Product Review: Hard Candy Eye Def shadows.

The inaugural post!  Well, not really..but the first make up post!  How exciting! 

One thing I really want to do with this blog is talk about make up that I love that anyone could afford.  Sure I love M.A.C. and all the fancy brands found at Macy's counters and at Sephora, but I also know the importance of price point and getting a lot of bang for your buck.  Sometimes when I would read makeup blogs I would get really excited about something but I couldn't afford it or I couldn't get to it.  I live in a relatively small town in New York and these things are not readily available to me.  However, I can jump in my car and I'm three minuets from CVS and about fifteen from Walmart.  On the same note, I don't always have twenty plus dollars to spend on makeup, I can wing six bucks.

Ok, on to the task at hand: Hard Candy's Eye Def eye colours.  They are AMAZING.  I remember way back in my high school days in the late 90's/early 00's when Hard Candy was only available at stores like Sephora and I heard about them because people like Gwen Stefani and Courtney Love liked them.  They had great products with delicious packaging (always a plus).  Then one day, out of nowhere, they disappeared from shelves.  Total bummer.  I loved their products and it's always sad to see a company with such great stuff go under! 

About a year and a half ago my mom came home to say that she saw a Hard Candy display in Walmart.  What!?  WALMART!?  I didn't believe it!  But low and behold, the next time I was there, there it was.  How killer was that?!  It just made me love Hard Candy even more - fun, high quality cosmetics at a "drug store" price point?!  Amazing.

Hard Candy's Eye Def colours are AMAZING.  When I first came across them I was a bit concerned.  I could tell that they were a cream base and that doesn't always fly with me.  Even with primer, cream or gel based eye colours can settle into my creases and it's never a good look.  But I could tell that they were super high pigmented and very sparkly and at six bucks a pop I figured "Why not?" and can I tell you how happy I am that I did?  My first run with them was my cousin Anna's Christmas party where I wore "Robot", a straight up silver.  The application is made very easy with a long, "doe foot" makeup wand.  It makes it really easy to spread and get the amount and consistency you want.  As I mentioned before I sometimes have trouble with cream based eye shadows, so I let it set for a few seconds before I opened my eyes and continued doing my makeup.  When I was done with everything else - the rest of my makeup, getting dressed - I did a quick check in the mirror before leaving my house.  Yup, still perfect!  No creases!  No smudging!

The night went on and I had a lovely time with my family and some friends at the party and I almost forgot I was wearing a cream shadow.  The formula is light enough to feel like a powder shadow, none of that creamy or greasy feeling you sometimes get with other wet shadows.  When I got home five hours later I checked my shadow in the mirror just to see how it held up through the night.  How pleased was I to see that it had not moved a bit.  No creasing, no traveling, NO FADING!  Needless to say the next day I went out and picked up a few more of these beauties!

As I said before this stuff is super high pigmented and glittery so I have been saving mine for the nighttime.  BUT if you're the kind of girl who wants to be bold during the day (like I do sometimes!) go for it!  At the price point and what you get from it you really can't go wrong!