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Coastal Scents is closing after 16 years in business and I’m all choked up about it. Coastal Scents was like the Morphe of the early 2000s. They offered inexpensive makeup brushes, massive eyeshadow palettes, and tons of other makeup related items at very affordable prices.

They were also legendary for creating interesting duplications of products that were popular at the time! Remember that time they did that massive Blush and Bronzer Palette that channeled the Too Faced Big Book of Bronzers and Tarte’s Big Blush Book!

How about all those Revealed Eyeshadow Palettes that were obviously inspired by Urban Decay Naked Eyeshadow Palettes?

I really loved their brushes the most though. They had a pretty good brush selection and heck, I even had many of their brushes still! They wash up great and have served me well over the years!

Fact of the matter is a lot of brands have just fallen over the edge after COVID. I’m sure Coastal Scents was likely not doing well before COVID but after the pandemic hit that’s likely what pushed them over the edge. Coastal Scents just became lost in a sea of indie brands would be my guess. Where as Coastal Scents started with bloggers like Pursebuzz and EnKoreMakeup far bigger influencers started promoting Morphe and I imagine they just got lost somewhere along the way…

It’s pretty sad but not surprising. I feel like nothing really surprises me lately when it comes to the beauty world. Things shift so quickly lately if you blink you miss it.

I wish you well Coastal Scents. I worked with you several times in the past and you were always very gracious.

Maybe we’ll meet in the next makeup life.

Are you said to hear about Coastal Scents closing down?

Did you love them?

Do share!

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Christian Louboutin Abracadabra La Palette Collection launches into the world of powder products with a gorgeous Abracadabra La Palette Eyeshadow Palette and a Abracadabra La Palette Blush & Highlighter Palette. And guess what? Both are actually very affordable. I mean, for Louboutin that is.

The Christian Louboutin Abracadabra La Palette Eyeshadow Palette is available in three shade selections and each palette contains six shades of color and I actually like them a lot more than I thought I would because I still believe launching a luxury beauty line right is a bit iffy. That being said, the market seems to be upturning so, maybe it’s not THAT bad an idea after all.

There’s also an Abracadabra La Palette Blush & Highlighter Palette which is also available in three shade selections and each palette contains two blushes and one highlighter each. And again, I LIKE this a lot more than I thought I would.

The colors in both the eyeshadow and blush palettes are very vibrant and pretty.

Now price wise, these aren’t bad at all for a luxury brand each one is $78. Impressive for Christian Louboutin.

There’s a catch though.

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How can you eliminate pesky fine lines and puffiness under your eyes? It’s a lot simpler than you may think!

I wanna rock and roll all night and party every day. Especially the rock and roll all night part! I’m a night owl! I’d totally sleep all day and get up when the sun goes down and stay up until it comes up again if I could. But as an adult I have to do adult things like run my business. What the hell? Who decided that we needed to do mature stuff like this? Grrr!

Fact of the matter is I have an adult schedule even though I want to live like I’m a frat boy. I used to actually stay up quite late and function on about 5 hours sleep. Typically I’d go to bed around 12 AM sometimes 1 and I’d be up at 4:45 to start the day. I can’t do that anymore…! I tend to get in bed by 11 at the latest 11:30 and I’m up at 4:45 (if I’m indulging myself it’ll be 5). If nothing else I realized late nights totally wreck my beauty life. I’m prone to puffy eyes! Is it old age? Gaming? Too much time spent staring at a monitor or my phone? Who knows but I’m the Queen of Puffiness! Thankfully, I have very few fine lines under my eyes but they tend to be a lot more pronounced if I haven’t slept well or slept very little.

The last two or so nights I’ve had difficulty adjusting to sleeping alone again and it’s made me stay up later than I should which means the puffiness is super real at the moment and my fine lines are not really appreciating my lack of sleep!

So, how do you eliminate puffiness and fine lines without spending money?

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