Instagram Round Up #3

Good afternoon everyone!

It's been a long time since I last did an Instagram post so here I am with a recent Instagram round up from the past week. 

I hope you guys enjoy this type of post I know I do!

From top left to bottom right

The first one is from today, I wanted to see if the Urban Decay Naked and Coastal Scents Revealed palettes really were dupes when used on the eyes and I'd say it's a definite yes. On the left side I used the Naked palette and the Revealed on the right.

Another eye look using the Revealed Palette.

Neutral look using the Revealed 2 palette, do we see a running theme here? 

An OOTD, this was a post from this week on the blog.

My man and dog in Drumheller, AB. If you've never been to Alberta I highly recommend checking out Drumheller. The Royal Tyrell museum is one of my favourite places in Alberta. If that doesn't float your boat there's a gigantic t-rex you can climb and take a photo in it's mouth. It's worth doing at least once.

MAC's Woodwinked. This was featured in my Favourite Single Shadows post.

That's all for now.

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Bri

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Coastal Scents - Lip Gloss

Hey everyone! 

Hope you are all having a lovely week, my morning hasn't been off to a great start but it's supposed to be a gorgeous day today which I'm looking forward to. 

I've had these Coastal Scents Smack Lip Glosses stashed away for a while now just waiting to be reviewed. I own two of the eleven shades. One is the shade "Challenge Me" and the other is in the shade "O'Scarlet" {O'Scarlet is discontinued}

Challenge Me is a coral pink with lots of gold reflex in it. This is definitely the more pigmented of the two. If you've read any of my other lip posts you will know that I'm not a gloss girl, I have maybe four glosses in my 65+ collection of lip products. I love a bold lip, think reds, purples and bright pinks so if I go for a gloss it's generally going to be an opaque gloss with lots of color payoff.

Challenge Me delivers on all fronts. I appreciate that the gold shimmer throughout this gloss doesn't come across when applied. You can see very little shimmer in the swatch, the same goes for when its applied. It applies nicely and evenly with fairly good coverage in one swipe. These do transfer and you need to reapply fairly often but I haven't found many glosses where you aren't constantly reapplying. The color is not my favorite though, I wasn't a fan of how it looked against my skin but the formulation is very well done!

O'Scarlet is discontinued it seems as I couldn't find it listed on the Coastal Scents website.

Much more sheer than Challenge Me, it works well as a lipstick topper if you were to wear a matte red but wanted a coat of gloss to finish it off.

It's a pink red with different colored flecks of glitter including gold, blue and purple.

It doesn't apply evenly what so ever, in the swatch you can see where it goops up along the edges. I found that even after wiping the excess off from the doe foot applicator it would still goop up along the outer line of the lips. A lip brush may work better to apply this so you could achieve a more even application. I'm wearing this today and on it's own I don't really like how it looks, it looks like I just applied a clear gloss and then threw some glitter on it. Needless to say it's not a flattering look. The texture of O'Scarlet is a lot tackier and stickier than Challenge Me which isn't the best feeling on your lips. 

I would think about repurchasing some of the more pigmented shades but I would stay away from the more glitter bomb looking ones.

Have you guys tried the Smacks lip glosses? What did you think?

♥

Bri

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Coastal Scents -- Revealed

 

I know this is an old palette that's been out for a while but my love has been rekindled for this and I wanted to share my thoughts. 

We all know that this was heavily inspired by the ever popular Urban Decay "Naked" palette.

 

It's so pretty, I could stare it all day.

Here's a side by side comparison, as you can see the pan shape/size is identical and the shades of course are very similar. Dupe alerts coming up!

The packaging is cardboard and there's no mirror which isn't a big con for me as I never use my palette mirror, I prefer a much larger mirror to do my makeup in but I did see a lot of people commenting about this not having mirror and how they wished it would have.

There is twenty shades in the Revealed palette opposed to 12 in the Naked. The Revealed palette retails for $19.95 on the Coastal Scents website opposed to $64 for Urban Decay. With Coastal Scents you're getting a lot more bang for your buck as you're getting almost double the shadows for a fraction of the price! The color scheme is well put together in the Revealed I love my nudes as does everyone and this palette although it has some miss shades I think the quality is overall well done. I love that there is a range of mattes and shimmer's it gives you more depth for creating eye looks and with this I can only imagine the amount of looks someone could come up with!

Overall, the colors are pigmented (with a couple exceptions - looking at you shade 3 - top row) and blend like a dream. 

Below is the first ten shades (from bottom - top (1-10))

 

Ten shades from the bottom row (Bottom - Top 11-20)

Time for the dupes! Please note these are not exact dupes but you could use them to gain a similar look. I will list the dupes I found online for the Naked 2 as well. I don't own the Naked 2 so unfortunately I can't compare.

 

So, here's the "dupes" for the Naked. I have labelled the Coastal Scents side with the corresponding shade number. The only really close dupes in my opinion are Buck and Darkhorse. The other ones are similar but you can see distinct differences. Creep for example is not a black as shade 20 in the Coastal Scents palette. Half Baked is another one, its a lot more gold than the Coastal Scents shade but it is possible to get extremely similar looks with these so if you're on a budget I highly recommend picking up this palette!

List of dupes for Naked 2:

Foxy - Shade 1

Half baked - Shade 8

Bootycall - 2

Chopper - N/A (the only one I couldn't find a dupe for anywhere online)

Tease - Shade 5

Snakebite - Shade 12

Suspect - Shade 9

Pistol - Shade 13

Verve - Shade 10

YDK - Shade 17

Busted - Shade 18

Blackout - Shade 20

I used this on my eyes today actually and that's what rekindled the flame. This is great palette with fabulous shades for the most part that blend amazingly! 

What do you guys think?

=)

Bri