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Sponsored: It’s here! August Audio Fest at Best Buy @BestBuy #AudioFest

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Disclosure: The reviewer has been compensated in the form of a Best Buy Gift Card and/or received the product/service at a reduced price or for free.

August Audio Fest at Best Buy JBL Audio
Best Buy is well-known for helping individuals and families enhance their  home entertainment experience and upgrade their sound with additional components, speakers and headphones.  To ensure everyone has an excellent home entertainment experience, the entire month of August is dedicated to gathering the best offers on the best audio products for August Audio Fest at Best Buy.

August Audio Fest is finally here at all Best Buy stores from 8/3/2014 – 8/30/2014 featuring one month of deals, audio specials and more.

During August Audio Fest at Best Buy, visit your local Best Buy store to test, and they the latest and greatest in audio – from a portable Bluetooth speaker like the JBL Portable Bluetooth Speaker ($49.99) and JBL Reflect Sport Headphones ($59.99), to home theater solutions and car audio. Whatever your needs, you’ll be sure to find a great deal during the August Audio Fest at Best Buy!

I had the opportunity to review both the JBL Portable Bluetooth Speaker and the JBL Reflect Sport Headphones.

August Audio Fest JBL Portable Bluetooth Speaker
The JBL Portable Bluetooth Speaker enables wireless music streaming and phone calls when paired with a compatible device like my iPhone. The built-in carabiner creates a ready-to-wear design, making it easy to take the speaker on the go.

As the name implies, the Clip is meant to be mated to your backpack, bike, pants – pretty much any clip-able locale – with an integrated carabiner, so it can throw down a soundtrack for your travels.  And with summer here, I’m always on-the-go and outdoors, which means having access to portable entertainment like music, makes my outdoor experiences like BBQ’s and picnics, as well as, my home renovations more pleasant.   One day, I hooked it up to my husbands iPad mini to get our paint party for two going.  Also, I hooked the JBL Portable Bluetooth Speaker onto our kitchen cabinets while washing dishes, and during mini me’s bath time.

The JBL Portable Bluetooth Speaker is lightweight and simple to use.  I had no issues syncing it wirelessly to any of the devices I use, like my phone or iPad.  The sounds is off the charts!  Both my husband and myself were surprised at the volume and crispness of the sounds played from the speakers.

August Audio Fest at Best Buy JBL Reflect Sport Headphones

The JBL Reflect Sport Headphones, like the JBL Portable Bluetooth Speaker provide legendary sound in a workout-ready design.  Since I have small ears what attracted me most to the JBL Reflect Sport Headphones were the ergonomic, stay-put earbuds. The earbuds fit well in my ear without popping out, something I’ve experienced with other earbud headphones. Also, the JBL Reflect Sport Headphones are engineered to withstand the rigors of your most energetic workout, delivering on the soundtrack to push you to drive harder.

As you can see, Best Buy has the best selection of audio products – come in and let Best Buy teach you how to upgrade your sound; LOVE THE WAY YOU LiSTEN. Visit BestBuy.com for more August Audio Fest at Best Buy deals from now until August 30, 2014.

Disclosure: The reviewer has been compensated in the form of a Best Buy Gift Card and/or received the product/service at a reduced price or for free.

Swatches & Review of Obsessive Compulsive Cosmetics Creme Colour Concentrate

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Disclosure: Product provided for review consideration. All opinions are my own and are honest. Affiliate Links.

Obsessive Compulsive Cosmetics Creme Colour Concentrate review

 

Obsessive Compulsive Cosmetics is one of my favorite brands, especially when it comes to highly pigmented, colorful products for both lips and eyes, which is exactly what the Obsessive Compulsive Cosmetics Creme Colour Concentrate exhibits. I already love the golden shade ‘Icarus’, which I’ve reviewed here previously.  Now, I bring to you six other shades, which are from the Fall 2013 ‘Modern Craft’ Collection (read post here).

How to use Obsessive Compulsive Cosmetics Creme Colour Concentrate?

I am not kidding when I say that the uses for the Obsessive Compulsive Cosmetics Creme Colour Concentrate are limitless.  They can be used for the following:

– Eyeshadows

– Lip colors

– Eye liner

– Eyeshadow base to make your eyeshadows “pop”. Try ‘Vice’ under your favorite eyeshadow.

–  ‘Grasshopper’ can be used to correct redness

– ‘Discipline’ is a pretty nude for my lips

What do I like about the Obsessive Compulsive Cosmetics Creme Colour Concentrates?

Besides the fact that the Obsessive Compulsive Cosmetics Creme Colour Concentrate have limitless uses, I love them because the color pay-off is amazing.  With  just a small amount, no primer or any other kind of base, you can see from the swatches below, just how pigmented and opaque the shades are.

The Obsessive Compulsive Cosmetics Creme Colour Concentrates are creamy.  If you have oily lids, or lids with lots of folds, the Obsessive Compulsive Cosmetics Creme Colour Concentrate may not work too well for you as a shadow, since it may crease.  Creme Color Concentrates  are non-drying, paraben-free, sulfate-free, and phthalate-free, and, of course, cruelty-free and vegan.

 

Obsessive Compulsive Cosmetics Creme Colour Concentrate Swatches
The Obsessive Compulsive Cosmetics Creme Colour Concentrates can be found at Sephora or purchased from the Obsessive Compulsive Cosmetics’ website for $20.  The price sounds steep; however, for the amount of product you get, plus the small amount you’d use each application, you’re definitely getting your monies worth.  Try ‘District’ as a lipstick, or use ‘Bauhaus’ to create a smoky eye, either way, have fun with it, and let me know what you think.

 

Disclosure: Product provided for review consideration. All opinions are my own and are honest. Affiliate Links.

One Direction Where We Are Tour Concert Ticket & Makeup by One Direction Giveaway

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One Direction Where We Are Tour Ticket Giveaway
 

My tweenage nieces are in-love with One Direction.  In fact, they’re headed to their Where We Are Tour concert at Metlife Stadium in East Rutherford, NJ on August 4th.  One Direction has just finished the European leg of their Where We Are Tour, and are making their way to the US  in just a few days.  Wow, did August come quickly!

Apparently, the One Direction Where We Are Tour 2014 is supposed to be their “biggest yet.”  Wouldn’t you, or your teenage son/daughter would love to win free tickets to see One Direction in concert on August 8, 2014 at the Gillette Stadium in Foxborough, Mass?  Imagine, if you won how cool of a parent you will be. Your kids will love you for days.  You’ll go down in history as the best, and coolest parent of all time.

To top if off,  One Direction debuts a limited-edition cosmetics collection by Markwins International – the name behind brands like Wet n Wild and Physician’s Formula – launching mid-August 2014 at Macy’s and select other major retailers worldwide.

Much like the One Direction band members themselves, this prestige makeup line is fun, bold and a tad mischievous, featuring vivid shades, premium formulas and chic, collectible packaging and components. The winner of the tickets will also take home two of the One Direction Makeup tins.  Awesome!

 

***Giveaway***

To enter visit: https://promosimple.com/ps/520e or use the widget below

Each winner will receive two(2) tickets to the One Direction “Where We Are” Tour Concert at Gilette Stadium in Foxborough, MA for Friday, August 8th, 2014, at 7:00pm.

Note: Transportation to/from the concert and lodging not included.

Winners will also receive two (2) Makeup by ONE DIRECTION limited-edition collections of beauty essentials, housed in a collectible keepsake tin.  Inside is everything you need to rock all your beauty looks on or off the stage.  The two makeup tins will be randomly selected from the 3 available collections:

  1. Midnight Memories
  2. Take Me Home
  3. Up all Night

One Direction Makeup 2 One Direction Makeup 1
Details on the three Looks Collection tins: 

 


 

Review: Vincent Longo Pearl X Eyeshadow Trio – Luna Beach {Swatches}

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Vincent Longo Pearl X Eyeshadow Luna Beach
Vincent Longo Cosmetics is a brand that I’ve heard a lot of great things about thanks to my fellow makeup artists and beauty bloggers.  Ever since reading reviews on Vincent Longo Cosmetics, I’ve wanted to try at least one product from this brand, and luckily for me, waiting in my The Makeup Show Blogger Preview gift bag was a Vincent Longo Pearl X Eyeshadow Trio  in shade Luna Beach.

Description: This unique, out-of-this-world formula opens new vistas in eye makeup. Pearl X eyeshadows spread cool to warm tones throughout a sophisticated multi-textured product, to create shades of matte and shine that effortlessly blend and shift as you apply. The galactic multi-textures of matte and pearl encourage a personalized, creative application style (source).

The Vincent Longo Pearl X Eyeshadow Trio is unlike any eyeshadow I’ve tried.  It’s a “trio” of three  eyeshadows of varying textures that can be used singularly or together, which means the looks you can create with it are endless.

What I like about the Vincent Longo Pearl X Eyeshadow is the versatility of it; I was able to create soft looks, bold looks, and use it as a liner.  Vincent Longo Cosmetics recommends using their #18 brush (I forgot to snap a pic of) to apply the eyeshadow to achieve a soft application. I also like that I was able to mix the colors, which allowed me to get a different look each time.

The Vincent Longo Pearl X Eyeshadow are extremely soft; they’re like butter.  I experienced little to no fallout, too. Can you say, AMAZING! It applied well (at least to my liking) when a using a dense, flat shadow brush.

Vincent Longo Pearl X Eyeshadow Luna Beach Swatches
The flecks of metallic copper in the Vincent Longo Pearl X Eyeshadow in Luna Beach, as you can tell from my photos, was my favorite.  The green and purple were a hit, too.

Just in case you were wondering, the Vincent Longo Pearl X Eyeshadow wears well throughout the day, especially with a primer.  This is even on a hot, humid New York City Day.

Overall, I am happy with my first Vincent Longo Cosmetics experience, and can’t wait to explore more items from the brand.

 

Vincent Longo Pearl X Eyeshadow Luna Beach Eyes

The Vincent Longo Pearl X Eyeshadows come in a shiny, sleek black compact with a mirror (a plus) that is embossed with an almost Tiffany blue Vincent Longo logo.   The Vincent Longo Pearl X Eyeshadows can be purchased for $25 on the Vincent Longo website or Nordstrom.com, and are available in four additional shades:Code 6 Pink, Novalei, Destiny Rose, and Etherea.

Have you tried Vincent Longo Pearl X Eyeshadows or anything from the Vincent Longo line? What are your thoughts?

Disclosure: Affiliate links. Product provided for review consideration. All opinions are my own and are honest.