2014 MAKEUP PURGE

There comes a time in every makeup fiend's life when they realize they just need things GONE. As much as I love collecting makeup and owning every shade and brand under the sun, somethings things just need to go. Now. I haven't done one of these purges in a few years, so I'm WAY overdue for this! While I do host a blogsale on Storenvy, most of these products are too used, too gross, or just plain too old to even try to sell. So they get purged. Sometimes I just can't stand to look at things on my makeup desk anymore!

I'll be telling you the 'what' and the 'why' of every product I'm getting rid of this time around, so let's just start by going through the categories!

Starting with palettes:

• Sephora Colorful Artist Palette: This palette was one of my first palettes EVER. Some of the shades have been well loved, and one of them used up completely. This palette was great starting out with, but now my collection has grown to include all, if not many varieties, of the same colors here. Not to mention it's probably pushing 6 years old at this point.
• Wet N Wild I <3 Matte Palette: I gave this palette an awesome review when I first got my hands on it. The highlight shade has been completely used up and some of the colors have a dent in them too. The problem is, I don't ever reach for this. I have soooo many similar colors from other brands that are less chalky, and easier to work with.
• LORAC Mint to Be Palette: I think this was an Ulta exclusive palette. I feel bad, because I was sent this from a company that sells cosmetics (not from LORAC itself), and I was psyched for the gift, especially since it was limited edition. Well, it SUCKS. There is barely any pigment in the shadows, and trying to work with them makes me sad. What a dud.
• ELF Eye Transformer Palette: I thought this was SOO cool when I first got it. And it is cool. But the effect lasts maybe an hour or two. Over other shadows and with bases. It's just not worth my time.
• Misc. Z Palette: This palette contains 3 de-potted Victoria's Secret eyeshadows, and one Ben Nye eyeshadow. I NEVER reach for this. One VS shade has been touched once, and the other ones, I don't think I've ever bothered with. I'm keeping the Z-Palette though, thinking of depotting some of my Lunatick Cosmetics shadows into it!

Eyeshadows:

• TokiDoki Eyeshadows: These shadows have incredibly gorgeous packaging, and TokiDoki makeup I think isn't being made anymore, but the pigmentation on these is not even there. They're hardly worth me keeping around just for the cute factor. 
• Maybelline Made For Mocha Eyeshadow: I used to use this for my brows, which is why I've hit major pan on it. But since using my Anastasia Dipbrow, I've never looked back, and I don't think I ever will! I've got far too many matte brown eyeshadows to need to keep this one around.
• Stila Black Diamond Jewel Eyeshadow: Absolutely gorgeous, but again, I never reach for it. How many glittery blacks besides this one do I own? Not to mention, the glitter does have a habit of falling out.

Brow Products:

• Maybelline Expert Wear Brow Pencils: I have one in Dark Brown and one in Blonde. Why? I honestly don't know. When did I even buy these and what the hell for? xD
• NYX Eyebrow Cake Powder in Taupe: Wasn't a fan of this, and again, haven't looked back to powder brow products since I started using my Anastasia Dipbrow!

Eyeliners:

• Milani Eye Pencil in Black: I've had this for a disturbing amount of time. 
• Milani Black Magic Pencil in Teal Magic: This product is cool, a darkened, glittery teal liner on one side, and a teal glitter liner with a sort of transparent base on the other side. The pencil itself is very hard though, I'd rather use other products to get the same effect.

Mascaras:

• ELF Exact Lash Mascara: A tiny mascara with a tiny brush. Great for lower lashes, but smudged easily.
• Urban Decay Eyelash Primer Potion: I HATED this stuff. HATED it. It just did not do its job on my lashes, and made more clumps than anything else. I tried it with virtually every mascara I own, which is a lot, and it's still a big, fat, NOPE, for me.
• Rimmel The MAX Bold Curves Mascara: I think I bought this 75% off once, I know why they discontinued it, it really sucks.
• Covergirl Remarkable Mascara: I honestly do not know why I would ever buy this. *shrugs*

Misc.:

• Pencil from Hard Candy Glamoflauge Concealer: I didn't like the concealer, so I sold it, but I kept this? Why? What is logic?
• Korres Anti-Aging Eye Primer: This is just a sample size, but I tried it in my recent Sample Saturday episode, and I'm ALLERGIC to it. Right now my eyelids are ridiculously swollen. 10 out of 10 dislike.

Lips:

• ELF Super Glossy Lip Shine in Watermelon: This stuff is GROSS. Collects in the corners of my mouth like nobodies business. 
• Maybelline Super Stay 10 Stain Gloss in Ruby Indulgence: These apply really patchy on me. I kept a lighter color, but this one I just can't make work.
• Revlon Matte Lipstick in In The Red: I've had this for a ridiculously long amount of time. When was the last time Revlon made matte lipsticks in this kind of packaging? xD
• Revlon Colorburst Gloss in Orchid: This has GOT to me almost empty. I used to use it obsessively, but it's a minimum of 4 years old, so it's time to GO.
• Wet N Wild Wild Shine Lipsticks in Lustful and Enamoured: Honestly, why do I even have these?

BONUS ROUND!:

Unlabeled stuff! I recently tossed some unlabeled shadows, but these guys were lurking in my collection, one pinkish shadow, and one foundation sample? What? What am I even supposed to do with these? Sure, I could use them, but could I tell you what they are? Nope. Could I even guess at what they are? Nope. Time to go!

Alright guys, that is IT for my makeup purge for 2014! I'm really honestly excited to have these items out of my collection. I'm really not being that wasteful, because these items will certainly go bad before I probably ever touch them again. Or they're already so bad that I can't touch them again! xD Not to mention, it makes room for all the fun new stuff out there!

 Have you ever done a makeup collection purge? 

Sample Saturday: Episode 1!

Hey guys, and welcome to a new mini-series on my YouTube channel called Sample Saturday, where I create a look using some of the ridiculous amounts of samples I've collected over time! I hope you enjoy, and possibly discover a new brand!

 Here I'll be linking off where you can find the brands/websites of the samples I tried this week after you watch the tutorial! I will only be linking the indie-ish brands, or the ones I used a sample of, my regular products, or brands like Urban Decay and Wet N Wild will not be link, because, well you can find them anywhere! And the focus is supposed to be on trying the NEW stuff! ;D Enjoy!

What I'm Wearing;

• -Concrete Minerals Electric Eye Primer
• -NYX Jumbo Pencil in Milk
• -NYX Jumbo Pencil in Sparkle Green
• -Pretty Addictions Eyeshadow in Toxic
• -Pretty Addictions Eyeshadow in Obnoxious
• -Beauty From The Earth Eyeshadow in Emerald Bliss
• -Spectrum Cosmetics Eyeshadow in Daffodil
• -Random, gorgeous, unlabled eyeshadow! =/
• -Wet N Wild Eyeshadow in Brulee
• -Urban Decay Waterproof 24/7 Liquid Liner in Perversion
• -Urban Decay 24/7 Glide-on Pencil in Freak
• -Sephora Glitter Eyeliner in Glittering Emerald
• -Lit Cosmetics Clearly Liquid Glitter Base
• -Korpse Kosmetics Glitter in Residual Energy
• -Anastasia Dip Brow Pomade in Dark Brown
• -Sugarpill Eyeshadow in Bulletproof (tails of brows)
• -IT Cosmetics Hello Lashes Mascara
• -Meow Cosmetics Flawless Feline Foundation in Sleek Siamese
• -Concrete Minerals Sexy Lip Tint in Glamourpuss

Link Love!:

Concrete Minerals:
http://www.concreteminerals.com/

[[Save 20% at Concrete Minerals with the code TORI20 *NOT an affiliated link, just a perk for reading the blog of their eye model ;D*]]

Pretty Addictions Cosmetics:
http://www.prettyaddictions.com/

Beauty From The Earth Cosmetics:
http://www.bftecosmetics.com/

Spectrum Cosmetics:
https://www.etsy.com/shop/SpectrumCosmetic

Korpse Kosmetics:
http://korpsekosmetics.storenvy.com/

Product and Company Review: Makeupgeek!

Hello everyone! Recently, I was lucky enough to have a chance to try out some products I've always wanted to try, Makeupgeek eyeshadows! 

I was able to choose 12 eyeshadows, and 3 brand-new pigments courtesy of Makeupgeek, to create some looks with. I've never heard anything negative about this company/website, so I was ecstatic at the opportunity!

 

 I went ahead and popped the pans right into my large Z-palette (they stick without needed any additional magnets or stickers or anything!) They come as pans, however you can buy them in compacts if you would like. I prefer them in pans because I have a bunch of Z-palettes, and it's far less clutter. (Pans are $5.99, compacts are $7.99) Don't worry about labeling, each pan is labeled with the color name and all of the information already!

SWATCH TIME!!!

Left to Right; Razzleberry, Burlesque, Unicorn, Wisteria, Fairytale, Sea Mist

Left to Right; Appletini, Shimmermint, Stealth, Moondust, Vanilla Bean, Taupe Notch

 All of these were swatched over Urban Decay Primer Potion Original. 

Color descriptions according to Makeupgeek;

Razzleberry - Raspberry Pink with Gold Glitter

Burlesque - Deep Metallic Burgandy

Unicorn - Shimmery Blue Purple

Wisteria - Matte Pale Purple

Fairytale - Pale matte lavender

Sea Mist - Shimmery Turquoise

Appletini - Shimmery Apple green with flecks of gold

Shimmermint - Metallic Mint Green With Gold Shimmer

Stealth - Matte True Gray

Moon Dust - Metallic silver taupe

Vanilla Bean - This simple but smooth shadow has a matte finish with just the slightest sheen.

Taupe Notch - Taupe

The only one of thee descriptions I DON'T agree with is Taupe Notch. I find it far too brown, when I think of taupe, I think of a brown with more of a grey tone to it, but this one has too much red in it for me to consider it a 'taupe' shade. Other than that, they're all pretty accurate descriptions! 

I also got to try some of the newly released pigments Makeupgeek now makes!

The texture of these reminds me of MAC pigments a lot. It almost bunches up together, but goes on so shimmery and so smooth. 

Left to Right; Afterglow, Insomnia, Utopia

All swatched over Urban Decay Primer Potion Original

Color descriptions according to Makeupgeek;

Afterglow - Soft Shimmery Champagne

Insomnia - A dark chocolate brown duochrome with blue/teal reflects.

Utopia - A mixture of deep brown and antique gold shimmer duochrome.

These come with 2 grams of product in them, and they are packed to the BRIM! Literally! I'll also mention that these do NOT come with sifters in the jars! (Which is a plus for me, since I remove all jar sifters anyways xD) Pigments are $6.99 each. 

Complete list of products used:

• Urban Decay Primer Potion Original
• MakeupGeek Eyeshadow in Vanilla Bean
• MakeupGeek Eyeshadow in Moondust
• MakeupGeek Eyeshadow in Taupe Notch
• MakeupGeek Eyeshadow in Unicorn
• MakeupGeek Pigment in Afterglow
• MakeupGeek Pigment in Insomnia
• Urban Decay 24/7 Waterproof Liquid Liner in Perversion
• Rimmel Kohl Kajal Eye Pencil in Pure White
• Bare Escentuals Flawless Definition Mascara

That about sums it up for now! All in all, I am loving these shadows. Great pigmentation and quality for a very, VERY reasonable price. I'm looking forward to filling up my large Z-palette with these! I can't wait to play with them more! 

Have you ever tried MakeupGeek makeup? Are you a member at MakeupGeek.com? Find my profile here:

https://www.makeupgeek.com/members/ToriBiohazard/

***Disclaimer*** Products shown were sent to me by the company for the purpose of reviewing. However, complimentary products never receive special treatment, I review them just like I'd review something I bought myself. My opinions expressed here are purely my own, and are not influenced by any outside sources, nor do I represent any company.***

Urban Decay Build Your Own Palette

Hello everyone! I know it's been literally MONTHS since I've posted, and my blog needs some serious TLC. But today I'm going to write you a review on Urban Decay's Build your own palette system!

What it is:

Urban Decay is coming to you with the ultimate personalized beauty experience. They're known for their palettes, but sometimes not every color is the color you want, and you end up buying an entire palette for just one gorgeous color. While the other colors are neglected and go to waste!
Now you can buy an empty 6 pan palette, and fill it with your own UD shadows. And actually, it doesn't come empty, because every one already includes a free eyeshadow, in ABC Gum (Top Left shadow shown) and you get a brush too!

UD makes it easier than ever to create your perfect palette. Even their depotting system is a breeze. 

Personally, when this was released, I wasn't too overly excited. I only had one shadow that was a single, and I have countless palettes. But recently, UD hosted a flash sale, buy any two eyeshadows, and get the palette (including free shadow) for free. With free shipping. Sold. My guess is that they're either revamping the design, or coming up with a new system, because they're just giving them out like that. Either that, or they're even more amazing than I already thought! I decided to buy Mildew and Loaded, and already owned a single of Mushroom.

Depotting system:

Everybody who has ever tried to depot, or usually depots shadows knows, it's a gamble, and can be messy business. Usually ending up with shadow everywhere, mangled hot plastic, and if worst comes to worst, gouged/broken eyeshadows. 

UD must be aware of this. Because every one of their single eyeshadows is easily depottable. All you literally have to do is flip it upside down, and push on the back! (This is for all the shadows in with NEW token design. The old design is a little more tricky)

Single Shadow

Flip over, push gently on the back. Have it close to a soft surface, or be ready to catch it, because it will pop out easily!

And this is whats left!

One thing I really love about the system, is that it leaves the packaging completely intact. So if you want to take that color out of your palette, or don't feel like lugging the whole palette with you, you can just stick your shadow right back into the single packaging. 

The shadow itself is still housed in some of the plastic surroundings, so its pretty insulated and protected, and this plastic insert fits right into the palette and snaps into place. They're extremely easy to remove or move around in the palette, so you don't have to be too picky when placing them. All of the shadows maintain their labels, so you'll never have to guess which shadows you have.

However, if you plan to depot your UD shadows to place into other palettes (ZPalette, or something that is  NOT The UD palette) you will still need to take another step to get this shadow out from the smaller plastic housing. 

Overall:

I really like the idea of The UD Build Your Own Palette system. I will be buying two more shadows to fill it up! It was brilliant for them to make their shadows easily depottable to fit the palette, they're really listening to their customers need for customization. I also think making the depotted shadows have a system to fit into their palette only was a clever business strategy. Why wouldn't you buy a UD palette if its the easiest way to get your own custom UD palette?

If it wasn't for the awesome deal they had going on with it, I probably wouldn't have bothered with it though. Its kind of expensive, and filling it up with UD singles gets expensive as well. 

Revlon Kissable Balm Stain Review and EOTD

Hey guys! Today I did a rather basic, neutral pin up look with some fake lashes. I'm not too big into wearing falsies, but I thought I'd go for something super glamorous today.

My hair is always such a mess xD

Eyes:

• Urban Decay Primer Potion - Original
• Revlon Matte Eyeshadow in Vintage Lace
• Maybelline Eyeshadow in Made For Mocha
• Illamasqua Eyeshadow in Sex
• Physician's Formula Lash Boosting Liquid Eyeliner in Ultra Black
• Rimmel Kohl Pencil in Pure White
• Cover Girl Lash Blast Mascara
• ELF Lash Exact Mascara
• Random no-name lashes

Brows:

• Maybelline Eyeshadow in Made For Mocha
• Ardell Clear Brow Gel

Lips:

• Revlon Just Bitten Kissable Balm Stain in Darling

Today I didn't applying foundation, concealer, blush, or anything else. I'm not planning on going anywhere, so I didn't feel like bothering. Plus I'm running out of foundation! Oh no!!!

 Anyways, speaking of Revlon, I managed to pick up some of their new Just Bitten Kissable Balm Stains yesterday. Anyone remember their Just Bitten Lip Stains? The ones with the marker tip and balm on the other end? I do, and I do NOT have fond memories of them! I tried two different ones, and both of them were ridiculously patchy, drying, and just all around horrible. After that, I was skeptical on Revlon lip products, especially anything with the word 'stain' in it. But I bit the bullet on this one, it looked too promising not to try at least once. I have one already in Honey (not pictured today) and I loved it! They're not drying, easy to apply, and they really do have the staying power of a stain! My local CVS is having an amazing deal on them, so I grabbed up 4 more of them. 

I love these guys. I've never owned one of the Clinic Chubby Sticks, but if I had to guess, I'd stay these are a great dupe for a much more reasonable price. I can apply these once, and my lips will retain the color pretty much through the day! Eating and drinking with these is no problem. If anything, I might have to re-apply once in the middle of my day just to freshen up color. These are also great to layer with any lip glosses!

Left to right: Romantic, Smitten, Sweetheart, and Darling

I was most excited for Darling, however, it seems to be the least pigmented of the ones I grabbed. This is a little disappointing, but at the same time, makes it a lavender color that is not over powering if you're a little shy of color. Sweetheart and Smitten are very similar looking in the swatch, but sweetheart is a tad more 'neon', without being a true neon. You don't have to worry about being scared to apply this if you're not ready for a bright lip yet!

Overall, I'm extremely happy with these lip balm stains. I can definitely say I will always have at least one with me in my purse!

ELF Haul!

Hey everyone! Today I have a small ELF haul for you! My lovely mother managed to score an AWESOME coupon, which was worth $30 of Studio or Mineral cosmetics from eyeslipsface.com, and all I had to pay was shipping! What a deal! 

I've purchased a few ELF things in the past, but I'm not huge into the brand, not a lot of stores around here carry them, so I don't see them often around here. ELF is known for being insanely affordable, (I'd stay so with a massive $1 line!), and having great quality staple products. So without further hesitation, lets get on to the products I bought!

Lip Lock Pencil in Clear

A few brands such as Too Faced and Urban Decay have clear lip liner pencils, which are insanely universal, seeing as you can wear them with any color! I'm not huge on lip products, especially not lipsticks yet, but I'm dying to try some OCC Lip Tars, and having one universal lip liner for everything seems like a major score!

Mineral Moisturizing Lip Tint in Rose

Basically a tinted lip balm, I love the color, and the added SPF!

Glossy Gloss in Sweet Salmon

Sweet Salmon over Rose Lip Tint

Cream Blush in Seductress

This pot of blush is MASSIVE. I'm not huge on cream blushes yet either, but I love the feel of this one. When blending it out, it almost turns into a powdery texture and can be sheered down or built up as much as you'd like.

Exact Lash Mascara in Black

This little guy is meant to be used to lower lashes. It's quite a good formula, my lower lashes are almost as massive as my upper lashes, so they don't really need it, but I've found that this definitely defines and lengthens them nicely. Also, it hasn't smudged under my eyes!

Smudge Brush

Studio Eyeshadows

     

   

                                                                   Mystic Moss, Saddle, Pebble

                                  

Eyeshadow Transformer Palette

Swatched over Physicians Formula Black Gel Liner

This was the one I was MOST excited about! It's called the Eyeshadow Transformer palette. Basically, it's a set of sheer, pearly eyeshadows, that you can use to layer on top of other eyeshadows to create a totally new look! The blue and pink ones are my favorite at the moment. I have yet to use this in a look, but I can't wait to! They hardly show up on their own, but popped ontop of another color, (especially a dark color like black) they shine!

That's all for now! So far I've been impressed with the quality and affordability of the ELF range! What's your favorite ELF product?

Organizing the Stash

Hey everyone! Today I wanted to share this awesome organization thing I found at Office Max this past week. Personally, I love office supply stores, I don't know why, just always have! I can't say I'm the most organized person in the world (more like the opposite) but I love finding things that can help organize me. Especially my main culprit, the massive makeup stash.

As soon as I walked by this guy, I knew it was meant to be. So I picked one up. This blue on holds all of the Concrete Minerals I own, and I still have a drawer and a half empty for more!

It has bars so the drawers don't fall out the sides or the back, they'll only pull out the front, like they're supposed to!

I'd say it's approximately 12in x 12in x 12in cube. It's made of plastic, and kind of flimsy, but all I need it to do is hold my eyeshadow and keep it organized. So it works for me in that aspect. The drawers can be a little finicky, but once again, they were only $10 a piece. 

After I picked up the blue, I went back and grabbed the pink one. (Only two colors they had) and I'm not housing all of my loose/single eyeshadows in it. The top holds single eyeshadows, the second holds single shadows, and cream shadows, the third hold pigments and loose eyeshadows, and the bottom drawer holds all my glitters!

 

Each drawer also pulls completely out, which is nice so that you don't have to dig around in it for things. You can just pull out the whole drawer, use what you need inside, then stick it right back in.

Between both of these, they hold ALL of my eyeshadows and glitters. All of the single ones anyways. I didn't include my palettes, trios, or anything like that. Although I'd love to get another one for eyeliners,  products, small palettes and trios. But before this my singles were just taking up tons of space on my desk, and had even spilled over onto the top of my printer! Yikes! Maybe not a permanent solution, but it's a good step in the right direction!