Review: Disney Cinderella Ready for the Ball Eyeshadow Palette

Hello my MJF followers,

I'm here to show you the new Disney collection that is only at Walgreens this time. As you can see by the title its the Cinderella Disney character this time. I will be giving my thoughts on the Disney Cinderella Ready for the Ball eyeshadow palette.

Cinderella eyeshadow palette in package

back of package

This is is the first time they made a 35 eyeshadow palette. They usually have smaller eye shadow palettes like the Ursula palette (Disney villains wicked shadow shimmering eyeshdow) that had 8 eyesadows. When I saw this eyeshadow palette on the walgreens web site. I had to get it when it hit the stores because I love Disney and eyeshadows. Thanks to the really nice girls that works at walgreens and called me when it came in. I knew people that ordered it online and said it was big and when I got it I was kinda in shock how big it was too. 

out of the package

Back of palette 

When I took it out of the box it was still pretty big. Its big as my 10 inch tablet. If you expecting a little palette this is not it but if you love big eyeshadows palettes you will like this. So lets get into the design/art work on the cover is beautiful and will be a nice to display. The detail in corners of the palette is so cool in that there is fairy god mother and pumpkin carriage too and of course the big side profile of Cinderella.

inside of palette

In this eyeshadow palette its a variety of finishes and the colors range from blues, grays, pinks, golds, and browns which keep in the theme of Cinderella.

eyeshadow numbers

Since this eyeshadow palette has no names which you know I dislike. I numbered it so you can see what they look like in the pan and swached below.

first row of eyeshadows

This first row are very light colors and would need primer to help the colors show up.

second row of eyeshadows

The second row is much more pigmented and I really like 8,9,11,13. In that they are nice and creamy and would blend so well.

third row of eyeshadows

The third row is pretty pigmented also. I really like 16 and 18. The colors are so pretty.

fourth row of eyeshadows

This fourth row has more dark colors and also  very pretty colors. I like 23,24 and 28 on this row.

last row of eyeshadows

This last row is also very pigmented as well. I really like the shimmery colors as see from my picks but the mattes are pretty good too like 31 its so pigment as you can see.

As you can see by the swatches they are hits and miss in the quality but for the price of this palette which is $14.99. I figured they all wouldn't be good. I'm so sad to say there are some eyeshadows that have over spray of glitter but at least they are the same color under the over pray unlike the evil queen beauty book that was a completely different color. I think this a really pretty eyeshadow palette and if you love Disney, Cinderella, and eyeshadows you will not be to disappointed. Its not as good as urban decay its drug store quality. I made it work as you can see on my eye looks that I will be posting. I think its a good price compared to the beauty books because in the beauty book you get 9 for $9.99 but do get other face product's too and this palette you 35 for $14.99. If I did over again. I would buy it because you can do may different eye looks with endless possibilities. You can do smokey eye or neutral eye or even a pretty pink princes look.

I hope you enjoyed my review.

Until next time,

Mel

The Halloween Lip Swatch Challenge/October Lip Callenge

Hello my MJF followers,

I wanted to post all of my Halloween lip swatches from the lip swatch challenge because I know not every has an Instagram account and would like to see my creations. I know it's December but I still want to post it on my blog so lets get into the challenge.

Here is the themes for each day of October.

Day 1: Orange

Products I used:

L.A. Colors LipStick Nectarine, L.A. Colors Swirl Lip Gloss Peach Swirl

I don't have may orange lip products so I pulled out my L.A lipstick and then I wanted to add some glitter so peach swirl worked well.

Day 2: Black

Products I used:

Fancy Makers Wet N Wild Black with Maybelline Color Tattoo Pure Pigment Black Mystery to give it some blue shimmer 

I did not just want to a black lip but I wanted to add some glitter. Black mystery was perfect because it gave a hit of blue shimmer and it looked so pretty.

Day 3: Green

Products I used:

Urban Decay 24/7 Glide-on eye pencil in Graffiti as a lip liner and Fantasy Makers Enchanting Body Wand in a glitter green color as Lipstick in the center of my lips.

I don't have any green lip products so I used my eye liner for Urban decay that love and added a lighter color in the center with enchanting body wand.

Day 4: Purple

Products I used:

Milani Shadow Eyez pencil in Royal Purple and Milani Haute Flash Full coverage shimmer lip gloss in In A Flash 

I really love royal purple and thought it would go good with in a flash so pretty. I need to get a purple lip stick.

Day 5:Neon

Products I used:

Wet N Wild Dollhouse Pink and Wet N Wild Boardwalk boozing bright pink eyeshadow in center of lips.

Since I'm not a big fan of pale barbie pink. I thought I add some this neon bright pink that made it look much better even thought I'm not a fan of pink.

Day 6:Ghostly

Products I used:

Fantasy Makers by Wet N Wild Black and Wet N Wild Single Eyeshadow Brulee

I saw this technique some where online or youtube and thought it would be perfect for a ghostly lip which I was really happy with.

Day 7: Splatter

Products I used:

Nars satin lip pencil Rikugien, Nyx butter gloss Cherry Cheese Cake and Peach Cobbler,and Milani Haute Flash Full coverage shimmer lip gloss in a flash.

I had fun with this theme because I used lip gloss and just globed it on my lips and gave this splatter/ tie dye look which is pretty cool.

Day 8: Witchy

Products I used:

Avon glimmersticks blackest black and Lunatick cosmetic labs lip stick Cinderhella.

I really love Cinderhella and it looks so pretty with a black lip liner which is a perfect witchy lip in my eye.

Day 9: Vampy

Products I used:

Avon Glimmer sticks Blackest Black and Nars Velvet matte lip pencil Cruella

When I thought of vampy it made me thing of vampires of course. I thought this would be the perfect for a vampire costume makeup look.

Day 10: Monster

Products I used:

Avon glimmersticks blackest black, Avon Big Color Eye Pencil Smoky Sage and Celadon, Flower eyes on the prize eyeshadow chubby olive my love and Jordana Cateye Liner Black Leather. 

When I thought of monster it made me thing of Frankenstein monster so I did a lip version of it. I think it came out pretty good even will my little lips lol.

Day 11:Mermaid

Products I used:

Avon Extra Lasting eyeshadow pencil aquamarine, Avon Big Color Eye Pencil Aquamarine, Milani Shadow Eyez 12 hr Wear Eyeshadow 05 Aquatic Style, and Maybelline Color Tattoo Pure Pigment 5 Never Fade Jade

For this theme I used blues and greens because when I think of mermaids. I think of the ocean and sea weed and I really loved these colors.

Day 12: Shapes

Products I used: 

Milani Lip Flash Full coverage shimmer gloss pencil flash light and lip flash, Milani Haute Flash Full coverage shimmer lip gloss in the flash and Makeup forever aqua cream shade 28708.

For this theme I wanted do some thing pretty and something that would be worn as a costume like the queen of hearts. So I did a heart shape with tangles on the sides that make up my lips.

Day 13: Skeleton

Products I used:

Milani Shadow Eyez 12 hr Wear Eyeshadow 01 Winter White, Wet N Wild single eyeshadow Sugar and Jordana Color Envy liquid eyeliner black .

For the skeleton theme I decided to do skeleton teeth as if I had no skin you can only see the bones. I had fun drawing my lips to get the shapes that I wanted.

Day 14:Animal

Products I used:

Avon Glimmersticks Blackest Black  and Milani Color Brilliance 02 Aqua, 03 Green, 04 Purple. 

I did one of my favorite animals which is zebras and I did it in my favorite colors blue, green and purple.

Day 15: Alien

Products I used:

Fancy Makers Wet N Wild Black and Maybelline Color Tattoo Pure Pigment Forest Fatale

When I think of aliens I think of little green/gray people/men. So I used a black lip stick and put on top forest fatale which made it pretty duo chome green/ gray lips.

Day 16: Frozen

Products I used:

 Avon Big Color Eye Pencil Lavender mist, Milani Shadow Eyez 12 hr Wear Eyeshadow 18 Romantic Violet And 17 Plum Amour Maybelline Color Tattoo Pure Pigment 10 Brash Blue.

For frozen I thought of ice and when people get purple lips from being out in the cold and what a ice princess or queen would wear. 

Day 17: Disney

Products I used:

Avon Glimmersticks Blackest Black , Milani Shadow Eyez 12 hr Wear Eyeshadow 06 Royal Purple and 01 Winter White and Color Tattoo Pure Pigment Brash Blue

I had to do one of my favorite Disney Villain Ursula. I had to draw Ursula tentacles and used purple which is so her. 

Day 18: Blue

Products I used:

Milani Shadow Eyez 12 hr Wear Eyeshadow 05 Aquatic Style, Milani Lip Flash Star Fish and Maybelline Color Tattoo Pure Pigment Brash Blue.

As you know I love the color blue and I had to use two of my favorite blue to get this ombre blue lip. So pretty.

Day 19: Gray

Products I used:

Avon Mega Impact eyeliner gray slate, Maybelline Color Tattoo 24 hr eyeshadow Audacious Asphalt and Milani liquif'eye metallic eye liner pencil silver.

Since I did not have any matte gray, I decided to do a sliver gray lip because I also love shimmer of course. It also reminds me of the tin man from wizard of oz.

Day 20: Candy

Products I used: 

Maybelline great wear eye color nude Beige, Wet N Wild Boardwalk boozing , L.A. Girl Neons eyeshadow brick and Milani Shadow Eyez 12 hr Wear Eyeshadow royal purple.

I did the candy that is an iconic candy for Halloween which is candy corn. I really like how they came out even on my little lips.

Day 21: Glitter

Products I used:

Avon Glimmersticks Blackest Black, Disney Villains Lipstick Dragon's Lair and Lunatick cosmetic labs Glamour Ghoul Glitter Ghouls Gold.

I've been wanting to use ghouls gold and I decide to do a fall glitter lip but after adding a little glitter to the center. I had to add more lol. So it came out more of a gold glitter lip.

Day 22: Comic Book

Products I used:

Batman and Iron man- Avon Glimmersticks Blackest Black and Color Tattoo metal 24 hr eyeshadow gold rush. I also used for ironman- Makeup forever aqua cream shade 28708, Nyx Jumbo eye pencil milk and Avon Mega Impact eyeliner gray slate.

I could not pick just one comic book so I did two of my favorite comic book heros batman and ironman. 

Day 23: Gore

Products I used:

left side: Clinique chubby stick intense Mightiest maraschino, Tarte lipsurgence sweet and right side is Clinique chubby stick intense Mightiest maraschino and broadest berry with some Rubies Vampire blood and some Vampire teeth.

I had so fun doing this one so I did two lip versions because you know I love horror movies and vampires. 

Day 24: Red

Products I used:

Nars Velvet matte lip pencil Cruella, Milani Lip Flash Full coverage shimmer gloss flash light. 

 I really like Cruella but I had to add some glitter with Flash Light on top. 

Day 25: Villain

Products I used:

Nars Velvet matte lip pencil Cruella, flower eyes on the prize eyeshadow chubby olive my love, Maybelline Color Tattoo Pure Pigment Forest Fatale and Milani infinite liquid eyeliner forever. 

 I decided to do Posion Ivy because she was one of my favorite women villains. I had fun drawing the ivy too.

Day 26: Royalty

Products I used:

Milani infinite liquid eyeliner forever, Milani Shadow Eyez 12 hr wear eyeshadow Royal Purple, Milani Haute Flash Full coverage shimmer gloss flash light, Maybelline Color Tattoo metal eyeshadow gold rush and Nyx Jumbo eye pencil cottage cheese.

When I think of royalty I think of Disney princess and queens. Since Evil queen is one of my favorite I decided to do her crown.

Day 27: Spots

Products I used:

Nyx Jumbo eye pencil milk, Milani Color Brilliance green and blue, Milani Shadow Eyez Royal Purple, Milani liquif'eye metallic eye liner pencil silver, makeup forever aqua cream shade 28708, avon glimmersticks blackest black and Nyx powder black liner.

I thought of eye balls which are three circles or spots together and then I added spots around the eye balls. I also used Royal purple which I fell i

Day 28: Romantic

Products I used:

Avon glimmersticks blackest black, Color Tattoo metal eyeshadow gold rush, Avon Big Color Eye Pencil Amethyst Dazzle, Nyx Candy Glitter liner Disco Queen and Jordana Cat-eye Liner Black Leather.

When I thought of romantic I think of Jack and Sally from nightmare before Christmas holding hands in the moon light.

Day 29: Pop Art

Products I used:

Wet N Wild Dollhouse Pink, L.A. Colors Nectarine, Covergirl Siren, NYX Jumbo eye pencil milk, and Milani Color Brilliance eye pencil black.

I had fun with this lip swatch because I was an art major in college and loved pop art.

Day 30: Pumpkin

Products I used:

L.a Colors Lipstick-Nectarine, Wet N Wild Eyeshadow palette Boardwalk boozing, Milani Color Brilliance green, Nyx Liquid liner Copper and Mega Impact eyeliner Brown Shimmer.

Day 31: Your Choice

Products I used:

L.A.Colors lipstick Nectarine, Wet N Wild Eyeshadow palette Boardwalk boozing, Milani, Color Brilliance Black and Jordana Cateye Liner Black Leather

Since it was my choice on what I did on this day. I did a Jack Skellington Jack-o-lantern because it was Halloween and what say Halloween than a jack-o-lantern right.

This 10 of my favorites from the challenge:

I had a lot of fun doing this lip swatch challenge. This was my first time doing a lip swatch challenge or any challenge on instgram. I was so sad and happy that it was over because it was a lot work but I also had fun thinking of ideas for each theme. I might have to do this again next year or may be a eye look challenge or Halloween theme eye looks each week next Halloween.

I hope you enjoyed seeing my Halloween lip swatch challenge. If you are on Instagram you should follow me or if you don't have an account you should get one its so fun.

Until next time,

Mel

Thanksgiving Mani 2015

Hello my MJF followers,

I have a Thanksgiving themed Mani for you. This year I wanted to another turkey theme for thanksgiving so this the result.

With flash

Outside lighting no flash

Products I used

Revlon ColorStay Base Coat

Milani Iced Mango

Milani Mulberry Sugar

L.a Colors Art Deco White

Milani Nail Art Black Sketch

Sinful Colors Nail Art Orange Alert

Sinful Colors Nail Art Be My Valentine

Milani Quick Shine Top Coat

Avon dual ended dotting tool

I'm really happy how my little turkey's  came out. I used the dotting tool to start the shape of the head of the turkey and used the brush of Mulberry sugars to get the shape I wanted for the head and neck. I really love Iced Mango and Mulberry Sugar by there self's and look so thanksgiving together. I'm so happy I pick these up at dollar tree. 

I hope this makes you want to create your own thanksgiving themed manicure for thanksgiving.

Have a Happy Thanksgiving!

Until next time,

Mel

Dollar Tree Hauls

Hello my MJF followers, 

I have a couple of hauls from Dollar Tree so show you.

In this haul I got two of this year's solar dancing turkey's. I also got two Milani nail polishes in the colors Mulberry Sugar (dark reddish-brown shimmer ) and Iced Mango (shimmery red- orange). I used both of these polishes for my thanksgiving Mani this year.

In this haul I got more of the Mountain High Premium Coffee Hot Chocolate which is really good. I also got two of sally Hansen xtreme wear polishes in 220 shake shake (is a sliver micro glitter in a clear base) and 130 fan Appeal (is a purple, green and pink duo chrome). The last thing I got was a E.l.f Jumbo eye shadow stick Turkish Coffee.

  

In this haul I got a few items to make something for some Christmas crafts. I got a little Christmas house wreath. I also got some crafters square faux snow. I picked up a Christmas house single clip light which I used to fix a lamp I have already. I got a dry floral foam for a project. The last thing I got was another baby lips in the color pink shock which I did not get last time and they only had this one left.

In this haul I found the Eclipse on dvd which sounded pretty good so I thought I'd give it a try. The movie was ok but not great which it was better than I expected. I got two dog toys one in blue and one in green which my dog jack chewed to pieces so the blue one is going to be given away. I also picked up some mini decorations which are Pumpkins and squash. I got a two fake holly for some crafts. I also picked up another one of the clip lights. The last thing I got in this haul was some Christmas house mini light set in white.

Yesterday I stopped at dollar tree to see if they had anything new. The only thing I saw that was new and I wanted to try was this apple shaped lip balm. It's so cute.

That's it for dollar tree hauls for now.

I hope you enjoyed seeing my hauls.

Until next time,

Mel