Wednesday Wants #23

Heya!

So, I'm not going to get into how terrible I have been (once again!) at doing posts, and reading/commenting on other blogs! I've been super busy this week, but fingers crossed I'll have more time to myself next week :)

 First up, this Sirius Sonic Skincare System. Bit of a mouthful! This is basically a Clarisonic dupe, but is a lot more reasonable at £65 from Boots. This uses batteries instead of a charging station, but the basic electric-toothbrush-for-your-face-principle is the same. I've found lots of positive reviews about this online.

For my Birthday (six days away!!), I am redecorating my bedroom, and how amazing is this wallpaper?! I'm thinking of having this on one main wall, and then a contrasting colour on the other three.  The tricky thing will be deciding between this Indigo version, or this pink one.

Decisions, decisions! £14.25 from Debenhams 

Image from Maccosmetics.co.uk

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Lastly, MAC lipstick in Deeply Adored, from the Marilyn Monroe collection. To be honest, nothing from this collection really blows me away, but I do like the looks of this shade, a nice deep brown red, with a matte finish. I do like the packaging of this collection, but I thought I'd like it alot more! This is £15.50, sold out online 

Thanks for reading, hope everyone is well! :) .

Review- MAC Heroine

Evening!

 

I am in love, and I want everyone to know it. Heroine is the most beautiful lipstick ever, in terms of pigmentation, performance and colour.

This lipstick was a recent purchase, Heroine was released as part of the Reel Sexy collection.

Heroine is a Matte finish, but it's not a typical matte at all. It is creamy, doesn't look shiny or glossy, but also doesn't look dry. It is an incredibly comfortable lipstick to wear, it feels almost moisturising, and doesn't dry out the lips at all.

The wear of this lipstick is amazing, as it stains the lips. I wore this on a night out, and had it on for at least 6 hours without needed to re-apply. When I woke up next morning (I was in too much of a drunken state to take my makeup off!), the lipstick was still  there, and was actually quite tricky to remove.

I find this a really wearable shade, as although it is a more unusual colour, it's not particularly bright or dark, and I think it would look beautiful on all skin tones. 

It is opaque, so you don't need to build it up to get decent pigmentation, and it also doesn't need a lip liner as it doesn't bleed.

Unfortunately, Heroine was a limited edition shade and I am kicking myself that I didn't pick up a back up! I've never tried it, but MAC Violetta is supposed to be similar..

Overall, this is an amazing lipstick, and is currently battling with Ruby Woo as my favourite ever lippy.

Did anyone else buy this? Or know of any dupes that I could get for a back up?!

P.S. I am also thinking of expanding my MAC lippy collection after my spending ban, anyone have any recommendations?

 

FOTD- I can be your hero(ine), baby!

Hey!

Thought I'd do a FOTD post, showing my MAC lippy in Heroine on my face for the first time. I think I am in love with it! I'm also wearing Illamasqua skin base, which I think is actually a really good match for my skin :)

With flash.

 Sorry this is so picture heavy but I am SO rubbish at making decisions! 

Illamasqua Skin Base in 02

MAC Melba

Benefit They're Real!

MAC Heroine 

Collection Lasting Perfection Concealer in 01 

Let me know what you think, if you've tried any of these products etc :)

Thanks so much for reading! 

First Impressions- Revlon Super Lustrous 663 Va Va Violet.

Hey guys!

A while ago, I did a post here about buying a few bits from Revlon and getting a free 'Little Box Of Glamour'. As well as the products inside, it also came with a £3 off voucher to use on any Revlon products. I decided that I wanted a lipstick, (as they are my main love in life!), and fell in love with a shade called 'Va Va Violet'.

Typically the shade I wanted was never in stock, every time I was in town I would try to find it, and eventually this week I found it! I snapped it up quickly, haven't worn it out yet, but thought I would show you a quick pic :)

Sorry for the scary close up, but it does give quite a good idea of the lipstick! I'm also wearing MAC studio sculpt, Collection 2000 concealer and Coralista, but it had been on about 7 hours by the time of this photo, so it's not looking very fresh!

Now, don't get me wrong, I really like this colour, but I'm a bit disappointed that it's not more purpley, and I can't help but think it looks the same as alot of my other lipsticks!

Pic taken with flash

From Left to Right, Ruby and Millie Purple Matte, Revlon Super Lustrous Creme 663 Va Va Violet, MAC Satin Cyber, Revlon Super Lustrous Creme 477 Black Cherry, 17 Lasting fix New Black, Benefit Espionage.

So, as you can see, I probably didn't need to add this lipstick to my collection! It seems particularly like MAC's Cyber, in real life it's hard to tell the difference!

It is a very nice colour though, and I can't wait to play around with it a bit more. I tend to prefer matt lipsticks, so I'm excited to see how it will look blotted- maybe it will show up a bit more purpley then! :)

Anyone got this lipstick? Or got any nice purple recommendations?!

Thanks for reading, hope everyone is well! :)

Lipstick Fix

Anyone who knows me, knows that I am a lipstick girl. Ever since I started wearing make up, lipstick was the thing I enjoyed most. Around the house, I'm partial to a lip balm, to moisturise, but never, ever lipgloss. I just don't like the feel of them, or the fact they don't give you much colour.  In fact, I'm only just coming round to the idea of lipsticks that aren't entirely matte. So, for me, the most depressing thing about having a cold, like I do at the mo, is not wearing lipstick. Obviously it is possible to wear lipstick while you have a cold, but I find that lipstick's just don't go with a Rudolph nose, especially the red's that I favour. 

Make up as a whole is a bit of a nightmare during a cold, foundation doesn't sit well on a dry, chapped nose, and a few seconds after you apply, you sneeze and all your foundation ends up on your tissue! Not to mention the mascara running down your face. But, anyway, to get the point, I though I'd do a post on my lipstick collection. I'm hoping that seeing, and writing, about my different lipsticks will give me the lipstick fix I am craving at the moment!

I've sorted them into colours; Orange, Pink, Purple and Red.

Orange

Barry M Lip Paint, Ruby and Millie Lipstick in 350 Orange (Cream finish)

• Unfortunately the name and number of the Barry M lip paint has rubbed off the bottom! It's a very nice, bright coral colour. The Ruby and Millie lipstick is not as a bright, and has a bit more of a red tone to it. Barry M is the more matte of the two, and last's for longer than the Ruby and Millie one does, although it isn't as creamy, and therefore it's harder to apply. 

 Pink

Barry M Lip paint's in 100 Baby Pink and 52 Shocking Pink.

•  This pale pink is a great one to go for if you've got statement eye makeup on, and the shocking pink is ALOT brighter than it show's up in this picture!

 Purple

17 New Black, Ruby and Millie 585 Purple (matt) and MAC's Cyber (satin)

 

•  I've really been loving purple lipsticks at the moment, and these three are all lovely. As this picture shows, Cyber is the darkest of the three, and the other two are more red. Cyber is my favourite as I find the colour lasts the longest, and is the most purple!

 Red

Ruby and Millie's Red 476 (Pearl), Red 490 (cream) and Red 420 (Matte), Stargazer 106, Rimmel London Volume Booster in 080 Screamer and MAC's Ruby Woo (Retro Matte).

•  As you can see, I like my Reds! My favourite, colour wise is Ruby and Millie's 420, third in from the left, as it is the truest red I have found so far. My favourite in terms of finish is definately MAC's Ruby Woo in the Retro Matte finish, as it is totally matte! There's no need to use Lipcote to keep this one on, it doesn't budge at all!

So that's my Lipstick collection so far. Next time I buy a lipstick I'm going to try and force myself to try a new colour, maybe a lavender or nude, because, as you can see, I'm stuck in a bit of a colour rut!

A small (but expensive!) haul.

So, as it was my birthday recently, and I had a few extra poundies in my account, I decided to visit a few makeup counters. I went on a little trip to the Bullring in Birmingham, (which is the most amazing place to shop btw!), to have a little look around. After mooching around in Selfridge's for a while, I decided to try a few MAC products. I have only ever tried MAC foundations before, but have always heard really good things about their lipsticks. I browsed the colours for about twenty minutes (they have a lot of colours!), thinking that really I should branch out and try a new colour (like a nude) but plumped for colours I wear quite a lot of already, a red and a purple.

MAC's Ruby Woo (Retro Matt Finish) and Cyber (Satin Finish)

I have to say, I'm really impressed by the quality of MAC lipsticks, and I love the smell! At first, it seemed strange putting something with such a strong smell on your lips, but once you're used to it, you barely notice the scent! They last well, have great pigmentation and the colour range is amazing. The retro matt finish is quite drying, so I wouldn't recommend it for someone with dry lips, but is my dream lipstick! When I wear a normal lipstick, I have to blot and apply Lipcote, as I hate reapplying throughout the day, and the 'have I got lisptick on my chin' fear that comes with freshly applied lip colour. With the Retro Matt, once it's on your lips, it's there to stay! It barely comes off on glasses, food and is practically kiss proof! Amazing. 

Cyber is a gorgeous colour, but as I favour a matt look, a Satin finish isn't really for me. I apply this like my normal lipsticks, blotting and using Lipcote, and find that it lasts well, although the colour can seem to separate after a few hours, but I find that's a problem with every dark lipstick i've used.

I also bought MAC's lip liner in Nightmoth to go with Cyber, and I find filling in the lips with this first gives the best results.

At the till, on an impulse, when the lovely lady serving me asked if there was anything else I wanted, I asked for the blusher in Melba. I LOVE buying new blushers almost as much as lipsticks, and Melba seems to be everyones fave. Like the lipsticks, I was not left disappointed by this product! A gorgeous peachy coral, this adds a really pretty, natural flush, and the colour payoff was superb.

The last thing I bought was another blusher from Topshop. I think by then i was on a shopping high, as I definately did not need another blusher! I thought I  picked up Pop, which was quite similar to Melba, but i actually picked up Powdered. 

Powdered is a bright, yet still baby pink and looks lovely paired with MAC's Cyber, and a really high bun in the hair.

Tophop powder blusher in Powdered, MAC powder blusher in Melba

L-R: Melba, Powdered.  Top to bottom: Cyber, Ruby Woo, Nightmoth

 Prices:

• The Topshop blushers are £6 which seems quite reasonable. The packaging, and colour, are gorgeous, and the pigmentation was really good. Definately worth the money. 

• The MAC lipsticks are £13.50, and I am so impressed with them! I really want to buy loads more!

• The MAC lip liner was £10.50, and is good, but i'm not sure that I saw much difference between it and a cheaper version, although MAC does have more colours available than most cheaper companies.

• The MAC blusher was £17, which is quite steep but I can see it lasting a long time!

I can feel a MAC lipstick obsession coming on!

September Favourites..

Doing favourites seems like an easy way to get into the swing of this blogging lark, so here are the products I reached for most in September! 

• Natural Collection Vanilla Body Spray- a lovely, cheap body spray that lasts for hours.  I wear this every day!
• Bobbi Brown Foundation Stick in Alabaster- the only foundation I have ever found that is pale enough for me. Quite full coverage, really nice finish.   
• Ben Nye Lip Brush- really good for applying lipstick, especially if you haven't got a lipliner in the right colour.
• Soap and Glory Fab Pore Hot Cloth Cleanser- gorgeous for cleansing the skin and removing makeup. Has a really nice texture that turns oil like on the skin, and smells like lavender.
• 17 Lastin Fix Lipstick in New black - dark red/purple colour, which isn't matte or drying on the lips
• The Pink Cow shower gel in Mint Candy- already spoken about this, i'm totally obsessed!
• Clarins Wonderlength mascara in black- great mascara with a really thin wand. Lengthens  amazingly, and adds thickness if wiggled at the base of lashes.
• Cosmic Radiance perfume- Britney's tenth scent, I own them all! This one smells a bit like Lenor or some other fabric softener, not too overpowering or strong.
• Cocoa Butter vaseline- smells delish! 

If anyone else has any favourites, feel free to write them or link them below, I love reading them! x