Tamara B 
The ColourPop So Very Lovely Palette is the first new palette I have purchased since last year. Sometimes when looking at new releases, I’ll mentally go through what I already have and think of what I have that might be similar. What came to mind first was the original ABH Norvina Palette just because of that one pop of cool toned lavender. The shades in that palette are different but the concept is similar.
Here’s a small group of brushes I use most of the time when I do my makeup. I have many more but these are the ones I like to have close at hand after finding specific uses for each of them.
Most of the looks I’ve done in the past have been centered around a particular palette but I’ve wanted to get into single shadows for a while. I’ve had several that I’ve swatched but never given a serious try just wasting away in my drawers. Out of all the shades used in this look the ones I was most curious about were Menagerie Eel-lectric and Terra Moons Radiation.
Here’s look a did a while back using some of my single shadows. This started out as me wanting to (finally) create a custom palette out of some of my singles.
This look started with wanting to try using my cake liner as a base for Alaska from Nabla. I wanted to see if I could get the nuances of color in the sparkles to show up more that way but the look ended up turning into something too colorful for them to be noticeable.
I bought these some time last spring out of curiosity to try a new brand and because each palette had a couple of shades that seemed like things I didn’t already have. Specifically, Venom, Alchemy 2.0, and Bucolic Baby were the shades that caught my eye from Wild Berry. Metropolitan didn’t call to me as much but in that one, Nothing Personal, and Alaska were the shades I thought would be unique to my collection. In this post I included comparison swatches for those shades in an effort to see if they were actually things I didn’t already have.
I skipped February so I’m including it together with March. February was not all that exciting except for one week we had an ice storm. That would’ve been the main thing in the post. The last two months didn’t seem to fly by as quickly as January did.
I’m starting what will probably be a long process of decluttering. I’ve been thinking of doing this for over a month now and haven’t made much progress because it can get overwhelming and can be difficult to make decisions. To start, I set aside items that I’m considering getting rid of. This is what is in the four boxes that are sitting in front of my cabinets. I think it can help to do this if you have the space to store stuff temporarily.
The ColourPop So Jaded Palette is an older collaboration between Kathleen Lights and ColourPop. I started doing looks with it in November and at that time it was still (surprisingly) available on the ColourPop website. As far as I can tell, it seems to be discontinued now.