo of colors the first time I saw it, but have been unable to find it again until yesterday.

Cover Girl products were buy one, get one 50% off.  I also bought a really nice neutral trio called Cafe Au Lait.  I bought it for the middle color, but I actually like all three colors and used all three in my eye shadow look today. The colors are all pretty light, so I think you need a darker crease color (like the one in the Major Distraction trio). 

I have been wanting to try the NYX lipgloss, so I decided to buy two since they were buy one, get one 50% off.  I got a light sparkly pink gloss called Perfect, and a bright sparkly Barbie pink called Gold Pink. They are both shimmery, and they feel smooth on your lips.  Not sticky at all.  Plus, they smell like bubblegum which is always good. 

On the lips they are both pretty sheer colors, so I might use them over another lip color. 

Finally I was sucked in once again by the allure of the mini-size beauty product.  It never fails.  They were selling a mini size Benefit Girl Meets Pearl, which is a shimmery highlighter.  Since I love trying new things, and I love Benefit, I bought it.  The sad part is that it was supposed to be $8, but they charged me $10.  I didn't notice that until I got home.  Also, the product is really MINI.  Smaller than I expected, but you only need to use a tiny bit so I guess it's ok.  

On my hand the product looked very shimmery.  It gives a pretty glow, but I was worried about how this would look on my skin.  I didn't know if it would be wearable for daytime, since it looked so shimmery.  It turns out on my skin, I couldn't really see the product at all.  It looked a little shiny when I put it on, but once it settled I didn't notice the product very much.  Not something that I will purchase the full-size version of in the future.  I might try it instead as an eyeshadow color, and brow bone highlighter.

Here is a photo with the Girl Meets Pearl on the left side of my face, and not the right.  I don't see much difference between the two sides.  

That's all for my vacation makeup shopping.  Thanks for reading!! 

Absence makes the heart grow fonder...

From Pinterest

I miss my Urban Decay Naked palette!!

I didn't bring my Naked palette on vacation with me because it was too long to fit in my travel makeup bag.  I brought a smaller eyeshadow palette, but it just isn't as amazing as my Naked palette.

Solution for next vacation---buy a bigger makeup bag!!