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Thursday 31 December 2015

WARPAINT & Unicorns Favourites of 2015!

Happy New Year!!! Or if your reading this on New Years Eve have a blast tonight!

This is my run down of my favourites that I have posted a review on during the 2015 year. I'm not going to stick to "categories" again as I did not really covered all the areas in beauty and this year I'm also sticking to permanent products or products you can still get a hold of formula wise.

PS: This year is very lip and eye heavy. ;)

Tuesday 22 December 2015

Jeffree Star Velour Liquid Lipstick in Dominatrix, Mistletoe, & Drug Lord : Swatches & Review

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Jeffree Star Velour Liquid Lipstick in Dominatrix, Mistletoe, & Drug Lord 
Jeffree Star Velour Liquid Lipstick retails for $18US for 0.19 oz of product.

This is also my final post for 2015. I'll be doing a round-up the first week of January of the Favourites of 2015.

Monday 21 December 2015

Thursday 17 December 2015

Too Faced Chocolate Bar and Semi Sweet Chocolate Bar Eyeshadow Palettes : Swatches & Review

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Too Faced Chocolate Bar and Semi Sweet Chocolate Bar Eyeshadow Palettes
The Too Faced Chocolate Bar Eye Palette and the Semi Sweet Chocolate Bar Eye Palette both retails for $49US and $59CAN. You get 14 x 0.03 oz eyeshadows in both palettes and 2 x 0.07 oz for the Semi Sweet large pans and 2 x 0.07 in the original Chocolate Bar of eyeshadows product.

Both palette are sold on the Sephora and Too Faced websites.

Are you feeling the holiday rush! ;) Probably the week of Christmas I won't be posting to spend time with my family and trying to get cracking on some back burner projects. (Like tackling my Final Cut issues...)

Wednesday 16 December 2015

L.A. Girl Matte Flat Finish Pigmented Gloss in Dreamy, Fleur, Fantasy, Playful, Bazaar, & Rebel : Swatches & Review

L.A. Girl Matte Flat Finish Pigmented Gloss in Dreamy, Fleur, Fantasy, Playful, Bazaar, & Rebel
The L.A. Girl Matte Flat Finish Pigmented Gloss retails for $4.25US for 5g / 0.17oz of product. this are the cheapest formula I've gotten my hands on and your do get a fair amount for the price as well.

Tuesday 15 December 2015

Revlon Ultra HD Matte Lipcolor in 600 HD Devotion, 620 HD Flirtation, & 630 HD Seduction : Swatches & Review

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Revlon Ultra HD Matte Lipcolor in 600 HD Devotion, 620 HD Flirtation, & 630 HD Seduction
The Revlon Ultra HD Matte Lipcolorretails for $9.49US and $11.99CAN at Zerhs for 0.2 fl oz /5.6 ml of product. There are 8 shades in total.

Monday 14 December 2015

Lunatick Cosmetics Labs Lip Slick in Renagade and Coven Cream : Swatches & Review

Lunatick Cosmetics Labs Lip Slick in Renagade and Coven Cream.
Lunatick Cosmetics Labs Lip Slick retails for $9US for 8g of product (for the new packaging). These 3 shades a very close in colour.... lol

Thursday 10 December 2015

Kat Von D Everlasting Liquid Lipstick in Melancholia, Beloved, Jeffree, Outlaw, Lolita, Lolita II, and Witches : Swatches & Review

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Kat Von D Everlasting Liquid Lipstick in Melancholia, Beloved, Jeffree, Outlaw, Lolita, Lolita II, and Witches.
The Kat Von D Everlasting Liquid Lipsticks retails for $20US and $24CAN for 0.22 oz of product.

My first shade I purchased from the line was Jeffree but now that they added more shades, Jeffree was discontinued to be sold in the Sephora Canada stores.

Tuesday 8 December 2015

Sephora Cream Lip Stain in 02 Peach Tart, 04 Coral Crush, 05 Infinite Rose, 06 Pink Souffle, & 13 Marvelous Mauve : Swatches & Review

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Sephora Cream Lip Stain in 02 Peach Tart, 04 Coral Crush, 05 Infinite Rose, 06 Pink Souffle, & 13 Marvelous Mauve
The Sephora Cream Lip Stains collection that retail for $14US and $18CAN for 0.169 oz of product for the full size. However, stock in store is still selling for $16CAN still. :)

Monday 7 December 2015

LA Splash Lip Couture Liquid to Matte Lipstick in Cryptic, OG Ghoulish, & Ghoulish : Swatches & Review

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LA Splash Lip Couture Liquid to Matte Lipstick in Cryptic, OG Ghoulish, & Ghoulish
LA Splash Lip Couture Liquid to Matte Lipstick retails for $14US for 3ml/0.10oz of product (for the new packaging). These 3 shades a very close in colour.... lol

Thursday 3 December 2015

Wednesday 2 December 2015

Monday 30 November 2015

L’Oreal Colour Riche Le Matte Lipcolour Stick in Game, Set & Matte, and She’s So Matte : Swatches & Review

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L’Oreal Colour Riche Le Matte Lipcolour Stick in Game, Set & Matte, and She’s So Matte
The Maybelline Lip Studio Color Blur's retail for $9.99US or $10.99CAN (at Zerhs) to $12.99CAN for 0.092 oz. of product. The full shades range of Matte For Me, She’s So Matte, Game Set Matte (Game, Set & Matte on Canadian label), Mad For Matte, and Matte-r Of Fact has been launched in Canada this past week... after the initial launch in the US last June (almost 6 months later).

I'm guess they are permanent now because with such a delayed launch outside the US they where probably only recent thinking of expanding it to the full line of products and tweaking the labeling as well.

Wednesday 25 November 2015

Wolfe FX Hydrocolor Makeup in Essential, Metallix, Skinz, and Blacklight : Swatches & Review

Wolfe FX Hydrocolor Makeup in Essential, Metallix, and Blacklight.
These Hydrocolor makeup come in 4 sizes I have mostly the Appetizer 5g / .17 oz for $3US and $4CAN for the regular shades and $4US and $5CAN for the metallics.

But the retail prices run at Small 30g / 1 oz for 8US and $10.50CAN, Medium 45g / 1.5 oz for $11US and $14.50CAN, and Large 90g / 3 oz for $19US and $25 to $28 CAN.

The pre-made palette retail for $30US for the 12 pan (Appetizer) which comes to 2 thin paint brushes, I've got my 2 palettes from anywhere from $28CAN to $40CAN. $16US and $21CAN for the 6 Appetizer palette which comes with 1 thin paint brush. These are the best way to purchase the Appetizer pans if you're looking to have a number of shades in a smaller pan size.

The only overlap between these pre-packed palettes was the shade 019 Saddle Brown in the Essential 12 pan and the Skinz 6 pan palettes to keep aware of.
I grabbed all the original core shades they came out with except 085 Plum.

But Wolfe FX has recently added a colour expansion to their line in the Essential and Metallix shade range. I'm not sure when I'll get those as I buy my Hydrocolor Makeup through local Southern Ontario Vendors and it takes awhile for the to restock as it more of an "as needed" shipments to their stores. I really want a Large of Bone!

Monday 23 November 2015

L'Oreal Infallible Silkissime Eyeliner in Black, Highlighter, True Teal, and Cobalt Blue : Swatches & Review

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L'Oreal Infallible Silkissime Eyeliner in Black, Highlighter, True Teal, and Cobalt Blue.
Retails for $8.99US or $9.99 to $11.99CAN. They only stock 7 shades in Canadian stores out of the 10 shades from the US. I hope we get the rest. ;)

Thursday 19 November 2015

Kevyn Aucoin The Contour Book The Art of Sculpting + Defining Volume I : Swatches & Review

Kevyn Aucoin The Contour Book The Art of Sculpting + Defining
The Kevyn Aucoin The Contour Book The Art of Sculpting + Defining retails for $59US and $71CAN for 0.04 oz The Sculpting Powder in Medium,  0.08 oz The Celestial Powder in Candlelight, 0.06 oz The Celestial Powder in Starlight, 3 x 0.06 oz Eyeshadows.

BUT the Kevyn Aucoin The Contour Book The Art of Sculpting + Defining Volume II is on for $64US and $78CAN which does contain more product with the addition of cream and larger highlight and contour pans but smaller eyeshadow pans. You get 0.17 oz The Celestial Powder in Candlelight , 0.04 oz The Celestial Powder in Starlight 0.16 oz The Creamy Glow in Candlelight, 0.16 oz The Sculpting Cream, 0.16 oz, The Candlelight Cream 0.14 oz The Sculpting Powder, 4 x 0.04 oz Eyeshadow.

The reason I mention this is the product are identical to the first Kevyn Aucoin The Contour Book (minus the creme products) so volume 2 is a much better deal product wise.

Tuesday 17 November 2015

Kat Von D Monarch Eyeshadow Palette : Swatches & Review

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Kat Von D Monarch Eyeshadow Palette
The Kat Von D Monarch Eyeshadow Palette retails for $46US and $55CAN for 3 x 0.08 oz and 9 x 0.04 oz of eyeshadows product.

If your interested in this palette Kat Von D has put out the Monarch Eye & Lip Set for the holidays which retails for $75US and $90CAN. The set comes with 2 lip products, liquid liner, and Masacra in full size which I feel is worth the price if you like the shades.

Thursday 5 November 2015

Thursday 29 October 2015

Sephora Jem and The Holograms Collection Truly Outrageous Liquid Lip Set & Eyeshadow Palette : Swatches & Review

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 Sephora Jem and The Holograms Collection Truly Outrageous Liquid Lip Set & Eyeshadow Palette. 
The Sephora Jem and The Holograms Collection Truly Outrageous Liquid Lip Set retails for $25US and $31CAN. The Truly Outrageous Eyeshadow Palette retails for $39US and $49CAN.

I reviewing these 2 items as set in this post dude to the limited nature of them. Online they are selling out but there is still plenty of stock in stores.

This collection is very nostalgic to me. Although I don't remember a single episode plot for the series, I instantly remember the shade colour Names and Saying from Jem and The Holograms Collection which was kind of mind blowing to me. O_o

She-Ra and He-man where more my taste. lol

Wednesday 21 October 2015

Hard Candy Fierce Effects Lipsticks in Chalkin' Pink, Thunder, Provocative, Show Off, Prowler, & Black Diamond ~ Part - 1 : Swatches & Review

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Hard Candy Fierce Effects Lipsticks in Chalkin' Pink, Thunder, Provocative, Show Off, Prowler, & Black Diamond.
Retails for $5US and $6.99CAN. I have 6 of the 9 shades to review and all shade are available in both Canada and the US through Walmart. It funny that these launched in the fall for deep lips trends and Halloween makeup looks. ;) Part 2 is here >

Tuesday 20 October 2015

Wet N Wild Fall Here’s To The Wild Ones! Collection Mega Last Lipsticks in Coffee Buzz, and Photobomb : Swatches & Review

Wet N Wild Fall Here’s To The Wild Ones! Collection Mega Last Lipsticks in Coffee Buzz, and Photobomb
These retail for $1.99US and $3.49CAN which is the same price range for the permanent Mega Last lipstick range.

Monday 19 October 2015

Maybelline Lip Studio Color Blur in 45 I'm Blushing, 10 Fast & Fuchsia, 50 I like to Mauve it, 05 Pink Insanity, 15 Berry Misbehaved, and 30 Partner in Crimson : Swatches & Review



Maybelline Lip Studio Color Blur in 45 I'm Blushing, 10 Fast & Fuchsia, 50 I like to Mauve it,
05 Pink Insanity, 15 Berry Misbehaved, and 30 Partner in Crimson
The Maybelline Lip Studio Color Blur's retail for $8.99US or $9.99CAN to $12.99CAN for 0.04 oz. of product.

Thursday 15 October 2015

Marc Jacobs Beauty The Sofia Le Marc Lip Crème in Infamous, Dashing, So Sofia, Boy Gorgeous, & Blow; and the mini shades of Je T'Aime, Magenta, & So Rouge : Swatches & Review.

Marc Jacobs Beauty The Sofia - Five Piece Petites Le Marc Lip Crème Collection in Infamous, Dashing, So Sofia, Boy Gorgeous, & Blow. And Mini shades in Je T'Aime, Magenta, & So Rouge.
The Marc Jacobs Beauty The Sofia - Five Piece Petites Le Marc Lip Crème Collection retails for $45US or $55CAN for 5 x 0.05 oz of product. The full size Le Marc Lip Crème Lipsticks retails for $30US or $38CAN for 0.12 oz or product.

So these minis are a touch less than half the size of the full size lipsticks. But the texture of these are identical in finish to the full size as well so if you want to try a number of shades from the brand this is a great deal.

Wednesday 14 October 2015

MAKE UP FOR EVER 15 Artist Shadow Palette 2015 : Swatches & Review

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MAKE UP FOR EVER 15 Artist Shadow Palette
Row 1: I-550 Olive Gray, I-524 Pinky Beige , I-916 Frosted Mauve, D-236 Lagoon Blue, & S-102 Onyx.
Row 2: S-522 Pinky Nude, D-826 Fig, D-830 Black Rose, S-228 Petrol Blue, & S-114 Pearl Gray.
Row 3: I-528 Pearl, I-662 Amber Brown, I-922 Electric Purple, ME-216 Electric Blue & ME-122 Snow. 
The MAKE UP FOR EVER 15 Artist Shadow Palette for the 2015 holidays retails for $59US or $67CAN for 15 x 0.06 oz worth of product. Basically each pan is 6/7th the size of the Artist Shadow pans at 0.07 oz. This contains all permanent shades from MUFE and are sold individually at Sephora.

This palette does contain 2 duplicated shade from the MAKE UP FOR EVER Artist Palette Volume 1 – Nudes in I-528 Pearl and S-102 Onyx.

Thursday 8 October 2015

Bite Beauty 5 Night Fix for Lips with Agave Lip Mask and Lip Scrub Stick in Whipped Cherry : Swatches & Review

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Bite Beauty 5 Night Fix for Lips with Agave Lip Mask and Lip Scrub Stick in Whipped Cherry
The Bite Beauty 5 Night Fix for Lips retails for $15US and $18CAN, it's not in stock online right now but I still see a ton of these in store up here in Canada (but it's not being shipped to Canada anymore either >_<). The reason I'm still reviewing it, is because it contain the Bite Beauty Agave Lip Mask and Lip Scrub in Whipped Cherry (just in a tube form).

This set of minis I've been working through since end of June 2015... and it's still going! 

The Bite Beauty Agave Lip Mask retails for $26US or $30CAN for 0.52 oz of product at full size.

The Bite Beauty Whipped Cherry Lip Scrub retails for $18US and $21CAN for 0.26 oz of product at full size.

Wednesday 7 October 2015

Bite Beauty Luminous Crème Lipstick and Lush Fruit Lip Gloss in Mimosa & Bellini : Swatches & Review

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Bite Beauty Luminous Crème Lipstick and Lush Fruit Lip Gloss in Mimosa & Bellini.
Bite Beauty has started to launched Limited Edition shades in their classic Luminous Crème Lipstick line. There are 3 so far but in a teaser of the launch Sephora was offering these 250 point perk bundles to BI to try out more of the line.

This set includes a button punch mirror, a mini of the Luminous Crème Lipstick and Lush Fruit Lip Gloss in the shades Mimosa & Bellini.

The Bite Beauty Luminous Crème Lipsticks retails for $24US or $28CAN for 0.13 oz of product at full size.

The Bite Beauty Lush Fruit Lip Gloss retails for $22US and $25CAN for 0.11 oz of product at full size.

Monday 5 October 2015

Thursday 24 September 2015

Hard Candy 20th Anniversary Top Ten Eyeshadow Collection palette in Sky's the Limit : Swatches & Review

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Hard Candy 20th Anniversary Top Ten Eyeshadow Collection palette in Sky's the Limit
Retails for $6US or $6.99CAN for 2.96 oz worth of product at Walmart. This collection contains retro shades from the original Hard Candy line which had a lot of pastel tones to work with. It was the baby sister to Urban Decay back when the brand was owned by UD and in general had a softer girly branding compared to UD's edgy style.

You can find this product in a pile on the bottom shelf of the Hard Candy displays or with the other Top Ten Eyeshadow Collection palettes if you store doesn't have the end cap display. This collection came in later to a number of Canadian stores so you can still find it in store.

Tuesday 22 September 2015

Urban Decay Spectrum Eyeshadow Palette in Protest, Junkie, Deep End, Madness, Evidence, Prank, Omen, Flashback, Voodoo, Bordello, Backlash, Daybreak, Burn, and West : Swatches & Review

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Urban Decay Spectrum Eyeshadow Palette in Protest, Junkie, Deep End, Madness, Evidence, Prank, Omen,  Flashback, Voodoo, Bordello, Backlash, Daybreak, Burn, and West.
The Urban Decay Spectrum Eyeshadow Palette retails for $54US or $65CAN for 15 x 0.05 oz worth of product. This palette contain a few new, a few permanent and a few Limited Edition shades from previous LE collection palettes. So if you have the 15th Anniversary, Vice, Vice 2, OZ Glinda, and Vice 3 palettes you might have a number of dupes in this one.

Personally I think it's great they are offering up some of the jewel tone shades from collections past.

Monday 14 September 2015

Rimmel Provocalips 6Hr Kissproof Lip Colour in 110 Dare To Pink, 120 Pucker Up, 200 I'll Call You, 310 Little Minx, 500 Kiss Me You Fool, 550 Play With Fire, 700 Skinny Dipping and 750 Heart Breaker : Swatches and Reviews

Rimmel Provocalips 6Hr Kissproof Lip Colour in 110 Dare To Pink, 120 Pucker Up, 200 I'll Call You, 310 Little Minx, 500 Kiss Me You Fool, 550 Play With Fire, 700 Skinny Dipping and 750 Heart Breaker.
I picked these up from Target and Walmart for $8.99CAN and $9.99CAN each. They retail for $6.99US.

Saturday 12 September 2015

IMATS TORONTO 2015 New date and location! : new venders, Interesting panel/demos, my wish list, travel advisory & eateries.

IMATS TORONTO 2015 New date and location!
It's arriving early this year (by almost 2 months!), but IMATS Toronto is running on September 26 to 27th less then 2 weeks away! There are still have tickets for both days for the Saturday and Sunday shows for $45. No weekend pass though this time around.

The new date probably was due to the weather in late November, so that products don't run into freezing issues while being shipping into Canada as every year it is crap shoot whether it's raining or snow at that time of the year.

Chances are I'll be arrive at 9:30am or 10am on the Saturday just from the way construction is progressing as I'm coming down (well going north ;) ) by Greyhound.

BUT NYX PRO is coming to the show this year. I'm not sure if they will bring their full product line but if it is mostly there newer product range I'm going to be happy to see them in person after a 4 year absence from Toronto IMATS! ;)

Friday 11 September 2015

Maybelline The Brights Palette : Swatches & Review

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Maybelline The Brights Palette
Retails for $8.99US and $12.99CAN at Walmart and 17.99 at Shopper drug mart. Now I really wasn't a fan of the original Maybelline The Nudes Palette. But I wanted to give this one a shot to see if they improved at all.

Friday 4 September 2015

Friday 28 August 2015

ColourPop Ultra Matte Lip in 1st Base, Clueless, Beeper, Tulle, Dr. M, Mr. Blonde, Jellies, and Guess : Swatches & Review

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ColourPop Ultra Matte Lip in 1st Base, Clueless, Beeper, Tulle, Dr. M, Mr. Blonde, Jellies, and Guess
These ColourPop Ultra Matte Lip retails for $6US each. Here are 2 more permanent shade and 6 of the 8 new shades for fall.

Thursday 20 August 2015

ColourPop Ultra Matte Lip in Vice, Shimmy, Solow, Donut, Ouiji, Midi, Trap, Bumble, & LAX : Swatches & Review

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ColourPop Ultra Matte Lip in Vice, Shimmy, Solow, Donut, Ouiji, Midi, Trap, Bumble, & LAX. 
ColourPop Ultra Matte Lip retails for $6US each. One of the cheapest matte liquid lipstick formula's on the market.

Friday 7 August 2015

Illamasqua Cream Pigment in Hollow and Androgen: Swatches & Review

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Illamasqua Cream Pigment in Hollow and Androgen
Cream Pigment in Hollow and Androgen retails for £17.50 /$30CAN. I took advantage of Androgen being on sale during the summer to place an order. (The hatch marks are from my window screen casting a shadows on the products. >_<)

Friday 31 July 2015

theBalm Nude'tube palette : Swatches & Review

theBalm Nude ' Tube palette
Retails for $36US or $48CAN for 10.382 oz worth of product. I did get this palette a while ago thus it's used look (beaten and well loved).

Friday 17 July 2015

Friday 10 July 2015

Wet n Wild ColorIcon Blush & Glow Trio in Sunset Junction : Swatches & Review

Wet n Wild ColorIcon Blush & Glow Trio in Sunset Junction


Retails at $4.99 CAN for 0.42 oz/12 g of product at Rexall. Here is 1 of the 3 shade options; they have a gold/bronze compact for deeper skin tones and a light/vivid compact option that look to have the same bronzer in it as Sunset Junction. 

Tuesday 30 June 2015

L'Oreal Lumiere Color Riche Eyeshadows in 505 French Riviera and 507 Pin Up Pink: Swaches & Review

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L'Oreal Lumiere Color Riche Eyeshadows in 505 French Riviera and 507 Pin Up Pink
These retail for $7.99CAN at Shoppers Drug Mart however I'm not sure if that is the right price because they where listed on the display at $6.99CAN and these where charged as lipsticks on sale on the receipt. >_<

The L'Oreal Lumiere Color Riche Eyeshadows lunched last year in the US and where limited edition from what I could tell. These two shade I'm sure are LE but I'm crossing my finger we might see this formula become permanent to the line.

Friday 19 June 2015

Physicians Formula Eye Booster® 2-in-1 Lash Boosting Eyeliner + Serum in Ultra Black: Swatches & Review

Physicians Formula Eye Booster® 2-in-1 Lash Boosting Eyeliner + Serum in Ultra Black
Retail for $14.79US or $13.99CAN at Rexall and $15.99 at Shopper Drug Mart.

Long time no post from me. It actually makes me sad. :( But I'm just going through a major life altering health change that just taking time to get under control and eat up my down time. haha I'm trying to get back on track but let's get on with this review!

Friday 29 May 2015

MAKE UP FOR EVER Artist Palette Volume 1 – Nudes : Swatches & Review.

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MAKE UP FOR EVER Artist Palette Volume 1 – Nudes
The MAKE UP FOR EVER Artist Palette Volume 1 – Nudes retails for $42US or $49CAN for 9 x 0.06 oz worth of product. Basically each pan is 6/7th the size of the Artist Shadow pans at 0.07 oz. This contain all permanent product from MUFE but one of the shades sold in this palette is not sold individually at Sephora.

Thursday 28 May 2015

MAKE UP FOR EVER Artist Palette Volume 2 – Artistic : Swatches & Review.

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MAKE UP FOR EVER Artist Palette Volume 2 – Artistic
The MAKE UP FOR EVER Artist Palette Volume 2 – Artistic retails for $42US or $49CAN for 9 x 0.06 oz worth of product. Basically each pan is 6/7th the size of the Artist Shadow pans at 0.07 oz. This contains all permanent product from MUFE but not all of the shades sold in this palette are sold individually at Sephora either. ;)