Olay fresh effects BB cream first impression

I have recently signed up for influenster in March and am glad to announce that I have received my first box box! I received the sun kissed box which included high heel gel insoles from Dr. Scholls, sinful colors new gel shine nail polish, goody hair ties and the new BB cream from Olay available in stores now.

I was most excited to try the BB cream out of all the products so I gave it a whirl this morning. The packaging is really nice, clean, fresh and overall younger looking as opposed to the rest of their products. This product comes in a decent looking squeeze tube. I really don't mind a squeeze tube as it uses less plastic and makes it less bulky. I know others might prefer a pump but for me it isn't a deal breaker.

Then, applying it I already noticed that it was one shade lighter than my natural skin tone. for me that's no biggie because then I could use it for undereyes...but no. That wouldn't even be possible at all. Trying to blend it on my skin I found it instantly disappeared! I'm all for light coverage but this was ridiculous. There was absolutely nothing covering any bit of imperfections. On top of that I found it made my skin look oily. I felt like an instant oil slick and the feeling didn't disappear through the day and I even set it with powder like I do with all foundations and bb creams. I just wanted to wash my face it was so bad. The funniest thing about this is that the formula is oil free. What a fail.

So now I have a useless product taking up precious real estate. It makes me look so oily I can't even use it as a sunscreen under my normal makeup routine which is a shame because it offers a decent SPF of 35. Overall, it just didn't sit well with me and I Definitely wouldn't reccomend anyone who has any color in their skin to use it and it's not for anyone who has anything but dry skin. The shade selection is very limited with shades made only for "super pale" to "pale but not too pale" skin. Thanks for excluding the rest of us Olay!

My GenBeauty experience

Now that I've had a couple of days to clear my mind, hash things over a bit and analyze everything that happened and whatnot this past weekend at Generation Beauty I will ho ahead and give you my two cents. I haven't bothered reading anyone else's posts on the subject matter as I really don't want to be swayed a different way.

The first day Friday, was just early registration and no big hoopla going on, just girls with their stuff chatting in their bright summer outfits looking more like a flock of birds chirping around a bird feeder. You picked out a color coded name tag, which I picked"ipsy subscriber" which...I wish I never did. I honestly should have picked "beginner creator" I'll let you know why. Throughout the sole event you hung the lanyard with you're name tag, displaying the color. The first thing you see is the color, not the name, URL or anything else you put on there. It felt that the vendors were keeping their eye out for everybody but those displaying pink tags. As soon as I mentioned I was a blogger (I never said I was good at this) their tune changed a little but brighter. Like I had something they wanted...free coverage of their products and services.

This really was more of a place to look for connections, and butter up the sponsors. As someone who's always loved beauty products and giving and taking advice and just starting out actually doing what I've always loved doing, writing and just barely launching the ship into the sea of blogs hoping to reach my utopia, maybe it wasn't exactly my moment to be talking to others and making connections because I'm so inexperienced. I did gain wisdom and insight from the guest blog/vlog speakers and a huge haul of goodies worth over double my ticket ($80).

So if you decide to go, go as a fan of a blogger and see your favorites and get goodies or if your a creator/vendor go for the great connections. If you're in the middle of the rocky road to steady blogging and doing something you love...go with a friend. It will make a huge difference. I really wish I dragged someone else along with me.

Sally Hansen sugar coat nail polish

Omg please don't get me started on this! This is the worst nail trend ever! Why?!!!

I bought this yesterday at Target ($5 something so ill call it $6) thinking "Oh cool! It's like the Zoya polishes" I wanted to try those out but I love Sally Hansen so I purchased this. Worst mistake ever I got it in the purple color thinking that I have waaaaayyyy too many nudes, reds, blues and sparkle. It looked cute in the bottle but when painted on it reminded me of Pepto Bismol. The texture of the "candy coating" made it feel like I had scaly fingers and looked like that crappy ceiling popcorn.

It was an all over NO GO, I will avoid this stuff like its the plague. It definitely wasn't as cool as I thought it was going to be. But if by chance you love the look of ceiling popcorn in the color of diarrhea medicine be my guest and buy away! Now excuse me while I go buy myself some nail stickers to cheer myself up.

One day left until Generation Beauty

I hope everyone has got their ticket already because today's the last day for the half off coupon otherwise you're spending 150 smackaroos to get in. Unless they put that crap on groupon or something the day of.

So very excited to go! I'll be dropping in after work just to register early then pop out since they have nothing formal planned that day. If they have something good I'll consider staying longer. Or maybe grab a cocktail from around there and go home. It is Friday so it might be busy just because. You never know. So cocktails when I get home? Or cocktails with you?

But all days I'll be tweeting and instagraming or whatever so if you want to follow someone going to the event you can follow me.
@verityrobin (too lazy to make a new handle)
On IG I am missare_elle_vee

Vaseline spray and go moisturizer review

I have a problem with ashy skin and dry elbows and knees. I guess I'm supposed to scrub and moisturize but sometimes I only have time for one of the other or even neither of them.

Then I come across the new Vaseline spray and go. I stood there in the store and thought "jeeze what lazy chick needs this crap?" so I left it on the shelf in hopes it would collect dust and disappear for good. Nope! Didn't happen. I kept seeing it there taunting me.

"hey lady, you know you want me. "

It taunted me. So I broke down and got the cocoa scent. It was 5.99 at Target which is more than I like to spend on drugstore brand lotion but who cares? I had to get its voice out of my head. Plus who am I kidding, I'm VERY lazy about moisturizing anything but my face.

I brought it home, took a shower than sprayed away. It has a nice cooling mist that goes on somewhat easily and with a little effortless rubbing in I was perfectly moisturized and I didn't have the heavy skin feeling or funky scent. It smelled like cocoa butter but without the feeling of the buttery formula. I am now an instant fan of this product. It is truly perfect for the girl who gets up early, showers then rolls back into bed because it's so damn comfy until she realizes she has 10 minutes before she has to leave for work and dresses and forgets to get her lunch from the fridge.