Happy Booster Blush in Natural

While I was perusing a somewhat off the beaten path Rite Aid (it's in a mostly abandoned shopping center, apart from the still open stores) I found that they had a pretty decent amount of Physician's Formula Happy Booster items left along with the blush in Rose for Alissa I also found that they had some of the Natural blush too, which I was curious to try since I already have Rose. I love Rose but sometimes it'd be nice to use something a little more understated and, well, natural!

This was also a good opportunity for me to get a shot of it still in the package, and also an unused shot of it opened:

Isn't it lovely? The natural has more nude colored hearts than the rose, but still plenty of red/pink/etc. Love LOVE the shimmer in this line, it's so pretty!

On a side note, I just can't get over how good the photos from my phone's camera come out...I'm really glad though, it's such a pain with the camera sometimes...especially when I'm at home because my son always wants to play with it and throws a fit if he sees it and doesn't get it. Also I can just email myself the pics rather than need my memory card. Very convenient :).

Help! I Hoard Makeup in My Purse!!

I am having a bit of a makeup crisis lately, by that I mean I always get more (especially things I am really weak for like lip gloss) and I always hoard it in my purse.

Beleive it or not, this is the contents of my makeup bag AFTER weeding out a ton of lip glosses. After some thinking, and going over it with friends I think I'll just leave the blush (which I apply after I get to work because I do the bare minimum at home), tweezers, mirror, lotion, blotting papers and brush/combs and rotate through lip glosses.

Here is my big issue, these are my "can't live without/use often" items, which I keep in a pocket in my purse to get to easily.

I feel like this is also a bit much but I like to have a bit of everything just in case, and I love them all it's so hard to choose! This is actually after weeding things out and putting them in the makeup bag...I moved the Fresh Sugar Plum and the Tarte 24.7. They would actually still be part of this group but it didn't fit in the pocket of my purse any more, and the other pocket was a little too big so they'd fall out.

At least with lip gloss I don't always feel like wearing it so it'd be a little easier to choose one per day, but sometimes I end up using all of these things at some point in the day (after another item wears off of course).

Physician's Formula Happy Booster

I am not usually one for face powder (actually I pretty much never use it), but when I found out about this stuff from Scrangie's blog it was just too cute not to try.

It's not only cute, but it's supposed to make you happier...scientifically! Apparently there are plant extracts in it that mimic Endorphins to make you happy. I've been using it every day so far but I can't really say if it actually does that. I don't think it'll lift you out of depression or something serious like that (although looking at it and smelling it certainly will lift your mood) but who knows, maybe after regular use I'll feel some effects. In the short term it will absolutely lift your mood though, with the violet scent (not overpowering) and cute pink-ness and hearts :).

Once I got one I was hooked...I started off with the translucent face powder and although it's very sheer I fell in love. It made me nice and shimmery! But I wanted more...I wanted it to show!

At first I just wanted to get the blush in Rose, but when I FINALLY found it at CVS (after 3 other CVS stores, an Ulta and 2 Targets) they were having a deal for buy one get one 1/2 off of Physician's Formula so I decided to get the beige face powder...I couldn't let such a good deal go and I didn't want to have to go to the trouble to find the face powder later on. And of course the deal was on top of the $3 off coupon on the packaging!!

I was very pleasantly surprised by the amount of coverage the face powder has, considering the brush doesn't take a ton of powder off of the compact. I don't feel like I need to use any other face product with this, unless I want to use something to cover up spots. The blush is also surprisingly pigmented but not overpowering at all and very fresh looking.

Altogether I found this makeup gave me a "doll" look that I think is really cute!

Of course, pictures! Sorry about the powder all over, I've used these a few times before taking the pictures...oops!

Top left - beige face powder, top right - rose blush, bottom middle - translucent face powder:

You can lift up the level with the powder to reveal the mirror and brush:

Close up of the brush:

Official Site's Link: http://www.physiciansformula.com/en-us/staticpage/happy-booster.html