IPSY June 2013 Unveiling

Hello errybody!! I can't properly swatch and review these things yet, as I need to use them over a period of time before I can give you an honest opinion. HOWEVER, what I can do is show you what I received and give you my initial thoughts. I can say though, that I am most impressed!! But that's nothing new, Ipsy outdoes themselves every month and sets the bar a little bit higher.

I'll preface the pictures with a brief note for those of you who don't already know: I had an eye procedure done this Friday (Corneal Cross Linking if you're interested) and am still recovering. from this. I also cannot wear contact lenses and my vision with Kerataconus is seriously distorted and impaired. Doing this is hard for me but not doing it is even more frustrating, so just bear with me. The quality of Photoshopping is probably crap and I'll cringe and die when I see my graphics with my contacts on but alas, enjoy.

Those are the five products in the Glambag! I received a bonus 6th item if your sleuthing eyes discovered it in the initial photographs :) For every two referrals you receive from friends you convince to subscribe to Ipsy, you receive a free additional item in your own glambag!! I managed to get two referrals last month, but after my May bag was already packed up. Last month, there was a limited edition of Urban Decay  (Value: $19) Moondust eyeshadows given out, but I missed out. The other option was a bracelet from Bauble Bar, and that is the bonus item I received in my bag. 

It is rather pretty, but I know for sure I would never pay full price for it otherwise. I don't see the retail value for it anywher currently but I'm assuming they sell it for $15 or so plus shipping. As pretty as it is, I wouldn't pay more than like $5 for something that simple. Maybe I'm just too stingy.

SO SORRY THIS POST IS MOSTLY JUST PICTURE SPAM

I'll have a proper review later with more talking and opinions and swatches and such :) Issela's June glambag had some different items from mine so hopefully, she will be able to review these for you all as well!

Maybelline Color Tattoos - Tough As Taupe, Pomegranate Punk, Tenacious Teal

I'm really digging through my camera's memory to post reviews of things I took pictures of a while ago. Luckily for me, being out of RGP lenses for the next month or so means that I will be able to review more eye products during the day though - Putting on eye makeup and doing a complicated eyeshadow look was tough with the RGP lenses on, but I don't have any such restrictions now!

However, my vision's not clear enough for me to take any new shots I'm all that confident in - I'm scared that things will be blurry and just a little out of focus because I can't tell. That's why I've decided to go through my camera's memory and review things that are already photographed.

Just give the ol' eyes a few days to get used to this new blurrier normal and I'll figure out a way to begin taking pictures again!! In the meantime, enoy the following three Color Tattoos I have for review - they are the first three I added to my collection, but it has grown since then!

All three of these color tattoos are from the permanent lineup here in the US! The Maybelline Color Tattoos are a creamy eyeshadow base similar to MAC Paint Pots, and they offer pigmented and crease-free coverage that is supposed to last for hours. That's the claim, anyway.

Take care to "set" these cream eyeshadows with some powder eyeshadow on top - the purpose of the Color Tats is more to intensify what's already there rather than be worn alone, I think. On oilier lids like mine, they will fade or become patchy over time even with primer underneath if you don't set 'em.

I'm going to let the pictures do the talking instead of reviewing each color separately. I just don't have it in me to type more =/


Tough As Taupe

Pomegranate Punk

Tenacious Teal

Isn't Tenacious Teal just gorgeous? Unfortunately, Tough As Taupe didn't really do much for my skintone but I really liked the other two! Tough As Taupe makes a helluva great base for Urban Decay Mushroom for me though, and makes it look like I'm wearing colored eyeshadow rather than just sparkle on my pigmented eyelids.

I am cringing at how different all of the sizes of these pictures are. ARGH. I thought I could get away with editing half-blind, but I guess I was wrong! At least the photographs were clear and pretty good - I did NO photoshopping whatsoever beyond fixing the size and adding the logo on the bottom left of these pictures. I was too afraid to mess around with coloring but I think I managed to get the lighting just right and these are very color accurate. Pomegranate Punk is less brown than it appears, but that's all.

It's a wrap!