12 Days of Halloween Challenge: Day 1

I joined Abigail's Boutique Designs Challenge in which we have to do 12 different posts Halloween related. I chose this recipe because it is very easy and I actually ate it in a friends house last year. It was very creepy! =) Enjoy!

Monster Toes

Recipe Ingredients:

Cocktail wieners
6-inch tortillas
Ketchup or mustard
Toothpicks

Directions

1. Heat the oven to 350 degrees. Cut a wedge into the end of each cocktail wiener to make a toenail.
2. Cut the tortillas into strips about 4 inches long and 3/4 inch wide. Discard the ends.
3. Soften the strips in the microwave between damp paper towels for 10 to 30 seconds.
4. Roll each wiener in a tortilla strip and secure with a toothpick.
5. Bake for 7 to 8 minutes. Remove them from the oven, then fill the toenail with ketchup or mustard. Remove the toothpicks before serving.

Check out the other "12 Days of Halloween" Participants

http://www.randomosityblog.com/

http://abigailsboutiquedesigns.blogspot.com/

Jaely

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Candii Blossom Cosmetics

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Top Pigments are Dry, Bottom Pigments are on Benefit's Stay Don't Stray Eye Primer
Pigments in order from top to bottom
1. Green with Envy: Green with Copper Shimmer
2. Sky: Very Light Baby Blue
3. Pot O' Gold: Yellow with a hint of gold & very light red shimmer
4. Autumn: Brownish with Bronze shimmer
5. Shy: a very light Pink almost nude
6. Wolfie: Gray with Shimmer
7. Torque: Greenish blue, very shimmery
8. Royalty: Darkish Purple with shimmer

*As you can see all colors are very pigmented and whether they are on a primer or not the color will always be rich. 

Color Close Ups

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VERDICT

PRODUCT : 5/5

PIGMENTATION : 4/5

TEXTURE : 5/5

LONGEVITY : 5/5

APPLICATION : 4.5/5

PACKAGING : 5/5

FINAL THOUGHTS

Being that these are Candii Blossom Cosmetics first pigments I was overly pleased. I was very surprised about the quality. I can't wait to get the rest of her shadows. 

OVERALL: A-

Where to Find them:

Facebook

ArtFire

Jaely

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Giveaway Winner

This is will be a quick post on the giveaway I've had for the last two weeks Celebrating my 300 Likes on Facebook... I am well over 600 Likes as of today and I wanted to thank you all for being such awesome fans! I love you all!! I had a total of 31 people enter this giveaway (190 entries including bonus ones) The video of the winner is posted below! I apologize for the bad quality ahead of time... but I did not find the camera cord so I had to record from my sucky webcam! =(

Congratulations to the winner: 

BRINA MADDOX

Thanks to ALL of you! New CONTEST/GIVEAWAY coming VERY soon! =) 

JaeLy

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"Not Shopping til I Drop" 65 Days Challenge : Day 13

Hello My beauties! =)
Its been so long since I've written a post! It has been crazy these past few days because of school and family obligations. But I'm back. You all know I'm in a personal challenge to not shop for 65 days and I'm in Day 12. Must I say how hard this is? I have a MAC, Inglot, Sephora, Cosmetics Market all around my school & a Facebook FULL of AMAZING Indie Companies! It's so hard to refuse myself in clicking the Add to Cart button. What I find myself doing now is literally spending hours looking at pictures of pigments online or adding them to my Christmas Wishlist. (hey! now my loved ones won't have a hard time picking a gift for me haha!) Or I also visit Sephora during my breaks and sit there trying on different colors and/or even painting my nails [yesterday I painted them ORGASM from NARS... LOVE it] In the last few days I think I would've spent over $200 just on makeup! I'm excited to see how the outcome of this challenge will bring me growth in my life! On another hand since I did do a lot of shopping prior to this challenge I still have been getting packages from them so it keeps me a bit sane! haha! I can't wait to start posting the reviews! Talking about reviews, I did a Haul on all my purchases from Indie Companies. Make sure to check it out!

Unique Styles Boutique

I was first introduced to Unique Styles Boutique playing in the famous Facebook Scavenger Hunts. I had a blast & won 3 pigments from her collection. I was free to select any three. I was so ecstatic since it was the first time ever that I won makeup for FREE playing games. Judith, the owner is a wonderful person. Very easy going and easy to talk too. Her shipping is flawless. I have received two orders from her; My prize & then when I ordered from her some samples. They were both received in less then 3 business days! That's right 3 BUSINESS DAYS!! 

Swatches are all done over ELF Sheer Primer

Tang- Bright Matte Orange 

Star Struck- Bright Shiny Yellow

Filthy Rich- Bright Shiny Gold

Its a Boy- Bright Shiny Royal Blue

Neveyah- Light Shiny Purple

Gustavo- Shiny Light Baby Blue

Girly- Light Shiny Pink

Purple Haze- Matte Pinkish Purple
Amareli- Shiny Purple with some blue shimmer

White Girl- Shimmer White
Luna- SHIMMER SHIMMER SILVER
Clover Green- Matte Green

As you can all tell her pigments are very pigmented, even the lightest of colors have great pigmentation. She has a great variety of colors & what I love most is that she has best of both worlds; shiny & matte. The only thing that I found that honestly didn't bother me but may cause some issues is the fact that there's no list of ingredients in the package or labels. I know some people may have extremely sensitive skin & may fear using anything without know the containing ingredients. Overall, I was very satisfied with the service & product.

4.5 out of 5: I would definitely buy from her again!

Where to find:

Facebook

JaeLy
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Alexeter Minerals

Alexeter Minerals is a new Canadian company offering cosmetics. The owner Jen is someone who is very easy to reach and very nice at the same time. I was very lucky to win these two eye-shadows in a contest held by one of the makeup pages. Jen was nice enough to sponsor that contest and therefore I won these two beautiful eye-shadows that are part of their "Princess Collection." Below are the swatches, done over Urban Decay Primer Potion.

All jars come with a label on top with the company logo & a label on bottom with the name of the pigment.

All her jars have sifters... so just I love this since I'm soo clumsy! haha

Princess Toad- A very shimmery light green. Being that green is my favorite color, I was blown away at how beautiful this color is.
Princess Cupcake- PINK! A very nice pink, full of shimmer.



As you can all see these pigments are true to color! The same color you see in the jar, you see on your skin. & I absolutely LOVE that. (The green looks a little bright in the jar because of my camera...SORRY)
Overall, I would COMPLETELY recommend you all to order from Jen. Not only are her pigments beautiful but her service to her customers is impeccable. She responds right away & answers any of your questions.

Her website is very easy to navigate and order from!

5 out of 5: Def would buy more pigments!

Where to Find them:

Facebook

Website/Shop

JaeLy

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"Not Shopping til I Drop" 65 Days Challenge : Day 2

Okay! So this is more difficult then I thought! =( I have already been tempted to buy 4 things!! ahhhh!!! I'm so heart broken </3 On the brighter side I saved some money today lol & received my EOS "Honeysuckle Honeydew" lippie, My Urban Decay Book of Shadows IV that came with a Glide-on Cheek Tint in "Quickie" & 3 small samples that Ulta gives with all purchases!

I am totally IN LOVE with this palette! Though it has some repeated colors, it also has 10 NEW shadows (never been seen.) I will be doing a Review soon! I have soo much to review but really excited to start! =) 

This week I also received my FIRST ever BIRCHBOX... It was the September box.... I really wasn't WOWED by it, but there were some stuff I found CUTE & enjoyed! I will be doing a video soon & posting it as well!

Hope you Have a wonderful day tomorrow! c[=

JaeLy

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