I am changing how I do my reviews especially for eye shadows. Normally, I pick a single color from a single company and slather it all over, take pictures and tell you guys what I think. I rarely however, purchase single colors, I purchase in some cases, dozens of colors at a time. I tend to pick all the colors I like, at a given point, and then purchase them all at once. I, then, mix and match and contrast with some beautiful and some definitely only on Halloween results. In order to review everything I've collected for the purpose of reviewing, in addition, to the non-indie products I purchases to contrast and add depth to the reviews, I'd end up having to do five reviews a day every day for right around 3 years.
The idea freaked me out a little bit and sent me racing to Walmart for storage solutions to hold the massive amounts of cosmetics, which now no longer fit in the train case, the baskets, and drawers in the bathroom. They now have their own sliding drawer desktop storage and still there are baskets, bins, bags and boxes. This prompted a few changes. I'm going to review products from the same color that go together, put together sets, create looks, I suppose and then post the reviews up including these looks.
This accomplishes several goals, first, it shorts the amount of reviews I have to do, it provides more valuable information to my way of thinking, and gives you guys some things to try out. I'm not going to be doing fancy things I'm not Michelle Phan, I'm hoping to find unique ways to blend colors together, in some cases, colors you wouldn't think would go together, to create looks that everyone can wear everywhere.
I love Michelle Phan and I happen to love the EM cosmetic line, though its well out of my price range, but most of the stuff I've seen on her channel isn't stuff for everyday wear, it takes far too long. When I get up in the morning or, more often in my case, the evening, I do not want to spend twenty minutes on my makeup dealing with things like bb cream, concealer, foundation, then powder, primer, doing the eyes, the lips, then contouring, the cheeks, chin, and then set it. I want to throw on my face as it were, in 5-10 minutes at the absolutely maximum. I lean more towards the five minutes.
There is a very good reason for this, I don't like getting up any earlier than I absolutely have too and if I need to spend twenty minutes on my face, it means my hair will have to go with it and that's like an hour because I have very flat and very thin hair, to give it life requires washing, leave in treatment, volumizing product, hot rollers, etc. It is a lot of work and since I work from home it drives me crazy. You might now be wondering why I would bother putting all the effort when my job involves taking less than three steps from my bed to my office chair...literally. ( I can lean back in my chair and rest my head on my bed.)
It's because I'm a stickler for that sort of thing, if you do the fancy face, you have to have the fancy hair. So, that's what is going on with eye shadows and so forth.
As far as nail polish is concerned. I'm going to be adding to those pictures. I am going to include, the color under review and then I'm going to be adding things, like I might add a top coat from a different color. Things have been pretty crazy here which is why there was a break again in the reviews. I was going to move, packed to move, and then didn't move. I've been living out of boxes. I have decided to downsize my books and my manga collections. I'll be posting that information on the book review blog and share that information with all of you.
