HUGE Wish List!

Jun 3, 2015

Alexis C.

So I went through Ulta, Sephora, and MAC's websites and made a huge wish list! It'll take a lot of time (and a lot of money) but I'm determined to one day own everything that's on my list!

Here's a breakdown:

Eyes:
-Anastasia Beverly Hills Artist Palette
-Lorac Unzipped Palette
-Lorac Unzipped Gold Palette
-Stila Eyes Are The Window Palette in Body
-Too Faced Sugar Pop Palette
-Tarte Rainforest After Dark Palette
-Kat Von D Chrysalis Palette
-Tarte Tarteist Clay Paint Liner

Face:
-Becca Shimmering Skin Perfector Pressed in Moonstone
-Benefit High Beam
-Tarte Amazonian Clay 12 Hour Full Coverage Foundation
-Kat Von D Shade + Light Contour Palette
-MAC Prep + Prime Highlighter in Light Boost
-MAC Pro Longwear Foundation
-MAC Strobe Cream
-MAC Mineralize Skinfinish in Soft & Gentle

Lips:
-Kat Von D Studded Kiss Lipsticks in Vampira, Motörhead, and Slayer

Tools:
-MAC 217
-MAC 219

Any opinions on any of these products? What's on your wish list? (:

Jun 3, 2015

Les N.

The artist palette isn't pigmented at ALL.
beautiful colors, horrible quality.
the tarte tartiest clay paint liner is still my HG eyeliner.
it's great for wings.
and of course you know I love the pro longwear!

Jun 3, 2015

Les N.

Excuse all the lip swatches lol.

Jun 3, 2015

Alexis C.

Les, I heard that about the Artist palette too but the colors are just calling my name. I haven't had the chance to swatch them to see for myself yet. The Tarteist Clay Paint Liner and Pro Longwear Foundation are on my list because of you! (:

Jun 3, 2015

Alexis C.

I see Soft & Gentle in YouTube videos all the time so I've finally caved and decided to just buy it instead of drooling over it, lol.

Jun 3, 2015

Hannah K.

Hmmm, of all of the palettes that you posted, I own five, and the only one that I find genuinely worth the money is the Sugar Pop palette. The Chrysalis palette is pretty, but the gorgeous deep purple shade is a little bit chalky and hard to blend, and I find that super disappointing. The Lorac Unzipped palettes are nice, but nothing super exciting or interesting. They're also sort of hard to create stand alone looks with, since they don't have much in the way of transition shades. The Tarte Rainforest After Dark is pretty, certainly, and the shadows are nice quality, but I don't necessarily think that it's a truly amazing, outstanding palette. I like using the highlight shade in the palette for my inner corners. This is a decent wishlist, nicely done =)

Jun 3, 2015

Alexis C.

Thank you so much for your input, Hannah! The Lorac Pro palettes are my holy grails so I've been itching to get the Unzipped palettes. I'll have to look more into the other palettes to see if I truly want them or if I've just hyped myself up for them (:

Jun 3, 2015

Hannah K.

Anytime, I think that with things like palettes it's a little bit dangerous to just fall in love willy nilly, it's better to think it through because if it turns out that you don't love it as much as you thought you would then you've just spend $35+ on a bunch of eyeshadows you'll never use. I've done that and it super sucks, so I'm trying really hard to cut back on my impulse purchases.

Jun 3, 2015

Shelley W.

Kat Von D Chrysalis palette is on sale for $19.99 at Sephora inside JCPenny. Discovered it at my local store last weekend. MAC #217 brush...very worthy purchase. I didn't stop at one...I know how three so one is always in constant rotation even during brush cleaning days. What's on my wish list...waiting for the new LE summer 2015 Guerlain Meteorites to drop.

Jun 3, 2015

Alexis C.

Hannah, I actually bought a palette like a year ago that I absolutely loved when I first bought it but now I'm like "why did I even like this". I think I was just super excited about it when I got it that I thought the shadows were much better than they were. I'll definitely be doing more research on the palettes in my list!

Shelley, I'll have to go to Sephora soon! I actually have one 217 already so I'll be picking up 2 more, it's too good and handy of a brush to only have one of! I've never heard of Guerlain Meteorites before, the name sounds interesting though!

Jun 3, 2015

Shelley W.

The Guerlain Meteorites...its difficult to describe them as they aren't easy to swatch and photographed once applied to skin. But once they hit the face...oh my word. Its a nice all over finishing powder or if desired highlighting powder. The shade dore from the permanent line I can get away using all over while the one from 2014 LE Holiday collection I only use as a highlighter. Its a very pricey product but its been a worthy buy for me.

Jun 3, 2015

Alma M.

Mac strobe cream is devine full of pure beauty on the skin I love it! Also a alternative for it which I use back and forth between the two is boots N 7 Beauty balm cream. I think I swatched both for you a while back. Oh and I also have soft & gentle it's so pretty, using it together with strobe is the you know what lol :)

Jun 3, 2015

Sav L.

I personally didn't like high beam but I liked their gold highlighter SunBeam. Depends on your skin tone but the high beam barely showed up on me.

Jun 3, 2015

Gisell G.

I love the tarte rainforest after dark palette it is so convenient for me & the shadows are very pigmented, I have the original park Ave princess bronzer but the one that the palette comes with is matte I love it! The blush looks so beautiful & natural
I seriously love this palette maybe also because I love tarte

Jun 3, 2015

Taylor G.

I actually swatched ABH artist palette today and I didn't like it. The shadows seemed chalky.
But I think the KVD And Stila palettes will be nice, I have Body actually. Sugarpop is nice too:)
And girl I love me some KVD lipsticks

Jun 3, 2015

Hannah K.

All I have from that list is Benefit Highbeam and I LOVE it. Use it everyday :) I really want to try MAC Strobe cream and the Stila palette is so pretty :)

Jun 3, 2015

Alexis C.

Shelley, you've intrigued me now, I'll have to check them out!

Alma, you did swatch them for me! I'm excited for the Strobe Cream and Soft & Gentle, they've been on my list for awhile but I just haven't gotten them yet (:

Sav, I've used High Beam before and it looks gorgeous on me but thank you (:

Gisell, thank you! I'm trying to get more into Tarte and that palette just caught my eye (:

Taylor, thank you! I have one KVD lipstick already and I've been dying to get some new ones, I love the one I have (:

Hannah, thank you (:

Jun 3, 2015

Kathryn R.

The only thing I would say is also try the Mac Prep and Prime in Radiant Rose. I have both- I know we love to highlight with yellow but peachy undertones can equal instant brightness. I have strong yellow undertones and it still works great on my skin! I love those products, definitely have my vote!

Jun 3, 2015

Stephanie G.

The Sugar Pop palette is amazing! It's one of my favorites. The colors are gorgeous and you can create so many looks. The shadows are also high quality.

Jun 3, 2015

Kathryn R.

I find that some of the colors in the Artist Palette are good. "Orange You Fancy" will NOT show up in pics for me no matter what I do. The purple and yellow colors in it are nice, however "Buttery" and "Beigley" don't show up well either. All in all I think the same colors can be bought from MUG for a fraction of the price.

Jun 3, 2015

Alexis C.

Kathryn, thank you! I'll check out the Radiant Rose as well (: I also swatches the Artist palette today and wasn't impressed so I think I'm going to skip out on it.

Stephanie, I searched some of the colors today and they're amazing! I'm so excited for it (:

Talei, as I said in another comment, I've used High Beam before and I love the way it looks on me. I also already own one 217. I'm interesting in more dewy looks since I've gotten my skin's oils more under control so that's why I have a lot of highlighting products on my list (:

Jun 3, 2015

Rebecca J.

Nice list! I have soft and gentle which I love, high beam is OK I used it for a while but gave it to my sister, I prefer watts up from benefit. Prolong wear foundation is one of my favourite foundations, its so good. 217 brushes are my favourite blending brushes I need more!

fyi 50ml strobe cream is $33 and the 30ml is $10 so I would buy two of the travel sizes, more product less money compared to buying one of the 50ml :-)

Jun 3, 2015

Alexis C.

Thank you, Rebecca! I'm just getting one Sized To Go Strobe Cream just so I can try it out and experiment with it before committing to buying the full size bottle (: