October 2012 Favorites

Time's a flying! Halloween is coming up and here comes November! Just wanted to share a few of my favs this month. Hope you enjoy!  

First fav for October has got to be my Bourjois Healthy Mix Serum Foundation and Healthy Balance Powder 

This is a French brand and is sold in European drugstores. I heard about this brand through YouTube beauty gurus and heard really great things about it. It is available through a website called asos.com for about $20. It gives light to medium coverage and it smells amazing! It smells of apricots. : ) I've been using it this product most of the month and it hasn't made me break out! Yippee!!! Lol. The only downside to this product is that there is not a lot of shades to choose from. I believe the lightest shade is 51, which is a light vanilla color and the darkest is 56. Currently I am between shades 52 and 53. I originally purchased shade 53 (Beige Clair) which matched my skin perfectly, but noticed that the product oxidized. I recently purchased shades 52 (vanille) and it matches my skin tone perfectly after it has oxidized. I've also been loving the Bourjois Healthy Balance Powder in the shade Beige Clair as well. My face is a total grease ball and this powder seems to really keep it under control. It also has a light apricot fragrance...and honestly, I can't stop smelling it througout the day. Lol.

Next Fav is Revlon Colorstay Foundation in shade 310 Warm Golden

This foundation is my second fav to Bourjois Healthy Mix Serum . It gives medium coverage and has an SPF of 6. I know, not a whole lot of SPF but certainly better than nothing! I just apply additional oil free sunblock before I apply this foundation. I use this foundation when I want a little more coverage than the Bourjois Healthy Mix Serum gives me. It doesn't smell as good as the healthy mix but I definitely like the medium coverage it gives. Oh and it doesn't make me break out! Woot woot! Lol. I heard about this product from my daughter. She tried it out...not that she even needs foundation, but she tried it out anyway. I saw that the coverage was pretty darn good so I purchased one myself. You can purchase this proudct pretty much anywhere, but I purchased mine at Target for $9.99. Again, very affordable! Before trying drugstore foundations, I used Laura Mercier, which I still love. Only thing is is that there aren't many shades to choose from. I always had to purchase 2 different shades because I was in between shades. Laura Mercier foundations also oxidized badly pretty badly and made me look a little gray. Revlon Colorstay foundations are pretty true to color. Try it out!

Maybelline Define-a-Brow

Love this product! I was just about to purchase MAC's lingering eyebrow pencil but decided to give this product a shot. I purchased this product from Target for $5.99 in the shade medium brown. I'm so happy I tried this before going to MAC! I love it! For forever long, I've been using MAC eye shadows for my brows in the shades Embark, Charcoal Brown, Brun, Mystery, and recently started using Omega.I mentioned somewhere on my website that my eyebrows have evolved and they're STILL evolving! Lol. A couple months ago I felt like I was having a hard time controlling how much powder I put on my brows and they really just started to look darker and darker! Ugh...I hated it! Then I tried this product and the Angels sang, "Ahhhhhhhhhh!" Lol. All I do is define my brows with this pencil and fill in a little more with MAC eye shadow in Omega! LOVE!!! Try it!

Wet n Wild Color Icon in Shade 335 Silent Treatment

I haven't been into Wet n Wild since...ever! Lol. I just remember my older sister using these products. Haha! It's all YouTube's fault that I had to purchase almost every palette Wet n Wild has! Pshhh! Lol. I love this trio, Silent Treatment. It's definitely become one of my "go-to" eye shadow pallettes since I've gotten it. These trios are $2.99, are you outta your mind?! I love these colors so much, you guys just have to try it...and if not this one, you have to try their other shades! My only gripe about the eye shadows is that they kind of powdery and cause a lot of fall out. Otherwise, they're very pigmented and oh so cheap! What more can you ask for?! I don't even know why I swatched this mofo on my hand when you can't even see the colors! Lol. I'm so tan right now...it's not even funny! Haha!

Anyhow, do like I've been doing and don't knock the drugstore brands, mang! Believe it or not, SOME, not all of these products have great quality! There's no way to find out unless you try! It excites me to know that I'm getting great products without a hefty price tag! Hope this was helpful!

Have a blessed one!