Monday, April 30, 2012

E.L.F Cosmetics Hual & Mothers Day Present

Today i received my E.L.F Cosmetics order in the mail. I ordered this online on April 18 and it arrived today April 30th so it about two weeks to get here from Saddle Brook, New Jersey.  I have been soo excited to get this in, lately i have been watching and following alot of beauty gurus on YouTube (its rather addicting, if you guys would like i can make a post of the lovely ladies i follow, please leave a comment at the bottom of the post) and I've been learning alot about makeup that i never knew. Alot of the girls like the elf products and i had purchased some pieces of ELF cosmetics at zellers, giant tiger and the dollar store here in Canada, but I've never seen there full line. SO i decided to check out there online store http://www.eyeslipsface.com/ and they just happen to have a mothers day special buy one get one free (unfortunately the sale ended on the 26th, but they are already sending me messages with new deals). As this was my first out of country purchase, i decided why not get 2 for the price of one. I ended up buying $100 worth of stuff that i got for $50 plus $18 shipping. Which i still think is a great deal for the amount i got. I mainly wanted to purchase the makeup brushes as they are not cheap to buy.

PLEASE understand I'm not bragging about what i got, I am truly thankful to be able to purchase this for myself. If you know me well then you know i don't have alot of makeup or good quality makeup. Most of my make up is accumulated over the last 10 years or so mostly purchased at Walmart, the Dollar Store or drugstores like Shoppers Drug mart at discounted prices or on sale. I truly like this cosmetic line and alot of there products range from $1 to $6 which is very reasonable for any woman's make up collection.
 Here is Kane with my Package i received, Hes just as excited to see whats inside.
 It came with lots of packing and wrapped in these individual plastic bags or in boxes.
This is a layout of everything i got in its package, As you can tell some are sets.

All together i got 46 pieces, please keep in mind i did get some doubles of products and i also bought two makeup brush sets so that is a big majority of my purchase.  here is a list of what i received
1. Healthy glow bronzing powder
2. Two Brightening eye colour little palettes with 4 colours each in - Nouveau Neutrals & Butternut
3.  Three different Nail Polishes - Gum Pink, Clear and Light Pink
4. Mineral foundation - Beige
5. Mineral Booster - Sheer
6. Blush in the colour Flushed
7. Two ELF matte lip colour pens - Tea Rose & Nearly Nude
8. Hyper shine Gloss - Joy
9. Lengthening & defining mascara - black
10. Two Eyelid primer - Sheer & Champagne ( the champagne came empty just the tube so i will be contacting customer service to get a new one)
11. Under Eye Concealer and Highlighter
12. Super Glossy Lip Shine SPF15 - Honey Do ( this product is sooo amazing smelling i could smell it before i even opened it)
13. One Brown two compartment make up bag
14. One Make up Brush Organizer Bag
15. Two Bronzing Brushes
16. Lip Defining Brush
17. Blending Eye Brush
18. Foundation Brush
19. Two Total Face brushes
20. Two Eyeshadow Brush
21. Defining Eye Brush
22. Eyeliner Brush
23. Eyelash & Brow Wand
24. Two Concealer Brushes
25. Smudge Eye Brush
26. Brow Comb and Brush
27. Two Powder Brush
28. Complexion Brush
29. Angled Foundation Brush
30. Blush Brush
31. Fan Brush
32. Small Precision Brush
33. Eyeshadow "c" brush
34. Contour Brush
35. Small angled Brush
36. Small smudge Brush
(that's 28 Brushed alone, which i got a 12 pc set that was $30 for $15 and a $11 pc set that was $24 for $12, plus i got additional brushes in some of the little sets i got)

Well thats all i got, hope you all enjoyed it and you check out there great website.
If you guys have any questions or want to see some of the products up close then let me know by leaving a comment. So far i am very happy with my purchase and im sure customer service will come through for my empty eyelid primer.

Saturday, April 28, 2012

Something Corky

Hey guys its been awhile since I've done a post, I've been trying to spend as much time as possible outside in the gorgeous weather working on my backyard. This spring has been AMAZING and I've got alot done this year before we've seen any bugs. I will have pictures to post on the backyard later once i finish the rock work around our pond. Until then i hope you enjoy this CORKY craft.

As i might have mentioned i work at the Beer Store in Ontario, One of the biggest parts of my job is taking empties back. Not only do we take our beer bottles back for return but we except liquor and wine bottles purchased from the LCBO. We pretty much recycle everything. So me and my co-worker Barb started saving and collecting wine corks because we both thought it would make great crafts and also it would recycle the corks instead of trashing them. This is what i came up with. I am a huge lover of INDULGY I'm pretty sure its just pictures that are posted on pinterest. Anyways I'm addicted to this site. its non-stop pictures i could look at it for hours sometimes. While on it one day i found a picture of these great Cork letters.

Of course i had to try this. I thought since wine reminds me more of a kitchen accessory i thought it would have to be something for the kitchen. SO i chose EAT, because eating is what we do in the kitchen.
here's my finished product:


1.  First i started by bringing home a box full of corks. For my letters i only used the real cork corks and not the foamy ones. But I'm sure the others would be fine.

2. Then i decided to put it on bristol board to make the letter more durable. I simply cut the bristol board in half and i got 3 letters out of one half sheet. This will however change depending on the size you make your letters.

3. Then i started by placing some hot glue on the bottom of the cork and placing it on the bristol board making the desired size and shape of the letters. I also put a small bead of hot glue between the corks that touched to stabilize them together. You could also draw and outline of your letter on the bristol board as a guide to place your corks. Also i made sure my corks over lapped or were glued together.

4. Then i cut the bristol board out anywhere you could see it so it would'nt be visible from the front view unless you look through the cork hols in the center.
My letters i placed on top of my kitchen cabinets in the kitchen. and I love them and im sure i will get requests to make them for people real soon. I hope your inspired by my corky craft and you guys come up with some great ideas too. Feel free to leave comments or even share your Corky crafts in the comments space below