I'm a horrible person: CVS haul. Again. Also maize and blue nail marbling!!!

My dear friend told me there was a sale at CVS (Wet 'n' Wild BOGO), so I couldn't resist. I've had my heart set on getting these shadows after trying the Petal Pusher and Comfort Zone palettes. They're so gorgeous and pigmented. My favorite shadows ever. 

I'm Wearing Walking on Eggshells ($2.99) today, and it's so amazing. The colors blend so well and are just beautiful. These are dupes for Mac Shroom, Cork, and Naked Lunch, too. 

The Walking on Eggshells palette was free because I bought the eight-pan Blue Had me at Hello palette. These shadows are insanely pigmented, especially the bottom left Definer shade. It's crazy. I'm in love with the navy blue colors, and the matte black is super nice. Only $4.99 for all eight. :0)

I needed a highlighter, and Physicians formula was spend $10 get 7 Extrabucks. How could I resist? I got the one in Malibu Strip. It looks fine as a highlight, but it's not the greatest thing ever. I'll have to use it a bit more to review it fully though. It's kind of expensive, too ($13.79). 

 I needed some lip color, so I got Wet 'n' Wild (BOGO!). These are the moisturizing formula, so they're pretty slick. I like the shade on the left, and I plan on using it for Halloween (I'm going to be Marla from Fight Club), but the red isn't that great. The color feathers super badly. I would definitely not get it again. They don't taste or smell great. For $2.99 though, not too bad. 

I've been wanting to try these FOREVER. Maybelline was spend $10 get 3 Extrabucks, so that was my excuse to try them (they are kind of expensive at $6.99 each).

Tough as Taupe is a super pretty greige kind of color. It's kind of multidimensional. These apply so nicely with the fingers as well. 

I love Bad to the Bronze. It looks super cool blended out, and it applies so nicely. I'm definitely going to get some more of these. I have my eyes on Bold Gold and Pomegranate Punk.

After trying and falling in love with the Revlon Colorstay Topcoat (I had it over an OPI polish and it lasted for 6 days!!!), I decided to try the nail polish. Revlon was on offer, too, so I didn't feel too guilty about this. I got Pale Cashmere and Velvet Rope. ($7.79 each). They're kind of expensive for Drugstore nail polish, but I got 5 extrabucks at least.

I then marbled my nails for game day today. I used a dark shimmery blue and a gold. 

Here they are!

Go blue! Beat Sparty!!!

SO yeah. I was bad, but I got a lot of coupons out of that and $15 Extrabucks. My next purchase will be free right? :P

Polka Dot nails! and Julep Claire

Y'all will know from my last post that I got some new nail polish from Julep recently. I love it so much so far. It's so opaque and dries really quickly. My favorite color that I got is Claire, a darker sky blue. 

This one needs two coats for full opacity, but one coat still is pretty good...

And it's not electric blue in person. It looks a bit brighter in the photo.

It matched my pencil! Exciting, eh?

I also painted my friend's nails! I used Julep Rose (the red) and alternated with Zoya Pippa (the yellow). The Zoya is super streaky by the way. I needed three coats to make it not look nasty. I only used one coat of Julep Rose. 

I then dotted nail polish (on the diagonal first because it just makes it easier) on with a pencil, because I'm too cheap to get a dotting tool. I kept my blues away from each other (I used Claire again and then Essie Mint Candy Apple, the lighter one). I used Rose dots on a Pippa nail, and Pippa on a Rose one. I used another Julep color, Sasha, on the index fingers.

I finished with my Revlon topcoat, which I love.

So yeah, I'm loving this polka dot look. It's super happy. If you don't want to go the whole way and have dots on every finger, the dots still look cute for one accent nail.

What's your favorite nail design?

New stuff! Yay! (Haul) and Julep Rose

So I went to CVS this week. Also, I subscribed to Julep Maven and my first box just came today. 

Happiness.

We'll start with the Julep stuff. I got five nail polishes for only a penny! I had a code to get my first box, so yeah. $14X5 worth of nail polish, really good nail polish, for $0.01. The color I'm wearing now is Rose (the picture color is true to real life), a coraly/reddy/pink. I only have one coat on, too! This stuff is opaque. I love the way the formula applies, and since it was only one coat, it dried really fast. You can see just the tiniest bit of nail from under, but not enough for me to notice or care to do another coat.

I'm really happy with my first box. Unless I have a code though, I'm probably going to skip most boxes because I'm a poor college kid. The box came with a reusable Julep bag, too. Kinda cool I guess.

I recently hit pan on my Maybelline Dream Matte powder, so I thought I'd get a new one. I got Rimmel Stay Matte in 004 Sandstorm. I've heard good things about this powder, but I haven't tried it yet.

Those limited edition displays by the exit escalator always get me. I wasn't going to get a blush... but I liked the color and the sturdy feeling packaging, and I'll never be able to get this again right? This is a L'oreal limited edition Project Runway blush in 326 The Muse's Blush. I used it today. It was pretty so-so. Not too pigmented, and the color doesn't show up too well. However, I kind of like not fussy blushes (sometimes when it's too pigmented you have to worry about putting on too much), and this is a nice sheer, natural blush. It has subtle shimmer; you won't look like a disco ball. It does bring a nice color to my face. I might even go back for this berry kind of color they had.

I also needed a new eyeliner. My Maybelline gel one was drying up and flaking all over my face, so I tossed it and got this one. I knew I wanted a pencil I didn't have to sharpen, because I just hate doing that. I was getting sick of having to use a brush for my liner everyday, too. I tried this already, and I'm on the fence. The pigmentation and staying power are great, and I like the way it glides on without me having to feel like I'm tugging on my eyes, but the point wears down and the line gets super thick. It would be okay for the waterline, but I don't line my waterline, so I don't know if it's worth it for me to keep this. I need something that I can use to get into my lash roots, and maybe make a wing from time to time. I might go back and get a liquid eye pen instead.

My Sally Hansen Insta-Dri topcoat was getting low and, therefore, disgusting and gloopy to the point at which I needed to toss it because it was screwing up my manicures. Amarixe was raving about the Revlon Colorstay base and topcoats, so when I saw this I thought I'd give it a go. I love it so far. I just painted this over my new Julep polish, and it applied so nicely, dried quickly, and the brush is amazing! It really fits the contour of the nails perfectly. We'll see how the wear is, but I'm thinking I'm going to like this better than Insta-Dri...

So yeah. That's it. 

Have you gone shopping recently? What did you get?