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Wednesday, March 27, 2019

✬✬✬MAKEUP ADDICTION COSMETICS✬✬✬

✬✬REVIEW & RATE✬✬WEEKS 11 & 12✬✬

TOO FACED RAZZLE DAZZLE

REVIEW: I used this palette in the rotation because I was trying to determine whether I wanted to keep it or sell it and I determined that this is a great little palette with a monochromatic theme that I enjoy. I'm going to keep it for now!

RATE: 7/10

MORPHE X JACLYN HILL BLING BOSS

REVIEW: I know that there was a great deal of controversy surrounding the vault collection, but I was very pleased with this palette. It performed well, blended well and waxed with the $15 I spent on it.

RATE: 9.5/10

MORPHE 25 C

REVIEW: For someone who isn't really a Morphe fan, I sure keep buying their shit. I was pleasantly surprised with this palette. I love the color story and this palette performs very well for the price point. Morphe seems to be improving their formula at little at a time. Still crappy packaging.

RATE: 7.75/10

COLOURED RAINE LOVELIES

REVIEW: One of my favorite Indie and Black-Owned brands. This palette is such a treat and each shadow is excellent in its own way, bringing uniqueness and innovative creativity to the palettes integrity.

RATE: 10/10

MAKE UP FOR EVER LUSTROUS

REVIEW: This is a brand that you can always depend on for consistency and quality. This palette is simple butter very easy to use to create unique and dramatic looks. One of my favourites.

RATE: 10/10

KAT VON D CHRYSALIS

REVIEW: Another amazing palette from mm Kat Von D. This palette is so beautiful and interesting and the shadows are soft, smooth, and super pigmented. Absolutely stunning.

RATE: 10/10

CIATE LONDON X CHOLE MORELLO

REVIEW: Gosh, I want this palette to work, but I just wasn't excited about this one. I have it listed on Poshmark and Mercari along with the Volume 2. If it doesn't sell then I think I'm going to try it again, but as for now, I think I'm ok if it finds a better home.

RATE: N/A

COASTAL SCENTS SINGLES

REVIEW: When I purchased these shadows a couple of years ago, both my tastes and my skills were different. They were/are a good product and value for the price, but the fact of the matter is that I have much higher quality shadows and I probably should let these go. They performed well, but it took more effort than I want to exert.

RATE: 5.25/10

ABH NORVINA

REVIEW: One of my top ten eyeshadow palettes. Beautiful color story, pigmentation, and significantly foiled shades. Purple is a beautiful color for brown eyes, and this doesn't ever disappoint.

RATE: 10/10

DOMINIQUE COSMETICS BERRIES & CREAM

REVIEW: I love this palette, but I would like to see one to two additional shimmer shades. Other than that, this is a top fav and I am so happy to have it in my collection!

RATE: 9/10

LIME CRIME VENUS XL

REVIEW: I cannot tell you how pleasantly surprised and overwhelmingly happy I was to play with palette. I pared it with the Bling Boss from Morphe as well as the Lovelies from Coloured Raine. Absolutely love this palette!

RATE: 10/10!

BEAUTY BAY EYN BERRIES

REVIEW: This is not what I expected. It's more mauve than berries, so I didn't use it much. Considering selling this one!

RATE: N/A

REAL HER BLUSH TRIO

REVIEW: Really enjoyed this little palette, in particular the two shades on each end. Got some significant use out of it, and I will be keeping it!

RATE: N/A

J CAT BEAUTY YOU GLOW GIRL

REVIEW: I got this along with all the others in the series on a special from ShopHush and I LOVE these highlighters. Affordable, blinding and absolutely staying in my collection!

RATE: 10/10

TARTE PARK AVE PRINCESS

REVIEW: Solid little bronzer, and thinking of panning it this year. It's the oldest bronzer in my collection, so it's time to move it out!

RATE: 8/10

✯✯✯SEPHORA HAUL✯✯✯ND & NARS✬✬✬REFUND $ HAUL

Tuesday, March 26, 2019

✭✭✭PRODUCT ROTATION✭✭✭WEEKS 13 & 14✭✭✭

Product Rotation – Changes

So, I have this amazing friend named Audrey and she helped me come up with a better way to rotate through my products because of my extensive collection. Instead of allowing a randomizer to pick my palettes, moving forward I will be doing bi-weekly themes. This is an easy way for me to pick out palettes that I WANT TO USE and determine what palettes need to be sold or given away. At the height of my palette collection, I had approximately 850, and I have whittled that down about 675. I will continue to reiterate that this is NOT a journey towards minimalism, but a desire to use the products I really love. Examples of themes could be but are not limited to: Luxury Week, Colourpop Week, Juvia's Place Week, Spring Themed Palettes, Palettes for Weddings, Bright & Bold Palette Week, Birthday Palette Week, ABH Palette Week, Single & Custom Palette Week, Chopping Block Week, Audrey Pick's Palettes Week, Put a Little Glitter in Your Life Week, Indie Brand Palette Week and so on. I am super excited about this new and different way of rotating my collection. If there is a particular theme you want to see, please feel free to reach out to me by clicking HERE! I will continue to use the randomizer to pick out other items in my collection, such as blush, highlighter, etc. as well as the bi-weekly theme.

I reached out to a couple of fellow makeup lovers (in particular, my eyeshadow people) because I am still trying to find the balance between “collecting” palettes and “buying” palettes. At this moment, I have just over 700 eyeshadow palettes, which may seem like a lot, but until recently, I was approaching close to 800! As I always say, I am not a minimalist. Far from it in fact, however, I still need to pare down my collection and decide what I need to keep, sell, and give away. As I sort through my eyeshadow palette collection, I continue to learn what brands I enjoy and work best for me, as well as color stories that are flattering to my features. I have brands that I collect that I enjoy immensely, but they are overshadowed by brands I enjoy, but on a much lesser scale. The objective over the next year is to irradiate eyeshadow palettes from my collection, that I am not passionate about. Here’s how I plan to tackle this:

1. I will continue my Product Rotation Series every other Monday. I decision maker app will pick a theme for a two-week period and eyeshadow palettes from the following categories will be utilized: High-End, Large, Small High-End, Luxury, Affordable, & Custom. Additionally, the decision maker app will select 2 blushes, 2 highlighter, 1 bronzer or contour, and either 1 Multi-Use Face Palette or a Blush & Highlighter Palette, as well as 2 foundations and five single eye products.

2. Panning project products will be incorporated throughout the month, based on the week that I have selected to use them in.

3. At the end of the two weeks, on Sunday, I will decide whether to keep the items, sell them, or give them away. Every Sunday, I will go through all my products and see if there is anything that needs to be decluttered immediately.

4. Items for sell will remain on sale for 2 months and if not purchased, will be donated.

5. The Wednesday after the rotation ends, I will post a Review & Rate.

6. The end goal is not to get down to a particular number, but to feel as though my collection is representative of my love of makeup
7. The themes picked to add to the randomizer are based on seasons. For instance, for the summer, the randomizer will have a selection of themes associated with bright colors, the beach, etc.
THEME LIST

1) Birthday Week Picks

2) Old School Palettes

3) Chopping Block

4) April Showers, Bring May Flowers

5) Bright & Bold

6) Beach & Summer Palette Week

7) Juvia’s Place

8) Neutral Week

9) Tarte

10) Berries

11) Purple & Pink Week

12) Indie Brands (US)

13) Indie Brands (Other)

14) Affordable Week

15) Luxury Week

16) Large & In Charge Palettes

17) Colourpop

18) Too Faced &Urban Decay

19) Kat Von D & Jeffree Star

20) Make Up For Ever & Urban Decay

21) Too Faced & Ciate London & MAC

22) Lorac & ABH

23) Becca & Dose of Color

24) PUR & Smashbox

25) Violet Voss & Morphe

26) Soft, Sexy, Sultry

27) Eye & Face Palettes

28) Put Some Glitter On It

29) ND, Viseart, Auntie Pat

30) Warm Toned & Cool Toned

31) Fall Palettes

32) Blue & Green Week

33) B.O.M.B Palettes

34) Christmas/Holiday Releases
35) Random Unused Palettes✓
36) SingleShadows Week

This week's theme is "RANDOM UNUSED PALETTES". Here are the picks!