May 2015 Favorites

It's almost the end of May, and we're almost into June! I can't believe how fast this year is flying by. But I'm back with another month's worth of my favorite products. I had to make sure I had my favorites locked down kind of early this month because I wouldn't be home to take photos of anything in the last week here. But I managed it, and had a good variety of products this month. Well sort of, but there were just so many good perfumes/lip products/blushes this month!

Indies of the Week: Fyrinnae Review

I'm never one to settle on something, so I've decided to change the format of Indies of the Week just a bit. Instead of just doing two to three random products I have, I'm going to review every random item I have from a single brand every week. I realized how long it would take me to get through everything only doing a few at a time, so I changed it up. I'll also be using this post to do any Colors of the Month I purchase in that month as well, so probably the second to last or last Friday of the month will focus on those. This week, I'll be highlighting my small collection of Fyrinnae products! I haven't purchased too much yet from Fyrinnae, but the few things I do have I love.

February 2015 Favorites

Here are my February Favorites! There's really no method to this madness, I usually just try to pick about 9 products each month that I really loved, or found myself grabbing for more than other products, or something in my collection I rediscovered. Usually I try to go for products in a few different categories, but the favorites don't always land that way. 

Indie Weekends: The Great Indie Potluck Package of Pretties Review and Swatches

This is a very special edition of Indie Weekends, as I received a jam-packed package of indie pretties in the mail, and I'm here to review and swatch everything I received! And I even managed to do a few looks with some of the shadows! I revealed it all in an earlier post which you can find here, and it also includes some more information about our indie potluck.

Warning! Extremely picture heavy post!

Indie Weekends: The Great Indie Potluck Package of Pretties Reveal

This is a very special edition of Indie Weekends, as I received a jam-packed package of indie pretties in the mail, and I'm here to reveal everything I received! I will do swatches and a full review of everything hopefully by next weekend. Let me give you a little back story about this. A few of the indie cosmetics enthusiasts over on Makeuptalk and I, got together and decided to do an Indie Potluck, specifically The Great Indie Potluck!

Our Facebook group banner I made :)

Basically the rules were to spend $5-6/person on indie products, send them to the designated coordinator, coordinator packaged them all up for everyone, and sent them out to us. For instance, there were 9 of us, I contributed my products, and bought 8 of an item I already had, and 9 of other items I didn't already have. It didn't have to be one item for $5-6 either, it was just total. I think a lot of us used that as a way to maximize the awesome! It was free range for what you wanted to buy, but we told our coordinator before we purchased it, just to make sure we weren't all buying the same thing, and we made a Google doc before hand of the products we already had, so that everyone could buy new products for everyone. We decided the rules as we went, and just communicated with each other in our Facebook group we made. It was also decided that any samples that came with the purchase someone made, would go back to that same person.

It took a little longer than expected to purchase everything and receive it all, but I think it was worth the wait! We were missing one of our group members items, because of some unforeseen circumstances, but hopefully I can just include them in the swatch and review post. Our coordinator was awesome enough to send us our packages 2-day Priority, and we just Paypaled her our packages shipping cost. It just arrived yesterday, and I am ecstatic! Buckle in, this will be a long post!