MUA - Lipstick shade 11

Why don't people wear lipstick any more? When you're in the club and you go to the loo everyone is using a gloss. It doesn't seem to be "cool". Thankfully it seems to be coming back, thanks to bold lip looks that just can't be achieved with a gloss.

Because of how bold a lipstick can be I'm often wary of lipsticks, I'm not that brave to go all out. However, I decided to get an MUA lippy, and I'm so glad I did! When I was younger I used to rock the Coffee Shimmer lippy (who didn't in the 90's?) and I remember it was quite dry and didn't last that long before it started getting a bit patchy. This is brilliant.

No, it doesn't last hours and hours, but it lasts long enough to last between touch ups without looking bad, it's lovely and soft not at all dry, it almost feels conditioning. Again they use numbers and not names for their shades, which still bugs me, but Shade 11 is a nice nudey pink colour, I'd say it comes off lighter on my lips than it seems in the tube, which is good for a lipstick-phobe like me.

As an aside, I hate my camera, it makes images so clear it shows every little hair, I look like a chimp so for my own ego I had to crop this right down, I still look like I have a monster 'tash!! *checks mirror*

I really shouldn't sign out of Blogger...

Because I always forget my password!!

Honestly, I try to be safe and secure and have a password no-one will guess, and I always forget it! I'd write it down somewhere but I'd only lose it.

Has anyone seen the stand in Superdrug for Andrea Fullerton? The polishes look so lush! I didn't want to buy until I'd looked at some other blogs to see them, and the layering ones need to be mine! It all seems decently priced, and finally a nail polish remover in a pumpy uppy tub! I've just bought some on Ebay as well (as well as losing passwords, I'm excellent at dropping open nail polish remover bottles)

Sue Moxley Famous - Purple Dazzle

To the person who decided they should stop selling this at Superdrug and move to Argos - Boooooooooooooooo!

I'm gutted that they're stopping this because I wont be slogging over to Argos when I want a little treat for myself, although I think the half pricey-ness is awesome (although be careful, every single item has gone through at full price every time I've been).

I love, love, love glitter polishes, but I hate, hate, hate taking it off, even with the foil trick. :( But I've tried 5 of these glittery polishes now and each one has been a dream to remove, I'd wear glitter every day if it was as good as this!

Can you see the slight holo?

I wore Purple Dream while I was away this weekend and it held up ok. It's a two-tone polish with flecks of glitter in, it's predominately purple but has flashes of pink and gold. Unfortunatly, unless you're in exactly the right light then you don't see any two tone when it's on your nails as well as you do in the bottle. As with the last polish it goes on nicely, it seems rather thin and watery on the first coat but opaque on the second coat.

I got about 2 days wear out of it, although I did go swimming on the second day and it pretty much all flaked off while I was in the pool. 

With the flash to show the standard colour

George - Shatter Top Coat

George have let me down. :(


I love so many of their products, but I'm just not keen on this. The depth of colour is great, and it's lovely to put on, but that's it.

Asda have brought out a few shades of their new shatter polish, currently on sale at £2 as an introductory offer. I chose to get Silver and Gold because I've already got Barry M's shatters and only tend to use the black one. 

One of my many attempt to make it shatter. Silver

I mentioned it was nice to put on, it is nice and if it was a normal polish I'd be chuffed as monkeys, but it takes a fair long time to dry compared to all the other shatter polishes on the market. This also doesn't seem to shatter well, it more...well...splinters. My other shatter polishes do exactly that, and they look great and get great results even without trying, I had to remove this a few times and apply very thinly to get a half decent shatter otherwise it just looked like streaky polish.

Messy, because I got fed up!

Gold Shatter.

W7 PhotoShoot Foundation - Sand Beige

W7 is becoming quite popular now, I could only get this on the market, but it's popping up in more places.

I spotted this the other week at one of those stalls you see in shopping centres and dapped some on my hand and was lovely and dewy. It was only £2.99 so thought it was worth a punt.

From the bottle it looks very similar to my normal Collection 2000 foundation, but it has one massive draw back. No pump dispenser!! How do they think we get the stuff out? I was having to bash this on the back of my hand to get some out, then trying to get it back in when I used too much, pah! I'm hoping there is something I can buy to decant it into because I hate bottles like this.



Once I got the foundation out, I panicked and thought it was going to be far too yellow, but it blends in beautifully. It's very buildable, and just one layer managed to cover an angry blemish I've been sporting recently, I'd say it gives fair to medium coverage, it feels smooth and not heavy at all.

As for the 16 hour claim, I don't intend wearing it that long, perhaps one day I'll give it a go, at the moment it's looking good and has been on for a fair few hours now.

This is my "that flash is so bright but MUST NOT BLINK" face.

Famous By Sue Moxley

Why can I not find hardley any swatches of these polishes online? They're brilliant!

My lovely, well trained other half clearly has good taste because he actually picked this one up thinking I'd like the colour and I do!

Sue Moxley is currently on sale at Superdrug, all items are half price so when I was in having my weekly mooch, I saw this range (I always ignored it before because I always assumed it was out of my price range) and honed in on the half price label. From what I've read, the range is being removed from a lot of Superdrugs and being sold through Argos which is a shame because its really good from what I've seen. This polish was about £2.49-ish.

I got 3 polishes, which I'll come to in other posts. This one is Shade 14; how dull is it when they don't name them? I'll hereby name this Bora Bora! because it reminds me of the shades of bluey green sea they have there.

It goes on an absolute dream, and opaque in only 1 coat, dries to a high shine and removes nicely as well. The depth of colour is great, and so vibrant. I love it! I think I'll be using this to do some Konad as well because of how pigmented it is, I think it will be perfect.

I smudged this one. :(

ELF Purple Dream Nails

A proper party polish from ELF. It can be bought here for £1.50.

Purple Dream is full of colour and very eye catching, I can see this being wore a lot over the Christmas period. It goes on quite nicely indeed, as I've found with nearly all polishes from ELF and the packaging is lovely!  I don't find their polishes to be the most long wearing of polishes, but then I only tend to wear them for a day and then take them off so it's no odds to me, although I rarely use a base coat so I wonder what it would be like if I did?

Because this dries to quite a high shine and is so rich in colour I thought it would look lovely matte so decided to do my ring finger with my George Matte polish, but in all honesty I don't think it makes a massive amount of difference.

ASDA George Faux Lash Mascara.

George really have stepped up their game haven't they? I really don't know why they're not pushing their make up range harder, it's really pretty decent, especially for the price. I'd love to see more testers out as well, there are none at my local supermarkets.


They have offers on every week so I always accidentally walk down the make up aisle every week, this week they had this new mascara. It's currently on a promotional price of £2.50 and is brand new.


Falsh lash effect mascaras are the new in thing and each one is always promising to do it all, volumise, lengthen and give us those amazing lashes we all wish for, so does this? No. It is still a pretty decent mascara and I will carry on using this but only for a day mascara.

If this was marketed as a lengthening and separating mascara then it would be brilliant.

The wand is so-so. It's very good at getting into the lashes, and is curved like Maybellene Falsies. It's a very long wand and found it very easy to use when I was doing my right eye, once I had to move over to my other eye it all went pear shaped, I ended up making a right mess, I'm not sure if it was down to the length of the wand or the amount of curve in the brush.

I had a little clumping but nothing that would put me off. You do have to be quick if you're building it up because it dries pretty quick and is very hard to add more once it dries. You have to be careful replacing the wand back in the tube as well because you end up with mascara all over the place.

I couldn't get a decent picture at all to show how long this actually made my lashes look, I tried in loads of different lights and everything, but pah, it didn't work but here are the best of a bad bunch.

No mascara.

 

Left: One coat. Right: Two coats

 

Left: One coat. Right: Two coats

 

 

 

Boots 17 - Falsifeye Mascara and Gel Liner

I heard the other day that Boots had a mascara and giving a freebie away with it. Free is my favourite word so after a quick Google I found out it's this little beauty. It currently costs £6.49 and includes the Gel Liner as a free gift.

The claim it makes: Falsifeye your lashes from root to tip for a false lash look that lasts all day. The oversized brush builds corner to corner volume for a full set of oh faux fabulous lashes!

Firstly, I really like the packaging, a nice chunky tube and wand, in a nice bright pink colour (so nice and easy to spot in my mascara drawer). I prefer to have a squareish wand, I'm too clumsy so can hold them steadier. The wand itself is lovely and thick with loads of bristles, I personally find these are the best for giving volume, although tend to not be great at separating.


The formula is quite thick and does come out a fair bit onto the wand so you do have to wipe the end but does coat the lashes nicely . It has a smell that reminds me of when I used to open my Mum's old make up case when I was a little girl, that old make up smell, but isn't noticeable once it's on your lashes. I think this has the potential to be very clumpy, although wasn't too bad when I tried it.


I really quite like it. I'm a bit of an idiot and assume that all mascaras are black so just pick them up, this one is actually Brown Black, but it's still pretty dark. 1 coat isn't enough for me because I like mine to be really full, but would be good for a day look. 2 coats is just nice, I think any more and it would start to get clumpy. There was a bit of fall out but nothing too scary and wore pretty well during the day (and through the night because I was too lazy to take it off). Mind the blurry pictures, they looked ok till I uploaded them. It's hard to tell on these pictures because I've been cursed with those stupid eye lids and I've got my best bags goin' on under my eyes, but they are very thick and look really lush in real life.

Before

Left Eye: 2 coats Right Eye: 1 coat

I'm not sure I'd go out of my way to buy it, I think I'll stay loyal to my Maybelline Falsies for now, but I will be using it again.


As for the freebie, the gel liner, I've never used a gel liner before so I might not be the best to review this because I've never used a gel liner before and wouldn't know a good one if it slapped me in the face and called me Judy! However....This one isn't too bad for a freebie.

The packaging again is very sweet, I'm a sucker for nice packaging. The brush was a bit pants, too soft to give any decent direction and too small, but it's a free brush so never expect much of them. The pigmentation of the liner itself  was very good, nice and black and despite the brush it went on well without tugging at my lids, I managed to put it on and I'm a complete muppet at applying liner.

I put some on the back of my hand and left for a minute before wiping to test the smear factor and uh oh....

Maybe I might be best leaving it longer next time.

E.l.f Haul (Eyes Lips Face)

I'm spending way too much money at E.L.F, well I would be if it wasn't so damn cheap! As little as £1.50 for their normal line and not much more for their studio line. If you "Like" their Facebook page then you get notified of any deals and discounts they're doing. I got this lot as part of a 50% off discount and came to £20.70 including delivery.

I got:

Eye crease brush    
Studio Powder Brush        
Nail Polish in Mango Madness                
                     Mod Mauve           
                     Purple Pleaser    
                     Purple Dream            
Plumping lip glaze in Baby Doll                
                                  Ruby Kiss
Brightening Eye Colour     Brownstone
                                        Ethereal
Mineral Eyeshadow     Socialite
Natural Radiance Blusher Flushed
Studio Bronzer Warm
Studio Blush Berry Merry
Mineral Booster Tinted
Mineral Lipstick Pouty Petal

Can't wait to play with/test them all!

George Sunset Orange

I'm  a big fan of George polishes, and for a quid they're in a perfect bargain price range.

I needed some new summery colours because I seem to have collected a rather lot of blues, purples and other dark colours so was pretty chuffed to find this nice orange colour that's not too in your face but lovely and summery (and it matches a top I have as though it's been made for it!)

  Unfortunately the colour, in the bottle, was the only thing I liked about it. It's a crème polish, the application was messy and didn't seem to go on well for me at all and was difficult to swipe along my nail so ended up with loads of clean up to do around my cuticles; however it only took 2 coats to be opaque. The colour once it was on my nails was almost neon, and certainly got peoples attention, I did have a lot of people comment on it, but it was too bright for me and didn't compliment my skin tone at all. I can't completely comment on the wear because I removed it before the day was up, but I did notice some slight tip wear.

I do have a lot of George polishes and this is the only one I haven't liked so I've done well there. I'm not going to completely write it off, I think I'll use it for franking or using it for nail art because I think it will be pretty decent for using to marble my nails or to do splatter nails with, will have to give it a try.