Nail of the Week! Maybelline Color Show Green With Envy

I picked this Maybelline Color Show nail polish up at Target the other day, I believe for $3.99. This is my first Color Show which I think is a newly released line of polishes for Maybelline (??). I have wanted a mint green polish for sometime and they had what looked like the perfect one, so I picked it up.

Green with Envy is mint green with a cream finish, simple as that.  The formula of the polish is decently opaque and covered the nails nicely with two coats. I found the formula to be a little on the thicker side which is different than other polishes I like to use (OPI, Essie) but it seemed to dry quickly. Overall, a great color for summer! I threw on some gold glitter to spice it up a bit and I love it!

Maybelline Instant Age Rewind Dark Circle Eraser

The first product that I am going to review for my drugstore review week is the Maybelline Instant Age Rewind Dark Circle Eraser ($7.49 at Target; prices vary). As you all know, I love concealers and I am always looking for new ones. I think I have a mild obsession right now with concealers. It is something that I use everyday, even when I don’t wear a lot of makeup. This product is a treatment concealer with Gogi Berry + Haloxyl which is supposed to instantly erase dark circles and fine lines and visibly diminish puffiness.

It comes in 6 shades; Fair, Light, Medium, Honey, neutralizer & brightener. I choose the shade Light. The packaging of this product is compact and easy to carry around which I like. The attached sponge applicator is very handy, all I do is dot under my eyes and blend with my fingers or a brush (usually a MAC 224 brush). This concealer has a creamy, smooth texture that is not overly thick like some other concealers can be. The coverage is great, I find it very pigmented and you need very little product for an application. Overall, it seems to last pretty well through out the day. I only find I need to touch up when I am looking extra tired and my dark circles just don’t want to go away. This is a great drugstore buy; definitely check it out next time you are at the grocery or drugstore.

Drugstore Deals: Maybelline Great Lash BIG Mascara

 I decided that this year I am going to feature drugstore beauty products on my blog as well as designer beauty brands. I love going to Ulta because they feature both sides of the beauty spectrum and sometimes I find that drugstore products can be as good as or better than designer brands. One of the things I religiously buy from the drugstore is mascara. Mascara is a product that is quite disposable since it only has a shelf life of a few months once it has been first used. Why pay a lot of money for a product that you will just pitch in a few short weeks. Every once and a while I will splurge and try the new “it” mascara from a designer brand but that is very seldom. So after strolling around Ulta the other day I decided to pick up a new mascara to try. I decided on Maybelline’s Great Lash BIG mascara in Very Black ($3.99).

This mascara called to me because of its larger fluffy brush. As I have said in my other mascara posts, that is my number favorite trait in a good mascara. The larger, fuller brush promises volume with each coat with no clumping or globs. I am guessing that the formula is the original Great Lash formula and the brush is the only difference. I have tried the original Great lash but wasn’t impressed by the brush. After trying BIG mascara I am super pumped about the results. My lashes have never looks longer and more voluminous. Some people think a larger brush is harder to apply with but I had no problem at all. No clumps, no globs in sight! At $3.99 a pop, this mascara has become a new favorite! Go check it out at your local grocery store, drugstore or Ulta.