MUA poptastic palette

I love eye shadow palettes and playing with many looks you can achieve with them. I have been playing with MUA's poptastic palette lately. 

The poptastic is a collection of 12  bright colours. A mixture of shimmers and mattes. There is a great mix of colours in this palette perfect for a variety of looks. 

Mine is now a bit battered where I've used it a fair amount wet and dry. 

In usual MUA style the shades are pigmented and beautifully creamy. Normally I find that matte purple shades are awful to work with but the one in the palette is actually rather nice! 

Top row swatched. 

Bottom row swatched

They are beautiful in there own but used over a nice shimmery primer (like sin by Urban Decay) and the colours pop. 

This palette is great for creating a full on colourful eye look or for adding just a pop of colour to the eyes. I love using the greens to add a little something to a neutral eye. Or the golden colours for a bright highlight. 

Just a quick look created with the palette  and Rimmel glam eyes, eye liner in Aqua.

Have you used the poptastic palette? Whats your favourite MUA palette?? Let me know!

xoxo - Lizzy 

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Katy Perry Colour Pop Eyelashes

Once again the beautiful Katy Perry (I have no issues saying I love this woman! She is amazing) has created a stunning collection of false lashes with Eylure.

Eylure are the company I go to for beautiful lashes so seeing they collaborated with Katy I grabbed a pair or two from the original collection. This weekend I'm off to a costume party and wanted some subtle blue lashes. A light bulb went off in my brain and gave me a perfect excuse to buy the Ka-boom lashes. Then reading the information I saw that my greeny/ hazel eyes would look great with the other two pairs in the collection, so I grabbed them as well! There is a set of individual lashes in the range but I just don't have the patience for those.

In the range is:
Ka-boom - flashes of blue
Ka-Ching - flashes of green
Ka-pow - flashes of purple

They are beautifully feathery lashes with the cross over effect. They are nice and long but too in your face long. There not the full on double lash effect that some girls go for. The colouring on them also isn't in your face its very subtle the colours are blended nicely with black lashes of the same style.

I was a little worried that these wouldn't be the right lashes for everyday use. They are a little dramatic but I would wear these for everyday. They don't weight my eyes down or give you the look of having very small eyes.

Even on my eye colour the blue lashes look very nice I do prefer the purple lashes they look so nice on my eyes. Purple is a colour I wear on my eyes quite often.

You can grab these lashes at boots and Superdrug for £6,45. Little steep but very worth it!

Have you worn these? What are your favourite lashes? Let me know!

XOXO - Lizzy

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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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Collection 2000 Lasting Colour Gel Eyeliner

I love a good lined eye. I prefer Gel eyeliner to liquid just because its more fluid and personally I find it so much easier to use. I'm a bit of a black liner addict so I decided a while ago to change the colour and go for a brown to do some really nice browny neutral eyes and have a liner that isn't so harsh. So I grabbed the Collection 2000 Lasting Colour gel liner.

Collection 2000 Lasting Colour gel eyeliner £4.99

It comes in a small pot with a separate brush. The brush I've never really used as it is so small I find it quite hard to handle. Its a real fiddly brush. So I use with the brush that came with my Maybelline gel liner or any of the angled brushes I have.

The colour of this is a gorgeous chestnut brown and it is beautiful on. The formula is great its very fluid and goes on really easy. It is a bit creamy so I have used it as a cream shadow base for eye looks. I did find it was really greasy and did slide of really easy, but I managed to stop this by setting it with whatever brown shadow was in the palette I was using at the time. This gave it much more staying power and kept the colour quite intense. The one thing I did love was I could use a fair amount of the product and get a real dark brown line or could use a small amount just to give a hint of colour.

From the swatches you can see that the small brush included does give a few option as to how you put it on. You can create thin defined looks or thicker lines with one sweep of the brush. The brush is nice it is just far to small for my hands.

Mine is a few months old and hasn't cried out its still nice and creamy and easy to use. Which is great, nothing worse than going to use a gel eyeliner and discovering its completely dried up!

You can pick this up in all good drugstores, Collection is a brand that is pretty much everywhere! Or you can get it here

Have you tried this? Or another gel eyeliner I should try out? Let me know

xoxo - Lizzy

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MUA Glamour Days palette

A few weeks ago I received an amazing email from MUA saying I'd won a give away they were running to win a Glamour Days palette. I was so excited because I love MUA eye shadows and this was actually the next one on my list to purchase.

I love MUA palettes I have a nice little collection coming along now, so when I received this one I knew what to expect.

The palette has 12 shades in with 3 of them being matte colours. The other 9 are gorgeous shimmer shades. I can see why they have called this Glamour Days as the colours included will help make some beautiful glamourous looks which will be perfect for nights out and parties. Its a versatile palette and allows you to create some great day time look. I've used this for looks on days I'm at uni so nice subtle looks with a little make up. My favourite shade is number 3 (3rd from the left in the top row)  Its beautiful and I do find myself grabbing this palette just to use that shade.

Top row swatched

The top row of colours left to right:
1) A light creamy ivory shimmery shade. Makes a beautiful highlight shade!
2) A pearly green with gold shimmer. Quite a turquoise green.
3) A beautiful pinky brown. Looks amazing as a crease shade gently blended out.
4) A matte pink colour. Very pigmented for a matte shade.
5) A matte flesh toned colour. Great for neutral eye looks.
6) A denim coloured shimmer tone. Looks beautiful when the light catches it.

Bottom row swatched.

The bottom row from left to right:

7) A gorgeous purple shimmer. Its very sheer and does need to be built up.
8) A pale shimmery pink, Very goldie in the light.
9) A shimmery gold colour which look amazing paired with shade 3.
10) A matte medium brown. Great for creases and contouring your eyes and also great for eye brows if your hairs dark.
11) A shimmery coppery brown. More browny than copper. Very similar to Urban Decays YDK

12) A creamy gold shimmery shade. Great for simple day looks or for a high light shade. I love this with just liquid eyeliner.

All the shades are so pigmented, one of the main reasons I love MUA shadows, and for £4 for the palette its a bargain! They also blend really well. The quality of the eye shadows far out weighs their small price tag.

So I was a very happy MUA lover the day this little beauty popped through my letter box!

Have you used any MUA eye shadows? What ones are your favourites? Let me know

xoxo - Lizzy

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17 Falsifeye

Im a mascara junkie, trying to find that perfect one is a hard task. So whenever I see a new mascara I'm drawn to it and have to purchase. While checking out Southampton's new Boots beauty hall I came across 17 falsifeye mascara.

£6.49 boots

17 isn't a brand I normally use but in an effort to be a bit more diverse and less snobby I decided to give it a go. I picked up blackest black as there's nothing more glam than a pitch black super dark lash.

The mascara is meant to give you a false lash effect. With a bit of curling from my trustee eye lash curlers this does just that! I love this mascara. It makes my lashes nice and thick without being clumpy and makes them intensely dark. It also lengthens them and gives good definition.

The brush is huge and a bristle brush. Which is great because at the moment it seems to be those plastic bristles or a comb instead of an actual brush. The bristles are perfectly spaced for picking up each lash and giving a good even coat of mascara on each lash. I find that two coats is enough to get a great effect. The bristles are also unevenly sized so they pick up even the smallest of lashes.

This is going to a favorite mascara for a little while I think! I don't think I'm going to find something just as good!

What mascaras do you use? Do you prefer bristles or comb brushes? 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 Big Fatty Mascara

I have stumpy little lashes that need a boost from a great mascara! I'm constantly buying into the hype with new mascaras and have so many of them its unreal! I was a huge fan of the old formula Big fatty by Urban Decay so was a bit skeptical when they changed it.

Urban Decay Big Fatty Mascara £15

 The actual formula of this product is great. Its easy to remove and lasts all day. It doesn't crumble off like some mascaras can do. It also doesn't irritate my eyes and doesn't feel too heavy. There's nothing I hate more when my eyes look really squinty because a mascara is very heavy.

The brush is still very thick and fat. Just now its plastic and a comb design. The end has a ball to lift and separate lashes. The combs are separated by a small gap. With this mascara I find if I wiggle the main part of the brush back and forth at the root then gently pull up I get the best results. I also use the end to push lashes up from the root. This gives my lashes more of a lift. This mascara is a beautiful black which is super dark.

I love the effect this mascara has on my lashes. This mascara thickens my lashes and makes them longer. I do need to use a lash comb to separate them as I do find this mascara a little clumpy. I also find I do need to curl my lashes before I use this mascara. But then again I need to use eye lash curlers with every mascara I use.

What mascaras do you use? Do you like this one? Let me know.

xoxo - Lizzy

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Rimmel Glam eyes

Liquid Liner, every girls best friend! I never stay loyal to one liquid eye liner, There's always something for me to complain about. But finally I've found one I actually like and its been under my nose the whole time!

Rimmel Glam eye £5.29

My local Superdrug currently has an offer where if you spend £6:99 on Rimmel products you get this free. So I got this after buying my usual staples. I was a bit skeptical to use it at first as I always find liquid liners to be a bit annoying. Theres always something I hate about them no matter what brand so I switched to gel liner and didn't look back. Until I decided to give this a try, what was the worst that could happen it was a free promotional gift so I wasn't loosing in anyway.

Glam eyes brush.

I actually liked it! The handle is great. Just the right length and thickness to get a great amount of control and to apply the right pressure. The brush itself is a soft bristle brush. Normally I hate these, the bristles splay out and just make a huge mess but with this one its easy to get a neat thin line or a thicker line if you desire it. I find I can do more with one flick of the brush and do not need to go to back for more product.

Swatched. 

This eye liner lasts all day without going peely or cracking like some low end eye liners do. I need my make up to last all day especially my eye make up, being at Uni I don't have time between lectures to be reapplying make up. So this fits the bill just right. It lasts all day until I remove it. It's also a nice eye liner to remove. Some eye products are pretty stubborn to take off. This one a small amount of eye make up remover on a cotton round and it comes straight off in one.

What eye liners do you use? Know of any other good liquid eye liners? Let me know =]

xoxo - Lizzy

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MUA Prow Brow: The ultimate eyebrow kit.

Everyone wants nice eyebrows. Eyebrows frame your face and lets face it without them we just look weird! After running becoming frustrated with the look of my eye brows using a pencil I decided it was time for a change and some powder and wax was the way to go.

My local Superdrug is a bit hit and miss with its stock so when I saw this and saw it was on offer I didn't hesitate to grab it! Just what I was looking for and more for only £3!


The brow kit comes with 3 different shades of brow powder. One light one medium and one dark. It also comes with a wax, a double ended brush and a pair of mini tweezers. The kit also boasts a rather nice large mirror. Perfect for on the go touch ups!  The packaging is really nice and sleek and is easy to handle.

I use the medium shade in the pan it looks pretty light but once blended into my brows its perfect, occasionally I might opt for the darker shade and rock an ombre eyebrow look. The powders are nice and creamy and really blendable. They aren't chalky or cakey. The lightest colour also doubles up as a highlighter.  The wax is great it slicks eye brows into place and sets them for the day. Its a clear wax so it doesn;t add any colour to your brows. So for them days when you don't want to add colour you can just set them in place with the wax and go.

The only problem I have with the kit is the brush. It is a bit fiddly and quite harsh. Its a blunt brush and I just don't like it. So I use an angled liner brush that I have instead and its fine. I do use the brush for the wax though. The tweezers are great. I always find mine go missing in the sea of my 'junk drawer' in my make up drawers. (My junk drawer consists of false eye lashes, tweezers, excess make up, scissors etc)  So having these in the kit is so handy for removing the strays in between getting my eye brows done.

Darkest to lightest from top to bottom

My top tip for doing eye brows: To avoid that awful too dark look start with the lightest colour and work up to the darkest to find your perfect shade and fill brows in then set with wax.

HAve you used this brow kit? Prefer a pencil? Let me know your thoughts =]

xoxo - Lizzy

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Maybelline Master smoky

Maybelline Master smoky pencil: £5.99

Like every girl I love a good smoky eye and a good dramatic eye. So those great people at Maybelline have created a quick and easy pencil to create just that! The master smokey shadow pencil is a dark smudgey pencil that creates effortless smokey eyes in a flash.

The pencil itself is a jumbo black pencil. Its highly pigmented and blends really well. Its the quickest way to create a smokey look especially when you're having one of those lazy days where doing your make up is a chore. They are waterproof and take a little elbow grease to get off. (I swatched this in store on my lunch break and it was still intact when I go home eventhough I'd washed my hands twice during the day!) I would suggest a primer as it did crease really quick but then I do have greasy lids so everything creases on me! It was really easy to blend out and you can build it up.

Top: unblended bottom: blended

You can use it to line the waterline as well. Multi use pencil! Over all I like this, I'l probably layer a matte black shadow over the top to intensify the effect.

You got the master smoky? How do you use yours? 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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