NYX Above & Beyond Full Coverage Concealer

 

Happy New Year, everyone! I look forward to 2014. I have a good feeling about this year. :) 

So last week I bought the NYX Above & Beyond Full Coverage Concealer in Beige. I've been using it since and I've sort of liked it. Here's the container: 

It's pretty small (.24 oz), but then again concealers are generally small containers. I like that they have one that matches my skin tone. It claims it is light weight, crease free, and full coverage. I agree that it is light weight and crease free, however, I don't fully agree that it is full coverage. It does cover my dark circles, but not as much as I would like. Maybe I need more foundation underneath? I'm not quite sure. 

I'd rate it 4 stars just because I'm not 100% happy with the coverage, but maybe that's just because I haven't quite figured out the trick to hiding my dark circles with concealer. The price for this is amazing - only $4.99! I'd like to try out other drug store concealers before settling on one specific concealer, but at this moment I would repurchase this product. It's cheap and pretty good quality.

What concealers work for you? Which do you hate? Comment below!

NYX Powder Blush Review

First impression

For Christmas I got a Target gift card from my cousin. I've watched tons of makeup/beauty videos on youtube the last couple of months and have seen the NYX powder blushes a couple of times. I've never tried it before, but with extra cash in hand, I decided to give it a try. I bought a couple of other things, which I will show a picture of down below and write individual reviews for those once I've properly tried them out. 

Let's start with the packaging: it's small, closes shut and doesn't seem like it'll burst open in my bag, and looks sleek. Plus, I really like the cute heart in the middle there.

I chose the color Rose Garden because it has the gold speckles in it and I thought it was just gorgeous! I couldn't decide between this one and Mocha because that one was also very pretty, but I went with this one (plus, my boyfriend also liked it). The price is very very reasonable. It was only $4.99 + tax. 

As soon as we got back home (after looking at makeup for a long while, oops!), I opened it up and immediately swatched it on my finger. It's so vibrant, that I didn't think it would go well on my olive skin tone. However, it can be built up easily and blends so well that it looks amazing. I thought that it would be super sparkly because of the glitter, but once it goes on it isn't very noticeable.

I haven't had a chance to test out the staying power, but I will wear it tomorrow to work all day and will post an update about that tomorrow night. I'm really keeping my fingers crossed hoping it lasts for a long time because so far I am impressed by the color, the blendable formula, and potency of it. I tried some on (the blush I was wearing had worn off by then) and only needed to sweep a tiny bit of it on the apples of my cheeks unlike other blushes that are so sheer that I have to use up a lot of the product in order to see some color.

Has anyone else tried this blush? What did you think of it? Comment below!

Here go all the other goodies I got today:

NYX concealer in a jar in beige, the NYX Blush in Rose Garden, Up & Up foundation brush, liner brush, and concealer brush. 

Final results

I applied the blush at 8AM and it has super amazing staying power. I checked on it around 2PM at work and it still looked great. Usually my blush is just about gone by then. I checked again around 5PM and my cheeks still had a bit of color on them. It is now 11PM and the color is definitely gone now, but wow, what staying power this blush has. I am highly impressed by the quality of this product. I highly recommend it!