NYX Lip Liner in Tangerine

Happy Sunday everyone! The weather where I live has been horribly rainy and stormy this past week, which sucks because Ive had a million family parties and random outings to go to lately. Hope you all out there are having fair weather today.

I decided t to a QUICK post on NYX's lip liner in Tangerine. I dont know about you ladies, but I went crazy for coral-pink lip colors this past season and this lip liner goes well with mostly all of them. I use this most when I wear MAC's Cut-A-Caper lipstick from the Tartan Tale collection

Sorry such a quick post! I have a million things to do today, and its already 4pm! (Im such a procrastinator lol)...til next time loves!

♥ Leah

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NYX Jazz Night Palette

Hey Y'all!

Last night I had a nice dinner with my family and did a makeup swap with my beautiful cousin Rachel I'm very happy with the products I ended up with because some I was planning to buy already. Case and point? The NYX Jazz Night Palette. This is the perfect piece to add to my NYX palette collection which includes the NYX Smoky Eye Palette and the Champagne and Caviar Palette. (click names for review)

Im my opinion, this palette is appropriately named and comes with rich cool tones and creamy darks. Every shadow is a shimmer so if youre a matte lover this palette is not for you. the colors of this palette remind me of this restaurant called "The Jazz Kitchen" at Downtown Disney which makes me love it even more :)

On to the pics...

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 the middle dark blue color has little pieces of purple glitter in it

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Cant wait to use this! Have you guys tried any of the NYX palettes? 

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NYX Palette Review + Swatches, and update!

Hey Dolls!

Hope everyone is off to a wonderful start for the New Year! I spent New Years will a killer flu and just when I was about to get better, my guy caught it...even my little Mochi got sick! Luckily we're on the tail end of it now and should be back to %100 within the next couple days. You can bet I will be the first in line to get flu shots from now on!

Anyhoo, I went makeup crazy these past two weeks, partly because I got a gift certificate and some extra Christmas cash. I got a few things from MAC's Mickey Contractor Collection and few shadows from MAC's Peacocky collection, but Ill save that for the next post. This post will be about NYX's Champagne & Caviar palette. Ive been debating forever whether or not to get this palette because of my towering stash of neutral tone eye shadows but I finally gave in and so far, I don't regret it! I could see myself using every single shade. I already have the NYX Smokey Eyes Palette which you can see a post about that by clicking here. What I noticed is that the C&C (Champagne & Caviar) palette  feels a lot more sturdier, if you will, than the SEP (Smokey Eye Palette). The eye shadows in the SEP practically crumbled when swatched and the whole compact already broke after 3 uses. Perhaps I got a bad batch but I will still be keeping a close watch on this palette and will update in a couple weeks. Here id the breakdown of the palette:

NYX Eyeshadow Palette in Champagne & Caviar, $8.00
This palette comes with 10 neutral shimmer and matte shades ranging from a pure silky white to a matte dark gray. It also comes with a dual ended sponge applicator (but who uses those anyway?) and a mirror. Some of the shades may not show up well if you are medium skin toned like I but all are def usable. You can purchase the palette at cherryculture.com by clicking the above title

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Here is a pic of the rest of my haul...swatches and review to come soon!

And now for a couple of holiday pics :)

Me & my little Mochi :)

 A couple of pics at the ballet when I went to see The Nutcracker, it was amazing! I wish I took more pics

City Hall looks so festive, I love my city

 I have a HUGE family, and when I say HUGE, thats an understatement...We all agreed in my family that we would only buy gifts for each child and do a Kris Kringle to save some money, but with all the kids on both my parents sides, plus the kids in my mans family PLUS all my friends children, I spent nearly $1000! Anyhoo, I still wanted EVERYONE to have something to open so I made some sugared cranberries and cake pops and dressed them up in nice packaging :)

 Home Decor

 We bought an artificial tree and Walmart was having a sale on this nice one that rotated. I really didnt care much for the rotation but the tree was lovely and the price was right so we went for it

Home made dutch apple pie

♥ Hope you all had a wonderful holiday and thanks for reading!!! ♥

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NYX Blush & Lipstick Swatches (pic heavy!)

Hey ya'll! Hope everyone's having a great weekend. I have been recovering from a bad flu since Tuesday, but I should be back to %100 by tomorrow. Anyhoo, I thought I'd share some swatches from a recent NYX haul I got from cherryculture. I got some nail polishes, lip liners, lip glosses, blush and lipsticks...most of which I am satisfied with. For this post I just swatches the lipsticks and blushes, I will do the others on a different post. Here is what I will be swatching today:

NYX Blush in Pinched & Red, $5

I like these blushes a lot because they give great color pay-off, they're cheap, and of course they come from a brand that does not test on animals. The only down side I would say is that the texture of the blushes are very powdery, and they tend to crumble. They are not as finely milled as MAC but at a portion of the price, there isn't really much room to complain

NYX Blush in Red

The name is misleading because the color of this blush isn't really red, its more of a muted mauve color with a strong brown undertone. I expected this to be a bright red so I was a bit disappointed when I received it. This blush reminds me a lot of Cubic by MAC.

The color practically blends with my skin tone :/

NYX Blush in Pinched

I love this color! Its a light pink coral with gold shimmer...Unfortunately I have a million different variations of light pink shimmery blushes so I don't know if Ill be getting much use of this one lol

Here are some side by side comparisons. Red is on top and Pinched on bottom...

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NYX Round Lipsticks in Femme, Pumpkin Pie & Fire, $2.25

I swear I can get enough of these lippies but it just seems like I buy a bunch of them, and then barely use them. Its like I'm collecting crayons or something lol. These have a very creamy texture but are not that long lasting. They also have a strong citrus soapy scent to them that doesn't bother me, but if you're sensitive to smell you may wanna pass

Here's a breakdown of the colors (They are swatched in the pics below by this order):

Fire - Deep Magenta Red, very pretty

Pumpkin Pie - Coral beige w/ pink undertones

Femme - Bright Orange Coral

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If you like any of these and are interested in buying them online, now is a great time. Cherryculture, which is the site I purchased these on is having a 20% off sale from now until the 24th. Also, you can purchase these a your local Ulta stores :)

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Possible MAC Costa Chic Dupe!

Didnt get a chance to pick up MAC's Costa Chic lippie? Great news! I found a possible dupe...I say "possible b/c its not right on like the Girl About Town dupe but its rather close...and it only costs $4.50!


I was swatching some NYX lippies I had the other day and realized NYX's Indian Pink and Margarita look a lot like costa chic except Indian Pink is a little too orange and Margarita is a little too pink...so I mixed them and got a pretty impressive dupe. Both lipstick are about $2.25 or so at cherryculture while Costa Chic is discontinued and sells on ebay for $20+.


Here are the swatches

Left to Right: NYX Indian Pink, MAC Costa Chic, NYX Margarita

Left to Right (as labeled): MAC Costa Chic, NYX Indian Pink, NYX Margarita, NYX Indian Pink & Margarita mixed, MAC Costa Chic

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you can see that it isn't an exact dupe, but I think you can achieve the exact color by mixing the NYX lipsticks a little better

In my opinion, Costa Chic isn't really a lippie that I would run around the town looking for. I fell in love with the color when it first came out but don't see myself wearing it everyday. I really dont fancy frost lipsticks on me. I only wore Costa Chic twice since I got it and as for the NYX lipstick, I haven't even worn them yet, only swatched. If I ever have a blog sale these will definitely be up for that

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