NYX Haul: Pix & Swatches

Happy Mother's Day ladies! I hope you are having a wonderful day.


We had my favorite dessert today, tiramisu cake....yum. There's a slew of different ways to interpret tiramisu, but it's basically lady fingers soaked in espresso or strong coffee and layered with mascarpone and whipped cream, topped with a sprinkling of cocoa. Tiramisu in Italian means "pick me up" and I surely felt better after eating it!

Anyway, my NYX package came in yesterday so you know I had to take pictures of everything and do some good swatches to help you out.

You'll mostly see nude and pink lip products, and eyeshadow colors I don't really have yet. That 50% off sale was just too good to pass up.

I must say, NYX Cosmetics packs their products EXTREMELY well. Cutting through that huge ball of layers and layers of bubble wrap was like performing surgery. What am I going to do with all those packing peanuts? You know they're bad for the environment!

The Black Label Lipsticks are more moist and glossy than the Round Lipsticks but I feel they are less pigmented. I prefer more opaque lippies but these are still nice- love these colors! I also adore the packaging, however, they are a little hard to pop open.

I bought another Rea to add to my 4 backups. Haha! I use it almost everyday to neutralize my lips. I pat it on, never rub.
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For more NYX lip swatches, click here.

I tried to heavily swatch this on my arm but it wouldn't show up. Hmm. It's a matte blush that contains talc, which I stay away from, but it's the second ingredient so I'll just try it out. This is a popular contour color. I love my EDM and Physician's Formula blushes, though!

On to the eye products. I just got trios I didn't already have (I forgot Lake Moss). I picked up another Nude pigment since it's good to mix with other colors. Lilac Pearl has a slight blue opalescence to it. The yellow trio is going to be great for summer! I am loving Antique Gold right now.

I'm disappointed with the light gray in this trio; it's not very pigmented. This is what Maite is supposedly wearing on her eyes in the picture on the website.

I decided to try a couple of the Ultimate Pearl Eyeshadows, which I don't see a lot of. They have the texture of a baked eyeshadow but I think the single eyeshadows have the best pigmentation. Some colors in the trios are better than others. Silver Pearl should definitely be renamed "light blue pearl" and Charcoal Pearl should be renamed "silver pearl."

The pink is very pale but if you pack in on over a good base, then it will come out this way. Silver & Charcoal Pearl are quite sheer on my eye. (Ignore the nasty arm hair!)

Brown, the single eyeshadow, is one of my favorite matte warm-toned browns, but in the Highlight/Brown/Suede trio, it's a completely different color. Boo! The same goes for Golden. It's hella different in those two trios. What's up with that?

Review coming up for the Eye & Lip Makeup Remover!

I also bought a nail polish in "Jungle" but I'll save that for a NOTD post. Hope the swatches helped! =)

NYX frappucino, rea, dusty rose, taupe, vanilla, lollipop, sky pink pearl, lilac pearl, antique gold, yellow pearl, golden, casablanca, highlight, brown, suede, silver pearl, charcoal pearl swatches

NYX Ultra Pearl Mania Loose Eyeshadows

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Cherry Culture had a sale not too long ago on their NYX pigments for $1.00 and they had offered free shipping too! Of course I couldn't pass that up. I got some more lipsticks too but that's another story. Hehe These are so cheap and the texture of these pigments are fine and not grainy. I didn't even use a base under the swatches and they're so pigmented. Of course, I got mostly neutral colors.

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Natural Light (click on image to enlarge)
*UPDATE* I added better swatches over a base.

I picked this up at Walmart for $6.97 and it's for bead storage. I like to mix my Everyday Minerals foundations also so these jars will come in handy.

Twenty-four jars

Comparison of the jar with an Everyday Minerals mini jar and a sample jar.

The jar from Walmart is ever so slightly wider and taller than the 10ml mini jar from EDM. They have no sifters.

Make sure you wash these out with soap and water before putting anything in them. Even though the kit was sealed, you want to be as sanitary as possible.

Here's the finished product. I emptied just half of those 5ml NYX pigments in the jars and they filled them about half way. It looks like there's just a small amount of pigments in the bottles but there's a huge amount. I didn't feel it was necessary to empty the bottle completely since there's so much in the jars already.

Fanta is my favorite. Isn't it gorgeous?! It's a pretty melon color.