Roses are Red, violets are blue.... my lips are pink, yours can be too!!!

Ha, Ha, Ha!!! Such a dodgy title! I am clearly in a weird mood today!

Anyway I thought I would just do a quick blog on a couple of Rimmel London, lasting finish lipsticks that I picked up in boots last week. I have to admit I have never really been big on lipsticks as I have very pigmented lips and have never really been too adventurous with the old lippy.


The top pale pink shade is Pink Blush and the bottom bright pink shade is In Vogue. Each lipstick was £4.49 from Boots (purchased with my own money!)

For the last few months I have been on a mission to find a pale pink lipstick that lasts longer than 30mins, doesn't leave a gunky residue on my mouth and is a perfect shade that doesn't give me that walking dead look! I won't say this lipstick is perfect but it is pretty dam good, the finish is slight glossy and it is a very moisturising. It lasts for a good couple of hours before I needed to reapply it, and as it faded it did so consistently so I wasn't left with excess product in the corner of my mouth or a weird pink ring around my mouth!


Errrr facial hair!!! Dam the macro function!

The other shade is a vibrant bright pink, something that is a little out of my comfort zone as I usually go for reds rather than pinks if I feel like a splash of colour across my face. So I wasn't sure how much I was going to like this one!

The product applied really easily and consistently over my lips, it was a bit drying which is what I usually expect with long wear lippies but quite different from the pale pink formula. It most certainly needs to be applied with lip liner applied below to keep in place, as it seemed to go everywhere as I wore it through out the day on the edge of teacups and even on my fingers as I touched my mouth.



I will certainly not be relegating these lipsticks to the never wear again drawer and I might even try purchasing some of the other shades in the range!

Trying Something new....

This week I decided to give in and try a different foundation, over the years I have become a Bobbi Brown girl. I use two of their foundations at the moment both the Moisture Rich SPF 15 and Luminous Moisturizing Foundations. However after a brief holiday earlier this month my normal foundation is a little too light for my skin tone and I am not quite into my summer tinted moisturiser. Any excuse to buy something new!!

So I bought....
Yep, I gave in to the masses and purchased Revlon's Photo Ready Foundation in 005 Natural Beige, which is a tiny bit darker that the Sand shade I usually purchase at Bobbi Brown. It is a slightly more pinkie toned foundation so is really good for warming my skin up.

I am loving the pump action on the bottle, it makes for a much less messy application process. I have noticed right at the top of the bottle there appears to be a little colour separation going on, but this doesn't seem to have affected the product that is being dispensed.

I use flat foundation brush to apply my foundation and then I usually buff it out with a little powder. I felt this product need a little more work to get it to blend into my skin but when it was there it was really quite nice. My concerns over the glitter particles in the formula where unfounded, yes it is there but it is very sheer and illuminates my face. I even did the Twilight check by standing in the sunshine and asking my SO if I looked like a vampire (he didn't get that so I had to be a little more specific), his comment was that my face looked really smooth, but not too smooth that I looked like David Cameron (wax faced, British politician).

So in conclusion I give this product a thumbs up and I will probably be using this for a few weeks or at least until my skin colour fade back to the normal pasty grey shade!

xo

You Scream, I scream, we all scream for ICECREAM!!!!

Well for the last two weeks I have been coating my finger nails in the sugary shades that Barry M have released for Spring 2010, and I need to let everyone know that I am really feeling the joys of spring! The sun has been shining for a while now and I have a slight tan which is complimented gorgeously by these sweet looking colours.From Left to right there is Mint Green (304), Pale Blue (306), Berry Icecream (308) and Pale Pink (309). These are the names and numbers on the bottom of each of the bottles, however when you check the website (www.barrym.com) the blue shade is called Blueberry Icecream and the pink shade is Strawberry Icecream. The Pale blue shade is by far the easiest to apply and you could easily get away with one coat. Although because the name is different on the bottle from the new release and the formula seems so different from the others I am a little concerned that I picked up an old bottle. Not that it matters too much! It is a pretty colour, very bright and not too pale. Also I have received a couple of really nice comments from complete strangers on it! The Pale Pink is my least favourite colour it is a very sickly pink and i just don't think it is completely me, but maybe it will grow on me. The Berry Icecream is a beautiful colour and loads of different brands are producing similar versions of the shade this season. It is a delicate pale purple colour with requires 2 coats to give a nice glossy coverage, I like this one a lot.
This is by far my favourite shade of the moment! It is zingy, bright and looks great with a tan. It is a similar formula to the berry and requires 2 coats to give a nice coverage. The finish is glossy and long lasting, meaning it stayed on my fingers until i got bored with it or had time to change, which is usually 1 week!!! I can see me applying this shade time and time again and never relegating it to the back of my nail polish drawer!

All polishes where purchased at Boots for apprx £2.50 each, and they all (mostly) get a firm nod of approval. What is not to love when a product is so cheap and so wonderfully cheerful!

A Sweet Treat!!

Last weekend my boyfriend spoilt me with some Cupcakes from Swinky Sweets, the new destination in Bristol to seek a sweet treat! It opened a few months ago at the bottom of Park Street and has been a worthy addition to the ecclectic mixture of shops and cafes there are there. The beautiful bubblegum frontage tempts at the delights hidden behind the door, and the sweet treats don't fail to impress. I was a little dissappointed with the decor internally, but hey it did open in the middle of a recession so I can't have everything.

The most important thing is the cupcakes and how they taste, we decided to try 4 different ones between us. The first was the Very Vanilla which tempted me with the pink icing and multi-coloured sprinkles, very pretty....
Then there was a Lemon cupcake which is my single favourite most cupcake flavour, and I hate to admit it but as a connoisseur of lemon cupcakes this didn't impress. It was just a little too sweet and sickly for lemon, there was no sourness in the lemon curd to contrast the sweet butteriness of the icing.

The next choice was a triple chocolate cupcake and Wow was this good! It had buttery sweet soft icing on top of a bitter chocolate sponge that was perfectly moist....

And well we saved the best to last a Cholcate Orange sponged atoped with bright red chilli icing, I am quite sad that I don't have a picture of this to share! It was by far my favourite cupcake!

If you live in Brizzle and haven't yet visited Swinky's it is a must! The little shop is a very welcome addition to the city that can bring a little bit of sweetness into everyone life!

xo