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Nov 15, 2012

Too Faced Shadow Bon Bons Swatches, Review, Video

November 15, 2012 By Carleenp 2 Comments

Be sure to check out our Too Faced Shadow Bon Bons Holiday 2012 Giveaway!

The Too Faced Shadow Bons Bons Palette is a nice holiday set containing 12 pretty eyeshadow shades, a tube of Too Faced Shadow Insurance Primer, and a Lashgasm Mascara. It is packaged nicely for holiday giving, or would be a nice kit for yourself.

Here is the outside of my Shadow Bon Bons case.

Here is a closer look at the shadows inside.

The shades are pretty. Pigmentation on them is fine. Not outstanding, but perfectly acceptable. The texture is good. I like this set better than the Too Faced Glamour to Go Spun Sugar set, which I will be reviewing new week. It is a great gift set for the holidays.

Below are swatches of the Too Faced Shadow Bon Bons Palette. The eyeshadow shades are: Vanilla, Cut the Cake, Framboise, Coffee Bean, Peach Fuzz, Hot Cocoa, Candy Rose, Lovey Dovey, Nude Beach, Cinnamon Sugar, Marzipan, and Licorice Latte.

I want to give a quick shout out to the Too Faced customer service on this one. I bought my palette from their website and it arrived with a pan of shadow broken and spread around the inside of the kit. I contacted them and, after they had me send a photo of the broken kit, they promptly sent me a new one. I was able to clean the old one up enough to swatch and used the broken powder for that shade (it was Cinnamon Sugar that broke). So, I decided to use the new one as reader giveaway since I have no shortage of eye shadow around here! See the link at the top of the page for the giveaway!

Buy Too Faced Shadow Bon Bons at Sephora

Buy it at TooFaced.com

Here is also my video review of the Too Faced Shadow Bon Bons Set.

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Nov 14, 2012

The Montblanc Worldsecond

November 14, 2012 By Carleenp Leave a Comment

Montblanc is embarking on a fun and interesting project, The Montblanc Worldsecond, involving photos taken by people around the world at the same instant. To take part, grab the iPhone or Android App, and start taking photos. It looks like it could be a neat project! For more information, watch this video:

Here is the official brand statement on the project:

“ The Montblanc Worldsecond is a unique photo-by-photo journey around the world, fueled by your imagination and creativity. Each Worldsecond is a single moment of beauty, captured by people from all around the world at exactly the same instant. Take part in this extraordinary experience using our specially designed mobile photo app” For more information visit :http://worldsecond.montblanc.com

It looks interesting! Check it out!

Disclosure: This is a sponsored post.

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Nov 13, 2012

Laura Mercier Artist’s Eye Palette Swatches, Review, and Video

November 13, 2012 By Carleenp Leave a Comment

The new Laura Mercier Artist’s Palette for Eyes is also my new favorite eyeshadow set. In fact, it will be near the top of my list of my favorite products of 2012 (watch for the the last week of December). This palette is simply amazing. If you love pretty, muted, feminine eyeshadow shades and demand quality in your makeup, you owe it to yourself to check this one out!

This is the store photo of the palette. The case is soft, with a magnetic closure. The palette as a whole is very portable.

Here is my photo of it. There is a mirror inside and the top row is shimmers, while the bottom row are matte shades.

Here are swatches of the top row of the Laura Mercier Artist’s Eye Palette. The shades are: Chocolate, African Violet, Sable, Guava, Cameo, and Sunlit.

Next are swatches of the second row of the Artist’s Eye Palette with the shades Vanilla Nuts, Plum Smoke, Cafe Au Lait, Coffee Ground, Deep Night, and Rich Coffee.

All of the shades in the set have good pigment. They are soft and buttery, but do not have excess fall out. They wear incredibly well. Simply put this is a premier set of quality and beautiful eyeshadows. I will be wearing these shades quit a bit through the next few months! I highly recommend this one. It is $48 through the link below.

Shop for the Laura Mercier Artist’s Palette for Eyes

Here is also my video review of the Laura Mercier palette.