Medusa’s Make-Up Beauty Box Review – February 2017

Omg…that brush is so wrong for that highlighter. It’s really pretty but really sparkly and best used with something that gives a much more precise application. I used it and got white-gold sparkle all over my face and sweater. Loving the eyeshadow.

I have been loving my boxes! Especially the eye dust and glitter. I do not like their lipstick or lipgloss at all and was pleased that there was none in February box, although it would have been nice to have a glitter included (pink) for February but I am really enjoying my highlighter,brush and the blue eye dust!!! I anxiously await each month!!!

I received a Medusa’s Lip Paint in February’s Benevolent Beauty. I really liked the color (it was a mauvy-pink). I only swatched it on my hand, but I let somebody else try it, and they said it felt really thick & sticky on their lips. So much so, that their lips kept sticking together, and they had to consciously think about it when they opened them, and I could see how their lips stuck together when they tried to open them… they didn’t just naturally open like normal. This made me reconsider keeping it, but I’m still on the fence as I haven’t tried it out for myself yet. Has anybody else experienced this? Is there a way to make the product less sticky (maybe adding a bit of powder on top)? I’d really like to keep it because the color was so beautiful. Thanks!

Also, they’re having a sale this weekend. I haven’t tried their lip paints yet, but their lip glosses and lipsticks both are not strongly pigmented. They have a sale about once a month, usually 10-15% off, sometimes 20%, sometimes $2 off every item, which was pretty awesome for buying the $8 eye shadows that had been reduced to $4, and so were $2 each.

“Give our Lip Paints a try and take 15% off of your entire order.
Use code: take15 at checkout
Offer expires Sunday at midnight”

One of my favorite MM eye dusts is Bruiser. It’s a blackened purple plum color. I have all the non matte eye dusts all the pigment is true on them all. If you purchase the eye dusts directory from the Web site they come loose all do I recommend purchasing the set of sifter they sell. The glitters come loose as well.

I remember gunnie sax and blue eyeshadow as well. Seems like there’s a market for boxes for gen x to boomer gals. I just retired from my VP marketing gig at 50. Thought I would travel and do a bit of consulting. What I should do is curate a box for non millennial women. I was excited for my first FFF box, but it looks like I am gifting the Coachella box to my 17 year old niece!

Liz, it’s stupid question time: How the heck to you get the sifters to work?! I had a couple that had space to get my thumbnail under the sifter to pop it off, but on some there just isn’t room. I’ve tried stabbing holes in the holes with needles and safety pins, but that hasn’t worked either. I bet there’s some really easy method that will make me roll my eyes at myself.

I wonder if we’ll all be getting the same colors. I’ve noticed the lippie shades have varied, but the eye dust and glitter haven’t much. Which is fine, it just makes me wonder.

This is my first kabuki brush! I mostly only have brushes that are like $7 for a set of 10, so my first thought is “$14 for a makeup brush?!!!” and to swap it away… but I guess that more expensive brushes must get better results, otherwise there wouldn’t be such a market for them.

I’m dating myself, but I wore bright blue eyeshadow in the 70’s and it was a normal thing to do, no kidding. Maybe it’s making a comeback!