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Swatches: BM Beauty Mineral Eyeshadow in Dusty Road

Dusty Road - golden beige (shimmer) Immensely pigmented, natural mineral formula & gorgeous colour This product is part of the Earthy Princess Collection. I have the 1g half sample size, full size is 2g! £7 - BeautifulMovementsCosmetics.com

Haul: Recent Purchases #1

I am going to share with you a few recent purchases I have made. I haven’t included necessities, such as, deodorant because they are repetitive, so I just decided to include make-up items and items I know will be mentioned in a blog post at some point. I haven’t really bought much and to cut down reading time, I have simply included the name of the product, how much I bought it for and where I bought it from. Maybelline Mega Plush Mascara £5.99 Superdrug Revlon Just Bitten Kissable Balm Stain in Cherish £5.99 Superdrug.com Max Factor Wild Mega Volume Mascara £4.99 Superdrug.com Essie Summer 2013 Collection £11.95 BeautyBay.com Benefit Creaseless Cream Eyeshadow in Pre Nup £9 CheapSmells.com theBalm Put A Lid On It Eyelid Primer £11.60 FeelUnique.com theBalm Down Boy Blush £10.40 FeelUnique.com theBalm Bahama Mama Bronzer £10 FeelUnique.com Sanctuary 5 Minute Thermal Detox Mask £6.99 Boots I hope this pos...

e.l.f Brightening Eyeshadow Quads

I made a massive e.l.f order a long time ago and if you spent a certain amount of money you got ten e.l.f Essential Brightening Eye Colour Quads for free! The packaging is a really small, plastic compact with a small mirror and double ended sponge applicator. The eyeshadows are in triangular pans and arranged to form two squares and one big rectangle. They come in a variety of different shades and all weigh 2.5g each. The ten shades I have are:- Hazy Hazel Shade 1 - dark, taupe brown (matte) Shade 2 - light peach (shimmer) Shade 3 - mid tone purple (glitter) Shade 4 - light, frosty soft brown (glitter) The taupe brown shade has average pigmentation. The peach shade is a bit chalky and has average pigmentation. The purple shade is slightly chalky with average pigmentation. The soft brown shade also has average pigmentation. Punk Funk Shade 1 - light, nearly white cream shade (shimmer) Shade 2 - bright, standard electric blue (glitter) Shade 3...

Swatches: Rimmel Colour Rush Quad Eyeshadow in 002 Smokey Brun

Smokey Brun (002) Shade 1 - dark chocolate brown with sparkle (shimmer) Shade 2 - light brown bronze with sparkle (metallic) Shade 3 - light beige taupe (metallic) Shade 4 - light cream (metallic) Quite pigmented, easy to blend, nice quad selection & slightly chalky I have the old packaging for the quads. This shade is still available in the newer triangle quad packaging! £6.99 - UK.RimmelLondon.com

Review: Benefit Creaseless Cream Eyeshadow

I was first interested in this product because I heard Sippin’ n Dippin’ was supposed to be a dupe for MAC Rubenesque Paint Pot and knew I had to have it. A while after, I saw Flatter Me swatched online and thought how pretty it looked and wanted to add it to my budding collection of potted cream eyeshadows. When I first bought these, they were £14 each, but they have been re-designed and re-released in new packaging and have gone up in price. The packaging is like most potted cream eyeshadows. The pot is made of clear glass and has a black plastic air tight twist cap, which has a bird sticker design on the front with the Benefit logo. On the base of the pot is a sticker, which tells you the shade, amount and what it is. You can apply it with a brush or use your finger and the pot is wide enough so that you can use a sponge if you wanted to. The formula is light, soft and creamy and you get 4.5g of product in each glass pot. Sippin’ n Dippin’ is a chrome peach parfait shad...