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Boost Your Eyes With CoverGirl Blast Collection

CoverGirl’s Blast line includes a variety of products to make you look bolder. Their eye collection has recently introduced some really great new additions that will really make your eyes pop! They are:

Smoky ShadowBlast ($7.99 USD) — This two-ended creamy shadow stick, can make lots of different looks. The rounded end is the lighter color and can be used all over the lid, or a highlighter. The two different, specially contoured ends of our ShadowBlast stick make it easy to create a bold, colorful, smoky eye.

Liquiline Blast ($7.99 USD) , combines the intensity and staying power of a liquid with the ease and blendability of a waterproof pencil. It is very soft and easy to play with. You can use the liner as-is for intense definition or smoke-it-out with the built-in smudger end for a subtle, smoky look. I like to first line the eyes with the tapered end of the ShadowBlast and then do a sharper line with the Liquiline.

LashBlast Fusion ($9.99 USD) is CoverGirl’s first ever volume + length mascara! The fiberstretch formula and oversized brush claim to make every little lash bigger, fuller, longer -looking and more dramatic. And I have to agree. It separates my lashes while it lengthens and volumizes. I would love it if they made a waterproof version. That would be perfect.

Visit www.covergirl.com to learn more and you can purchase at mass market retailers near you. Have fun!

Cover Girl Exact Eyelights

: Exact Eyelights Eyeshadow

The CoverGirl Exact Eyelights collection was created to make all eyes looker brighter and the color of the eyes pop. I was excited to try the eyeshadow, as I have already tried — and love — the Exact Eyelights Mascara.

Exact Eyelights Eye Brightening Eyeshadow is a color-coordinated eyeshadow collection designed to bring out your blues, greens, browns and hazels, and define your eyes. The shades are Vibrant Browns, Radiant Blues,Vivid Greens, and Majestic Hazels and it comes with a soft bristle brush for easy application. I tried the Vibrant Browns for my brown eyes. The colors seemed a little ho-hum in the compact — beige, bronze, silver and black. But the combination on my eyes was a definite wow! You can wear it however you like, but I tried the instructions on the packet and really enjoyed the look. The beige is swept all over the lid, the bronze goes on the inner part of the lid, the silver is placed in the crease, and the black is used as eyeliner. This is a look that can be worn everyday, then maybe a little more added at night time.

I have already tried the Exact Eyelights Eye Brightening Mascara that contains light reflecting metallics and claims to brightens the eye by 4 times. This is a great mascara that defines lashes and doesn’t clump. Try the waterproof version if you are active. The shades are Black Pearl for brown eyes, Black Sapphire for blue eyes, Black Ruby for green eyes and Black Gold for hazel eyes.

Exact Eyelights Eye Brightening Eyeliner rounds out the Eyelights line. This pencil liner is available in Vibrant Pearl for brown eyes, Radiant Blue for blue eyes, Vivid Ruby for green eyes and Majestic Jade for hazel eyes. I have not tried this product, but the claims is that it defines eyes while highlighting the eye color.

CoverGirl is available in drugstores, Target, Walmart and many other great stores. Also, visit their website at www.covergirl.com. They have a fun tool that allows you to virtually try on the products before you buy!

Cover Girl Outlast Lip Stain

Sure, I am into serious skin care and high quality products, but I do love a good novelty, too. I was very intrigued by a review of Cover Girl Outlast Lip Stain on my favorite podcast, Lipgloss and Laptops (www.lipglossandlaptops.com). The ladies on the podcast remarked on what a neat little product this is, and I have to say I agree.

This very fun lip stain in a pen form. When you remove the cap, you see a felt tip marker. “Am I supposed to use that on my lips? I’m not 5 years old!”, you’ll say to yourselves. But trust me. Go for it!

This pen creates a great line around your lips, then just color in the lines for a perfect lip stain. And it tastes like berry candy. Yum!

The lip stain comes in 10 shades. I have color 420, Sassy Mauve. This is a medium plum color on my lips. It is very pretty, but does not last long like it claims. I have to reapply it quite often to keep the stained look.

All in all, for $7.99 at your local drugstore, this is a pretty fun product to own.

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Eye Poppin’ Cover Girl Exact Eyelights Eye-Brightening Mascara

Reading about Cover Girl Exact Eyelights Eye-brightening Mascara (8.49 USD), I was really intrigued. It claims to make the eyes 4 times brighter than without wearing mascara. It’s available in four shades to match eye color: Black Pearl for brown eyes, Black Sapphire for blue eyes, Black Ruby for greens eyes and Black Gold for hazel eyes.

Each shade has a metallic sheen and a bit of a color to it. I purchased the Black Pearl, hoping to enhance my dark brown eyes. When you swipe this shade on a tissue, it is a metallic black.

On my eyes, you can’t really see the metallic, but it is very dark and really does make my eyes pop. I don’t know if they are brighter, but the thickening and lengthening mascara brings attention to my eyes. This mascara separates my lashes nicely and doesn’t clump. This is a great product.

I kind of wish my eyes were a different color, so I could try the shades that are tinted. Oh well, since the price is reasonable, maybe I will try the others, too !

A Mineral Make-up Virgin No More — bareMinerals by Bare Escentuals

I don’t know why I’ve been so hesitant to try mineral make-up. Everyone raves about it. It has changed lives, well, at least it has changed the look of people’s skin.

The honest truth is that I love liquid and mousse make-up. I love slathering on a creamy potion that matches my skin tone and evens out my skin’s texture. The idea of exchanging my Cover Girl TruBlend (what I use now) for powder just hasn’t appealed to me.

But since I am now blogging about cosmetics, I think it’s fair that I touch on many of the trends, including mineral make-up.

I decided to try the most popular brand, bareMinerals, while browsing through Ulta last weekend. They had a 4 piece introductory set on sale for $15.00 USD. “Wow, what a bargain”, I thought to myself. And it is. The set includes two .03 oz foundations, a .03 oz mineral veil, and a mini kabuki brush.

I purchased the Light kit which includes the Light and Fairly Light foundations. Ulta was nice enough to color match my skin and the Fairly Light was my perfect color. I of course tried it as soon as I went home. The steps included are:

1. Swirl a small amount of bareMinerals in the lid with the brush until all the bareMinerals are tucked into the bristles.

2. Tap away excess. There should be no visible bareMinerals on the outside of the brush.

3. Buff bareMinerals onto the skin in a circular motion, starting on the outside of your face near the cheekbone and swirling as you go. Buff until you are satisfied with the coverage.

I followed the directions. The look I got on the first day was glowy, but a bit powdery. I have used this product all week and I tried different ways to apply it. I used it with primer, without primer. With the mineral veil and without the mineral veil. I think I have become pretty handy with the brush, but I have noticed that my skin looks and feels much drier than it did in the beginning of the week.

So my verdict is…still out. I like the glow I get using the minerals. But I don’t like the dry feeling or the work it takes to apply it perfectly. I will try it again in a week or two to see if I like it better.

In the meantime, if any of you wonderful readers have any tips or tricks or another mineral product you love, please leave a comment. I am keeping an open mind!