E.l.f. Cosmetics – Eyes, Lips, Face – ExTRA Lip Gloss – Brian & Brett

February 27, 2018February 26, 2018Leave a comment

Highly pigmented lip gloss, which offers a matte lip coverage in a gloss!

I was actually blown away by these lip glosses – I have used other E.l.f. cosmetics products and I’m always surprised at the quality considering their budget friendly prices – and it was the same for these lipsticks!

These lip glosses are creamy, easy to apply, non sticky and don’t make you feel tacky whilst wearing them. They have a good formula which makes them easy and accurate to apply – I hate it when gloss is so runny it’s hard to put on and drips off like a Vladamua look.

These lip glosses come in a variety of colours and it’s easy to find one to suit your tone and style!

Bottom Line: They glide on easily, and are non sticky, but due to the high pigmentation they’re not suitable for lip-toppers but are a perfect alternative to lipsticks!

Price: £3.50 at e.l.f. Cosmetics.

Rating: *****

Tarte Cosmetics – Make Believe In Yourself Palette – Unicorn Palette

January 3, 2018January 1, 20182 Comments

A beautiful, one-stop palette for adding a touch of shimmer and sparkle.

I got this palette while I got my Grav3yard Girl’s Swamp Queen palette, as they were both on offer. I had been eyeing up this palette since its launch as I love anything Unicorn themed, and this collection was beautiful.

I snapped this one up on Tartes pre-holiday sale, and fell completely in love with it. It’s an eye and cheek palette, as the white pan in the middle is a silvery highlighter which glides on to let your inner Unicorn glow! It also has ten eyeshadows, one matte and the rest shimmery and glittery! They have pretty much one shade of each colour so it is my one stop shop for adding a bit of sparkle to my makeup looks.

My current favourite shades are fairy, pixie and dream, as they are very pigmented and add a lovely pop of colour to my eye shadows. The one matte shade is a salmon-pink shad called myth, which is a very complimentary shade to the other shimmery eye shadows, and can be used as an all over lid base for them.

These shades are all individually beautiful, and each as highly pigmented as the next. This level of pigmentation allows for a lot of colour pay off for little product, which will make these last a while before you hit pan!

Bottom Line: One stop palette for all of your Unicorn shimmery needs!

Price: £37 at Tarte Cosmetics. (Currently on sale for £22!!!)

Rating: *****

TARTE COSMETICS – Swamp Queen Palette – Grav3yard Girl Collaboration

December 14, 2017December 17, 20177 Comments

Well, well, well, looks like a Queen is reigning!

I have a few Tarte Cosmetics palettes and products, and I have to say, this has become my favourite to travel with. This palette is the perfect face and eye palette due to the complimenting shades of blusher, bronzer, highlighter and eyeshadows.

This palette is the brainchild of Grav3yardGirl, who hopefully you all know of due to her unique and quirky personality, and pays homage to her home state of Texas. The palette has unique shade names such as ‘dogman’, ‘gator wings’, and ‘does this thing really work?’. If you’re wondering, yes it does really work.

This palette boasts a beautiful gold highlight, which is the most pigmented highlighter I have ever used – it’s literally like painting my face with gold, and I love it.

The blusher is a lovely rosy pink with gold reflect shimmer which is perfect as standalone as the shimmer is eye catching enough, or team it up with the gold highlight for ultimate glow!

The bronzer is a lovely warm brown shade, which is sadly slightly orange, so use it sparingly and not as your base contour otherwise you’ll end up a gilded tangerine…

This palette has nine incredible eye shadow shades, which have been displayed horizontally in complimentary trios. They are made up of two light neutral matte shades and seven shimmering shadows in warm toned plums, browns and oranges. Together they are a lovely selection of base, crease and lid shades to mix and match or use the complimentary shades for your desired look. The palette also comes with a soft, closely packed brown eye shadow brush which is handy for adding the shimmer shadows to your look, as opposed to blending the shades!

Bottom Line: Lovely, warm toned, highly pigmented eye shadow shades to create a vast array of everyday looks, or darken with the smokey shades for glam nighttime looks when teamed up with the complimentary blusher, bronzer and highligher. This is the ultimate travel palette!

Price: £37 at Tarte Cosmetics. (Currently on sale for £22!!!)

Rating: *****

ANASTASIA BEVERLY HILLS – Blush Kit Palette – Radiant

December 7, 2017January 27, 2019Leave a comment

Anastasia’s beautiful foursome of stunning blusher shades.

After falling in love with Anastasia Beverly Hill’s Modern Renaissance and their contour palette, I decided to snap this palette up when I bought their Sugar Glow Kit. I’m so glad I did! I was umm-ing and arr-ing about which one to get seeings as they have a large amount of shades of blush to choose from in their triplet sets, but I decided to grab this Blush Kit to get the quad of colours.

This kit boasts an array of pink and coral hues with added shimmer! The best thing about these shades is the fact you can mix them together to create your own peachy summer glow, or your own Barbie Pink blush.

The powdered blush are so easy to blend and apply, you can really customise your shade by layering the different blushes or use them stand-alone. They’re also very pigmented, as with most of the Anastasia Beverly Hills cosmetics!

Bottom Line: The colours are gorgeous and the powder formula is so easy to use and blend!

Price: £31 at BeautyBay.com & Cult Beauty.

Rating: *****