The Makeup Monologues

February, the shortest month of the year, has almost come to an end, and while I wasn't enamored with too many products this month, I definitely fell hard for a couple. So we've got a blush, an eyeliner, an eyeshadow palette and ... a concealer?! Other than Maybelline Fit Me? This may be interesting. And with the exception of the eyeliner, I bought all of these products this month. I bought the Stila Eyes Are the Window to the Mind eyeshadow palette as a splurge for my birthday, after wanting it for probably a year. I'm so impressed with the quality of this all-matte palette, and now I have no desire to seek out any other matte shadows. These are perfect. The orange shade is my favourite, there are so many beautiful transition shades, the black is such good quality, and that dark plum is such a great, unexpected colour to deepen the outer corner with! Additionally, these blend like a dream. I just, freaking love this palette. The Urban Decay Velvet 24/7 Glide-...

The NYX Liquid Suede Cream Lipsticks have finally landed in Canada! I picked these two up from Rexall, but I've seen them at Shoppers DrugMart as well. How exciting! I picked up the shades Vintage and the much-coveted Stone Fox. The applicator is a long, tilted doe-foot. It makes it very easy to get a sharp lip line, which I really appreciate. (L-R: Vintage, Stone Fox) Vintage is a dark, rusty cherry red. Stone Fox is a steely blue-grey. Vintage gave me more issues on the wear than Stone Fox did. I found it required two layers to be fully opaque and not patchy, and then it took forever to dry down. I found that it was harder to get a crisp line with this shade due to its lack of opacity. Stone Fox applied creamier than Vintage, and only required one coat. Both lipsticks stayed creamy for a while after application, then set to a consistency that wasn't transferproof but definitely reminiscent of a traditional liquid lipstick. My problem with these was th...

When someone asks me how much makeup I actually have, I tend to just respond with this picture. I bought this five-drawer organizer at Walmart and it's one of the best purchases I've made. The top two drawers are small, and the bottom three are large. On the top of the organizer, I have: -products I need to remind myself to use more frequently in the yellow buckets. -brushes in the little red organizer my sister made me. -eyeliners and unopened mascaras in dollar-store pencil holders. The first drawer holds all of my base things. Concealer, foundation, primer, setting spray, colour correctors, powders, my sponge, and brow stuff as well. The long purple container holds eye primer, eyeshadow penculs, and whatever mascaras I'm using at the moment. The second drawer is for blushes, contour and highlight products. \ The first big drawer- third in the stack- holds my lipsticks in little acrylic organizers, with lip liners in between. The big drawer below ...

Hey guys, long time no post! I'm here today to review the new Maybelline Brow Drama Pomade Crayon. This is an interesting product for sure- one of the many new and exciting things Maybelline has put out for us this spring. The crayon is a short, chubby pencil that is supposed to be a brow pomade in crayon form. There are obviously drawbacks to this design- while it's a cool concept, frankly, the thing is huge. Maybelline definitely should have gone with something a lot less thick. I got the shade Dark Brown, I believe. As you can see, while the product is sharp now, it doesn't take much to run it down and I fear for the day this becomes too nubby to use (I've been using it on an angle so far). The formula, however, is pretty gorgeous. It's soft and emollient, but amazingly pigmented. It gives a soft effect rather than a harsh line. Here are my brows with no product in them. And here is the Maybelline Brow Drama Pomade Crayon applied to them. I ...