Quickie Review: Boots No 7 Vital Enlightening Highlighter and Vital Brights Cream Blusher in Blossoming Pink.

Alright. My no-buy is pretty much off the cards, but I’m still using up products. I guess it’s not really P10P if I’m still buying, but I think I did well.

Anyway, Boots No 7 recently released their Floral Brights spring collection, created by the Mary Poppins of make up, Lisa Eldridge. Now, I’m not usually a No 7 fan – I don’t think I own any of their products apart from these – but when I saw the cream blushes on display, I got sucked in. The colours really spoke my name – or yelled it while beating me over the head – so I had to go in for a closer look. The collection consists of two lippies, two cream blushes, a highlighter and an eye palette – I picked up a blush and the highlighter.

I’m not sure what I think of the packaging – it’s chunky and sturdy and feels really good quality. The design isn’t really up my street though, which is a shame, but nice not to see plain ol’ black-and-white and I guess it’s nice and spring-y.

Ahhh, don’t you want to smoosh that highlighter? Just me? Okay…

I couldn’t capture highlighter nicely blended out, but trust me, it’s beautiful. If you have a champagne highlighter shaped hole in your collection you could do a lot, lot worse. It doesn’t have chunky particles, blends out onto the cheekbones smoothly, and it’s a good size at 10g.

I meant to pick up the more coral-y colour of the two blushes, but decided I had enough corals so went for Blossoming Pink, a lovely rosy-fuchsia. Ladies, do yourself a favour – get this blush. I’ve never had a cream blusher that has such a nice cream-to-powder formula, it’s just wonderful. It still doesn’t last as long on me as powder blushes do, but there is a time and a place for cream blushes and this is a must have.

The Vital Enlightening Highlighter retails for £13 and the Vital Brights Cream Blushers go for £10. They’re currently on 3-for-2 so worth going and checking out before they’re gone!

Look Dump!

First of all, sorry about my eyebrows! They need a bit of loving so I’m letting them revert to something close to their original stage so I can give them a wee re-shape.

I’ve been in a bit of a makeup rut lately, so I’ve only sporadically been doing any decent looks!

 

Lid, Darling Girl Whiskey on a Sunday, crease and lower lashline from Sleek Bohemian, brow highlight from Wet N Wild Lust palette.

If there’s one colour Darling Girl know how to do (apart from all of them), it’s golds. This is a perfect colour and crammed full of fuschia sparkles (which don’t show up, obviously.)

I’ll be buggered if I can remember what I used for this. I only know the blue glitter is Caribbean from Sleek. Quite pretty, but I wish I’d used falsies.

All shadows from Sleek Bohemian. Liner is Collection2000 Extreme 24/7 pen liner in black.

Sick of this palette, but expect to see a lot more of this yellow. I love yellow with my eye colour, and this look got me a few compliments which is always nice!

Brows and eyes: Sleek Bohemian. Waterline, Maybelline gel liner.

I was just playing around with the palette one night and thought the red would make a funky brow colour. It does, although I don’t like the look much.

Lid, Venomous Cosmetics Platypus over BeautyUK Metallic Sparks Eye Pencil in purple. Lower lashline, purple from Sleek Bohemian over Urban Decay 24/7 pencil in Zero. Waterline, Benefit It Stick. Glitter liner, Collection2000 Glam Crystals in Va Va Voom.

Gotta love purple, right? The BeautyUK pencils are really bloody good, I really need to use them more often. Va Va Voom is probably my favouri

This is the eye look I wore to the ZOMG! bloggers bash. It’s a crappy picture and I can’t remember what I used, but it’s done now. On the internet, out of mind. Or something.

Moon Rabbit Cosmetics Review

Moon Rabbit Cosmetics are brand new on the indie scene and I’ve got a few of their colours to show you.

How cute is the logo? I think Moon Rabbit is an adorable name and I really like the logo – it’s like something from an old, beloved children’s book, no?

L-R: Mayflowers , Six More Weeks of Winter, Punxsutawney Phil, Six Weeks til Spring.

With the exception of Mayflowers, the colours are from the Groundhogs Day set. Mayflowers is a sparkly light purple with gold and silver shimmers, lovely peachy nude satin colour which rubs down a little pinker when you blend it. Punxsutawney Phil is a deep chocolate colour with a matte base and some shimmer and Six Weeks til Spring is a lovely shimmery medium brown. I have to say I think this set is really well put together – three different finishes from a new company is very nice to see! Six More Weeks of Winter is my favourite of them all and is a lovely everyday sort of colour. Mayflowers reminds me a little of Darling Girl Wicked Game lipstick in eyeshadow form! I love neutrals but it’s so nice to see a brighter colour from them as well.

My samples (1/4 tsp., according to the site) came in sealed clamshells, which is excellent as sometimes they don’t travel well. A sample set of the Groundhogs Day collection is $3 with the full size set going for $12.  I think this is pretty reasonable, although currently they’re only available in sets, with the Groundhogs Day trio and the Valentines quad available. Seeing as Mayflowers isn’t in either set, this seems to suggest more colours are on the horizon soon! I hope so, because I much prefer to buy colours alone and I think that offering singles is much more likely to make people try them.

I think the colours looks rather nice on! Lid, Six More Weeks of Winter. Lower lashline, Punxsutawney Phil. Crease, Six Weeks til Spring.

My only gripe with these is that Six More Weeks of Winter had quite a few lumps of unblended pigment in. It’s not exactly hard to blend out, but it’s still something I’d rather not have to bother with. I don’t really know the cause of this, so hopefully this was just a funny batch as the other three pigments are fine. Also the names were handwritten on the clamshells – I know a lot of new companies do this but I do hope that the logo manages to make its way on to the containers at some point (it’s so cute!) as well as some more information. Of course, I can’t comment on what the full sizes come with.

I’m quite interested to see where the company heads – the colours I’ve got are lovely and I’m really impressed with the different finishes. I’ve been using SMWoW a fair bit already! I’ll be keeping my eye on them.

Moon Rabbit is available here http://moonrabbitcosmetics.storenvy.com/

I received the products in this post for review. This will never will affect my opinions – my priority is giving my readers an honest review.

Sweet Delirium Photo Shoot

This weekend I had a pretty funky little shoot, thought I’d share:

 

Model: Whiplash

Photographer: Darius Adamek

Jewellery: My Sweet Delirium

 

Pink look: Brows and shadows, Sleek Good Girl Palette, Kryolan mascara and Kryolan cake mascara as liner. Cheeks, MAC Coygirl, Benefit 10. Lips, Milani Rose Hip, 66 palette pink, Inglot Sleeks gloss (clear). Skin, Revlon Colorstay, Kiehls/Boots Botanics Skincare/

Darker look: Brows, Barry M Dazzle Dust in 66. Eyes, Inglot shadows, Maybelline gel liner, Kryolan mascara.  Cheeks, MAC Coygirl. Lips, LA Colours Soft Plum, NYX Almost Black and purple gloss from 66 palette. Skin, Revlon Colorstay, Kiehls/Boots Botanics skincare.


Do you guys like this sort of post? I feel kind of funny posting them – it’s just a hobby, really. I mean, I take it seriously but I don’t want anyone to think I’ve got my head up my arse and think I’m a professional MUA or anything. One day maybe… a girl can dream, right? (Right?!) Anyway, it’s so much fun to do, and I’ve met so many lovely people. This model was really awesome – her tattoo is an enormous octopus :D

Project 10 Pan Update

A couple of you asked for a report on how I was managing with Project 10 Pan. I've only broken my no-buy rule once for a Rockalily lipstick, and I feel terrible about it because I really didn't mean to do it! However, I have used up some stuff, hooray!

Here's what I was trying to use up:

1- Benefit 10. Hooray, this is finished! All gone! I only had a small portion of the bronzer left, which I used up really quickly. I'd been using the highlight both on the browbone and on the cheeks and I used it up two days ago, hooray! Rachael was lovely and sent me a replacement, as well!

2 – Enormous sample of Evil Shades in Lazy Daze. I've been using this as a lid colour a lot with the purple from the Sleek palette. There's not much left but it's taking forever to get though, it was a huge container, really.

3 - Inglot AMC Cream Foundation. Its hard to tell with this one how much you've used up as the bottle is totally opaque even when you hold it up to a lightbulb! I've been using it most days though - with the L'Oreal primer, it's really nice. It's making attractive spurting noises when I squeeze it now, so I think it's nearly on it's way out.

4 – Gosh Velvet Touch Lipstick in Darling. I've not touched this, because it's vile. I need to maybe do a big Lip Maths post with it.

5 – Dr Lewinns Eye Recovery Complex. I used the last splodge yesterday! I've been religiously using it every night. Must find a replacement!

6 – Darling Girl Holo Gloss in Gold Finger. Gone! I pulled the rubber stopper out and got as much as I could. I wore this on a few nights out and it went quite quickly. Might have to get this one again though, I'll miss it.

7 – Primark Well Licked Gloss in Sorbet. I. Am. Sick. Of. This. Gloss. There's still a third left. I think I might throw it in a fire before I finish it, I'm that bloody sick of it. At least I've made a dent in it, I suppose.

8 –Urban Decay 24/7 liner in Zero. Not used that often, but I've sharpened it two or three times, so.. it's getting more use than it was before.

9 -Fyrinnae Glow blush in Charm. All gone! Used it in conjunction with Benefit 10 solidly at the start of the project and it went within a week. I have so many neon-rose type coloured blushes that it just needed to go.

10 – Sleek Bohemian Palette. Why did I do this to myself?! Why? It's a nightmare! But I've used up a whole shade! Whee! It's a bit of a dodgy photo, but the brown has a decent dent in it as does the black, and I'm making nice progress on the yellow. There's another coppery shade which is just clinging to the outside of the pan and the whole of the circle on the bottom of the pan is showing through as well. It's madness that I put a whole palette on here.. so I've decided when I use up two more colours, that'll do for me! Some in here are awful - I'd never use the navy or the black up, ever. I'll depot the ones that are left that I like and chuck the rest, the palette really is beyond repair now.

I've been so busy I've not had much time for blogging, and I've been a little bit sick as well, so no fancy makeup for me, really! Hopefully I'll get back on schedule soon. And because this was a horrible all-text post, here's a video of a Slow Loris with a tiny umbrella.

 

Quickie Review: Rockalily lipstick in Mae Hem

Mae West once said ‘I generally avoid temptaion unless I can’t resist it,’ a fitting quote for this blog post! I fell utterly in love with this limited edition Rockalily lipstick at the ZOMG! bloggers bash and knew I had to have it. It’s limited edition, so I snapped it up as soon as it came online. (I broke my no-buy without even thinking about it until afterwards, I feel awful!)

I didn’t take another picture of the lovely packaging, but you can see it here.

 

Eyes: MoonRabbit Cosmetics Groundhog Day Collection.
Cheeks: MAC Style, Benefit 10.
Lips: Rockalily Mae Hem.

It’s a beautiful bright matte orange-red  - somewhat similar to MAC Lady Danger, but with more of a pinky undertone, perhaps. It doesn’t dry down to a matte finish immediately – a quick blot will sort that out if it bothers you - but it’s one of the more comfortable mattes I’ve ever worn.

Rockalily is famous for its fast delivery, which is excellent for when you need a lipstick fix! They are – to me at least – pretty bloody expensive at £14 each, and they’re certainly a bit of a treat for me rather than a regular lippy purchase. I think in my old age I have enough lipstick that I don’t mind forking out for one I really want, as opposed to buying 8,000 cheaper ones. I digress. The quality is fantastic and the colours are gorgeous, if not super unique. I’m a fan at any rate – Hot Rod Red is next on my list when I have a bit of pocket money to spare.

January Favourites!

I done did a video!

Boots Botanics Organic Face Nourishing Eye Makeup remover (£4.07)
L'Occitane Turkish Rose Hand Cream (was with Marie Claire a while ago, regularly £7.50.)
L'Oreal Studio Secrets Smoothing Resurfacing Primer (around £11)
MAC Sheertone blush in Peaches (£17.50)
Illamasqua Vapour matte eyeshadow (£15.50, but it was a gift)
MUA Professional Eye Primer (£2.50)
NYX Mega Shine lipgloss in Chandelier (no idea of the £, sorry!)
Color Club Holiday Splendor (gift!)
China Glaze Snowglobe (again a gift!)
MUA 3-in-1 (£1.50)
Boots are from Migato.

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