As I’ve mentioned a few times now, I’ve got a big ole bag of goodies beside my desk that I throw brand new products into if I know I won’t get the opportunity to use them/try them out and/or they’re duplicates of items I already own. I spent my entire weekend at IMATS, I really didn’t have a proper review type post ready to go for Monday morning… so that’s where this giveaway comes in!
Here’s the current prize pack up for grabs:
QUO Brush Up! Brush Set
The Body Shop Oils of Life Intensely Revitalising Sleeping Cream
Bite Beauty Luminous Creme Lipstick in Retsina
Stila Color Balm Lipstick in Isabelle
Estee Lauder Le Rouge Absolu lipstick in Crushed Rose
Dior Couture Colour Lipstick in 999 Matte (mini)
essence BB Beauty Balm in Keep It Real
essence Keep It Perfect! Makeup setting spray
essence 2-in-1 eyeshadow and liner in Peach Perfect
essence Longlasting Lip Pencil in Ready For Red
essence Longlasting Lip Pencil in Sweetheart
Pixi Flawless Vitamin Veil Foundation in No.3 Tanned
QUO Brow Palette
GOSH Brow Sculpting Fibre Gel
GOSH Lash Sculpting Fibre Mascara
essence dip eyeliner waterproof
Absolute New York Duo Stroke liquid liner
Ready for Red Carpet makeup bag
And if the winner is from Canada, I’ll throw in some nail polishes as well. (I can’t send nail polish internationally unless I use Fedex, which is a bit too pricey for my blood.)
Giveaway Rules
This giveaway is open internationally!
This giveaway starts on October 3, 2016 and runs for two weeks.
Please be aware that all entries will be double checked to ensure fairness.
One winner will win the Beauty Prize Pack pictured and described above.
The winner will have 48 hours to respond to my e-mail. If they fail to respond within that time frame, I will pick another prize winner. (And so on.)
“Giveaway accounts” will not be considered for this prize. (If you want to know what I mean by that, please click here.)
Just in time for the holiday season, Rodial is releasing a few luxury skincare gift sets this month! I’ve been trying out their Bee Venom Collection because it sounded the most intriguing. I’ve never ever had something like bee venom in my skincare before!
Rodial Bee Venom Collection
The RodialBee Venom Collection was created to “rejuvenate the skin for a youthful looking complexion. Bee venom works in synergy with a unique complex of plant stem cells to help visibly improve skin tone and elasticity and plump out appearance of lines and wrinkles.” The “melittin peptide bee venom plumps and firms wrinkle appearance stem cells help improve skin elasticity biomimetic growth factors smooth skin surface appearance marine collagen helps reduce look of lines and wrinkles marimoist® provides immediate and sustained hydration”.
It comes with a Bee Venom Moisturiser (50 ml), Bee Venom Super Serum (30 ml), and Bee Venom Eye (25 ml). The whole kit comes in one large box with all three products inside. The two moisturizers are boxed individually within the larger box. The entire line cautions that if you are allergic to bee stings you should avoid using this line of skincare. All three products can be used daily.
Rodial Bee Venom Moisturiser
The Bee Venom Moisturiser is an “extreme performance cream for mature skin with melittin peptide, stem cells, biomimetic growth factors and vitamin c”. It’s a medium thickness cream that smooths onto my skin really easily. It’s hydrating, but not overly thick which is an enormous blessing since I’m really over moisturizers that just won’t sink into my skin!
Rodial Bee Venom Eye
The Bee Venom Eye cream seems to be a thicker formulation of the moisturizer, although it does contain bee venom further down on the ingredient list. Although I don’t personally feel like I need a separate eye cream (I’m not especially dry in that area), I do like the ritual of applying a thick cream to that area and gently rubbing it in.
Rodial Bee Venom Super Serum
The item I’ve enjoyed the most out of this set was the Super Serum and sadly it’s the smallest product! Ack! I’ve been applying this before my moisturizer and it seems to work well under ANY brand as far as I can tell. It’s not too thick, not too thin and sinks in within a few minutes of application.
I was trying to pin point the scent of these products, and I realized it was kind of hard to do since two of the products smell the same, but the serum definitely doesn’t! The serum smells more like a floral perfume to me, whereas the moisturizers smell faintly alcoholic to me. Weird thing to say, but I can’t really pinpoint any other scent!
The RodialBee Venom Collection can be purchased at Murale and Shoppers Drug Mart for $180 CAD.
The products featured in this post were sent to me for review.
This month wasn’t incredibly spendy (which is nice!), but that’s all about to change because IMATS is on October 1st!
As a reminder, and just a note for people who are new here, items that go into these monthly haul posts are items that are either purchased by me, gifted to me by friends and family or received in a beauty swap. These posts never contain PR samples that are sent directly to me.
On with the haul!
Anastasia Beverly Hills Glow Kit in Moonchild ($40 USD)
You’ve potentially already seen my review of this, but I picked up the Anastasia Beverly HillsMoonchild Glow Kit last month when my friend Samantha was putting in an ABH order online. I had already picked up the Sweets palette the previous month and LOVED it so I figured I’d complete the crazy highlighter collection and get Moonchild as well.
Anastasia Beverly Hills Glow Kit in Moonchild
The colours in this palette are so freaking stunning and I’ve been loving wearing them so, so much (I’ve got Lucky Clover as my highlighter today!). If you’d like to see a full review of this Glow Kit as well as the Sweets one, head over to this blog post. (And there’s an international giveaway going on in that post as well!)
F.U.N. Lacquer in Black Holo Witch and Blessing (H) – $12 USD each
I’m going to have to stop referring to myself as “not a nail polish” person, because I’m starting to find myself enamored with certain kinds of nail polish. And F.U.N. Lacquer is definitely one of those brands! They’re out of Singapore and I discovered them via Cristine of Simply Nailogical (she’s a nail polish vlogger out of my hometown of Ottawa) since she collaborated with FUN Lacquer to create Black Holo Witch, a black holographic nail polish that I became obsessed with getting my hands on. While placing my order, I decided to pick up Blessing (H) which is a purple green duochrome shot through with holo glitter (hence the (H) at the end of the name). It’s GORGEOUS. As I type this, I’ve had Blessing (H) on my nails for TWO WEEKS and I’m not even getting bored of it!
Sidenote for anyone ordering from FUN Lacquer: I didn’t have any customs charges, but the delivery took almost two months to get to me. It wasn’t their fault – they shipped my order the next day, but holy smokes was the post ever slow!
NYX Micro Brow in Taupe ($12.99 CAD)
I ran out of ALL my other brow pencils (that’s a serious accomplishment in my book), so I picked up the NYXMicro Brow in Taupe because it’s been my longstanding favourite brow pencil. However, I’ve found this pencil exceptionally rock hard this time. I have no idea if I got a dud, or if I’m so used to the softness of the QUO Precision Brow Pencil that I’m just not as used to this one. Hmmmm….
Tarte Application Mitt ($7 CAD)
I recently received some self tanning items and figured I should probably pick up an application mitt, so I grabbed the one by Tarte at Sephora. A lot of my peers in the CBB had recommended this one to me so I figured I might as well go with their recommendation! Of course, as luck would have it, I went to an event the very next day where I was gifted a St. Tropez tanning mitt. /facepalm
Anastasia Beverly Hills Maya Mia palette (free – swap)
All of the next items are from a beauty blogger swap that we had when Jodi was in town just last week!
Anastasia Beverly Hills Maya Mia palette (free – swap)
This Anastasia Beverly HillsMaya Mia palette has been passed around a few times at swaps now and I’m starting to wonder why no one’s in love with it. This time it’s my turn! I’ll give it a shot and see how I like it. 🙂
Avon – Anew skincare (free – swap)
There were a bunch of AvonAnew skincare minis at the swap that I snatched up. I’ve been using the Avon Anew daily moisturizer with SPF in it recently and was surprised with just how much I love it. Since I’ve tried nothing else in the Anew range, I figured this would be a good place to start!
Bioderma Sebium H2O Micelle Solution and Biore Baking Soda Pore Cleanser (free – swap)
Well, we all know I love Bioderma, so there was no way I was leaving this little mini micelle solution behind. As for the BioreBaking Soda Pore Cleanser… well, I have a hard time saying no to skincare and no one else wanted it… so it came home with me!
MAC Flock and Roll eyeshadow and Unlimited Style lipglass (free – swap)
I was kind of surprised that nobody was making a bee-line for the MAC products, and they were one of the last items on the table that were from a big brand. Although they’re EXCEPTIONALLY pink, I figure if I hate them, I can always Back 2 MAC them. The eyeshadow is Flock and Roll and the lipglass is Unlimited Style.
I was also surprised to see the PixiGlow Tonic in the swap because so many people seem to obsess over this item! Melanie told me she had bought it at Gen Beauty but that it hadn’t worked well for her. I figured I’d give it a shot regardless. I’ve not used it yet, but once I’m done my current toner, this one will be next in line!
And of course, the mini Glow Mud Mask and Glow Mud Cleanser were just too adorable to pass up!
Tarte Drench Lip Splash in Top Down and Make Up For Ever eye shadows (free – swap)
And lastly, we have the TarteDrench Lip Splash in Top Down. I did a review on these a few months back and I LOVE the formula so, so much. I was really happy to see the shade Top Down in the swap pile because it was a shade I didn’t have yet!
There was also this Make Up For Ever eyeshadow duo that I’m pretty sure was from Gen Beauty as well. No one else seemed interested so I figured I might as well snag it!
Phew, there we go – that’s it for this month. There was a heck of a lot more items in the swap than I thought there was going to be! I went with a big ole bag of product myself so I was super happy to get rid of a bunch of things that either didn’t work for me, or that I wasn’t absolutely in love with. As for next month, I can just see October being an absolute mad dash to purchase holiday palettes… and of course IMATS!
