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It Cosmetics’ New Dual-Ended Brush Gives a Beautiful Airbrushed Finish (Beauty Review)

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It Cosmetics’ Dual Airbrush #7

Retail Price: $48
 
Ultra luxe, ultra plush tool for perfect airbrush application.
Provides the capability to build coverage with foundation or powder and
buff away imperfections. 
This brush was designed with leading plastic
surgeons to apply BOTH foundation and concealer to a flawless,
airbrushed finish!
The ultra plush, ultra luxe large end allows you to quickly apply
your foundation to larger areas for a beautiful airbrushed finish, while
the micro-end allows for the most accurate precision in even the
smallest spaces. 
This high-quality brush is extremely soft and great for
even the most sensitive skin!

Features 100% synthetic bristles. Vegan

My Review

First Impression & Packaging:
Let me first say that the brush I own is a limited edition brush from the It’s All About You collection they featured on QVC back in June. It has a silver handle as opposed to the black handle that you can purchase now. But besides that, they look identical.

It Cosmetics is well known for the quality and luxuriousness of their brushes. With the Dual Airbrush, the bristles were extremely soft and very dense. The middle of the brush, the handle, doesn’t feel as luxurious as It Cosmetics black handle brushes, but it’s still nice.

Product & Application:
I love using this brush to apply my foundation — it lives up to it’s name of giving you an “airbrush” look. It feels amazing brushing it on your skin and doesn’t take long before my foundation is blended into my skin and looking fabulous. 🙂

I personally only use this brush when applying my lighter, more liquidy foundations. I felt like with my full coverage foundations this brush would give me a cakey, fake look. But that’s just my personal preference.

Major Likes & Dislikes:
The bigger end of the brush — the foundation side — is my favorite to use. The concealer side works well, but I just personal love to use the larger end. It feels so amazing and I like that I don’t have to work very hard to blend the foundation into my skin. It just takes a few seconds and — bam — my skin looks flawless!

As for dislikes, I would have to say that I don’t personally like dual-ended brushes. They’re hard to store, since you can’t put it in a jar (which is how where I keep my brushes) without potentially damaging one side of the brush. So it just lays out on my counter. Not a bad thing….just annoying to me.

Final Thoughts:
This brush is a great addition to any makeup collection. If you are on a tight budget and want to get some good face brushes (which make all the difference when doing your makeup), this dual-ended brush would be worth the purchase. It IS expensive, but you get two brushes for the price of one. And they’re telling the truth when they call it an airbrush foundation and concealer brush — you do get a beautiful, natural airbrush look to your face. Love it!

Question for My Readers: What’s your favorite brush brand? I love It Cosmetics for high end, and Real Techniques for drugstore. 🙂

I received one or more of the products mentioned above from It Cosmetics in the hopes that I would mention them on my blog. Regardless, this does not guarantee a review or feature on my blog. I only share information that I think will be useful for my readers and I only recommend products I have personally used. All thoughts and opinions are 100% my own.

It Cosmetics ‘Your Most Radiant You!’ to be Featured on QVC October 14th!

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I’ve shared a few QVC‘s Today’s Special Value with you in the past — once featuring It Cosmetic‘s CC Your Way to Beautiful Skin and then another time featuring their IT’s All About You collection. Today I have yet another wonderful collection by It Cosmetic’s that will be featured on QVC’s Today’s Special Value TOMORROW, October 14th, starting at midnight!

If you’re not familiar with how QVC works, each day they decided on one item to feature as a “Today’s Special Value”. These items are offered at an exceptionally low price beginning midnight (ET) until 11:59 PM (PT) that day.

About It Cosmetics

Developed with leading plastic surgeons and dermatologists, IT Cosmetics® creates clinically-proven, innovative problem-solving makeup and skin care products that harness cutting-edge, anti-aging technologies and high-performance skin-loving ingredients to provide you with serious beauty solutions that help you look and feel your most beautiful!

Co-founder and CEO Jamie Kern Lima, who suffers from rosacea, sparse brows, hyperpigmentation and problematic skin, works hand-in-hand with plastic surgeons and dermatologists to create innovative, high-performance products with a laser focus on solving women’s beauty problems. Prior to launching IT Cosmetics, Jamie Kern Lima was an award-winning TV news anchor. She also graduated Valedictorian from Washington State University and received her MBA from Columbia Business School. IT Cosmetics is sold in ULTA Beauty Stores nationwide, and is a top color cosmetics brand on both QVC and The Shopping Channel Canada.

For more information, please visit www.itcosmetics.com  – IT’S truly your beauty, but better™!

Your Most Radiant You! 5-Piece Collection

The five-piece collection includes Celebration Foundation Illumination and the brand new CC+ Radiance Ombré Blush to help you achieve your most luminous skin. Be one of the first to experience the worldwide launch ofHello Lashes Extensions  that will give your lashes a reason to wink! It comes paired with the No-Tug Gel Eyeliner to give your eyes the attention they deserve.

Help transform your complexion and eyes with makeup that looks and feels like your skin but better for your most radiant you!

This was the first time I was able to receive the collection before the collection went live on QVC, so I’m really excited to share with you my own pictures and initial first impressions of the products! Let’s take a look!

The collection comes safely packaged in this box, complete with an informational booklet on each product and a few samples of other It Cosmetic products.

 

Celebration Foundation® Illumination Full Coverage Anti-Aging Foundation

This foundation provides full coverage and illumination to your skin. Infused with peptides, hydrolyzed collagen, antioxidants and skin-loving ingredients to nourish your skin and to help skin appear younger-looking, Celebration Foundation Illumination will never crease or crack and is also infused with Drops of Light Technology®.

My First Impressions: I own another It Cosmetics powder foundation that I really love, so I am pretty confident that I will love this one as well. It’s so buttery soft and swatched very pigmented and creamy on my finger. The brush that it comes with seems a little useless, but I am sure I’ll find some other use for it in my makeup routine. 🙂

New! Hello Lashes® Extensions 24HR Mascara

This brand new mascara helps you achieve the look of false lashes. This five-in-one, clinically proven 24-hour wear mascara features the blackest black melted nylon fibers infused into our volumizing and lash-loving Hello Lashes Mascara to help you achieve long, thick and dramatic lashes in one quick coat application! Infused with lash-enhancing and conditioning ingredients, including vitamin B5, peptides, collagen, proteins and green tea.

My First Impressions: I haven’t tried this on my lashes yet, so it’s really hard to give you a first impression. But I can tell you that the wand looks very promising — I like that the end of the wand is feathered out, instead of just cut blunt. This means I’ll be able to get the inside corner of my lashes really well, which is something I like to do. The formula appears to be very black and very wet, so definitely promising.

New! CC+® Radiance Ombré Blush

It Cosmetic’s brand new blush is the perfect balance of color and luminosity, blending from matte to pearlized radiance – it’s a blush and highlighter in one compact. Formulated to minimize the appearance of pores and fine lines, this anti-aging, color correcting formula in the perfect pink shade of Je Ne Sais Quoi® is beautiful on all skin tones.

My First Impressions: I love the idea of a pearly highlighter and matte blush in one compact. I admit I’m a little skeptical of how this will work over a longer period of time — not sure if the two will become mixed together. But I plan to be careful and take advantage of this matte blush. I love matte blushes!

No-Tug® Waterproof Gel Eyeliner 

This gel liner is clinically proven to remain waterproof for up to 12 hours without tugging the delicate eyelids. Highly pigmented and anti-aging in both
its application and its ingredients, this eyeliner is formulated with skin-loving hydrolyzed collagen, silk, rose and antioxidants.

My First Impressions: I like the color that they give you in this collection — it’s a brown/black. So I can use it for those days that I don’t want a deep, dark black, but I do want something with more pigmentation then a brown. I swatched it on my arm, and it hasn’t budget a bit. I’ve rubbed it multiple times, to see if it will smear or fad, and it’s held up really well.

Heavenly Luxe® Double Airbrush Foundation Brush

This brush features dual fiber brush hairs that flawlessly work to blend foundation onto your skin and help blur away imperfections. You don’t need to be an expert – IT does the work for you!

My First Impressions: It Cosmetics brushes always feel and look extremely high quality. The price tag on these brushes are pretty high, though, so the fact that they always include a brush in their collections is really nice.

This brush is super soft and, because it has different length bristles, it almost feels feather-light when you brush it over your skin. I can totally see how this would give you an ‘airbrushed’ appearance. Not sure if you would be able to get a full-coverage application, but I think it will be perfect for those every-day makeup looks. 🙂

Details on It Cosmetic’s  QVC Feature

Your Most Radiant You! Five-Piece Collection goes beyond beauty. This Today’s Special Value® is scheduled to debut on QVC®

Tuesday, October 14, 2014 at midnight (ET)~   PIN IT  ~ 

I received one or more of the products mentioned above from It Cosmetics in the hopes that I would mention them on my blog. Regardless, this does not guarantee a review or feature on my blog. I only share information that I think will be useful for my readers and I only recommend products I have personally used.

 

Get the Tightest Line with It Cosmetics’ New Waterproof Mascara (Makeup Review)

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The weeks just fly by sometimes — especially when you are having fun. I hope your week has been going as well as mine has. To close out this week, I have a review for a product that was instrumental in giving me awesome lashes on my wedding day!

Which, by the way, I have begun working on my wedding day post. It will be up soon, and with LOTS of pictures! If you want to see/hear about a certain aspect of my wedding day, leave your requests below!

I received the product below from the company.

About It Cosmetics’ Tightline Waterproof Mascara

Retail Price: $24

The next generation of lash innovation! This budge-proof, waterproof
full lash length black eyelash primer is another true game-changer in
mascara and eyeliner technology, clinically proven even after 12 hours
of wear! 
This multi-tasking beauty must-have utilizes an ultra-skinny
wand, allowing you to start coating your lashes at their actual root, so
you coat black along your entire lash length (unlike most mascara
brushes that are too large to get to the root, leaving the first 1/3 of
your lash roots bare!). This gives you ultimate length and volume. 
But
the best part is, if you have sparse or missing lashes, the Tightline™
brush lays down black pigment along your entire lash line, filling in
spare spots, giving you a full beautiful lash line and the look of an
eyeliner and its waterproof even after 12 hours!

My Review:


First Impression & Packaging:
I wasn’t sure what to make of this mascara when it first arrived from It Cosmetics. The packaging is so sleek and small, and when you open it the wand is even smaller! My first thought was, “Oh, how cute!”

 
I admit I was a bit skeptical about the size of the wand. As you can see in pictures, it’s so small you almost can’t see the spirals sticking out. But I’m always game to trying new things — especially if it would give me beautiful lashes. 

Product & Application:
While the mascara is tiny and the wand borders on being micro, I found applying this to my lashes was easy and effortless. In fact, because it has such a tiny wand, it’s easy to apply this without accidentally smudging it onto eyelid (a problem I constantly have with regular mascara).

In fact, I’ve never messed up while using this mascara. Ever. Which is such a relief for me not to have to worry about ‘fixing’ anything. As for how it looks once applied, this mascara really does get right down to the roots of your lashes and coats the entire length of them! I also like that the wand is small enough that I can easily coat the back of my lashes.

This mascara definitely gives you wonderful definition and length. The color of the mascara is a really beautiful, intense black. I find that after I apply this mascara and wait a few seconds, I like to follow it up with a volumizing mascara to top it off. This mascara does give you volume — don’t get me wrong — just not as much as I like on a typical day.

Major Likes & Dislikes:
I love that the wand is so tiny, and therefore really easy to use to get into the inner corner without accidentally getting it on my lids. I also like the fact I can easily apply it to the back of my lashes. While that step isn’t necessary, it does give you a more seamless and intense black look to your lashes — on both top and bottom. (sometimes we forget people can see that area when we blink…) 

The price of this mascara is rather high — but not as steep as some high-end mascara’s I’ve seen — so it depends on the individual consumer if this product is too expensive or not. That’s really the only con that I can think of. It’s always been a dream to take off at the end of the night. No problem’s there. And I’ve never noticed any flaking or fall out on my cheeks throughout the day. (definitely a plus there!)

Final Thoughts:
I’ve liked being able to add this product to my makeup routine. While I rarely wear it just by itself, I like using it as the base to my mascara. It just makes the end results look SO much better than if I just used my regular mascara.

I used this mascara on my wedding day: because of all the days I wanted my eyelashes to look seamless, black, and beautiful, it was on that day! And it preformed like a dream. I’ve already recommended this product to my other bride-to-be friends. It’s especially handy if you have light-colored lashes and you want to make sure mascara coats each lash and makes them as black as they can be. 🙂

Is the Tightline Waterproof Mascara a must in your makeup collection or routine? I would say that if you can budget it in, then yes! Definitely worth the purchase! But if your heart stalls when you think of buying a $24 mascara every three months, I would recommend purchasing it only when you know you’re going to be having a special event (such as a wedding 😉. The price isn’t cheap, but it’s a unique mascara that will change the way your lashes look.

Question for My Readers: What do you look for most in a mascara? Volume? Length? The most intense black?


I received one or more of the products mentioned above from It Cosmetics in the
hopes that I would mention them on my blog. Regardless,
this does not guarantee a review or feature on my blog. I only share
information that I think will be useful for my
readers and I only recommend
products I have personally used.

QVC’s ‘Today’s Special Value’ will be featuring BRAND NEW It Cosmetics Products SOON!

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I’ve got some really fun and exciting news for you all today! I’ve done this before in the past — with QVC’s last It Cosmetics deal (that I will be reviewing on here very soon!). If you missed that money-saving deal, you’ll like what I’m about to tell you. 🙂

It Cosmetic’s new All About You! Collection will be launching for one day only on QVC next Saturday, June 21st!

Yep, that’s right! And this time, I’m able to bring the news to you sooner, so you can be ready to tune into QVC or hop on QVC.com bright and early on June 21st. 🙂 

About IT Cosmetics®:
IT, which stands for Innovative Technology, is all about
Clinically Proven, Skin Loving, Problem Solutions! Founder Jamie
Kern, who suffers from Rosacea, Sparse Brows, Hyperpigmentation and
problematic-skin works hand-in-hand with a team of plastic surgeons to
create innovative, high performance products laser
focused on solving women’s beauty problems.

I’m sure you’re curious what will be included in this 5 piece collection from It Cosmetics, right? Well, I’m happy to share with you that not only will this collection include 3 QVC® Customer Choice Beauty
Award winning products, but the other 2 products are brand new launches that will be available for the first time ever in this bundle — available from midnight ET June 21st until 2:59 AM ET June 22nd for an exceptionally low price, only while supplies last.

So let’s break down the products for you!
IT’s All About You!  Your 5pc Customer Favorites
IT Cosmetics Today’s Special Value – 1 Day ONLY on QVC!

1) Celebration Foundation®  
Achieve your most flawless, beautiful skin with
Celebration Foundation®, the 2013 QVC Customer Choice Beauty
Award winner for “Best Foundation”.  This full coverage, lightweight
anti-aging foundation rich in skin-loving peptides, hydrolyzed collagen,
silk and more, helps you attain a perfect, airbrushed
complexion in 30 seconds!
2) *Limited Edition* Heavenly Luxe™ Dual Ended Complexion Perfection Brush
Use the NEW multifunctional 2-in-1 Heavenly Luxe™ Dual-Ended Complexion Perfection Brush
to swirl circles into the foundation and buff onto skin to get flawless
silky full coverage that feels like you’re wearing nothing.
3) Brow Power® Universal Brow Pencil
Finish your most beautiful you with the most powerful step in your beauty routine, your brows!
Brow Power® Universal Brow Pencil, is the two-time QVC Customer
Choice Award winner for “Best Brow Product”. This universal, long wear
eyebrow pencil is infused with cutting edge, brow-enhancing ingredients
that coat each hair, while adhering to the
skin, making it easy to naturally transform thick or thin brows to
create the look of your brows but better™. In a universally flattering
shade, Brow Power® Universal Brow Pencil is customized to work with all
hair colors to create a bold look for everyone!  
For lighter hair, apply using lighter, softer strokes and for darker
hair, apply pressing hard to deposit more color.  As a finishing touch,
lightly brush through brows with the spooly brush to create a natural
polished look. As always, for every Brow Power®
Universal Brow Pencil sold, IT Cosmetics will donate one to the
American Cancer Societies’ Look Good, Feel Better® program to help women
face the effects of cancer with confidence. To date, IT Cosmetics has
donated over $4 million in Brow Power Pencils to Look
Good, Feel Better®.
4) CC+™ Radiance Palette (BRAND NEW!)
Now it’s your most radiant, luminous, perfectly lit skin in a compact! Introducing the
NEW CC+™ Radiance Palette. This palette includes three new
color correcting innovations! The CC+™ Brightening Finishing Powder,
CC+™ Matte Bronzer, and the CC+™ Flush Blush, each anti-aging talc-free
powder includes color correcting pigments that
enhance and even out the appearance of your natural skin tone, while
boosting the warmth and radiance of your skin. Real Silk and Collagen
work to blur the look of fine lines and pores.  
— The CC+™ Brightening
Finishing Powder is formulated with Drops of Light Technology™,
using light-reflecting microspheres to provide your skin with the look
of healthy illumination without glitter or shimmer
— The CC+™ Matte
Bronzer is formulated with anti-aging peptides and hyaluronic-filling
spheres to keep you skin smooth and hydrated.  Hydrolyzed
Collagen, Vitamins A, C and E, Grapeseed, Green Tea, Silk and Aloe
treat your skin to a powerful boost of antioxidants and healthy
moisture, smoothing out fine lines and wrinkles.  
— The CC+™ Blush not
only flushes your cheeks for all day wear, but is also infused
with anti-aging powerhouse ingredients including Amino Acids, Plum Oil,
Cherry Oil, Hyaluronic Acid, Pomegranate, Jojoba, Aloe, Seaweed Extract
and Grapeseed that work together to give cheeks a boost of healthy
hydration.
5) Waterproof Bye Bye Under Eye® Anti-Aging Concealer (BRAND NEW!)
Last – but not least – say hello to the NEW Clinically Proven All Day Waterproof version of two-time Customer Choice Beauty
Award Winner for “Best Concealer” Bye Bye Under Eye®, now
loaded with additional anti-aging skin loving benefits plus clinically
proven for all-day 12-hr waterproof coverage. 
Start by warming up a pin
sized amount on the back of your hand, then
gently tap the concealer onto the areas that need extra coverage and
blend with fingers or use the multitasking Dual Ended Complexion
Perfection Brush to ensure flawless application.  Infused with
anti-aging technology to not only cover, but to make your skin
appear younger at the same time, Bye Bye Under Eye® Waterproof stays
true to its original Bye Bye Under Eye® Concealer formula, providing
crease-free coverage to camouflage under eye discolorations with ease,
while hydrating to ensure a beautiful well-rested
appearance.
IT Cosmetics®
IT’s All About You! 5pc Collection will be a Today’s Special Value
offered at an exceptionally low price while supplies last, for
ONE DAY ONLY. 

You can get this deal on QVC, the QVC apps, and also QVC.com on June 21st, 2014 from midnight to 2:59 AM ET the following day. 

It Cosmetics’ 4-Piece Collection is QVC Today’s Special Value! Check it out!

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Today I’m really excited to be partnering with It Cosmetics to bring my readers some great news — especially if you are a QVC kind of girl! 😉

First off, for those who aren’t familiar with this brand, It Cosmetics is  makeup company all about “…High Performance, Skin Loving, Problem Solutions!” The founder of this brand, Jamie Kern, suffers from Rosacea, Hyperpigmentation, and all around problematic skin. She works with a team of plastic surgeons to create her innovative, high performance makeup products that focus on helping women solve their beauty problems.

So, the excited news! It Cosmetics is going to be on QVC today!

CC Your Way to Beautiful Skin!
Available March 10 on QVC as the Today’s Special Value


Collection available at a special price for one day only!

That’s right! This great collection by It Cosmetics is schedule to be offered on QVC as the ‘Today’s Special Value” on Monday, March 10, 2014! TODAY!!!! 😀

(For those who aren’t aware, QVC’s Today’s Special Value is when they offer one time each day that is available at an exceptionally low price and only valid from midnight until 2:59AM ET the following day…or while supplies last! 🙂

So what does the It Cosmetics collection contain?? It includes…

— CC+™ Lip Serum Hydrating Anti-Aging Color Correcting Crème Gloss
— Tightline™ Waterproof Mascara Primer
— Your Skin But Better CC+™ Cream with SPF 50+ (supersize!)
— Heavenly Luxe® Plush Paddle Foundation Brush

If you purchased every product on it’s own, it would add up to about $130 (some products are new and I couldn’t find the set price yet). QVC will be selling it for only $58.98 — which is insanely low for all these high-quality products! If you do some quick math and rounding, by purchasing this on the Today’s Special Value, you’re saving $70!! Which is an excellent deal for high end makeup!

They even give you a suggestion on how to use all these products in your daily skin-and-beauty-care!

First, start your routine off right with Your Skin But Better CC+ ™ Cream with SPF 50+. Using the Heavenly Luxe™ Plush Paddle Foundation Brush, apply a smooth, even layer to clean skin or on top of moisturizer. This CC Cream combines several products in one step, including SPF 50+ UVA/UVB Broad Spectrum, Physical Only, Non-Chemical Sunscreen.  This is the SUPERSIZE Your Skin But Better CC+ ™ Cream with SPF 50+; at 2.53 FL oz, it more than twice the size of the original CC+ Cream!  Be sure to blend this multi-tasking cream all over the face, neck and décolleté to provide the look of an even, hydrating, luminous finish.

Next, prep and prime the eyelashes with a waterproof mascara primer that lasts 12 hours! Lightly and gently press theTightline™ Waterproof Mascara Primer wand along the root of the lash line to fill in the gaps between the lashes to achieve the look of full volume and definition. Move along the entire upper lash line for a beautiful and natural liner effect for lashes that appear longer and fuller.Lastly, finish off your look with hydrating vitality! Glide ultra-conditioning CC+™ Lip Serum Hydrating Anti-Aging Color Correcting Crème Gloss in the Love shade over the lips for instant color correction and a lip tone that appears even. It can be worn day or night for improved hydration and a pretty flush of color that lasts!

Again, the It Cosmetics’ “CC Your Way to Beautiful Skin” 4-piece collection will be available for only $58.98, while supplies last, for only ONE DAY on QVC! You can also get this deal on the QVC apps and at QVC.com anytime today — until they’re gone! 

So if you’re a fan of It Cosmetics or are curious about their products, I’d encourage you to take advantage of this deal! I was hoping to get my collection in time to review it for you on here today. But I have used a few It Cosmetics products and handled some of their brushes — and they’re all very luxurious and excellent quality. 
If I do receive my products before the day is out, I’ll get back on here and update this post with my first impressions of the product — so be checking back here in the late afternoon to see if I have any news for you. 
But QVC is pretty popular so these products might go really fast…so…
If you want them, go get ’em now! 🙂

BATTLE OF THE VAN GOGH PALETTES: Storybook Cosmetics Starry Night Palette VS Musee Beauty Van Gogh Palette

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Storybook Cosmetics and Musee Beauty both released palettes around the same time that were inspired by Van Gogh’s Starry Night painting and I got a lot of requests to compare the two palettes. So we’re doing a “battle of the Van Gogh palettes” today and I’m going to share the pros and cons of each palette and also do an eye look with each of them so you can see them used in real time!

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Kristen Leigh Cosmetics Mean Green Collection | Swatches & Brand Overview

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For Black Friday weekend, Kristen Leigh Cosmetics launched her Mean Green collection…and you know this green-lover was instantly intrigued 😍 I picked up a few colors and while it took a long time to reach me…the owner was sweet enough to add the whole collection into my order PLUS a variety of her other products! Let’s take a look at it all together!

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