Favorites: July 2013

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July, where did you go?

This month I had all new favorites, so let's just dive right in!

I had three new face favorites; Olay Fresh Effects BB Cream, NYC Sunny Bronzer, and Milani baked blush in Luminoso. I love how moisturized the BB Cream left my face and how it evened everything out. I have full review of this cream if you would like to check it out. The NYC Sunny bronzer is perfect for my fair skin, it gives me a nice hint of color with out making me look muddy or orange. I also really love this because it is a matte bronzer. I usually do not wear blush at all, but this blush looks great for summer, give a hint of peach with just a little sheen.

I only had two favorites for my lips in July one is a new discovery and the other was in last months favorites. The old favorite is the Cover Girl Nature Lux Gloss Balm in Grenache. I love how this feels on my lips, very cream and moisturizing. My new found favorite is a lip stick from Avon, in the shade Pout, to bad this is one of the many colors they are discontinuing when they launch their new packaging coming in Campaign 19. It is a beautiful soft nude pink.

For a change I have some nail favorites this month! Up first is my new go to base coat, Sally Hansen Hard as Nails Hardener, I don't know if this actually hardens my nails, but it really helps with making my polish last longer. I have a new favorite shade of polish too, it's from S.he Makeup (available on iKatehouse) in the shade Melon, just a pretty bright lime green with some shimmer. My last favorite for the month of July is my Vitamin E oil. I have been having a terrible time with my nails peeling and my cuticles looking dry and I wanted something inexpensive to use, a couple fellow bloggers suggested using the Vitamin E oil that you can get in the vitamin section of Walmart. I tried it and I love it, it has help the condition of my nails and cuticles so much, I just have to keep reminding myself to use it. I went a few days with out it and my poor nails showed it. I try to apply it twice a day and every time after I take off my nail polish.

What were your favorites for the month of July?

NOTD: Melon

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If you saw my post or my unboxing video I did on my iKatehouse haul you know that I got a beautiful lime green, with hints of gold shimmer, polish called Melon by S.he Makeup, I am obsessed with it! It's just such a bright and fun color for summer and I love the way it looks on me.

The application of this polish was smooth, it was not running all over the place. The first coat is pretty opaque, but it has a yellow look to it, once I applied the second coat it looked like the pretty lime green color in the bottle. Dry time was average, around 5-10 minutes. I've wore this polish a couple of times now and it wears really well, I had it on for around 3 days before I got my first chip, for me that's pretty good wear time. I was afraid this might stain my nails a little since it's green, but it did not stain them at all!

On my ring finger I used some of the stripping tape from the brand Fing'rs that I picked up at Walmart (totally forgot to write my haul post on those items, if you are interested let me know and I'll do a haul post on them) and make some kind of design LOL and painted over that with a black cream polish.

My pictures do not show the 100% true color of this polish. I really wanted to take the photos outside in the sun, but it refuses to shine lol. The first and third photos are the most accurate color.

Haul: iKatehouse

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I heard about this online store called iKatehouse and decided to try them out and make a purchase.
They offer cosmetics, jewelry, lashes, hair accessories, makeup brushes and other items all at super affordable prices. They also sale some higher priced items like NYX in there section called Fancy Stuff. Shipping prices are great too, $2.95 flat rate shipping and free shipping with any order over $39. I was browsing around on the site and seen a lime green nail polish that I just had to have so I found a few other things I wanted as well.

It was packaged very nicely, (snagged some stills from my unboxing video) all wrapped up in pink tissue paper and some packing peanuts. My actual items were packed in a sealed up plastic baggie.

I got two pair of earrings. One pair are sea shell earrings they were $1.49 they are super pretty! The other pair are silver dangle earrings with some rhinestones, they were on clearance and cost $.69! Both pairs of earrings are a lot bigger than I thought they would be.

I also got two sets of bangles, I love bangles! One set has 2 purples and 2 silvers, they were $1.49. The second set has 9 silver bangles 3 of them are twisted, very cool looking! These were also on clearance and cost $.89

I got an ELF concealer brush it was $1 I love this brush for cleaning up around my nails after I paint them.

Last but not least I got two bottles of nail polish from S.he Makeup one fuchsia/magenta looking one called Raspberry and of course the lime green one I mentioned above called Melon.

I am really happy with my whole shopping experince with iKatehouse, the site was easy to navigate and the shipping time was great! I placed my order on the 4th and it arrived on the 8th.

Have you made a purchase from iKatehouse?