Chanel Rouge Cocos: Paris, Sari Dore, and Gardenia

I love these lipsticks, great formula that stays well and doesn't dry out my lips. Paris is a very cool tone red with a hot pink flare. I love to pair this with a very simple neutral eye. The other 2 are from the Summer collection Les Fleurs d'Ete and are limited edition. Gardenia is a warm golden pink and is gorgeous. Sari Dore is a repromote from the Cote D'Azure collection which was only available online or in boutiques. Its a very wearable soft orange. its also available in the Shine line, but I'm not a fan of those they have no staying power at all. These Summer lippies are much better then the ones put out the in Christmas and Spring collections and are definitely worth investigating:)

Employee Discount Haul!!!

(below: L to R-Pink Peony, Rose Platine, Khol Me Brown)

Ok, so like 3 times a year for 3 days each, we get a 40% discount off cosmetics at my place of work. So between these times ensues lots of planning and impatiently waiting. mostly because they never let us know when it will be, they only give us a weeks notice which really sucks. So this time i got to save up a little and get somethings I've been eyeing for a while. I am slowly collecting the entire Chanel Summer collection : Les Fleurs d'ete.

Shiseido Pureness Cleansing Foam

(This cleansing foam feels fluffy and luxurious. it washes my makeup off and cleanses my face and feels comfortable. i dont like that tight feeling.)

Guerlain e/l in Khol Me Brown

(love this gorgeous coffee brown with gold sparkles)

Dior Mascara Ecstase

Dior 5 Palette in Beige Massai

(love this, Dior has the best e/s I've ever used. i got this bc Lisa Eldridge said it was one of her favs, and the colors are very much what i wear. love this packaging as well, nice and sturdy with a little weight to it.)

Chanel Bronzer in Bronze Corail

(had to get this one bc the Bronze Rose was too light for me and the pinkness didnt look right with my yellow undertone. i also didnt find it as buildable as the coral. These bronzers are very soft and subtle, easily blendable.)

Chanel l/g in Pink Peony

Chanel e/l in Rose Platine

(love this, though be careful, it doesnt show up very well on some people.)

Chanel Blush in Pink Tweed

(my version of MAC's Well-Dressed, which doesn't show up on me, but this does. a subtle cool pink shimmer)

NOTD - Sparrow Me the Drama

This color is soo cute.

D&G Italian Summer Scar Jo Ad

LOVE Scar Jo, and i love her D&G ad's. and as soon as i saw this one i fell in love. I wish i had a counter around me so i can play with the colors:(

OPI Pirates of the Carribbean - On Stranger Tides

YAY!!!!! Finally its out!!! I've been waiting for months lol. I really want to buy the whole collection, but i thought maybe i'll do it in spurts. When i went to get a good look at the collection i still wanted all of it, but for right now i left out the pinks - Sparrow Me the Drama and Steady As She Rose. I had to get Mermaid's Tears, Stranger Tides, Silver Shatter, and Skull and Glossbones. Undecided on whether to go with the purple or the pink, i got the purple Planks A Lot, which is the stupidest name in the collection. Now i want the pink one Sparrow me the Drama:( The Silver Shatter is amazing, much better than the tacky Black Shatter, i hated the whole Katy Perry collection awlful. For best results, when applying the shatter apply it diagonally over the nail, putting it on the regular way is very boring and doesn't crack as well. Then apply a clear topcoat and it makes it more sparkley:)

i dont think the theme of the collection is too be piratey. The theme of the movie is geared toward the pirates being in new fantastical waters endowed with fantastical creatures like MERMAIDS. hence the caption STRANGER TIDES. I think the colors are supposed to reflect on these silvery scaled sirens. the colors arent pure or bright, they have a duskiness to them that probably characterize the mermaids themselves, murky and mysterious, and possibly troublesome. and yet the silver scales lure you in.

Butter Haul:)

Finally being able to pick up some Butter London Nail polish. Ulta carries them, and the unfortunate thing is the one i go to is very busy and stock replenishment is very poor. So i grabbed three that were on my wish list, but they weren't the ones i was itching for. Fash Pack, the murky taupe with gold shimmer veins through it. British Racing Green, a must-have dark shimmery hunter green. And Artful Dodger, a dusty Robin's egg blue. I was inspired my the Victorian Spring trend, and it goes with my growing blue nail polish collection. Ulta was also giving a free gift with the purchase of the Butter London, a full size Powder Room Nail Polish Remover worth $5 for 2oz. Not bad, but i wish i liked it more. It smells nice like baby powder, but its acetone free so it feels like turpentine and dries out your cuticles, so i found it an unpleasant polish remover. Next on the wish list: La Moss, The Old Bill, and HRH.

Shrek Continued...

Last year OPI came out with the Shrek collection to promote Shrek III. I had bought the little minis, but my favorite Whats With The Cattitude? was unusable. So i was in despair because i hadn't seen that one around in a while because it was a limited edition line, and i wanted to get it before the Pirates Collection came out. Somehow it had popped up at Ulta so i grabbed it along with Ogre The Top Blue, and Black Satin which was a new release. Ogre The Top Blue is a really bright cobalt blue that is perfect for summer, i love it, one of the most unique colors from the collection. Black Satin is like a mix between Chanel Steel and Black Pearl, not at all like their Black Satin. Its a steely gunmetal grey with a tinge of green, kinda of metallic sparkle finish.