Hey friends.
Welcome back.
For those of you who don't know me, I'm Courtney,
and I have my two standard poodles, Phaedra
and Nyx in the room hanging out with me.
You may see them in the background.
Today I wanted to talk about PR products that
I've repurchased.
I'm sure it will come to no surprise to you,
but pretty much everything Urban Decay.
So Perversion Mascara.
This is something I received as a PR sample
several years ago.
I keep repurchasing it whenever I'm wearing
mascara and I'm not doing lash extensions,
just because I think it works really well
for me.
I really like it.
I like the shape of the brush, which is, I'm
sure you've seen it by now, but I just find
that that shape seems to do a really good
job of grabbing onto my tiny little lashes,
and basically getting them up, getting them
dark.
So love this.
I don't have it in the room with me, but the
Kopari face cream was something I received
as a PR sample, and then since then I've bought
two more bottles of it because it really works
for my dry skin.
It's basically a hydrating day cream.
It doesn't have SPF.
And it will just, I don't know, it makes my
skin look so good in my opinion.
So I put it on whenever I'm not going to wear
SPF, or I put it on before SPF to hydrate
my skin.
Next up would be the Urban Decay Naked Basics
One Palette.
I've actually repurchased that palette at
least once if not twice, because I hit pan
on the shade Walk of Shame.
I love Walk of Shame.
It used to be my go to base shade.
However, I wouldn't purchase it again, just
because I've stopped using a tinted base shade,
and instead I use the Milani Prep-Set-Go setting
powder, but that's a product that I loved,
that I kept repurchasing, and I thought it
was worth mentioning.
Next up is the Urban Decay Afterglow blushes.
So I received the initial set of shades that
launched and I really loved them.
They became my go to blush formula.
So every time new blushes come out, I look
at the colors to see if I want to buy them.
And I've picked up X-Rated, and TMI.
And I keep hoping that they're going to put
out a cool-toned beige color, maybe similar
to Colour Pop Aphrodisiac, or Urban Decay's
Bun Bun Lipstick.
But I really want a nice cool-toned blush
from them, because I have a lot of ... I think
the majority of blush tones I have from them
are warm.
But I love their blushes.
I've given them away in giveaways.
I've bought them for friends.
I've bought them for family members.
I really, really love them.
Also, would be the Urban Decay Vice Lipsticks.
I'm sure this comes as no surprise, because
I just did a huge giveaway with the lipsticks
with all of my favorite shades that I purchased
for the giveaway.
I even bought some of the ones and had them
engraved.
So, like, this one says PhyrraNyx.
This one says Cruelty Free.
This one says Witchcraft.
So I really love their products.
I love their lipsticks.
I love their lip pencils.
I love their eye pencils.
Pretty much everything from Urban Decay that
I've ever received as a PR sample, I've went
out and bought more for myself.
The only product of theirs that I don't really
wear, that I do love, is their Naked Skin
Foundation.
And that's because their Naked Skin Foundation
is a great finish for my dry skin, but they
don't have a shade match for me, and I'm tired
of adding white to a product.
So it didn't make sense to me to buy another
bottle to just try to futz with it to make
it kind of match my skin when it's not really
a perfect match for my skin.
There's also the Urban Decay eyeshadow singles.
I recently bought SGH, which is the new Kristen
Leanne shade.
It's a yellow.
I've bought other colors too that I just didn't
receive that I wanted to pick up.
By the way, this color looks horrible on me.
If you have any suggestions for how to wear
yellow and make it look good, share them with
me, because I have no fucking idea.
It doesn't look good on me, and I don't really
know how to wear it to make it look better.
I tried wearing it yesterday and just kind
of doing it as a single wash of color, and
then putting a little bit of definition at
the outer crease.
No, it looked awful.
Please help a blogger out.
Give me some suggestions.
Okay, so you get the idea with Urban Decay
that I've bought all the things.
I keep buying all the things.
I'm going to keep buying all the things because
I love their products.
But next on my list, and I bet you wouldn't
guess this, is the Stila Glitter & Glow.
I received a couple of these as PR samples,
and then I went out and bought other colors
that I wanted.
Then, whenever the released their Shimmer
& Glow formula, I went ahead and bought a
bunch.
They're really gorgeous.
This is La Douce, which is like a dirty olive
martini-type color.
I'm wearing Cloud today, which is the shimmery
shade in my eyeshadow look.
It's basically like a lavender with a gold
shift.
Really pretty.
I also picked up Pigalle, which is this sort
of cranberry burgundy color.
And it's super pigmented.
I feel like Cloud isn't very pigmented, but
maybe because it's so light.
But that one, not a problem at all.
I was wearing Freedom in my last video, and
you guys loved it and asked for a tutorial
on it.
It's kind of like an iridescent mint.
Then, of course, I bought a couple of the
Mermaid shades, because reasons.
That's Into the Blue.
And this one is Sea Siren.
So yeah, I love these.
That's why I bought so many of them.
I personally find they work best if I layer
them on top of other products.
Next would be the Dr. PAWPAW lip balm, like,
multipurpose balm stuff.
I met the owner of Dr. PAWPAW at a CosmoProf
in Las Vegas, and she gave me samples of her
products.
She gave me a couple of different colors.
This is the original.
She gave me the red with gold glitter.
Then, she gave me a peach and a red.
I tried these out.
Loved them.
My husband tried out the original, loved it.
So then I went ahead and bought four more
of these.
So I have them stashed around my house, in
my purse, et cetera, because they are so good.
I put them on my lips, they actually make
my lips feel hydrated and moist, and just
repaired.
Because I suffer from chronic dry skin, dry
lips, even though I drink tons and tons of
water.
So having a product that I can just kind of
put on my lips, and they immediately feel
better is great.
And I love that my husband loves it.
So it's kind of a big win for me.
And they're so inexpensive.
I picked them up, I think, for $10 from DermStore.
So if you're curious about them, I would highly
recommend checking them out.
Next would be the Beauty Blender.
So, for years I used basically whatever generic
makeup sponge I happened to have on hand.
I used Real Techniques a lot actually, because
I liked it.
Before that, I think I used Sonia Kashuk.
But when I first got a Beauty Blender, I really
fell in love with it, because I just felt
like it worked so much better than anything
else.
It was just, like, the right amount of soft,
and give, and blend.
However, I had been purchasing it over and
over again for the past couple years since
I got it as a press sample, but I don't know
that I'm going to purchase it again, because
I picked up the NYX sponge and it's pretty
amazing.
It's got this flat end that makes it easy
to get under the eyes and around the brows.
So if you're carving stuff out, it's not a
problem.
And then it has the nice soft Beauty Blender.
And when you pick it up at first it feels
super hard, but once you get it wet, it gives
you the nice soft, and give, so I feel like
it blends really well.
The last item on my list I think is going
to come as a surprise to you.
So, I received the IDUN Minerals Norrsken
Foundation as a PR sample, fell in love with
it, thought it was awesome.
So whenever IDUN Minerals launched their new
Nordic Veil Foundation, I went ahead and bought
it right away.
Absolutely love it.
So I guess, basically, that would be another
example of an item I received as PR, thought
was amazing, bought the new item, it's even
better.
This is my holy grail go to foundation.
I love, love, love this stuff, because I don't
have to add white to it.
It just works.
I do set it.
I use Laura Geller's Balance-n-Brighten Foundation
in Porcelain to set it.
It looks fantastic.
I am wearing it right now and I feel beautiful.
So anyway, I think that about covers it for
items that I received as PR samples that I
repurchased over and over again.
Like I said, if you know me, you know it's
probably no surprise that it's Urban Decay
over, and over, and over again for myself,
for my friends, for my family, for my giveaways.
And speaking of giveaways, just for you on
YouTube I have a special giveaway that basically
you will only know if you watch this video.
I'm going to be giving away the Urban Decay
Troublemaker palette with the Urban Decay
Troublemaker mascara.
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