Autumn/Winter Picks 2016

Autumn/Winter have to be my favourite seasons. I'm just a lover of the cold seasons. I think its because I was brought up in Tassie where some days we wake up and its 1 degrees (Celcius) outside and I'm just so used to it. So here are my main picks for makeup this year.

Nivea Men Post Shave Balm: Yep I love this. My review on it went up last week if you are interested in reading it. I won't go on about it much.

Chi Chi Fabulous and Flawless Foundation: I have a review on this coming soon too. But for the price its a damn good foundation.

Mellow Cosmetics Blush in Bronze: I wasn't sure if I'd like this when I got it, but it has become me favourite blush. Its perfect for any look.

ColourPop Cruel Intentions: This is a gorgeous Mauve Blush. Thats all I lean towards on blushes, mauve tones.

Essence Soo Glow Highlighter in 01: Sad that Essence discontinued this. Cause this is amazing.

Ofra Lipliner in Wine

Essence Lipliner in Satin Mauve

ColourPop Lumiere Lipliner: These are all different Mauve Shades. I love them all individually.

NYX Plum Lipliner: Theres nothing left in this, I need another one. If only I can get my hands on it!

ColourPop Lumiere 2: Just bought this, its a tad darker than the original, and I'm OBSESSED.

Australis VelourLips in Doo-Bai and Bar-Tha-Lon-A: Both my current faves by Australis

Mac Velvet Teddy and Mehr: I use them both year round. So they are HG Status for me.

ColourPop Lumiere (Original): I have 2 of these, one lives in my bag, the other in my collection.

Chi Chi Viva La Diva in Checkin In: Very Similar to Velvet Teddy I feel.            

ColourPop Central Perk, Deluxe and Rebel: I feel like I'll be reaching for these a lot

Kat Von D Monarch, Sleek Vintage Romance, Chi Chi Spices: I think these will be my most reached palettes. Especially the Kat Von D one.

ColourPop Shadows Review

ColourPop shadows are something I have tried this year and have fallen in love with. I have a huge collection of them and I'm wanting more.

ColourPop are an LA Based Brand that are Cruelty free and Made in LA.

Their well known for their amazing, crazy feeling shadows, known as the Super Shock Shadows. They are eyeshadows that are cream to powder finish and all in all they are just unique. Its very hard to describe what they feel like, wet almost?

They are super pigmented, you don't even need a base. They also last all day which is great.

They come in a variety of colours and formulas, and here I have shown you 4

Rebel (Green, No longer available. LE Shaaanxo Collection): Matte Formula.

Deluxe (Shimmery Brown, also from Shaaanxo Collab): Pearlized

Get Lucky (Gold): Ultra Metallic (My favourite)

Bae (Purple/Blue/Brown): Metallic

These shadows are super cheap at $5 each, and for postage they go on weight. I've ordered 5 things before and it only cost me $8/$10

I highly recommend ColourPop and I will have collection posts coming up in the next month.

ColourPop Fall Collection Haul

EEEP!

Just got these in the mail and I'm so excited about it I have to post it now on my blog along with a mini review.

ColourPop's Fall Collection is themed around 90's Grunge and TV Shows and just in general things that were remembered in the 90s.

As a 90's kid, I was overly excited for this collection and had to buy SOMETHING. I could've bought the entire collection, but I held myself back.

Central Perk:

Now, if you aren't familiar with the name, Central Perk is the name of the Coffee Shop in Friends. Its where the gang hang out and, well alot of memorys were made there. I was going to buy this Super Shock Shadow no matter what because of its name, but its actually a gorgeous colour. After looking on the website, I was expecting a coffee brown colour, cause y'know, its a cafe? But its actually a brown with a mix of Purple and red. You'll see in the swatch soon. Its basically Bae (Also from ColourPop) Without the glitter and shimmers and in a matte formula.

Mixed Tape:

I bought this because of the colour pretty much. Its a taupe-ey silvery, greyish colour....lets see what colourpop says so I can get a more accurate description.

'Mid-tone cool grey'

Yeah I guess I can agree with that. This is a pearlized formula

Cruel Intentions:

I BOUGHT MY FIRST COLOURPOP BLUSH!

AH So excite! And its a GORGEOUS mauve shade just like I love too. I'm nervous about applying it as it is super pigmented, the swatch below was a real gentle swatch with no pressure barely so its super impressive. It could probably be used as an eyeshadow too.

Central Perk, Mixed Tape and Cruel Intentions

ColourPop Lippie Stix Review

I've owned quite the ColourPop Lippie Stix for quite a while now and I thought its about time I did a review on them. Since I took these photos (Which was about a month ago) I have got more Lippie Stix, in another formula so I may do another review post on that particular formula.

Lets start off with the packaging. I love the packaging personally. Its not bulky, its really slim which makes it hell easy to store as it won't take up that much room. It comes in a white slim pen like, container I guess you'd call it? With the words ColourPop Lippie Six in a silver, almost holographic writing. The shade name is always listed on the bottom of the stick.

When you take off the lid you are faced with a slanted applicator, which I also quite like because it makes the application of the lipstick a total breeze. The shades are all pretty true to colour and are very pigmented. 

Heres a swatch of the three shades I had at the time. From top, Frida (Made by CoffeeBreakWithDani), Westie and Lumiere (Created by Kathleen Lights)

I cannot recall off the top of my head the exact formulas but I do know that Lumiere is a Matte Finish.

Matte Finishes are by far my favourite in the Lippie Stix range. They don't try to a complete matte finish, but don't wear off.

Lumiere is also my favourite shade I own. I'm actually considering buying a back up as I do believe this is a limited edition. On the site Kathleen describes the colour to be a 'dusty mauve pink'. I agree with that and I also like to call it a berry toned nude. As if you swatch it next to a berry shade, its like a match made in heaven.

Compared to the standard lipstick (Lets use Rimmel Kate Moss as an example) There is not much product, which I don't mind because I don't - well I've never used a full lipstick up in my life. I'm not sure how much is in the lipstick but all the website gives me is that there is only 1oz.

I would reccomend the ColourPop Lippie Stix to anyone who is considering buying something from ColourPop. They retail for $5 each and most of them have a matching pencil in the exact same colour (This does not go for all Lippie Stix.)

August ColourPop Haul

Bonus Post Today!

On my 21st Birthday I've decided to post a bonus post.

So lets just jump right into my haul from ColourPop!!

This is Bae, She is a gorgeous Metallic shadow with what I call a twist. You'd expect her to (why am I calling it a her?) Be a dark navy colour but shes actually burgandy with purple/blue/silver iridescent sparkles in it. I love it so much. 

Feather is an Ultra Metallic, so far one of my favourite mediums at ColourPop. Shes a lot more glittery than I expected though, and shes more of a gunmetal. I was expecting a slate grey as thats how shes shown on the website. But I still love her. (Dent in image was made by my nail.)

Feather and Bae

I bought 3 Lippie stix. 2 Sheer and 1 Matte. The 2 sheer ones I purchased were Tiger and Peacocky. A burgandy red and a, red. The last one is a matte formula and is in the shade Blood. It is what I call a Merlot Red Wine kind of colour. I love them all.

I bought an Ultra Matte Lip too just to see what the hype is all about. I got the shade Midi. And shes a gorgeous shade but dries alot darker than shown in packaging. So. I think my feelings are a bit hit and miss with her so far.

From left: Midi, Blood, Peacocky and Tiger

So yeah, thats it for my order. And I've learned a lesson not to order right after a restock or after something is released as I had to wait around 3 weeks for this to arrive.

Top 10 Drugstore Products

I'm a huge fan of Drugstore makeup. I think there are some really great products out there. And here are my top ten! In no particular order at all..

Australis Velourlips:
I'm normally not a huge fan of matte lips, at all. But I must admit these liquid lipsticks are great. Theres a huge colour selection from Purple, to your average Nudes and is perfect for any skin tone. I own the shade Hon-uh-Lulu (I think thats how its spelled?) and I'd love to possibly get more.

Nyx Butter Lipstick:
I love Nyx Lipsticks in general. They (from what I have swatched) are all fairly pigmented and creamy, and this one is no exception. As the name suggests, its a 'Butter' Lipstick so the payoff isn't fully opaque but can be made to be opaque from layering. The one shown in the image is Candy Buttons.

Rimmel Scandaleyes Kajal Pencil:
Boy do I love these eyeliners. They are so damn creamy that you need to put in no effort to put it on your eye as it just glides on there. Nude is a cult favourite and is the hardest to find and I can see why as it is a true nude without making your eyes look dead. I own Nude, Black and Deep Blue and I always get compliments while wearing the blue.

Maybelline Dream Pure BB Cream:
These BB Creams are a cult favourite and are one of Maybelline's best sellers. This is my third tube of it and I love it. The shade isn't exactly perfect but its nothing a little moisturiser can't fix.

Nyx Single Eyeshadow:
Okay so I must admit with this one I've only ever swatched the one shown in the image. But I'm in love. The white is the most pigmented white I have found to date. And I'm hoping to do a tutorial with it soon.

Maybelline Great Lash; Lots of Lashes:
This is my favourite mascara by Maybelline and I've tried almost every one and I keep going back to this one. I have a review coming up soon for this mascara so I'm not going into full detail but lets just say that its great.

Chapstick:
I've been obsessed with these lately and I use them all the time. They are so moisturising and smell great, which is a bonus.

Rimmel Hide the Blemish Concealer:
I've bought this concealer about 4 times and its one of the best drugstore concealers I've ever used. It really does hide the blemish and redness.

Nyx Jumbo Eye Pencils:
Of course these would be in here, they are for sure a cult favourite. Every beauty fanatic owns one.

ColourPop SuperShock Shadows:
Okay, yes, I know. You can't buy these in store. But they are so affordable that they are considered drugstore in a way. They are pigmented and creamy and so easy to apply. I want them all to be quite honest.

ColourPop Wants

Well. I don't have a pen and paper on me, and my phone has too many notes. So I thought, stuff it. Lets make a wishlist on my blog so you can all see what I want.

And if any of you are kind enough and want to buy me one of these items for my 21st birthday, hit me an email! (Just saying cause idk)

ColourPop is hands down one of my favourite 'drugstore' brands because of the quality. These products are phenomenal and -squeels- i cannot get over how amazing they are.

Lippie Stix

Cookie

Lumiere - Limited Edition

Frenchie

LBB

Bull Chic

Supershock Shadows

Sour

Coconut

Bites

Hello

Taco

Daddy

Get Lucky

Hanky Panky

Mittens

Glowstix

Ibiza

Bae

Roulette

Once the items are in bold. It means I have them!

A-Z if Beauty Tag (N-Z)

N is for Nivea. Boy how I love that lip balm.

O is for OCC. Obsessive Compulsive Cosmetics.

P is for Physicians Formula. Which is so bloody expensive here.

Q is for Q-Tips. Or as Australians call it, Ear Buds, YUM.

R is for Revlon. Revlon and their foundations and my skin = perfect match.

S is for Shaaanxo. I could've put her face here but y'know.

T is for Top Shop. I cannot wait to buy more makeup from them later this year!

U is for Urban Decay. Like duh.

V is for Victoria's Secret. Wonder what her secret is ;)

W is for Wot Not. Which you can now buy in Priceline YAAAAAY!

X is for XO By Colour Pop. I want my new order now kthnx.

Y is for Yes to (Carrots). This gloss though.

AND

Z is for Orange Z-Palette. The only thing I could think of.

Favourites | April 2015

Another month gone by, another month to share the loves I had.

First of all this month I swear every day I have worn makeup it has included one of these shadows from Shaaanxo x Colourpop Collection. To me, these are the perfect winter shades and they aren't too dark but are buildable to be a darker consistency. I actually placed another order with colourpop this month including some more shadows and some Lippie Stix. I can't wait to get them and haul them for you guys!

As the nights begin to get colder, the more chapped my lips begin to get, and this is sounding like a poem whoops. But I've been using alot of lip balms this month and my top two are my Nivea Pure and Natural in Milk and Honey and Burt's Bees Rejuvenating Lip Balm With Acai Berry - Now thats a mouthful!

One of my favourite foods this month has been eggs. I truely love eggs and will eat them any hour of the day. I particulary like my eggs to be a tad runny.

My favourite song for the month would have to be Uma Thurman By Fall Out Boy. This song makes me want to get up and dance every time I hear it. Its great.

I didn't get a photo of this product because it lives in the shower and it was wet at the time. But I have been regularly using Cetaphil Oily Skin Cleanser (?) and I will be doing a review on it shortly so I won't talk too much about it here, but I'll say that I have noticed a difference for sure.

I've been trying to get into the habit of cleansing my skin this month and with cleansing your skin, Moisturiser has to be included am I right? I've used some samples this month so I'm just showing what I am currently using. To me, all moisturisers do the same job so I dont notice much difference using different types.

A site I've kinda been obsessed with this month has been OzSale. Though to be quite honest, right now I am over it, mainly due to the fact I went to buy something and It would not allow me to pay via paypal for some reason. And yes they accept PayPal.

And my final favourite for this month has been.....Donuts. I had a Simpsons marathon and thats what I think caused my addiction to donuts, thanks Homer. Just kidding I dont know what caused the addicton actually. It kinda just, sparked out of the blue.

And they are all my favourites for this month! What have you enjoyed this month?