A Mixed Review

I apologize for the lack of posts this month! I have been super busy, but I promise the next few weeks will make up for the past few. I have a lot of great posts coming, so be ready!
And I also want to thank you all for 200 subscribers! I feel like my blog is such a great outlet for me, so I love that so many others want to share it with me.
But onto the post!



So I first heard about Ciate London because I knew of their nail polish, but then I heard Joanna AKA bronzedbeautyyy on YouTube rave about the  Olivia Palermo x Ciate London lipstick in the shade 'praline'. Since I really love her channel, and her style I decided to pick it up too. I usually like what Joanna wears since she is a tad darker than me I know what looks good on her will most likely look similar on me.
I am so glad I picked it up!! It is the most perfect dark nude shade. It is so creamy, and it lasts all day. When I wore it to work I got a bunch of really nice compliments, and after drinking a bunch of water and eating lunch it was still on my lips at the end of the day. I was so amazed! I didn't think it would fade easily, but I didn't expect it to last through so much. It is comfortable on my lips as well. I didn't feel like my lips were the least bit dry.
Because I loved the Ciate London lipstick so much I wanted to branch out and try other makeup from this brand. Besides Joanna I haven't heard anyone speak on this brand at all! I wanted to give a brand with not a lot of hype a chance because it could really be amazing. So I picked up the Olivia Palermo Smokey Suedes palette. It is so great!! This brand really is seriously underrated. The shadows in this palette are pigmented, really soft, and glide on my eyelids effortlessly. Then when I saw trendmood1 was talking about Ciate on her snap story I was so shocked! She was talking about the new palettes that Ciate was coming out with, and as soon as they were live on Sephora's site I snatched one up! I decided on The Fun Palette. I wanted this bright palette because I have plenty of neutral palettes, and I love the pops of color this palette has! The packaging of the palettes is so ideal for traveling. They're small and compact and will fit in any makeup bag! I love the outside of The Fun Palette so much because how it has the moving eyes depending on the angle you hold it at. When I see the eyes on the front it reminds me of The Great Gatsby. If you have read the book, or seen the movie you will know the reference!
I love Ciate London so much more now that I discovered their amazing makeup line. But with great things comes a few cons. So the first con I have is the shape of the pans. They are a little weird shaped so it can be difficult to get your brush in. Another con I found with these palettes are the lack of names printed on the actual palette. To know the names you have to actually keep the boxes they come in because the names are printed on the boxes. I don't understand why they did that and it is pretty annoying, but I can look past it. It's nothing major. And another thing to remember if you chose to buy the Olivia Palermo palettes is that they are in the same exact packaging. So if you are in a hurry and grab one you could be grabbing the wrong one.

Have you tried anything from the Ciate London makeup line? If so, what have you tried, and do you like it? If you haven't tried anything I recommend their lipsticks for sure!!

xo, Amy

This favorites post is kind of late, but better late than never!
Each month has been flying by, and April came and went too! This month I liked so many new things! Since it was the Sephora VIB sale I got some awesome new things that I have fallen in love with!

I finally used my Hourglass Ambient Bronzer, and I am beyond happy I picked it up during the sale! It adds the perfect tanned glow to my skin. I am so glad I picked it up in my VIB sale haul. If you are a beginner to bronzer like myself this is perfect. I heard the Too Faced 'Sweet Tea' bronzer is pretty similar so I might have to pick it up for a similarity post!

This month I loved 3 different highlights! The first one I loved was a rekindled love, and it was my BECCA Shimmering Skin Perfector in 'Champage Pop'. This highlighter is a collaboration with Jaclyn Hill, and it is so beautiful. It is the perfect light gold highlight. I am skeptical to see how it looks when I am darker, but for the moment I am loving it! It was limited edition when it first came out but it's now permanent which is great because it is really loved! My next highlight favorite is a new one. It is the highlight trio by City Colors Cosmetics. It came in my ipsy bag and surprisingly it is so amazing! I did a review on it in my April ipsy bag review, so I won't talk too much on it, but it is so great. It's 3 colors, and super thin which makes it the most ideal highlight to travel with! To read my other review on it, click here. And my last highlight favorite has been my Anastasia Beverly Hills glow kit in 'That Glow'. I also have a review on this highlight kit, so read it here. It is amazing, and I really recommend it. Even if you get the kit in 'Gleam' it is such a great value. I have seen preview pictures of another kit coming out, and I really want it too! So far from what I have seen it looks great!

I have slowly been becoming more and more obsessed with blush palettes, and because I missed out on the Tarte holiday blush palette as soon as I saw the tarteist blush palette was released I bought it immediately! I am so glad I picked up this palette because the blush shades are all so beautiful. All of the colors look great on my skin which is amazing because in most palettes there is always one color that I hate. Not in this one! The blushes are super pigmented and you only need to tap your brush in ever so gently. I love the hot pink packaging! It is my favorite color, and really convenient for travel. Go grab it if you don't have it already because it is limited edition!

Matte eyeshadows aren't usually my thing, but I wanted to have some more matte shadows in my collection to use as transitions shades. I decided on the Too Faced Natural Matte palette, and it is the best! It has the right amount of cool and warm matte shades so it's versatile!

I have been wanting to try out more brands that are less talked about on YouTube and one I decided on was Ciate. They are known for their awesome nail polishes, but they also make makeup. I grabbed a lipstick from the brand, and it is in collaboration with Olivia Palermo. I bought the Satin Kiss Lipstick in 'Praline'. I plan on having a full review on the Ciate brand makeup, so I won't get too much into this. But if you haven't tried it, I recommend it!

With all the online orders I make I get more samples than one person actually needs. I am so late to the bandwagon because I literally never hear anyone speak about this primer anymore, it is the Urban Decay Primer Potion. It is in the original formula. I love it so much!! I had been strictly using my NYX eyeshadow base but I am slowly liking it less and I found this sample in my collection. I am glad I started using it because it doesn't feel sticky on my lids. I noticed that primers that feel sticky on my lids tend to make my eyeshadows skip when I apply them. With the primer potion it doesn't skip at all and goes on smoothly. I will probably buy the full size when I run out of my sample!

And the last thing I have been loving is the L'Oreal Brow Stylist Definer. I saw this and got really excited because I already love the brow mascara by L'Oreal, so I figured I would love this too. It is so amazing! The spooly at the end is perfect for brushing out my brows before I fill them in. The actual product is so great too. It is very pigmented, and easily glides on to make my eyebrows look darker, and more defined. I thought at first I wouldn't be that great at filling in my brows, but the tiny pencil makes it really easy, and I love that. I haven't ever tried the Anastasia Beverly Hills brow wiz, but with this affordable, amazing product I don't plan on it! I just plan on using this great brow pencil!

What did you love in the month of May? I always love to know for recommendations on things I should try! Let me know!

xo, Amy

This is a little late, and the sale is now over, but I wanted to post it anyways for future shopping trip ideas. 
Here are the things I picked up on the last day of the sale!

The first thing I picked up is the Sephora Favorites 'Power of the Petal' set. It is a set of skincare products all made with or from plants, flowers, and fruits. To be honest, I only bought it because I wanted the Tsubaki beauty oil from boscia. I am glad I have that beauty oil because I have heard rave reviews on it. And I love miniature sized products for travel so having this set is great! Sadly this set is sold out now, but sometimes the Sephora favorites are sold out online but are still in stores. If you want this set check your local Sephora!
Like I mentioned in my last Sephora haul post I recently got a z palette and I want to fill it up so I bought two more Anastasia Beverly Hills shades. This time I got a beautiful matte shade called 'caramel'. It's a nice warm toned brown and will be perfect for the crease. I picked up another metallic shimmery shade called 'metal'. I think it'll look great when I am tan this summer!
Speaking of summer, I had to buy the Hourglass Ambient bronzer in Luminous Bronze. Kathleen Lights talked about how this bronzer was amazing and made her skin look glowy and bronzed like J Lo. So if Kathleen recommended it I had to pick it up!
Color correcting is all the rage these days so I had to pick up some kind of color correcting product. Since I am new to the color correcting world, and I don't have really any problem areas so I got the Color Correcting Stick by Smashbox. I got the 'look less tired' pencil in the peach color to see if I can cover my light dark circles. Hoping it works!
I have been really interested in Korres skincare since I had a sample of their Greek Yoghurt facial cleanser. Again, like mentioned in my last Sephora post I am obsessing over rose scents so I bought the Wild Rose + Vitamin C Advanced Brightening Sleeping Facial. I want to improve my skincare routine and help my skin be at it's best. So since I usually like to use gels at night, and not creams I only bought the sample size of this to test it before I commit to the full size!
The last things I picked up were lipsticks! I picked up the new Amuse Bouche lipstick in 'Honeycomb'. The hype around these lipsticks is so real so I wanted to be apart of the hype. The other lipstick I bought was Olivia Palermo x Ciate London Satin Kiss Lipstick in 'Praline'. I bought this because Joanna from BronzedBeautyyy on YouTube spoke so highly of it. No one speaks of the Ciate beauty line so I am eager to try it out! I even ordered one of their eyeshadow palettes to do a Ciate brand review post.

I will be reviewing all of these products in the next couple weeks! If you have tried anything I bought let me know your thoughts on it!
And let me know what you picked up in the Sephora sale!

xo, Amy