New Hydracreme Lipsticks From Le Metier De Beaute

The Neiman Marcus store in Honolulu just got in four new Hydracreme lipsticks! The retail for $25.00 and look GORGEOUS!!!! From left to right, Amore; Cardinale; Fellini and Last Tango. I have to say I am totally DIGGING Amore!

If you want to get your hands on any of these, give Leslie Look a call at 808.948.7583! You can let her know Shayna sent you!

Secret Santa Swap!

So I am trying to go through all my pictures and post what I can. Here is another of the secret santa reveals I have. If you want to see the unboxing, here is the video!

HERE!!!!!

Le Metier De Beaute BLOWS MY FREAKING MY MIND!!

OMG, OMG, OMG, OMG, OMG, OMG, OMG, OMG, OMG, OMG, OMG, OMG, OMG, OMG, OMG, OMG, OMG, OMG, OMG, OMG, OMG, OMG, OMG, OMG, OMG, OMG, OMG!!!

Ok, are you guys ready for this?????? For a mere $225you get a kaleidoscope three times a year!!!!! That means you are getting 3 $98 kaleidoscopes - a $300 value for $225!!!!! 

check it out here!!!

Secret Goblin And Ghoul Swap - Box #1

I tend to always show you my secret exchange reveals, so here we go! This is box number one!

Le Metier De Beaute Nail Lacquer in Hot 'N Saucy & Creme Fresh Tint in Mystique

So what happens when you hear the word Hawaii? What is the thing YOU think to buy? I get asked by my parents what I would like them to bring me back from Honolulu. What do I say? "OMG! THERE IS A NEIMAN MARCUS there! I want LMDB!!". I am sadly not joking. My fav brand, I am left to assume they hate Canadians, as they don't sell their products here no matter how much I beg and plead them on twitter. I guess they haven't yet heard that the world revolves around me. Quite rude if you ask me, but I will manage to put that aside for now.

So my mom asked what I wanted and I said I was DYING to try one of the creme fresh tints so either one of those or a nail polish and then proceeded to give my mom a list of the shades of polish I had from the brand already.

And what do they bring me home? BOTH!  

Now I have to be honest. I had seen this colour online and didn't want it. A vampy red? Not a jinx-y colour AT ALL. So when my mom showed it to me I put on a big smile and said thank you and in my head went "REALLY? A hundred colours I am dying for and they bring me THIS?". Well, it turns out my dad (apparently this was HIS choice)  is smarter than I am (please don't tell him I said that!!) as I FRIGGEN LOVE IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

This is basically what you would get if you took a colour such as Scarab and put Clarins 230 or Max Factor Fantasy Fire over it without the purple shift. Its just so friggen awesome. So awesome that it will be my next manicure. I cant get over the awesomness of it. So yes. Apparently father knows best. Who would have thunk?

By the way, the above is ONE COAT! Yup, you heard me right!

Now I have heard over and over how great these are, but I have never had the privilege of trying them before.  So I hoped that IF my parents got one for me that I would a) like the colour and b) like the product! My mom says she actually told the sales associate that I was glow in the dark white. And this was the recommendation. I was a little nervous after asking for this because I am so red that its very hard to find shades that don't make my skin look redder than it naturally is.

I think you can see in this picture a good idea of how gorgeous this shade is. Its a pale pink, not quite as barbie pink as this makes it look. Its on the cool side and leans slightly purple/lilac and even has a bit of an earthiness to it. I was worried about all the gold shimmer in it thinking it would be too shimmery for my face and that I would be stuck using it as only a lip colour. But I actually LOVE it on my cheeks. The shimmer doesn't translate in a glittery or sparkly way, more as a bit of glow. I don't love it on my lips but don't dislike it.

Overall, I am pretty sure if I had gone I would have passed over the blush as the gold shimmer would have scared me off and I KNOW I wouldn't have gotten the nail polish. So the moral of the story SHOULD be that I only allow them to pick out my makeup since they obviously do a better job than I do, but we all know thats not going to happen!

Secret Easter Bunny 2013!

So as you all know I organize big nail polish swaps throughout the year. The current one is in full swing and today I got my AMAZING package. It technically came yesterday but I was at work/school and missed the delivery. So I had a VERY VERY VERY long day today waiting anxiously for 5:15 so I could get off work and pick up my package.

Inside the wrapping was this GORGEOUS box. Hand decorated.

Look how much effort my bunny put in to the packaging. I can not get over how gorgeous everything is.

And the sticker sealing the envelope matches everything. Not a single detail was ignored on this package!

And now on to the good stuff. The card I saved to open last! I can't even imagine how much time was put in to the packaging. And I am totally intrigued by the large box. I am going to save that one to last.

Now the tag says this is not part of my gift but if the Avante Garde is the LMDB one that I think it is, I am really really excited to see what this is! I will take a dupe of an LMDB if its just as good!!!

EEK! It is Avante Garde? Did she send me the wrong one? Nope. It turns out its Christmas Town. But its beyond gorgeous  And looks just the same! If you were afraid that this would look almost black (like I did and why I never wanted this one in the first place) it is so far from being an almost black colour. Its gorgeous and shimmery and I am so thankful I got it (who cares if she swatched it?!! She can swatch every polish she sends me for all I care!!) because this is a polish I would NEVER have purchased on my own!

So the next thing I opened was this thing! Not a single idea what could have been in here.

A cute little bunny pen that has been claimed by my mom. Apparently my parents now charge me rent in the house. How lucky is it that this was the exact value of my rent?! LMAO!

Now was this package!

And if you see the OU with the D for Dairy beside it ( I circled it), that is the symbol that says that package is kosher! So no worries there wonderful bunny! I love these and may have already eaten a big portion of the bag!!!!

I was shocked to find this one! I was pretty sure this was a limited edition polish that was gone. But I could be wrong. Either way its been sitting on my wishlist for IONS and its now finally mine :):):)!!

A new spring polish I have been wanting since the minute I saw the first preview swatches of it!

And I can not believe how much more there still is! Next up:

I think this might be my overall favourite brand of polish. It always held a spot high up on my list, right below Dior, but ever since they started making the full sized bottles with these amazing brushes, I think they might just have pushed Dior down to number two. I have yet to find a dud in the brand! And I have A LOT of them!

I must say I have yet to see or try an Elevation Polish I don't love.

A HOLO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

So much more to go! Next up is this one! I am so thrilled to get this. I tried to purchase this a dozen times but have never been able to find it outside of a 3 pack, and I always have had the other colours in the package! So finally its MINE!

And another holo!!!!!!!

Now the box that had me on the edge of my seat! WHAT could possibly be in there? Hmmm......

A gorgeous box. Full of origami flowers.

Did she fold these all herself? There are TONS! It must have taken her all day if she did!

In the box were these three packages.

While at Sephora last time I swatched all these but I was really really well behaved and didnt buy them as I promised I was NOT BUYING anything until this exchange was done! Its a good thing! All three Illamasqua polishes I wanted!

And everything from my amazingly generous bunny all together! I can not begin to state how much I love everything!

And who was my wonderful, generous, amazing bunny? None other than the lovely Lauren (AKA GhstDreamer!!!)