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THE GIFT CARD EVENT
It’s finally here! For four days only, earn a complimentary $20 gift card for every $100 you spend at Beautylish. The event starts at 3pm PT on November 1 and ends at 11:59pm PT on November 4, 2017. Products sell out quickly during the event, so start shopping now to get everything on your wishlist.
I’ve pulled some of my favorite products–both long-time favorites and some newer, limited edition releases for the holidays–that are available at Beautylish! 🙂 Let me know if you get anything!
Natasha Denona Joya
Natasha Denona Joya Eyeshadow Palette 5 ($48.00 for 0.40 oz.) is a new, limited edition holiday offering that features a new formula–the brand’s “cream-powder hybrid shadow.” The new formula is supposed to have “pigment-rich coverage of a cream” with the “long-lasting, crease-free wear of a powder.” Most of the shades had good, buildable pigmentation and were blendable on the lid with eight to nine hour wear and minor fallout (three shades are quite sparkly).
Viseart Golden Hour
Viseart Golden Hour 9-Pan Eyeshadow Palette ($49.00 for 0.49 oz.) is a new palette that features nine shades of eyeshadow in upgraded packaging. Each eyeshadow is square and slightly smaller compared to Viseart’s typical eyeshadow palettes (both their original as well as the Theory palettes), but they are by no means small–they’re 0.054 oz. a pop, which makes them in line with most full-sized, single eyeshadows.
Stila Magnificent Metals Glitter & Glow Liquid Eye Shadow
Stila Magnificent Metals Glitter & Glow Liquid Eye Shadow ($24.00 for 0.15 fl. oz.) is a glittering, liquid eyeshadow that works well as a pop of sparkle on the center of the lid or layered over eyeshadow or eyeliner to add dazzle and shine. They’re really fun to play with and add instant oomph to any look.
Viseart Paris Nude (06)
Viseart Paris Nude (06) Eyeshadow Palette($80.00 for 0.84 oz.) is a set of twelve shades, and if you’ve ever longed for a palette of shimmery, mid-tones, this might be the one for you. This has been a personal, go-to palette for traveling since trying it in 2015; it is great for neutral, warm-toned looks that are balanced between muted and subtle.
Cover FX Custom Enhancer Drops (Illuminating)
CoverFX Custom Enhancer Drops ($42.00 for 0.50 fl. oz.) is a liquid formula that can add a “highlighting, strobing, or bronzing effect” to your favorite liquid products or used alone on top of (or underneath) your other products (including powder); two of the six shades are bronzing and the rest are more shimmery/metallic for highlighting. It is a buildable coverage product, so that you can use as many or as few drops as desired for the effect (and it will depend on how you use it; mixing with a moisturizer for all-over may require less product than spot application on cheeks after other makeup is applied!).
Jouer Powder Highlighter
Jouer Powder Highlighter ($24.00 for 0.16 oz.) is a moderate to metallic powder highlighter that is excellent for someone who wants maximum shine with smooth pearl and no glitter. The formula is semi-opaque to opaque in coverage, blendable, and long-wearing.
Kevyn Aucoin The Celestial Powder
Kevyn Aucoin The Celestial Powder ($44.00 for 0.11 oz.) is a subtle to moderate, powder highlighter. Two of my go-to highlighters–Candlelight and Starlight–are in this formula. I love Starlight as it gives me subtle color along with a luminous finish, so it can work as an easy, effortless blush, too!
Wayne Goss The Air-Brush
Wayne Goss The Air-Brush ($35.00) is a powder brush designed for sculpting, buffing, and baking. It is made out of blue squirrel hair, which are some of the softest natural hairs I’ve come across. It’s been an absolute go-to for applying ultra-soft powders like blushes and the like but also for lightly patting powder underneath my eyes.
Chikuhodo Z-2 Highlight Brush
Chikuhodo Z-2 Highlight Brush ($78.00) is one of my most-used brushes for applying highlight more precisely and achieving a more moderate glow out of very intense highlighters. It’s an incredibly soft brush with a tapered shape that has held up beautifully since I started using it in 2014.
Chikuhodo Z-4 Cheek/Highlight Brush
Chikuhodo Z-4 Cheek/Highlight Brush ($73.00) is a medium-sized, blush brush with a domed edge and tapered bristles (so the lengths get shorter as you move outward from the center). It’s not a rounded brush, more flattened, but it is not really thin or flat. As you might have noticed, I’m a big fan of the Chikuhodo Z Series and enjoy and still use just about all the brushes in the range, but this is another brush that I use often (whenever it’s clean, really). It’s excellent for applying soft, even color along the cheeks with minimal blending required.
Becca Shimmering Skin Perfector Pressed
Becca Shimmering Skin perfector Pressed ($38.00 for 0.28 oz.) is a cult-favorite powder highlighter formula, and while I’ve always enjoyed it, I didn’t include in last year’s guide. What I can say is that throughout 2017, I’ve used more of them and have come to love them more (on a personal level!) that I have to include them this year. Some of my favorite shades are: Champagne Pop, Opal, and Rose Gold.
Tom Ford Beauty Patent Finish Lip Color
Tom Ford Patent Finish Lip Color ($52.00 for 0.07 fl. oz.) feels lightweight, almost watery, when initially applied but thickens and feels more like a moderately tacky gel after thirty to forty seconds. It had great staying power with the glossiness lasting for six hours and the color itself still going strong eight to ten hours later. The coverage was nearly opaque but has that slight translucency that you would expect to see in a lip stain. Some of my favorite shades are: Infamy and Red Corset.
I finally caved and got Vintner’s Daughter, plus the ND Sunset palette and a refill of Bioderma Sensibio H2O. I was really close to getting the ND Lila palette too, but decided to wait to use my gift cards on that – or hope that maybe it comes in the Lucky Bag this year 🙂
Good idea to wait for your gift cards to pick up the Lila palette! 🙂
I treated myself to the Wayne Goss 00 face brush that I’ve been pining over, and also the WG #22 brow brush to perfectly bump me to $100, lol. I I plan to use the gift card to replenish my The Ordinary selection. Also, I can never say enough good things about Beautylish customer service… I ordered this morning during the early access and already have a shipping confirmation!
What great deals are available here.
Is this their only sale of the season? I was hoping for something in December, too.
They do Lucky Bags at the end of the year, but I believe this is their only “sale” during the year.
First task with low-buy… Not participating in this event! This is so hard………… but there is many things I haven’t started trying at home and I’m telling myself I don’t NEED these. Not going to buy despite I really reaaaally want that ND Joya palette!
Good job resisting!!