Sleep Lip4 lipstick palette

I love lipsticks All colours all finishes all brands I just love them all. I have so many its unreal! So when I saw Sleep had released lip palettes i knew i had to have one!! 

I choose tease which is a dark red palette. With 2 glosses, a matte colour and a satin shade. 

The palette comes with a little brush. Not something I'd use but would be useful on the go. It is a nice firm lip brush. 

The packaging is usual Sleep packaging. Matte black box with a lovely big mirror. 

Theres four beautiful shades.  

-Spot light a glossy classic blue red

-show off a bright coral red

-Paris bright red

-Dita a pinky red. 

Left to right spot light, show off, paris and dita. 

These lip sticks apply like a dream. They are gorgeously creamy and so highly pigmented the swatches are still stained on my hand! The glossy shades sit perfectly on the lips. They have a fair amount of wear on them. The matte and satin formulas are distinguishable and not as drying as I expected. They are a little harder to work with but the colour pay off is brilliant! 

They do leave a slight staining which i like means the colour lasts longer! They wear brilliantly! I wore spot light to a party at the weekend I reapplied once and my boyfriend had a fair amount of it on his face. We both woke up with it still fairly in tact! 

For £8.99 these are a bargain! 4 good quality lip products for under £10! 

You can pick this up in selected Superdrug stores (who at the moment have a 3 for 2 offer on!) 

Have you tied these? Know any otherlip products   I should try? Let me know! 

xoxo - Lizzy

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Weekend wants

Here are the pretty things I'm lusting over this week. I know its a little late. But here goes!

1 - MAC Fleshpot - I'm a recent convert to MAC lipsticks and I'm always trying to find a nude lippy that is the perfect shade for me. But finding out this one which is pretty perfect is sold out is rather rubbish. So back to the drawing board there! But theres ALOT of mac shades I'm liking at the moment!

2 - Sleek Snapshots palette - I love Sleek, and this palette has a real cute girly vibe to it and so many pretty colours. I just hope superdrug get it in stock soon! £7.99 at selected Superdrug stores or online Here.

3 - Real Techniques starter kit - I'm in love with Real Techniques. I have a fair few face brushes but I'm so wanting to try their eye brushes and see if they're just as good as the rest. Available at selected Boots stores or online here £21.99

4 - Benefit Dallas - I love Benefit powders. Not too keen alot else with them but these are fab. Dallas is a beautiful colour which I have used before in there Powderazzi kit. I love it as a contour colour or a blush.£23.50 selected Boots, Debenhams and house of fraser.



Those are what I wanna get. What items are you wanting this week? Let me know!

xoxo - Lizzy

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Sleek Primer Palette

I've become a huge fan of Sleek make up. I've been looking for some cream eye shadows to layed upnder powder shadows, So when I saw this in my local Superdrug I thought it was a perfect fit for me!

This is Sleeks Primer Palette. Its a 12 shade palette with cream shadows in. They are meant to be used as a base for layering powder shadows on top. You can use them on their own, I do, Just to create a nice wash of colour on your lids. For those days when you want a little eye make up on and some colour but not too much. They also blend together quite well so you can create looks with the primers themselves.

Like with all Sleek palettes this one comes with a lovely big mirror. I love how big their mirrors are, means when I stay at my boyfriends ,whos bedroom mirror is so awkward to get to, I can either use a mirror from one of my sleek palettes or grab my handy table top mirror. The palettes themselves are nice a sturdy. Their matte black and hard plastic. I'm in a weird way not too concerned about these. I don't mind travelling with this palette or accidentally dropping it. There pretty hard wearing. The palette comes with a brush, this brush isn't one of those little sponge ones Its a double ended bristle brush. I don't use it I blend these with my finger. Not something I normally do I'm quite fussy about that.  But I do find these go on better with your fingers. It also has a plastic overlay which I love, this keeps the mirror clean. Sleek also use this to label their shades.

Top row swatched

Top row left to right.
.Moonshine -           A white primer
Calypso -                Electric blue
Ultra Violet -           Purple. This ones very sheer.
Dare Devil -            Bright pink
Pink Frost -            A pale frosty pink
Silver Lining -         A grey/ silvery colour

Bottom row swatched

Bottom row from left to right:

Noir -                  Black
Peach -                A peachy creamy colour
Money tree -        A pearly green
Truffle -                A golden brown colour
Money Honey -    An ivory gold
Hot Wired -         A peachy mid pink

I love hot wired on its own or under Urban Decays Chopper. I also use Noir under matte/shimmer blacks for a full on black look. Or on its own blended up and out for a smokey look.

Sleek say all these primers match shades in their other Idivine palettes. I only have 1 at the moment (another is sat in my mums room wrapped for christmas, ultimate torture!)so I cant really comment on that aspect to the palette yet.

Its a great little palette that has many uses and so far has been used a lot!

Have you used this? What did you think? Let me know

xoxo - Lizzy

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Sleek Ultra Mattes V2

Sleek was always a brand I walked past, under the impression they wouldnt have anything to offer me. Well I couldn't have been more wrong! I purchased the face form palette and loved it so I went back to see what else was on offer. I decided on an idivine eye shadow palette and grabbed the Ultra Mattes V2 Darks collection.

Sleek Ultra Darks Palette £7.99 superdrug

I instantly fell in love with it. The packaging with Sleek is gorgeous and looks much more expensive than the £7.99 price tag. The outside box is stunning It gives the products a real high end look even though you have picked it up at a drugstore. Once you get inside the box and get the actual palette out its in a matte black box which is ,excuse the pun, so sleek in design. The packaging is very durable I've had this in my hand bag all day while I've been on my travels on the train and running about uni. Not one eye shadow has broken or split. As with all Sleek palettes there is an almost edge to edge mirror in the lid, which is great for using on the go.

The palette has a plastic film over the shadows with the shade names on, this also helps keep your mirror clean. There is nothing worse than a dusty mirror when your doing your make up! The palette also comes with a double ended sponge applicator. I never use these I always use brushes, unless I'm travelling light and not wanting to do anything to complicated.

The shadows themselves are beautiful All 12 are highly pigmented with a great colour pay off. Unlike some matte colours these aren't that sheer. I do wear them over either Urban Decays Eden primer or Barry m's eyeshadow pencil in shade no 1. Each shadow is blendable and work really well together. Like all dark shadows there is fall out but this is expected.

The shades. Top row.

Top row swatched

Left to right:
Orbit:  dark smokey teal
Ink: Dark navy blue
Highness: Sheer dark purple
Noir: Black
Dune: A neutral yellowy highlight shade. This colour is very sheer.
Pillow talk: White



Bottom Row

  

Bottom row Satched

Left to right

Thunder: Steel grey
Maple: A light reddy brown
Flesh: A skin tone shade
Paper bag: A medium brown
Villan:: A dark purpled tone brown
Fern: A dark green.

The amount looks you can achieve with this palette is endless. Yes all the shadows are dark but thats okay either don't use as much colour or just mix and match with other shadows, mattes or shimmers, that you have in your collection.

This is the nicest collection of purely matte shadows I have found and is something I will be getting full use of.

*Top tip* When using dark shadows like this, do yours eyes before the rest of your make up. That way any fall out can be cleaned up easily without disturbing your complexion make up.

You can purchase one Here

Do you have any Sleek eye shadows? DO you like sleek eye shadows? Let me know!

xoxo - Lizzy

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Winter Wants

With so many great products out there obviously theres loads I want to get my hands on! So here's my top 6 Winter Wants.

Clockwise from top

1) Mac Lightscapade. This has been on my want list for ages but its always been out of stock. Its the perfect highlighter colour and being a MAC mineralize skin finish I know these powders are beautiful I have soft and gentle and its amazing. This would be perfect for cute winter highlighting

2) Sleek Snapshots palette. I've recently discovered Sleek and how awesome their eye shadows are. I looked at the palette and loved the colours instantly. There's a really nice mix of colours that would create a fair few beautiful looks. The mix of mattes an shimmers is a bonus to. I love Sleeks matte colours and think their fab. So this would be used an awful lot!

3) Real Techniques powder brush. My powder brush is getting a little tatty and I love Real Techniques brushes. The powder brush looks perfect. It looks a great size to get a good even coverage and keep good control of the brush.

4) Nars Multiple Bronzer. I love bronzers but am yet to play with a cream bronzer. I've heard so many good things about this one and love other Nars products This would make for beautiful contouring and to give my skin a nice glow this winter.

5) Benefit Hervana blush. I'm obsessed with Benefits box o powders. I have 4 and this one looks gorgeous with the swirls of colour. Each swirl will give you a slightly different effect which I love! I love girly blushes and this looks to be the girliest of them all. Im also intrigued to try the new brush that comes with Hervana. Its angled to give a contoured effect.

6) Philosophy. The present. I love philosophy, No one really compares in terms of skin care. The Present is a make up primer. Which claims to minimise pores. My pores are always open and are on the big side, so I'm always trying new products to try to hide them. This is the next one on my list to try out and see if it holds up.


Those are my winter wants, what are yours? Let me know!

xoxo - Lizzy

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Sleek Contouring Kit.

I have been looking for a perfect contouring kit for a while, i usually would use a bronzer and either a powder high lighter or a shimmery pale eye shadow, but while I was scanning the shelves of my local drugstore I came across this sleek complete contouring kit. I picked up Light which is great for lighter skin tones like mine. Sleek was originally a collection for women of colour. I used to work in an independent beauty boutique where we had a small sleek stand and alot of the products didn't come in lighter colours. Now the brand has exploded and everyone whos a bit savvy grabs their stuff while its around. (This product has been out of stock in a number of stores for a little while now!)

Sleek contouring palette £9.99

The packaging for this product is divine! It looks almost like a bar of chocolate not a make up palette. It is a nice sized compact. It would easily slip into someones hand bag for the night.

I can see why they have named the company sleek, as all the products are in a nice sleek package. The palette itself is nice and easy to open. So all products are protected from accidental dropping.

The palette has great sized products inside and a big mirror which is always handy so you can contour on the move. The colours are perfect for fair skin like mine. The contouring colour is a matte shade which is great news when contouring.  The high light shade and the blush are shimmer shades.

top to bottom: contour shade, highlight shade, blush shade.

The blush shade is a beautiful burnt coppery orange. I find it to be quite reminiscent of urban decays chopper eye shadow. It does look beautiful when worn. I go get a few compliments on the colour when I'm out and about. The high light is also a shimmery shade in a beautiful ivory colour. This shade catches the light perfectly when your out and about.

All three powders are beautifully soft and blend like a dream on your skin. I use a large angled blush brush to blend these and they look amazing. Together they make my cheeks pop. The highlight and contour also look fab with any other blusher you may have you don't need to use the one in this palette. All three products together give the skin a natural glow

Since buying this I am putting the blush palette they do on my wish list!

Do you use sleek? What products do you swear by? Let me know =]

xoxo - Lizzy

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