Amanda Weidensjö

Product Summary: A cleansing cream with tiny scrubbing beads that help clean out pores, sweep away dead skin cells and help refine skins texture. Skin is soft and luminous, free of impurities and excess oil. Costs: $5. *Not Cruelty Free* During summer months, our skin is attacked by humidity and constant sweat. For my skin specifically I tend to have more clogged pores, breakouts and excess oil. I don't do well in the heat and neither does my skin. That is why a exfoliating cleanser is a must. I was a little worried at first because a lot of scrubs contain microplastics that are extremely damaging to the skin. However, after checking the ingredient deck I had no more worries. The beads actually end up dissolving when you expose them to water. Microbeads make of plastic don't do that.  I was super impressed by this product. Not just by the price but how effective it is for the skin. After just one use, you can instantly notice a difference. It helped clean away my excess oil, it...

 Product Summary: This creamy contour duo lets you easily create a sculpted look with the perfect shade combination. Modern matte highlighter attracts light and brightens your best features, while the buildable contour shade slims, sculps and defines your face in a natural way. Costs around $14.  *** Not Cruelty-Free 👎*** This contour duo was a lot more creamier than I expected it to be. A lot of the time with cream products, I'm forced to use oils to make the product manageable and blendable. But this one is extremely creamy and doesn't dry out. It's so creamy that you can easily blend it with a brush or a beauty sponge. I'm fairly pale with shitty dark under eyes so the fact that the highlighter has yellow undertones allows me to use it as a undereye concealer since it cancels out the dark/blue in under eyes.  The contour part isn't that great when you try to blend it out, it leaves behind a streaky orange mess. For fair to medium skin tones, the contour color ne...

Product Summary: This glossy liquid eyeliner, dispensed through a cushion-like sponge is an innovation! Paired with Sephora classic must have angled liner brush #90, this feather light, quick drying formula, gives you richly pigmented precision for any desired look! Price: $18.50 ***Not Cruelty Free 👎👎*** It seems I have no luck with eyeliners as of late. I have a string of terrible eyeliners and with every eyeliner I review, the experience gets worse and worse. It's becoming exhausting for me having to have so many shitty experiences with these liners. And it seems this never ending liner tragedy will continue.  This Sephora liner didn't fair too well either. The first few applications were so difficult, the formula dries too quickly to do a perfect winged liner. You basically have 10-15 seconds to apply the liner before it dries and when it dries it's a bitch and a half to go over and perfect what you already applied. I thought maybe if I changed eye...

Product Summary: This palette contains 15 creamy concealer and corrector shades that targets the main areas of concern for colour correcting, dark circles, redness, hyper-pigmentation, dullness and brightening. These shades are full coverage and have an ultra-blendable formula. Each palette comes with a handy booklet with application instructions, tips and tricks from the Sephora pro team  This palette costs around $60 but I actually got this palette on sale for half the price! Also, the palette that I have is in light/medium.                                                     *******Not Cruelty Free*********  I truly like that there is a lot of variety when it comes to the shades but also that there isn't a huge difference between colour in the shades. I love that I can do my whole face using just one palette including; colour-cor...

This limited edition eyeshadow palette contains 32 shadows that include everyday neutrals, smoky, highlighting shades and bright pops of colour, This palette is essential for beginners and makeup artists alike. The center shades are perfect for everyday use while the surrounding shades are great for smoky looks and pops of colour. This palette costs $32 but is valued at $180. Below you can see all 32 shades from the palette swatched. I will say that some of the more neutral and lighter shades are harder to see on my skin but I did try to pack up the colour for it to be noticeable. If there are some that you cannot see you can check further down this post to see a picture of the palette itself. ****I'm not sure if this palette is cruelty free or not because Sephora took down the information for the palette before I could write down the information. If I'm not mistaken a good chunk of the Sephora collection is cruelty free (at least all the items I've purchased so far). ...

This limited edition  +Sephora  collection palette costs $38 and contains 72 eyeshadows, 18 cream eyeliners, 32 lip-glosses and six blushes. A total of 128 eye, lip and cheek colours for an infinite number of looks. For more on Sephora's collection you can check out their  website here. I bought this palette to spoil myself for my 20th birthday and I wanted a palette that had variety for whenever I want to do fantasy makeup looks and for everyday makeup wear as well. I also wanted more for my buck. So, that's why I also wanted this palette. Plus, I've noticed not many people have reviewed this palette. Guess the beauty community hasn't hyped up this palette yet. Or ever will hype it up. I do find it a bit annoying that there are no names on the shades but I can live with that.  ***This Sephora Collection Palette was not tested on animals👍*** Blushes: They are extremely pigmented so I had to use a light hand while applying the blushes to my cheeks. Th...