Too Faced Chocolate Bar Review, Pictures, and Swatches

Hey guys! Long time, no see. Sorry about that, I was busy with school. But now it is summer and I am ready to get back into the groove of blogging. Today I am reviewing the Too Faced Chocolate Bar eyeshadow palette. I'm late to the party on this one, so I hope that's okay. This eyeshadow palette is full of brown neutral shades and a few purple toned ones also. I'll go through each shade individually but I want to give a brief overview. The actual palette is shaped into a chocolate bar and smells like a Hershey's chocolate bar when opened. It smells exactly like their chocolate bronzers, because both are made with cocoa. I think the eyeshadows overall are of nice quality, but nothing amazing. They have great pigmentation but are not buttery like LORAC eyeshadows. Some are on the dry side like Black Forrest Truffle. I think this is a great palette, and if you want to buy this for yourself, you can for $49 here.

Gilded Ganache - A dark brown with an antique gold shimmer. Great pigmentation, very soft.

White Chocolate - A matte beige, with yellow undertones. Is very similar to one of their popular shades called 'Heaven'. It's not very pigmented but makes for a great browbone highlight.

Milk Chocolate - A matte medium warm brown. Good pigmentation. A little stiff in the pan.

Black Forrest Truffle - Burgundy with gold shimmer. Like I said before, this one is dry and not as pigmented as it could be. Also, when swatched, the gold shimmer teems to disappear.

Triple Fudge - A matte dark warm brown. Very soft and great pigmentation. One of my favorites. Easy blendable.

Salted Caramel - A matte peachy orange with undertones of brown. Amazing color when swatched but very powdery.

Marzipan - A peachy rose gold metallic shadow. Great pigmentation. One of my favorites. Love patting this onto the center of the eyelid.

Semi-Sweet - A warm matte medium brown. It is dry and patchy. But it can be buildable.

Strawberry Bon Bon - A matte baby pink. Not very pigmented and stiff in the pan. I use it to blend out the other shades, not just a color by itself.

Candied Violet - A purple shadow with pink shimmer. Oh man do I hate this eyeshadow. When swatched, there is barely anything there. It's just dots of pink shimmer. Nothing like it looks in the pan.

Amaretto - A frosty dark brown with red sheen to it. This is a very buttery shadow with great pigmentation.

Hazelnut - A bronzy brown shimmery eyeshadow. Good pigment, but on the powdery side.

Creme Brulee - A very warm gold. Smooth and good pigmentation.

Haute Chocolate - A dark warm bronze with lots of gold shimmer. Amazing pigmentation and very smooth.

Cherry Cordial - A dark red with hints of purple and silver flecks. Very dry and when swatched, there's not a lot of pigment and fallout with the flecks of silver.

Champagne Truffle - A light pink shimmery eyeshadow. Almost on the frosty side. Very buttery, great pigmentation.

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Disclaimer - This product was not sent to me.

Silver and Red Valentines Makeup Tutorial

Hey guys! Today I'm doing a tutorial on the look I am wearing today. You can wear this for Valentines Day or any other special occasion. I will list every product on my face at the end, so let's get started!

First start by priming your eye with an eye primer.

Then add a medium matte brown eyeshadow to the crease and blend upwards. This will act as a transition shade and will help our other shadows blend easier.

Then add a shimmery black in the crease and blend sideways. Try not to blend upwards or downwards. This will create a very soft cut crease.

Next add a very shimmery silver eyeshadow. I used MAC Fix + to give this shadow a but of a foiled effect.

Then add a light, very shimmery, white to the inner corner. Next put on some thick black liquid eyeliner.

Next add pencil black eyeliner to your water line and smudge in into your lower lash line. Also add some of the silver the very bottom on the black liner on the bottom lash line.

Then add mascara and lashes if you want!

Finally add some red lipliner and red lipstick! I didn't like the lipstick I put on first so I layered a darker one over it. Feel free to make it darker or lighter. I wish I went with an even darker red.

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PRODUCTS USED: (In order)

FACE:
Maybelline Baby Skin Instant Pore Eraser
Benefit Lemonade
Sephora 10H Wear Perfection Foundation - Medium 25
Hard Candy Glamoflauge Concealer - Medium/Light
Rimmel Stay Matte Powder - 011 Creamy Natural
Anastasia Contour Powder - Banana

BROWS:
Anastasia DipBrow - Brunette
Benefit Speed Brow

CHEEKS:
NARS Bronzer - Laguna
NARS Blush - Deep Throat
Benefit Girl Meets Pearl
NARS Blush - Miss Liberty

EYES:
MAC Paint Pot - Painterly
Urban Decay Eyeshadow - Buck
Urban Decay Eyeshadow - Creep
Urban Decay Eyeshadow - Revolt
theBalm eyeshadow - Sassy
Stila Stay All Day Liquid Eye Liner - Intense Black
Urban Decay Pencil Liner - Perversion
Covergirl Full Lash Bloom Mascara
Anastasia Contour Powder - Vanilla

LIPS:
Sephora Lip Liner - The Red
Hourglass Opaque Rough Liquid Lipstick - Icon
Too Faced Melted Liquid Lipstick - Melted Berry

Marc Jacobs Twinkle Pop Eye Stick Review, Pictures, and Swatches

Hey guys! I'm here today to review the Marc Jacobs Twinkle Pop Eye Stick in Volver. This is a cream eye shadow in a twist up applicator. I really enjoy the packaging because it is a twist up instead of having to sharpen the product and then wasting product. And another thing I really like is on the top of the lid, it looks like a pencil and on the tip of it, it has the color of Eye Stick on top. It is kind of hard to describe, but I took pictures of it of course. The color itself is a light champagne. It is very creamy and blends very easily. But once it dries, it sticks. And one of the only downsides of this product is that it will crease it you don't apply a powder on top. For this particular shade, it would be very easy to find an eyeshadow to match it, but for some of the other shades, you could add a translucent powder on top so it would not change the color. Overall, I really like this product. They have neutral shades as well as some unique ones. If you would like to try this, you can for $28 here.

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Disclaimer - This product was not sent to me.

Sephora All Access Glam Gold and Silver Eye and Face Palette Review, Pictures, and Swatches

Hey guys! I'm here today with a review of Sephora's All Access Glam palette today. This is a small palette, about the size of my hand, that contains four neutral shades on the left, four smokey eye shades on the right, two blushes on the top, two blushes on the bottom, and a face highlighter in the middle. That's a lot of stuff for such a cheap price, folks! This is one of Sephora's holiday palettes, so it is limited edition. And you may be thinking that this palette is amazing but lets get down to business. The color quality is nowhere near mind blowing. Even with a primer underneath, the swatches were so underwhelming. Another thing is that the blushes are so small that it is very difficult to dip a regular sized blush brush into the pan without getting another color on the edge of the brush. That's really annoying because the blushes are the best thing about this palette. Other than that it is very travel friendly.

On the left side, you have four neutral/gold shadows. This first one is a white shadow with golden sheen. When swatched it looks almost completely matte. There is a slight sheen if you apply it with a stiff brush, but when blended out, the golden shimmer completely wipes away. Really disappointing.  The second color is a gold color. It is a very orangey gold, not a bright cool toned gold which a really like. Again this one in the plan look very shimmery with light golden pearls, but when swatched, it is completely wiped away and you're left with a light orange/gold color. Bleh. The third color is a yellow gold color with a slight sheen to it. When swatched there's very little color. Very very difficult to blend and even show up. In my opinion, one of the worst colors. The last color on the left side is a warm brown with lots of gold shimmer. This is the only color on this side that holds them shimmer when you use it. It does blend okay, but not buttery smooth.

On the right side, you have four smokey/silver eyeshadows. The top shade is a matte cream shadow. Very stiff and no pigment. My other least favorite shadow. The second shade is a taupe gray with silver shimmer. When swatched it is a very cool toned gray with a slight sheen. Nothing silver about it. One of the more better shadows. Still not blown away though. The third shade is the darkest in the palette. In the pan it looks like a dark gray with lots of bright silver glitter. When swatched it takes on an almost brown tone. Very strange. The last color is a bright silver. When swatched it's very shimmer and one of the softer shades.

In the middle you have four blushes and one highlighter. On the top you have two blushes. The left one is a very bronzed dark pink with lots of gold shimmer. You could use this has a bronzer if you have tanner skin, but if you have very light skin like I do, just use it as a blush. The color looks very weird on my skintone, so not my favorite, but the pigment is very smooth. The one next to it on the right is a bright pink. In the pan it has a very slight sheen, but when swatched it's matte. Very smooth, lots of pigment. My favorite part of the palette. On the bottom you have two more blushes. The left one is a coral/orange/pink color. Very different. When swatched it looks quite similar to NARS Deep Throat, but lighter. The right one is a rose toned pink. Nothing special, just a little stiff in the pan. In the middle you have a light golden face highlighter. It almost looks on the bronze side, but when on the skin it's very light and looks gorgeous. The very best part of the palette.

So all in all, I do not like this palette. It doesn't have amazing pigmentation and doesn't blend at all. I was very disappointed, but I will try to use it. If you guys would like to see a tutorial using some of these shades, let me know in the comments! And if you would like to check this out for yourself, you can for $15 here. Let's see some pictures.

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Disclaimer - This product was not sent to me.

Brown Smokey Eyeshadow Tutorial for Fall

Hey guys! I'm here for a quick smokey eye I've been doing a lot lately for the fall time. I'll list all the products used at the end. Let's get started!

First prime you eye and add a dark brown with golden shimmer.

Then blend a light matte brown around the crease to blend the color out.

Next I added a slightly darker brown, again with some golden shimmer in the crease.

Then add a gold right in the middle of your lid, and a light soft cream golden shade to your inner corner and browbone.

Finally I added a dark matte brown gel liner, mascara, and false lashes!

Thanks for reading this short tutorial! Happy holidays :)

FACE:
Smashbox Photo Finish Foundation Primer
Urban Decay Urban Defense Tinted Moisturizer - Bodyguard
Hard Candy Glamoflauge - Medium/Light
Revlon Nearly Naked Powder - Light
Anastasia Contour Powder - Banana

CHEEKS:
Buxom Hot Escapes Bronzer - Tahiti
NARS Blush - Orgasm
Benefit High Beam
Anastasia Contour Powder - Sand

BROWS:
Anastasia Dipbrow Pomade - Chocolate

EYES:
MAC Paint Pot - Painterly
Urban Decay Naked Palette - Smog, Darkhorse, Naked, Half Baked
MAC Pigment - Vanilla
Unknown brand of gel liner
Ardell Demi Wispies

Urban Decay Electric Pressed Pigment Palette Eyeshadow Tutorial

Hey guys! It's been a while since I've done a tutorial, but the Electric palette from Urban Decay has inspired me again :) So let's stop the chit chat and get started! All the products I use will be listed as I go.

First start off with a clean eye and prime with an eyeshadow primer. I used Urban Decay Primer Potion. Then you want to use a white cream base to make these bright shadows pop. I used NYX Jumbo Eye Pencil in Milk.

Then I added Freak to the eyelid with a flat shader brush. Do not go above the crease with this color.

Next I added Thrash to the inner corner and blended it into Freak.

Next I added Gonzo to the outer third of my eye. This picture will be before I blended it.

And now taking a clean fluffy brush, I blended Gonzo in Freak and added color and blended over and over until I was happy with the saturation.

Then I took Urban on a small pencil brush and mapped out where I wanted the color and then I took another clean brush and blended it upward towards the browbone.

Taking that same blending brush, I picked up a little of Jilted and blended that into and a little above Urban.

Next on an angled brush I put fringe on the outer half of the lower lash line.

And then I took Freak and put it in the middle of the lower lash line blending it into Fringe and Freak.

After adding some final touches like gel liner on the upper lash line, mascara, and bright pink lipstick, you are done! Here are some pictures of the finished look.

Thanks for reading!