[SWATCH] Rock & Republic: Saturate Eye Color - Exile

For my second installment of the Rock & Republic eyeshadow swatches, I chose Exile. So for a quick recap, I bought these off of Hautelook for $8.40 USD $24.00 USD each and they each come with 0.11oz/3g of product. Each eyeshadow is encased in a weighty solid plastic/metal container and are housed in black cylindrical packaging. The company logo is embossed anywhere to be found and all of the information on the product is found on the lower portion of the packaging and on the lower portion of the container. The eyeshadow flips up to reveal a mirror on the side with a plastic protective sheet covering the shadow.

The eyeshadows when swatched are very silky, smooth and glide onto the skin with much ease. Although they applied fairly pigmented dry, the colors became ever much more so prominent when applied with primer or wet.

Exile is a soft rose-gold copper base with many gold micro-shimmers. It's a beautiful neutral shade that can be used all over the eyelid or on the inner corners and lower lid as a highlight. I'd definitely recommed this color for first time shoppers of the cosmetics line as it is very easy to work with and not much blended is required to smooth out the color. Below are swatches when applied dry, with primer and wet. Enjoy!

Exile - Flash

Exile - No Flash

Swatches w/ Wet, Primer, Dry

Swatches w/ Dry, Primer, Wet

Disclaimer: The products mentioned in this post where purchased by myself for the use and review purposes. My opinions are honest and are not influenced in any way at all. I was not sponsored for this post.

[SWATCH] Rock & Republic: Saturate Eye Color - Tempting

I feel like I have failed in the bloggosphere aspect for posting blogs on a more constant basis. I promised swatches from my Rock & Republic Saturate Eye Color eyeshadows that I hauled from Hautelook a few weeks back. So of course, more apologies from me once again and today I shall present you with my very first swatch, Tempting!

First off, let me start off with the package. Slightly excessive but beautiful at the most! Each eyeshadow came separately packaged in back lacquered cylinders. The lids are sealed with black circular stickers each embossed in silver with the eyeshadow shade. The bottom of the container says that each eyeshadow hs 0.11oz/3g of product. Quite the amount I should say! I purchased these for $8.40 USD each on Hautelook and it's safe to say that for half the price of  a MAC eyeshadow and twice the amount of product I definitely cannot complain.

When the eyeshadows are removed from their packaging, below is the Rock & Republic logo embossed in a criss-cross pattern on the bottom part of the package.

The first thing that you see when you open up the packaging is the lid of the eyeshadow container. It has a very large Rock and Republic logo in 3D on the lid in very shiny silver and the background of the logo is also a glazed black plastic. The underside of the eyeshadow container has basically the same information as the bottom part of the outer packaging. The container itself is fairly weighty and makes it feel luxurious and has a quality feel to it as well.

Tempting itself is a very gorgeous purpley, grey, taupey shade that has multifaceted shimmer to it. As you've probably all heard before, the powder of the eyeshadow is very finely jet milled and upon swatching it, it felt like I was touching powdery silk. The eyeshadow glided on very smoothly in one application and it is very pigment as well.

Tempting - Flash

Tempting - No flash

I made swatches of the eyeshadow in comparison to how well it applies, dry, with a primer and wet. It works perfectly fine by itself dry but with a primer and wet, the color is much more pigmented. I definitely recommend this shade if you're interested in trying out the Rock & Republic Cosmetics line but unsure as to what shade to try first. This shade is very safe but very flattering and simple at the same time. It can easily be worn from day to night and with a little bit of eyeshadow it can create a very dramatic look.

Swatches w/ Flash {Dry, Primer, Wet}

Swatches w/ Flash {Dry, Primer, Wet}

I hope you guys enjoyed this half efforted written post that I whipped up in a few minutes and that it was semi-decent. I'll try my best to post up another swatch tomorrow night to compensate for the lack of swatches and posts this week. Have a good night! :)

Disclaimer: The products mentioned in this post where purchased by myself for the use and review purposes. My opinions are honest and are not influenced in any way at all. I was not sponsored for this post.

Sneak Peak

My sincerest apologies for not posting up any reviews of the Rock & Republic Saturate Eye Colors the past few days. I blame it solely on the midterms that are swamping me for the next few days. In return, I'll show you guys a sneak peak of the the colors that I ordered look like so you can know what to expect! All of the colors are absolutely gorgeous and I can't be any happier of the quality of them :) Enjoy!

Rock & Republic Saturate Eye Colors {Twisted, Tempting, Alloy, Exile, Affair, Provocative $8.40 USD/each} - Normal lighting



Rock & Republic Saturate Eye Colors {Twisted, Tempting, Alloy, Exile, Affair, Provocative $8.40 USD/each} - Flash

[TEASE] Hautelook - Rock & Republic Cosmetics Haul

Hoorah! The mail gods have answered my pleas! I arrived home this evening to a lovely package sitting on the kitchen table!

I had to refrain myself from opening the box and tearing the packaging apart so that I could take pcturesfor you all to see. Haha I admire my restraint after waiting for the package to arrive for so long! I also documented the unboxing process so that you guys could see the care taken into making sure that my order arrived safely without any damages. They bubble wrapped the package to ensure that it wouldn't bump on the sides while being tossed around in the back of mail vans/airplane/truck however it was brought to me and then the package itself was spread out to evenly distribute the weight inside and wrapped in tissue paper. My receipt was placed on top of the products but it was slightly crumpled. Not my main concern though as long as everything else comes out undamaged!

Nestled inside under all of the wrapping I found my lovely 7 containers! I'm definitely a sucker to packaging and this one pulled me in deeply. I love the shiny black finishes on the boxes and the logo embossed in silver on the lids. All containers are sealed shut with circular stickers identifying the shade of the product, two in total, one on either opposite sides of the lid. The Exhibition Pressed Powder is significantly larger than the Saturate Eye Colors but that's to be expected. I definitely didn't expect the sizes of either products to be this large! It's safe to say that I definitely adore the products at first glance which isn't going to be healthy since Hautelook is having another Rock & Republic sale this Monday the 21 so be prepared! I smell another large haul in the near future! Within the next few days, I'll have swatches posted of all of the products so you guys will get a chance to see if they really do hold up to their reputations.

I hope that I was able to excite you guy for the time being until I upload reviews ;)

P.S. As had previously mentioned, Hautelook is having a sale for Rock & Republic Cosmetics this Monday, March 21. I suggest you guys check out the selection of blushes available from the company and their respective swatches so that you guys know before hand which ones interest you. That way when the sale starts you can snatch those ones up right away seeing as blushes are their most popular product and sell out almost instantly! As always, here's my invitation link, you don't have to use it but I'd much appreciate it if you guys did!

http://www.hautelook.com/invite/vickiixtinhy

Disclaimer: The products mentioned in this post where purchased by myself for the use and review purposes. My opinions are honest and are not influenced in any way at all. I was not sponsored for this post.

Crazy Week!

It's supposed to be March Break for public/catholic school boards here so most of the activities and lessons for after school stuff have been cancelled, including swimming lessons at my pool! I had originally thought that this meant I would get some time off from work and not have too much of a stressful schedule. Instead, I bounced up from 12/hrs a week to 32 hours this week! Almost 3 times the amount of time that I usually work! But it's all okay because it's all going to feed into my unhealthy shopping addiction haha. I woke up this morning at 7:00 AM to rush to work and work from 8:00 AM - 2:00 PM, then rush to school. Loooong day if I may say so myself haha. I'm currently enjoying myself a steak dinner that my mom cooked for me and just flipping through some photos that I've taken recently. I'm most likely going to do a review on the MAC Sheen Supreme Lipsticks in Bare Again sometime this week, so expect that to pop up soon!

And on another note before I end this post with a slew of pictures, my R&R Cosmestics order from Hautelook should be at my house by...since yesterday. I checked the tracking number that they provided for me and it clearly says "Expected Delivery: 03/15/2011". Uhhhh today is what, the 16th? Where is my mail! I'm not one to complain about snailmail because I know how long it can take sometimes but come on seriously? Don't tell me that it should be here when it's clearly not! I don't like getting my hopes up! Praying to the mail gods that a package with "Hautelook" printed on it will land on my doorstep tomorrow and be waiting for me when I get home from class!

MAC - Sheen Supreme Lipstick Bare Again

50% OFF Rock & Republic Makeup w/ $200 Purchase

Alright, Rock& Republic has done it again with the discounts. I recieved an e-mail from the website this morning offering 50% off all of their cosmetics with any $200 purchase. Sounds a lot right? But think about it, you're going to end up only spending $100 and maybe even hit free shipping if you spend an extra $50. I think that's a pretty good deal there! Mind you that 50% is nowhere close to what Hautelook offers and the R&R website has a limited supply of their products. So I suggest that if you don't want to wait for Hautelook for have another sale, this would be the right time to snatch up some of the products! I'd presonally recommend picking up as many blushes as possible because those always seem to be the first things that sell out completely! So if you guys are interested in this discount ,use the promo code below, it's a universal code so everyone should be able to get in on it before it's over!

PROMO CODE: SPRINGFEVER

http://www.shop.rockandrepublic.com/

Happy shopping!

40% Off Entire R&R Website

Anyone fancy 40% of R&R for 2 days only? Use the promo code below, it's a universal code so no limits or minimum purchases.

PROMO CODE: SPRING40

http://www.shop.rockandrepublic.com/

HAUL: Rock & Republic Cosmetics

Ever since I saw reviews of Rock & Republic Cosmetics on Youtube, I knew that I had to get my hands on the line. I saw it quite a few times on Hautelook but each time I was broke and didn't have much money to spare. After this realisation, I decided that I should start saving up for the next sale. Unfortunately this one came a little bit sooner than I had expected so I didn't get a chance to purchase everything that I wanted all at once. Fret not, I will absolutely be able to purchase all that I have in mind the next time that a sale on Hautelook pops up!

I originally printscreened what I definitely wanted the next time there was a sale and here's what I had in mind.

What I noticed that was different from the sale this time and last was a drastic change in pricing. As you can see, the eyeshadows were priced at $11.20 USD each, however this timethe sale had them listed for $8.40 USD each, a full 70% off! The sale is still going on till this Friday 11:00 EST, so definitely place an order if you have the spare change! So here's what I actually ended up ordering:

If you guys are interested in swatches do let me know! I'm planning to review at least one shadow so that I can test out how well it performs and the whole works. There are about 48 shadows in total and if I like it as much as everyone else raves about them all over the internet, I'm considering purchasing the other 42. Because for $8.40 a shadow that's twice the size of MAC ($14 even in pan form), that's almost a god sent present! If you guys are intereted in Hautelook (but I'm sure everyone and their grandmother has heard about it already), you can join it with my referral link. However, you don't have to use my link. Using link will just give me a $10 USD credit for your first purchase, I'm not going to use this money for myself but hopefully to purchase some goodies and have a giveaway for everyone! :) So come back in  few weeks time to check out my review. I think it says that I should expect my products anywhere from the 16th to the 22nd of March!

Referral link: http://www.hautelook.com/invite/vickiixtinhy
Happy Shopping!