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To The Beach Haul

TO THE BEACH

Yeah okay, so I'm a bit late on this one but I haven't done a major haul for a loooong time and everyone still seems to be excited even though it's been and gone. Here's what I got!

Weekend Bronze cream bronzer

Get Away Bronze blush

Marine Life highlight powder (plus a backup!)

Sweet & Punchy eyeshadow

Firecracker eyeshadow

Sand & Sun eyeshadow

Sun Rush lustredrops

Life's a Breeze lip pencil

Temperature's Rising lip pencil

Float on By eye pencil

Beach Bound lipstick

Lazy Day lipstick

Splashing lipglass

Easy Lounger lipglass

And I have Flurry of Fun lipglass on it's way and I also bought the bronze oil but forgot to take a pic!!

Already Own:

Hipness blush

Shimmermoss eyeshadow

Humid eyeshadow

Pink Rebel lustredrops

Thoughts:

This was such a fantastic collection and I always love the May/June *summer* (US that is) collections, they've always been my fave, this one is no exception. I saved quite a bit of money as I already had Humid and Shimmermoss eyeshadows (permanent) and I bought Hipness from the Fafi collection and Pink Rebel lustredrops from Style Warriors last year.

My fave items from this collection are definitely Firecracker eyeshadow and Float on By eyeliner (everyone knows I'm a teal freak!) and I wish I got a backup of FOB as I've been using it a lot (can't wait to pair it with Partylicious pigment!!!!). I have to say, out of all of the highlight powders that MAC have created with the overspray, Marine Life is definitely the nicest, even when there's no overspray left. A fantastic collection and there was 6 items that I didn't get out of the whole lot, that I didn't already have (the other cream bronzer, both nail polishes, the olive eyeliner and 2 lipsticks...), so money WELL spent and looking back probably a little crazy hahaha.

Our Lips Are Sealed ~ Viva Glam!

Something I thought you may enjoy...

Fotd 31: 9.12.09

Todays Look:

Select SPF15 foundation in NW20

Studio Touch up Stick in NW20

Golden bronzer

Bobbi Brown Sandstone shimmer brick

Material Gold creme eyeshadow as base

By Jupiter mineralize eyeshadow all over lid

Your Ladyship pigment as highlight

Glamourgold glitter eye liner on lower lashline

Lustdust glitter over Glamourgold

Smolder eye kohl for all black liner

Cute-ster lipstick

Prize Petal lipglass

Clinique Vitamin C Lip Smoothie!

Clinique have come up with a brilliant idea that combines a lip glaze with stunning colours, an spf, and antioxidants. In time for summer! What a PERFECT combination of ideas! These new babies are moisturising and feature tons of important antioxidants like vitamin c, acai berry, and pomegranate. These smell delicious and come in 10 summery sheer shades.

RRP: $37

Available from Clinique counters

My Picks:

Pink Me Up

Nude-tricious

Bobbi Brown: Cabana Corals

This is Bobbi Browns summer collection named "Cabana Corals". With coral being one of spring/ summers hot trend shade this collection is perfect!

Shimmerbricks: $90

Nectar (repromote from currently released "mini" shimmerbrick collection)

Pink Quartz (repromote from Pink Quartz collection with silver metallic casing)

Lipsticks: $42

Guava

Cape Coral

Coral Reef (metallic)

Coral Glze (metallic)

Calypso Glaze (metallic)

Lipgloss: $42

Coral Sand

Golden Nectar

Sunset Beach

Rouge Pot: $45

Cape Coral

Credits to Temptalia for pictures.

Bobbi Brown: The "mini"collection cont... mini review

Nectar:

Plum:

Sandstone:

So these are the pricy litttle gems that Bobbi Brown have come up with as the new mini shimmerbricks that I talked about previously. These are so beautiful but tiny. 3g to be precise compared to 10.3g of the original shimmerbricks. They are also very heavy. Like, twice the weight of the original, if not more... The packaging is very beautiful and "luxe" if you will, in a shiny, darker platinum shade. I honestly don't think these will be purse/ bag friendly due to the weight even though they are fun "purse" sized. They are very rich in pigmentation though which makes them totally worth the price tag. I swiped the plum on my hand and you wouldn't expect them to be as pigmented as they are. They may be small but believe me, a small amount of product is going to go a looong way!. If you're interested in these and could only pick one, I would say go for the plum. The plum is a unique shade as I don't believe BB has released a plum shade before. Sandstone is actually a repromote, (which I already have hence me saying/ thinking there's no need to get this one...) and Nectar is actually going to be re-released in an upcoming collection, but full sized.

Shades: Sandstone

Plum

Nectar

RRP: $120 each

Available from Bobbi Brown counters.