Tarte Lights, Camera, Flashes! Statement Mascara in Black

“Reach great heights and achieve maximum volume with lights, camera, flashes! Statement mascara.  Ultra-rich black mascara lengthens, curls, volumizes and illuminates lashes.  This new formula features a specially designed wand that combines short and long amplified bristles for even-coated, clump-free, voluminous lashes.”

The Journey to Natural Beauty kit includes the brand new Lights, Camera, Flashes! Statement Mascara. It has similar packaging to tarte’s Lights, Camera, Lashes but it comes in a metallic gold case. The plastic wand has long, stiff bristles with two rows of short ones in between, different than any other wand I have seen. It’s a rather large wad but still easy to use/apply; I could get down to the roots of the lashes easily.  I got decent separation and lots of length after applying this mascara.  As for volume, this formula is middle of the road.  I didn’t experience any smudging or flaking at all and it was as easy to remove as most mascaras.  Overall, this is a pretty good mascara. I won’t be reaching for it everyday but maybe once in a while or in combo with another formula.

Tarte Amazonian Butter Lipstick in Plummy Rose

This new lipstick formula from tarte is supposed to drench lips in moisture for super soft lips that are full of creamy color. This new product is infused with healthy, hydrating butters (cupuacu and murumuru) for maximum lip hydration.  The plummy rose shade is perfect for any complexion and great for spring, a little deeper than my normal lip shade. 

The formula is super creamy and feels like a lip balm on the lips, though it is full of color.  It also has a bit of shine to it and has a very slight mint fragrance. I do hope tarte releases more shades of this lipcolor formula because it really is quite nice. I do prefer it to the LipSurgence and Glamzon pure performance formulas, which can be a bit drying.  I have been pairing this color with tarte’s maracuja divine shine gloss in adored, great combo!

Tarte One Brow Architect Brow Shaper

Brow Architect Shaper, Liner, and Definer is a new product introduced in the Journey to Natural Beauty kit.   It's a unique 3 in 1 brow perfector that comes with a universal brow pencil, an underscoring concealer (comes in 3 shades depending on your foundation choice), and a spoolie brow brush.

Brow Pencil

You are supposed to the use the Brow Architect in the follows steps:

• First use the underscoring concealer powder to hide strays and clean up the surrounding brow area.
• Next, fill and define with the universal pencil ( the more pressure you apply the more color you can achieve)
• Finally, comb the brows to stay in place.

Underscoring Concealer

Typically I use Omega eyeshadow from MAC with an angled brush to fill in my brows for a more natural look.  I haven’t really been a fan of too many eyebrow pencils because I find that most are hard to use and don’t fill the brows in very naturally. That is not the case for this product. The slanted brow pencil allows for easy application and coverage so to speak.  The underscoring concealer is an interesting product and I am not sure that I have gotten use to using it. It applies a little heavily under my brows when I use it straight on the applicator so I use another brush or my finger to blend it out.  It’s a neat concept but I am not sure I am sold on it. Overall, I really like the brow pencil and brow brush and will be using this product more often.

Brow Pencil, Concealer

Tarte 12-hour Amazonian Clay Blush in Fearless

Tarte’s The Journey to Natural Beauty kit comes with the award winning Amazonian Clay 12-hour blush in the shade Fearless. Amazonian Clay Blush a long-wearing, supremely soft blush infused with Amazonian clay harvested from the banks of the Amazon River and naturally baked by the sun. I already own one of these blushes in the color Exposed and absolutely love it, so I am excited to try another shade. 



Fearless is describes as a “warm pink” in the brochure for this kit but to me it’s a bright pink with gold shimmer.  When I first opened the compact I was a little worried that this color might by too bright since this blush formula tends to be quite pigmented. Also when I swatched it, it was definitely quite pigmented but applied the color was quite subtle and beautiful. It give a nice natural flush to the cheeks with a hit of shimmer, it really is stunning.

Fearless swatched

tarte Journey to Natural Beauty 6-pc Collection

I have read and seen many reviews on special collection released by tarte on QVC but none have really struck my fancy or if they had, they were already sold out. So when I got the email from QVC that a tarte collection would be the Today Special Value ($59.94 for $168 worth of products) and saw a preview of the products on various other blogs, I decide it was time to check one out! The collection is call Journey to Natural Beauty and includes the following products:

• Amazonian Butter Lipstick in Plummy Rose
• Amazonian Clay 12-Hour Full Coverage Broad Spectrum SPF 15 Foundation
• Lights, Camera, Flashes! Statement Mascara in Black
• One Brow Architect Brow Shaper
• 12-hour Amazonian Clay Blush in Fearless
• Airbrush Finish Bamboo Foundation Brush

This collection comes with Auto-Delivery that will ship out new products or colors two more times this year. Here is the details on those deliveries:

 

• Second shipment: ships June 2013; includes lipstick in Pink Peony, blush in Empowered (an apricot-pink color), and a smaller, tighter foundation brush

• Third shipment: ships November 2013; includes lipstick in Roseberry, blush in Inspired (a mauve-rose color), and a blush brush

I will be doing separate reviews on each product in the collection over the next week, so stay tuned!