Brazen Cosmetics Red Ticket Giveaway!

Sandi started doing the Red Ticket Giveaways back in May? I think it was when she had her birthday and her shop's anniversary. For every item purchased you receive one ticket and each month she does a drawing. If your ticket is drawn you get something special from Brazen! I was lucky enough to be the holder of the red ticket she drew in August. It took a little while to receive my prize (hey, she's a busy busy girl!), but I finally received it today! So here are the swatches of some brand new yet-to-be-released products!

Nubile - Gorgeous creamy chocolate brown with gold shimmer
One and Only - Dusty brown-based pink with red, blue and green iridescent shimmer
Steamy - Clear based lip gloss filled with brown, copper and holographic glitter and it's CHOCOLATE flavored!!!

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Brazen Cosmetics Blame it on Rio LE Collection

Oh Brazen Cosmetics, how I love you! I was running out of my Yummy Gummy Sugar Lips Sugar Scrub and ended up purchasing two other items along with the sugar scrub. By the way, if you have not tried their sugar scrubs you are totally missing out. Sandi makes the most amazing sugar scrub and she has tons of awesome flavors. Along with the lip scrub, I purchased her extremely limited edition Blame it on Rio collection as well as the Razzle Dazzle passion pot lip gloss.

Razzle Dazzle

The Razzle Dazzle lip gloss is a vanilla flavored clear gloss chock full of holographic rainbow glitter! I thought I loved her Gummie Glaze collection before, but I love this one even better. It's completely wearable on it's own or over another gloss to add sparkle. Pictures don't really do this gloss justice since it's way more sparkley in real life than it is in pictures.

Ooo sparkley!

Brazen's LE Blame it on Rio Collection was originally only available as a free gift with purchases over $80. She eventually made it available to purchase separately but I believe they are now completely sold out. I would have loved to see this made a permanent collection as the colors are absolutely gorgeous and wearable! The collection came in an adorable red organza bag with a cute custom tag.

I love the custom tag!

Blame it on Rio Collection

Go Bare - Gorgeous champagne with gold shimmer. I really love this shade it's the perfect go-to highlighter!

Rio - Medium coppery brown with gold shimmer.

Copacabana - Milk chocolate brown shimmer

Samba - Rich wine red shimmer.

So what do you think of this collection? Love it or Leave it? Maybe if you beg Sandi she'll bring it back permanently. ;)

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Brazen Cosmetics Haul

Ok, so I've had this haul for several weeks now and probably should have posted this a LONG time ago but yea, I've been busy and all these goodies take up a lot of time to play with! Brazen Cosmetics is quickly becoming one of my favorite indie MMUCs to purchase from. Sandi is such a doll and her products are amazing! Opening her packages is like opening Christmas presents! You can really tell that she puts a lot of time and effort in making everything really pretty and I greatly appreciate it! Look at the next set of pictures and DROOL!

All my goodies wrapped up!

LE Spring Lovelies Collection

LE Gummie Glazes!

LE Cirque Collection

Lip scrubs, lip glosses and a few other things all wrapped up!

Lip scrubs, glosses, eye shadow and a free sample of her Hi-Def powder

Ok, so now that I have all of you green with envy, on to the swatches...lol. I'll start with the Spring Lovelies collection. This is a gorgeous trio of pastel shades that is perfect for Spring! She had a contest to name the three shades and I love the ones she chose as they are all very fitting.

L-R: New Growth, Clarity, Visionary

New Growth - Beautiful pastel green with a hint of a gold shift. 

Clarity - A gorgeous pool blue shimmery shadow with a hint of blue sparkle.

Visionary - Pale shimmery lilac.

Next up are the Gummie Glazes! Sandi was super awesome and let me purchase these before she even released them to her FB fans! <3 Honestly out of all the products I have from Brazen these are my absolute FAVORITE! All of them are gummie bear flavored and are perfect for layering over other glosses or lipsticks. In the swatches below, I think I accidentally mixed a bit of the Orange with the Cherry gummie glaze in the last swatch... :/

L-R: Lime, Pineapple, Orange, Cherry

The Cirque collection I purchased because of the swatches I saw on a fellow blogger's post. I fell head over heels in love with the super bright colors in this collection!

L-R:  Show Off, Cirque, Side Show

Show Off - Bright pink with pink shimmer.

Cirque - Bright teal with teal shimmer. This is my favorite of this collection...but then again I am obsessed with teals/aquas at the moment...lol.

Side Show - Bright fuschia. This picture makes it look a bit more pink than it does in real life. It's actually more purple.

Main Attraction - Dark chocolate brown with a hint of gold shimmer.

L-R: Side Show, Spectacle, Main Attraction

The last eye shadow I ordered was Shenanigans...OMG just look at the picture of this eye shadow! It has got to be the most gorgeous dark green shade ever! I LOVE the gold shift and sparkle in this shadow. It's just absolutely perfect! I could stare at it all day...if I had the time...hehehe. This was originally an LE shade for St. Patrick's day but I believe Sandi has made this a permanent addition to her line!

Shenanigans

Finally, I give you the Passion Pot Lip Glosses. I believe out of these 5 three of them are LE; Forbidden Fruit, Au Natural and Lola. Sandi's glosses really are freaking amazing! Very pigmented and they last quite a long time on your lips. The nice thing is that even her bright colors can be applied very sheerly for just a hint of color.

L-R: Forbidden Fruit, Au Natural, Burlesque, Lola, Cherry Bomb

Forbidden Fruit - Bright coral. This is the perfect coral lip color, at least for me anyways.

Au Natural - A great frosty nude color. I love this lip gloss for every day when you just want a hint of color.

Burlesque - Bright pink with a purple base.

Lola - Beautiful deep red with gold shimmer. This is one of my faves!

Cherry Bomb -  The perfect bright red lip gloss! This is probably the best red lip gloss I own.

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Brazen Cosmetics Review

Brazen Cosmetics Haul!

For my very first review, I've decided to review a company I found through another MMU addict. The name of the company is Brazen Cosmetics and it is owned and operated by Sandi. Sandi is such a sweetheart and her customer service is excellent!

Look Better Naked Pack
Clockwise from top: Perfect 10 blush, Poetic highlighter, Hi-Def finishing powder

I placed my first order with her on March 7 and I received it March 14. She states a TAT of 5-7 days on her Etsy shop so I was actually expecting it to take longer than it did which is always a pleasant surprise! I ordered Make Out, La Femme and Lots O' Luck Lipgloss pots ($4.99 for 5g pots), the Look Better Naked Pack (10g jars of her Perfect 10 blush, Hi-Def finishing powder and Poetic highlighter) and also her special Monday Goody Bag (mystery bag of at least $15 in product, regularly $9.99 but the special was $4.99)

Clockwise from top: La Femme, Lots O' Luck, Make Out
Lip Gloss Pots

The packaging of her products is definitely top-notch. I am really big on presentation and appearance and her products did not disappoint. My order was packed in a small flat rate USPS priority box that was sealed with this really cute pink tape. Everything was carefully packed with blue tissue paper to prevent things from moving around inside the box. Underneath all the blue tissue paper were two smaller packages one wrapped with green tissue and the other wrapped with pink tissue and sealed with a cute silver sticker with the Brazen Cosmetics logo. (I probably should have taken pictures of the outer packaging and everything but I was way too excited to wait to do this. I'll definitely do it next time though!)

Shrink-wrapped 5g jars

One smaller tissue wrapped package contained the Look Better Naked Pack along with a sample of Goodbye To You under eye concealer and a sample of X-Factor highlighter. The other tissue wrapped package contained the 3 lipgloss pots I ordered as well as my mystery grab bag! I received 2 full size 5g pots of Karma and Dazed eye shadow, Sugar and Glitter Rollerball Perfume and Jinx eye shadow sample. I really love that each individual item is shrink-wrapped which just provides extra security to prevent spillage in shipping.

Ingredients label on 5g jars

All of her products have ingredients labels on them letting you know exactly what is in each of her products in accordance with FDA regulations. This is awesome for people with allergies or sensitive skin and also makes her products look very professional. She even adds her ingredients labels to her samples which is awesome! The only slight problem I had with them is that the printing on the labels smear very easily when touched with wet fingers.

Ingredients listed on samples!

Smearing on the ingredients label... =(

Now on to the eye shadows themselves. I found them to be very smooth, blendable, and very highly pigmented. One thing I didn't like is the jars didn't have sifters. I know some people hate sifters but I love them as sometimes I can be a bit clumsy and drop the pot. Sifters help me to minimize loss.

**Edit 3/23/11 9:30am Sandi told me these eye shadow pots are actually sample size pots so the full sizes are larger and have sifters! After taking a closer look at the jars I believe they are 3g jars and not 5g jars.

Sample sizes L-R: Dazed and Karma

L-R: Karma, Dazed, Jinx

So here are my descriptions of each of the shadows I received. The swatches were done over Too Faced Shadow Insurance. Pictures were taken in my bathroom under a mix of natural light and a day bulb with no flash.

Karma: bright purple with hints of rainbow shimmer.

Dazed: gorgeous dark navy with iridescent coppery shimmer.

Jinx: soft lilac with silver shimmer.

L-R Karma, Dazed, Jinx

I am a huge sucker for lip glosses. Lately they have become my most recent makeup obsession which is probably why I ordered more full size lip gloss pots than I did eye shadows. Sandi's lip glosses are absolutely AMAZING! They're just the right texture and consistency that I like in my lip glosses, not too sticky, not too thick and they don't taste nasty. Make Out has a nice fresh minty flavor. Lots O' Luck limey flavor that reminds me of McDonald's awesome shamrock shakes! La Femme is flavorless as far as I can tell. (PS: Sandi if you're reading this, I super love the flavored lip glosses!) These are the only lip glosses I have purchased that have come in 5g pots like this and I can't decide if I like the normal tubes or these pots better....hmm...enjoy the next couple swatches while I ponder this thought... =P

Clockwise from left: Make Out, La Femme, Lots O' Luck

Make Out - the PERFECT red with rainbow shimmer!

Lots O' Luck - LOVE the iridescent green and gold sparkles!

La Femme - Beautiful peachy pink color with gold shimmer

I was not a fan of the Sugar and Glitter perfume oil that I received in the mystery grab bag. To me it smells almost sickly sweet and it's definitely not something I would ever wear. The label states the company is called Sweet and Sudsy which is from Sandi's old company and she is in the process of changing it over to a new Brazen label.

Sugar and Glitter Perfume Oil Roller Ball

I also received a sample of her Mango Mango sugar lips lip scrub and I LOVE this! It's not too oily or too wet which makes it easier to actually scrub your lips with it. I'm definitely going to order the full size of her sugar scrub and I want to try her other flavors!

Mango Mango Sugar Lips Lip Scrub

I have yet to try the blush, finishing powder and highlighter but I will post again about those separately once I have. Overall, I super LOVE Brazen Cosmetics and Sandi! Her customer service is impeccable and the TAT is also very good. I HIGHLY recommend ordering from them you will not be disappointed! I can't wait till Sandi gets back from her vacation because I've already planned out my next order! =)

5 out of 5 Glittery Bubbles!


** All products were purchased with my own money. I was not paid in any way, shape or form for this review and all opinions are my own.

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