Textured and Trying

Isn’t it neat how they named a month after a Taylor Swift song? I’m currently spending a lot of time trying out the stuff I got in the ICON box. So far it’s all really exciting stuff, and a good mix. I accidentally got three mascaras though, so I’m gonna need to maybe do a whole post on those instead of cluttering up this post.  I’m really excited to be playing around with all this stuff, but we do need to get a huge problem out of the way. The box came soaked through with a product that had shattered in transit. It was a glass bottle containing the Rose Body Oil from the brand Jurlique . It was actually a pretty bad cut on my finger that I got from that, a piece of glass got embedded in my finger and I had to get it out splinter-style. Little cut, lots of blood.  The entire box was covered in this oil. It looked like it had been left out in the rain honestly, and funnily enough it had rained very heavily the day it arrived, but it was up under my porch. The cardboard basica...

  Hiii hello how’s it going? July’s box was very interesting and I liked a lot of what I got. And I added a lot and then I also bought a lot . My credit card bill is not small. I have made tactical errors. So the first item IPSY chose for me is the Brazilian Glow Eyeshadow Palette from Ciate London . I feel like I’m seeing a lot more of this brand on IPSY, both in their default choices and their selection and add-ons.  This palette is the biggest palette I’ve received or bought in a while . It’s absolutely huge. It’s got 24 pans. They’re rectangle pans, so they are a little slimmer, but still a good size and honestly more realistic. Am I really going to hit pan? You know? So it’s got a really good mix of mattes, shimmer, and demi-shimmer shades and the color story is cohesive enough that the palette feels put together but varied enough that you know there are so many looks you can do with it. It also shifts slightly from deeper shades in the top left corner to lighter ...