Beauty Product News and Reviews
Are you ready for summer? Be on trend for summer 2013 with bright bold hues in yellow, orange, and blue. Be brave, mix and match, and try fun patterns and floral prints.
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If you are anything like me, then you don't know where to put all of your makeup! Here are five tips to simplify your makeup storage
Beauty.com sells aluminum tin pans at a very affordable price. Take a spoon and scoop out the waxy lipstick. Melt the lipstick by holding the spoon a safe distance above a candle, making sure not to boil the wax. Pour the melted wax into the tin. Don't forget to label each tin with the lipstick brand and name. Place the tins in a Zpalette for easy storage
Have a lot of eyeliners? Store them in ArtBin's clear pencil compartment. This is a great way to separate your dark eyeliner from your lighter colors. This is great for storing lip pencils as well.
Store nail polish in The Container Store's Hobby Boxes here. The containers are clear, so you can see what polish you are reaching for. They are also not too big, preventing your polish from tipping over, which is generally bad as it can lead to messy spills and separation of polish compartments.
Yes, I keep mine in a mug. I could buy a special jar for them, but why spend the extra money?
Try depotting shadows and putting them in a Zpalette. Here is a simple way to depot easily. It requires parchment paper and a frying pan. Cut off a piece of parchment paper, big enough to protect your eyeshadow container from the pan. Turn your heat to medium and let the pan heat up for up to 3 minutes. Place the parchment paper carefully onto the pan and then place your eyeshadow container on it to melt the glue that hold the pan in the makeup pot or palette. M.A.C. eyeshadows are often the easiest to remove using this method.
Where do you keep all your supplies without having to spend minutes scrambling into a bag to search for them?
If you haven’t heard of Little Black Bag, you should! This extremely fun shopping experience involves mystery products and fun trading. Warning! It is addictive! The Big Budda Clutch pictured below was my favorite item in my last bag. You can see my video opening the bag and my review of it below.
Little Black Bag works like this:
(1) Purchase a bag of products at Little Black Bag: You can buy a single bag for $59.95, or sign up for a monthly bag at $49.95. Monthly is easy and safe because you can skip a bag or cancel at any time with just a few simple clicks. LBB tacks on a few bucks for shipping. I think my bags have been around $54 with shipping.
(2) Pick Your first item: You choose your first item, which can range in value from a few dollars to over $100. Needless to say, most people pick a pricier item! You are guaranteed to have this item in your bag.
(3) Get your bonus items: Little Black Bag will add a couple of bonus mystery items to your bag. You won’t know what they are until you accept the bag. Your total bag value will end up worth at least $100, often more. Mine have been around $110-120. Then the fun begins!
(4) Trade!: You have 7 days to trade your items if you so desire. This is the fun and addicting part. Don’t like that silver nail polish mystery item you got? Trade it for something else! Did a new cool handbag suddenly get added? Trade your first chosen item for it. You can offer trades and see offers made to you quickly and easily.
(5) Ship Your Bag: When your trading time is up, or anytime before that if you feel satisfied, click to ship your bag. You are then charged and it will arrive a few days later.
The entire experience is a lot of fun. I am on my third bag and so far am pretty happy. The handbags on the site seem to be particularly good. On the downside, sometimes the photos on there do not show sizes well, so reading comments left by others on items can be worth it. For example, I got some pricey cubic zirconia earrings that I like just fine, but they were much larger than I expected and I might have chosen something else had I known that. Meanwhile, another necklace was bulkier than I imagined, while yet another was smaller than I thought. So, keep in mind that it really can be a bit of a mystery. Reading comments on items and looking at them on the brand’s websites help. Also, lots of people do video openings of their bags, which allows you to see items. I’m rather excited about the handbag that I have coming next after seeing several videos of it!
I also had one necklace come broken, which you can see in the video below, although right after I filmed it, I fixed it myself. It was a simple case of an attaching lop needing to be closed up. I am told that Little Black Bag has good customer service on these things.
Here is my video opening on my most recent bag. I love the clutch wallet that I got in this one! to see openings of future bags, subscribe to my new YouTube channel!
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