Sephora Buildable Concealer – My perfect concealer, at a perfect price!

I have always struggled with my dark circles for as long as I can remember. When I was a preteen I used to buy the Cover Girl cake sticks for my under eyes, as I became a teenager I graduated to Cover Girl liquid concealer and then on to whatever concealer I could find that I thought might work. After graduating Makeup School I was more educated on corrective colouring and different products and technique and I started to play around with differing products and ways of covering my dark circles. The trick is to use concealers with a peach/bisque colouring – this works because the red/orange tone of it covers the blue/purple colouring under the eye as the colours cancel each other out. For a few years I used the Bobbie Brown Corrector in Light to Medium Bisque, I really loved this product for the most part but because I use eye cream I found that I had to wait for all the eye cream to completely soak in before I could apply the corrector or it wouldn’t blend well and wouldn’t stay on the skin. I still use this product for weddings and photo shoots as it’s has great coverage it just wasn’t for me personally. While attending the Makeup Show in Toronto I had one of the girls at Eve Pearl do my makeup and I really fell in love with their foundations and their Salmon Concealer, it comes in 3 colour variations a light, medium and dark variation of salmon. It really dose cancel out the dark circles but again it being a cream it didn’t have they staying power for someone like me (who loves eye cream). I also found that you have to be really careful not to put it anywhere but the dark bluish under eye area or the orange really stood out. 2 weeks ago I arrived back from a 3.5 week trip to Europe and my dark circles were worse then ever. I stopped into Sephora as I needed a primer and notices that Sephora had their own concealer out. I didn’t think twice about trying it as I usually love all the stuff and it was under $20! Let me just say that I was not disappointed. The Buildable Cover Concealer is a cream to powder formula that claims to cover everything from dark circles to blemishes and even tattoos (I am not sure about tattoos as I think you would need to use a lot of it and maybe a darker red/orange base underneath) but it worked wonders for under my eyes. It really made me look bright and fresh. By the time the work day had ended I needed a touch up but not very much and after reapplying over top of my full face of makeup I had worn all day it didn’t cake at all. I am pretty pale but still chose the medium colour as it was slightly more peach and I knew that it what I would need. Its light weight with great coverage, you can apply as many layers as you want and use it for touch up’s without it caking. I would say its defiantly worth trying out.

XOXO MK

“It will Change Your Life” Urban Decay Naked Eyeshadow Palette

On October 2nd 2010 I turned 27 years old and to celebrate this joyous (and also sad) occasion my dear friend Michelle (who loves makeup just as much as I do) got me the Urban Decay Naked Palette. We had been talking about it since it came out and were not impressed that it was sold out in every Sephora – and I mean every Sephora, I even checked 2 in Paris when I was there in September.

When I opened the gift bag I jumped up and down held it in the air and let out a nice loud YES! Michelle and my best friend April already had it (they had ordered them online) and all they had to say about it was simply “it will change your life”. That may seem a little extreme but the next day I discovered that it was almost an understatement. No more finishing around my makeup case to find that dark brown with a tint of red that goes with my champagne frost and my dark brown liner. Now I just pull the beauty that is the velvet palette out of my makeup case open it up and go to town. The Palette consists of a mini Eye Priming Potion, 12 shadows (5 of which are new) in all different neutrals ranging from lights, frosts, shimmers, mattes and darks with names like Virgin, Side Car and Gunmetal and double sided 24/7 eyeliner in Zero (black) and Whisky (brown). I own more palettes, quads, singles and towers then I could ever count and I haven’t touched another shadow since opening this. Even if your not the type of girl who likes to spend more the $5 on an eyeshadow with 12 shadows and a price of $44 (USD) that’s only $3.66 a shadow not to mention a bonus primer and liner and the fact that Urban Decay shadows are some of the best on the market – velvety smooth with tons of pigment.

No matter if you’re a girl who likes to wear smoky or dark and dramatic or a natural look this is the palette for you! Now you probably won’t be able to find it in stores but if you look hard enough I am sure you can find it on line. ENJOY!!!

XOXO MK