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New Ulta Blockbuster Set & BARGAIN ALERT!

Now do I need more makeup? But how can I pass this up! I'm definitely getting the black one and hold up! Their single eyeshadows are ON SALE for $2.50 and that's with a BOGO so they're only $1.25 EACH. Regular price is $7.00, which actually went up recently from $6.50. OH SNAP! ::adding to cart:::

L to R: Cashmere, Golden Olive, Rose Dusk, Plum Smoke
These are the only 4 I already have and I love them!

Oh and if you were wondering about Ulta eyeshadows, they are very good quality for the size and price. They're pigmented and creamy and it's more than twice the amount of a MAC eyeshadow. So they don't fit in standard sized palettes but you can make one with a CD case. Check out my previous post where I made a magnetic CD palette.

And if you were wondering how I depotted them, I just used my nail file and pressed the top edge of the pan down and away from the eyeshadow until the opposite end popped out of the case. Then while pressing down with one hand, I tried to pull the pan up and out with the other hand at the same time. It's easy but a little tricky. What holds the eyeshadow in place is that sticky kind of glue that peels off nicely. If you get little samples of anything that open like a book, you know what I'm talking about. It kind of looks like clear snot. LOL. I think it's called museum glue or something. Anyways, there's a little dot of that near the bottom center of Ulta eyeshadows. It would be really hard for me to do a video on that because of the angle.

More Everyday Minerals? Of Course Baby!



I had to order another, yes, yet another EDM 12-piece $50 kit because I needed some foundation colors to mix since I was recently experimenting with all my samples. I make a custom mixture of Winged Butter, Golden Medium & Olive Medium Intensives. And since their special was freaking awesome, it gave me another excuse. The special was two new blushes that came in two black puff jars. I couldn't pass that up! I picked up a few extras too. Here's what I got:

1. Flat-Top Brush- now I have one with the bamboo handle
2. Eye Kabuki Brush -had to pick up another for concealer and blending
3. Foundation Brush- I don't use liquid foundation but I just had to get this
4. Eyeshadow Brush- WAY BETTER than their old one with white bristles
5. Golden Medium Intensive Foundation (Olive Family)
6 & 7. Olive Medium Intensive Foundation (Olive Family)
8 & 9. Winged Butter Intensive Foundation (Golden Family)
10. Coffee Break blush- makes a pretty eyeshadow
11. Cool Breeze eyeshadow- pretty, shimmery pink-lilac color
12. Exhale eyeshadow- I thought this was more of a milk chocolate color but it's just a matte, medium chocolate brown with no red tones, contrary to the website description; lighter than their Dark Brown Brow color and less harsh looking

EXTRAS:
13. Wallaby eyeshadow- matte cool purple with more red in it
14. Casual Friday eyeshadow- matte, true purple; more blue in it than Wallaby
15 & 16. Two Closeable Sifter Jars with the new blue lids- these have a semi-circular part on top of the sifter that rotates 360 degrees so you can cover all the holes up once your done tapping out your minerals. You can adjust it so that only a few holes are available.

FREEBIES:
17. Going Green For Pink blush in a black Puff Jar- muted dusty pink
18. Pink Snowflakes blush in a black Puff Jar- shimmery light pink
19-23. Sample Kit- Spring concealer (my fave)
-Deep Wine blush-matte, earthy, reddish-brown
-Olive Neutral foundation
-Light (Golden Family) foundation,-a little bit darker than Winged Butter (Golden Family) which I wasn't expecting; nice surprise
-Light Martian (Olive Family)-looks very similar to Olive Neutral


The puff jars that the freebie blushes came in. They're black! Really not ideal for blush so I depotted one into the new closeable sifter jar that I got.


The unlabled little jar on the left is Wallaby eyeshadow
Swatches with flash (click image to enlarge)
Swatches in natural light (click image to enlarge)
Sorry I didn't swatch the foundations (click image to enlarge)

Closeable sifter jars


Brushes L to R: foundation, eyeshadow, eye kabuki & flat-top buffer brushes

Woo that was a lot of stuff and I still want more! I swear I'm an Everyday Minerals junkie. =P

*UPDATE* Oct. 20
I used my new flat-top brush pictured above with the bamboo handle for the second time and noticed major shedding which never happened with my other 2 flat top brushes with the birch handles. Major disappointment. My other flat top brushes never shedded one bristle. Maybe they changed the glue that they were using or I don't know. So I guess the flat top brushes are not the same quality anymore. =(
 
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