Friend Mail :-)

Hello Internet Friends.  Guess what time it is?  It's time for Friend Mail.  While I know friend mail isn't as exciting to read in Blog land as it is to watch on the Youtube.. I am going to post it just the same.  Lets take a magical journey through my package I  recently received from an friend from yesteryear.  (Middle School).  Let me paint you a picture.  I wasn't the most popular person by far in school.  I looked different, most likely acted different because I was treated different.  However time blurs and people mature and such.  I joined Facebook and now I am "friends" with half of everyone I knew in Middle School.  Friend and Foe.  Why Not.  Time gives perspective.  I can see where they came from.  Middle school is major pressure for everyone.  Anyhow.  Sometime In October in my manic midnight hours I wrote a post aimed at family members to give them Idea's of what they can get me for Christmas if they so choose.  I gave a few general ideas like Cookbooks, Makeup...and I specified NYX makeup because I knew it was relatively inexpensive and I just got done watching all the NYX face award videos so I was highly interested in this brand as I never tried it.  A few days later in our Ipsy bags we got a NYX eyeshadow and I received a message via facebook from a person I had messaged a few times over the years since befriending them on facebook, asking me if I'd like her eyeshadow from the ipsy bag as she remembered me posting about wanting NYX products.  I said yes and we have been talking ever since.  Yes people Makeup can bring people together.  It is a beautiful thing!  We have sent packages back and forth of samples and products from our collections that we won't use or no longer want,  and here is the latest.  I am so excited for these items and I audibly squealed when I opened it.  (can you picture it?) okay...  So thank you so much friend.  I appreciate your mail and your friendship.

Here we go...

1.  A sample of Starrily Bzzz Bzzz polish.  It is a wonderful clear coat with chunky black flecks and gold glitter.  Perfect to lay over a silver or white polish.  A wonderful addition to my polish collection.

2.  A sample of Lip Perfection Gel in the color Melrose from perfektbeauty.com  yes that is spelled correctly.  It is a wonderfully opaque mauve color that leaves my lips hydrated and doesn't feel gross on my lips at all.

3.  Pop Beauty Eyeshadow Trio in Smoking Hot.  A great palette of Black, Silver and White.  Perfect for a great smokey eye.  

4.  Be A Bombshell One Stick in the color Flustered.  This product is a lip and cheek stain in a stick form.  The best way to use it is to swatchy swatchy on the back of your hand and take a stipple brush and pick up the color on the tips of the brush and swirly swirly on your cheeks.  You can also just apply to the brush from the stick...just lightly pounce your stipple brush on the stick until you got it lightly covered.  Works great and you don't look like a clown.  

5.  Andrea Strip lashes number 33.  These are extremely full and beautiful lashes.  I cannot wait to try them out.  

6.  Aveda re hydrating lip glaze mini in Himalayan Snow.  It is a lovely light sparkly lip glaze that goes perfectly over any drying lipstick to give a extra special something.

7.  My very first NYX lipstick in the shade Goddess.  This is a neutral rosy peach color.  One of my favorites to use.  It is hydrating and doesn't fade quickly or spread to the corners of my mouth.  I am in love.

8.  And the most exciting product... The extremely hyped on Youtube...Maybelline Baby Skin Instant Pore Eraser.  I was looking online for this and my Walmart didn't have it and she found it for me.  It has a silicone texture and leaves the skin feeling soft.  My foundation just glides on and keeps my makeup looking great all night long.  Many a youtube guru says that even though it isn't textually at all like benefits pore fessional, the performance of the babyskin out performs or is comparable to the pore fessional which is 30.00 while the Babyskin is 5-8.  Depending on where you buy it.  There is only one person who said that they still prefer the Benefit product.  I don't listen to everything I hear from these ladies as some are self identified high end biased...so now that I have this from my friend and Ipsy sent me a sample of Pore Fessional I can put them side by side and test them myself.  Funny thing is my Elf Primer finally came and I got a Rimmel Primer as well.  Two weeks ago I had no primers and now I have several and what else would a blogger do in the interest of science and material to write about.  A primer/pore eraser smackdown!  Be watching for it.

I love my friends and I love mail.  I love trying different products and I love writing about them.  It gives me something to do.  It keeps me from singing off key country songs all night long and I am sure my Children are very grateful.  Until next time Internet friends.  And remember Friends don't let Friends Buy Crap!  Just give it to me and I will find a use for it or write about it.  :-)