Maybelline Luminous Lights review

              I was recently looking through Allure magazine when I came across an ad for the Maybelline Luminous Lights. The girl in the ad was wearing the eye shadow in the quad 75Q opal lights. It was the most amazing colors, light pink, a light minty green, a light baby blue, and a pretty brown colour. I was so excited that as soon as I got off of work I went home and tried to recreate the look that the girl in the ad had on her eyes with an eyeshadow pallet I already owned, I thought I had it pretty close but I was so in love with the color that the girl was wearing that I decided I would go by this particular quad so that I could make sure that I was doing the look justice. The next day I went to my local Walmart to see if I could find the quad from the ad, I was able to find it and was very excited to try it.

             The next day I try it when I am getting ready for work and unfortunately I was disappointed in it. Don't get me wrong the texture was fine and the time in which it lasted was great. The color pay off however was not very good at all. When I put it on the colors were not  half as vivid as it was in the ad. And it is so shimmery that you can barely see the colors once they are out of the quad especially when you are trying to photograph the swatches. I know in ads you have photo shop and air brushing but I feel like when it comes to makeup it should be a little truer to the product itself. I went and paid for the product and I must say that the colors that I used out of a eyeshadow pallet that I already owned looked more like the ad than the actual product that was being sold in the ad! I'm not trying to make this sound like a ranting blog but unfortunately it does sound quite ranty!

              Now with that said I must say that Maybelline is one of my favorite drugstore makeup brands. I have loved a lot of their eye shadows quads and singles, blushes, foundations, eyeliners, and mascaras but unfortunately the Luminous lights were a big miss in my book, now had I not seen the ad that made this eyeshadow look so beautiful and I had bought it I would probably have loved the product.

How to make your own make up remover

Here is a cheap inexpensive easy way to make your own makeup remover. You only need a few ingredients and most of them you will find around the house.

So here is a list of what you will need.

a bottle (ie...20oz drink bottle or a 16.9oz water bottle)
olive oil
tap water
food coloring (optional)


In a bowl or in the bottle that you plan on storing your makeup remover in you will put your olive oil in. (depending on the size of the bottle depends on how much you want to put because you want to put equal amounts oil & water.) And then you are going to add equal amounts of your tap water. Now comes the optional part. If you would like your make up remover to have a tint to it add a drop of food coloring.(the color is up to you this is just going to give the makeup remover a bit of color). Now if you put this in a bowl you will stir it with your spoon and poor it into a bottle and put the top on it. If you added the ingredients in the bottle you will just put the top on it and give it a little shake...and you are done.

This mixture will stay good for up to 8 weeks. When you are ready to use it just give the bottle a little shake, soak a cotton ball and begin removing your makeup. This is great for stubborn lipsticks or mascara. After you remove the make up you will want to wash your face using regular face wash or soap and water.