Mini Drugstore Haul (with lip swatches!)

I got a fair amount of new stuff from various drugstores on Tuesday, so I figured I'd do a swatchfest for you! I will do my best to provide where I got the items from and for how much.

First up, I got two more L'Oreal Infallible eyeshadows. I love these! I think I'm going to stop myself at four total though, because none of the other colors really interest me.

On the left is Perpetual Purple, which I used in a look here, and on the right is Midnight Blue. I really love Midnight Blue as it's hard to find a shimmery dark blue that actually looks BLUE. I got these from CVS for $7.99 each, but they were buy one get one 50% off. I will say to go to Walgreens if you want to pick any up this week, as they are $6.99 for a limited time. I'm not sure if the buy one get one 50% off on L'Oreal cosmetics applies to these though, bit confused!

On the left is Milani Liquif'eye in Silver. This is insanely pigmented; I love these liners! I got this at CVS for a mere $1.57 as it's on some sort of clearance.

The middle is Rimmel's new gloss (at least in the US) called Stay Glossy, and the color is Black Diva. A black lipgloss, from the drugstore?! Yes. This was $4.99 from Rite Aid.

The right is Milani Glitzy Glamour Gloss in All About Me. I've wanted the Hourglass Siren lipgloss for months now, but I refuse to pay $28 for one lipgloss. I got this feeling like it would be a good substitute and might satiate the need; we'll see. I believe this was $6.99 from Target.

I also picked up some Cover Girl Queen Collection lipsticks (they're basically the Lip Perfections for darker skin tones). Heather got me Regal Raspberry for my birthday and I adore it, so I checked out the display at Target to see if there was anything interesting. These were $5.99 each and the first three swatches left to right are the lipsticks in the following order: Girly Pink, Royal Plum and Burgundelicious. I really struggled on whether I wanted Royal Plum AND Burgundelicious, but ended up getting both (whoops!). All three have a really gorgeous metallic finish. Girly Pink is going in my freelance kit and I may pull Viva Glam V out so that it can stay with me ;-).

The right shade is Milani Color Perfect Lipstick Mandarina. This was also on clearance at CVS for something like $1.79. I love these lipsticks -- they smell nice, are long lasting and not drying at all. This is a creamy orangey coral.

Onto the lip swatches!

Milani Glitzy Glamour Gloss in All About Me

Cover Girl Queen Lip Color in Girly Pink

Cover Girl Queen Lip Color in Royal Plum

Cover Girl Queen Lip Color in Burgundelicious - this one was a bit slippery. Lovely color but a pain to apply.

Milani Color Perfect Lipstick in Mandarina

Rimmel Stay Glossy Lipgloss in Black Diva - The first picture is one thin coat, the second is two thin coats. I used a lip brush as this is for my freelance kit, so if you use it straight from the applicator it may be more opaque. It would definitely work over a black base.

Someone asked on Twitter if the black gloss had a scent; I couldn't detect one.

That's it for today, are you lemming anything right now?

FOTD: Haven't We Done This?

Yeah, so this is practically identical to a FOTD from October. Posting it anyway. /emo whinge

FACE:

- Revlon Photo Ready Foundation in Ivory

- Mac MSF Natural in Light Medium
- Maybelline SuperStay Concealer in Cream

- Maybelline Dream Mousse Concealer in Light

- Mac MSF in Semi Precious Crystal Pink

EYES:

- Too Faced Shadow Insurance

- BeautyUK Eye Spark in Purple (base at lashline)

- L'Oreal Infallible eyeshadow in Perpetual Purple (lid and lower lashline)

- MUA eyeshadow in Shade 9 (crease and lower lashline)

- MUA eyeshadow in Shade 4 (inner corner and brow bone)

- Sephora Flashy Liner Waterproof in Black 

- Maybelline Illegal Length mascara (Black)

LIPS:

- Milani lipstick in Mandarina (sheered)

- BeautyUK Lip Lust in Cocktail

L'Oreal Infallible Eyeshadow Swatches + Review

The blogging world has been abuzz about these arriving on US shores and I was curious to try some out! I found a display and I have to say that I had a really hard time choosing colors. I decided I was only getting 2 but the color selection was quite interesting, so choosing was difficult. Here's what I ended up with:

As you can see, I picked up 892 Amber Rush and 333 Golden Sage. I knew I wanted Golden Sage from the start as so many people had said the color was gorgeous, and I wanted another color to test that I didn't have a ton of dupes for... so I chose the bronze.

I got these at Walgreens for $7.99 each, which I find to be a bit expensive. They are 3.5g/0.12oz though, so you get a lot of eyeshadow for your money. For reference, a Mac eyeshadow is 1.5g/0.05oz. I'm just not a huge L'Oreal fan, so I feel like $8 for a single eyeshadow is SO much, even though it's really not.

Swatches, shall we? Both eyeshadows are done over bare skin.

The texture of these shadows is extremely strange. They are spongy like and almost like a cream eyeshadow, but they have loose pigment when you touch them with a brush. They are extremely pigmented and smooth and I had virtually no fallout when using both shades. Even with the creamier texture, I had no issues with fading or creasing either. I wore Amber Rush on my lids over primer for around 13 hours, and it still looked fab when I went to take it off before bed. These give an interesting finish to the lid -- almost like you've foiled a loose eyeshadow with so much less work!

There's not much to say about these other than that I really like them! I want to get a few more shades while hoping that they are in fact permanent, so that I can wait for a good drugstore sale to nab some. When swatching them in the store, I felt like the sparkling black was a bit sooty and weird, but others may love it for a classic black smokey eye.

Just to show you them on the eye, I used both for this EOTD. The only additional shadows I used were Jesse's Girl Eye Dust in Pixie Dust to highlight my brow and inner eye, and a little bit of a dark taupe to give the illusion of having eyeliner on.

Do you have any of these? What do you think?