Review: Becca Cosmetics Shadow & Light Bronze/Contour Perfector

Hey ya'll!

Today I want to talk about the Becca Cosmetics Shadow & Light Bronze/Contour Perfector. I originally saw this product posted on the Becca Cosmetics Instagram page and it looked gorgeous. I went to Sephora a few days later to check it out in person. It looked so beautiful swatched, so naturally I had to have it.

The bronzer comes in the typical Becca packaging with the metal "Becca" plate in the center, and is the same size as the highlighters. Unlike the other compacts, the bronzer compact is a dark brown color instead of the standard gray. I'm not the biggest fan of Becca's packaging, the compacts remind me of UFO's. But it doesn't really matter what the packaging looks like, as long as the product inside is great.

There's two shades in the compact. The lighter shade looks very shimmery. But when it's swatched there is zero glitter and it's not super shimmery. The color is a really pretty, bronze shade that has a nice glow to it. The darker shade isn't matte and it's not shimmery either, but it does have a slight sheen to it. When swatched it's not as glowy as the light side, but it still has just a tad bit of sheen to it. It's a nice, rich brown color, similar to Benefit Hula, but not matte. When the two shades are swirled together, they leave you with the perfect amount of glow and bronze. The glow is very similar to their highlighters, just not as intense.

The product is universal. The two shades can be worn on their own, or can be mixed together, as shown in the swatches above. If used separately, the darker shade is the contour shade. You would apply it to the hollows of your cheeks, on either side of your nose, and along the jawline. You then would take the lighter shade to bronze your cheeks, forehead, and any where else you wish to add a little color. I like to wear them mixed together. I don't usually give myself a very strong contour. I prefer to just bronze along my cheek bones, forehead, nose, and jawline to add color and dimension.

Overall I think this is a wonderful product and I highly recommend giving it a try. I typically prefer a matte bronzer, but the formula of this bronzer is perfection, and it has the prefect amount of sheen and shimmer. It's very easy to work with, and blends really smoothly. I think it would work well with most skin tones because it has the two different shades, similar to the Too Faced Sun Bunny.

I hope ya'll enjoyed todays review. Let me know if you have this bronzer, or if you plan to get it, and what your thoughts are on it.


xoxo,
Casey

GRWM: Naked 3 Palette

Hey ya'll!

Today I am going to be doing a full face Get Ready With Me using my Naked 3 palette. I will list all the products I used, what colors I used in the palette, and how I applied everything below.

Every makeup look should start with a good, clean base. I started by washing my face, and moisturizing like normal. I first primed my face using the Make Up For Ever HD Primer, and primed my eyes with the Nars Eyeshadow Primer. I then took a pump and a half of the Nars Sheer Glow Foundation on the back of my hand, and used my finger to dot it all over my face before blending it in using a Sigma F80 Flat-Top Kabuki brush. I like to dot the foundation all over my face first because it helps me not to use too much product. After that's buffed in, I apply the Maybelline Age Rewind Concealer under my eyes, and blend that out using the Real Techniques Buffing Brush.

Next step is to set my concealer and foundation. I used the Laura Mercier Setting Powder with the Real Techniques Powder Brush. Then I used the Benefit BrowZing in Medium to fill in my brows using a flat liner brush to apply it.

Now onto the eyes. I started with the lightest shade in the palette, Strange, and applied it using a large shadow brush all over my lid and up to my brow bone as a base. I then took the Real Techniques Shading Brush and mixed the colors Buzz and Trick together, and applied them all over the lid. Using a fluffy crease brush I took the color Nooner and applied it generously into my crease. Using that same crease brush, I applied Factory over top of Nooner. Going back to the Real Teachniques brush, I took the color Darkside and applied it to the outer corners, and into the crease, to darken it up a bit. Finally, using a clean, fluffy crease brush, I blended out Darkside so that it wouldn't be too harsh. Once the eyeshadow was done I used the Make Up For Ever Aqua Eyes Pencil in Matte Black to line my upper lash line. I lined the bottom lash line with Nooner and Factory using a small, flat shader brush.

I like to apply my bronzer, blush, and highlighter after my eyes. If I have any fall out, I use my powder brush to dust it away before applying these next products. I used the Sephora Collection Classic Contour brush, along with the Becca Shadow & Light Bronze/Contour Perfector to bronze my face. I applied it in the hollows of my cheeks, my forehead, my chin and jawline, and down my nose. Then, using the Sonia Kashuk Dense Blush/Powder Brush I applied the Nars blush in Sin to the apples of my cheeks, blending it back towards my hairline. I ended up applying it with a heavy hand, so to correct it I blended it out using a big stippling brush. After bronzer and blush, I applied the Becca Highlighter in Opal to the tops of my cheeks and above my brows.

I like to apply my mascara after all my powder products. If I apply my mascara before the powder products, my eyelashes end up getting dusty, and that's just not a good look. Per usual I used the Loreal Voluminous Extra Volume Collagen Mascara, followed by the Covergirl Clump Crusher.

Last but not least are the lippies. My lips are chapped right now so I just went with a balm and a gloss. I used the Tarte LipSurgence in Energy, and topped it off with the Nars Lip Gloss in Turkish Delight.

That's it for today's GRWM: Naked 3 Palette. Let me know what shadow combo is your favorite using the Naked 3 Palette!


xoxo,
Casey

Sephora Haul

Hey ya'll!

I have another Sephora haul for you. I love makeup, and just can't help myself. I didn't do much makeup shopping in June because I really wanted to put a dent in the products I already own. I used up a couple of products, so I decided to go and pick up a few new things. Enjoy!

Becca Shadow & Light Bronze/Contour Perfector
I follow Becca Cosmetic's on Instagram and they posted a picture of their new bronzer a couple of weeks ago, and it was love at first sight. I almost jumped the gun and bought it online right then and there, but slowed my roll and waited until I could get in Sephora and see it in person. I am going to do a review on this product so I'm not going to get into it too much here, but it is stunning!

Nars Sheer Glow Foundation
This is a repurchase. I ran out of my first bottle about a month and a half, to two months ago, and have been using up my other foundations. I ran out of my Make Up Forever HD while on vacation, tossed my Loreal True Match because I just didn't like it, and was down to only one bottle of foundation, my Benefit Hello Flawless liquid foundation, which is now too light for me. I didn't even have to think twice about which foundation I was going to get. This foundation is holy grail status for me. I love it!

Laura Mercier Invisible Pressed Setting Powder
This was a purchase I wasn't really expecting. I knew I wanted to find a translucent setting powder because my current powder, Benefit Hello Flawless, is just too heavy for the summertime. I tried the Nars Light Reflecting Pressed Setting Powder at the end of last year and I ended up returning it because I didn't like it at all. I was checking out the Tarte Amazonian Clay Pressed Finishing Powder and almost ended up with that one, but I asked one of the Sephora employee's what they recommended and they brought me over to the Laura Mercier section and showed me this one. I've only worn it once, and it looked great. I still need to give it a go a few more times before I make my final decision on whether or not it really works out, so look for a review in the next couple of weeks.

YSL Rouge Volupte Shine in #2 and #9
I have a pretty good collection going when it comes to YSL lip products. My favorite formula, by far, is the Shine collection. I only had one from the Shine collection, the rest are stains and the Rouge Volupte Silky Sensual Radiant lipsticks, so I really wanted to grab some more Shine's. These two shades are just gorgeous! The YSL lipsticks are pricy, but they are so worth it to me. I am a lip product junkie, and the YSL Rouge Volupte Shine lipsticks and definitely my favorite type of lipsticks out of any other brand that I have tried. They have a variety of colors, and are really soft, and balm-like, so they feel really nice on the lips. The shade #2 is a gorgeous berry color, and #9 is a beautiful, every day pinky-nude shade.

That's it for this Sephora haul. Let me know in the comments below what some of your new products are that you've recently purchased, or what products are on your wish list!


xoxo,
Casey