Fafi! Fafi! Fafi!

Alright all you Fafi fanatics! It's officially out and ready for the taking! MAC has released the Fafi collection online and it is available for purchase. It will officially be released to stores and counters on Wednesday in the U.S. and Canada and I'm sure the Fafi feeding frenzy will begin.

Still not sure what you want to get? Well then check out Mrs. Lynne's MakeupFix to take a look at the gorgeous swatches she got of the collection, and let your senses take over. I'm really wanting the paint pots and a couple of the lipglosses. The rest of the collection doesn't really interest me. So, as for and my house, I shall wait for the Heatherette collection!!! :D

L'ORÉAL H.I.P. Pigment Swatches

Here are some swatches of L'oréal's H.I.P. Shocking Shadow Pigments. They are applied over Urban Decay Primer Potion and applied with a Maxine's Mop brush (like a MAC 239). I tried to take pictures at different angles and lighting because a couple of the colors looked a little bit different depending on how the light hit them. One of them though, was a completely different color in a different angle and lighting (Intrepid).

Can I just say this much? They're color payoff/intensity is AMAZING! I'm super glad that I bought these to play with! Enjoy the swatches! FOTD's coming soon! Woohoo!! :)

If you want to see a larger view, just click on the image! :)

Beauty From The Earth Swatches

Here are swatches of some of the Multipurpose Minerals that I have from Beauty From The Earth. I have quite a few more BFTE minerals, but I haven't had a chance to swatch them yet. As soo as I do, though, I'll put them up for you guys!

With flash.

Top Row: Midnight Blue, Purple Irises, Steel, Black.
2nd Row: Peacock, Ocean Mist, Sage, Green Apple
3rd Row: 24K Gold, Sunkissed, Coral, Amaryllis
Bottom: Dusty Rose

In Direct Sunlight.


Applied over Urban Decay Primer Potion, all in natural lighting.


I've received a lot of questions in my youtube mail and comments about what I think of BFTE products and if I think they are really worth it.

First of all, I must say this. I have never used mineral products before. When I first started using BFTE, it was the first mineral makeup that I had ever had the chance to try. That being said, let's move on to my thoughts on BFTE.

I personally really enjoy using their products. I have a jar of their foundations, quite a few multipurpose minerals, a mineral veil, and their Ultimate kabuki brush. Overall, I am really impressed with their products. On some makeup forums, I had seen some FOTD's where mineral makeup was used, and I just wasn't impressed. I'm very big on eyeshadow colors (if you couldn't tell from some of my videos), so color selection, product quality, and color payoff are very, very important factors for me when it comes to makeup. In my honest opinion, I feel that BFTE has met my standards. The color selection and payoff are what sold me on these products. The colors are bright and playful. There can be some fall-out when applying them, but using the right brush can also minimize the amount of fall-out. I find that the Loew Cornell 3/8" Maxine's Mop brush (which is comparable to the MAC 239) is great for applying these wonderful pigments and also isn't a bad brush to use for blending lightly.

As for their foundation, I think it's wonderful! It gives me the coverage I desire, but feels light at the same time! I'd more than likely opt to where this foundation when summertime comes and the humidity rises. I've actually opted to wear my BFTE foundation in my recent videos, just cause it does the trick and is much quicker to put on compared to my Clinique foundation. Their kabuki brush (which is the first kabuki brush I've owned) is super soft and feels nice against my skin as I'm buffing out my foundation.

Overall, if you're interested in mineral makeup, it could definitely be worth your while to check them out. If nothing else, you can get some really pretty colors that I don't have any MAC dupes for (i.e., Green Apple, Ocean Mist...)

NYX Swatches!!

Here are some swatches I took of some of my NYX products. Since taking these pictures I have recieved more NYX single eyeshadows, but I haven't taken any swatches of those yet. So for now, here ya go! By the way, if you want to see the swatches close up, just click on the picture for a bigger view. :)

NYX Single Eyeshadows
Top row: Root Beer, Golden, Blondie
2nd row: Platinum Pink, Sweet Pink, Nude, Apricot Moose
3rd row: Golden Poppy Hot Yellow, Chick, Lime Juice
4th row: Khaki, Sweet Lagoon, Jade, Wildfire
5th row: Lanikai, Baby Pink, Purple Charcoal


Applied over UDPP.

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Jumbo Eyeshadow Pencils:
Yogurt, Purple, Pacific, Pots & Pans, Oyster, Horse Raddish

NYX Liquid Eyeliners:
Lilac, Electric Blue, Baby Blue


NYX Jumbo Eyeshadow Pencil & Liquid Eyeliner swatches: Applied over bare skin.

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NYX Jumbo Lip Pencils:
Iris, Pink Nude, Soft Fuschia


Applied over bare skin.

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NYX Ultra Pearl Mania Loose Eyeshadows (I put up multiple pics of the swatches for these to show how sparkly they are and how the light reflects off of the colors.)
Top row: Sky Pink Pearl, Fanta Pearl, Yellowgold Pearl, Lime Pearl, Space Pearl, Lilac Pearl
2nd Row: White Pearl, Nude Pearl, Oro Pearl, Mocha Pearl, Walnut Pearl, Charcoal Pearl, Black Pearl

Applied over UDPP.

Happy Early Birthday To Me!! :) (:

Sparkly stuff makes me happy!! I love glitter and all things sparkly. No seriously. Instead of having ADD, I have SAD - Sparkly Attention Disorder. I see sparkly, and you've lost my attention until that sparkly thing is out of my sight. It's SAD, I know. (Get it?? Haha...ok, bad joke, I know, I know. You're all probably shaking you heads at me thinking "Just stick with makeup and leave the funny stuff to the real comedians, Francine." Ok, I can take a hint....moving on...)

So, I went shopping around for NYX stuff, and found all these great glitter liners from NYX. And considering how MAC only seems to offer glitter liners during the holidays (from what I've noticed), I thought I'd bring these to everyone's attention. They were about $3.00 USD at the beauty store I got them in. Cherryculture.com has them online for $2.99 and NYXcosmetics.com has them online for $4.00. There's three more colors offered in addition to what I just got--Hot Yellow, Baby Pink, and Hot Candy.



(l-r): Hot Pink, Red, Tangerine, Hot Orange, Lime, Hot Green, Green, Jade, Blue, Lavender, Disco Queen, Crystal, Disco Ball, Silver, Gold.



(l-r): Hot Pink, Red, Tangerine, Hot Orange, Lime, Hot Green, Green, Jade, Blue, Lavender, Disco Queen, Crystal, Disco Ball, Silver, Gold.



(l-r): Hot Pink, Red, Tangerine, Hot Orange, Lime, Hot Green, Green, Jade, Blue, Lavender, Disco Queen, Crystal, Disco Ball, Silver, Gold.

Paint Pots...

OMG! So can we say new love!!?? Seriously, if you liked MAC's eye paints that comes in the tubes, then you'll LOVE the new paint pots! I bought five of them so far but I'm bound to go back for a couple more colors. The paint pots have a creamier feel to them than the tubes, and go on so smoothly! You can use your fingers or brushes to apply them to your eyes. The color payback is awesome by themselves, and the color intensity that they add to eyeshadows and pigments is amazing!! They're longlasting, don't smudge or budge, and best of all , they don't crease!

Here are the ones I got with a swatch in sunlight. Enjoy!


Top row (l-r): Rubenesque, Delft and Greenstroke.
Bottom row (l-r): Artifact and Indianwood







Swatches...top two are Rubenesque and Deflt. The middle one is Greenstroke and the bottom two are Artifact and Indianwood.

In 3D!!!

Can we say a great start to the day or what?! So I wake up this morning, brush my teeth, let the dog out, and put some pants on, when my door bell rings! And who is it other than my wonderful UPS man coming to bring me gifts from MAC! I don't think he realizes how excited I get to see him, lol. I figured I would share this wonderous occasion with all of you.

Here's a pic of the In 3D glasses.


From left to right: Wondershine, Backlit, Touchpoint, Optical, Racy, Algorithm, Lightswitch, Apex, Switched Up, Energy, In 3D, and Boundless.

I haven't had a chance to try all of them out yet, but from the couple that I tested on my lips, they have a silky feeling to them. If you have any of the Lustreglasses or the lipglasses, I would say that the 3D glasses are actually inbetween the two. Lipglasses tend to feel thick for me and lustreglass feels soft and slippery. Combine the two together and you have the feeling of the 3D glasses. I went ahead and swatched the colors on the back of my hand and on the back of my wrist. Keep in mind that my foundation color is NC 35. I also tried to take pictures of the back of my hand at different angles so you all could see the sparkles and glitter.

In direct sunlight...






Not in direct sunlight (indoor light, near window)



Here's the swatches from the back of my wrist (which is lighter than the back of my hand, but I'm not sure by how much).

In direct sunlight...


Not in direct sunlight (indoor lighting, near window)...