Nerdy Girl in a Beauty World: Collective Makeup Haul!

This post has been a long time coming! I've been eagerly waiting to share my haul with you all for quite some time now! No more waiting! These items have been gathering in small increments since about January? I don't buy makeup very frequently these days, because I haven't been wearing it very often anymore. I want to break that habit, because I really do love makeup, and I love trying new products, and experimenting with different looks and styles. I also want to do more reviews, so jumping back into the makeup game so to speak is an all around good idea, and what better place to start than with a haul? Some of these items are repurchases and some are new (to me) products I wanted to try. I was slightly hesitant about posting this, because it may seem like an unnecessary amount of makeup to some, and I feel like people who love and collect makeup get a lot of flak for sharing. Makeup is a hobby to me as is blogging and they go hand in hand, I wouldn't have much to write about in the beauty or makeup category if I never jumped out of my box and tried new things. ANYWAY! With the formalities out of the way let's get into this haul! (Side note: If anyone is interested in a review of any of these products feel free to let me know!)

I'll start out with foundation:

Maybelline Dream Wonder Fluid-Touch in the shade 10 Porcelain Ivory
L'Oreal Paris Magic Skin Beautifier BB Cream in the shade 810 Fair
Revlon Colorstay for Normal/Dry Skin in the shade 110 Ivory
Rimmel Stay Matte Liquid Mousse Foundation in 010 Light Porcelain
Revlon Colorstay Whipped in 110 Ivory

Foundation for me has always been a hit or miss kind of thing. I have super fair skin, and I have pink undertones, so I can't always just take the lightest shade a line offers. I like all of these foundations, and they all match my complexion well. They all have different levels of coverage, finish and texture. My favorites so far are the Rimmel Stay Matte and the Maybelline Dream Wonder for fuller coverage and the L'oreal BB Cream for light coverage. I'm on the fence about the Revlon foundations, I'll have to play around with different ways to apply it.

Miscellaneous Items (Eye liner, primer, color corrector, eye brow products):

Urban Decay 24/7 Glide On Eye Pencil in Perversion
Maybelline Master Graphic Eyeliner Pen in Striking Black
NYC Kohl Brow/ Eyeliner Pencil in 927 Taupe
Maybelline Brow Drama Sculpting Brow Mascara in Blonde
Cover Girl CC Cream Eye Rehab Concealer in 310 Fair
Benefit Stay Flawless 15 Hour Primer
NYX HD Concealer in CW 12 Green

I had a sample of the UD pencil and the Benefit primer from my beauty subscriptions, and I fell in love so much that I just had to splurge! Definitely good buys! I'm always on the lookout for new brow items, and I heard a lot of good things about the NYC pencil, so I wanted to give it a try. The Maybelline Brow Drama was new around the time I picked it up, I saw it on tv and decided to try it. I use it when I want a more natural makeup look, mostly when I go for minimal makeup, and I like it quite a lot. I wouldn't recommend it to anyone who has more sparse brows that require more time filling in, this is more like a tinted gel than a brow filler. The Cover Girl concealer is great for under eye circles and dark undereyes. I use it when I look super tired and it perks me right up ha ha! I tend to get a lot of redness because my skin is so fair, it's quite noticeable, and sometimes foundation isn't enough, so I picked up this green concealer by NYX and it does a pretty good job at neutralizing the redness on my face.

Mascara:

Maybelline Lash Sensational
L'oreal Voluminous Million Lashes
Bare Minerals Lash Domination
L'Oreal Miss Manga Voluminous

I love trying different mascara, and because of that I find that my favorite changes all the time! My current favorite is the Lash Domination from Bare Minerals, my sister sent me a photo of her lashes after using said mascara and I just HAD to have it! It was more of a splurge for me, and the most expensive of the mascaras pictured, but I get such full and voluminous lashes and no clumps! My second favorite of the group is the voluminous millions and it was also a repurchase for me. I had purchased the miss manga when it first came out solely for the super kawaii packaging, and unfortunately, at the time I could only get it in water proof. I still decided to try it out, and I liked it a lot so I sought out and bought it again, only this time I got the regular formula. I have only tried the lash sensational once, and I had mixed feelings about it, however, I hear a lot of people raving about it at the moment, so I'll have to give it another go!

Nail Polish:

Sinful Colors: Island Coral
Essie: Vested Interest
Zoya: Zanna
Zoya: Rocky
Zoya: Severine
Zoya: Anais
Zoya: Charlot
Zoya: Hudson
Zoya: Lo
Zoya: Prim

Zoya is definitely one of my favorite nail polish brands, I love their formula, their lasting power, opacity, and rainbow of colors they offer!

Lipstick:

NYC: Ruby
NYC Expert Last: Peach Fizz
NYC Expert Last: Love My Latte
NYX Butter Lip Gloss: Maple Blondie
NYX Butter Lip Gloss: Strawberry Parfait
Smash Box: Fig
Smash Box: Posy Pink

I'm in love with the NYX butter glosses, I got one in my glam bag and decided to get a couple more. They're creamy and pigmented and they smell like candy! Eventually I would love to have their complete line of gloss and lipsticks! The NYC lipsticks are really affordable and I like the packaging. These also smell like candy, they apply very smoothly, aren't drying at all, are quite pigmented and last a fairly decent amount of time. I bought the Smash Box lipsticks on a whim randomly at Ulta, they came packaged together for something like $10. They're really creamy and rich, I love fig! It's such a beautiful bold berry color that is perfect for fall and winter!

Eyeshadow:

NYX Love in Paris: Parisian Chic
NYX Love in Paris: Be Our Guest Maurice

I wanted to try out some NYX eyeshadows, and because I couldn't decide which single shadows I wanted, I went for a couple of palettes! These are pretty awesome for the price, and you get a ton of product. They're silky to the touch, glide on smoothly, are nicely pigmented and they blend really well with very little fall out. I am the self proclaimed queen of neutrals, and yet I find myself picking up the Be Our Guest Maurice palette a lot more! I love the different purple shadows, they really make my blue eyes pop! I definitely want to get some more eyeshadows from NYX in the future.