Eye Makeup Remover Pads That Aren't Soaked In Acid

If you're a frequent reader... #1 - I love you .. and #2 - you know that I've been taken around the block by some eye makeup removers in the past. I'll give it to the makeup industry that it might be slightly tricky to make products that obviously have to have chemicals in them in order to work correctly and have them NOT burn the shit out of your eyes in the process. I'm no chemist - but I'd imagine it to be hard. But I could be wrong.

I love E.L.F. and everything but HOLY GOD, the very thought of using their eye makeup remover pads right now is making my eyes water and I am not even joking. Probably the only product of theirs I recommend NOT buying ever.

Anyways - I went to Target today with boyfriend & we stumbled upon the dollar section. Let me also add that before we stumbled upon the dollar section, I had one thing in my hands. After stumbling occurred - I had 5. Damn you, Target. Damn you and your ways. Although the static guard and mini febreezes are fun - I'm here to talk about these magical little diddies:

Okay so this is the bigger tub (the $1 tub has 15 pads which is all I needed to start out with, incase they were similar to rubbing pepper spray in your eyes) - so I am obviously going to be upgrading my size since I think the bigger ones are only like $4 - $7. They are oil free which is another big plus, especially if you suffer from oily eyelids (which I know a lot of you do since I get primer questions out the wazoo). The pads themselves are pretty saturated so you definitely only need one to do both eyes. I hate when I get eye makeup remover pads and they're so dry feeling that they're painful to use. They don't have a weird smell to them and when I used it, opened my eye, and didn't feel pain - I knew we had a winner. I would highly, HIGHLY recommend these. For $1 - they're great to pick up to throw in your purse in case you stay over somewhere and don't have time to do an elaborate before bed face routine, or even to keep at your boyfriend's house.

And another fun fact - I had these sitting in the car the whole night while I was at boyfriend's house, and I took them out and used them when I got home and they were kind of cold and OH MY GOD it was like giving my eyeballs a mini facial! If you can keep these suckers in the fridge, I would totally recommend it! Really weird concept that I absolutely discovered on accident - but seriously - try it. I never thought taking my makeup off could actually be a pleasant experience, but apparently I was wrong.

It happens very rarely ;)

Perricone Giveaway Winner!

Thank you to everyone that participated in the Perricone Giveaway!

I'm happy to announce that Kieran was our lucky winner. She'll be receiving a bottle of "no foundation" foundation, courtesy of the great folks over at Perricone. If you'd like to try the foundation for yourself - you can purchase it here..

Thanks to all for reading! You're the best

"No Foundation" Foundation Giveaway from Perricone! Win win win!

So I am extremely psyched to announce that it's giveaway time over here at Unnecessary Drama yet again. Haven't done a giveaway since the whole "Pretty Claus" thing, so it feels good to be getting back into the swing of things :) Anyways, thanks to the lovely folks over at Perricone - you're going to have a chance to win their "no foundation" foundation .. In summary as to what "no foundation" foundation actually is, it's basically amazing in a bottle. You're going to get flawless looking skin, but at the same time - it's translucent coverage so you're not going to feel like you're wearing clay on your face. SPF 30 & it was designed by a freaking doctor, so you know you'll feel good about putting it on your face everyday (especially if breakouts concern you).. And honestly - that's what we all look for in a foundation, right? If you've never heard of perricone products - I'd totally recommend looking them up. They have a ton of great stuff & they're all about light renewal, which is another product of Dr. Perricone's.

Okay so shut up already, Kelli... right? Yeah - sorry.

 

So if you'd like to win a bottle of the coveted "No Foundation" Foundation, 

here's what you have to do!:

1. You must be a follower of this blog, first of all. So if you're not - click over & follow. You can do it through blogger, google, facebook, twitter.. pick your poison.

2.  Leave a comment WITH your e-mail address & tell me why you need "no foundation" foundation. You can click here for a full product description.

3. Residents of the United States and Canada only, please :( Sorry to all of those overseas! I still love you!

Nice and easy, right? I'm going to draw the winner on Friday, March 5th - so that gives you a week to enter. Spread the word via Twitter & if you post on your blog, you know that's always good for bonus entries - so just let me know in your comment if you'll be whoring this out in any way :) Thanks to everyone for reading & most importantly - GOOD LUCK!!

Nailene! I Love You!

Let's start off this post by saying that the folks over at Nailene are absolutely amazing. Not only have they sent me quite a myriad of things to review for you guys - they make awesome products which makes my life even easier. Before I do reviews, I like to use the product (or in this case - wear) for a few days to really get a feel for them. I'm not into people who do the reviews fresh out of the mailing box because let's face it - you don't have a good feel for what you're even reviewing.

So anyways, I reviewed some of their "couture" full cover nails first & they went on so easily! I didn't have any trouble fitting them & the length was great (although I did have to file my thumbs down to make using my blackberry easier haha!).. I've had them on since Friday & haven't lost one yet which is also a big plus. One thing I definitely recommend when using glue-on's is to lightly buff your nail with a file before applying the glue. Make sure you apply glue to both the artificial nail AND your nail. It'll create a better bond :)

The design was really pretty & not too over the top for work, which is a big plus. The color on the nailbed is natural which was another major factor for me since I can't stand the overly pink or white looking ones. I got them done at a salon that way once and haaaated them. So these worked great for me.

They run about $6-$7 at drugstores & there are TONS available. You can even find them at Target or Wal-Mart next time you're there blowing all your money ;) I did some research and found that there are zebra tip ones! Totally need to be getting those holy CRAP! I've got some more stuff from them to review for you guys, so keep on the lookout for those. If you have any questions, wanna try nailene, or already have - let me know! As always, I'm all ears :)

Camera Ready Cosmetics!

Admist the snowstorm this past week, a little yellow envelope managed to make it through the tundra and to my front door (God bless you, Mr. Mailman. You are too good to me). It was from my friends at camera ready cosmetics & it happened to be one of their lip palettes by Graftobian.

Camera Ready Cosmetics is fantastic if you do makeup for other people since they offer a ton of palettes and multi-purpose items that can be blended and used for different things, etc... They carry a variety of different brands (including airbrush makeup) & pride themselves on good old fashioned customer service & keeping shipping reasonable! If only more companies had that idea, right?! I think it's cool that they have a lowest price guarantee, as well.

Here's the palette they sent me for review:

 

The big palette picture was taken with the flash off & the cover open, the smaller one is with the cover on and flash on (the colors look wayyyy lighter than they are in this palette). The colors go on pretty smooth. I applied them with my fingers since I freaking HATE cleaning lip brushes, but they'd certainly pick up easily with a brush (i.e. if you're using them on clients, friends, etc...). The swatches are pretty dead on in terms of how the color looks on your lips. I've been using the nude color (far left) almost every day under a gloss and it's a perfect look that isn't too over the top for work. Another nice thing is how blendable they are, and in that fine photograph of my luscious lips - I blended the two far left colors (nude & pink) together. You can easily darken up the lighter colors with the two darker shades (it's nice that they give you a red AND  brown), too if you're looking for something more dramatic. For $20.99 - it's a little expensive but you're definitely getting high quality lip color that's pretty multi-purpose, too. This palette color is "fashion", but the website has a few variations if you're looking for different shades. Check out what they have to offer & let me know if you'll be trying anything from CRC.