Friday, July 9, 2010

Yesterday's Drugstore Haul: HIP and Physician's Formula



Since I was pretty bummed out about missing out on Stereo Rose again, I decided to check out what sort of cheap thrills may await me in the health and beauty department while out grocery shopping.... And came home with a couple things for less than the price of the damn MAC frosty blush that I know I would probably never wear but for some reason can't stop thinking about! Ugh!

Here's what I got:

HIP by L'Oreal eyeshadow duo in Electrified. It's my first HiP item, actually. I was never really interested in the line until Eve gave me a massive lemming for this yesterday afternoon... Lucky for me it was under $7 unlike most of my lemmings.


Here it is swatched on the back of my hand indoors (indirect/ambient light) and outside in full sunlight. The left half is a very shimmery/metallic champagne gold with a touch of taupe and the right half is a shimmery deep smoky red-toned plum purple. I'm actually rather impressed with the texture and pigmentation of these. Maybe I should try something else from this line to see if everything is the same quality.

And here's a super fast look I did with it, just playing around and trying it out. Flash and indoor/ambient light. I used MAC Painterly as a base, both the shadows, a little black eyeliner and some mascara, no other products. I am really rather impressed with the gold color. It's very luminous... I've been looking for metallic/shiny looking shadows lately... I can't seem to find exactly what I'm looking for, but this one is really nice and totally worth the cost of admission.

The other thing I picked up was this Physician's Formula shimmer palette. I wanted to get a ton of their stuff, but I hesitated... I remember how much I used to dislike their eyeshadows about ten or so years ago... I remember them being really frosty and chalky. I did used to love their Virtual Eyes duochrome eyeliners, wish I could still find those somewhere. But yeah, I was wary so I only got this... but now that I've used it I might have to try out the rest of the stuff I was drooling over. There was this set of gel eyeliners that Phyrra reviewed and I *almost* got them... A green, a purple and a black. Anyway... what was I talking about?

Oh yeah, the palette. This is supposed to enhance Hazel eyes, which I do not have, I have boring dark brown-black eyes.... but it still seems to enhance them anyway...


Here's the goofy package it comes in. It's a box with a wing/flap/extra side... so it forms a corner shape... very unusual... Interesting, but so much extra cardboard!


The palette itself. They all seem to be part of one long eyeshadow, the lines in between the shadows are really shallow and don't seem to really separate the colors all too well. Reminds me of a Shimmerbrick.


Swatched on my arm indoors and outside in full sunlight. They're a little frosty and the pigmentation isn't that great, but it's nowhere near as bad as I remember.

And another quick look, just testing them out:


I used Painterly as a base, the fifth and sixth shadows (from top to bottom with the silver on the top) and a little of the silver on the inner corner, black eyeliner and mascara. Very subdued but still pretty.

The thing about these types of palettes and colors is that they're really quick to use. You don't have to think about them at all, just slap it on and go. Both of these looks took me less than five minutes to do. And I mean an actual five minutes, not the "five minutes" that someone says to get you to wait for them while they're getting ready but always turns out to be like, half an hour...

I have a bunch of makeup stuff I want to post but I never feel like my makeup pictures/swatches turn out very good... Maybe Karla can teach a makeup swatching class for the swatch-challenged people like me!

Cause, yeah.... I love makeup... a whole lot... Which is why I started blogging in the first place... I'm obsessed...

22 comments:

  1. I like when you post makeup stuff. I really liked the HIP eyeshadows, I never really considered them even though they're all over the place at Wal Mart and Walgreens.

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  2. The HIP stuff that I've tried has been really nice- I have this one pigment that's sort of a pinky white color (I bought it thinking that it was white)- damned if I can remember the name of it but it is freaking amazing. It has a purple duochrome and it just looks so fabulous, but it's subtle also- I like to do it with a little brown blended into the crease (it comes out purply) and it just looks wonderful.

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  3. I would absolutely love to have your eye colour - beautiful!

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  4. Loreal HIP is just awesome, i have 4 different duos which i love! <3 You should try out the lose eyeshadow SO PRETTY!

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  5. your lashes look amazing!!

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  6. I think your swatches are great! LOL - Karla should totally do a "Master Class" for swatching. Grr...I've been everywhere in my crap Canadian town and haven't found those PF liners that I've seen on so many blogs. Time for a trip across the border....

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  7. I've gotta check out HIP eyeshadows now. Those colors are gorgeous!

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  8. M'Gah your lahses are gorgeous! What kind of mascara do you use?

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  9. HIP is a pretty awesome drugstore line for it's pigmentation level. When I need something that's going to pop and am in a rush, that's the first line I turn to. Great looks!

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  10. I LOVE it when you post makeup looks, Scrangie!
    I've been a fan of HIP since I was doing YT vids, and the duos are mostly all awesome like this. To be as inexpensive as they are, it's pretty impressive. I like some of their glosses too!
    It always amazes me when I come across good drugstore shadows, I've run into so many bad ones.
    Loved BOTH of these looks!

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  11. Lovely! Man you have KILLER lashes girl! <3

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  12. I also have brown eyes. My middle brother has sapphire blue eyes (and now so does my baby niece). It used to piss me off that my brother got the amazing blue eyes and I got stuck with boring brown eyes.

    You should absolutely do makeup tutorials. The looks you created in this one post are substantially better than a lot I've seen on makeup swatch/review/tutorial blogs.

    I decided before the latest MAC release that I wasn't getting Stereo Rose or any of the others. They make my skin look awful. I have small pores and a pretty good complexion - even with those positives, I still cannot use those MAC products.

    Rather than dump more money into that line by trying different shades, I decided to stick to my favorite blushes (Peaches, Sincere) and use a light hand to apply highlighter on the very top of my cheekbones.

    Sorry for the superlong post. I had just finished reading the umpteenth excited comment on another blog about the collection when I found your post. As I said before, please think about expanding your blog to include more makeup. You do a beautiful job of blending and the pics look terrific!

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  13. Oh noooo, is Stereo Rose sold out AGAIN? It looked too orange for me, but I wanted to at least look at it. I stupidly thought they'd make enough for everyone considering the amount of time people had been frothing over this one.

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  14. Love those shimmer strip colors on you. The colors really work with your eyes, and your application is very good. Now you have me lemming them, darn you.

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  15. I love when you do makeup pictures. I definitely need the tutorial more than you do though! I can't seem to take a close up picture of my eye like that and would love some tips!

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  16. Both the looks you did are lovely!

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  17. You do some fabulous makeup swatches. I have the same boring brown eyes. Every once in awhile I ask my brother why he got the hazel eys and I the brown. Big eyes also. What I could do with eyemakeup on those eyes. I've heard that HIP is good. Haven't tried them yet. Besides nail polish, I'm a lipstick and eyeshadow fiend.

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  18. i love the Hip duo. did it stay on well?
    -Elaine
    :c)

    i love when u post ur eye looks. u inspire me to try more w/ my brown eyes!

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  19. Your eyes just sold me on this palette. And there's nothing boring about brown eyes. :)

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  20. The loreal shadows look great, gonna check them out next time i go shopping :)

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  21. Be proud of your dark brown eyes, I have em too :-)

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  22. You have the most beautiful eyes! Awsome pictures, beautiful make up. Wow!

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