Nars Pure Radiant Tinted Moisturizer SPF 30/PA+++ Review & Photos

After falling in love with the Nars Sheer Glow I knew that I wanted to try out the Nars Tinted Moisturizer as soon as it came out. I've owned this for quite a while now so I should be able to give you a pretty good review of the product. I tend to like to wear tinted moisturizer on the weekend and foundation for work during the week. Nars Pure Radiant retails for $42 for 1.9 oz. 

Nars Pure Radiant Tinted Moisturizer SPF 30/PA+++ 

Sephora VIB Haul Fall 2012

I picked up a few things from the recent VIB 20% off sale. Some I purchased online and some things I purchased in store. I tend to like to buy things to try them out and typically will always bring a few things back that I don't love. I have too much makeup not to love things I keep. I think I have a good selection of skincare, hair care  nail polish, and makeup. No perfumes because I have like 5 bottles that I have to go through so I am officially on a perfume no buy for quite a while. I also decided not to pick up backups of anything. Backups are not going to be in my vocabulary anymore. I plan to buy things as I finish them. I want to declutter and this will help to do that. 

Favorite Fall & Winter Lipsticks Swatches, Photos, & Review

To continue along with my favorite Fall & Winter makeup series I will be discussing some of my favorite lipsticks in this post. This was harder for me than the blushes because I have a ton of lipsticks and not as many Fall/Winter blushes. I also have more drugstore lipsticks than high end. I think I went through a phase of buying a lot of drugstore lipsticks. I've stopped doing that now though since its so hard to know if the color will work for you without trying it out first. I've bought too many colors that I haven't really liked. I hope you will find a color in this post that might work for you.

Top 5 Favorite Fall & Winter Blushes Swatches, Photos, & Review

I picked out for you my favorite Fall & Winter blushes. I have a lot of pink blushes but wanted to pick out for you the ones that I would reach for more in the Fall & Winter and not as much during the rest of the year.  I tend to lean toward mauve & plum colors with golden shimmer in some. I am very fair skin so with some of these I have to really use a light hand but I still love all of these colors. 

Top Row: Tarte Exposed, Estee Lauder Audacious Plum, Illamasqua Naked Rose
Bottom Row: Nars Sin, Nars Luster

NARS Andy Warhol POP Goes Sephora!

To all of the NARS lovers out there, Sephora is now introducing the new exclusive and limited edition NARS Andy Warhol Collection. "Driven by Francois NARS longtime admiration for Andy Warhol, this electrifying beauty collection invites you to turn repetition to reinvention." 

Project X Pan

Yes, you are reading the title of this post right, I am doing a project X pan. For those of you who don't know what project pan is there are many rules but I'll just give you a general idea. The goal is to use up a certain number of products before you buy anything new. Some people also go on a low buy during this period because for some it can last several months. I don't know how those people do it. Well I've decided to do this since I have a lot of makeup and need to take a break for a little bit from buying it. Starting on October 1st I won't be buying any makeup or skincare products only 100% necessary (i.e. I run out of toner or cleanser).

September Favorites

I tried to pick favorites from a variety of groups of things. I tend to use a lot of the same makeup during the week so that's why I don't always have as many monthly makeup favorites. Here is what I have been loving for the past month during September. I hope you all enjoy. 

Giveaway of Exclusive & Limited Edition Sephora Favorites In the Glow Sampler

October's giveaway is a big one. Another limited edition product from Sephora that is already sold out on their website. I am giving away the Sephora Favorites In the Glow Blush, Bronzer & Lumnizer Sampler that retails for $111 USD but is being sold for $45 USD. This is an amazing set that would be great for a gift, for travel, or just to try out some new fun products. I think everyone will love this set. I'm sure Sephora has a lot of other fun goodies to come for the holidays. Visit my giveaways page here to find out how you can enter the contest.

Wishlist: Nars, NYX, OPI

This is my Friday wishlist post. I've started to try and keep a list of things that are on my wishlist to make it easier for me to remember what I'm lusting after each Friday. If you all have any products that I should check out please let me know as well. I'm always open to hearing your suggestions.

1. Nars Blush in Luster, $28 USD. I've been hearing a lot about this blush lately and love Nars blushes. This is described as a sheer golden apricot with some gold sheen. People say that this is really pretty for Fall so I would like to give this a try. If you have this and are fair skinned let me know what you think of it. 

Top 10 Favorite Fall Lip Glosses-Swatches & Photos

I'm so excited for Fall so I want to start sharing with you all some of my favorite Fall/Winter makeup products. For me Fall and Winter makeup is pretty much the same and the same goes for Spring and Summer. I may tweak it slightly but the idea of what I pick is similar. So these are my top 10 favorite glosses for Fall. This may change for Winter if I get some new glosses or fall in love with something else. I have a mix of high end and drugstore. I tend to like rich berry colors, plums, and rose colors. That's just personally what I lean towards. I don't like anything too dark though as I am very fair skinned and don't think I can pull off very dark. So here are my favorites for Fall.

Left to Right: NYX Tea Rose, NYC Color Plaza Punch, Nars Dolce Vita, Buxom Dolly, Chanel Imaginaire, Chanel Meteore,  Illamasqua Belladona,  Stila Mulberry, Lip Fusion Pucker Up, and NYX Copper Penny

Nars Blush Collection + Swatches

I have a large blush collection so I thought I would start off by sharing with you my Nars collection. I really enjoy Nars blushes. They are nicely pigmented but when used with the right brush can either be very soft or you can build up to a lot of color. I have fair skin and all of these colors work well for me. Nars has a nice variety of shimmer, satins, and mattes in their blush collection. I think I have a nice variety here to show you as well. Nars blushes retail for $28 USD. You can purchase them at Sephora or on Nars website.

Nars Blush Collection

My Cream Blush Collection + Swatches

This is probably one of the smallest's parts of my makeup collection. For some reason I haven't gotten obsessed yet (yet is the key word here) with cream blush. I think I'm afraid to go crazy with these since I know that they take forever to go through and also since they are a cream product that they will go bad faster then my powder blushes which I probably have 30 plus of. A collection post to come soon on those too.

I tend to wear cream blush everyday under whatever powder blush that I am wearing. I think it helps to make the powder last longer. Half of my cream blushes are high end and half are drugstore. I have my eye on a lot of high end ones at the moment, especially the Bobbi Brown pot rouge formula. Also I do want to point out that I am pretty fair skin so these colors work well for me. So here is what's in my cream blush collection:

My Entire Cream Blush Collection 

Whats on My Face?

I love learning what are people's favorite Foundations, BB Creams, and Tinted Moisturizers. Basically what does everyone love to wear on their face? I got the idea for this post from A Little Bit etc. You should check out her blog as she does some great posts. I am only going to be talking about what I currently own and use and what I currently like that I own. I have some other BB creams that I am not 100% sure yet so I didn't want to talk about them in this post. I do want to mention that my favorite all time foundation is Nars Sheer Glow in Deauville. I plan on picking this up as soon as I finish up some of my other foundations.

Nars Pure Radiant Tinted Moisturizer, Neutrogena Healthy Skin, Bourjous Healthy Mix, Maybelline BB Cream

July Empties

This is my first empties post. Some of my favorite YouTube videos to watch are empties. I've noticed a lot more people talking about this recently and it makes so much sense. I think if you finish a full sized product it really shows that you must really like the product and also it gives the opportunity for people to talk about each product and whether or not they would repurchase the product. I get a ton of samples which I do try to use so a lot of my empties will be skincare samples. I think that this should count though since sometimes these samples take quite a while to get through. I'm going to break up my empties into categories and will discuss what I thought out each product and whether or not I'll repurchase it. I hope you all enjoy!

July Favorites

This is a going to be a quick post letting you all some of the things that I have been loving for July. I hope that you all enjoy it. Also please check out my new facebook page at www.facebook.com/nycmakeuplover1. Now onto the favorites....

July Favorites