Less exciting, but not forgotten

So I was going to post yesterday, but I had a new personal best for most hours worked in one day, so I pretty came home and went to bed. Sorry. When given a choice, I most always choose sleep.

Moving on.

So I bought a Sonia Kashuk (Ka-shook, Kash-uke?) eye palette in 10- perfectly natural prior to picking up the Naked Palette. It comes with 6 eyeshadows and a base. And after ignoring it for quiet some time after getting the Urban Decay palette, I finally re-discovered it over the past several day. I'm learning that I love it and it really fills in some color gaps that I find in the other palette.

I would love to know the names/numbers of the individual shadows, but either I threw away the paper with them or they didn't mark them. 

I just really love how these blend out well and give some nice shimmery colors but also have the matte dark colors. This is where I think it fills in where the Naked Palette leaves off. I really want my darker shadows to be more matte and the Naked Palette has two matte light and medium colors, but really doesn't have any thing else. 

I've been wearing the medium brown (top row, far right) on my lid and then blending the color up towards my eyebrows. The color diffuses well so there's some shimmer but the actual color is more noticeable on my lid. 

I highly suggest this palette, I found mine at Target along with some other palettes from Sonia Kashuk that I may also invest in. I've heard good things about the brushes as well. So lovely to find quality products for a good price :)

Anyone else have a palette from Sonia Kashuk? What are your thoughts?

Loves, or at least enjoys

I, apparently, have fairly high standards for the results of the products I buy. Which one would think that since I really only purchase drugstore brands, I wouldn't expect much and be super excited when something performs relatively well compared to the price tag. But no.

However, I have found some lovely products that I quite enjoy. Most pretty inexpensive, one less so. Let's explore together:
    *please note I did not take pictures since it's dark-ish currently, I'm lazy and I don't want to get kicked off for using interwebs pictures*

1. L'Oreal Everstrong Deep Replenishing Mask
    I slather this on my hair once a week and it makes my hair smell amazing for a least two days even with washing and makes it silky smooth. Almost to a default because, as if I don't have enough difficulties styling my hair, it's so... conditioned, or healthy, or whatever, that it won't even stay in a ponytail well.

2. Ban Roll On Deodorant
    This is seriously the best deodorant I'ver ever used. And I have used quite a few. BUT! Only the roll on kind, screw those solid ones or any solid ones for that matter. The only problem I have is finding the scents I like. Other than that, serious anti-pitting power.

3. Clinique Dramatically Different Moisturizing Lotion
    Okay, so remember that spiel I gave, like, 4 paragraphs ago? Well this baby lives up to the hype. One of my good friends recommended this lotion and it's the only one that I found does what it says. My skin tone evened out and so did the texture. I have the one for very dry to dry combo and I love how it absorbs quickly while not feeling greasy. It just feels like nice skin.

4. St. Ives Naturally Clear Green Tea Cleanser
    I also enjoy the scrub version of this, but the regular cleanser is what I've bought several times only because I've found the ones that foam do a better job of removing all of my makeup, especially around the eyes. It also seems to have evened out my skin tone, dialing back the redness and helped with breakouts. Plus I really enjoy the scent. Bonus.

5. Style Elements Flat Iron
    After my "nice"  re: expensive flat iron bit the dust several years ago I hemmed and hawed about what kind to invest in. I finally gave up and just bought one a Big Lots.... for $12, and it works really well. It gets really hot and hasn't pissed out on me. Sad to say I think this flat iron has been with me the longest since my introduction to the tool. It does snag some hairs, but my nice ones did that as well, so it's not too much of a con.


So there you have it. Maybe when I learn the rules of the blog-o-sphere better or I have a bored moment, I'll post some pictures (I won't). Until that possible moment, I hope this was at best entertaining and at worst helpful.