Recent Coastal Scents Brush Haul...

Like I needed another make-up brush! For me, make-up brushes are quickly becoming like nail polishes and lip products...you can never have too many.

During one of their recent sales, I ordered several of the Coastal Scents brushes that I had been eyeing for quite some time.  With this order they sent me an very appropriate sticker..."Makeup Addict". It's official now.

The brushes arrived in a cute little mesh bag, each individually wrapped.

So the face brushes I ordered were:

• Bionic Flat Top Buffer. I received my first flat top buffer last Christmas as part of the Sedona Lace Vortex brush set I purchased for myself as a Christmas present. I quickly fell in love and have since been looking to collect flat top buffer brushes. So I jumped at the Coastal Scents brush.  They are excellent for applying liquid foundation. I obtain a flawless finish. A flat top buffer brush is a must for every brush collection.

• The next two brushes I selected were the large and small Stippling Synthetic brushes. The duo fiber stippling brushes are another brush that is often used for liquid foundation, but I have also used them for other reasons: the small brush for applying setting powder to my under-eye concealer and the larger for blush and bronzer.  Both work well to give an air-brush finish with no streaks.   

• Angle Synthetic Blush brushes were two others I picked up.  I like the angle blush brush for just as the name states, to apply blush. The angled feature helps to apply product along the cheek bone and the hollows of my cheeks. I love the smaller brush for applying highlight to the upper cheekbone. 

The next brushes I purchased were eye brushes.  They were: (L to R)

• Pointed Detail Synthetic brush: I had been looking for another brush for applying my gel eyeliner so I chose this brush. I achieve a smooth line at the water line and at the upper lid.
• Synthetic Concealer Shading brush: Although the name says "concealer" I also use this brush as a flat shader brush for my eye shadows. You will quickly learn that there are no makeup brush "laws". Use them how they best work for you.
• Doefoot Synthetic Blender brush: I use this to blend my corner "V" section of my eye. Because it has an angled cut, it works well with the outer "V".
• Pointed Synthetic Blender Brush: This is a brush that I like for the inner corner for applying highlighter. 
• Crease Synthetic Blender Brush: Every makeup brush collection needs a blender brush or brushes for softening the look of your eye makeup. 

*Unfortunately, I purchased several of these brushes on clearance so some may no longer be available. However, Coastal Scents is always adding new products to their inventory.


So that wraps up my most recent brush haul. Have you purchased any brushes lately, and if so which ones and how do you use them?


This is the second order I have place with Coastal Scents and I have been happy with both. I am sure there will be others. Many of the Coastal Scents brushes have been compared to MAC brushes and several have been said to be better than MAC. I do know that they are more reasonably priced. I also love my 88 palettes. I have the Warm, Mirage, and the Metal palettes.  If you are in the market for new brushes definitely give Coastal Scents a try. They can be found at www.coastalscents.com and frequently have sales.

Grace, Peace, & Blessings.

* FTC: These products were bought with my own monies. These are my honest opinions. I am not employed by nor was I paid by and of these companies. This is not a sponsored post.

A Hauling I've been a goin'...

Although my laptop was out of commission, I was still hauling. With the recent $0.99 Sinful Colors sale at Walgreens, I found it to be a great opportunity to stock up on some new colors.  In a previous post, I shared with you Cinderella, Kissy, Blue By You and Forget Now.  Now I would like to share with some a few other Sinful Colors as well as some Essie and Pure Ice I've recently added to my collection. 

Just so happens, when I was about to make my purchase I noticed a new Sinful Colors collection called Cast Away. So from that collection, I added two more to my purchase, (Zeus and Neptune).  So in total from Sinful Colors I added Almighty, a beautiful sea blue with a green shimmer, Neptune, a lighter blue with a pinky-purple duochrome, Midnight Blue, a deep blue shimmer, duppish with Essie Aruba Blue.  From the purple family, I bought Purple Diamond, a medium, lavender shimmer, Zeus, a lavender-blue duochrome, and Amethyst, a medium purple cream.

Although, I had not worn many Essie polishes, I added a few to my collection.   I love my sales associate at my local Walgreens.  She always tells me which brands she has coupons for. Just so happens she had a coupon for Essie. Buy 2 and save $2.00. So I bought some of the core shades; Splash of Grenadine, a pinky-purple cream I had been spying for a few years, Trophy Wife, a teal blue green shimmer, Tart Deco, a peachy coral cream, and Jamaican Me Crazy, a magenta pink duochrome.

Lastly, during my past few Walmart visits, I found some gorgeous Pure Ice shades.  These four had a metallic foil finish. They are Celestial, a royal blue, Bite Me, a goldish bronze, Not Now, an emerald green, and First Time, a foam green foil.  So if are like I use to be, a brand snob, you must change and give Pure Ice a try. You won't regret it.


Those are some of the polishes I have recently acquired. As I wear them, I will be sure to post my review. If you would like to see any in particular let me know in the comments and I will be sure to post that polish sooner.

Remember, treat your nails as jewels, not tools. Grace, Peace, & Blessings.

Small Sinful Colors Haul & Comparison

OMG! If feels like it has been forever since I have been able to post anything. Let me just say that there is a special place in hell for hackers and malware developers.  They could be so much more a benefit to society if they would just use their evil for good. Anyway, at least from all their evil, I am working on a brand new laptop. Nonetheless, I am back and can honestly say that I really missed you guys.  If it had not been for my Blackberry, I truly believe that I would have lost my mind. LOL!!!


But the dust has settled now and I can get back to one of my favorite things, spending time with my fellow polish- and makeup-aholics.  I have so much to catch up on. But to start I am sharing with you some of the recent polishes I have purchased from the new Sinful Colors Collection.  


I was constantly reading on MakeupAlley about this Sinful Colors polish called Cinderella. I had not noticed it but my curiosity was peaked. So I found and purchased that and a few others. Below are some bottle spam along with comparisons to other polishes I have in my collection. I hope you enjoy.  Each is 2 coats with no top coat.


BTW for the week of 2/12-2/18/2012, Walgreens has Sinful Colors on sale for $0.99 each. So be sure to stock up.

Sinful Colors Forget Now is a hot, raspberry, fuchsia pink with a lighter pink glass flakie glitter. It is in the same family as China Glaze Ahoy & Strawberry Fields.  Ahoy is a shade deeper but still close.  Sinful Colors Blue By You is a gorgeous Royal blue with a dense teal glass flakie glitter. It is very close to Orly Royal Navy (1 of my favs).

Then there is Sinful Colors Kissy; a teal blue green flakies, which bears a striking resemblance to    Wet n Wild Teal of Fortune, Essence Choose me, & Zoya Charla. All of which are gorgeous. But not necessarily all required. Lastly, & the reason I went shopping, is Sinful Colors Cinderella. This is a powder blue with pink glass flakies & is the color of the famous ball gown.

Well that's all for now. But I can promise that there will be more. During my downtime I was still shopping and taking photos. So hold tight. 


Thanks for visiting my blog.  And as always, treat your nails as jewels, not tools. 


Grace, Peace, & Blessings.

11/11/11 Haul (Sephora, MAC, Fashion Fair, Icing, & a little extra)

I am venturing out a little from my normal type of posting but if you have been following my blog from the beginning, you will remember that I mentioned that from time-to-time I may post about other beauty items. And as fate would have it, I did some hauling today that in addition to some polishes, include some beauty products. So I thought I would share my recent purchases with you.

I have seen several postings about Icing polishes. I had never tried this line but just so happens there is an Icing store in one of my local malls. So I decided to get a few. Icing seems to be similiar to Claire's in that most of their inventory is Buy 1 Get 1 50% off. So I picked out 4 polishes. I stuck with the glitters. I picked up the much talked about Epic Winning; I also got Birds of Paradise, Starlight and Glamourous.

The main reason for going to the mall was to get a new foundation. Fashion Fair has been the only line that had a powder that perfectly matched my skin tone. My Oil Control Pressed powder in Pecan has long since been a Holy Grail product. So I got the Fashion Fair Oil Free Perfect Finish Cream-to-Powder Foundation in Tender and the Oil Control Loose Powder in Pecan. The sales associate was very helpful and knowledegable. She also gave me a free sample lipstick in the shade Naked. Which is a good thing because I have been looking for a good naked shade of lipstick.

Across from the Fashion Fair counter in my local Belks, is a MAC counter. I wanted to get a new Eyebrow Pencil. So I picked up the MAC Eyebrow Pencil in Stud (Dark Brown).

After leaving Belk, I headed to JC Penney to go to the Sephora counter. I was looking to pick up another eyeliner, either my normal Smashbox Jetset or try something new. The last time I was in Ulta they were out of Tarte Emphaseyes in Black but today Sephora had it. So I picked that up. Bonus is that Tarte Emphaseyes comes with a dual-ended brush. While at Sephora, I also got samples of Murad Oil Control Mattifer and Juicy Couture Original Fragrance.

Lastly, something I had been thinking about for sometime was getting my eyebrows threaded. Just so happens there is a Brow Art 23 franchise in the same mall. So I got my eyebrows threaded for the first time. My experience was not bad. If you have ever had your brows waxed you should not have a problem with threading. Granted they itched for a while after, but that only lasted about an hour.

So today ended up being a pretty good day. It's Veteran's Day and I thank each and every person that has ever served this great country. We, as a country are ever in your debt.  Grace, Peace, and Blessings.