Category — Coastal Scents

While the eye’s of makeup junkies everywhere are focused on MAC’s latest “Naughty Nauticals” collection, this bargain shopper has found an alternative to give your peepers the summer look. Coastal Scent’s new Pencil Me In eyeliner in Indigo is a real winner. The slate blue eyeliner has a bit of shimmer to open your eyes and deflect light. It applies incredibly smooth and even comes with it’s own sharpener in the cap! The pigment is rich and saturated.

I’ve used this blue to line my entire eye (top and bottom), just the top and even blended it out for a smoky blue haze look. No irritation and it sets quickly and wears through the day.

The best part? This eyeliner will only set you back $6.99 (available at CoastalScents.com) and is available in 30 (yes, thirty!) colors. MAC’s is$14.99. Huh.

*Photo courtesy of Coastal Scents.

This look is based off my daily makeup look, which I keep pretty low key. It’s your basic natural makeup application. I like to play up my eyes a bit, keep my skin breathing with a slight glow.

• Started off with NARS Makeup Primer (as a bonus it has SPF 20) across my face and neck.
• I used Ferro’s mineral makeup Radiance Foundation (my color: Light-Medium Beige) on any places I need coverage- around my nose, eyelids, under eyes, chin.
• Using Ferro’s Rose Crystal Mineral Veil for shimmer, I applied it *lightly* to my cheekbones and across my entire eyelid up to the brow bone (it makes an excellent highlighter).
• For color flush on my cheeks, I used Ferro’s Bronzer in Glow Baby. Whatever was left on the brush was tapped onto my chin, nose, and across forehead.
• Since everything else is very neutral, I used Coastal Scents eyeshadow in Paisley (a light purple) on my eyelid. This shadow is a light wash of color, almost what you would imagine from a watercolor paint.
• Finish with one coat of Lancome’s Definicils mascara in Black.

Here’s the look on my eyes. See, the purple is very neutral and just brings out the eyes a little. Perfect for daytime! (And yes, I look a little crooked in this photo, oops!)

Suggested Reading: Bionic’s Review of Ferro Cosmetics, Amped Up Natural makeup look, and Rockin’ the Glow with Mineral Makeup.

Price Drop: All Samples of Mica Powders, Oxides and; Fillers are now $1.00.

Free Glitter Samples: We just received our newest cosmetic safe Glitter Powder: Sahara Sand. These new glitter powders are so beautiful that we have to show them off. So we decided to give them away for free (1 teaspoon sizes, only one per household, and you have to pay for shipping.). Simply add the glitters to your cart in order to be eligible for this offer. Shown in the photo (from left to right): Golden Fairy Dust, Purple Punch, and Sahara Sand.

Proscale LC-300: $5.00 OFF Coupon: If you are serious about makeup formulating, a scale is a must have. Now is the time to buy yours. Until Sunday February 24, 2008, you can get the LC-300 Scale for as low as $14.95! Use the coupon code MYSCALE at checkout time.

Let’s face it, in the winter we all look forward to warm showers. And we are usually searching for ways to improve our dry, flaky skin. Here’s a product that could help us out! Coastal Scents has just released a new line of body scrubs called “Spa Excel Sugar Butter Scrubs“.

I tried out the Coconut Melon flavor. YUM!  While I love coconut scents, this product leaned more toward the melon, but it was still delish. I slathered on the scrub while showering and immediately noticed the moisturizing properties. My skin felt soft and silky and the dry bumps on my knees and elbows just melted away. The sugar in the scrub was not too harsh, just pleasantly exfoliating.

After my shower, I patted off with a towel and felt no need to slather myself with my usual lotion. Quite the feat in the midst of a dry Missouri winter. The melon scent lingered softly on my skin.

As for ingredients (see below for a list), I loved how this body scrub is natural. Truly natural. And it contains Castor Oil which is superb for drawing impurities out of your skin.

The body scrubs are offered in 4 varieties: Coconut Melon, Vanilla, Lavender and Unscented (don’t you wish more companies offered unscented options?!).

The ingredients are as follows:

Pure Cane Sugar, Butyrospermum parkii (Shea butter), Cocos nucifera (Coconut Oil), Simmondsia chinensis (Jojoba), Olea europaea (Olive Oil), Ricinus communis (Castor Oil), Isopropyl Myristate, Squalene (from olives), Citric Acid, Fragrance, and Vitamin E.

How Coastal Scents describes their product:

“This is our latest product, an exfoliating sugar scrub with whipped shea butter & ultra moisturizing oils. This all over skin enhancing product will leave you with the softest, silky skin upon leaving the shower. Once done, there is no need to apply lotion due to this complex blend that literally sinks into your epidermis as it exfoliates away dead skin cells.”

Coastal Scents sells their Sugar Butter Scrubs for $11.95 for a generous 8 oz tub.

I also love that Coastal Scents has an entire kit to make your own Bath Bombs and Fizzies! Woo hoo, more bath fun!!

Photo is copyright Coastal Scents. 

Product: Coastal Scents Mineral Eyeshadow in Ignite (a light peach-taupe with shimmer).

Review: This eyeshadow is gentle (no pulling or tugging on delicate skin) and wears well. I wore it over my entire lid for a natural day look. Since it’s light, it would be a great color as a highlighter, in the inner eye corners, or even across the bridge of the nose or tops of cheeks. Even though it is light, the color saturation was high and pressed into the skin. I am certainly looking forward to trying some of the darker colors for evening wear.

Coastal Scents offers their eyeshadows in a vast range of 72 colors. And all can be used wet or dry, as shadows or liners.

Scroll down a teeny bit to see my application. I applied the shadow across my entire lid with a small natural-bristle shadow brush, then used a dark grey eyeliner for emphasis and one coat of black mascara.

Availability: Online at Coastal Scents.com for $7.95 for a sifter jar.

Eyeshadow swatch in color Ignite.

Eyeshadow applied:

Ingredients: Mica, Iron Oxides, Titanium Dioxide - May contain: Ultramarines, Kaolin, Magnesium Stearate, Rice Powder, Boron Nitride, Magnesium Myristate

I recently tried out Coastal Scent’s Glossi Glaze, a smooth and light lip gloss. The color I tried is “50’s Twist” a shimmery raspberry. The gloss comes in a sleek pot and sells for $4.95 for a 5gram pot. Coastal Scents offers a color choice of 8 shades, which sounds like only a few, but it’s really a well-rounded color collection.

A swatch of the 50’s Twist Glossi Glaze:

Things I liked: smooth application, not sticky and not overly shiny. I really LOVED applying this gloss over top of my standard lip stains. It moisturized and added some depth to my lip color. Wonderful product!!

Here are the ingredients: Unpetroleum (made from Castor, Beeswax and Carnuba wax), Castor Oil, Candellila wax, Jojoba Oil, mica, iron oxide.

These glosses would make great little gifts for friends or family (or yourself!).