Pacifica

Pacifica is one of my favorite brands. This cream to foam cleanser has a deliciously light, sweet vanilla scent that I really like. It effectively removes my makeup and sunscreen without drying out my skin. Rinses clean.

I should have smelled this before purchasing! I like Pacifica's Tahitian Vanilla and Tuscan Blood Orange scents, so figured this would be safe buy without smelling a sample first. Bad idea! I was expecting a gourmand scent, like toasted coconut and a baking vanilla scent. This smells exactly like baby powder plus suntan oil; a really synthetic powdery, soapy smell. As soon as I put it on, I smelled like I had just rubbed baby powder or sunscreen all over myself, so I washed it off. Bummer, since the packaging is so pretty and I've liked other Pacifica scents; this one just wasn't for me. If you're looking for a gourmand fragrance, I don't think this is it.

I am super picky about nail polish and typically only buy Essie, OPI, and Orly. I passed by a display of this at Whole Foods and one of the shades really caught my eye. I was drawn to the shade Desert Princess, it's a nice dark pink with a warm tone, this a a creme shade meaning it dries glossy but is not glittery. The shade was almost completely opaque in one coat, and could probably be word in a single coat, it's just a matter of preference. I did have some streaking on my right thumb with the first coat. I was pretty surprised by the quality, not because it's a "natural" brand but because so few brands of polish actually are.