My Sunday Mally Makeup Look

Hi everyone and welcome back!

I usually don't wear make up at all on the weekends, unless I'm going somewhere.  I'm perfectly happy to be around the house in my lip balm and comfy clothes.  Unfortunately, I needed to run to the mall to return a pair of pants.  So, I decided to do a test of some of the new Mally Beauty makeup that I recently purchased.

I love QVC and for years, Mally Beauty was only available there.  In the past year, she has taken her makeup line, which is currently being repackaged, to Ulta.  Still, the best values are at QVC through her awesome kits.  Recently, I purchased her 5 piece Brightening and Beyond kit, which comes with: your choice of color of her Face Defender BB Foundation Broad Spectrum SPF 15, light wand eye brightener, 24/7 Illuminating blush in lighter or deeper (depending on your BB color choice), foundation brush and double ended brush.  It is selling for $58.00 including shipping and handling. The value alone is amazing.  If purchased separately on QVC, it would cost $108.00 including shipping and handling.  Even if you know that not everything will work for you, you can give the things that won't work as gifts or sell them on ebay.

I was truly surprised with the coverage I got from that BB foundation.  Lots of brands have claims that their BB and CC creams can be built up, but the only other one that I've tried that lives up to the claims like Mally's is the IT Cosmetics full coverage physical SPF 50 CC Cream.  I also used the blush from the kit.  I topped everything off with a very light layer of the Mally's Poreless Perfection Glowing foundation.  I wore a coat of Mally's Instant Impact mascara and I had on her Brownstone eye shadow on my eyelids. I made it an all Mally day by using her lip magnifier in Nude Rose.

I can't even begin to tell you how impressed I am with the BB foundation.  It was really not fair to test it today, because I have a cold and have been blowing my nose all day.  Yet, even through all of that, it held up very well.  It did wear off around the bottom sides of my nose, but not as bad as I thought it would.  That BB foundation holds 1.8 ounces.  Normal foundations are 1 ounce.  I'm looking forward to testing this more, but it passed today with flying colors.  The BB foundation and brush sell together on QVC for $48.00 including shipping and handling, so you can see that for $10.00 more, the kit is worth it,  

The blush held up and still looked good at about 9pm.   I had put everything on at 3pm.

The lip magnifier is very hydrating.  The shine does wear off, leaving the color.  I'd say that it wears for about 4 hours before starting to fade a bit, but that is fine.  I'll be doing a separate review on this and the colors that I own in another blog.

The mascara worked as expected for me.  I'm still learning, but I do like it.  It makes my short and stubby eyelashes visible, which is all I can ask for when using one coat.  I just didn't feel up to playing with it too much.  I'll also be doing a separate review on the mascara, once I've gotten used to it and what it can do.

I was a bad blogger and forgot to take my end of the day picture.  I didn't even think of it until I was getting ready to write this. um, oops?  

I guess I need to start taking my pics without my glasses on to avoid the glare.  Thank you for sticking with me in these early days!  Any selfie tips would be appreciated, too!