Too faced Galaxy Glam

Sometimes Im a little snobby and quite often in TK Maxx I ignore the beauty area because there's never anything that catches my eyes and the brands aren't ones I'll use. Recently TK Maxx has had an explosion of great beauty brands available. I've seen a lot of Urban Decay, Too Faced, NYX and Nails Inc in my local store. Last time I was in there I grabbed a Too Faced Galaxy Glam eye shadow. I didn't really look at this in the store, it was one of those impulse buys. As the shade was called moon beam and there's a little running joke in our house about the words moon beam so it tickled me a little and I had to have it. At £3.99 I was really going to complain either.

The shadow is a marbled powder. Its nice and shimmery and catches the light beautifully. Its in a nice screw top tub and you get 3 gms of product. It is quite a chunky packaging but I like it its not fiddly or hard to handle. There also doesn't seem to be a way to depot this one.

The colour is a beautiful black based dark green. Looking into the pot I did originally think it was a black shadow but when \I swatched it at home was pleasantly suprised by the green that came through.

You can see from the swatch the actual colours of this. I love it! It looks amazing as a laydown colour and also so beautiful just in the crease. For me this colour is what I wanted from Libertine, the green black in Urban Decays black palette. But that shade left me pretty disapointed.

Top Moon beam bottom Libertine

You can see the difference in the amount of green between the two. If you've ever seen the black palette or own it you'll understand what I mean about this.

I'm loving this shadow and think I've started a little love affair with Too Faced products. So a few palettes are going onto my wish list.

Do you have this? Have any other Too Faced shadows I should try? Let me know

xoxo - Lizzy

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MUA Artiste Collection

I like alot of beauty bloggers love MUA, I've seen all the excitement about their artiste collectione. Unfortunately for me my local Superdrug is always running out of stock on their MUA stand! Pretty annoying! I'm also not a big fan of buying make up online especially new pieces. The amount of times I've seen something ordered it and when I've opened the box I've discovered its nothing like what I thought it was going to be is unreal! So I do prefer having a tester I can look at in store. So when I finally found an Artiste collection I had a quick look and decided I just couldn't resist it. At £6 for 6 marbled eye shadows, 2 blushers, a bronzer and a highlighter. That equates to just 60p an item! Who can resist?

The palette comes with 6 beautifully pigmented marbled eye shadows. These blend like a dream. The marbled effect changes the colour ever so slightly, but not enough to be noticeable  They have a beautiful shimmery sheen to them. I love these colours MUA eye shadows are always highly pigmented with such a great colour pay off. None of the shadows are sheer and even though they are cheap you do not need to build the colour up.

The colours:

From left to right.

Pistachio: A beautiful pastle greeny blue. Looks different in different lights. Sometimes catches a very bright white colour.
Mocca: A gorgeous ivory shimmery colour. Perfect base colour.
Ice: intense powder blue.
Grape: A sheer purple. This is the only sheer colour
Chocolate: A shimmery golden brown. Almost on the bronze side.
Cookie: A coppery pinky brown.

The Artiste Collection also has 2 blushers, a bronzer and a highlighter.

FRom left to right.

Pink sparkle: a light pink girly shimmery blush. This is pretty pale and great for a sheer flush of colour.
Primrose: A darker matte pinky coral blush. Its still a pale shade so both these are suitable for all skin tones.
Bronzed: A matte bronzer, this one isnt too orangy and is a similar colour to their bronzed perfection bronzer. Its a great colour for contouring, but lighter skin tones might want to be a little careful with it as if you are little a heavy handed with it you will end up looking a little funny.
Shimmer kiss: Am ivory highlight colour, which is shimmery and catches the light perfectly when your out.

I love this palette its what my boyfriend would describe as a 'Download make up item' a few things in one and it is great for festivals or going on holiday saves a bit of room in your make up bag!

You can buy one Here

Do you have this palette? Do you know any other great multi use palettes? 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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Urban Decay eye primers

Urban Decay Primer potion (Top to bottom) Sin, Eden and Original.

Urban Decays Primer Potion has become a must have item for beauty junkies. I decided to purchase 3 out of the 4 they offer (I had a sample of greed and didn't like it enough to purchase a full sized)

Sin: a champagne shimmer primer which is amazing layered under glittery shadows, it just makes the colours pop and adds to the shimmer effect without changing the colour.

Eden: a yellow toned matte base primer which is great for layering with matte shadows, doesn't add shimmer and keeps the integrity of the finish. Also looks fab under shimmery shadows the yellow tones really push the colour that are on the eyes and make them look almost exactly like they do in the pan.

Original: a clear primer base which looks great with any shadow used.

Swatch below

(Top to bottom) Sin, Eden and Original which is just visible.

Why use a primer?

Primers help keep eye shadows on your eyes for longer. They give the shadows a base to stick to and help stop them wearing off. I know with any of these primers I can fall asleep in my eye make up and the next day it looks as perfect as when I applied it. This means you don't need to touch up your eye make up when your out and about!

Top to botton - Chopper along, over Sin, over Eden, over Original.

Using a primer makes your eye shadows pop it adds something new to it. You can see from the swatch about how beautiful Urban Decays Chopped looks over over the primers. I love layering this colour over sin which adds to the glitter in the shadow. Most of the time I do use Eden as I find that where I have greasy lids it keeps the shadow from creasing better and keeps my lids oil free. You don't need to have oily lids like me to use this though I just find it works better for me.

They are £14.50 each and can be purchased at Debenhams and House of Fraser stores or online Here and Here

Which primers do you use? Are there any on the market I should try out? Let me know your thoughts.

xoxo - Lizzy

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