CARGO Cosmetics on Hautelook Tuesday!

Just thought I'd let you guys know! I'm thinking of picking up maybe a blush, but I'm still undecided. Are you considering hitting up the CARGO sale tomorrow?

My First Bright Lipstick: Viva Glam Nicki Review and Swatches

Okay, first of all I have to apologize for the long absence. First of all, I recently found out how to schedule posts on Blogger. I know, I'm a bad blogger and very non-tech savvy. But I saw people talking about how they scheduled posts and the brilliant thought occurred to me that I could do that too (I thought maybe they had more advanced blogging platforms, but no). I was actually on a trip to the Grand Canyon and the national parks in that area with my family, let me know if you guys want to see pictures. Anyway, I'm sorry for being AWOL and I'm back with a review!

This was my first purchase of a really bright lipstick, unless you count red lipstick. So I was quite excited. I've been wearing this on weekends, since it's obviously a bit loud for school. Anyway, someone tell me if I'm wrong but this looks VERY similar to Watch Me Simmer and Force of Love, at least in swatches I've seen. But I do have to say that I am in LOVE with this lipstick! I like Nicki Minaj, and her makeup is always super bright and creative. And the money for Viva Glam goes to a great cause - 100% of the money goes towards helping stop AIDS, which is just really, really fabulous.

As always with MAC's lipsticks, the packaging is gorgeous and simple, there's little chance of the lid coming off in your purse.

The inside of the tube has Nicki's signature on it, like all celebrity Viva Glam lipsticks. And the color of this lipstick is just so, so bright! This was an overcast day, so the true boldness of this color doesn't show as much as I'd like it to. I prefer the bullet type lipsticks to the ones where the lipstick takes up the entire casing, since with the latter type sometimes they don't twist down very well.

The formula of this is pretty nice, but my one issue is that it is so dry! I always have to apply lip balm before I apply this, or else it tugs on my lips. :( And after about 10 minutes this settles into the fine lines of my lips, but I can just correct that with a Q-tip and it's fine after. Because this color is just so gorgeous that it's absolutely worth it.

Ignore the purple eyeliner swatch above this, I didn't notice that when I took the picture. I was doing a bit of a swatchfest that day. The color is a yellow based bright neon pink with maybe a tiny tiny hint of coral in there. This lipstick is extremely long wearing, I get around 5 hours of wear from it with a meal in the middle. It does fade a bit unevenly at the end, leaving a nasty lipline so I have to wipe it off or retouch at that point. It's a satin finish, which I like.

Overall, the formula of this lipstick is a bit dry but the packaging is nice, and the gorgeous color honestly makes it completely worth it. A bonus is that the money goes to a fantastic cause. This is a lipstick that I would absolutely recommend. My giveaway ends in exactly two weeks, don't forget to enter! A big thanks to all who have participated so far. Spring break ends today, back to school tomorrow for me. Happy Sunday night!

How to Get Inglot Eye Shadow Pans Out of Their Palettes

I have chipped pretty much every single one of my Inglot eyeshadow's trying to pry them out of their palettes. Inglot eyeshadows are notorious for being hard to move around. I used some sort of nail tool previously, until I finally found a solution. Before, I would often take over 5 minutes to get an eyeshadow out of its place, often chipping bits out of it on accident during the process. Anyway, my problems are all over now. It now takes me mere seconds to get my eyeshadow out of its palette. Here's how.

This is what you'll need.

Some magnets (I actually got these in the Google Retail store, but any very strong magnet will do. If you use a small magnet, put the lid in between the magnet and the eyeshadow so that the magnet doesn't touch the eyeshadow)

An Inglot Palette (mine's a bit worn, haha)

Then, you simply place the magnets on top of whichever shadow you want to take out of the palette, like so.

Then you simply lift the magnets up, and the shadow should come up with them!

And voila! You have your eyeshadow safely out of your Inglot palette!

Hopefully this was helpful. Happy Thursday everyone (spring break starts Friday, whoo)!

And don't forget to enter my giveaway!

Wednesday Wants

Forgot to post these the past one or two weeks, whoopsies. Anyway, here's what I'm currently lemming. :)

LORAC Little Black Palette

(image from Sephora.com)

Urban Decay All Nighter Setting Spray

(image from Sephora.com)

MAC Nautical from the Hey, Sailor! Summer Collection

(image from Temptalia.com)

50 FOLLOWER GIVEAWAY!

Whoo, I promised you all a giveaway and here it is! I'm still working with Rafflecopter, so just ignore this post for now. But within about 5 minutes, all details will be posted! Here's pictures of the prizes. I've been going on about how great theBalm is for ages, so I thought I'd give you a chance to try their products. And I decided to throw some nail polish in their as well, just for kicks. :) These are all brand new products. This giveaway goes from now until April 30, and it is international!

a Rafflecopter giveaway

NOTD ft. Zoya Charla

Sorry for the tip wear, I meant to photograph these right after I did them but somehow it took me a week. Procrastination to the seventh degree. Oh well, it happens to most of us at one point or another, right? Anyway, Charla is a turquoise-blue polish with tiny glitter in it. Not the hard to remove kind of glitter, though, which is nice. It flashes between blue and turquoise from different angles. It applies very nicely and dries quickly. It kind of reminds me of an ocean, I got this when they were doing their 2 free polishes and just pay shipping thing (loved that, haha). Happy Monday everyone! By the way, I have all the giveaway items together, I just have to photograph them and get logistics worked out and the 50 follower giveaway will begin! :)

Giftcard Spending Haul!

I had a bunch of giftcards, and I managed to successfully spend all of them on Thursday (yay!).  I got pretty much all the stuff I've been lemming for a while. Anyway, a review on each of these products will be upcoming, so be on the lookout!

Above, from left to right to bottom:

-Clinique Acne Solutions Emergency Gel-Lotion

-Make Up Forever Eyeshadow in 92

-Yves Saint Laurent Rouge Pur Couture Vernis À Lèvres Glossy Stain in 15

-MAC Daphne Guinness Collection Blush in Azalea Blossom

-MAC Viva Glam Nicki Minaj

-Inglot AMC Gel Eyeliner in 72