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Month in Review | August 2016

Here’s a look at the top 25 products reviewed in the month of August, plus a summary of how many products and brands were reviewed and a break out of ratings! 🙂

I think it’d be fun to go through what we used, purchased, resisted, and so forth each month, here are some questions:

  1. What were your favorites from the last month?
  2. What didn’t impress you?
  3. Did you return anything you purchase?
  4. Or successfully resist temptation?

 

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I really like these questions. I think a month is a really good amount of time to assess recent attitudes towards different products and launches. 🙂

What were your favorites from the last month? Nothing launched recently because I was on a no buy until yesterday! I picked up MUFE HD loose powder and Bite Lavender Jam Lipstick. Very impressed by the l/s-it’s so emollient, and I can’t believe the color doesn’t make my teeth look super yellow.
What didn’t impress you? MUFE HD. I actually grabbed the Sephora travel one by mistake, I meant to get Laura Mercier mini sized loose powder. I tried it after I realized my mistake to see if maybe I wanted it anyway, but the flashback in pictures is as bad as the reputation. 🙁
Did you return anything you purchased? Yep.
Or successfully resist temptation? I resisted Anastasia Craft liquid lipstick and the Renaissance palette, both of which I really want and might get in September or October. For new stuff that caught my eye but I might not get: Anastasia Moon Child and NARS Kate. I probably have a color comparable to Kate, that whole family of pink-purples is really hard for me to say no to. 😉

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What were your favorites from the last month? –>Hmm…Giorgio Armani’s Luminous Silk foundation: pleasantly surprised how much I like this one despite having more oily/combo skin. Really like how it looks natural on my skin. There’s a Japanese mascara called Heroine Make (black tube goldish cap?) that was impressively waterproof and make the lashes voluminous.
What didn’t impress you? –> Marc Jacob’s fineliner in black. I remember being impressed with it swatched but on my oily lids (even with Nar’s eye primer) it smudged all over my lower lash line. :/
Did you return anything you purchase? –>Nothing comes to mine but I did donate quite a few things to Goodwill that no longer worked for me
Or successfully resist temptation? –>uh…no. I bought the Sakura brush set from beautylish but otherwise pretty good in terms of makeup

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I think my favorite would have to be Wayne Goss’s #13 brush. Real techniques sponge is also lovely and its sculpting brush is nice. I personally like to buff my foundation in. Setting it with LM translucent powder is also a nice touch. Not an oil slick at the end of the day.

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I think this is a great questionary!! (Can I steal it? Lol)
1) What were your favorites from the last month?
From what I personally tested in August my favorite are Wayne Goss brushes ( I got “the air brush”), Vichy slow age new cream and Benton snail face mask, which knocked me off my socks.

What didn’t impress you?
Korean brand Tony Molly Lemon face mask. It did nothing for me.

Did you return anything you purchase?
In Switzerland there aren’t Returning policies, so you either keep what you bought or pass it to your sister 🙂

Or successfully resist temptation?
I did not resist to summer sales !! I was in a Kiko outlet where everything was €1 !!! Who could resist?! I got like 10 different eye makeup that I absolutely don’t need!!! Lmao!

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I got it as a multitasking brush. I don’t want to travel with 10 brushes, I have Wayne’s brush #11 for powder, but I wanted something smaller and more flexible to contour, highlighting, blush and powder. Wayne’s brushes (probably all Japanese brushes? I wouldn’t know) are so easy to clean in between switching products! My other brushes don’t do that.

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I don’t know what is in these brushes! I only use paper towels, the pigments just fade, I don’t know how to explain it. I do have a light hand, but I have used the air brush during a week to do my powder, blush contour and highlighter (all powder) without doing anything else but wiping it between applications! So it’s definitely some quality of the bristles that don’t absorb the pigment or I don’t know what.

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What were your favorites from the last month? UD Rapture blush (I’d set it aside for quite a while and forgot just how perfect it is)
What didn’t impress you? Chanel Candeur et Experience – thought it wouldn’t be a good purchase for me and, after looking at it in store, passed on it otherwise it would have been the answer to the next question….
Did you return anything you purchase? Nope – I hate returning stuff; I think I’ve returned 2 items in the past 10 years
Or successfully resist temptation? I’m still wanting 2 of the Becca blushes but I’m not giving in

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Favourites from last month: Nars Mona lipstick and Shiseido’s Real Ruby – it was a month of lipsticks!
What didn’t impress you? The Multisticks – I just didn’t like the same colour/product being used for eyes, lips and cheeks
Returns: None
Resisted temptation: Most things.

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What were your favorites from the last month? I think my favorites from this month are the new lip launches from Tom Ford, Cle de Peau and byTerry. I’ve also had a nice run of new shadows from ABH and MUFE.
What didn’t impress you? The Glamglow Powermud cleanser and mask; mask is too drying and the cleanser is just messy with bulky packaging. Not a fan.
Did you return anything you purchase? The other Glamglow products I hadn’t opened are headed back. Just not impressed by the line, especially given the hype.
Or successfully resist temptation? I’ve resisted the ABH Modern Renaissance palette. Just too many colors I don’t see working for me.

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I got Pose (purple/brown), Chocolate and Truffle Glitter. I think I’ll stick to buying individual pans since that tends to work best for my taste. Though the new ABH palette (a collab with some MUA I think) looks nice, though I expect to hear complaints of too neutral from some here. It’ll depend on how much kick-back it gives. I’ve found that bothers me more than I though it did.

Nicole Avatar

I’m seriously amazed by the number of products you review per month, Christine!

I love these questions! Can they be about any makeup products, not just recently reviewed products? I kind of have to mention other products, since I didn’t buy anything recently reviewed (not out of a lack of interest-I haven’t been buying a lot recently at all), but I’m sorry if that’s not the intention of these questions!

1. What were your favorites from the last month? Honest beauty eyeshadow trio in Heather Mauve, Jouer eyeshadow singles in Chestnut, Walnut and Bordeaux. I was impressed by all of them, but I swatched the Honest Beauty eyeshadows in store, so I expected to like them. I really didn’t expect to like the Jouer ones-they’re very mediocre when you swatch them, but apply and blend so beautifully.

2. What didn’t impress you? The Honest Beauty luminizing powder in Midnight Reflection. The texture is too powdery for my skin right now.

3. Did you return anything you purchase? No makeup, yet.

4. Or successfully resist temptation? Just barely! There are so many things that I want right now. I’m so in love with Chantecaille’s new Protect the Lions eyeshadow palette, I have a 20% off code to Besame Cosmetics and I’ve never tried one (or three) of their lipsticks but always wanted to (and their blush!), and the 25% off sale at Beauty.com is calling my name as far as some potential staples I’ve been wanting to try out (Kevyn Aucoin Medium Lip Pencil, IT Cosmetics tightline mascara primer*, Elizabeth Arden Smoky Eyes Powder eye pencils) and discounted byTerry products. I just want to buy from one place right now, but I don’t know which to choose.

*I know that’s going to be on sale at Ulta soon, but it seems like pretty often when Ulta has a sale like that the products I want are already sold out by the time I get online.

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What were your favorites from the last month? From what I bought, Bite Squid Ink and SauceBox Art Nouveau Palette.

What didn’t impress you? Wet n Wild brushes; they’ve got too much give. I feel like the bristles just bend when I try to use them. Thank goodness they were cheap.

Did you return anything you purchase? No

Or successfully resist temptation? So far I’ve resisted the new Sugar Pill pro palette and singles with which to fill it. I’m hoping to get a completely filled one for Christmas.

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