SEPHORA Favorites – Draw the Line

Recently I purchased the Sephora Favorites Draw the Line Eyeliner Sampler. It is limited edition, and sold out on Sephora online. You might still be able to find it in stores though! It's located in the check out line with all of the other travel sized, sampler products. 

First off, I luvvv samplers!!! When it comes to samplers I am such a sucker! In my head they are such a good deal! This sampler is $30.00 in the US with a $79.00 value, where in Canada it's $36.00 with a $94.00 value. Even though the Stila Smudge Stick is the only product that is full sized, I still think this is a great value! Mainly because you get to try 7 high end eyeliners without having to pay full price for each one, which would be wayyy more than $30! This is great for people who like to wear black eyeliner, experiment with black eyeliner, explore pencil vs. liquid/marker eyeliner, and try out different brands to find which they like best!

In the sampler you get 7 eyeliners. Technically there are only 6 eyeliners, but since the Urban Decay eyeliner is double ended I count it as 7! Two being "liquid" eyeliners, I would call them marker/felt tip eyeliner, but I guess that doesn't sound as smooth as liquid eyeliner. One is an actual liquid eyeliner. The other 4 eyeliners are pencil eyeliners. I was a little disappointed that only liquid eyeliner in the sampler wasn't what I expected. I was looking for more a liquidy eyeliner, just because at the moment I don't own a single liquid eyeliner. That and adding an actual liquid eyeliner would make the sample more complete in my opinion!

SEPHORA COLLECTION LONG-LASTING 12HR: It didn't say on the back of the box with all of the descriptions, but this is 02 Glitter Black. Glitter eyeliner isn't exactly my go to, and I was kind of surprised when I first swatched it on my hand and saw it. I have yet to wear this eyeliner, but I would wear this type of eyeliner for a night out, or for Halloween makeup! It's not a very intense glitter eyeliner which is good, does seem like you'd have to do another black eyeliner base, and then put this glitter eyeliner on top, just because it's quite transparent in the above swatch. 

MAKE UP FOR EVER AQUA EYES: This one comes in waterproof Matte Black 0L. Haha, for some reason it amazes me that they have 27 different colors for this eyeliner!!! I wore this last night, for a subtle smokey eye look. It has a good consistency, and smudges well. I like it for a good "basic" black pencil eyeliner.  

STILA SMUDGE STICK : This pencil eyeliner comes in waterproof Stingray - jet black. I also used this eyeliner last night! This is suchhh a great creamy pigmented eyeliner! However, because it is soo creamy it did smudge/transfer onto my upper lid. Then again I wasn't wearing any eyeshadow that time, an easy fix I'm sure! I still like this one the best out of all of the rest! It really took me by surprise how much I like it! At first I tried to use the Make Up For Ever liner to tight line, and it didn't transfer well at all. Then I used this one and it worked amazingly! I highly recommend this for tight lining or for your water line!

***WARNING: I've never owned a Stila eyeliner so I'm not sure if this is normal or not, but once you roll this eyeliner up you can't roll it back down! Also, you have to push down and twist at the same time to get the product to come up. Be veryyy slow and careful!!!!! Trust me you don't want to roll up more than you need! It can be disastrous!***

EYEKO LONDON SKINNY LIQUID : Again, I would call this a marker/felt tip eyeliner, in waterproof Black. I had never heard of this brand before buying this sampler, I quite like it. It has a medium-thick tip, and gives off good color, and applies easily. This works great for when you want to do a cat eye. Also, when they say smudge-proof they mean it! Once this dries you are good to go for the day!

STILA STAY ALL DAY : Waterproof "liquid" eyeliner in Black. This is the second market/felt tip eyeliner in the sampler. Compared to the Eyeko London liner it is very similar in color, consistency, and application. However, the Stila liner has a thinner more fine tip, that makes it easier to line the inner part of the eye. Again, this one is also great for doing a cat eye. I prefer using a marker/felt tip liner for a winged/cat eye because, for me, the line comes out more exact and precise. 

URBAN DECAY 24/7 GLIDE-ON : This is the last of the pencil eyeliners. On the left is Demolition - Matte Deep Brown; right Perversion - Matte Blackest Black. First off, more so than the Make Up For Ever eyeliner, it has a huge selection of colors available. It has an impressive array of black, gray, and brown, as well as other shades! I mainly mentioned black, gray, and brown, because that is in my comfort zone and what I wear 98% of the time! I have yet to try Demolition, but Perversion is a great staple matte black eyeliner. It 'glides on', smudges if you want to make a softer or smokey look, stays well even though it's not waterproof, and easily washes off.

To remove my makeup at the end of the day I usually kill two birds with two stones and just use my 

Biore face wash. If there is some remaining makeup, I just take a q-tip with some lotion on it and wipe off the rest. Which may be good or bad but seems to work just fine for me! However, with the eyeliners in this sampler, since most of them are waterproof my face wash/lotion q-tip isn't cutting it. 

I had purchased the Neutrogena Travel Size Makeup Remover Towelettes, just because I had never really tried them before, and I thought it would be good for trips in case I needed to do a hillbilly face wash. First off, the one I got was somewhat defective, the plastic between the sticker like opening and the towelettes came off. So, all of my towelettes dried up! Ugh, right?! Well, I discovered if you wet them and wring out the excess water it revives them. After reviving my towelette, I removed the left over makeup from after washing my face. I'm not sure if it's because I've been having eye problems recently, but the Neutrogena wipes made my eye and the surrounding area burn! I need to start exploring different make up removers! I've heard great things about Bioderma....hmmm

Concealer Crazed

After muchhh hesitation, I finally decided to start a blog. It's crazy how popular social media, youtube, blogging, vlogging...etc has become after just a couple of years. Here I am jumping on the bandwagon!

I am by noooo means a beauty or makeup expert/professional, I just thought I would throw out my experience and opinions about some concealer products that I own and have used. 

I am a complete concealer junkie, it is by far my favorite makeup item. Mainly, because I have horrendous dark circles and I have made it a mission of mine to own all concealers known to mankind in search of the perfect concealer! At this point I'm basically collecting concealers, like a squirrel collects nuts before winter. Some products have been used more than others, but all judged equally. (Sorry in advance for the poor lighting in the pictures!)

Main Concealers

Primers for Concealers

BENEFIT Stay Don't Stray [left]: I thought that since these products are concealer related I'd add them in! The reason why this guy is so tiny is because it came in the Benefit "ulta"mate sexy six kit, which I must add I love getting kits like this because I'm somewhat of a beginner to non drugstore makeup, and this kit is a really nice way to sample different products before completely investing in products that can be on the pricey side. Anyway, I have yet to use this as an eyeshadow primer, but as for when using concealer, I didn't notice a complete difference. I going to have to test out this product more before I can see.

PHYSICIANS FORMULA Gentle Cover Concealer Stick Yellow [right]: As for this primer, I get the best results when I apply it under my eye, rub it in with my finger, afterwards apply my concealer, either with my finger or applicator in dots under my eye, finally take a beauty sponge and gently pat the concealer to blend on top of the primer. This way I'm creating layers, instead of smearing it all together which would defeat using the primer in the first place.

Backup/Unopened Concealers

MAYBELLINE Dream Lumi Touch Highlighting Concealer 320 Ivory [left]; MAYBELLINE Instant Age Rewind Eraser Treatment Concealer 120 Light [right] I have heard so sooo many good things about this concealer from youtube beauty gurus that I can't wait to try it! Plus, I have the eraser foundation version that is one of my top favorite foundations!

BENEFIT Boi-ing: Again this is from another Benefit kit, the How to Look the Best at Everything makeup kit in medium. You just can't go wrong with kits! It comes with two shades, '02 & 03', I honestly probably should have gone with the light kit, but I got this during the summer when I had a bit of a tan, either way I'm still very happy with this purchase. I had heard a lot about this concealer, and then when I heard about this kit it was the perfect opportunity to try it out, as well as other products. Also, this way I could sample two different shades, without having to buy two full things of it for double the cost! I do have to say it's as good as they say it is. I really like the formula and consistency of this concealer. It goes on smooth and has good coverage as well!

BENEFIT Erase Paste: This is yet another concealer that I had heard a lot about, but was hesitant to try because of the price. Then I saw this bad boy in the checkout aisle in Ulta for a fraction of the cost! Granted, it's also a fraction of the size, but that didn't matter to me 1. because I have a bunch of other concealers I need to use/try two. I just wanted to see what the product was all about. 

I do have to say it's not what I expected from all of the hype. This concealer has a very sticky, gunky initial texture that surprised me, as for pay off it applies okay and has good coverage. Which puts me in limbo, because I don't like the texture of this concealer at all, but the after putting it on I quite like it. Also, I got the shade 'No2 medium', which is a lot darker than I like my concealers to be, but they only had the medium shade in the mini travel size. So I usually put a highlighting concealer on top of this concealer to brighten it up. 

COVERGIRL & OLAY Simply Ageless: Out of all of the concealers I currently own, this is hands down my favorite! Sadly, I'm 99.99% sure that it's discontinued. Every time I'm in the makeup aisle at the drugstore I keep an eye out for it, and I never seem to find it. I originally selected this concealer because I was trying to find a new concealer to try out, and noticed it was Covergirl & Olay, Olay being my number one daily moisturizer, so I thought I'd give it a whirl. I got shade '210', a slightly lighter than my skin tone, which makes this the ideal concealer for me. I love love love the consistency of this concealer! It's so creamy and light to the touch, coming from I assume the white swirl of Olay. Also, it applies just as smooth as the texture, it doesn't feel heavy at all. BIG thumbs up! Covergirl should definitely think about bringing it back!

RIMMEL Wake Me Up: Yettt another concealer that I heard a lot about through the grapevine. I was really excited when I saw that Walmart carried this, especially since they don't have the foundation version. I got the shade '230 Vary Fair/Light', again glad I got the lighter shade, opposed to a shade exactly my skin tone. I like my concealers to add as much brightness to under my eyes as possible! Darn you dark circles!!! This concealer is light and liquid-y. By liquid-y, I don't mean it in a bad way, just that when I apply this concealer, I like to dot it under my eye, what a second or two for it to "set", then rub it in with my fingers. When I dot it and rub it in right away I feel like it "slides" around too much and I don't get as much coverage. Other than that I really like this concealer and the pay off. 

BAREMINERALS Well-Rested: This is more of a highlighter than a concealer, but they all go together. This came with the Well-Rested Trio, in the shade 'clear'. Before testing this concealer at home, I was expecting it to be like a concealer, or if anything like the dream lumi, but then again I obviously didn't read the packaging! It's not quite "clear", but it is more on the translucent side with a sheen. This is definitely good for layering not only with your concealer, but wherever you want to illuminate your face, like the T zone. 

MAYBELLINE Dream Lumi Touch Highlighting Concealer: This has the tiniest bit of life left to it. I have used this concealer so much that practically all of the writing has rubbed off! Judging by this, and the back up one I bought, I'd have to say I like this highlighting concealer. It definitely gets the job done. I like to use this as it's named, and highlight my under eye after I use a different concealer to add some extra brightness.  

REVLON Photo Ready: Moving onto another concealer that most people would consider an "empty", where as I like to scrape until I get every little bit out! I got the shade '003 Light Medium'. Despite have a backup of this concealer, somewhere, in the same shade, I need to get a shade lighter just for the brightness I like. This is another absolute favorite concealer of mine. It has a thick, creamy consistency, with amazing coverage! If I didn't know any better I would say this is a high end concealer. This one is definitely worth scraping! Think about how much product you're losing by just throwing it away once you reach the brim! Don't think of it as being frugal, just getting your money's worth! Which you deserve! 

MAC Mineralize: My "fanciest" high end concealer of the lot. Definitely another "empty", but it's a lot harder to make sure I've gotten the most out of it when it's in this type of container. Oh, but trust me I'm trying! This is one of my top liquid/stick concealers. Great consistency, texture, coverage, all of the above! Worth the pretty penny it costs, and definitely would repurchase this! 

I actually got this when I was in Korea, initially looking for the Mac Studio Finish concealer, because I read that had more coverage, but for some reason that I can't remember, the lady told me not to get that one, and me being the non confrontational meek person I am I just got this one instead. Which, again I'm totally happy with, but I want to branch out and try the other Mac concealers for sure!

Between stick and pot concealers I can't say I have a favorite. I like them both, either way I end up using my finger! So, I guess it doesn't really matter to me how it comes, as long as I can get my hands on concealer I'm happy! 

If you have any concealers you'd like to recommend I'd love to know about them! :D 

What's your favorite type/brand of concealer?!