Sephora Birthday Gift

Being someone that has a birthday way in the beginning of the year has its perks; one being a Beauty Insider at Sephora. Anyone can join and its absolutely free. What happens is that every year on your birthday month, you are eligible to receive a Sephora birthday gift. By the way, each year features a new and exciting new gift, so its even a surprise, unless that is your birthday is in December and everybody has revealed it to you...as well as me :D

This years birthday gift from Sephora is 

• Benefit mini They're Real mascara
• Benefit mini Watt's Up luminizer and highlighter

Both are really nice free gifts this year, probably the best that I ever had gotten. So when the time comes for your birthday, be sure to stop by Sephora and pick one of these little guys up. 

Box package of Sephora's Birthday Gift 2013

Left: Benefit mini Watt's Up Luminizer/Highlighter
Right: Benefit mini They're Real mascara

Benefit mini Watt's Up Luminizer/Highlighter

Benefit mini They're Real mascara

E.L.F. Goodies

What's the next best thing to looking great in your own raw skin? 

The natural look; better described as applying light make-up to create the effect of radiant flawless skin. And its always better to purchase make-up that works great and cost less. E.L.F. make-up and cosmetics offers decent beauty products at low prices than most retail stores. If you can't get it online, you can just drive to your local Target store to find the same products without paying the shipping cost. Personally, E.L.F. products are a hit-or-miss for me. If the product is good, then GREAT! I pay a little bit of money for a good product. If the product is bad, then I guess I pay for what I get, which is not so much of a loss than say a hundred dollar product. 

My finds at Target:

E.L.F. Nail Polish. The new fall preview collection.

• Not sure if its a new line or new packaging, but I have never seen this before at Target, actually not even on their website. The new bottle is in a circular shape instead of a rectangle shape. The top cap is decorated with gold specks of snake skin look-alike features. 
• Overall, I like the new change. However, it does seem like a smaller bottle with an increase of a dollar.
• Cost: $2.00 per bottle
• Name: There are no labels indicating the name of the color of this product. Its a nude base with a very light hint of pink. 
• Its a nice color for an everyday causal look or maybe if you're going for a sophisticated appearance.

E.L.F. fall preview collection nail polish

Nails painted with the nameless ELF fall collection nail polish

E.L.F. Cream Eyeshadow

• Name: Dawn
• Its a neutral color, perfect for light make-up. It does consist of a bit of shimmer. Its also very creamy when applied.
• Package: Package includes the eyeshadow in a square container. If you look at the side-view down below, notice that the container is customized to a shape that DOES NOT fill up the product in all corners of the square container. Package also includes a small brush for eye application.
• Personally, I feel that using my finger tips is a better tool to apply than the brush.
• Cost: $3.00 a box

ELF Cream Eyeshadow in Dawn

The color Dawn

Oops...brush has been used!
But I couldn't resist the temptation to test it out first

Dawn Cream Eyeshadow Swatch

***I wanted to point out that after reading a blogger note that their own blog pictures have been taken off their web and was used for fraud, has made me paranoid. Although that specific blogger is a seller and I am not, that puts me back in a more relief state. However, I did consider at one point to include watermarks as a record of copyrighted print. So, I finally took the time to include it in my recent photos, I'm a bit lazy to go back and do the old pictures. We will see~~

Biotrue

It seems like Bausch + Lomb has come up with a new line called Biotrue. I guess that inspiration comes from using biology to formulate this product. As I am very interested in biology, I was tempted into buying this at Costco. I'm not gonna lie, but the packaging was pretty impressive. There was also a promotion going on, which takes off a couple of bucks from the original cost. 

• Biotrue
• New line of Bausch + Lomb. The brand is currently promoting both Biotrue contact solution and Biotrue OneDay lenses
• Has a lubricant found naturally in our eyes
• Matches the pH of our tears
• Keeps specific tear protein active
• Here's the link for more information (I am not affiliated with this company in any way): 
• http://www.biotrue.com/

Biotrue contact solution.
Notice the right sidebar of the box, it shows an image of the contact lenses case.

I did not try this yet. I am still trying to finish my other solution. Updates will be added once I try this.