Rimmel London HD Union Jack Eyeshadow

Hey,

Whilst having a nosey at the new beauty items on ASOS, I noticed these.

How cute are these?...I love all things with Union jack designs and these look great.

Here's what ASAO say,
'Union Jack eye shadows by Rimmel London. Featuring a unique flag design, the eye shadows are richly pigmented and come with a subtle shimmer finish. Designed to be worn together or alone, the eye shadows come in a selection of tonal shades.'

Now I haven't seen these anywhere else other than ASOS yet. They retail at £6.99 as as you can see they come 6 shades. In the image above they are left to right True Union Jack, English Oak, Black Cab, Purple Reign, Royal Blue and Green Park.

What do you think?

Thanks

Birthday Suit

I love Benefit and tried a lot of their products over the years, however I've never tried any of the eye shadows before despite always looking at them.


I've eventually taken the plunge with one of the Creaseless Cream Shadows.





It's such a gorgeous golden/bronze shade - I've noticed that I'm moving more towards these shades recently.


As the eye shadow itself - it blends in easily and I can honestly say I've not noticed any creasing, so in so far as saying it's creaseless, I'd say it is. I know from other reviews that some people do suffer problems with creasing but it stays put very well on me.


It's great as a base or to use just on it's own.

EOTD Sleek Paraguaya

OK so I'm a bit late to the party with the Sleek Paraguaya palette, but now I'm hooked.

I never thought I would be able to use the colours and although I love it, I'm not entirely convinced I can make all the peaches and oranges work as eye shadows but they are very pretty as blushers.

So here's my EOTD,

Products used:

• Bourjois 10hr Sleep Effect in 71 Abricote Clair



• Benefit Erase Paste in Fair



• Dior Lip polish in no 2

From the palette:

• Cameo and Persimmon as blusher



• Sandstone over the lid



• Stone in the socket



• Bittersweet blended from the socket down to the lash



• Bellini in the corner
  
  

MAC Peacocky & Tilt Eyeshadow

Now I know you have probably all seen pictures of MAC Peacocky around on a lot of blogs but I just wanted to show you some pics from the range and some inspiration it give me. I have to say I don't normally get drawn into the looks that MAC does, though I am very tempted by Peacocky. Now to see more of the range and some swatches check out Temptalia, and Karla Sugar.

The colours are lovely and rich, I love the green, blue and purple tones within the collection and the choice of lip glosses.But after seeing the collection it made me think of an eyeshadow I have from MAC called Tilt.

It is a shimmery blue with a green/gold reflection to it, I have actually had this for quite a while but I don't tend to use it very much. As you can see from the swatches below it is quite sheer, so I tend to wear it with other colours.

I have done a FOTD using MAC Tilt and my Sleek Sparkle Palette.

I might try this look again for a night out I have planned soon as I do like the navy tone to the eye look, but I think I need to work on it some more. And I am going to take a look at the eyeshadows that are being released for Peacocky, as I am drawn to Dandizette, Noir Plum, Ego, Unflappable and Centre Stage from the Mega Metal Shadows.

I also tried out some other looks using my Cosmopolitan Lookbook and Sleek Palette, using some of the darker shades available in both palettes

Are you a fan of MAC Collections? Any items on your wish list?

Proto-col Mineral Eyeshadow in Heather

I'd actually stumbled upon this brand when we had a little Christmas Market in work. Someone organised for a couple of local businesses etc to come and show off and possibly sell some of their products.

One of the businesses to come was,

Basically they're consultants and distributors for Proto-col Products.

Now like I said I hadn't heard of Proto-col before, but I love mineral makeup so I went to have a look.

Proto-col not only does makeup but also skin and body care. On the day Purple Secret had a range of all their products along with the makeup for everyone to look at.

In the end I went with one of the eye shadows as I was trying to be good ;)

I picked it up in Heather, which is a gorgeous grey/lilac - a really good dirty shade which is exactly what I like!

As you can see in the picture it comes in a little tub and you just shake a bit of it into the lid, swirl your brush around, tap and apply. Its goes on really well and its easy to blend in.

They have a great range on their site and do starter kits for the mineral foundation which include a foundation, finishing powder, blusher and a kabuki brush. They also do eyeshadow sets as well.

Overall I was really impressed with the whole range and after speaking with a number of girls who purchased stuff at work, everyone was more than happy with what they got.

You can check out their website here:

http://www.purplesecret.co.uk

They're also on Twitter as @purple_secret and Facebook

The Body Shop - Pistachio Eye Colour

Just a quick post really!

With my birthday money - I thought I'd have a go of The Body Shops Eyeshadow. Not tried them before and really liked the look of Pistachio - and for £6.00 and £5.00 off for my birthday month BARGAIN!

I liked the look of this cos its a bit of the dirty/minty/grey green with slight golden look to it. Probably not a great description but best I could come up with sorry.

In the picture below you can see the golden bits picked up by the camera.

Love the way it looks!

Given that I've never tried them before, I really liked it(now purchased a shimmer cube as well - review to follow). Only complaint would be that it doesn't tend to loosen a lot of powder when you use the brush - so it does get a little messy!

Overall I would purchase others!

Lx

MUA at Superdrug

Now like a lot of people I was quite excited at the prospect of Superdrugs £1 MUA range, so when Giddy Princess and myself spotted it in our local store we were beyond thrilled!!!!

We both spent a purse friend £10 and I came away with the items below......

and for those of you who have counted by purchase....yes there is eleven. I couldn't help going back for the blusher hehe!

Eyeshadow

I picked up shades 4 pearl, 18 matte and 17 matte. The pigment in the first two are really good and shade 17 is just a nice natural beige colour. The stay quite well, although I do think that they could do with an eyeshadow primer if you want them to last longer than say the average working day. I don't really apply primer myself and I did find that I had lost a lot of the colour by mid-afternoon. For the price I would pick up these up again and will possibly try some of the other shades - although I would realistically only be using them for work everyday......which is fine given the price.

Blusher




Firstly I apologise for my white freckly arm haha....it had to be done!!!

The blusher is shade 1 which is a nice pinky colour - its looks quite bright but it does go on ok (you dont look like you belong in the 80's!!). Been wearing this for a few days now - i do like this and I do think its going to be a product I use quite regularly.
(I do feel that I need to use a bit of my Benefit Dandelion powder over the top just as a bit of highlighter throughout the day).

Lipstick and Lip Gloss

I picked up a lipstick in shade 7 and the gloss in shade 3, both have a red/pink tone to them and I really love them both. I do have a problem with the lipstick as the texture is not that great (I'm not a huge fan of lipsticks anyway - I mainly wear gloss). It starts to feel bitty after a while and the colour doesn't have much staying power. I don't think I would be buying this again and it's not something I'm going to be using all that much as I would probably need to put a bit of gloss over the top of it. I do LOVE the gloss however, I found that its not too sticky and really like the colour once its on......definitely would purchase this again however.............

...the lid broke this morning!!!! How annoying!?! - it still fastens but its now a nightmare trying to use. Shame really cos I do think this is something I would be using everyday.

Overall I really wanted to love this range cos of the price but I think its really a case of you get what you paid for with a few of the products. I will properly only try some of the eye-shadows and lip glosses again.

I haven't yet tried out the nail varnishes...
so I'll review these later.

Has anyone else tried anything from MUA yet??? What did you think???

L x