Mary Kay Product Review

Recently A month and a half ago, I was sent some Mary Kay products to review.  (Better late than never!)  I was super excited about this, because I love Mary Kay.  I've been using the products since I was 15 years-old, and I actually sold them for about seven years.  Until I quit because my ex-husband roped us into selling Amway.  Don't even get me started on that.  In fact, don't even get yourself started on that.  EVER.

Anyway, so, they sent me some Mary Kay stuff.  It arrived a couple days after my birthday, so that was really fitting.  And it came in this cute box:

This is what was inside:

Sorry my picture is blurry.  I didn't know it was blurry until I'd already used the stuff, and I didn't want to be posting a picture of used stuff.  So here you go.

This is what I got, and what I think about it:

Lash Love Mascara in I <3 Black

That's a heart. If you can't decipher my emoticon. Okay, this mascara, if you are a SERIOUS mascara person, you will (heart) it. I don't so much (heart) it for daily use. For one thing, I use brown mascara usually. Back in the day when I sold MK, they taught that if you're blonde, you should use brown, and that's what I've always done. And I do (HEART) Mary Kay's Lash Lengthening Mascara in black/brown. That's what I use every day, and it's wonderful. I cannot stand eyelashes that are all clumpy and spidery looking, and this does a great job. The Lash Love, well, let's say it was a bit much to be hanging out at a preschool in broad daylight. Were I going out dancing, perhaps I would have felt it more appropriate. At any rate, my advice is to gently do ONE coat. Lightly. And don't go back over it. AT ALL. Unless it's Saturday night and you're hanging out a Studio 54. My two cents.

Compact Mini

I don't like it.  I'm just sayin'.  It's cute and little and could be neat for travelling maybe.  The brushes are in the bottom, and there's a mirror in the top.  It's magnetic, and the little colors are in metal tins, so it's neat how they snap right in there and stay.  But I don't like how all the shadows and the blush are right smack against each other.  It's like my silver shadow is always in my blush, and vice versa.  There needs to be some separation or something.  And I use bigger nicer makeup brushes, so having the brushes in there doesn't help me out.

Mineral Cheek Color in Cherry Blossom

I actually really like this.  Despite how horrifying it looks in the package.  Seriously, when I opened all these colors and saw what they sent me, I feared that someone had been smoking crack.  I honestly don't remember whether they asked me anything about what I look like or what colors I generally wear.  I don't think they did.  I'm blonde, fair skinned, blue eyed.  And they sent me like hot pink EVERYTHING.  But this blush actually looks nice and fairly natural on.  I mean, if you use a light hand.  Don't go nuts with it.

Mineral Eye Colors in Silver Satin, Iris, and Sweet Cream

I love the silver one.  Not so much the others. The quality is completely fine, it's just the shades I'm not wild about.  I prefer a lighter shade for my "highlight", and the purple one, well...honestly I haven't used it yet.  I know purple shadow is in right now.  Or it was last season.  Or something.  But I basically have two "looks."  The grey/silver look if I'm wearing cool colors and the brown/beige look if I'm wearing warm colors.  Maybe I need someone to show me how to wear purple, and I might love it.  I do like Mary Kay shadows in general.

Creme Lipstick in Fuchsia

I have to say that I stand corrected on this one.  Because like the blush, I took one look at this color and wondered who was smoking what when they decided to send this shade to me.  I mean, back in the day when I sold MK, they had a lipstick called Toffee that was like magic.  It looked fabulous on everyone.  Something more neutral like that is what I would have sent out in a test like this.  But whatever.  I tried this, and it's dark, but I actually really like it.  I like it better if I tone it down with some gloss.  My favorite is the Mary Kay Lip Gloss in Gold Rush.  It makes every lipstick better, I'm telling you.  (They didn't send me that.  I just have it already, and I love it.)

So that's my opinion.  If anyone else would like to send me stuff to review, I'll happily do it!

All opinions are 100% my own.  I was not compensated monetarily for this posting.  I did receive the above mentioned products free of charge to try out.  I was encouraged to blog about my thoughts, but it was not a requirement.