Orly Steel Your Heart

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Today's post is on the Spring Collection from Orly...Cool Romance.

Here's what Orly say about the range,

'Fall in love all over again with ORLY’s new ‘Cool Romance’ collection.  These delicate pastel crème colours will seamlessly steer you from winter to spring, warming the days as we gradually wind out of winter.   Whilst you might not be ready to go all out with summer’s fluoro, eye popping paints just yet, Cool Romance offers splashes of delicate, sophisticated hues to portray the fresh romanticism of young love with a sleek sensibility that’s all grown up.  

You’re Blushing is enough to make anyone flush in this muted lilac crème

No first date is complete without Prelude to a Kiss, a dainty dusky pink

Stand out from the crowd and get his attention with a little help from Jealous, Much?

A layer of Faint of Heart will give you the confidence to seduce any man with this soft grey crème

Seal the deal with Steel Your Heart to ensure he’s not going anywhere

Be the apple of his eye with Artificial Sweetener'

I was lucky enough to be sent Orly Steel your Heart to review.

This is my first Orly nail polish, I have always taken a look at there polishes but I have never actually picked one up.  And the first thing I will say here is I will be looking in my Boots tomorrow at the mini 5.4ml bottles they stock for £5.  The first thing that caught my attention about the polish was the brush handle.  Its amazing, it gives amazing grip...for this alone I would repurchase.  I have never used a nail polish with this sort of handle. 

The polish is a lovely steel metallic shade and applied like a dream in two coats and dries very quick.  I am not completely sure this shade fits into the collection that well.  The other colours seem to tie in with each other but this is quite different.  .The colour isn't very spring (it probably suits the April showers) but is completely my shade...I love it.  I am desperate to pick up You're Blushing now.

These are priced at £9.25 for 18ml at http://www.lookfantastic.com/ and 5.3ml Mani Mini Trio for £13 at www.boots.com.

What do you think? Are you an Orly fan? Are there other shades I should look at?

Thanks

Round Up of the Week......

Well I hope you've all had a great weekend.

We had a fun filled day yesterday with the step kids.  We went to a great little place nearby called The Plassey Leisure Park.  It's basically an old dairy farm which has been turned into a Craft & Retail Centre with a number of different things from boutiques to a hair and beauty studio and a coffee shop and restaurants.  It's a lovely little place to go for an afternoon wonder.

What's great is that they organise a lot of craft and sporting activities for kids.  So this weekend there was a make you own jewellery work shop as well as archery.  The kids loved the archery, but I definitely enjoyed the jewellery workshop more - I'm such a kid.  So here my creation - I just went with a simple keyring,

So this week on the blog we've had:

• K shared the new Sure Maximum Protection Range
• L showed you VIVO Ultimate Brow and Eye Kit
• L showed you the Percy & Reed Hair Care Range
• L showed you her sensitive scalp solution with Neutrogena T/Gel Therapeutic Shampoo  
• K shared her L'Oreal Colour Riche Polish NOTD
• K decided to see if the if the hype was worth it with the Revlon Lip Butter

Hope you've all had a great weekend,

Revlon Lip Butters

Today's review is on the super hyped Revlon lips Butters.

I decided to pick up Peach Parfait, Cotton Candy and Sugar Frosting (L-R).  The swatches below are in the same order, first one swipe then two swipes.



Here they are on the lips in the same order.

First off these come in the nice Revlon quilted packaging and each come slightly tinted to match with their shade (which is a nice touch).  This does to give these a slightly higher end feel, but its also just gives them a good sturdy casing.

The Revlon Lip Butters are available in 14 shades (we have not had all 20 the shades available in the US) and are priced at £7.99.  You can get these now in Boots and Superdrug, currently Boots is still running 3 for 2 so you can always be naughty and get a couple of shades like me!

The idea behind these is that they are a tinted lip balm, but are seriously pigmented.  They leave your lips feeling super soft but you get to wear a great shade.  The pigmentation of these is amazing.

I really struggled to decide which to try first but settled on Peach Parfait, Cotton Candy and Sugar Frosting.  Each of the shades I picked up has a slight gold sheen to them, but not all the shades available do.  My favourite is Peach parfait, this is the shade Emma Stone is wearing in the publicity shot.  I am a little disappointed with Sugar Frosting as its not very pigmented at all, but it will fit in with the rest of my lipstick as I can at least swipe and go.

Overall these are lovely but I am a lip balm fan and don't like lipstick to be too heavy.  I know a lot of people will see them as being overpriced for a lip balm.  And £7.99 is a little steep for me too but these are lovely on your lips.  These are so thick and literally melt onto the lips.  They are certainly a superior tinted lip balm.  I am very tempted to picked up Strawberry Shortcake but the rest of the shades don't really tempt me.  Unfortunately the staying power is not fantastic but I enjoying applying them so don't mind so much.

I am not convinced the hype was completely justified and I have a post coming up on the L'Oreal Rouge Caresse Lipstick which I have been reaching for a little more.  But they are worth a look.

What do you think?  Are you a fan?  Which shade is your fave?

Thanks



L'Oreal Color Riche Nail Polish French Riviera

 

 

Today's post is a review on a new nail polish I picked up from Boots. It is from the new Colour Riche nails which is L'Oreal first long lasting mini nail collection, the shade I got was French Riviera. The collection contains 41 gel based colours designed by L'Oreal Paris' Colour Creative Director Orrea Light.

I decided to pick this up on the Boots 3 for 2 which is currently running. The choice of shades is great, they cost £4.99 for 5ml bottle which I do think is expensive but if you could get them on 3 for 2 then it is not too bad.

I have previously showed you Ingenuos Rose here and Rue Montmartre here.

The swatch above was with 2 coats applied and you can see a little tip through it. This shade is a lot thinner than Rue Monatmartre and more like Ingenuos Rose. But I don't mind this as I like the colour once its on.

Application is lovely and easy due to the fat fat brush (my favourite type of brush to apply nail polish). Though the consistency can be a little runny so just watch out!

What do you think? I think it's a great spring shade and would suit most skin tones.

Overall I like this nail polish though its a tad expensive and I would certainly look at more shades. Though it might be the first nail polish I actually finish!

Have you tried them? Do you have a fave shade?


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Neutrogena T/Gel Therapeutic Shampoo

So this is more a a rave about a life saver products rather than a review.  I also go back to this is if I'm having issues with scalp and after trying the Percy & Reed Splendidly Silky Moisturising Shampoo my scalp was in a right state.  It just wouldn't stop itching - it was on fire!

Now whenever I have any issues with my scalp I turn to Neutrogena and in particular their T/Gel Range.  They're advertise as Gentle, Effective and Complete Scalp Therapy,

"Neutrogena T/Gel^® Therapeutic Hair Care is a line of dermatologist-recommended shampoos formulated to treat itchy, flaky scalp, caused by conditions ranging from mild dandruff to seborrheic dermatitis. Gentle and pleasant to use, T/Gel^® products leave hair shiny and manageable and relieve itching for hours after rinsing. The complete T/Gel^® line offers different active ingredients and benefits to treat of all kinds of scalp symptoms."

I tend to use the T/Gel Therapeutic Shampoo the most, as it's easy to get hold of in the Supermarket and saves a trip to the Boots/drugstore, but also it seems to cover all my main issues - dry, itchy scalp and dandruff.

I just use in replacement of my normal shampoo and my scalp feels so much calmer within a couple of washes.  One downside - the Coal Tar Extract gives the product what can only be described as a 'funky' smell that does remain on her hair, but by the time I've used some leave in conditioner and frizz control serum it does die down a bit!

Overall if you have any problems with your scalp this is just the best thing our there to fix it.