Holiday Sets
The holidays are coming up, which means it’s time for all of your boxed sets and palettes to come out. Perfect for gift-giving, these guys are also an awesome way to score a great deal on bestsellers you’ve been lemming all year — but don’t let the savings fool you. If it’s not something you want, you’re not saving (you’re just spending)!
Formula X for Sephora
I’m not a nail girl, as I’m sure you all know by now, but I have to admit: some of these look pretty cool. At $13 CAD+ apiece, they’re not cheap, but the line has a surprisingly niche pull. With over 200 eye-catching nail lacquers covering everything from neutrals to holos, FORMULA X has all your bases covered.
Seriously. They have twelve different “effects” lines, plus nail wraps and nail care products and — I mean, this is excessive. (Excessively awesome, maybe.)
Explore the range here.
Make Up For Ever Artisan Brush Collection
Have I mentioned these before? I don’t think I have, but — well, MUFE came out with a few new brushes (76 of them, to be exact), in case you’ve magically missed hearing about their launch.
From odes to the line’s impressive artistic breadth to reviews mentioning the weird oiliness that some of the brushes come part & parcel with, the range sounds like it’s littered with both hits and misses. Christine (Temptalia) has notably great coverage on these, and Tracy (Beauty Reflections) has a couple that she adores, as well. I have a few coming in the mail as well, and will try to get reviews up as soon as possible!
Shop the brushes here.
ARDENCY INN: Punker, Modster, and Americana
An entire season later and I still haven’t decided if Ardency Inn is trying too hard to be cool… or if it’s actually so utterly cool that it’s not trying at all.
I haven’t noticed the line in my local Sephora, so I haven’t so much as swatched any of it, but — I don’t know. I feel like I may just be over-thinking this one.
Pumkin (yes, you read that right!)
How cute is this??! The autumn counterpart to Mumkin (which LUSH launched for a limited time last Mother’s Day), Pumkin retails for $5.95 CAD and is scented with LUSH’s year-round Figs and Leaves soap. Find it here on the LUSH site.
And everything else
Just because the holidays happen doesn’t mean that new products stop launching, much to my dismay. (What? It’s overwhelming! I’d never want a new launch not to launch, but couldn’t they just… wait a little while, or something?)
Silliness aside, here are a few products that caught my eye. But not literally, because that would be gross.
