Sally Hasen Smile Brightening Lip Treatment Review

Found this baby in the Dollar Store and couldn't resist for only a buck! A quick Google Product search places it's price range online from anywhere between $1.49 to $7.99 on Amazon! It claims to make your teeth whiter by contrasting it with yellow pigments while hydrating an conditioning lips. It come in a couple shades at the Dollar Store and I had a tough time before settling on Gleaming, a bright pink with a a purplish iridescent shine in the tube.

My thoughts: 
First off the packaging it pretty clunky. It's sturdy, cute and modern with the square shape and the raised circles on 2 sides, but it's a little big and square products never slip easily into pockets or anything. Applicator is the typical doe foot.

 Color payoff it pretty good. It can be applied thinly for sheer shine, or layered a bit for more color without getting thick and gloppy. There's a nice shine and faint sparkle/shimmer to this particular color and it's a nice bright pink (which actually doesn't work so well for me, but still it nice). The texture is good, not thick, not sticky, but just right. 

 What I love the most it the smell/flavor. It's a vanilla mint and it's like an after coffee breath mint. Nice a refreshing without being over powering. I also feel a very, very faint minty tingle like you get with some lip plumpers. I like that feeling but know some don't. I don't notice any plumping but it is moisturizing. The staying power like many glosses isn't too great and it seems to disappear within an hour or two even without eating/drinking, but there's a lot of product in the tube so just reapply. 

 Overall, not bad for a Dollar Store find. Do my teeth look whiter? Not really. Is it really a 'treatment'? Not so much. Would I pay $7 for it? Nah... But was it worth getting for a buck? Sure. So go check your Dollar Trees ladies.

Packaging: 3 of 5 (Pretty but not bulky)

Smell: 5 of 5 (Fresh!)

Color: 3 of 5
Consistency: 4 of 5
Staying Power: 2.5 of 5
Buy again?: For a dollar yea, for 7 no.

Upcoming Swatches of the Week: Chocolate!

No swatches today and this week I only have 5 for you instead of 7. I want to try to get onto a different schedule, starting Mondays and going till Sunday and have the summary post on Sunday. But don't worry, this week is totally worth it as I'm swatching Pure Luxe's Chocolate Shadows. Yummy. It's nice collection with fun and appropriate names :D. And for those of you who aren't fans of Pure Luxe, don't worry, next week I'm going to switch it up and try some different brands for you.

NYX Single Eyeshadow Swatch

As promised from the other day here is my new NYX Single Eyeshadow in Yellow Marigold and first Swatch of the Day. I've only had it for 3 days now but I'm already in love with both the color and the NYX shadow in general. I see this becoming a favorite in no time. The color is a beautiful light yellow metallic gold. The formula of this shade is great, soft and pigmented, no fallout and little fading, plus it build to super high intensity really quick and easy on top of a base. I hope all the NYX colors are this great and I can't wait to go back and make a haul on CherryCulture where they're only $3.50 a piece and so many colors to pick from!

NYX Single Eyeshadow in Yellow Marigold

NYX Single Eyeshadow in Yellow Marigold
Left is with no base
Middle is with Urban Decay Primer Potion
Right is foiled/applied wet (pretty much same as with a base)

Get Ready for Swacth of the Day (SOTD)!

I have a zillion eyeshadows, as they are the most colorful and fun to shop for so I think I'm going to try to swatch and do a mini summary/review of each one everyday (it should last me awhile). No promises on never missing a day but I'll try to do my best. And if you ever see any shades that look pretty similar and want me to do a side by side swatch and comparison just holla out! Also, since I don't want to say it every time I'll always swatch on Urban Decay Primer Potion.

Some of my many, many eyeshadow pigments

As a heads up a ton of them are from Pure Luxe because it was one of the first mineral make up lines I discovered when I was first building my collection and had money to blow. I find it to be a a fun mineral makeup line. I've heard some speculation about repackaging of pigments, but honestly I don't follow that stuff much (and don't really care, sorry I'm a bad consumer). What I love most about Pure Luxe is they offer samples for $1 that come in nice little 5 g jars (not little plastic baggies where you waste 80% of the product). The sample is supposedly 1/8 a teaspoon but they are almost always much more generous than that. I hear some people say that the sample will last a couple applications but I get a lot more than that out of them!!! More like 20+ if you are good about tapping your brush in the lid and not spilling.

Anyways, wish me luck!

NYX Jumbo Eyeshadow Pencil Swacthes

As promised, here are the 2 new NYX Jumbo Eyeshadow Pencils I got the other day in French Fries and Yogurt.

-French Fries is a beautiful dark chocolate brown with a lighter copper interference to it. Has a nice metallic shine to it. Really love this color. Be warned it looks NOTHING like the kethcup colored red swacth shown online, but is absolutely beautiful in person. Hoping to put it to use as a crease color.

-Yogurt is a soft, light, girly pink with a silvery frost to it. Not my typical color but looks like it could be a fun highlight in the inner corner of the eyes or lightly on the upper brow bone. Be warned the color is much lighter than the hotter pink swatch online.

NYX Jumbo Eyeshadow Pencils in French Fries and Yogurt

NYX Jumbo Eyeshadow Pencils Swatches for French Fries and Yogurt
in artificial light, sunlight, and with flash.

I'm still struggling a little to use them. On someone with greasy lids they seem to slid around and are hard to shape nicely. Such a shame cause the colors and pigmentation is amazing!