January Finds: Hits and Misses

Hits and Misses blogs are going to sort of be like a monthly haul video. I'm going to go over products I bought or tried out for the month and tell you which ones I thought were hits and which ones weren't.
Diorskin Nude Fresh Glow Makeup: Hit. I stopped in at Macy's earlier this month to look at a Dior powder. I wasn't impressed with it, but the sales woman talked me into trying this product. I really like this foundation. It truly looks like my skin only better. It goes on quite sheer, I think it would be easy enough to build up, but I like a sheer coverage so I didn't try that. This looked great with MAC MSFN over it. It did look a little oily after two hours, but once I touched up it looked (almost) the way it did when I first put it on. And surprisingly, my face never looked that oily after that. I still had to touch up one more time in the course of the day, but my face didn't look oily. The product itself is a hit, however the price is not. It's over $40 and I haven't decided if I want to spend that much money on it so I'm looking at trying some cheaper foundations and seeing if they're just as good.

Benefit High Beam: Hit. I've been wanting this product for a long time yet I always manage to talk myself out of buying it. Well I'm glad I didn't do that this time. I LOVE this highlighter. It's so much prettier than any powder highlighter I've ever used. It's very easy to use a light hand with this. I would recommend blending this with your ring or pinky finger though, because when I use another finger, the product ends up over a larger area then I wanted (if that makes any sense?). I'm still playing with this trying to find the best way to use it, but this really was a good purchase.

Lancome Definicils: Fail. I got this as a sample from Sephora, so I'm glad I didn't waste any money on it. Basically this is a fail because when I put it on, it makes me look like I have only 5 lashes. Not pretty.

On a trip to MAC, I picked up these four products....

Pinch O' Peach: Hit. This is a sheertone blush. I talked about this in my January Favorites blog, but basically it's a great pink color for my skin tone and brightens up my face. I really like it.

Rubenesque Paint Pot: Fail. I've heard so many great things about this paint pot but it didn't do anything for me. I have Painterly for an eyeshadow base, so since this color doesn't really show up on me, I didn't see any reason to keep it. It went back a few days later.

Eye Kohl in I Get No Kick: Hit. This product came out with one of the January collections. I haven't been following the MAC collections much but January had three new collections come out so I was curious enough to check them out. This is the only product that stood out to me because it's so different. It's like a champagne highlighter in stick form. I like putting it on my lower waterline and lash line the most.

Face and Body: Fail. This went back as well. I actually really liked this product when it first went on. It looked a lot like Diorskin Nude. But this has no staying powder at all. I was oily after just 1 1/2 hours, and this does not look good after touching up. Plus, after about five hours, there was no makeup left on my face.

Let me know what you guys think of this type of blog. Should I continue to do this each month?

Cheers!