December 2013 Favourites!

 

It's that time of the month again, it's December favourites!

 

Now I don't have that many products this month as I honestly didn't love that many things, I was so focused on the lead up to Christmas and all the organising and palava that comes with that I just grabbed whatever stuff was near me and used it. So this will be a shorter favourites this time round.

 

Estee Lauder Pure Color Eyeshadow Duo - Raisins

 

I know everyone and their cat was going on about this eyeshadow duo in the first half of the year before it became discontinued, I luckily managed to find one April or May I think it was and it's been one of my favourite make-up products of this year. It's just gorgeous! With a natural pink-champagne colour on one side and a burgundy sort of colour on the other. Gorgeous! And it's been the main eyeshadow look i've been going for this month.

 

Lip Products

 

My lips were quite dry this month, and so the two lip products I opted for were Maybelline Baby Lips in 'Cherry Me' (review here) and Rimmel Apocalips in the colour 'Celestial' (review here), both very easy and simple products to wear on the lips and they look great. I also wore a lot of Mac Hot Tahiti lipstick in the few days over Christmas, but I didn't wear it enough throughout the entire month to class it as a monthly favourite.

 

 

Maybelline Dream Touch Blush in 'Berry'

 

A very simple cream blush which I love to just quickly apply and go. It's a lovely everyday pink sort of colour and it's a proper cream blush, not a cream to powder formula which i'm not a hundred percent keen on. A foolproof product in my opinion.

 

 

Rimmel Wake Me Up Concelear

 

Again, another raved about product and I needed a new concelear this month and I really like this one. It's easy to apply, covers my dark circles and really brightens my under eye area. But i've used it on other areas of my face too and not had any problems with it. Gold star for this product!

 

 

 Random Favourite: Cheese & Beetroot sandwiches

 

Yes I know this is extremely random, but beetroot is one of my favourite kinds of food and my dad was having some with cheese in a sandwich and so I thought i'd try it and now i'm in love with it! So delicious and i've been eating a lot of them recently so I thought i'd just throw that little food favourite in for this month.

 

 

A short but sweet December favourites there. But i'll be posting my overall 2013 favourites in the coming days so keep your eyes peeled for that one.

 

 

In the meantime, Happy New Year for tomorrow, or tonight at midnight :D

 

 

Love

Amy

xxx

 

 

***DISCLAIMER***

All views/opinions are my own, products bought myself.

LUSH Father Christmas Bath Bomb

 

Lush Father Christmas Bath Bomb - RRP £3.25 now on sale for £1.63

 

I wouldn't normally do a second post about the same brand directly after doing one on Lush yesterday, but this is a Christmas product and I wanted to get it posted before the new year. So apologies for that. Anyway, on to the review.

 

I'm not the biggest bath lover in the world, I much prefer showers as they are much quicker and with my eczema problems I just feel a lot more comfortable with showers. However, for Christmas this year I received this bath bomb from one of my best friends and so it is one of those rare times when a bath is needed.

 

One thing I do find is that baths are incredibly relaxing, I used this bath bomb and I was in the bath for well over an hour and I came out feeling very chilled out and slightly sleepy. I suppose that's the appeal to a lot of people. And if I ever do want to take a bath I always choose to take a bath using Lush products as they are so much fun and the ingredients they use are good for the skin, my eczema has yet to react to any of them.

 

The Father Christmas bath bomb is what you'd expect, a Santa Clause face on a bath bomb! Which is so fun and festive and perfect to use around Christmas time, or on the big day itself if you choose to do so. It's a lovely pink and white colour and gives off the scent of madarin oranges which is a very Christmassy scent. I have to be honest and say it wasn't a total orange scent, I couldn't smell too much orange it just smelt quite sweet and fresh, but it was a great scent nonetheless.

 

 

It's quite a large bath bomb too and I managed to salvage half of it in the bath to use again, you can definitely get two uses out of this bath bomb if you grab it out of the bath in time. I always do that with the Lush bath bombs to make extra use out of them, there's no point spending a few pounds on a bath bomb just for one use.

 

As you can see from the picture this is a surprising bath bomb in that when you first put it in your bath is turns the bath a milky pink sort of colour and then in the middle it is a dark green! So very festive! I wasn't expecting this at all, and that's another thing I love about the Lush bath products, quite a few of them have secret colours inside and you wouldn't know about it until you actually use it.

 

So the dark green on the inside of this bath bomb inevitably made my bath water also look green, it looked like I was bathing in washing up liquid! This colour of bath water may bother some people but it never bothers me. I just look at the scent of the bath bomb itself and if it helps my skin in any way.

 

 

I don't think this bath bomb actually did anything for my skin, unlike some other ones i've tried like Butterball. It did leave my skin smelling nice when I got out but that was all.

 

As this is a Christmas limited edition product you won't be able to get hold of bath bomb from now on until next Christmas time, but if you're quick they may have a few left there from the sales.

When Christmas rolls around again next year, and if I fancy getting myself a Christmas themed bath bomb, then I would definitely consider buying this again.

 

It is still avaliable to buy online for a great price of

£1.63 down from £3.25

here

 

Any views/comments please leave below.

 

Love

Amy

xxx

 

 

***DISCLAIMER***

All views/opinions are my own,

product bought for me as a Christmas gift.





LUSH Santa's Lip Scrub

 

LUSH Santa's Lip Scrub - Now £2.75 - Was £5.50

 

I remember back in November and maybe even as early as late October this year when Lush released their Christmas items again, and all the youtubers went mad and all did big Christmas Lush hauls. I absolutely love watching and reading what people got from Lush, as I am a Lush fan myself but I don't tend to go in there very often as some of the items are quite expensive.

 

Nonetheless the Christmas products intrigued me and I managed to resist the urge of going out and buying loads of things back in November and December, I was too focused on saving my money and spending it on everyones Christmas presents.

 

As Christmas is now over I hit the Boxing Day Sales, well I actually went with my sister and mum on the 27th as we always have family over our house on Boxing Day. I made a mental shopping list of what products I wanted from Lush and I got there today and they were all gone! That'll teach me for not shopping online on Boxing Day itself or for not picking up some products earlier. However I did manage to find one product that was on my list, and that was the Santa's Lip Scrub.

 

 

 

I first saw this on somebody's haul, and as soon as I heard the words it's cola flavoured I instantly wanted it! Coca-Cola is my favourite and I love the cola bottle sweets so I wanted to try this. Also I have never tried any lip scrub, let alone a Lush one, so this is totally new territory to me.

 

It's, as you would expect, a gritty consistancy and this one contains little red hearts in which is very cute. You just scrub your lips with this and then you can either wipe it off or lick it off, whichever your preference. It does taste like cola but there is some lime oil in this product i've seen in the ingredients and I can tast that. It is extremely sweet just so you're aware and the red colour of this lip scrub leaves your lips with a very slight red stain too.

 

This lip scrub will be perfect for the last few months of winter if your lips get dry like mine do. I will probably use this before I go to bed and then apply some lipbalm, or do that first thing in the morning maybe aswell.

 

I'll certainly be using this for a while, it's a 25g product and a little goes a long way and I was surprised to read it doesn't expire until the beginning of February 2015. With a fresh product like this with sugar and natural oils etc I would expect it to last 6 months, but no it is well over a year!

 

The only reason I didn't pick up this product earlier was the price, I think £5.50 for a lip scrub is a bit on the steep side, considering you could probably make your own for much cheaper. But as it was half price in the sales I couldn't resist.

 

I've been using the lip scrub for a couple of days now and even though the product works very well, I won't repurchase it again next year because i've gone right off the taste, its too much like a sweet cough medicine. It's just too sickly for me unfortunately. But I like the product itself just not the flavour, so next time I will maybe try the Popcorn one, I know I won't like the bubblegum one as that'll be too sweet aswell.

 

If you yourself still want to get your hands on this little lip scrub I suggest you act very fast, as there were only a few of these left in the Lush shop I went in on 27th December.

 

But it is currently still avaliable online

here

 

 

Any questions/comments please leave below.

 

Love

Amy

xxx

 

 

***DISCLAIMER***

All views/opinions are my own, product bought myself.

What I Got For Christmas 2013!

 

I wasn't sure whether or not to do this post, but I really enjoy looking at what everyone else got for Christmas so I thought I may aswell show what I go too.

 

I'm not trying to brag, just putting that disclaimer out there for everyone, if you don't like these kind of posts then it's fine you don't have to read it if you don't want to. But like me, if you're nosey, then carry on reading :)

 

 

I'm actually missing a couple of things from this post, I misplaced them somewhere but they'll feature in a blog post at some point in the future if they are beauty related.

 

Anyway i'll start off with the Yankee Candle Gingerbread Illuma Lid. I love anything Gingerbread related as you may already know, and i've been looking at getting this for a while so i'm glad to have this.

 

The Christmas Cookie small jar, and the three Yankee Candle tarts in Cherries on Snow, Gingerbread and Macintosh are all from one my best friends who actually shipped the tarts from the US! Bless her heart, that Macintosh one i've been dying to get my hands on! I wish we could have that over here.

 

Thor on Blu-ray is from my sister, i'm a big Marvel fan and I loved the second Thor film, and i've seen this first one before but i've never owned it but now I do.

 

As you can see my biggest/most expensive gift was the iPod Nano (7th Generation) in Blue. Stunning! I'm so grateful to get this as my last one broke :(

 

The two scarves, one with a cat print and the other with a rabbit print on are incredibly cute! And I actually wore the cat one today when I went sales shopping.

 

The corner of the picture (or the top picture you can see it better) is the LUSH Honey Farm gift set, which was given to me by another of my best friends. I gave a squeal of delight when I saw this as I didn't expect her to spend that much on me, I love it so much!!

 

 

My sister got me the Mac Brush cleanser which you can see at the top, as well as the Yankee Candle Cranberry Chutney small jar.

 

The Minnie Mouse shower cap is a bit of a jokey gift, but useful nonetheless. As is the rose gold case which actually hold nail tools :) The Bourjois set contains a nail varnish, lipgloss, mascara and eyeshadow trio which is nice and I already have used the lipgloss.

 

 

The Sinful colours 'Cinderella' polish is from my sister. I bought the OPI polish in 'Ski Slope Sweetie' myself at the beginning of December and got my mum to keep it for me for Christmas. The top two Barry M are from the same friend who got me the candles. The bottom three are from another of my friends :) You can never have too many nail varnish! :)

 

 

Some more clothing related items now. Two packs of winter themed socks (notice the gingerbread again) from M&S, as is the Indigo 3/4 length top and the brown bag is also from M&S Indigo line. The Penguin pyjamas are from M&S too and they are very cute. There is also a little cat purse sneaking in there too.

 

There we go, those are my pressies for 2013. I also got the obligatory chocolates and a couple of gift cards but I didn't think they needed to be in the post.

 

Hope you all had a wonderful Christmas and got all the pressies you wanted :)

 

Any questions/comments please leave below.

 

Love

Amy

xxx

 

Yankee Candle Sweet Shop Gift Set

 

 

You know when you're Yankee Candle obsession is reaching new heights, when you're checking a week in advance for Yankee Candle shows on QVC. Yes I hold my hands up, i'm a mad candle lady! I'm a Yankee fan, all the way and as I was tuning in to watch one of their shows I saw they were doing this giftset and I instantly fell in love. The only problem was that it came with another gift set called Christmas Memories, and it contained a lot of (well you guessed it) Christmas fragranced candles, with scents like pine and cinnamon which don't appeal to me at all so I really didn't want that gift set. And I wasn't willing to pay the £30 odd pounds for only one box really, so I watched in envy and eventually forgot about it.

 

Then about a month later these boxes appeared online and in my local Yankee Candle shop, and the best news of all I could buy them separately! So I rushed out and bought the Sweet Shop Gift Set and here it is in all it's gingerbread house looking glory.

 

It is one of the most beautiful gift sets i've ever seen of any product, let alone candle products. Just look at it! I don't even want to use them, I just want to keep staring it. But the scents are too good not to use.

 

As you can see by the first two pictures, this set contains 12 different votives/samplers. 6 on one side and six on the other. Another appealing factor to this gift set is that it contains two US exclusive fragrances which you cannot get over here in the UK, which are Whoopie Pie and Gingerbread. I was very excited for these two in particular, but also to get my hands on some old favourites which have recently been discontinued :(

 

Now i'll go into all the scents individually.

 

 

The first side contains:

 

Salted Caramel - It does indeed smell like caramel, a very rich caramel scent. I'm a little wary of burning this one as it's one of the strongest but i'll certainly give it a go.

 

Cranberry Ice - I was given a Cranberry Ice votive for Christmas last year and I liked it, it's a lovely cranberry scent with a hint of fresh coolness to it.

 

Whoopie Pie - I've never even heard, seen or smelt a Whoopie Pie before but from the picture alone I want to try one. And this one is a straight up chocolate scent, yum!

 

 

Also on this side contains:

 

Sugared Apple - I bought tealights of this scent for my best friend for Christmas, and I wish i'd picked some up for myself at the time. I'm glad I have this for myself, it's a fresh, cool and sweet gorgeous apple scent. Lovely!

 

Snowflake Cookie - More of a sweet cookie smell, compared to the other cookie scent we will come on to in a bit. One of the newer scents for this year and i'm eager to try it.

 

Cherries on Snow - Oh my goodness! One of my favourite ever Yankee scents, gorgeous fresh cherry smell. It's recently been discontinued (why oh why?!) and i'm so glad to have a back up of this scent. One of the main reasons I wanted to get this set, just for this scent.

 

 

 

The other side contains:

 

Red Velvet - Everyone loves this scent, and i've yet to try it but it's a cakey sort of scent and actually very nice! Looking forward to trying it.

 

Christmas Cookie - My favourite Christmas scent, also recently been discontinued. Very happy to have another one of these to burn. A gorgeous vanilla cookie scent.

 

Honey and Spice - For someone who doesn't like spicy scents, this is my only exception. You can smell more honey and sugar and even a hint of cocoa. A sumptuous gorgeous grown up evening scent I think. One of my favourite all time scents.

 

 

The final three are:

 

Merry Marshmallow - Such a cute picture on the front isn't it? This one as you'd expect, by sweet marshmallows. It's a new scent for this year too.

 

Gingerbread - This smells just like gingerbread. I must admit this is a very strong scent and it's a bit too much for my liking. But if you like Gingerbread scents or strong scents you would adore this!

 

Strawberry Buttercream - One of the weaker scented candles in this set, it does have a nice creamy strawberry smell but it's not as strong as I would like. Still lovely though and fits in well in this set.

 

 

I bought this set for myself a few weeks before Christmas and gave it to my mum to wrap up and give it to me for Christmas, and as Christmas has been and gone now I can finally start using this gift set. I cannot wait!! It's a fantastic set by Yankee Candle, full marks to them!

 

Also great value for money as these votives/samplers retail for £1.80 each and would come to £21.60 if you bought all these individually. I've found this set online for £18.99 here so there is a saving there to be had if you are interested in this set for yourself, or as a late gift for that Yankee Candle lover in your life.

 

 

 Yankee Candle Sweet Shop Gift Set

Avaliable for £18.99

here

 

 

 

 

 ***DISCLAIMER***

All views/opinions are my own, product bought myself.

My Christmas Day Makeup!

 

Well that's it, the big day has come and gone :( I hope you all had an amazing Christmas Day yesterday and are enjoying your Boxing Day! On Monday I posted about the China Glaze nail polish 'Glitter All the Way' which is what i've been wearing over Christmas, but I thought i'd share with you what make-up I wore on Christmas Day too.

 

As you can see it's an erray of products from the highstreet/drugstore to some high end products. I like to mix and match and it's nice to have some higher end products for such a special day in the year.

 

 

We'll start off with the base and work my way forward from there.

 

Bourjois Happy Light Illuminating Serum Primer - I've written a post about this primer (here) if you want to check it out. On Christmas Day I wanted my makeup to last all day and as this is currently the only face primer than I own I have to stick to this, but I do love it so it's all good.

 

Clinique Even Better Foundation - My favourite foundation to date, I just love the way it feels on my skin, good coverage and it lasts a long time too. It is on the higher end of makeup budgets as it's over £20 but it's worth it for me, definitely. I've yet to blog about this foundation but I will do in the New Year.

 

Rimmel Wake Me Up Concelear - I really like this concelear, I use this under my eyes and it does a good job of covering up dark circles, which I did end up having as I woke up early to open my presents (yeah i'm still a big kid at heart).

 

Bourjois Delice de Poudre Bronzing Powder - The only bronzer I own as i'm not the biggest fan of bronzers in general, but I use this to contour a bit and it works fine for me. I use this everyday in my makeup routine so I had to put this in.

 

Nars Luster Blush - One of my favourite blushes from this year, it's a beautiful orangey colour blush with gold shimmer and it's a nice subtle blush, I didn't want anything too bright on the cheeks as i'm wearing a strong red lipstick.

 

Rimmel Flash Eyeliner - This eyeliner is no longer avaliable, and it's actually the only felt tip eyeliner I own but I really like it. It's easy to use and it gives a nice strong black colour. For someone who doesn't really wear eyeliner at all, I have days where I want my eyes to pop and Christmas is one of those days.

 

Maybelline Colossal Mascara - To this day this is my favourite mascara that i've found, it gives a great volumising look to my lashes and also adds extra length to them. As it's my favourite mascara, I had to wear it on Christmas Day :)

 

Mac 'Russian Red' Lipstick - I have to wear a great red lipstick on Christmas Day, I go all out for this one and the only way to do that is go with Russian Red. One of Mac's best sellers and it really is the perfect red lipstick, it's a matte formula but it isn't too drying. I know i'll have to reapply this after eating my Christmas dinner, but apart from that it'll stay put all day!

 

 

Mac 'Brick' Lip Liner - With the intense red lipstick I need a good lip liner to make it look perfect, and that comes in the form of the Brick lip liner which is also by Mac. Brick and Russian Red go hand in hand, they're a perfect combination.

 

Urban Decay 'Half Baked' eyeshadow from the Naked Palette - If I want a gold eyeshadow then I automatically go for Half Baked. A beautiful gold colour and as it's Christmas i'm going for the whole gold and red theme with my make-up look. Amazing eyeshadow which will stay put all day.

 

Illamasqua Gleam 'Aurora' Highlighter - I've blogged about this (here). On this special day of the year every girl wants to look amazing and this Aurora highlighter by Illamasqua does the job for me. A gorgeous champagne cream highlighter which will just add the finishing touch to my makeup look.

 

 

I have yet to blog about a lot of these products but they will all be done very soon. And any I have blogged about already I have put links too.

 

What makeup did you wear on Christmas Day?

 

Merry Christmas!!!

 

Love

Amy

xxx

 

 

***DISCLAIMER***

All views/opinions are my own, products bought myself.



Merry Christmas Everyone!!!

 

 

MERRY CHRISTMAS!!!

 

I just wanted to send lots of love, best wishes, big hugs and Christmas wishes to everyone who has started to read my blog. I've been doing this for a couple of months now and absolutely loving it, so if you would like to follow my blog and continue on this journey with me then i'd be very grateful.

I'll be back with a new post tomorrow!

 

Thank-you all once again.

 

Hope you all have a very

Merry Christmas!!
 

 

 

Love you all.

 

 

Amy

xxxx

Winter Wonderland TAG!

Hi guys!

 

I saw this tag floating around on Youtube and I really wanted to do it.
So here it is!

 

1. Favourite thing about winter?

 

Well the obvious answer here is Christmas! And it's the one i'm going for. I absolutely LOVE Christmas, every single thing about it is amazing and it's my favourite time of year without a doubt. If I couldn't choose Christmas, it would be snow.

2. Scarves or Beanies?

I don't think i've ever worn a beanie.... I don't even wear hats that often unless it's very cold outside. I'm definitely more of a scarf person, I have way too many scarves but i'm loving my Primark tartan scarf this year.

3. Favorite holiday movie?

I did a whole post on Friday about my favourite holiday movies, and I'd have to say my favourite Christmas film is The Santa Clause, loved it as a child and it's still brilliant now. I actually watched it last night when one of my best friend's came round to cut and highlight my hair and exchange pressies!

4. Favourite winter nail polish?

This is an easy one, I absolutely love China Glaze 'Glitter All the Way' to wear around Christmas time, but if we're talking into January and February and a general all round winter polish i'd have to say my new favourite this year is Nails Inc Chelsea Square, oh it's so beautiful!

5. Favourite Starbucks Holiday Drink?

A short answer to this one, I don't have a favourite as I don't like coffee/tea so I never go into Starbucks.

6. What are your top 3 winter essentials?

My Burts Bees Honey lipbalm, my favourite lipbalm and it's seriously needed in these colder months as I get dry lips. My second essential would be scarves and gloves, not exactly beauty related by I can't cope in the winter without either. Thirdly it would have to be a very good moisturiser, my favourite being my Dr Organic Manuka Honey Rescue Cream.

7. Name one item on your wish list this year.

The most expensive thing i've asked for this year is an iPod Nano. My last one has broken and it was like 5 years old so i'd like a new one :) if not i'd be very happy with some Yankee Candles :)

8. Favourite holiday song?

My all time favourite Christmas song is I wish it Could be Christmas Everyday by Wizzard. So damn catchy! And i've loved it ever since I was a child. I was singing and dancing around to that song in the kitchen when it came on on the radio yesterday morning when I was making chocolate chip cookies!

9. Did you go Black Friday shopping this year?

 

We don't have Black Friday in the UK, although this year it did spring up out of nowhere for some reason, and I don't quite know why we've started doing it but oh well. I got a few things on Amazon but I didn't go into any shops on that day, i'm not even sure if the actual UK shops were taking part, or if it was just an online thing.

10. Must have winter lip product?

Another very easy one. Mac Hot Tahiti lipstick, a nice red that isn't a very bold red so it's easy to apply with hardly any effort. I have been wearing it a lot already and i'm actually wearing it today.

11. Will you be rocking an ugly Christmas sweater this year?

To call them "ugly" is just the persons opinion of whoever made this tag. I love the festive Christmas jumpers (or sweaters as you Americans call them). They have become very fashionable these last couple of years. I will indeed be wearing a Christmas jumper with a rudolph on the front on Christmas day. If some people think they are tacky then that's fine, but in my opinion they are great fun! It's Christmas, have a laugh and wear fun things!

12. Have you ever had a white Christmas where you live?

I can remember one year we had a white Christmas in the 1990's at some point when I was a child, but in recent years we never seem to have them that much in the UK (unless you live in Scotland or Northern England it is more likely) but as i'm down in the South it's not likely at all. Last year we had about 5mins of snow but it was very light and it didn't settle on the ground, so that's as close as i've got to a white Christmas in recent years.

13. Favourite winter candle scent?

All this month i've been burning Yankee Candle Christmas Cookie, which is an amazing vanilla biscuit sort of scent. So yummy!! So i'll be burning that through the rest of this month and probably into the beginning of next year aswell. It has been discontinued recently though which makes me sad :(

14. How will you be celebrating this holiday?

Well i'll be spending Christmas Eve with my grandparents on my mum's side of the family, Christmas Day will be at home with my parents and my sister. Boxing Day we will be having my dad's side of the family coming over. We never go away anywhere for Christmas.

 

 

 

 

So there we have it that was the Winter Wonderland TAG!

Feel free to do the tag yourself.

 

Have a very Merry Christmas!!!

 

 

Love

Amy

xxx

Christmas Nails - China Glaze 'Glitter All the Way'

 

China Glaze Nail Polish - 'Glitter All the Way'

 

A play on the words 'Jingle all the way' from the Jingle Bells song, this China Glaze nail polish is more festive than you sitting in front of a log fire, eating mince pies whilst watching Elf on the television. It's beyond perfect!

 

China Glaze are very big in the nail polish world, and they are always bringing new collections out year in year out, and at Christmas it is no different.

 

I got this very nail polish for Christmas a couple of years ago from one of my best friends. I fell in love with it as soon as I unwrapped it on Christmas Day. Its a beautiful glitter nail polish, containing green, red, gold and purple glitter particles. Which look great together and are indeed very festive. The glitter is fine so no chunky glitter to worry about here.

 

 

 

It was very easy to apply and I managed to get this effect with just one coat, which is what I like to see in glitter nail polishes, well in all nail polishes if i'm honest. I hate having to put loads of coats on.

 

I have very short nails, as you can see, and it would look a heck of a lot better on longer nails but this is what I have to work with. And I refuse to not have glittery nails on over Christmas, it really makes me feel more Christmassy when I have glittery nails, I have no idea why.

  

 

This glitter is just perfect for Christmas time, whether you're going to a work Christmas party or just any Christmas party it would compliment any outfit. Or if you're not going to any Christmas parties and just want your nails to look a bit more festive, then this would be my number one pick. I will be wearing it over Christmas itself, without a doubt.

 

 

 

I really am impressed with this nail polish, I love the colours and it was easy to apply and I would purchase more from China Glaze. The only bugbear I have is that China Glaze is pretty expensive, but you can pick them up on discount websites and in some discount salon places.

 

 

China Glaze 'Glitter All the Way' was a limited edition nail polish at Christmas and is no longer avaliable, but you may be able to track it down on eBay or discount online shops or maybe in some shops if you're lucky. But I have been unable to track it down when writing this post.

 

Merry Christmas everyone!

 

Love

Amy

xxx

 

 

***DISCLAIMER***

All views/opinions are my own,

product bought for me as Christmas present.

Revlon Colorburst 'Orchid' Lipgloss

 

 

Revlon Colorburst Lipgloss 'Orchid' - £7.99

 

Revlon are such a great brand, I don't actually own any other products from Revlon apart from their lip products, and i've never tried any of their products either. The main thing that puts me off from buying things from Revlon I suppose is the price, it is the higher end of the drugstore/high street and I would only spend that kind of money if I know the products are really good. Some other things have been raved about from Revlon like their foundations, but the fact that you're paying a lot for a foundation that doesn't even come with a pump puts me right off, so for now i'm sticking to their lip products.

 

Revlon has a couple of types of lipglosses and they have both proved to be popular. I was on the hunt for a light pink lipgloss and when my sister was getting a Revlon lipgloss I spotted this colour and really liked it.

 

 It is a pretty good applicator and of the two lipglosses that Revlon do this is the longer one and these ones contain shimmer in them, unlike the Super Lustrous ones which are in smaller tubes. I prefer the Colorburst line purely because you get more product for your money and I do quite like lipglosses with shimmer in them. The packaging on both are superb! I particularly like the quilted look that is on the lid of this lipgloss.

 

 

As you can see it is a sheer pink, almost verging on a mauve lilac colour, and it does have slight silver shimmer which can make it look a tad frosty looking in some lights. But if applied right it looks fine and you hardly notice it. I have quite naturally pigmented lips and I never layer lipglosses over lipsticks so I wear this alone and I like the look that it gives. It's very glossy and not at all sticky, it doesn't last all that long on the lips (then again what lipgloss does?) and I do like the name 'Orchid' it suits the colour well. I think if you want a normal everyday pink gloss with a bit of shimmer then this one is spot on.

 

£7.99 may be a tad steep for you to spend on a lipgloss, but you may be more of a lipgloss person than a lipstick person so then in that case it may not seem too bad to you. There are always offers on in Boots and Superdrug also.

 

I probably wouldn't buy this again, as I don't often find myself wearing lipgloss so I don't see the point in buying more lipgloss if i'm not going to wear it. It's not a negative critic on the product itself, it's just me.

 

This Revlon lipgloss is avaliable at £7.99

 

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Love

Amy

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All views/opinions are my own, product bought myself.