The Balm Shady Lady Palette Swatches!!

Hi Everyone!!

This post is dedicated to all of my 'Shady Lady' palettes from the Balm Cosmetics. I own Vol. 1, 2, and 3. There is a special edition Shady Lady palette, but that doesn't have any different shadows in it. The packaging is different, though. It has a snake skin pattern (to go along with the animal patterns on the other 3 palettes). These palettes usually retail for $39.50, but I never buy them full price. Where I get them always has deals like 20% or 30% off, and that's when I grab them. 

Volume 1

Shadows left to right:

Caught In The Act Courtney, Shameless Shana, Luscious Lani, Jealous Jordana, Risque Renee, Curvy Cami, Jet-Setting Jennifer, All About Alex, and Easy Wheezie

Volume 2

Shadows left to right:

Caught In The Act Courtney, Feisty Felicia, Insane Jane, Bossy Bobbi, Makeout Mary, Just This Once Jamie, Mischievous Marissa, Tempting Tara, and Devilish Danielle

Volume 3

Shadows left to right:

Lusty Lee, Envious Erin, Racy Kacy, Safe Bet Annette, Runaround Rebecca, Come-Hither Heather, Open To Offers Owlen, All The Way Annie, and Guilty Gwen

I have a couple complaints about these shadows. First of all, I don't like that there's a duplicate shadow in Volumes 1 & 2 (Caught In The Act Courtney), and I'm not a big fan of the fact that there are no matte shades. 

While swatching, I noticed that the majority of the shades are super buttery and pigmented, but not all of them. There are a couple patchy shades, and I found that the more creamy ones had a lot of fallout. So I guess I'll have to use Fix + to put on some shadows, which isn't exactly different from what I normally do. 

Volume 1 is very cool toned, so I probably won't get much use out of that one. I think I like Volume 2 the best. The shades are brighter and more my type. Volume 3 isn't super thrilling, aside from that copper shade and purple shade, but since I had the first 2, I had to get the 3rd one, right?

That's all for now!

Thanks!

Be Wonderful :)

Rant!!

Hi Everybody!

If you want to listen to me bitch and complain about Sephora again, go check out my new video right here!

Just a quick disclaimer; I`m not entirely angry with Sephora, I`m just really angry about selfish greedy people.

HOW BEAUTIFUL IS THIS!!

irenesarah.com
(This is what my rant is about)

Please go check out my video!! 

Thank you!!

Be Wonderful :)

New Video!!

Hi Everybody!

I know I've still been lacking in the post department, but there was a problem with our internet, I swear.

Anyways, I fixed it today, so I am able to post a new video (check it out here), and make a post to let you know about it!

My life in the new house is boring. I'm not working, so I'm not leaving the house like ever, so I don't have a need to put makeup on just to steam clean the floors, so I don't have any new photos or exciting news to share.

With not leaving the house very often, if at all, it makes me stir crazy. I DID go to a stag & doe this past weekend for a couple that I used to work with at Target, and that was awesome. I won the door prize, which was a new GPS system, and a bottle of tequila in the 'Hammer & Nail' game. And the week prior, I went to a wedding shower. Those have been the only 2 times I've left the house since we moved in. So, I have decided I'm going to go shopping in a couple days. Makeup shopping (duh). I know at least 1 thing I will be buying REGARDLESS, and that is the Becca Cosmetics in collaboration with Jaclyn Hill highlighter in the shade 'Champagne Pop'. It launches at Sephora on Thursday, so you better believe this bitch will be first in line when that store opens to get it. I just hope my experience being first in line there goes much better this time than it did last time. If anyone recalls the fucking fiasco from last October........

Anyways! Since the first half of this month has basically been me being a hermit and deep cleaning the fuck out of my new house, I was thinking about doing something for me (and you, hopefully) next month. I need to run this idea by my sister +Missy G first, but I was thinking about vlogging. A lot of YouTuber's do this thing where they vlog for the month of August, and they call it 'Vlogust'. Thoughts??

I think that's it. I'll keep you updated in the makeup department and the vlogging department :)

Thanks so much!

Be Wonderful :)

I've Moved!!

Hi Everybody!!

I'm not sure if anybody remembers when I was super stressed and pissed because mine and Wayne's landlords sold the house that we were living at for 2 years less a month, but the time came and passed, and we had to move. It wasn't an ideal situation; we were looking for a new place to rent for the entirety of the 60 days notice we were given to leave, and nothing was promising. We found a place, signed the papers, gave first and last, and moved everything within a 2 day span. It was stressful (OBVIOUSLY), and I just got the wifi up and running, so this is the first time in a week I've been able to sit the fuck down and concentrate on posting a blog. 

So here it is. I've moved. It's a nice house. It's bigger than the last. The rent is also bigger than the last. By a lot. It's a 4 bedroom + office, 2 bathroom house. The biggest problem we have had since we moved in is cleaning. This place was fucking disgusting. And it stunk to the point of gagging. It's like the place hasn't been cleaned properly or deeply since it was built. For 3 days my aunt and myself have bleached and scrubbed and steamed every single surface of the upstairs. Literally three fucking days. And we haven't even started on the downstairs. 

I'm also almost done unpacking the upstairs. I get a beauty room, so that's extremely exciting for me. I set most of it up yesterday, but I wanted to clean the drawer inserts before I organized everything inside the drawers, so that's not entirely done yet. I wanted to concentrate on cleaning and unpacking the more important stuff first. 

So I'm sorry for the lack of posts. But now I really don't have any excuse. I hope. 

Thanks for reading!

Be Wonderful :)