I love this time of year. You know, when all those fun, ridiculously big (and cheap) cosmetics palettes are for sale, in fun festive colors and in every color under the rainbow? You can just walk into a CVS or some other drugstore chain and see what I mean. The department stores also get in on the holiday action too. There are TONS of large holiday gift sets out around this time of year, with several colors of eyeshadows, liptsticks, nail polishes and so on and so forth.
Some of them combine the whole thing, and give you a little of each, and some are just huge sets of many colors of one type of cosmetic ie nailpolish or eyeshadows. At any rate, I’ve gotten some of my favorite colors out of these sets, and ideas to buy the similar colors in my favorite brands if they happen to be an offbrand that doesn’t go on so well, but I love the color.
Most girls and women love to get these kinds of gifts, unless they are the type that is really not into makeup or cosmetics. I remember getting eyeshadow kits from family members going back to about thirteen years old, and my eyes would light up, and I couldn’t wait to get home to experiment with all the different fun colors when I got home, and the new brushes that usually came with them too.
I got some of the most truly creative ideas for applying my eye makeup from these creative gifts, and I credit them with my somewhat fearless look at colors and experimentation with makeup today. I mean, I was the only thirteen year old at my school that was parading around in blue eyeshadow and purple eyeshadow, and the fun, sparkly pink lipsticks that signified the eighties! Sure, some kids probably thought I was weird or too flashy, but I really didn’t care 
