Hey friends, welcome back.
For those of you who don't know me, I'm Courtney,
and today I'm going to be talking about, I
guess, it's not really my January favorites,
but beauty products I've been loving lately.
Maybe I could just call this my bimonthly
favorites, I don't know, but anyway, products
that I've really been enjoying.
The first products I want to talk about are
from Stila.
These are the Glitter & Glow Duochrome Eyeshadows.
The two shades are Fairy Tale and Perlina.
So let me show you what they look like.
Fairy Tale is basically like a bronzey gold
pink sparkly shade, and I love wearing this
layered on top of other golds.
My favorite way actually to wear it is basically
to use some of the neutrals from the Urban
Decay heavy metals palette, and then just
layer this on top for extra sparkle, and Perlina,
again, I have to layer it on top of something
because otherwise the color payoff is not
that great, but I treat it basically like
a liquid moondust, so you put down the eyeshadow
base shade that you want, whether it's a gold
or a silver or a copper, whatever, and then
you layer these colors on top and you get
all this extra dimension, so I've really been
loving that.
This has been great for days when I've been
having to wear neutral eyeshadows for stuff
that I have going on, so I can put just a
little bit of this on my lid and I have a
little bit of sparkle, but it's not too over-the-top.
Next up is my Laura Geller Balance-n-Brighten
powder foundation in the shade Porcelain.
As you can see, I've hit pan on this right
here, lots of pan peeking through, so this
is well-loved.
Then we have a newcomer to my makeup collection.
This is the BareMinerals Gen Nude Blush in
the shade Beige for Days.
I've been trying to find that perfect cool
beige blush, and while this is not cool toned,
I do like the color and the texture a lot.
Let me swatch it for you on my hand.
It's right here.
It's kind of like a neutral peachy nude.
Definitely more like neutral to warm toned,
but not super warm.
I did use it today to sort of contour a little
bit.
In my never ending quest for the perfect cool
beige blush, I did actually pick up this blush
from LA Girl, which is called Just Because,
and I don't really like the texture a lot
or how it applies, but the color is actually
pretty close to what I'm looking for.
It's a little more taupe.
Next on my list is the Elizabeth Mott Queen
of the Fill Brow Gel in Black, and this is
a cruelty free brand that I ran across on
Amazon.
And when I say black, if you look at that
swatch, it really does come across black,
which is what I want.
So what I like to do right now is brush this
through my brows, and then I take one of my
little spoolie things here to blend it in,
and then I go back with my Color Pop pencil
to fill in any gaps that I need for my brows,
so I really like how it looks and how it makes
my brows look, because it makes my brows,
I think, look pretty full and natural, which
is what I'm going for.
Next up is my Cover FX Perfect Pencil in the
shade N-Xtra Light.
This is an old favorite that I rediscovered
from shopping my stash, and lately I've been
using it on my lower water line to basically
make my eyes look more awake, because I haven't
been sleeping well, and it's great for that.
Next up is my Urban Decay Blush in Score.
It basically just gives me a nice pop of color,
and in fact I'm wearing it today as my blush,
and if you're looking for that sort of peachy
pink blush with a little bit of a gold shimmer
or sheen, this is great.
It only looks quite so extra gold because
I layered a highlighting blush type thing
on top for me to put a blush topper on that
was very, very gold.
So I don't know, I like the color, I think
it's pretty, and basically I feel like it's
one of those colors that makes my complexion
look alive and perky, which I've been looking
like crap because I've been sleeping like
crap.
Then I have a couple things to show you from
Marc Jacobs.
So awhile ago I bought that Forgive Me lip
kit, and it had one of the new Marc Jacobs
Liquid Lipstick Pencil type things in it,
and the shade is Night Mauves, like night
moves, or night mauves, however you want to
say it, I know that most artists like to pronounce
the shade mauve, which everybody calls mauve,
as "mohve," but anyway, I digress.
So anyway, the color's actually pretty good.
It's got a little bit of a sheen to it.
It's pretty comfortable on the lips.
This is Night Mauves, and so for Valentine's
Day, my husband bought me two more colors.
This one is Send Nudes, which is supposed
to be a nod to the '90s, so it's basically
what I would call a pinky brown sort of color.
It's kind of brown, but it has more pink undertones
to it, so not quite full-on brown from the
'90s, but probably a much more flattering
way to reimagine the color, and then he also
bought me the hot pink, which is called Flaming-oh!,
because I love hot pink, at least on my lips
and my nails, because these are still my Valentine's
Day nails.
So these are the three liquid lipstick pencils.
Now these pencils claim to have 16 hour wear.
I haven't gotten 16 hour wear with them, but
I do get pretty good wear, and they're very
comfortable.
I don't feel like they dry out my lips or
make me want to lick my lips or slather on
lip balm.
They do pretty well through eating and drinking,
so I'm pretty happy with the formula, the
wear, and I do like these three colors.
Next up is the Marc Jacobs lip glosses.
Now, I am not a lip gloss person, but Liv
Loves Her Makeup had recommended this gloss
by Marc Jacobs, which is called Ch-Ch-Changes,
yes, like a David Bowie song, and so I picked
it up and I really liked the formula.
The color is really pretty too.
It's basically kind of like that reddish brown
color that has a turquoise violet type of
shift, so there it is for you, and if you
put it on sheerly it just gives you a nice
look and it doesn't get stuck in my hair and
feel gross, so because of that, I bought two
other shades.
I, of course, bought the hot pink, which is
Whip It.
Crack that whip.
And it's basically a hot pink with a little
bit of a violet shift, and then I also bought
Love Buzz, which is sort of like a rose gold
pink with a gold shift.
But I bought these because I like the formula
and I liked the colors.
I don't feel like I need more of them, just
because there aren't really many more colors
that I like, but these, these are good.
And last but not least, is an old favorite
that I've pulled out recently, which is Black
Moon Eternal, and this is basically blackened
rose gold liquid lipstick.
It manages to be a dark color without being
so overpowering.
Actually, I lied.
There is one more product in addition to that,
because I like to pair this color with this
pencil from Urban Decay, which is Peyote,
and Peyote's kind of a metallic rose gold
mauve color, and for whatever reason, it works
really well as a my lips but better shade
on me, and I've had to do a lot of neutral
looks recently, just because of stuff that's
going on in my life, so I appreciate having
a color that is really easy to throw on like
Peyote and just looks really good.
All right, so I think that's it for my recent
beauty favorites that I'm loving.
What have you been loving?
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