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Fenty Instant Reset Overnight Gel-Cream finally decided to pop up at Sephora. For a while there it was available exclusively on Fenty’s website and although I wanted to try it I was waiting for the Sephora release because I felt the return would be easier if I hated it. But who am I kidding? I always have the best intentions to return things and never do!

Fenty Instant Reset Overnight Gel-Cream is a new overnight moisturizer and sleeping pack of sorts that was specifically created to be used as part of your nightly routine. It’s a lightweight gel moisturizer that has a lush tropical fruit and flower fragrance. I know, I know, the fragrance is killing you! Interestingly enough I don’t see any artificial fragrances in the ingredients list so it might come directly from some of the oils in the formulas. This is actually loaded with some incredible oils and extracts including melon oil which is great for hydrating.

And of course, the superstar ingredients here are Hyaluronic Acid and Niacinamide. I think Niacinamide surpassed Hyaluronic Acid in popularity in 2020 here in the US market. It’s long since been a very popular pick in Korea and Japan but last year in certainly gained traction in the Western market.

If Vitamin C isn’t part of your daily diet you can go ahead and try out Niacinamide which has many of the same benefits. But user beware you don’t want to mix Niacinamide and Vitamin C. Recent studies have shown you can mix the two however, never together in the same routine. As a rule of thumb if I’m using Niacinamide I just avoid Vitamin C products. It really depends on your skin of course. I’m just old school and although my routine includes a ton of different products I am always very safe about what I am cocktailing together. You don’t want to dish out on expensive products that are rendered ineffective by using them together so always do your research prior to mixing skincare.

As for Niacinamide it works a lot like Vitamin C in the fact it can reduce dark spots, even out skin tone, and reveal more luminous and brighter skin! The good news is the fact it is higher on the list of ingredients in the Fenty Instant Reset Overnight Gel-Cream meaning it has an impressive amount of it in this cream!

I’ve been using this for a few weeks now! I’ll report back soon to see how game changing the Niacinamide in the mix is! Will it brighten up my skin? Make me years and years younger? We’ll see 🙂

Anyone try it?

Do share!

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Whatever happened to Urban Decay? Their formulas sure has changed over the last decade hasn’t it? This weekend Christine (Temptalia) did a poll on Instagram asking which brands don’t interest you anymore and I didn’t even hesitate with my reply. Right away my fingers few over my Iphone to type out “Urban Decay”. Urban Decay hasn’t rallied since 2012 when it was purchased by L’Oreal for the sum of 300-400 million (the amount was never disclosed). Maybe they should have held out for the big money like Too Faced who got a cool 1.4 billion in 2016 from Estee Lauder.

In 2011, even before their buy out, I noticed that Urban Decay Primer Potion was having problems. That was prior L’Oreal ever entering the picture. But at the time everything was pretty smooth sailing with Urban Decay aside from my primer issues which did break my heart as it was one of my go to eyeshadow primers.

Ironically in Spring 2012, Urban Decay made the really exciting and scary announcement they were revamping their entire eyeshadow line. As much as we love blaming parent companies for the change in our favorite products this predated the buy out as the buy out was signed in Fall 2012.

Change is unavoidable especially when larger parent companies like L’Oreal take over but in this case the parent company was not to blame.

So, why the change? At the time the beauty bubble had not yet broken and the market wasn’t as saturated as it is now. Why the sudden change in a beloved formula? I personally don’t think Urban Decay Eyeshadows have been the same since the formula change and if anything they have gotten worst with each new release.

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If nothing else 2020 was the year I learned to cook better. I really committed to it too! I did some online Jamie Oliver Cookery classes and even did a Gordon Ramsey MasterClass which disappointed me because some small part of me expected him to yell while I cowered behind a frying pan in fear. Why doesn’t Nick Stellino have a Masterclass? I’d pay big money for him to teach me to cook as he told me stories about his family. Which reminds me wouldn’t you drop major cash to watch Julia and Jacques cook together? What a hysterical duo! It always felt like Jacques was correcting what Julia did.

Anyway…non makeup ramblings ahead!

It was a long weekend! Like 25 years long! Between being safe due to COVID cases rising and the snow storm I had the worst cabin fever this weekend. I’ve re-arranged both the pantry and the butler’s pantry about 1500 times between 2020 and 2021. I’m one of those people that you can eat a full meal off my wood floors because I’m constantly polishing and cleaning everything. That’s why I got so bored this weekend because aside from decorating for Valentine’s Day and doing some laundry I didn’t have any other chores to keep me busy. Thanks to everyone who amused me endlessly on Instagram! I adore talking to you all. Everything here at home is absolutely clean and organized to the max and I found some relief from my boredom in speaking to all of you on Instagram. Some of the stuff you sling at me is wildly funny.

When you’re bored in the house you’re bound to make some dumb purchase online. Mine was the Star Wars The Child Little Bounty Instant Pot Duo Pressure Cooker. I texted my friend a few weeks ago saying I wanted to buy a slow cooker and I had my eye on the the Hearth & Hand with Magnolia Slow Cooker from Target ($39) and the The Pioneer Woman Vintage Floral 7-Quart Programmable Slow Cooker ($45). The Hearth & Hand doesn’t really go with my French Country Kitchen downstate but does go with my Modern Farmhouse decor upstate but I don’t cook as much upstate. Still that was the one I had my eye on because I’m a complete Magnolia h0r. The Pioneer Woman one was just pretty and that had my eye too. You know picking kitchen appliances is sadly not like makeup. I mean, if I see two blushes and they both look pretty I just buy both! I really had to sit back and adult this one out because I’m so weird I’d go and buy two slow cookers because they are pretty to look at!

Last night though….! Last night was the night I purchased an Instant Pot and it wasn’t because I wanted to learn to cook in it. It was because it had Baby Yoda on it! I regret nothing. I have no idea how to use an Instant Pot but Grogu will show me the way! This is why lock down and snowstorms are dangerous! You got people like me running around bored buying kitchen appliances they don’t know how to use.

As a long time Star Wars geek I needed this in my life.

Throw your Instant Pot recipes my way and also, can you tell me how to use this thing?

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William Sonoma

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