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.