My Ulta Wish List!

I love my job and I'm sure it loves me or at least all the money I spend there!

Every once in a while Ulta gifts us with a little extra discount which is happening this weekend, and all of us employees are making our lists and checking it twice!

So I'm giving you a sneak peak at my wish list, however I doubt I'll be purchasing everything, but a girl can dream!

Jessica's Wishlist:

1. Peter Thomas Roth Un-Wrinkle Turbo Line Smoothing Toning Lotion

Deep wrinkle fighting, line smoothing, toning lotion with 18 anti-aging neuropeptides and peptides. Visibly helps reduce the appearance of the six most stubborn deep wrinkles and expression lines. Removes surface impurities, treats, refreshes, softens and also prepares skin for beauty treatments. Hyaluronic acid hydrates skin. Vitamins A, C, and E help fight free radical attack. The result is a beautifully balanced complexion for optimal skin care performance.

This shit has Gold in it!, literally!

2. Peter Thomas Roth Potent C Eye Cream

Peter Thomas Roth Potent-C Power Eye Cream is an anti-aging eye cream that helps instantly brighten, tighten and reduce the look of dark circles, puffiness, fine lines and wrinkles in the delicate eye area with high-potency THD ascorbate, which is 50 times more powerful than traditional vitamin C, along with powerful anti-oxidants vitamin E and ferulic acid.

Key Ingredients & Benefits:

• THD Ascorbate - ultra-potent, gold standard vitamin C that helps improve the look of uneven skin tone and texture, firmness and fine lines and wrinkles. 50 times more potent than traditional vitamin C (ascorbic acid)
• Vitamin E - provides anti-oxidant benefits
• Ferulic Acid - an anti-oxidant that works synergistically with vitamins C and E to enhance their benefits
• Filmexel - acts like a second skin to help protect the delicate eye area. Helps smooth and decrease the look of fine lines and wrinkles to promote long-lasting makeup wear
• Caffeine - helps tone and condition the skin's appearance while helping to reduce the look of undereye puffiness
• Shea Butter - helps to nourish and moisturize the look of the delicate eye area
• Hyaluronic Acid - helps improve hydration by attracting and retaining up to 1,000 times its weight in water from moisture in the air
• Astaxanthin - known for its powerful anti-oxidant benefits, this red algae provides a rosy finish to help awaken the look of the under-eye area

*THD Ascorbate delivers vitamin C benefits up to 50 times more effectively than ascorbic acid

3. Clarin Double Serum

Complete age control concentrate. Two power-packed serums in one. Clarins most powerful age control concentrate ever! Now packed with [20+1] anti-aging plant extracts-including turmeric-for visibly smoother, firmer, more radiant skin in just 7 days.*

Double Serum's innovative dual technology successfully combines the most powerful plant extracts-both water-and oil-soluble-to ensure a perfect affinity with your skin, for exceptional anti-aging results.

Key Ingredients & Benefits:

• Turmeric, known for its exceptional anti-aging properties
• Orthosiphon extract helps improve skin texture
• Oat sugars visibly firm and lift
• Callicarpa extract revives radiance

4. Algenist Splash Sleeping Pack

For the first time, this overnight sleeping mask combines alguronic acid and algalyte complex to intensely hydrate into the skin and recharge and energize your complexion. Algalyte complex, containing a red microalgae polysaccharide and skin-energizing electrolytes, helps to balance hydration levels and fight the signs of aging. Skin is visibly brightened, smoothed, and rejuvenated in the morning.

Immediately:

• Dehydrated skin feels hydrated, replenished and refreshed for 95%* of the subjects
• Effectively hydrates skin after one use for 92%* of the subjects

Within 10 days of use:

• Restores lost moisture for 99%* of the subjects
• Boosts moisture retention for a healthy glow for 96%* of the subjects

So that's the skincare wishlist, now moving on to the makeup wishlist:

1. Smashbox Halo Powder Foundation

Smashbox Halo Hydrating Powder Foundation is a longwearing, luminous mineral powder foundation that delivers sheer to medium buildable coverage with an unfeelable soft-satin finish in a range of skin-perfecting shades.

Benefits:

• Easily builds sheer to medium coverage that's never cakey or over-powdery
• Visibly smoothes skin and blurs imperfections, improves the look of skin texture and minimizes pores while not settling into fine lines and wrinkles
• Oil-free and non-drying formula controls shine without compromising radiance
• Mess and waste-free grinder lets you freshly grind desired amount of powder
• Doubles as a setting and finishing powder over liquid foundation or concealer
• Suitable for all skin types, even dry, oily and combination
• Non-acnegenic & dermatologist tested
• Cruelty-free

Smashbox Halo Hydrating Powder Foundation is a foundation-setting powder hybrid that combines the payoff of a pressed powder with the luminous and breathable finish of a loose setting powder. The built-in Powderizer allows you to freshly grind the perfect amount for a single application every time without fear of mess or over-powdering. The weightless formula is infused with Mineral Boost Complex, a blend of amino acids, peptides and minerals that work like a filter for skin, leaving you with an instantly corrected complexion and youthful glow.

2. Anastasia Norvina palette

We don't even have it online or in store yet, but I'm praying it will be on the truck delivery this week!

3. Tarte Creaseless Undereye Concealer

Yes, I was so going to get the new Too Faced Concealer, but their lightest shade isn't light enough for me, I like my concealers to bling! (I got some crazy dark circles) And I always have a problem with my concealer creasing so I want to try this so bad! Now Tarte has always had this concealer, they just repackaged it, just in time for Too Faced new concealer to drop.....but the Tarte one comes in lots of shades a lot more than Too Faced has right now. But It's still a good deal price wise for the Too Faced, so who knows I may suck it up and get one of those too! I'll just put them both on the list!

Creaseless Undereye Concealer by Tarte is a vegan, full-coverage & creamy skincare concealer from America's #1 concealer brand - now with 30 shades & an applicator to make application totally foolproof.

Completely covers dark undereye circles, hyperpigmentation, redness, pimples, tattoos. The waterproof formula doesn't crease or sit in fine lines. It's also powered by vitamin-C-rich maracuja for firmer-, brighter-, and smoother-looking skin.

Skinvigorating Ingredients:

• Maracuja: Rich in essential fatty acids and vitamin C for firmer, brighter, smoother skin and maximum hydration
• Vitamin C: Antioxidant free radical fighter that helps prevent premature signs of aging, while brightening skin
• Vitamin E: Natural preservative that also acts as an emollient and antioxidant
• Mineral Pigments: Soothe and soften skin

Final claims:

• Dermatologist tested
• Vegan
• Waterproof
• Cruelty free

In a clinical moisture test, it was proven that Creaseless Undereye Concealer: Hydrates skin for 16 hours*

4. Too Faced Born This Way Super Coverage Multi Use Sculpting Concealer

Too Faced Born This Way Super Coverage Multi-Use Sculpting Concealer is a hydrating, full-coverage, weightless 4-in-1 concealer that conceals, contours, highlights, and retouches. Smooths and sculpts skin for natural-looking coverage. Infused with coconut water, alpine rose, and hyaluronic acid, these skin-loving ingredients come together for crease-free, weightless wear that's so naturally flawless they'll think you're Born This Way.

Benefits:

• Versatile shades
• Can be used for concealing, contouring, highlighting, and retouching
• Doe-foot applicator allows for perfectly precise application
• Weightless wear
• Hydrating so skin is never dry or cakey

5. Too Faced Melted Matte Liquified Long Wear Lipstick

I just think this is a beautiful natural shade that's like super natural for us girls with the crazy hair, we kind of need a natural lip thats really bright. It's hard to explain, but I've had my eye on this one for a while!

Too Faced's innovative formula glides over lips like a gloss but dries to an ultra-matte opaque finish. Infused with a no-sting plumping filler, Melted Matte ensures color always looks rich, full, and kissable - never dry, shriveled or cracked.

Benefits:

• Infused with Volulip for a no-sting plumping and smoothing effect
• Features avocado oil, vitamin E, and hyaluronic filling spheres to moisturize and smooth lips
• Lightweight, long-wearing formula wears comfortably
• Angled applicator allows for precise application

6. Lancome Monsieur Big Mascara

Now that I have learned that this is awesome around the world and have watch a few girls apply it at work, I've decided to give it ago since my Too Faced Better Than Sex keeps flaking out on me.

A BIG volume mascara that delivers instant heart-stopping volume with up to 24 hour wear that lasts all night and even the morning after for your biggest, blackest, boldest lashes yet.

You'll know Monsieur Big Mascara is the one at first stroke. The BIG brush and ultra-creamy formula glides like silk onto lashes to deliver up to 12x more volume* with up to 24 hour wear. No touch-ups, flaking and smudging. Perfect for your BIG evening out AND even the morning after.

*Than bare lashes alone.

Monsieur Big's brush has a unique shape with soft, wavy fibers to deliver the perfect amount of formula with the very first stroke. His ultra-creamy formula has supple waxes and polymers to adhere immediately to lashes for BIG, buildable volume and length. Apply one coat and you will see why Monsieur Big is the one. Keep applying and you'll forget all the others.

Research results:

• 95% feel this mascara glides easily on lashes during application
• 95% find this mascara comfortable to wear all day long
• 92% find the color of the mascara very dark / intense
• 91% feel this mascara make their eyes look bigger
• 90% feel this mascara lengthen their lashes well

So that's my list and yes I am going to scan these items to see which hold the bad ingredients or not with the new apps I talked about on Insta. Health Living and Think Dirty.  That will probably help me make my decisions on what to purchase since I can't afford all of this! But I'll let you know which makes the cut! So stay tuned, and I will also be updating my closet on Mercari which is under my Shop Page with some cute clothes that I'm cleaning out of my closet, so look out for that and follow me on Insta which I recently change the name to @house_of_style_77!

xoxo,

Jessica

Tuesday Ten: Sleeping Masks!

Okay, so after I did yesterdays post I went through all of my lotions and potions and cleared out a huge bag of products that with held some of those very bad ingredients!

I was amazed at how much stuff I had, and then even more amazed when I ran out to Walmart just to get the necessities like toothpaste and deodorant that it took forever to find a lotion that didn't have the bad stuff, but I finally found one in a small section that seemed to be devoted to the more natural side of life.

So today I've used all new products and it may take some time to get use to the deodorant that's a little rough feeling when you put it on but fine once you have it on, and the toothpaste is also a little weird since I choose to get the charcoal one that's black. (Be careful when you spit, because you can really make a huge mess!)

I also purchased some new vitamins. I already took a multivitamin and a probiotic but I saw these boxed that had vitamins for your specific lifestyle as a woman and your age by spring valley, and I picked the one for the active woman (lol), yes I laugh, but I plan on getting more active!

Anyways in this pack I take two huge horse pills of a multivitamin, omega-3 fish oil, green tea extract, L-carnitine (which helps the body turn fat into energy, hell yea!), L-arginine, L-glutamin, and Vitamin D3.  So I couldn't tell a huge difference in the way I felt today, but my pee was like bright ass yellow, which it's never been so I'm hoping that's a good sign?

But tomorrow I'm totally back on my Pinterest quest of workouts and pilates, and I'm trying to decide what day to do a cleanse it's just so hard to do at work because people are always eating, and I don't have my will power built up enough not to cave in yet!

So now that I've updated you all on that, I'm going to actually start writing what this blog is about...

The best nigh mask or sleeping pack, whatever you would like to call them.

But I love a good sleeping mask especially if you have dry sensitive or even aging skin like mine. Sleeping masks can be your little cocoon of magic!

These are in no specific order, as always they all appeared on top ten lists more than once.

1. First Aid Beauty Overnight Mask

(Either this mask is a special edition to certain brands like QVC or it's been discontinued because it's not on the Ulta website or an other major stores but I still found it for sale so I kept it on my list)

Wake up to a luminous, nourished complexion with First Aid Beauty Facial Radiance Overnight Mask. This leave-on mask is a rich gel cream that envelops your skin in dewy softness. It is formulated with a powerful combination of ingredients to brighten, hydrate and deeply nourish the skin. This no fuss mask goes on like a normal moisturiser and can be used on its own or in combination with your favorite evening beauty products. Upon application, the skin immediately looks brighter; overnight, as the actives are absorbed deep into the dermis, the mask performs its magic. Upon awakening, skin is hydrated and refreshed, revealing a brighter, more even-toned and smoother complexion for the skin of your dreams.

2. Lineage Water Sleeping Mask

Recharge your dehydrated skin while you sleep with this innovative mask. It’s formulated with highly concentrated Hydro Ionized Mineral Water to deliver high doses of moisture to stressed, parched skin. Calming Sleepscent™, infused with orange flower, rose, and sandalwood, and it relaxes and comforts while apricot and evening primrose extracts to brighten and purify fatigued skin. The result: skin looks and feels radiant, refreshed, and soft so you wake up with soft, glowing skin. 

3. Origins Drink Up Intensive Overnight Mask

Skin depends on water for its youthful functioning. But all day long, skin loses vital moisture. And the busier you are, the more it loses. This intense moisture replacement mask with avocado and apricot kernel oil deeply and instantly quenches compromised moisture reserves and builds a reservoir for tomorrow. Japanese seaweed repairs skin's barrier to prevent future dehydration and signs of premature aging.

4. Fresh Black Tea Firming Overnight Mask

Fresh Black Tea Firming Overnight Mask is an intensely moisturizing treatment that lifts your nighttime ritual to new heights. This sleeping mask acts like a corset for your complexion, giving you a lifted, firmer look by morning.

A proprietary complex of kombucha (black tea ferment), black tea extract, blackberry leaf extract, and lychee seed extract is proven to inhibit damaging free radicals and helps improve the appearance of skin elasticity. The overnight mask also features belle de nuit extract to soothe and rebalance the skin, peptides to help firm the skin and visibly defy the signs of gravity, and hyaluronic acid to attract and maintain moisture to enhance suppleness. 

5. Julep Night Shift Sleeping Mask

Julep Night Shift Sleeping Mask is a reparative moisture mask that does the heavy lifting while you're fast asleep so you wake up to a brighter, smoother, firmer complexion. While you sleep, this reparative mask reaches deep to stimulate cell turnover and renewal.

6. Kiehl's Overnight Hydrating Mask

This luxurious mask contains glacial proteins and desert plant to leave skin smoother, suppler, and softer by morning. The refreshing, moisturizing formula amplifies the hydration provided by a daily moisturizer for a healthier-looking complexion. 

7. Algenist Splash Absolute Hydration Replenishing Sleeping Pack

For the first time, this overnight sleeping mask combines alguronic acid and algalyte complex to intensely hydrate into the skin and recharge and energize your complexion. Algalyte complex, containing a red microalgae polysaccharide and skin-energizing electrolytes, helps to balance hydration levels and fight the signs of aging. Skin is visibly brightened, smoothed, and rejuvenated in the morning.

8. Glow Recipe Watermelon Glow Sleep Mask

This luxuriously bouncy, breathable sleeping mask refreshingly hydrates, smooths, and perfects skin overnight with a revolutionary pillow-proof, transfer-proof formula. The oil-free, lightweight, glow-boosting hybrid is formulated with ultra-soothing watermelon extract, hydrating hyaluronic acid, and gentle AHAs that work while you sleep to tone and clarify roughened, dull complexions. AHAs smooth the surface of the skin by banishing dead, rough surface cells, clearing the path for ultra-effective, lasting hydration, while hyaluronic acid binds moisture to the skin for an incredibly nourished complexion. Skin is baby-soft and bright in the morning, effortlessly. 

9. Botanic Farm Black Soybean Milk Pudding Sleeping Pack

Boost skin cell regeneration while you sleep with Botanic Farm Black Soybean Milk Pudding Sleeping Pack for softer, firmer, flawless skin by morning. This sleeping mask contains nourishing ingredients to boost skin repair including fermented soybean extract to brighten and collagen to firm. Infused with moisturizing extracts, this bouncy mask leaves skin plump, hydrated and dewy.

10. Philosophy When Hope Is Not Enough Gel-Oil Mask

Transform dry skin with deep, lasting moisture. Philosophy's intensely hydrating gel-oil formula leaves depleted skin feeling nourished and comfortable, with a smoothed texture that appears naturally radiant and refreshed. 83% of women agreed skin felt supple, velvety soft and looked naturally luminous.*

Enjoy your sleep!

XOXO 

Jessica

Best Eye Creams & Serums 2018 (Skincare Sunday)

So as always when I'm shopping for a new item I look at the reviews or the best of the best lists.  And at the moment I happen to need a new eye Cream/Serum and I searched high and low on all sites, and magazine articles to find the best.

But there wasn't one or even two that stood out as number one. So it will be a trial and error always for your own skin type and needs.

All of the following products repeatedly showed up on lists and if they showed up more than twice they are at the top of my list.

Here you go, it's a bit of a long one....

Ole Henriksen Banana Bright Eye Creme

Wake up before you makeup. Banana Bright Eye Crème brightens, instantly targets fine lines and wrinkles, and reduces the look of dark circles, delivering age-defying results. It supports natural collagen while visibly firming and deeply hydrating, even as it feels deliciously lightweight. Formulated with powerful vitamin C, it helps revive and illuminate the entire eye area over time. 
Inspired by the makeup artist must-have, banana powder, this yellow formula contains special pigments to instantly brighten and color-correct the eye area. But that’s not all: it creates a smooth, well-rested canvas and is proven to improve concealer wear. Dark circles are diminished and crow’s feet conquered. Now, go conquer the day with your refreshed and revived Ole Glow®. 

Mario Badescu Hyaluronic Eye Cream

Effectively hydrate and smooth under-eyes. Hyaluronic acid - a powerful humectant known for its ability to retain natural moisture levels along with safflower seed oil, euphrasia extract and aloe vera combine in an easily-absorbed formula that helps smooth and soothe fine lines and wrinkles as moisture is replenished.

Dermalogica Stress Positive Eye Lift

Stress Positive Eye Lift by Dermalogica is a high-performance leave-on eye mask instantly lifts, brightens and de-puffs the delicate eye area. Wild indigo seed extract brightens dark undereye circles, sea water extract counters the look of puffiness and hyaluronic acid firms to lift the skin. Cooling massage applicator energizes the undereye area. Ideal for daily use on all skin types.

Murad Renewing Eye Cream

Resurgence Renewing Eye Cream firms, brightens, and hydrates to minimize signs of aging at the delicate eye area. Youth-building peptides and retinol support natural collagen and reduce the appearance of wrinkles. Eye-brightening complex helps reduce dark circles and under-eye puffiness while illuminating the eye area.
Phytoestrogens, including iris root extract, improve elasticity and help smooth skin. Renewing Eye Cream is recommended as a Step 2 treatment in any Murad resurgence regimen and minimizes eye area aging as part of Dr. Murad's inclusive health system of care.

Kiehl's Creamy Eye Treatment with Avocado

This luxurious eye cream gently moisturizes the eye area without migrating into the eyes. Perfect for use under eye makeup, it contains highly effective natural ingredients that provide essential daily hydration and protection. The eye area is left softer, suppler, and more youthful-looking. 

Neutrogena Hydro Boost Gel-Cream Eye

Introducing Neutrogena Hydro Boost Eye Gel-Cream, a fragrance-free, lightweight gel-cream that instantly quenches and continuously hydrates skin around the eye area. Formulated with hyaluronic acid, it boosts hydration and locks it in all day and is specially designed to smooth the skin around the eye area. Applies effortlessly, absorbing quickly into skin without leaving behind an oily or greasy feel.

Hydro Boost hydrates skin through an approach of replenishing water and rebuilding skin's barrier, leveraging two key ingredients:

• Purified Hyaluronic Acid- Naturally found in skin, it delivers pure boost of hydration. It acts like a sponge for dry skin cells, absorbing up to 1000 times its weight in water and progressively releases water back into skin, keeping skin around the eye area hydrated and supple throughout the day.
• Olive Extract- Known for its protective, moisturizing and anti-oxidant qualities, it is a complex combination for fatty acids, which is similar to skin's natural moisture shield. It integrates into skin barrier, forming a structure that protects skin from excessive moisture loss. It also helps leave skin around the eye area feeling soft and smooth without tackiness

Belif Moisturizing Eye Bomb

Formulated with hydrating herb, comfrey leaf, and elasticity-boosting pennywort herb, the Moisturizing Eye Bomb provides a flood of intensive moisture for radiant and youthful-looking eyes. This cooling texture instantly bursts with hydration and blends seamlessly, keeping the eye area supple and hydrated while prepping it for a smooth crease-free makeup application. 

Fresh Black Tea Age-Delay Eye Concentrate

Fresh Black Tea Age-Delay Eye Concentrate is a power nap for your eyes, de-puffing and reducing the appearance of dark circles, while moisturizing and visibly firming the eye area. Great for day and night, the innovative cooling treatment also illuminates and revives tired eyes. A proprietary black tea complex proven to help inhibit damaging free radicals and improve elasticity is further optimized by antioxidant-rich noni fruit juice, known to retain and increase moisture and protect the skin. 

Clarins Super Restorative Total Eye Concentrate

Youthful looking eyes are in sight. Clarins Super Restorative Total Eye Concentrate is powered by organic Harungana-the replenishing plant from Madagascar-this all-in-one anti-aging treatment delivers a visible ""lift"" with every use. Rev-up your anti-aging routine with best-selling Double Serum, and the Clarins Day and Night Creams for your concerns. Younger-looking skin is in sight. 94% of women are convinced after 7 days**

Clinique All About Eyes Rich Eye Cream

Clinique's All About Eyes Rich diminishes the look of undereye circles, shadows, and fine lines - instantly and over time. It de-puffs, calms with botanicals, helps boost natural collagen production, and strengthens skin's moisture barrier against common irritants.

Solutions For:

• Dryness
• Puffiness
• Dark circles

It Confidence in a Eye Cream

Perfect for even the most sensitive skin, this revolutionary moisturizing eye treatment brightens the look of your eyes to make them appear instantly more awake. While the exclusive apricot tint and Drops of Light Technology visibly color-correct and brighten, proprietary Anti-Aging Armour Rejuvenating Concentrate and other high-performance skin-loving ingredients - including a super ceramide complex, chrysin, licorice root, avocado and squalane - work to hydrate, smooth and refresh. From helping to restore the look of firmness to reducing the appearance of puffiness, dark circles, lines and wrinkles, this breakthrough product will give you powerful, clinically tested results immediately and more dramatic results over time!

Hoped this helped any and all looking for an eye cream, I myself will more than likely go with the first on my list, Ole Henriksen Banana Bright Creme because it seems to nail all of my eye problems at the moment. Which would you choose? Or if you've used any of these  before, I would love to get your feed back on them below in the comments section!

xoxo Jessica