is Fit me foundation a perfect fit?

Hi everyone!
I'm back and today I have a new drug store goodie to review for you courtesy of Influenster. I was recently sent the Maybelline Fit me foundation via influenster complimentary to test out and give my honest opinion on. I was super excited to have the opportunity to review this product because I have heard a lot of great buzz in the makeup community on it and really wanted to see for myself what all the hype was about.

First off, I want to put out there that this foundation has a really amazing shade range that offers a wide variety of darker tones. Seriously, look at the display next time you are out shopping and you will see what I mean, it's impressive! This being said, because the shade range is so vast it can be difficult to accurately shade match without actually going to the store and seeing all the shades in front of you. I know a lot of people who recieved this particular voxbox, myself included were sent shades that were significantly darker than they actually are, or some were sent shades that were to light. Usually the process in online questionnaires for shade matching involves asking what color you would pick based on those presented to you and possibly your undertone. While typically this would be easy in selecting foundations from other lines, the vast selection in this particular foundation makes it a bit difficult. I would normally find myself selecting a natural beige in pretty much any foundation, however that end of the color spectrum in the fit me foundation line runs significantly darker, so I actually find myself selecting a creamy beige shade instead which comes out of the first handful of colors available.

My overall thoughts on how this product wears and apply are positive. I really love that you can easily build up the coverage level without looking a hot mess, and that the weight feels like nothing once applied. It dries down to a skin like matte finish which requires no powder. It does not cling to any dryness you may have going on either. All in all I really love the look and feel!
I will say I do wish it came with a pump though because I dislike having to put the product on the back of my hand or my fingers in order to apply it. I feel like it wastes product that way. With having to put the product on my hand to apply it, I did wash my hand after, and ended up having to wash it about 5 times with soap in order to get the product off. This may be a good early indication of how this product will perform against humid conditions!

If you would like to see photos of this foundation applied please check out my Instagram https://www.instagram.com/awest8/where I have posted before and after application photos with brief review as well as photos of my voxbox!!

If you are interested in signing up for the voxbox, head on over to Imfluenster and create your free account today!

XoXo,
          Alisa

#Comfortvoxbox : My first Voxbox

I got mail!! Whoop

Its been forever since I have made a peep, I know I am so terrible at keeping up with this blogging thing! But I have something new and fun to share from Influenster, and that is the Comfort Voxbox, which I was lucky enough to be selected to receive and review!

I have to say, I have had my Influenster account forever and I have only recently begun playing around with it, adding all my social media accounts to it and really participating in all the reviews and what not. It is really a lot of fun because not only do you get the opportunity to share your experience on various products but you also get to see what others have to say about them as well which I have always found really helpful as a consumer. Personally I happen to be one of those people who loves to read all the latest beauty reviews on recent product launches prior to heading off into the store and buying them, that way I don't end up with a dud!

Anyhow, as previously mentioned Influenster is a company that strives to help consumers stay ahead of the top trends by giving them access to a wide variety of reviews, tips, tricks and news created by their own peers. subscribers to this free program are also afforded the opportunity to occasionally be selected to review complimentary products and provide honest feedback with the community. These complimentary products are sent out in what is known as a Voxbox. A themed box, filled with complimentary products meant for testing purposes.

My first voxbox was the Comfort Voxbox, a super sweet box created with mom in mind. This box came stocked with a variety of products any mom would be thrilled to get. Annies homegrown certified organic soup, for those growing liitle ones we give our all to! A very generous sample of Tide ultra stain release, to help get out even the toughest of stains your little one might get. A coupon, as well as recipe cards for Ragu traditional style sauce, a staple pantry ingredient for any mom. Fisher nut exactly snack bite treats, a devilishly delicious treat for the mom who needs to take 5! And last but certainly not least fiber choice immunity support gummies, much like mom this product is a multitasker, it helps boost your immunity while keeping you regular.

Hands down my favorite part of this box was the Fisher nut exactly snack bites! I did not expect to love them as much as I did and I honestly don't think that I would have tried them on my own had I seen them in the store, because lets face it the product sounds a bit odd. It is chocolate coated almond popcorn. Sounds weird right? I was totally expecting something hard or chunky and that wasn't the case at all. The actual product was an insanely delicious mix of sweet and salty which satisfied all my cravings!

These were gone within two days, I totally did not share them (yeah bad mommy) I regret nothing..Except possibly not having more!

That face you make when you realize something is AWESOME!

If you are interested in signing up for a free Influenster account click the link to learn more and get started!

Disclaimer: I received these products complimentary from Influenster for testing purposes. All thoughts and opinions reflected in this post are 100% my own

A few of my favorite things: Christmas edition!!

Happy holidays fellow beauty addicts! Today, I thought it would be fun to do a blog about some of my favorite products used not just during the holiday season; but year round. These products are a nice mix of both high end and indie goodies as well so there is really a great range of affordability and appeal for just about everyone!

First up we have one of my all time favorite perfumes: Burberry for women, with top notes of black current, bergamot, and green apple this fragrance opens up to cedar wood, jasmine, moss and sandalwood (my favorite); with base notes of both musk and vanilla making this a perfectly balanced warm and sensual fragrance! Pricing for this fragrance really range, but you can grab it for as little as $26 on overstock.

Next, we have some wonderful indie perfume oil blends from both Darling clandestine and Black Violet. Darling Clandestine, an Etsy shop run by owner Evonne produces complex scent oils which take you on a journey! Tilt-a-whirl is an amazingly complex and fun scent that has a fizzy fruitiness to it, a slight herbal undertone, and a dry down which is remenisant of red vines! It is really a very unique scent which I have really come to enjoy. Black violet, a wonderful bath and body shop run by owner Leilani, produces everything from amazing perfume oils to shower gels, body butters, and even wonderful face washes! I find Black violets scents to be very pure, long lasting, and not as complex if that makes sense? (forgive my lack of perfume knowledge). What I am meaning to say is that when it comes to Black violets scents, it is much easier for me personally to find an agreeable scent because there is not a lot of scent morphing happening with the scents on my skin. I believe really complex scent blends and the morphing of all the blends with your own body chemistry is what makes finding a compatible perfume oil so difficult. Both Darling Clandestine, and Black violet have fantastic options for ordering minis of their products which allows you to test out scents and products affordably.

Hair oil is a must, for me anyway. I have found that after years of abuse, and of course changes in the water and weather my hair just isn't as lustrous as it once was. This is where hair oil comes into play! Haus of Gloi makes a fabulous hair oil which you can order for just $12 in various yummy scents! I picked myself up two bottles of this amazing oil which I apply to my wet hair just after a shower. I find that it not only provides my hair with much needed additional moisture but also leaves it smelling great, and bonus, any oil left on your hands gets easily absorb and makes for a great nightly hand treatment.

Who doesn't love lip balm! I have an entire bag devoted to various lipsticks and lip gloss, but the one product I wear consistently is lip balm. My personal preference in lip balm happens to be an awesome one from a great little indie cosmetics shop called Notoriously Morbid. at a mere $3 a pop these Coffin Kissers are a great deal. They feel and smell absolutely amazing!

Bath products! You want it, you need it, and you are constantly on the hunt for great bargains right? By now you may have heard of Fortune cookie soap, if not well then sit on back and let me tell ya a little about them. Fortune cookie is a great bath and body company based out of Jenks, Oklahoma run by awesome husband and wife duo Shannon and Justin. This company offers pretty much everything you could imagine, wax tarts, all natural perfume sprays (alchohal free yay), perfume oils, body wash, hair oils and of course Fortune cookie soaps..thats right soap in the shape of fortune cookies! these little cuties actually come with adorable little fortunes inside them as well. Each of the amazing products offered at fortune cookie soap also has a really great price tag attached with prices ranging from $3 to $12 for some of the bigger items! Oh and did I forget to mention that each quarterly subscription box contains a $10 coupon code.. Long story short, there is just a whole lot of awesome happening at this place, so def check it out :)

Last but most def not least is Darling girl cosmetics, because this blog post would not be complete if I didn't include some actual makeup right? Darling girl is one of my all time favorite indie cosmetic companies run by owner Susan; who is just one of the most amazing people you will ever encounter! Her devotion to her company as well as to her customers is really unparalleled. Each product she hand makes is unique, and I can honestly say I continue to be wowed time and time again by her creativity and overall talent!

 

I feel like that was the longest blog ever right?. Well I hope you enjoyed, and I wish you each a very Merry Christmas :)

 

Mani Monday feat Sinful colors!

Mani Monday!!

I'm back ya'll and this time I bring you my very first Mani Monday post!! Yes that's right I did my nails, and took pictures of it (I am just so darn talented).. So I happened to be in target the other day browsing the polish section when I found a couple sinful polishes that literally just jumped off the rack and into my basket; I know, I know who am I to deny the little guys a new home!! I need more nail polish like I need a hole in the head but you know how it is when you walk down the beauty isle, you break out in random Ariel singing " I've got blushers and bronzers aplenty,  I've got lip balms and lipsticks galore; (You want mascara? I got twenty) But who cares? No big deal, I WANT MORE!" Meanwhile your husband lingers behind saying FML.. Ohh that familiar struggle, yes beauties it is real!

So, needless to say me and my newly adopted polish headed home and had ourselves a sparkle-tastic time! If you aren't familiar with Sinful polish I would say its more or less hit and miss quality wise being that is about a dollar a bottle. The colors are really fun ranging from really vibrant to more wearable with glitters as well. I have a really great jewel tone green which has fantastic formulation and a not so awesome vibrant blue which comes out a bit watery if that is any indication of the hit or miss I was speaking of. I will say though you can work with the polishes for sure; they can be built up which is great! So for the price why not give them a go.

For todays manicure I used Sinful polishes in both Endless Blue and Frenzy as a glitter top coat.

Endless Blue & Frenzy

 

The results were pretty awesome! I feel like Katy Perry would appreciate this combo :) Surprisingly enough neither of these polishes took long to dry either which is a major plus in my book (and I used a few coats of the blue as my base).

 

 

The biggest down side to doing such an awesome sparkly mani is the fact that you have to take it all off.. I know I am not the only one who despises taking glitter off; that little moment when you sit there cursing yourself for ever putting the shit on! Ohh well at least its awesome for now :) Until next time beauties, stay polished --

How I feel when I need to remove glitter polish

Who ya gonna call??

When there's something strange in your neighborhood, who ya gonna call?!?.. Darling girl duh! Yes boys and girls its the moment you have all been waiting for the Darling Girl Cosmetics Halloween collection release is just around the corner and as you may or may not already know the theme for this year is Ghostbusters :) I must say this entire collection is pretty awesome, from the overall theme to the actual colors in it down to the artwork on the jars!! Ya'll are in for some EPIC goodies!

So, should I keep going on and on, or would you like some pictures now?? lol..

 

 

 First up we have don't cross the streams which is an amazing blue with badass copper sparks, the stream you might ask? Well my friends check out the animation above ;)

Up next we have one of my favorite colors, lets see if you can guess what it is hmm :) Its a gorgeous almost glowing green with an orange sheen to it! Really cool

The final little goodie I have to share with you is a shade which has already been leaked and it is called "There is no Dana", for those of you unfamiliar with the movie's Dana gets possessed and she has on this really killer dress during said scene. Long story short the color was amazing and Susan captured it perfectly!!

This color is a beautiful golden copper shade with a burnt reddish shift to it. One of my favorites for sure!.. Honestly the whole collection is amazing, these are some of the best shadows I have seen in awhile because most collections are usually hit and miss but its rare for a whole collection to be awesome :)

Hats off to the amazing Susan, owner of Darling Girl Cosmetics for creating such a gorgeous collection of pretties! Do be sure to check back when this collection goes live in September because you really do not want to skip out on these goodies! And my advice on getting you hands on these babies,

RUN!!!

Sinfully Gritty EOTD feat Notoriously Morbid

I created a little look for Notoriously Morbid recently which is goth/supernatural inspired using all Notoriously Morbid shadows applied over a black base enhanced with Vaseline to add some texture. Its not a wearable look by any means, really its just something I started doing and went with lol.. Looking at it now, it reminds me of the grit and mild gore from the show super natural which I love!! So that's what we will be calling this look, a sinfully gritty eye of the day!

Products used:

1. Nyx black bean
2. Notoriously Morbid war shadow (LE, from the sealed judgment collection)
3. Notoriously Morbid famine (LE, from the sealed judgement collection)
4. Notoriously Morbid Hallows eve (LE from Halloween collection)
5. Vaseline

So there I sat in front of my vanity looking at my collection of Notoriously Morbid, trying to decide what I was going to do that day, when I pulled out some colors and brushes and started going to town on my eye..(That's the process)..

Cas popped in long enough to get a look at what was going on...I, get the feeling he wasn't feeling my look though because he didn't stay to chat and then all the sudden the room started looking a little something like this

Freaking crazy right!! Yeah, and apparently there were gravestones and trees and whatnot too; just utter madness I tell you!

 

Next thing I know I end up with this look, Cas is gone all the crazy black smoke is gone and Crawly is in the room waving at me like we are BFF's...

Cool beans, I can deal. I mean he's pretty decent looking ;)

Anyhow, I hope you enjoy my sinfully gritty look and my delightfully silly post! Gotta keep it light you know :)

Grace Note Gifts..Divine soy wax melts and a lot of Texas heart!

    Ahhh Texas, how do I love thee let me count the ways!!.. The food, the land, that big ole Texas hair (kidding), ohh and Grace Note Gifts; yes Texas you brought me yet another indie vendor to discuss today and one which happens to make one of my favorite things in life; soy melts!

 

    I first heard about Grace Note Gifts all the way out here in Hawaii from a local kiosk which happens to stock her divine smelling scents! I really became interested about the time I learned that fall scents were rolling out, because if you know anything about Hawaii you know that we DO NOT experience Fall or Winter in the traditional sense; so that being said I like to "pretend" I get to go through those seasons in my nice cold house with some amazing smelling candles aiding as a gentle reminder of what should be happening outside (soo sad I know)..

Everywhere but Hawaii...

 

 

 I have been a regular Scentsy user up until this point, and probably would have continued to purchase Scentsy had I not discovered Grace Note Gifts. In discovering Grace Note Gifts what I found was that not only were the scents much better in my opinion, but also a lot more affordable as well! Each individual bar of soy wax created by Grace Note Gifts cost approximately $3.50. Grace the owner routinely offers up discount codes to use in her shop on her instagram account as well as including codes within orders; and there are great discount packages available for purchase as well such as buy 3 for $10. Scentsy bars retail for $5 per bar with a shipping cost of $10 per order, my personal shipping cost with my order through Graces Etsy store on the buy 3 for $10 was only $4 bringing my grand total to $14! Another major plus in ordering from this fab indie vendor is the fact that upon request she is able to do custom orders, something that is awesome considering sometimes we become really partial to certain scents which might become discontinued or maybe we might just have a really specific scent in mind such as Lychee!!

 

 



 

    The wax: an "All natural, richly scented soy wax melts made using high quality fragrance oil, for use in any wax tart warmer. Included in each tart container are 6 (1/2) ounce cubes for a total weight of 3 oz. per container. " Whats the difference between this and my scentsy wax? well first off this is nothing like scentsy wax! not in the least..I would say this is a lot more potent as far as scent goes, it does last longer than my scentsy cubes, and one of the other very noticeable differences is the fact that this wax is not pliable. What do I mean? well have you ever noticed that when you finish a scentsy cube you can just take a knife to the cooled wax, make an air pocket under it and out it pops? That will not happen with this wax. You either need to get this wax out with a cloth while it is still in liquid form or chip away at it (I do not recommend that).

 

(L-R) Homesick, warm vanilla sugar, Harvest pumpkin, Lavender & vanilla

 

 

    All in all I really do recommend these soy wax melts! They smell incredible, they are extremely affordable and they are coming from a vendor who lovingly hand makes each of them!! Do yourself a favor and check this shop out, I promise you wont be disappointed.