Collective Beauty Review!!!

Collective Beauty Review!!! <3

                                           by TrixieLuxx

Hey everyone!!! We are already in the month of December! Can't believe it!  The year goes by soo freaking fast. I wish it would sloow down. After this month, I will have been a blogger for 1 full year strong!!! Crazyness!  Today I just wanted to do a small collective beauty review! A little bit of products, little bit of samples and a little bit of gifts!  One of my favorite things is makeup so I am very excited to show and review all these products! Diamonds are a girls best friend? Nah. Makeup is!

I'll start with the Lancome paris mascara in "deep black" which is the one farthest to the left.  This company is a little more high end but overall kind of in the middle.  I like to start from outer to inner so I'll start with the packaging.  The packaging is very sleek and glamorous.  Black and gold is a very glamorous combination. It seems marketed towards the older girl but still very nice.  It's very chic and minimal and feels good in your hands.  It's kind of the perfect size. Here's what it looks like opened.

Sorry for how sucky this picture is but you can see the jist of how it is when opened.  The wand is very long and slim.  It has a very neat and compact look. Kind of perfect for your purse.  As far as the way that it applies, It's kind of slightly awkward with how long the wand is in my personal opinion.  Some may like that but the wand is too long for me.  And the bristles are very short and compact so it applies very light. It almost feels like it's barely going on so you have to keep applying just to see a little difference.  So the combination of the long wand and short bristles are not really something I like.  And as far as the formula, It's hard to tell if the formula is light or if that is the way the wand applies it.. either way, this mascara doesn't take the cake. In this case, more money does not equal more better. 

 Then, the Nxy Baby doll lash!  I love the packaging for this one. So cute! This one is less glamorous but more cute and I like it the same.

 

This wand is kind of like the basic wand. Basic price and size.  A little on the thin side with the brush. But not as thin as the Lancome Paris.  It applies more or less the same.  From what I see with mascaras, Whether you go up or down on the spectrum, it's all relatively the same but occasionally you will find something that has a wow factor. This one is not one of those lol.  It's just a regular cute mascara and applies on the thin side so it doesn't take the cake either.

And the rest of these believe it or not were all gifts! lol Yes.  This is why I love Sephora.  You get gifts just for shopping!
They are samples granted but still so great.  You get to try new brands for free and get cute little knickknacks.

I'll start with the sugar tinted lip treatment.  It looks like this.

It's basically a fancy chap stick lol.  But much more moisturizing and with a slight tint that is really pretty.  It kind of makes your lips look like rose petals to me.  It's a very pretty tint.  This is the gift I think I've seen them give out most.  And the smell is really nice! I can't really describe the scent really. But its not a familiar scent that smells like everything else.  When you smell it, it will be different from anything else.  So that's a thing.  It's very signature. I will just say it's VERY sweet and a unique scent.  Here is what it looks like opened! 

     
Again, sorry for the mess in the back. ugh. But as you can see its a very moist and creamy treatment. And VERY soft. Like butter. It's too soft actually.  It's so soft that you have to press soo lightly on your lips or it will break the stick.  And when you even do that, it lathers it on too much!  Just from this alone, it makes me not like it.  It kind of just falls apart on your lips.  There's no form.  I do like to lather things on but not a lip treatment and its just so like creamy and buttery and falling apart that it's messy.

Then the next sample which is the third from the right.  The Buxom mascara.  I already kind of reviewed this product but this one is a sampler and kind of a little different.  This one is compact for your purse and has a different wand and package so I decided to review it too.  Again, with the whole buxom thing, the packaging is nice but once you open it, that's when the weird shyt happens again.  You don't screw it on like most mascaras.  It just pops open and BAM there it is. lol The wand is very short. It looks like this.

 It's too short! lol Very strange.  The bristles are damn near touching the cap! lol But I get that it is suppose to be compact.  Then when you apply with this applicator, because its so short, its very weird. I don't know if they sell these sizes for your purse like on the go or anything but if they did, I wouldn't recommend it.  It's just a very weird application.

Then, the smash box mascara that is the second from the left!  So so far I'm already kind of really liking smash box the company. The mascara on the other hand along with the buxom is just ok.  The applicator is much better with a screw on cap but the buxom brush is actually better than the smashbox.  It looks like so. 

    

It's just to round of a brush and to short of a stick basically.  Those two make for not a good combination.  It feels very odd to apply with this. Again, I don't know if they actually seell these for like on the go in your purse but if they do, nah to these. lol 

And we are nearing the end. Oh my! I saved the best for last.  I already LOOOVE the Anastasia brand and sephora was giving out little goodie bags!

In this cute kind of burgundy bag you got a little eye mask and lipgloss! so cute!  I think that is such a cute combination. The bag looks like this. I went ahead and put everything I was going to review in it. 

     
  And here is the eye mask and lipgloss!

It's super soft and lush. And the back strap is white lace.  Looks like so. 

So cute right!  I thought it was kind of perfect.  It's like sci fi meets beauty to me.  Or like tech meets beauty which is kind of perfect.  It kinda looks like it was made for a beauty blogger exactly.  And the best part is the lipgloss!  This is MY NEW FAV lipgloss!!

It's the Anastasia Beverly Hills Lipgloss in "MOI".  It's kind of like a really pretty samon color.  It seems like it would be universally flattering too. Like flattering to all women and on all skin types.  For me, I feel like it brightens my face up and just makes me look soft and soo pretty.  Something about this lipgloss makes my whole face look prettier. No joke.  The formula is soo nice and high quality and the packaging is just very sleek and glam and pretty!  It's kind of perfect!  The only down side is the applicator.  It looks like this.

   But it isnt a brush applicator like it looks like and like I thought it would be.  It's plastic.. You can see it better when I wiped of some of the product.

So yeah, it's like a plastic piece.  And the way it feels like when you apply is like a hard plastic. It feels hard on your lips.  It feels like your putting frosting on a cake with one of those things.  I don't know what you call it. Like a icing spatula. lol  That's exactly what it feels like lol. Like your frosting a cake except it's your lips.  But once you get use to the applicator it's pretty nice.  It applies much better than a sponge applicator because the sponge really just absorbs all the product.  With this one, it actually puts on the product onto your lips and actually applies pretty well too once you get the hang of it.  But the best applicators for lipgloss will always be brushes. So I was kind sad this wasnt a brush at first.  But honestly, I like everything else about this lipgloss soo much that I can forgive that.  I really love this lipgloss.  It is my absolute favorite right now! 

And that is the end of this collective beauty review!! yay! We did it.  Believe it or not this takes me a good few hours or so but it's a labor of love. No complaints. But when I finally ge tto the end it feels like I crossed the finish like of a big race or something. lol  This should have been up Monday.  I apologize for that.  I was so horribly under the weather.  It was terrible.  Still kind of am but MUCH better today! 

I hope you enjoyed this review!  
Happy Tuesday! =)

    

The Law of Attraction!!!!

The Law of Attraction!!!

(everything you've wanted to know about the law of attraction and how it works!)

Hey everyone!!! I am very excited about this article today because I have been reading up about the law of attraction recently!  I already knew of it for a few years now but I got into reading about it again more and kind of reignited my excitement about it.  But I have already been practicing it and  I can say from personal experience that it works!!! 

I feel like everyone has heard about the law of attraction by this point, probably through the secret documentary or book and have a general idea of it.  You put your wants out into the universe, and you get them!  Ask and you shall receive kind of thing.  But I find the secret, (though I really like it) to be very vague and misleading.  I am writing this article today to break down what the secret is actually saying and also give a better book recommendation for understanding it!  So let's get into it!

So what is the Law of Attraction exactly?  The Law of Attraction is the magnetic power of the universe that draws similar energies together. (Like attracts Like basically)  So in applying this to life, positive thoughts/energy are magnets for positive life experiences while negative thoughts/energy are magnets for negative life experiences!  

So it isn't, put your request out there, and wait for it to come basically. Like expecting it and trying to be positive and patient while you wait.  This is what I use to think a few years back.  I thought that you ask the universe and try to stay in believing that it will come to you, and if you ever stop having hope or believing, then it cancels the energy.  But that is completely wrong!

The correct way is to BE positive/ have positive energy about the things you want and naturally, those things will just show up in your life! Speak and feel positively as much as possible!  I've really been trying to do this this year. 

The positive energy within vibrates out into the universe and similar energy will come back to you!  This is where karma comes from as well.  Whats important to understand is we are all energy.  Each of us is a being but we are also a metaphysical being (an energy).  So there is the practical and then the metaphysical side of life. A lot of times we try to fix things in our lives practically.  You need to fix your grades, study more.  You need to find a job, job hunt.  You need to pay your morgage, practical solution. But our energy is the other half and is equally important.  We need to have a positive, open and receptive energy to things changing as well or it never will.

It's not only being positive and open about the things you want to change.  Your energy has to be aligned with the things you want. Basically you make yourself feel how you imagine you would feel if you had all the finances for Christmas covered already.  You act like you already got it.  It's that fake it till you make it kinda thing.  Act and feel like its taken care of and it will be taken care of! This is why watching your thoughts is so important.  We think thousands of thoughts a day and sometimes unconsciously, were thinking all this negative stuff all the time about everything and don't even know.  You gotta monitor your thoughts!

Fake it till you make it is really just a popular phrase and some may not like it because it seems like a fake kind of happiness or fake feelings or whatever.  But really it's an expression that basically is saying, take charge of your feelings.  Don't let your feelings take charge of you. When your feelings want to go one way, it can be hard, but stop them in their tracks and tell yourself that YOU are choosing the way your going to feel and not your feelings.  It may feel weird at first if your feelings are always kind of govering how you feel maybe even a little fake but its a natural transition into YOU being in control. 

A year or so back, I woke up really late and I was rushing and driving to school.  I was paranoid about being late but I was trying to just not worry and try the whole law of attraction thing.  So I told myself, I know it looks like I'll be late but I wont!  I won't be late.  I even started to feel it some. And looking out through my windshield, one by one all of the cars started kind of magically moving out of the way and making the road clear!  It was so weird!  They didn't just like move and drive out the way.  It literally looked like a force pushed them all out the way.  If you've ever seen the movie Bruce almighty, you know the scene where Jim Carey first got his powers and was driving and moved all the traffic out of the way.  It was literally like that but less dramatic lol.  But as I started to look at the clock, I started getting nervous and anxious feeling.  Slowly all the cars started to come back in the way.  At the time I was thinking, what's going on?  I'm telling myself that I'll be on time and it looks like I'm not gonna make it!  I made it to school..late.  And the whole time I was thinking what happened and never understood until now.  Now I see that my feelings changed to feeling nervous and anxious and that was the problem. When that happened, the situation matched with my feelings and more traffic started coming and then I was naturally late. 

You really have to watch your thoughts.  And you have to make sure your feelings are aligned with what you want which can be very hard.  That can be the hard part because it's hard to ignore the situation that's actually happening and make yourself feel what you want to happen while still in the situation. It's kind of a constant battle of the mind.  You have to make sure your mind is always in the right space.    

And the last and final most important key is gratitude!  Gratitude, gratitude, gratitude!!!  You have to be grateful.  Without being grateful, there is no way more can come in the department you want because you aren't having the right energy for it to come into your life.  And even if somehow it does, it doesn't really matter anyway because a person who isn't grateful wont see it as more or notice it anyway.  When that comes they will just focus on other problems because that is the way they are. Gratitude is key! "It's hard to feel grateful and bad about something at the same time." So if your grateful, it guarantees not to feel bad. 

This isn't the easiest thing.  I'm still working on it myself but if you think about it, all things in life require work.  I haven't manifested everything I've ever wanted but i can tell you I have manifested a number of things already in this year alone!

So to recap:

1. Be positive (good) energy.  Always try your best to be positive and positive about all things.  This way, for the thing that your wanting, you will be positive about it!  You won't think of it from a place of lack or think negative things about it but rather just think of it as something good that you are expecting.

2. Already act and feel the things you would feel if you had it.  Don't let this slip into lack and thinking about how you don't have that now.  Just think on the good about what you want.

3. Gratitude. The most important step! Be grateful and it will give you all the feelings your searching for in the present.  

If you really think about it, we don't really want anyTHING.  We don't want money for bills, excess to shop some more, a relationship, to loose weight, success in a career or being an impressive person.  We don't want any of that.  We want the FEELING it gives us.  We don't want things. We want feelings. Gratitude helps us tap into the feeling minus the thing which is what we really want anyway. 

Book Recommendation!

For the Law of Attraction explained RIGHT, I recommend a book called The Magic.  It looks like this.

It's kind of like the secret but waay better! Link will be below! You can find it at barnes & nobles in the new age section.  I feel like the new age section can kinda scare some people off but there are very good reads there.

I hope you enjoyed this article!!! If you like it, let me know in the comments below.  I am very grateful for today and to be able to write this article and share it with others in hopes that it will spread love and light and make someone see something in a new way!

xoxo T

Happy Monday
*Be positive!*

- Book- link for "The Magic" => http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/magic-rhonda-byrne/1107727564?ean=9781451673449

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