Beauty Products Haul

 Hi, everyone! How was your weekend?

Here's everything I bought, was gifted, or was sent for review recently!

Redken Blondage Color Depositing Purple Shampoo

I received a gift card to Ulta for my birthday, so I ordered this since I was in need of a new purple shampoo. I've never tried this one before so hopefully it's good!

The Creme Shop x Hello Kitty Ready To Glow! Printed Essence Sheet Mask

I ordered this from Ulta as well. I love Hello Kitty and this was too cute to pass up.

Lancome Advanced Genifique Night Cream sample

This was the free birthday gift from Ulta this year. I feel like June always gets small gifts compared to other months? I've seen people who have birthdays in other months post their free gifts and sometimes they're full size products! This is tiny! I suspected this year's gift was going to be small again, but this is smaller than I was expecting. And then they charged me for it! $9.50 for this dinky thing! It literally said "free birthday gift" but they charged me for it for some reason? I had to contact their customer support for a refund. What a letdown!

Verb Feeling Fine Hydrate & Shine Kit

I also received a gift card to Sephora for my birthday, and when I saw this kit I knew I had to add it to my basket. I really like this line of shampoo and conditioner. This set also includes their Ghost Oil which I've never used before.

Ouai Birthday Gift

Sephora always has a few different birthday gifts to choose from, and this year I chose the gift from Ouai. It contains their Detox Shampoo mini, Leave-In Travel Conditioner mini, St. Bart's Body Cleanser mini, and the Melrose Place eau de parfum mini. I've used the leave-in conditioner before and it's nice, but the scent isn't the greatest. It's not bad necessarily, but it's not great either.

Concealer Sample Set

This was offered as a free gift with any order over $35 (I believe) and I'm currently in the market for a new concealer so this was perfect timing! It includes 10 different concealer samples as well as a mini Urban Decay All Nighter Setting Spray and mini Laura Mercier setting powder.

ILNP Nail Polish in Evermore

I really love this brand of nail polish, and was given this as one of my birthday presents. Their holographic polishes are insane! This shade is stunning.

Revlon Dry & Shine Hair Dryer

My current hair dryer has been on the fritz lately, so I got this one to replace it. It works pretty well. I really want to get the Dyson hair dryer, but those are so expensive! I'll make do with this for now until I save up some extra money to buy the Dyson.

That's everything I got this time! Thank you for stopping by! I hope you have a great week!

Anastasia Beverly Hills Carli Bybel Eyeshadow Palette Swatches + Review

Hello, everyone!  How was your weekend?

I was given a gift card to Ulta for Christmas, so I used it to purchase the Carli Bybel palette by ABH.  I know I just did a massive delutter and gave away a ton of palettes and makeup in general, but the shades in this palette are ones that I know I'll get a lot of use out of.

The palette is made from cardboard and has a gorgeous gold and pink gem design on the outside.  Inside, there are 14 shadows, a good sized mirror, and a double ended brush. I gotta admit, I hate the ABH brushes that come in her palettes so that is being given away immediately.  Only one shade seemed excessively chunky to me and that is the shade OA.  The rest were smooth and buttery to the touch.

Swatches

It is a stunning palette, and I can't wait to play with all of the shades!  Did you pick this palette up?  What are your thoughts on it?

Thank you for stopping by!  Have a fantastic week!

Lorac Pro Palette 3 Review + Swatches

Hello, everyone!  How was your weekend?

Ulta sent out an email with a 20% off entire purchase coupon code for their platinum members, and I used mine to FINALLY purchase the Lorac Pro Palette 3.  I love the first two Pro Palettes and the shades in the third palette are beautiful.  Also, the collector in me just had to have it! ;)

 
This palette retails for $44 and holds 16 eyeshadows.  Like the other palettes, the top row is all matte shades and the bottom row is all shimmer shades.  There's a decent sized mirror as well. The packaging is exactly the same as the other two Pro Palettes.  The problem with this palette being the same packaging as the others is that, like the others, this palette gets messy easily.  The shimmer shades in this palette seem a bit more powdery than the shimmer shades in the two previous palettes.  They are very soft and had a significant amount of kick back while swatching them.  The shade Medallion had the most kick back and is the only shade in this palette that has a chunky texture.  There's one repeat shade in this palette, and that's the shade Jet Black.  Although, technically, the shade in the previous two palettes is "Black" and not "Jet Black", but I swatched both black shades and I cannot see any difference between the two.

On the left is the shade "Black" and on the right is the shade "Jet Black".  Honestly, they look the same to me.  What do you think?

Anyway, here are my swatches of the entire palette (shown without any primer):

To give you an idea of how much kick back these shimmer shades give off, I took a picture of the palette after swatching all the shades.  You can see that the shade Medallion kicks up the most.

I also took a photo of all three Pro Palettes together to show you the similarities and differences between shades.

And that's everything!  I hope this was helpful.

Thank you for stopping by, and I hope you have a great week!

Urban Decay x Gwen Stefani Eyeshadow Palette Review + Swatches

Hello, everyone!  I hope you're having a good week so far!

I finally picked up the UD x Gwen eyeshadow palette this week.  I knew it would go on sale eventually and it did.  It's originally $58, but was is on sale at Ulta and Sephora for $39.  I purchased mine at Ulta because I also had my $10 off any purchase coupon for my birthday and I used $3 in rewards which brought it down to only $26!  Talk about a steal!

The design for this palette is really cool.  I really like black, white, and gold together.  It's simple, but bold at the same time.  (If that makes any sense! lol)  This palette has a ton of amazing neutral shades as well as a few pops of color.  Danger (the blue shade) is so beautiful!  I can't wait to use it.  Most of the shadows are smooth and creamy, but there are a few that are a bit disappointing.  The shades Punk, Anaheim, and Blackout are a bit patchy.  I had to go over them a few times to swatch them.  Then there's the shade Pop.  It is a beautiful color, but it's soooo chunky.  Harajuku was also a little chunky (a lot less than Pop though) and stiff.  All of the other shades though are incredible!

Swatches

This palette also comes with four lipstick samples from this collection.  I already have the full size Rock Steady lipstick, but I don't have any of the other sample shades.

And that's it for this post.  :)  Thank you for stopping by, and I hope you have an amazing weekend!