Mally Celebrate Your Beauty Holiday Color Kit

Mally Celebrate Your Beauty Holiday Color Kit

Hi everyone! 

Hope you're having a great Friday! Today Mally has a 12-piece holiday collection on QVC - it's the Today's Special Value and costs $59.96 (the price will go up after today- assuming it's still available). I recently ordered this from my InsideQ magazine which gives you a sneak peek at Today's Special Values (yes, I'm a QVC geek!), and it just came in the mail last night! So I haven't had a lot of time to play around with the products, but many of you on the Beauty Broadcast Facebook page said you'd like me to go ahead and show you the products. For some reason QVC doesn't seem to show a lot of swatches (especially of eyeshadows), so I'll be able to do that for you. I also did a look with one of the eyeshadow palettes today! :)

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The overall concept of this collection is that you can create three separate gifts out of it. You're getting 3 different eyeshadow palettes, 3 Evercolor Starlight Waterproof Eyeliners, 3 Volumizing Mascaras (in special limited edition black packaging), and 3 High Shine Liquid Lipsticks. It all comes in a large box with a magnetic closure-- that box could easily be used for other things since the tray holding the products can be removed. You could obviously mix and match these products however you want when you gift them, but they're arranged in the box in a suggested way if you're unsure of which liners/eyeshadows/lip colors would look good together. Also, the instruction cards reference certain liners being used with certain palettes, so you might not want to switch those up.

In addition to the makeup- you're getting a few other things to make this set extra giftable. There are 3 pillow boxes that coordinate with each eyeshadow palette. They come flat and you can just pop them into their "box" form. And here's what I LOVE-- in the back of the (rather thick) instruction booklet that comes with this kit, there are several perforated cards. There are face charts on the front and back of each card- giving you two suggested looks per kit of products. You can just tear them off and slip them right into the box. How cool is that?! You can gift someone all the makeup in the world, but a lot of people need a little guidance before they'll actually USE the stuff. So I think the instruction cards are an awesome idea- basically turning those shadow palettes into a super easy paint-by-numbers situation. 

Now let's take a closer look at the products! And just so you know- I've obviously swatched and used the lip products and eyeshadows- I'm not going to be gifting those. However I already own the eyeliner colors and the Volumizing Mascara-- so I do plan to leave the new ones untouched and gift those to friends and family. The wand & swatches in the pictures above are from the products I already own. The Evercolor Starlight Waterproof liners come in the shades Shimmering Black, Espresso, and Royal Plum. These liners set to a totally smudge-proof finish, which I love. You have to sharpen them, which I don't love... however they are some of the smoothest, easiest to apply eyeliners that Mally makes. Even people who don't typically use pencil liners would enjoy these because they glide on SO nicely. Did I mention this stuff is all full-size? And you know how I feel about Mally's Volumizing Mascara!! Mom & Pup- if you're reading this- a couple of these new ones have your names on them! :) They love Mally's mascara also. These are the same mascaras as the ones in the white packaging- but for this kit they're in fancy black/glitter tubes. I love the way this mascara builds thickness and length on my lashes- ESPECIALLY after it's been in my mascara rotation for about 2 weeks. The formula dries just slightly and becomes ideal for sparse eyelashes. It also keeps my lashes feeling soft and flexible, not hard/heavy and brittle.