Hey! First things first no I didn't jet to the States :( but I managed to order a few things via a mail service called My Mall Box. YouTube beauty blogger Shahleena has mentioned this company in a lot of her videos and I was tempted none the less to try it out.
I signed up to My Mall Box for free and they supplied me with an address based in the USA. All I had to do was order what I wanted from the various USA retailers, input my address and wait for it to be delivered there. Initially I ordered a few bits of makeup and then I also ordered some school supplies and some accessories. Once ordered and shipped My Mall Box update you when the have received your package. After you've got all of them you can either choose to send them individually or all together to where ever you are based. You have to pay a shipping charge of course and also customs too. Mine wasn't so bad!
So I received my first USA package last month and I was pretty impressed. They packaged it all well into one box and apart from a retractable eyeliner that could have been broken before it got to them everything else was great!
Lately I've been watching a lot of YouTube videos on mastering eyeshadow looks as I do like to wear it especially when I'm not working as I have more time to spend on a look. There have been lots of new 'indie' companies about which specialise in one type of product or have a niche range too. A few of these are for example: Gerard Cosmetics, Colour Pop and Dose of Colours.
The hype at the moment has been liquid lipsticks and in particular matte ones. If I have to be honest I am definitely more of a gloss girl. But! I have been really into matte lipsticks since I bought Serenity and Valley Slipper from Gerard Cosmetics last summer in the UK via Beauty Bay. I love how effortless the application is and also how natural looking they look (obviously depending on the colour!)
I won't bore you with all the details but just a brief summary of what I bought. I'm still trying them out at the moment and I'd rather wait and test them before rating them completely.
My USA Haul:
Dose of Colours Bare with Me lipgloss and eyedeal duos
Koko Lashes
Lily Ghalichi Lashes
Gerard Cosmetics hydra matte liquid lipsticks, lipstick, lipgloss
Stila smudgeproof eyeliner in Turquoise
Korres eyeliner in Periwinkle
Makeup Geek eyeliners and eyeshadows
Carli Bybel Palette
Colour Pop Eyeshadows
Go Noodle school resources
Quay Sunglasses
It's great that customers all over the world can use this system to pick up American brands, especially drugstore and these indie brands as there is so much more of a variety than the UK.
I would definitely use My Mall Box again maybe now as a birthday treat :p hehehe We'll see!
Hope you enjoyed reading :)
Sara xx