Exposed Organics LOTD + Review!

I have talked about the awesome, all natural beauty brand Exposed Organics on the blog a couple times now. The girl who owns it, Celeste, has become a great friend of mine and above all - they have some seriously amazing products. If you're looking for a brand that's free of harsh chemicals or downright weird ingredients, look no further.

Celeste sent me 4 of her newest shadows to try out and I am in love with these little biotches. I am a big fan of very sparkly shadows that also have great color payoff.. and just for the record - they are slightly tough to come by. So anyways, here are the four colors swatched for you so you can see JUST how colorful and beautious they really are:

The colors are:

Stiletto - a crazy sparkly dark color PERFECT for smokey eyes

Raw - a frosted "almost nude" orange-y pink shade

Platinum - a GORGEOUS glittery silver

Tutu - a frosted pink-y purple with iridescent flecks of sparkle

So I mean, just by the descriptions - you can tell that these are some seriously unique shades. You can wear them either wet or dry and they're all available for purchase on the Exposed Organics website. They're loose pigments, too - so feel free to mix them into nail polishes, lip glosses.. anything your heart desires:

frickin' cute as crap!

So I did a quick look for you guys just to show you how WHAM BAM sparkly "stiletto" and "platinum" are. I'm still convinced the pictures don't do them justice, but I think it gets the point across. 

Another lesson learned - turning the flash off gives you a really great "tan".. Just ask Casper the Friendly Ghost over there to the left..

I did use a primer underneath (it's Senna's "totally transforming"), which always helps when you're using loose pigments since it gets them to adhere much better. Another big perk was the fact that I didn't look like I tried to use disco blush after I was done doing my eyes. Some of these glittery shadows get all over my face and then I end up attacking my cheeks with masking tape trying to pull it off. I'm thrilled to announce my cheeks are tape free and my eyes are sparkly and wonderful.

I'd strongly suggest you guys check out the Exposed Organics site since they carry everything from bomb pigments to crazy all natural bath products that you're gonna wanna marry. You can also follow them on twitter (@exposedorganics) for updates on the brand. Thanks to Celeste for the kickass shadows & don't forget to give our website your vote in the Cosmo Blog Awards! We'd love to take the cake in the Beauty Category & it only takes 2 seconds to vote. Mucho appreciated-o.

Enjoy what's left of the weekend, bb's!

Win A $50 Beauty Box Courtesy of UD's Partner "Exposed Organics"!

So I know we just wrapped the Perricone giveaway last week, but I am extremely excited about our new beauty partner site, www.exposedorganics.com, & have decided to go ahead and host another giveaway for Unnecessary Drama readers. And my reasoning behind that is because clearly.. you guys are the best :)

If you're unfamiliar with Exposed Organics, they're a great beauty company run by an even greater gal (Celeste is seriously one of my favorite people ever.. follow her on twitter by clicking on her name!) and all of their products are all natural. I did a review on them a little while ago, so if you want to check that out - click here. They've got everything from mineral makeup to hair products .. so if you've never tried them out, I'm giving you the perfect opportunity!

That is the beauty I am giving you guys a chance to win! A $50 'Beauty Box' from Celeste over at Exposed Organics. It's packed full of EO Goodies, including 1 full sized 2 oz bottle of plain jane purifying oil cleanser, 1 bottle of nectar, 5 eye dusts, 1 specialty eye dust (metallic, lid primer, integration line, highlights), 1 lip glaze, 1 lip lube/slip.. That's the motherload, folks. You're set for quite some time if you're the lucky winner. If you'd like to see the full product description from EO's website, you can find it here. Just for the record, the colors on the lipgloss and eye dusts will be chosen at random.

So how do you win, right? It's easy (like all of my giveaways are!):

- You must be a subscriber of UnnecessaryDrama.net. 

You can subscribe through twitter, facebook, blogger, google.. whatever. 

- Leave a comment with your e-mail address (this is mandatory!). You can say something amusing if you'd like. Makes reading entries much more fun.

- Tweet this ( Enter the @exposedorganics giveaway on www.unnecessarydrama.net courtesy of @kelspot ) for an additional 2 entries. If you're going to tweet - include your twitter name in your comment.

- If you'd like to blog about the giveaway, you'll receive another 2 entries. Once again, just let me know via comment if you did or not.

Winners will be chosen on Thursday March 18th.

United States Residents Only, Please.

Good Luck to all of you! xo

Exposed Organics + CD Winners

So thanks to the wonderful world of twitter - I came to follow a wonderful mineral makeup company called "exposed organics". EO is totally vegan, so if you're a fan of natural products ... it doesn't get much better than this. They offered to send me some stuff to try out and let's just say that I will definitely be putting an order in with them soon. They're located in PA like me (represent!) and all of their stuff was definitely my style. She sent me a lip gloss, 4 eye dusts, and a container of their "nectar" (which is a powder eyeshadow transformer). Here are the swatches of the 4 shadows I received:

dreidel, paradise, frost, & mocha

(I love eye dusts that shimmer without being crazy glittery & these definitely do)

The great thing about the nectar that they sent me is that it not only lets you mix it with the eye dusts to create brighter, more vivid colors - but it lets you mix colors together to create a really smooth and even blend of the two. I mixed frost & paraside together to end up with a beautious goldish purple (I tried to take a picture but it just didn't do it justice). This is one of the best shadow transformers I have tried since you can actually squeeze it out. Many are an actual applicator attached to the lid of the product so it's a huge pain in the ass to clean everytime you want to mix colors or use a new color. This one can squirt right into your eye dust's lid and you're ready to go. I'd highly recommend this - especially since it's only $5.

Also, the lip gloss that they sent me is HANDS DOWN my new favorite. It's called "sugarplum" and it's a dark purple in the tube but when it goes on it's really sheer and shimmery. I never thought I'd love a purplish pink color with my skin tone but I totally do so thanks EO for showing me this :o) haha.. Here's the picture of it off of their website:

See what I mean? I would have thought it'd have been way too crazy dark. Not at all, very pretty and totally a new staple of mine. Plus it smells delicious :o) Almost like a mix of bubblegum and butterscotch.

If you guys want to check out any of EO's products, you can find everything on their website http://www.exposedorganics.com/ :o) I hope you guys will check them out because they're a great company and they're also very afforable. No crazy prices to be found. And you know I'm a fan of that! ;o) Big big thanks to Exposed Organics... you guys are fantastic! xoxo

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Also, thanks to everyone who entered to win workout cd's on my last post! I chose random winners and ended up with the following 5:

1. Lisa Kate 
2. Carine 
3. Melanie 
4. Holly 
5. and Jen 

I'll be in touch with you guys soon :o) Congrats!
Stay preeetttyyyyy!