ColourPop Fortune Palette // Product Photos & Swatches

Welcome back to the blog guys! I'm not sure if I'm a "beauty" blogger or a makeup packaging blogger. 😝 A little of both I guess. I don't just enjoy learning about new products and trying out new products, but I love looking at makeup packaging, too. I guess it all just feels like art to me and I love it!

I'm really trying to space out my ColourPop posts, but if it's a good brand and a great product, why not talk about it?! So I'll do my best not to put all of my ColourPop posts out at once, but I've got quite a few coming and I really do enjoy their products. Today I'm sharing the 16 pan ColourPop Fortune palette!

Unfortunately, because it has taken me so long to get around to getting my makeup posts up, some of the products have been discontinued. So although you cannot get the Fortune palette from ColourPop's website, you can check out places like Mercari or Poshmark for new or gently used makeup - if you feel like it! If not, enjoy these product photos and let me know what you have in your collection that may be similar!

Let's jump in and take a look at this cute packaging! 

Nathaniel's Arrival - Part Two

   Even though my labor at the hospital was a shorter amount of time, there was quite a bit that happened. So this post took a bit longer to write out. Some of the details may be unnecessary for you to know, but I wanted to write out as much as I remembered as it was still fresh in my mind for myself.

   My plan was to have a home birth and not need to go to the hospital, unless absolutely necessary, but I am so incredibly grateful for the access we have to medical care and that we had such a positive  birth experience at the hospital. Nathaniel's birth was actually the exact opposite of what I wanted and almost all the things I wanted to avoid were necessary to bring him into the world safely and healthy. I think God greatly humbled me in my skepticism and prejudice towards hospital births. Beforehand I thought I was a pretty neutral person towards how someone chose to birth. I felt that home birth was best for me and our baby, but also the best and healthiest option for any healthy pregnancy. I found out that I was actually quite judgmental in my knowledge and opinion of how someone birthed. Experiencing both my unmedicated labor at home as well as a medicated labor in the hospital and a c-section, I realize that there is value and strength and beauty in any way a child is brought into the world.

   So here is the rest of our birth story.

Nathaniel's Arrival - Part One

     Motherhood is different when you finally experience it. I knew it would be difficult and that we'd be running on little sleep, but you can't truly understand it until you're in it. I knew I would be writing and documenting our birth story, not just to share with others but to record it for myself as well. Since our experience did not quite go as planned I definitely knew I had to get it out because God humbled me through it and made me put my trust in His plan even more. This is the detailed version of our birth experience, part one. We were prepared for a home birth, but that is not exactly what happened. There was so much that happened in each stage that I want to capture it all without it being overwhelming in one post. So there will be a second post to follow soon that will share the second half of our birth story.

     I figured that my water breaking would take me by surprise, but what I didn’t expect was to be sitting on the toilet when it happened. Talk about being in the right place at the right time. It was 5:15 on Thanksgiving morning that my water broke. Being pregnant kind of imposes on your bladder already, so my normal trip to the bathroom turned into baby Cowan being ready to make his or her’s arrival soon. Knowing that it could be several hours until I was actually in active labor and that there was no need to notify the midwives so early in the morning, Anthony and I got back in bed and I tried to get a few more hours of sleep. Before getting back in bed though, Anthony tossed confetti on me to celebrate saying, “Yay! Your water broke!” Going back to sleep was impossible for me though as I could feel contractions beginning and of course the excitement of getting to meet our baby soon.