Rachel Knows... Eeee! I'm excited!!! Big, big haul!

I drug my sick, nauseous, exhausted ass out of the house and to Sephora today! I am paying for it now, but I got some amazing things. I can't wait until I can get back to my work table and start doing my blog like I used to. Tonight I just got my husband to lay everything out on the bed for me and I took some pictures of what I got because I was so excited. I would have gotten about 4 more palettes, but they were sold out of the main ones I wanted to get at Sephora. I may get those for my birthday in February or I may order them online tomorrow. Who knows with me? Tee hee. :-D I wanted to get Urban Decay's Naked, Naked 2 and Naked Basics palettes and the LORAC Pro palette. So here are pictures of my latest purchases... actually I should have waited to do this post because I have two more e.l.f. orders coming in the mail. Those might take another week or so to get here, so I'll just post those some other time. Here are all of the awesome palettes I got!!!

LORAC Eye Candy Full Face Collection

Urban Decay Smoked Palette

LORAC Unzipped Palette

Too Faced Natural Eye Palette

Too Faced Naked Eye Palette

Bare Minerals Ready Eyeshadow 8.0 The Star Treatment Palette (Like my turquoise camera?! :-X) 

A bunch o' e.l.f. products!

Rachel Knows... She's Down for the Count.

Y'all I think about my blog everyday and I have so many new things to swatch and review for you. I am just so sick I can't even fathom sitting there for as long as I usually do to swatch and take pictures. I'm sure I've lost some followers over this long hiatus, but I just have no choice. Hopefully I'll be over this in the next month or so. So if you can stick around until then, I promise I'll have new content up and I'll be back and better than ever. I'll talk to you soon.

Rachel Knows... It's time to Primp and Prep with Hpnotiq!

This is a Sponsored post written by me on behalf of Hpnotiq. All opinions are 100% mine.

My favorite thing from back in the day would be when I'd get ready to go out. I loved picking out my clothes, putting on my makeup, doing on my hair and occasionally get a little bit of pre-drinking on. I've always loved listening to music while getting ready and Hpnotiq's Primp & Prep website makes it sooooo easy to listen to the latest hits to get you pumped up and ready to party! Just click their Pandora internet radio button at the top of their page and get ready to get your hair down music up! That's my favorite part of the site because it is just awesome music at the click of the button with no thinking about anything! The point of the Primp & Prep website is to be a local place on the internet that you can go with your girlfriends and get the latest information about beauty, fashion, guys, celebs, cocktails and LOL's! They have tons of recipes for awesome Hpnotiq cocktails. Basically it is just the absolute perfect place to create the perfect girl's night

How fun does this Stiletto Sangria look?

http://www.hpnotiq.com/recipes/5854/stiletto-sangria.

Don't forget to check out their Boutique. You can get couture lollipops, glow sticks, panties, rock candy, lip glosses, t-shirts, beach towels, plus a lot more! I mean this place is basically just a female adult's heaven. 

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Rachel Knows... She's Been Miserably Sick!!!

I'm sorry for the lack of posts lately. I've been so sick with stomach issues. I went to the Emergency Room on Saturday night because I'd gotten so dehydrated and weak. I'm on 4 prescriptions for my stomach. Zofran, Pepcid, Reglan and Phenergan. I'm only taking the 1st two though. It might be a while before I feel well again, so the blog may take a slight backburner while I'm fighting through all of this. Also, my e.l.f. order that I made on 12/2 just shipped yesterday. I have no freakin' clue why it took 9 days to ship out. Pretty frustrating. That's another reason I haven't been blogging, because my stuff still isn't here. So stick with me everyone! I'm just going through a rough spot right now, but I'll be back as soon as I can. I love doing my blog! In case I don't get back on here before Christmas, Merry Christmas! Happy Holidays! Happy Hannukah! Happy Kwanza!

Rachel Knows... NYX Jumbo Eye Pencils Part 2!

I freakin' love these Jumbo Eye Pencils. I knew I wanted to get the whole collection and I'm so thrilled to say that I now have each one! When I went on my honeymoon I was so excited to see that there was an Ulta near the resort I was staying at. Jeremy was so sweet to let me stay in there for way too long even though it was our honeymoon. I finally saw all of these pencils in person and I knew I had to have them. I waited until I got back home to find a good coupon to get them. Ulta has had a sale on NYX Cosmetics for several weeks now. It is buy one, get one 50%. That was good enough of a deal for me! They are so creamy, soft, pigmented and easy to apply. These colors are so pretty! There really aren't many neutral colors in this set of pencils because I bought most of them in my first order. I suppose I shouldn't call it a set because it isn't a set that you can buy just these colors, but these are just the remaining colors that I hadn't bought in my first purchase.There are mostly blues and greens in this half, but they really are beautiful. Lime really surprised me. I wasn't expecting to like it much at all. In person it looks almost like a Gold Vermeil piece of jewelry. It reminds me of a piece of old jewelry who's gold has been worn off and you can see the tarnished silver peaking through underneath. It was really unique and beautiful. Lavender was pretty much a very light pink. There wasn't too much purple that showed through. Electric Blue and Peacock look a lot less similar in real life as well. Peacock has much more green in it. If you love beautiful eyeshadow colors and an extremely easy application then pick up all of these! You must! Here is the first half of the Jumbo Eye Pencils.

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Rachel Knows... Wet 'n Wild Color Icon Eyeshadow Trio in Don't Steal My Thunder

I will say about this palette that it had much less fallout than the last few I've worked with. It also was a smidge bit more pigmented. Other than that it behaved and performed just like the other palettes I've reviewed. I'd honestly recommend all of them. They're lots of fun and they’re easy on the pocketbook! If you'd like to see a more in depth review of these palettes you can go here, here, here, here, here, here and here. The freakin' end of this series!!!

I followed the stamped directions on the eyeshadow itself and then I took the crease color and used it as my upper and lower eyeliner. I lined my water line with e.l.f. Brightening eyeliner in Black.