Showing posts with label Bella Sugar Cosmetics. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Bella Sugar Cosmetics. Show all posts

Bella Sugar Cosmetics 50% Off Sale Alert!

June 4 through June 6 everything will be 1/2 off at Bella Sugar Cosmetics! You can check out her wonderful products and view all of the shades and scents on her blog, her Etsy shop, and her company web site. If you aren't familiar with her products, now is a great time to check out her hand-pressed mineral eye shadows, shower jellies, and hand-painted palettes. I've done a couple of reviews and hosted a few contests with Patricia, and am very impressed not only with the quality of her products, but also with her color range of the mineral shadows. They are amazing, and she's adding more all the time. She'll soon be offering powder blush as well. You'll be able to buy tubs of shower jellies in 18 scents for just $3.50, eye shadow singles for $3.00, and more!


Friday Follower Freebie!

Above & Below: Today's winner will receive the complete 6 piece Wildflowers Spring 2010 pressed mineral eye shadow collection from Bella Sugar Cosmetics. These are 1.5 g. shadows and are the same size as MAC shadows.
Today's FFF features a brand new pressed mineral eye shadow collection from Bella Sugar Cosmetics, called Wildflowers! Feel free to search my labels under Bella Sugar for more information about her wonderful hand-made top quality products, and you can find additional links within those posts which will lead you to more pictures and swatches of her products. As I've mentioned before, her eye shadows are perfection for me, because although they are minerals, they're pressed so there's no mess involved. They apply evenly and are quite pigmented, which allows for a subtle look or with a little building of the product, a bolder look. I've used them wet for even more color payoff. I was playing around with mine yesterday to take some swatch photos, and I used two of the shades mixed together (a light application of Crimson Clover with a touch of Gailladria on top) for my blush, which turned out beautifully. These colors are all inspired by wildflowers and are perfect for Spring and Summer.

The Rules: You must be a follower. You must leave your eMail address below in the comments section as your entry. You must place your entry no later than midnight tomorrow, 3/20/2010. Good luck!

*Products/prizes featured were furnished by Bella Sugar Cosmetics.


Luck O' The Irish Giveaway Today!

Above & Below: One winner will receive their choice of 3 pressed mineral eye shadow shades from Bella Sugar Cosmetics. The color descriptions can be found below in the post, and you can also click on the links below to see and read more about them. The swatches below follow the layout of the above photo if you're wondering which ones are which.
Bella Sugar Cosmetics has offered to give one of my followers their choice of 3 of her fabulous GREEN pressed mineral eye shadows! She was one of the sponsors of my Anniversary Contest last month, and you can see my previous posts and reviews about her custom products here, as well as checking out her blog and the link above to her Etsy store. She has a very keen eye for color, as you can see by the green shades that she offers. She is also big on quality and customer service, which combined, make for an exceptional product. I have been using her products for a month now, and am still very impressed with them. The texture of these shadows is so smooth and buttery, which makes their blending ability extremely easy. They're also highly pigmented and retain their color with little to no fading or creasing throughout the day. UPDATE: Their new website is now official! It can be found here.
Color Descriptions:
Emerald City~black with dark green flash
Drab~olive green
Grassy~shimmery grass green
Luck O' the Irish~primary green with golden glitter
1966~lime green
Golden Leaf~light green with golden flash
Amazemint~light minty green shimmer

Here's all you need to do: Leave your eMail below in the comments section and tell us which 3 colors appeal to you the most. You must also be wearing green to enter this giveaway (I'm kidding!). The contest will end at midnight tonight. Luck O' the Irish to you!


Product Review: Bella Sugar Cosmetics

Above & Below: The Zebra eye shadow palette and the tub of shower jellies are the products I'll be reviewing from Bella Sugar Cosmetics. These are some of the prizes included in my Anniversary Contest giveaway.
Above & Below: The eye shadow palettes are hand-painted and come in several different design options. Each palette holds 4 shades and comes with an insert stating the color names.
Below: A macro shot of the colors in my palette. You've got to know that although I'm impressed with the quality and shades of all four colors, Chocolate Covered Blueberries won my heart straightaway! It's a duo chrome!
Below: The back of the palette box shows the ingredients of the shadows.
Below: In all my excitement over these products, I neglected to photograph my jellies, so I 'borrowed' this one from Patricia's site. Not only do they smell good, they look good too! They have tiny flecks of gold shimmer in them and I am holding myself back from getting mine out and just playing with them (think Jello Jigglers!).
Below: The shower jelly ingredient list is printed on the back on the container.
Below: A family portrait of the products and swatches. Click the photo to enlarge the detail. I couldn't capture the true beauty of Chocolate Covered Blueberries, but you can see how it changes from brown, to reddish brown, to a teal/aqua shade. All four of the shadows are highly pigmented and very blendable.
Last week I gave you a little preview of one of the prizes in my Anniversary Contest from a brand new independent cosmetics company, Bella Sugar Cosmetics. I have received my products from the lovely Patricia, who is the mastermind behind these products, so I can now share my thoughts on them with you. She also has a blog with additional swatches and photos that can be found here. Bella Sugar's generous contribution to my prize package includes a $25.00 gift certificate, a tub of Shower Jelly in your scent choice, a 4-pan palette in your design/color choice, and 4 hand-pressed mineral eye shadows in your color shade choice. Now for the review!

Shower Jelly in Basil Citrus: These come in a plastic container and contain between 21 and 24 jellies. Mine are heart shaped and are very jiggly! I used one whole jelly (I use those exfoliating gloves and just squished it into my palms), and I had a delightful shower experience! The scent is strong but not overpowering, and the jelly lathers up very nicely. It rinses clean, but the scent lingers ever so lightly. These left my skin silky soft and feeling very moisturized. I am certain than using just half of a jelly would be more than enough for one shower or bath.

4-Pan Shadow Palette (Zebra pattern): This is a well-built, sturdy palette that measures 3"x3". The designs are hand-painted (they are also available in a solid color), there is a mirror inside, and it has a push button type of opener/latch so it stays secure if your carry it in your bag. They are magnetic so the shadows can be interchanged. I think this is super cute!

Hand-Pressed Mineral Shadows: Oh my, where to start! These shadows are unbelievable. The texture is unlike any of my pressed shadows that I have (powder or mineral), and I probably have several dozen brands to compare them to. They seem softer, yet they are still dense like any pressed powder shadow. Because of their nature, they blend incredibly well. The four I have are all shimmery, but there isn't any fallout like what is normally associated with mineral shadows. I have issues with loose mineral shadows/pigments, so I stay away from them because of the mess I make. I also have some pressed shadows that are minerals, but they don't apply and blend the way these do. I've had mine on for over 14 hours now, and am just starting to see a very slight bit of creasing on my eyelid (I didn't use any shadow primer product). I tight lined with one of them as well, and my eyes are not irritated at all. Simply put, these are some of the best and most interesting shadows I've come across in a long time.
*Products were furnished by the manufacturer or PR firm for review.


Anniversary Prizes Added: Bella Sugar Cosmetics!

The latest prize addition to my Anniversary Contest comes from a brand new company, Bella Sugar Cosmetics. In addition to the other prizes already revealed, the winner will also receive a $25.00 gift certificate, a tub of Shower Jelly in your choice of scents, and a 4-pan palette in your design choice complete with 4 hand-pressed mineral eye shadows in your choice of shades. Read more below about this great new company and their products!
As most of you know, my blog is celebrating its 1st Anniversary this month and I have been adding prizes all month long, which will end with one winner receiving all of the prizes. All entries must be received by 2/28/10 at midnight. For a look at the sponsors and prizes, just check out the box in the upper right corner, and the entry details just below the box.

The prizes I'm adding today are from a brand new company, Bella Sugar Cosmetics. Patricia, the owner of this small business, has recently set up shop on Etsy, and will soon be moving to her own domain (BellaSugarCosmetics.com). She also has a new blog which focuses on her products, and she is starting to post some color swatches of her mineral shadows. I am very excited about this for a number of reasons--Patricia has been a follower of my blog for quite a while, so I was happy when she contacted me and wanted to participate in my giveaway. When I checked out her site and her products, my excitement started to build. As I mentioned, she is new and starting out small, but she has already added several new items over the past week and has many more to add. Personally, I think it's best to start small and focus on the product quality, which is exactly what she's doing. My products are on their way so I can't comment or review them for you until I receive them. However, from what she tells me and the photos I'm seeing, I don't think I will be disappointed.

Her products at this time include mineral eye shadows, shower jellies, and 4-pan eye shadow palettes (which are magnetic and also fit MAC shadows). She will be adding more bath and body products, eye liners and glitters. One of the things I'm excited about, is that her mineral shadows are hand pressed, rather than loose (and she also mixes custom shades!). As much as I love the look of loose mineral shadows, I make a huge mess applying them. I have a drawer filled with various brands of pigments and loose mineral shadows that I use solely for frankening nail polish now, because I gave up trying to use them on my eyes! Just take a look at Golden Leaf and Army Gold. Are those gorgeous or what? The palettes, which are hand-painted, can be purchased empty or with shadows, and come in 3 designs, zebra, pink and leopard. I chose the zebra and I can't wait to see it. Her shower jellies are available in 11 different scents, so you're sure to find one you love. My excitement doesn't end with her quality standards, the shades, the scents and the packaging. Patricia loves cosmetics and bath and body products as much as we all do, but her first love is nail polish. The thought that popped into my head when I first saw the 2 eye shadow shades I linked above was, "Wow, would those make beautiful nail polish shades!" Now I'm not saying she will, and I'm not saying she won't...but if I were you, I'd bookmark her site and check back frequently. Because I'd almost be willing to bet my entire nail polish collection that she'll be adding nail polish to her line-up one of these days.


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