A sister palette to the original Kat Von D Shade + Light Eye Palette, the Shade Light + Light Glimmer Eye Palette is just as you found expect it to be: chockful of shimmer and shine to accompany its older, all matte sister.
Kat Von D Shade + Light Glimmer Eye Palette
Although it’s labelled as a Glimmer palette, and while the bulk of the shadows are glittery, there are some softer shimmer/satin-sheens in the mix as well. I wouldn’t call it a standalone palette though – this is definitely more of accompaniment to the original Shade + Light palette.
Kat Von D Shade + Light Glimmer Eye Palette
Kat Von D Shade + Light Glimmer Eye Palette Swatches
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Although Soap & Glory has been at Shoppers Drug Mart for a long while (look for it near the end of the bath aisle, sometimes on an endcap!), the selection can end up being a little bit limited (and I’m still waiting on the full makeup range!). They’ve recently added a few more items to their range and I was more than happy to test some of them out.
Let’s start off with my absolute favourite products!
The number one new item I tried was the Smoothie Star Breakfast Scrub ($18 CAD). This stuff is absolutely UNREAL. And maybe it’s because I’m Canadian, and this scrub has a maple scent, but the Breakfast Scrub is absolutely to die for. It smells edible (it’s not though – so don’t!) and it works like a dream. This has actually become my new favourite body scrub (sorry Tree Hut – you’ve been upstaged!) because the combination of the texture (dense but spreadable and plenty of exfoliation to leave you feeling smooth) and the scent makes this top notch in my book. If there’s only ONE thing I could encourage you to try out in this post, it’s the Smoothie Star Breakfast Scrub!
The Sexy Mother Pucker Lip Plumping Gloss ($14 CAD) is going to be for those looking for a little more plump in their lips. I know not everyone can handle the feeling of topical lip plumpers (and I’m not especially sensitive to them so keep that in mind) but this one in Spun Sugar felt a bit different from the ones I’ve tried in the past. It doesn’t burn, but it almost feels like my lips are constantly moving? It’s a bit of a hilarious feeling… almost like the product in the gloss that causes the plumping is jumping around for fun on top on my lips. It does plump mine a little but nothing too extreme, which is good in my books! I do notice the sensation disappearing after about thirty minutes, so you’ll need to reapply if you want to feel that active plumpness happening on your lips.
Soap & Glory Sugar Crush Body Lotion & The Fab Pore Daily Micro Smoothing Moisture Lotion
I’ve started usingThe Fab Poreon the daily as my morning moisturizer and I was really impressed with the performance of it. Not only from a “kept my face hydrated” perspective, but also because it performed really, really well under foundation. (And when I was done trialing it for the week or so for this review, I went back to the moisturizer that was currently in my rotation and quickly realized just how BADLY that one performs under foundation, so heck yes to The Fab Pore!) Part of the performance may be chocked up to the ingredients which help to mattify the skin and tighten your pores.
The Sugar Crush scent isn’t new to Soap & Glory‘s range, but it is one of their most sought after scents. I believe it was previously only available as a body butter, but now it’ sin the more fluid body lotion($16) format with a pump top (thank you!). The Sugar Crush scent is slightly intriguing to me: with a name like Sugar Crush you’d expect it to me syrupy-sweet, but that’s not at all what it is! It’s more of a lime scent with a sugary edge. It’s one of the more unique fragrances out there simply because no one really makes lime-scented products!
Soap & Glory Body Spray in Original Pink and The Fab Pore T-Zone Cloths
And lastly, we have the Soap & GloryBody Spray in Original Pink and The Fab Pore T-Zone Cloths.
The Body Sprays ($10 CAD) come inOriginal Pink (pictured), Smoothie Star and Sugar Crush. The Original Pink scent is identical to Hand Food scent (which I think is the original smell? I see it now in Sugar Crush-scented, but I’ve only tried it when it smelled this way). For me, this is a bit too much as a body spray – I like when my moisturizer smells this way (and I LOVE Hand Food), but I like to keep that scent localized to my hands. If you’re a huge fan of the Original Pink scent though… then more power to you and get to spraying because the scent is very consistent with the hand cream!
It feels funny to end this review by mentioning a product I haven’t tried yet, but hey – here we are. I’ve got way too many packages of makeup wipes open right now and don’t want them to dry out so I’ve avoided opening The Fab Pore Triple Action Purifying T-Zone Cloths. ($10 CAD). Interestingly, these wipes are not fundamentally geared towards makeup removal – these seemed to be advertised as wipes to help purify and clean your face while also tightening your pores. If you’ve tried these out, let us know how you feel about them in the comments!
And that’s everything brand spanking new by Soap & Glory in Canada! I’ve been using their products for years and am never disappointed. I am so, SO glad to have discovered my new favourite scrub in this roundup of products!
For those of us in Canada, Soap & Glory can be purchased at Shoppers Drug Mart and some of their products are available online via beautyboutique.ca. If you’re in the USA, you can find a wide array of Soap & Glory at ulta.com.
The products featured in this post were sent to me for consideration. Affiliate links are included.
As a Canadian, I find we often tend to overlook some of our homegrown brands. I can only assume because they’re so readily accessible, that we just think “oh I’ll get it another time”, and for whatever reason that results in us outright ignoring some of the Canadian brands at the drugstore! So let’s take a closer look at one of my favourite recent(ish) launches by Annabelle.
Annabelle Chrome Eye Shadows
The AnnabelleChrome Single Eye Shadows launched in Canada for Spring 2017 and I did a video review rounding up some of the products back in January of this year (you can see that video here). Out of that entire launch, the Chrome shadows are definitely what got me the most excited. At the time I only had the shade Rose Gold, but now I’ve got the whole range and can speak with a little bit more authority on the whole range instead of just the first impressions I gave in the video.
Annabelle Chrome Eye Shadows
The AnnabelleChrome Shadows come in a pot with a twist off top. With each shadow you’ll get two grams of product which I feel is a decent amount. Prices will vary depending on where you buy them, but they’re under $10 – more often closer to $7-8 each. They’re billed as a creamy single eyeshadow with an intense chrome finish that promises a six hour hold.
Annabelle Chrome Eye Shadows – swatches
At this time, there are only five shades in the range, but they’re good solid staple colours. I would love to see this range get expanded to more unique bright colours!
Rose Gold: More of a deeper shade of rose gold since I see hints of bronze in it.
Germanium: The ultimate “brown smokey eye” shade.
Mercury: My personal favourite! It’s a tarnished platinum with hints of mauve.
Gold: Flakier in texture than the others, Gold is a super shiny pale gold.
Silver: Much like Gold, this one is flakier and super reflective. It has some hint of white to it as well.
Wearing Mercury on the lid
Wearing Mercury on the lid and some powder shadows to round out the look.
Wearing Mercury on the lid
Mercury on my closed eye. This was taken right after application, and you can see a faint hint of creasing (I’ll get to that in detail down below).
Wearing Gold on the lid
Wearing Gold on the lid with other powder shadows to finish the look.
Wearing Gold on the lid
With Gold, you can see it has a flakier texture that adds a bit more shine and sparkle to the overall look in comparison to Mercury.
The number one thing that terrifies me about cream shadows is creasing. I have hooded lids that rip through even powdered eyeshadow if I don’t double prime my eyelids. However, double priming is still not enough to stand up to the likes of cream shadows, so for that reason I almost always have problems. With that in mind, I was a little bit surprised by these chrome shadows. Yes, they creased on me in that very deep ridge that I get when I open my eyes – however… the creasing that happened right after application (despite me trying to smudge it out) was how my eyeshadow stayed all day. It’s a bit bizarre to me that the cream shadow didn’t continue to crease even further over the course of the day, but hey… that does speak to the longevity of it. Generally a cream shadow will crease after application and then continue to dissolve throughout the day for me. These didn’t do that. They creased once, left a faint whisper of a line behind and then stayed put. And for me, that’s really, REALLY good wear time.
Final Thoughts
If you’re someone who isn’t prone to creasing, the AnnabelleChrome shadows will be an absolute winner for you I believe. Even for me, someone who has ridiculous amounts of problems with creasing, these still managed to stay put for entire work days. I could easily get 9-10 hours of wear with very minimal creasing.
I will point out that the texture on these is a bit different across the board. Rose Gold, Mercury and Germanium are the smoothest of the bunch – they apply like a dream. Gold and Silver are a bit different – they kind of go on like a foiled texture with more sparkle and shine. You will notice flakier bits in the Gold and Silver which I think really make them stand out. These would work really well for a halo eye, or even just to amp up an otherwise ordinary look by putting them in the inner corner of the eye. I like the flaky aspect of those shades, but I know they may not be for everyone.
Overall, I’m quite pleased with these! The texture is quite lovely and they apply smoothly to the lid without much fiddling around.
The products featured in this post were sent to me for review.
One of the items I was deadset on getting throughout the (incessant) holiday launches was the Too FacedUnicorn Survival Kit!
Too Faced Unicorn Survival Kit
Not a whole heck of a lot was known about this set when they originally previewed it on Too Faced‘s snapchat. Since the whole set plays off the Unicorn Tears La Crème lipstick – an Ulta exclusive item – we were left wondering if this set was going to be exclusive to Ulta as well. And sure enough, it is. It was briefly available on Too Faced‘s web site before the Ulta launch and this sucker sold out in a matter of an hour. It seems I wasn’t the only one wanting this beauty!
Too Faced Unicorn Survival Kit
My makeup saviour Julie of Swatch and Review was also planning on getting this set, and one morning – just as I was crawling out of bed and headed to the toilet – I got a Facebook message telling me she had bought it for us (one for her, one for me) and she hoped that was okay. With eyes still crusty from the dead sleep I’d awoken from, I thanked her profusely for not only handling that Ulta order for us, but also for being so obsessed with makeup that she was checking for that sucker at 6 am on a Tuesday!
Too Faced Unicorn Survival Kit
So why is this set so exciting? It’s got three mini products all named “Unicorn Tears” but in a variety of formats:
La Crème Lipstick – the original Unicorn Tears lipstick!
Melted Latex Liquified Lipstick – AT LONG LAST! This sucker took forever to come out after the initial launch of the Melted Latexes.
Highlighter – this one is brand new and I’m not sure if it’s a preview of a launch that’ll be coming up in the future.
Too Faced Unicorn Survival Kit Unicorn Tears swatches
The colour story behind this set is very monochromatic blue-purple.
The highlighter was the least pigmented (makes sense – it is a highlighter after all) that has a frosty blue-purple twinge to it.
The La Crème Lipstick is such a wild colour – it goes on iridescent blue-purple and then leaves behind a purple-red stain. It’s unlike anything else I’ve ever tried and certainly one of the most unique shades in my collection.
The Melted Latex isn’t quite the same as the La Crème – it has more of a cooler purple twinge with silver sparkle. The Melted Latex formula is more a lipgloss than a lipstick in my opinion.
Wearing Too Faced Highlighter in Unicorn Tears
The Unicorn Tears Highlighter was the most shocking item to me in this set. On first swatch I *hated* it. It was a chalky, patchy mess with absolutely no semblance of any kind of iridescent twinge. It reminded me so much of the garbage Hard Candy highlighter that I verbally slaughtered in both my review and a disappointing products video.
But, as we’re constantly reminded… do NOT judge a product by the swatch – it really only tells part of the story. On application to the cheeks with a brush I got a whole ‘nother experience. On the tops of my cheekbones this highlighter turns quite purple-pink, which is in stark contrast to the swatch on my arm above!
Wearing Too Faced La Crème lipstick in Unicorn Tears
The La Crème lipstick in Unicorn Tears isn’t a new item to me (you can see me try it on in this video from early 2016), but it is *always* sold out at Ulta whenever I’m there. The colour is absolutely unreal – it’s a silver-lavender-blue that turns your lips a deep berry shade once you’ve removed it. You can see a little bit of the berry tone peeking through the lipstick in the picture above actually! This a fairly finicky colour – it is a bit patchy and will move around a little bit, so I’d recommend using this as a topper on top of one of your regular lipsticks just so you don’t get any patches. If you’re only interested in this item, you can buy the La Crème lipstick by itself at Ulta.com for $22 USD.
Wearing Too Faced Melted Latex in Unicorn Tears
Following in the footsteps of the La Crème lipstick, the Unicorn Tears Melted Latex was only just released as a full size item even though the Melted Latex range was released about half a year ago. Not sure why this particular shade took so long to be released, but hey, now we have access to it! The Melted Latex formula is billed a liquidified lipstick… but it’s not. It’s a gloss. It’s a pigmented gloss, but it’s still a gloss. There is no real scent to the product (whereas the La Crème formula has a sweet lemon scent) and it applies rather thickly on the lips. It’s spreadable, but since there’s a lot of pigment and it has a shiny finish, there’s a bit of a tackiness to it to make sure it holds in place. This doesn’t bother me, but I know some people aren’t fans of a sticky lipgloss. It’ll last about two hours on my lips before I need to re-apply, which is fairly standard for a lipgloss on me. And I have to point out… just like the La Crème lipstick, the Melted Latex is fairly patchy as well.
You can buy this one in a full size format on both Ulta.com and Sephora.com.
Final Thoughts
I’m a little bit torn on how I feel about this whole set to be honest. On one hand, the higlighter surprised the heck out of me and I was quite pleased with it in terms of colour payoff and how pretty it looked on my cheekbones. However, from a consistency standpoint I think a lot of people are going to be annoyed that both the La Crème lipstick and the Melted Latex items are patchy. They are definitely finicky items… but they’re also both incredibly unique. I own nothing like that La Crème lipstick and it’s one I have a lot of fun pulling out to wear every now and again. I don’t see myself wearing the Melted Latex again, but that’s because I’m not really keen on lipgloss. That being said… I did really want to try it and I was super happy to be able to buy it in a mini format in a relatively inexpensive set.
And that’s part of what makes this set so good – each item is a mini product but there’s plenty of product in there. The whole set retails for $26 USD on Ulta.com and I think that’s an excellent price tag for three very unique items.
