Oh hey, guess what finally came in the mail?!

Ok fine, it was delivered like two weeks ago but I haven’t gotten the chance to take pictures of the order, etc. etc. Also, do you guys realize what kind of self restraint it takes to have brand new makeup sitting on top of your desk for so long and not use it even ONCE?! You should all be proud of me.

So I didn’t order that much, mainly because it was free shipping on all orders so my logic was: “Ok Mari you can calm down now and just get the sale stuff and try it out.” I got two lip/cheek sets (which I’m just realizing now are not available on their website anymore?) and a blush. The brush was a free sample. Which to be honest I don’t understand how it falls under the sample category but I won’t complain, I just got a free Tarte brush!

Left to right: Shimmering Peach, Shimmering Poppy (maracuja blush) and Daygleam highlighter. You can see the marks I left in them from swatching. Can we just talk about my emotions as I was swatching these for the first time? I have never in my life touched a blush so buttery and velvety. It’s not creamy, it literally feels like touching butter. It was the most magnificent sensation I have ever experienced with makeup. I cannot wait to actually wear these on my face, even though all 3 are shimmery. I’ve decided to give shimmer a try in 2017. Goodbye mattes. Just kidding, I still love you, please don’t ever leave me.

Top to bottom: shimmering peach, shimmering poppy, daygleam. These colours are so soft and beautiful! They do have quite a bit of shimmer that isn’t too obvious in this picture but as I was walking around my room, a ray of sunshine hit my arm and I looked like Edward Cullen (the dude from Twilight, remember?). The highlight seems glorious, I just wanna do a full glam look right now to be honest.

The two lip products I got are the Lip Surgence lip butter in Buff and the Park Avenue Princess edition of the lipgloss. I have to say I was disappointed with the colour of the lipgloss as it looked way more pink online than it does in real life. The true shade of the gloss is a brownish nude, nowhere near pink. It’s also super sticky, or maybe that’s just because I haven’t worn lipgloss since high school. I’ll have to try it out over a lipstick I own and we’ll see how I feel about it. The lip butter is so smooth and feels moisturizing. We’ll have to see how the brownish nude looks on my lips! Maybe I’ll even put Park Avenue Princess over it!? Decisions, decisions.

The bottom two are the lip gloss and the lip butter. At least they match with the colour palette of the rest of the products I got!

Overall, it’s an exciting purchase – especially the cheek products. I honestly can’t wait to do my makeup again just to have an excuse to try out their buttery consistence again! Also how effing CUTE is their packaging! I had a hard time throwing out the box and the tissue paper that the order came in.

 

Guess what came in the mail last week!? I told you guys earlier on that I went bananas on the Sephora VIB sale and purchased a bunch of things. I also bought a couple of things straight off of Tarte’s website but my shipment has been lord-knows-where in Jersey for the last week, so who knows when that’s gonna get to me. I can’t wait to try out these products though, so a first impressions of Tarte things will be posted later on!

These first three products are the ones I was the most excited about. I can’t get over how beeeeeeyoutiful Too Faced products are! Every time I purchase something from this brand, I feel like I’m being introduced to it for the very first time. So here I got the Pink Leopard bronzer/blush, Too Faced Love Flush blush in Love Hangover and the Becca x Jaclyn Hill highlighter in Champagne Pop. I have been an avid fan of Jaclyn Hill for about 3-4 years now and I am so glad to finally be in possession of the coveted Champagne Pop.

From top to bottom: Pink Leopard, Love Flush, Champagne Pop. This picture doesn’t really do my swatches justice (sorry guys, I have to take all the pics with my iPhone!). Pink Leopard has a really nice pinkish hue to it, and the bronze isn’t over-empowering. This is definitely something I see myself using on a daily basis, instead of doing contour/blush/highlight. The Love Flush blush is SO pigmented you guys, and this shade of pink is amazing! A little product goes a LONG way. It will definitely be a winter staple for me – gives you the perfect rosy-cheek effect. I’m all about people thinking I like to be outdoors more than I actually do. Champagne Pop is just mesmerizing. I honestly don’t know what to say about this. I can’t believe makeup can be this nice and shiny.

I had already told you guys that I had repurchased my Estée Lauder foundation, as well as my opinions about it, so a ‘first impression’ isn’t really necessary here. I just wanted to include it because the packaging is so nice and elegant! Speaking of packaging, as mentioned in a previous post, I am a sucker for cute packaging, so here is an example of an impulse buy I made because of that very reason. The Too Faced Melted Matte liquid lipstick in Candy Cane (limited edition). Dude. This stuff actually smells like peppermint mocha. I just wanna lick it, is that bad!?

The very bottom swatch is the lipstick. The shade of pink is incredible, it’s a deep, vibrant fuschia, it looks SO much better on me than I expected.

I also heard that Too Faced’s  Better Than Sex mascara is the bees knees. However I came across Urban Decay’s Perversion (good God who comes up with these names) full size mascara AND full size liquid liner. The UD combo was $28 and the Too Faced mascara alone was $30 so I just got the travel size and the combo. So far the only difference I notice in the 2 mascaras is that Too Faced curls my lashes more than UD. As for the liner, it seems to glide well and consistently – perhaps I’ll like it more than my Kat Von D one. Oh and it’s waterproof too! Bonus.

That’s it for now folks – I just looked at the tracking for my Tarte order and there has still not been an update since November 15. Tarte, why are you like this?