SquareHue Skydive Interlaken April 2016

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I wasn't really expecting anything from this collection to be honest. Between you, me and the rest of the Internet, I stayed off of Instagram most of the month so I didn't even know this months theme. There has been a lot of family stuff going on and preparing for my Mom to have surgery on the 19th and one other thing we really aren't talking about that deals with another family member. I did tweet about it when I found out, but that is all I really said about it. Unfortunately the big C happens to those you least expect it to happen too. That is all I shall say about that.

To a more happy note, this box was the colorful light of my month. It showed up on the 2nd of the month, but then again, I am only a few hours from Miami (where SquareHue) is located. So, it's kind of a sneaky advantage to me. *cackles* 

I think that out of all of the months so far, this is my collection. The polishes just scream Spring to me and I love it! 

Mönch looks like it would be a bright yellow jelly but it is in fact a bright yellow MATTE polish. I was really surprised when I read the card that it wasn't a jelly. It took two coats to make it opaque and surprisingly it was not hard to work with!

Eiger is a pink polish with a pretty light blue shimmer-pearl polish. SquareHue calls it a duo chrome and that is something that it definitely is not. Two coats is the perfect amount for a full coverage. You can still see a little bit of VNL, but not enough to warrant another coat.

Jungfrau has to be the most surprising polish for me. This is a light lavender polish with a lot of glitter in it. It's not chunky or does the glitter make it hard to work with. I've been waiting for them to make a polish with actual glitters in it instead of just a shimmer. I would say though that if you're wanting the amount of glitter I have, I would probably dab it a little bit here and there. That is how I got such an amount of glitter. On my pinky, I didn't dab though and you can see that you still get quite a bit of glitter. 

Jungfrau is the main summit in a group of mountains that is 4158 Meters (13,642 feet) high in the Bernese Alps.
Eiger is a 3970 Meters (13,025 feet) high mountain also in the Bernese Alps.
Mönch is a mountain that is 4106 Meters (13,474 Feet) high mountain also in the Bernese Alps.

Out of the three polishes from this month I would have to say that Jungfrau is probably my favorite. There is just something about it that I love. Plus, you can either wear it as one coat or two coats and I have shown in the above picture.
The formula's of these are all on par with each other and they all apply easily and you don't have to dab the glitter, it is just a personal preference. The whole collection is definitely a winner in my book!

If you would like to purchase this collection definitely check out SquareHue's shop! You can now buy individual polishes and previous collections! I LOVE that they're expanding!

Best, Autumn

SquareHue Dublin Pub Crawl - March 2016

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I've been waiting to put blog posts back up until I can manage to get my .com address back, but then I realized that GoDaddy is giving me a hard time and wont release my domain name and I am not going to wait around and lose precious and valuable blogging time. I'm going to try and catch up with the next couple of weeks of the month and hopefully all will be good again! I'm also going to start throwing in more lifestyle-ish posts because I feel that the blogging world is too over saturated with beauty blogs and everyone is doing the same thing at the same time. There is nothing wrong with being different!

Without anymore rambling, here is the SquareHue Dublin Pub Crawl Collection!

I will say that I did internally groan a little bit when I saw the blue because they've been releasing quite a few blues as of late. They haven't released anything that is a dupe, but they have released a color a few months ago that is similar to this one.

St.John I would describe as a sky blue that is opaque in just two coats. The formula is lovely like usual with their cream polishes. 

Temple Bar I have been describing it as an orange creamsicle color that is a little darker than you would think. It's still gorgeous though! It is also opaque in two coats and the formula is just the same as usual.

Bridge Inn Is a "textured polish". I would say this is more of an off white with silver shimmers in it. Am I impressed with it? No. The formula is very thick and kind of hard to work with. It is a subtle textured polish though, so it's no like a PixieDust and it definitely is not like the China Glaze Textured ones. This does take two coats as well, but you have to make sure you get it even and really work with it. 

Is this my favorite collection by them? No it's not. There are definitely dupes out there for St.John, I do believe China Glaze has one and I can't think of the name at the moment. I don't have any polishes like Temple Bar and Bridge Inn so I am glad to have them! 

What do you think?

Autumn

Reviva Labs + Beauty Bloggers of Central Florida Giveaway!

Hello everyone! I hope you are all doing well!

I have something very exciting to share with you! I'm a part of the Beauty Bloggers of Central Florida and we've partener with Reviva Labs (Thanks to Brittany of Clumps Of Mascara)

Reviva Labs is a new to ME company, but I know quite a few of the girls use their products.  Reviva Labs has been around since 1973 and have introduced many "firsts" into the health food stores and skin care salons. I'm not going to go much more into their "firsts", instead I'll let you read all about her here!

There are a few of their products that really interest me! I'm sure all or most of you know that I'm a huge advocate and lover of Glycolid Acid, and it so happens that they have a couple of products that have GA in it!

The Glycolic Acid Oily Skin Daytime Light Cream Moisurizer

Not only is this product sound amazing for getting rid of blemishes, but the fact that it can help removed dead skin cells by lightly exfoliating the skin sounds amazing. 

The other product that looks awesome is the 5% Glycolic Acid Night/Day Cream.

This is pretty much the full strength version of the Daytime Light Cream. I'm all for full strength products, but those with sensitive skin may not like it as much. Being able to use this day and night makes it (in my opinion) better, because it would be one less product to buy and use!

Let me just say now that I want to try their entire Glycolic Acid line.

The last product I want to mention is the Eye Gelee Concentrate ($11.00 USD)

 I don't have exceptionally puffiness, but we all have those days where we need some help. My undereye area is actually really dry, which is a bit weird for me, but alas my allergies are not the frendliest on my eyes!

But let's get on with the giveaway! I'm sure that's what most of you are here for anyways! :P

Reviva Labs is giving ONE person the chance to win $61 worth of product!! Can I say that I'm jealous!

The prize packages total value comes to $61 and one of YOU has the chance to win!

#107 Light Skin Peel ($20 value)
#214 Vitamin E Oil Stick ($4 value)
#568 Seaweed Soap ($4 value)
#296 Sun Protective Moisturizer SPF #25 ($11 value)
#484 Hydrogen Peroxide & Green Papaya Mask ($12 value)
#330 Skin Energizing Gel ($10 value)  
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This giveaway is a collaboration between the Beauty Bloggers of Central Florida and Reviva Labs. 

St.Patricks Day Eye Makeup

Hey everyone! I hope you're all doing well! There was going to be MULTIPLE looks, using Drugstore and High end eye shadows but my eyes are really irritated and while I DID have multiple looks done, none of the pictures came out decent. BOO! I hate when that happens. ANYWAYS, enough complaining!

Eugenia of Geniabeme.com put together this awesome link up with the Beauty Bloggers of Central Florida! It was pretty awesome for her to put this together! I know a lot of the girls are doing nails, but we all know how bad of shape mine are in, plus my hands are in worse shape. So I'd rather not show them till I can get them looking decent again. So I went with Makeup!

I'm really sorry about my eye being so red -_- I'm lucky I managed to finish doing my makeup and got the pictures. =^_^=

What I used:;;
Milani Eyeshadow Primer 01 Nude
Whip Hand Cosmetics Cream Eyeshadow - Thermal
Urban Decay Loose Pigment Eyeshadow - Protest (crease/outer corner)
L'Oreal HiP Shocking Shadow Pigment - 314 Rebel
Milani Extreme Eye Tech Liquid Liner - Black

Unfortunately, as you can tell Rebel transferred a little bit, which is okay with me. You, nor I wouldn't have noticed it if my eye wasn't closed.  I didn't wear any mascara or eye liner in my waterline.

I'm actually pretty impressed with how it turned out. This isn't what I had originally planned but I wanted to throw some drugstore shadows in there!

This was the orignaly look that I did, with a winged liner but I forgot to take a full face shot with both eyes. The only thing different about this look is I used Urban Decay Bender on the Lid instead of HiP Rebel. I also used UD Loose Eyeshadow Pigment in Grafitti on the lower lash line. I REALLY LIKED this one, but already had it taken off before I realized I didn't take a full face shot. Blogger fail. Boo.

Anyways! What do you think!? Will you be rocking green eyeshadow on St.Patricks day?!

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