Review & Swatches: DuWop Crush Heavy Metal Metallic Eyeshadow Trio - Velvet

Months ago, I had the change to try for the first time, DuWop products.  From the 3 I received in a kit, my favorite is this trio named Velvet:

It comes with two beautiful jewel tone eyeshadows (wine & green) and one in a rich golden-y copper

The name of the trio is quite clever, because this eyeshadows are velvety smooth, making blending an ease.  Its pigmentation and lasting power are great.  Except for the golden tone, which is very shimmery; the other two shades can be used for just a wash of color or to build up for a bolder, dramatic look.  The coordination of the colors reminded me of Christmas :D

swatches without primer

Product Provided by Apothica PR for review consideration

Essie School of Hard Rocks & My First Official Stamping Mani

This was my first time using Essie nail polishes and so far I'm loving them!  I got two with my Apothica order and wish to get some more soon.  Ok, back to Essie: What I love the most is how fast it dried. I really love opaque shades like this; a mix of grey, blue & green.

Now to the stamping: I'm fairly new to this and I had a little practice with some random plates but nothing like a whole manicure, just an accent nail, take a picture, remove it.  When I got my Bundle Monster plates I could hardly wait to give them a try and this is what came out.  I have issues placing the design, specially to fit he bottom of my nail but I'll keep practicing until I find the trick managing the stamper.  To give it some sparkle used green glitters in the center of the circles in the design

For the stamping I used:

China Glaze For Audrey

Bundle Monster plate bm-206 

small green sequins as accents

If you want to try something different with your nails I highly recommend to give Bundle Monster plates a try.  They offer two bundles: 21 & 25 plates for a super accessible price.  I got them as a birthday gift from my aunt and they arrived super quickly.  I'm super pleased with the quality of the engraving!

Goodies from Apothica!

Recently I was contacted by Apothica to be part of their sponsorship program. Many good things have been happening for the blog, some are still in progress and I'm really happy about it.

Packaging was very neat! everything (except for the DuWop kit) was bubble wrapped and had a Fill-Air bag around it.  The DuWop kit inside the small bag had an eyeshadow duo, an eyeliner and mascara, plus some white foam pieces wrapped in a brown and gold tissue paper (very elegant!); this help to prevent damages.  This was my first experience with the company and I'm very pleased, specially with the way everything was packaged; they certainly didn't skip on secure my precious cargo!  It took about 10 days? from order processing to delivery; I would say that processing took the longest and shipping was fast.  When ordering I had the good luck of using a code to get 20% off which maximized my budget.  Another thing that I like from the company is the vast array of brands that they offer and that I was able to score items from brands like Essie & SpaRitual at a discounted price + the discounts and sales that they have all year long.  This have been a great experience because this will be my first time trying the brands that I choose from.

The picture of the box is blurry because I was taking a medicine that got me super shaky :(  had to wait until the effect wore off next day to take the rest of them.

What I got:

• Essie Lilaclism & School of Hard Rocks
• Deborah Lippmann Happy Birthday (so opportune for this month! hehe)
• SpaRitual minis: Running With Wolves, Sacred Ground & Howl
• DuWop Crushed Velvet 3 piece kit
• Samples from Pevonia, Ahava & Nuxe

I'm excited to try everything, but as for now I've already tried Essie School of Hard Rocks and its a dream!

Also, my second giveaway is in the works! I'm just trying to put up some really nice goodies and save some $ for shipping charges to make it international.