Monday, February 7, 2011

Never ordering from ELF again!

Warning: This post contains my opinion. They are harsh! 


Okay so I have ordered from ELF sooo many times before in the past, and was so excited when I did my last order. I got the 100 color shadow pallet, and I could not wait to get it! It came rather quickly, but was missing my daily brush cleaner. I contacted the company, and they told me they would get it right out to me, which they did after I had to ask them 3 times about it.


They then did send me out my brush cleaner in a yellow envelope via the United States Postal Service. The entire bottle had broken, and leaked everywhere! Half of my product was gone.


I contacted ELF 5 days ago about this, and just today received an email back. It was a generic email and did not provide me with any information. I then checked their site, and saw that "Backordered and or damaged products will be fully refunded."   How the hell can I be refunded if I can never get in touch with anyone!?


This has been a horrible experience, and it will take a lot from ELF to get be back as a regular customer.

Friday, January 28, 2011

We have a Formspring!

http://www.formspring.me/Makemeup17


Hello everyone! Hope you are having a fabulous new year! We have been sooo busy here... starting school again, got a new car, and a promotion at work!!! We will have reviews up very shortly! 


I am looking for help with reviewing products, and am looking to create a Youtube channel with all different reviewers. If you are interested, please leave your email address (I will not publish your post) on our Formspring and I will contact you as soon as possible! 


Feel free to log on and let us know what you would like to see with this site. What products you would like for us to review, and any comments you may have. It would be greatly appreciated.


Have a great weekend everyone!! 


xoxoxoxo

Friday, January 14, 2011

Beauty Secret: Lanacane Anti-Chafting Gel as a facial primer

So when you first see this title, you may be thinking "what the!?", but I have to assure you, this is the best discovery I have found!!! 
Recently, I have heard a lot of talk about face primer, and never really used it. I have insanely oily skin, and nothing seemed to help it. Primer is supposed to help control the oils, so I decided to give one a try. I used Prime Time from Bare Minerals, and spent $30 on nearly no product at all. I was desperate to find a new primer, so I was looking into the Smashbox Photo Finish primer. The ingredients and nearly identical to the Lanacane Gel, and I find that the gel works so much better!!! And better yet (if that's possible), it does not make me break out like the Smashbox did! And the price difference is unbelievable.


Smashbox Photo Finish Primer Ingredients: Cyclomethicone, Dimethicone Crosspolymer, Isopropylparaben, Retinyl Palmitate, Tocopheryl Acetate, Ascorbic Acid, Carthamus Tinctorium (Safflower) Seed Oil, Vitis Vinifera (Grape) Seed Extract, Cola Acuminata Seed Extract, Propylene Glycol, Camellia Oleifera Leaf Extract, Isobutylparaben, Butylparaben, Water.


Lanacane Anti-Chafing Gel Ingredients: cyclopentasiloxane, dimethicone, dimethicone/vinyl dimethicone crosspolymer, silica, tocopheryl acetate, trisiloxane.


As you can see, they have the same ingredients! I swear by this product! 


Retail Price: I picked it up at Walgreens for $6.99
Pros: Read above! 
Cons: Ugly packaging! I squeezed mine out into a makeup container I purchased online for $4.99 (http://bestofferbuy.com/Small-Round-Transparent-And-Pink-Beauty-Make-Up-Case-Container-p-15432.html?currency=USD&utm_source=gbase&utm_medium=cse&utm_campaign=gbase)