May 2014 Makeup Tray Mix Up Update

This is a new feature in my Makeup Tray Mix Up where we see how much damage I could make in the products I picked out. I don't expect much progress, at all but it's nice to see how much product I use up in a month.

Urban Decay Naked Palette-I don't really expect this much progress on eyeshadow especially a big palette like this one. I manage to make a couple of everyday looks but I didn't get a chance to make night looks. It's just nice to have a picture as a reference point.

May Makeup Tray Mix-up: High End Products

I decided to bring out the "Makeup Tray Mix-up" (aka MTMU) to give me some focus on which products to use.

For new comers, here is how it works. I select a theme every month and I would pick a couple of products that fit that theme. I would focus on using up those product for that month. 

This month, I pick  the theme "High End Products". May is my birthday month so I decided to use nothing but the best in my makeup collection to celebrate.

Hourglass Ambient Lighting Powder in Radiant Light Review

Like a sucker, I bought the Hourglass Ambient lighting powder. Part of me was curious, why is everybody gushing about it? Especially Wayne Goss from Gossmakeupartist.

Sephora Haul 2014

So I'm kind of ashamed with my haul. This is the most money I ever spent on Sephora at one time and my justification is that I made this haul during Sephora's chic week where beauty insiders could shop Sephra for 15% off.

On top of that I recently found out about studentrate.com which works like ebates. By shopping through this site, students could get rebates for the things they shop. It's very similar to ebates but studentrate offers 10% rebate for shopping at Sephora year-round while ebates would give you 4%-8% max for sephora.

I calculated how much money I saved  and concluded that I saved 21% by shopping through studentrate while on chic week.

Sephora Chic Week Haul

So during the week of April 12- April 21 of this year was Sephora's annual chic week where Beauty Insiders have 15% off their entire purchases.

Excuse the bad quality of pictures but I wanted to upload these pictures as soon as possible.