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NARS Divine Duo Eyeshadow Darling, Pink and Brown, vibrant do I dare to wear?!  I’ve experimented a bit and I like it as a thin wash of pink color.  I put pink on the lid and the brown in the crease.  I’ll try from scratch some day soon. Have I mentioned, my camera is busted, seems a lot of people with the same Sony model are reporting the same problem… Retail on the NARS eyeshadow is $32

Eye Shadow, do you?  If you do, try Thevi’s eyeshadows available in gorgeous shades, I especially love dark brown, oatmeal and charcoal.  Rich, crease-resistant color in adorable packaging that goes on smooth and shows up on your skin tone. 

I’ve had this shadow banging around my purse for a couple of weeks and there are NO scratches on it!  this is quite something considering all the junk I have in there believe me.  Click on over to Thevi Cosmetics to see more makeup that shows up.

 Too Faced has won my heart with this cute little pocket palette!  It fits in the palm of your hand.  I can’t stop opening and closing it, looking at it and dabbing some lip color, looking in the mirror - repeat, look, repeat. 

6 lip glosses and 4 eyeshadows with adorable little brushes.  The make up itself is passable.  The lip glosses were a disappointment, none of them showed up on me and had a faint scent to ‘em (perhaps vanilla?)  The shadows are worth getting to and make the set worth taking on vacation or in your purse because of the tiny size.  Truth be told the cuteness of the set at this price point make it totally worth it. I can’t wait to run through the makeup and refill with my favorite glosses!

Too Faced Glamour to Go retails for $18.50 @ Sephora

I ran to the drugstore late Friday night to see what I could see, a sort of beauty vision quest.  I don’t get many of those these days so I went up and down every aisle.

During these little escapes it takes a lot for me to take notice.  Most of the products seem like more of the same old stuff, but when I saw the L’Oreal High Intensity Pigment section I stopped dead in my tracks. 

There were so many unusual looking things to tempt me, and intimidate me.  When I bought the HIP cream shadow in ‘witty’ I was not at all sure I would even be able to pull it off, I had to pay because 20/20 was about to come on and surely there would be some type of issue a the counter (I’ll blog about this later).

I’m not a make up artist, or even good at applying eye makeup, I always do the same thing - play it safe, classic.   Saturday’s are all about family, we always go into the city with the kids and do something for them, shop the an early dinner out - so my makeup has to have lasting power.

I got up early to get ready, giving myself plenty of time to goof up my make up.  I was pleasantly surprised by the easy application.  Just squeeze a small amount of the paint in a special well built into the packaging, then use the included paint brush, dip and brush on your eyelids.

It just glides on so smoothy you may get a little overzealous - be very conscious of your brow bone.  It sure is fun painting yourself!

Witty was perfect because it’s a nice taupy color, very neutral and not dark, almost flesh tone on me.  It has a great glitter to it but totally wearable by day.  I let it dry for a second and then put a green MAC eye shadow in the crease and a light cream at the brow.  Anyone can use this, super easy and eliminated the need for a eye shadow primer in my case.  Most importantly it did not crease at all!! I payed $10.xx, push out the tiniest amount possible, because it is so highly pigmented you don’t need much to do both eyelids.

I didn’t look much different, like I said, I pretty much always look the same but it was nice to try something new.  Now  I have the courage to try a new HIP pigment in a bolder color so stay tuned…

PS:  hopefully I’ll find a picture soon, I can’t find one for this product…