Review: Maybelline Eyestudio Mad for Mauve Quad

Yay! My first cosmetics review. My blog posts thus far have been primarily about hair, and so I decided I wanted to switch it up a bit. Because not only do I love hair, but I love love love make up too.

Now, I'm a girl on a budget, so Maybelline is right up my alley. For me though Maybelline can be a pretty hit or miss affair. Some eyeshadows I've purchased by them were chalky horrors with no pigmentation and others were velvety, smooth, and pigmented. Yeah, I know, it's wierd and inconsistent. I digress. Thus when choosing to buy Maybelline eyeshadow I'm a very conflicted lady. Luckily the Mad for Mauve quad from the eye studio series was anything but a disappointment.

Price: As I mentioned before, Maybelline cosmetics are very affordable. I picked up this palette for about $6 at Target when shopping for a rug to go in my room. I had heard about this new Maybelline collection and figured a quad was the more economical choice over their baked eyeshadow duos.

Packaging: The packaging isn't really anything special. The top of the case is clear so you can easily view the colors in the quad. The bottom is black. One of the shadows is almost twice the size of all the others, which would be great if it was one of my favorable colors from the palette. In general though, the eyeshadows are quite small as is the quad itself. I wish the uad was bigger to be honest, but that's just me.Here's a picture of the packaging:


Product Quality: I really love the texture and the colors of these eyshadows. They glide on smoothly and are pigmented. They are easy to blend. They're basically everything you'd want in an eyeshadow, but I do have one gripe. This may just be my brushes, but I did have some issues with fallout, it wasn't severe so I wouldn't say don't purchase the quad, just saying a fair warning. Overall I really do love these shadows though. I want to try the other quads now.
Picture of the colors:


Summing it up.
Pros
+Smooth & Blendable
+Affordable
+Pigmented

Cons
+"Ehh" packaging.
+Some fall out

The Points
Price: 5/5
Packaging: 4/5
Product Quality 15/15

Final Grade: 96

I love my brother

Lol, this is gonna just be a short blog. Anywho, I was talking to my brother this morning and he had recently saw the Good Hair documentary (haven't seen it myself.). We were talking about hair and it was just so exciting to me that he'd actually listen and care about what I was saying. He seemed like he really learned a lot form Good Hair and was willing to learn more. I don't know, it just made me happy that he was interested that something I myself am interested in especially because hair care is just one of those girl things, y'know?

He also told me that if his wife tried to relax his kid's hair while they were still a child he'd DIVORCE HER! Lmfao. That made me laugh a lot, and I totally respect him for that. I don't really like it when young children get relaxers because they don't get a chance to learn to love their natural hair. Hell, I got a relaxer as a young child so I still struggle with the concept of natural beauty myself.

Anyway, that was just a day brightener. I've also taken out my braids last night. It took me 9 freaking hours of agony, excuse my french. I put some V05 passion fruit moisture milks, Mane 'n Tail, and olive oil on my hair to soften it to make detangling easier, put on a cap, tied up my satin scarf, then was off to bed. Detangling went well, I only had one nasty tangle and I have BUTTLOADS (Yes, I went there.) of new growth. Lol, it's crazy. My stylist is gonna be mad at me for not relaxing in so long, but I don't really care. I want to start self-relaxing after this relaxer. I'm gonna look up a lot of info on it, and possibly write an article on self-relaxing myself once I actually go through the process.

I've got a couple of make up blogs on the way, a haul and several reviews. So stay tuned, guys. Anywho, that's it for today so far.

Much love,
Marissa.

The Review Formula

How it works:
Alright, for my reviews, everything in the end gets a letter grade. It is kind of like school (except you don’t hate it!), and three things determine this grade. These things do not change depending on the type of product, either. What determines the grade are: price, packaging, and product quality. The three P's! I'm so catchy.

Each category gets an amount of points awarded to it upon careful review. For every con I find with that particular category I’ll subtract 1-3 points depending on how irksome that particular con is. The maximum points each category can get are as following: Price: 5 points, Packaging: 5 points, Product Quality: 15 points.

If you’re wondering, there’s a reason why I decided to distribute the points like that. To me, although price and packaging are important, they certainly aren’t nearly as important as the overall quality of the product. Not only that, but all of you math wizs out there must have notice those points all add up to 25 at their maximum amounts. Multiplied by four, that equals 100. The amount of points I get after multiplying the overall score (the points added up) determines the ultimate letter grade.

Hopefully that wasn’t too long winded or confusing, I just wanted you guys to see HOW I review things and what not so you can have a full understanding of the process and the reviews when you read them. Many hair and beauty websites I see on the internet seem like they just pull numbers out of their hats, Lol. I didn’t want to do that too.

All is fair in beauty and hair,
Marissa.

The Beginning

I should be in bed, not writing a blog, but hey, I'm a rebel, okay? NO ONE UNDERSTANDS ME. IM DIFFERENT. I DONT WANT TO FIT IN.

Ahem.

That's what I would say if I were still 12, thank god I'm not. Lol. Anyway, this is the awkward first blog post. The beginning. The post that explains why I'm here, and why you should read a blog like this. Well, I have a couple of good reasons why you should read my blog and this post.

Reason #1: If you love ethnic hair care, this is the place for you.

In this blog, I will definitely be discussing ethnic hair care and several different techniques, products, etc. I will be doing reviews that are thorough and hopefully informative and helpful. I will research to give the utmost accurate information. I won't just post some silly mess. (Example of silly mess: "GURL YO HAYUH NEEDZ 2 BE DIRTAY 2 GROWUH!) By the way, if you ever heard that and still believe it.... You need to be here. I can help you drink from the well of healthy haircare knowledge. Moving on.

Reason #2: Cosmetics, make up, that rainbow crap you put on your face...
I will be doing several reviews on products, possibly some tutorials on looks that all have to do with make up. Fair warning, I'm an eyes and lips girls as opposed to facial cosmetics. I can do facial stuff, but I just don't quite enjoy it, so you shant see much of that here.

Reason #3: I'm just so darn interesting.
If you still have been reading this blog entry, then of course you should check back here once and awhile and see what I have in store! I mean, you sat and read through all of my gibberish thus far, and maybe even enjoyed it. That's impressive. I surprise myself with how interesting I am sometimes. People come up to me on the streets to tell me about how I am the most captivating and original person they've laid their eyes upon.

Okay, that last part to reason #3 is a lie. But hey, in my mind that happens. Anyway, I have a poll up already, for those of you who will be my visitors you should vote in it.

All is fair in beauty and hair,
Marissa.