I learned something new this week when I started to write about my experience with Vasanti Cosmetics Brighten Up! Glow Boosting Serum. Even though I’ve used (and loved) several Vasanti products I never knew the origin of the brand. These are the ladies we need to give credit to for a brand that is par …
Perfect Antidote for Dry Skin, Dior Cica Repair Balm
PR Sample, Affiliate Links I finally got back into Influenster’s good graces, because I received one of their coveted VoxBoxs! And it was a very good one: Dior Cica Recover & Repair Balm. Although I have used Dior makeup over the years, I have never tried any of their skincare products. I guess because I …
More spring time love from Hard Candy
PR samples Last week I shared the great new eye products for Spring from Hard Candy but there’s more….. Now I have 2 face products that are perfect for spring and summer. SHEERLY ME Tinted Moisturizer ($7.94) and INSTANT SUMMER Powder Bronzer. ($7.34) SHEERLY ME Tinted Moisturizer is actually a skin enhancer. It’s a …
City Lips BOGO 20th Anniversary Sale!
Affiliate Links City Beauty is celebrating the 20th Anniversary of their flagship product, City Lips! My City Lips Journey When I first started Never Say Die Beauty, my friend Nancy asked me if I had ever tried City Lips. She had seen the plumping lipgloss on a segment of one of the morning TV shows. …
Have a fabulous week while you enter the Sunday Scoop giveaways
When I first started writing up the Sunday Scoop about 11 years ago I was only posting beauty giveaways. Well if I did that now it would be a tiny little post. I think this week has the least amount of giveaways I’ve ever shared. Still there are some great things to win even if …
Welcome March Beauty Spotlight Team Weekly Roundup
How wonderful that it’s March, and next week we turn the clocks ahead! Even with snow still on the ground and frigid temperatures, I can see that spring is coming. My daffodils are starting to come up in spite of the cold! And also how wonderful that Jeff came through the vascular surgery with flying …
My Perfect Neutral Polish from Olive and June: MG
I know, I know, “another one?”, you say. But this shade is irresistible to me. Plus it’s been a hectic week with Jeff having had vascular surgery (so far, so good). I Bought This, Affiliate Links MG is a perfect neutral. Though it’s a light shade, it’s not a pastel. Olive & June calls it …
What’s new for eyes from Hard Candy? Find out here!
PR samples Hard Candy has some new spring items available at Walmart that you really should take a look at. You probably don’t remember but at one time Hard Candy was sold in the prestige section at Ulta. I worked as a makeup artist there and the brand was especially popular with teens and …
Let’s be frugal with this $6 find from Eveline
I purchased this It’s so nice to find a product that works and is so affordable. EVELINE COSMETICS is an international brand that has many products for the eyes. There was talk about this on Facebook and I decided to take the plunge (I think it cost me $5 a few months ago, it’s now …
L’Oreal Voluminous Butterfly Mascara Redux: It’s Still Awful
I Bought This In the earlier years of Never Say Die Beauty (2014 to be exact), I often wrote about my favorite mascara, L’Oreal Voluminous Butterfly Intenza (reviewed here). It was primarily a lengthening mascara that also provided volume that was supposed to give the lashes a fanned out look. Because my eyes are downturned, …
Project Pan: February ’22 Beauty Empties
I Bought This, PR Sample, Affiliate Links For me, 2022 continues to be off to a good start when it comes to using up beauty products. I am following up January’s significant number of empties with 14 more in February, 13 of the 14 I bought myself and 5 I have already repurchased. Here’s what …
End of February Beauty Spotlight Team
As I look out the window on Friday afternoon at the heavy but beautiful snow coming down, I know I am just putting off the inevitable: going outside to shovel. But it does look like it will be top-notch snow for snowshoeing, so at least there’s that. Quite the change from the almost 70 degree …
The Saturday (Sunday) Scoop has all the giveaways you’ve been looking for
Now that all the excitement of February has calmed down are you ready for a break? Entering giveaways can be a profitable break so I’ve collected as many as possible. I started a day early so that you have time to enter all (and I mean ALL) the giveaways for February 28th. That will keep …
Pantone’s Color of the Year “Veri Peri” & Olive & June’s “Bold & Unshaken”
In December, Pantone introduced their Color of the Year for 2022: Veri Peri. Veri Peri is a periwinkle shade derived from blue with a violet-red undertone. According to Pantone, it is the first color that they actually created to tout as the Color of the Year. It is supposed to represent “the expansive opportunities that …
H2 Oh Yeah from Fleur & Bee is the hydrating moisturizer you need
Press Sample We’re always talking about moisturizers but did you realize that moisturizers and hydrators aren’t the same? Most moisturizers do just that – add moisture to your skin. But some, like H2 OH YEAH, do much more by hydrating your skin. It seems like moisturizing would be hydrating but it’s not necessarily so. …