Covergirl smokey shadow blast & shineblast review

So.. I have decided that I am going to use this blog to start reviewing products. Now; keep in mind that I am a single mom on a verrrry tight budget. Anytime I make my own money and put aside a little bit to spend I always end up buying makeup.. I want to buy clothes/housewares/a haircut but I always end up blowing it on makeup. It's been this way since I was 13. So for now my rants and raves will be mostly about inexpensive products. I can NOT afford to splurge.. as much as I would love to. (I have never owned any MAC makeup). But anyways; I know that I base my purchases largely on reviews.. and I have a lot to say about a lot of products! I hate when I get psyched about a new product from one of the major cheaper brands and then I try it and it sucks. So maybe here I can save my friends and whoever else from wasting their money.. which brings me to my first review. But let me say beforehand that I really am hoping that not all of these are negative.. because that would mean that I wasted my money.

So anyways.. about Covergirl's new "blast collection"... Of course in the ads and on the website these products seem great.. and they not expensive so I was excited about it. If anyone that is reading this is in any kind of a rush I am just going to tell you right now that they effing blow. Don't waste your money or time. Don't even waste your time reading this! But if you are really that bored or interested in my opinion of these products then read on. Also; I have included a link to show the price and just in case anyone wants to do the exact opposite of what I advise and actually buy one.. .

So I am a member of an awesome website: BzzAgent; in which you are sent invitations to campaigns based on how much you have participated in the past and your interests.. and they send you free stuff! All you have to do in exchange is "buzz" about it.. AKA introduce the product to some of your friends or write a review or at least have a conversation about it. Some of my friends are also bzzagents. We get so excited when we get the products :) Aaand back on track.. One of these campaigns was the covergirl blast collection. I signed up for it and chose to recieve the smoky shadow blast in "silver sky" and the shineblast in "heat". So I got the products a few days later and I was so excited to try them. I opened them up and they looked pretty much as I had expected.  I tried to shadowblast first. Let's just say it was an extreme dissapointment. Very sheer and greasy. To achieve this look (on Drew) with just this product as shadow you would basically have to use the whole stick. It also broke as soon as my daughter picked it up and tried using it. (she loves doing her makeup and is 1 and a half.. she didn't know to be gentle with it but it definitely was very flimsy.) This totally reminded me of the Mary-Kate&Ashley shadow sticks that I used to get from wal-mart and use as a shadow base. So I guess it might possible be useful for that; but I doubt it because it is so greasy it will probably just slide off. Not worth the money no matter how inexpensive. The lipgloss I feel doesn't even deserve a whole paragraph. I had hardly any pigment whatsoever and smelled like plastic wicked bad. It had huge chunks of glitter in it that I would only be seen wearing if this was 1995 and I was 14. I never used them again. End of story.

PS: the next review I do is going to be a positive one :)