Maybelline SuperStay Matte Ink Lipsticks

I tried these lipsticks a while ago and I did recently de-clutter them all (April). I thought I would still share the swatches with you for reference. I only de-cluttered them because I didn’t use them, not because I didn’t like them.

Poet (60) - soft beige pink

Seductress (65) - dusty beige rose

Amazonian (70) - rich caramel brown

Fighter (75) - rich gingerbread brown

Self-Starter (130) - muted smoky peach

Ground-Breaker (117) - dark orange red

Lover (15) - dusty rose

Ruler (80) - marsala red

Voyager (50) - cool toned wine red

Heroine (25) - bright scarlet red

Creator (35) - bright violet

Believer (40) - dark eggplant purple

These matte liquid lipsticks are mean’t to be long lasting and stay on for twelve hours. They should also have intense colour pay-off and be non-drying to the lips. The arrow shaped applicator is mean’t to make it easy and more precise to apply the product to your lips. You can purchase them for £9.99 each from Boots, Superdrug, FeelUnique.com, Target and Ulta.

My First Impressions

They are kind of sticky/tacky when you first apply them, but they do dry down, apart from in the corners of your mouth. It does seem to take a while for them to dry down though. The dark colours are longer lasting than the lighter shades. They do last for hours, longer if you do not eat or drink anything, but I didn’t get to test them for a straight twelve hours. The arrow applicator does make it easy to apply and I find that one dip of product is enough to do your whole lips; you may want to dip in again for the darker shades. I always prepare my lips with lip scrub and then apply lip balm before lipstick anyway, so that they provide a nice smooth canvas for the lipstick to glide on to. I also use lip scrub and lip balm again after I have removed liquid lipstick, I find this helps prevent my lips from feeling dry. A liquid lipstick can claim not to dry out your lips, but I find my lips always feel dry after removing liquid lipstick regardless (hence double scrub & balm - prevention is better than a cure!). Overall, they are the best drugstore liquid lipsticks I have tried so far, but they do not beat my current favourite higher end ones (Jeffree Star Cosmetics).

| I purchased these lipsticks for £6.75 each from FeelUnique.com |

O.P.I Breakfast at Tiffany's Mini Mani Month Set

I heard that O.P.I would be releasing a Breakfast at Tiffany’s Collection and I was really interesting in trying some shades, so when I was browsing the O.P.I website and came across this set, I snapped it up straight away! The packaging is like a white and lilac fashion book and it has a beauty advent calendar vibe. It is a sort of alternative to a beauty calendar. There are five rows with five shades covering two sides of the book. You can open the windows that cover the shades, but it will reveal all five shades, which is why it doesn’t quite pass as a calendar. Plus, you can’t actually take the bottles out like you would a beauty/chocolate calendar. You have to open the sides of the book and pull out the five separate plastic trays which hold the bottles. There seems to be a lot of wasted packaging this way. You get twenty-five 3.75ml bottles of Nail Lacquer and the set contains new shades from the Breakfast at Tiffany’s Collection, and some old favourites already pa...

GUCCI Mini Perfume Gift Set

Today I am going to review a perfume gift set that I bought from Boots.com during their Boxing Day sales 2014. It is the GUCCI Miniatures Gift Set and it was exclusively sold in Boots stores and on Boots.com. I love the concept of mini perfume sets and it’s a shame that not more brands do them! You get to sample more scents from brands, and if there is a certain perfume you are interested in, you would be able to sample it before potentially wasting your money buying a full size bottle of a scent you might not like. In this particular set you get five (5ml) mini fragrances to sample and I actually already bought a full size of the Guilty scent, but waited until I got this set to test it! A big gamble I know, but it did pay off this time! Here are the five miniature bottles of scents included:- FLORA BY GUCCI The bottle is so cute and with a little ribbon bow too. The notes contained in this little bottle are; citrus, peony, mandarin, osmanthus, rose, sandalwood, patchouli and ...

Swatches: Rimmel Lasting Finish Lipstick in 206 Nude Pink

Nude Pink (206) - it is a nude salmon pink with shimmer (frost) It is a beautiful colour and nice and creamy in consistency and although described as a nude pink it comes across more coral and it is very frosty. £4.99 - UK.RimmelLondon.com

Beccafun ♥

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