montREALady
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Yeah, no, I don't have self-control when it comes to them. I spent about $60. I had to keep taking stuff out my cart like "are you getting this just because??"
(HAA): Highlighter Addicts Anonymous
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Shars
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Hi ladies. Been gone for a couple days but managed to still haul more higlighters that I don't need lol. Finally got LM Indiscretion. Swatched Ritual but it didn't give me the life I was hoping for. Maybe it was just the crappy testers 
Did anyone pick up Freshen Up from the Mac summer collection. I swatched it but didn't love it. Hardly any of the peach translated to my skin. Crisp whites I like though. Anything else I need to get lol? Oh... sometime back we were talking about a Sonia Kashuk highlighter and consensus was that it was a necessity. I went looking for it in store and could not remember which it was. It was on the ones with the half and half, I think.
Did anyone pick up Freshen Up from the Mac summer collection. I swatched it but didn't love it. Hardly any of the peach translated to my skin. Crisp whites I like though. Anything else I need to get lol? Oh... sometime back we were talking about a Sonia Kashuk highlighter and consensus was that it was a necessity. I went looking for it in store and could not remember which it was. It was on the ones with the half and half, I think.
Medgal07
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Twinkle_Twinkle
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I still have a 25% off code so if I need something later I'll just use that and get less. I have to be careful with NYX because I'll just keep getting stuff because it's cheap and I "might" use it.
laurennnxox
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Good to know I'm not the only one who does that!
Monsy
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That's my motto. Do not buy tons of junk buy one extraordinary piece.Good to know I'm not the only one who does that!I always walk away with like $20-ish dollars in nyx products (or more when they're BOGO 50% at Ulta) and then wonder why I didn't just get something HE with that money. I almost never reach for my NYX stuff except for the soft cream mattes.
montREALady
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We're all shopaholics, of course we all do itGood to know I'm not the only one who does that!I always walk away with like $20-ish dollars in nyx products (or more when they're BOGO 50% at Ulta) and then wonder why I didn't just get something HE with that money. I almost never reach for my NYX stuff except for the soft cream mattes.
montREALady
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Hey chick! I'm wearing Indiscretion today.
I picked up FU, haven't tried it yet. Hipness blush is errythang.
It's the one from her Spring Collection, Sahara Sunset, called Arabian Dreams. It's nice, not as finely milled as others, but good. Unless you're talking about the Chic Luminosity bronzer/highlighter one...which I have and never used
Twinkle_Twinkle
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Exactly! A long while ago I went crazy and got all these glitter liners and lip glosses, glitter palettes and blushes. I threw away or gave away most of it. Now I only get their lip liners and eye pencils and I bought one black lipstick last time I placed an order. Next time I order it's just going to be more lip and eye pencils and a couple of those soft matte glosses and that's a wrap.Good to know I'm not the only one who does that!I always walk away with like $20-ish dollars in nyx products (or more when they're BOGO 50% at Ulta) and then wonder why I didn't just get something HE with that money. I almost never reach for my NYX stuff except for the soft cream mattes.
Icecaramellatte
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Oh Chestnut! I could not go into Mac without someone pushing Chestnut on me. I bought it but I couldn't understand why such a big push. I rebelled and stopped using and buying it. Now all these years later I'm thinking of buying it again.We're all shopaholics, of course we all do itI mainly buy and use their lip products. Their lip liners are the only ones I use actually. I bought MAC Fruit Cocktail a couple weeks ago. First MAC liner since like the early 2000's when Chestnut was the woc hg, lol. I like NYX blushes, lip primer, eyebrow gel and Wonder Pencil too. Of course I've tried different things and they're meh, but I think that's like any other product, pricey or not. I returned some EL stuff that wasn't doing it for me. I like cheap and good. I don't buy things just because they're cheap. Same way I'll try the store brand of something, if it's crap, back to the name brand! There are certain things that I would rather splurge on.
Twinkle_Twinkle
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Chestnut and Oh Baby, smh. Also that green one they discontinued, Squirt or something like that.We're all shopaholics, of course we all do itI mainly buy and use their lip products. Their lip liners are the only ones I use actually. I bought MAC Fruit Cocktail a couple weeks ago. First MAC liner since like the early 2000's when Chestnut was the woc hg, lol. I like NYX blushes, lip primer, eyebrow gel and Wonder Pencil too. Of course I've tried different things and they're meh, but I think that's like any other product, pricey or not. I returned some EL stuff that wasn't doing it for me. I like cheap and good. I don't buy things just because they're cheap. Same way I'll try the store brand of something, if it's crap, back to the name brand! There are certain things that I would rather splurge on.
montREALady
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I know! I never finished one! I lost one, bought another and lost it again. That and NW45!
Oh Baby! I had that too
Wait I think I remember Squirt, I think my sis had it! LolI did but I haven't used it. I'm trying to find some good swatches on WOC before I decide to try it, otherwise I'm going to put it in the clearance bin.
Twinkle_Twinkle
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My Duane Read had one last Hollywood Boulevard (and it was intact, because you know how WnW products love to crumble in the display. Like someone just stomped down the isle and they all just fell to pieces, because I can't imagine that that many people are just dropping products and putting them back…) so I took it as a sign. Y'all were right! It is nice! It's similar in color to the BB Shimmerbrick in Gold but much more refined (no larger sparkles). Not bad for $6.
pinkcrush
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I stopped using Chestnut back in 02-03 myself and recently picked it up again last year as it seems the color has been tweaked! It's not so rich as it used to be... Remember back in the day when Chestnut would dominate a lip look because of its richness??? It used to literally slaughter my Crystal Beach lipglass lmao!!! After that I was using Barbeque then when she dc'd I stumbled upon Cork and when she lacked the depth or richness I craved, I revisited all holy Chestnut!!! I was amazed and intrigued by her toned down hue
montREALady
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I haven't used mine either. I have to remember to try it.
Yeah it's actually my fav one...I have a rose gold one that's not as pigmented.
DILLIGAF
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Twinkle_Twinkle
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What's the NYX dupe for Cork?
DILLIGAF
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Natural? I'm not sure. Let me check my stash and get back to you.
Edit: I don't have a dupe. The closest I got was NYX Never. It's a little bit darker than Cork but lighter than Chestnut.
pinkcrush
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Cork gives me life but sometimes it just doesn't cut it... For example I recently bought a tube of Touch which is pretty much a lustre lipstick version of my skin tone. While it's a pretty nude shade, on me it washed me out and adding Cork didn't do much to fix that... It wasn't until I went in with Chestnut, my look was pulled together... Same thing with Styled in Sepia, it washed me out but Chestnut gave me back some life... Chestnut isn't the same as it was in the early 2000's trust me, in those days it was an overbearing reddened brown which stole the show and I grew to hate it! We have a new relationship now after her rebirth
