SuperDrug Colour Vibrance

I've been trying to find a nice purple coloured hair dye for a while. There are a few brands I stay away from and a few I've tried a few times but for whatever reasons have disliked. So I decided to go with Superdrugs own brand colour Vibrance hair dye in cosmic purple.

I love Superdrugs own brand products as they are all cruelty free and I'm an animal lover and do try my hardest to use as many cruelty free brands as I possibly can.

The purple colour is quite dark on me (my natural hair colour is dark brown) but it is a beautiful shiney purpley colour on me.

The kit comes with everything you need and a generous sized conditioner tube. Nothing worse than a hair dye with a tiny amount of conditioner especially if like me you have fairly thick hair or hair longer than shoulder length. My hair falls to the top of my bra clasp and one bottle is more than enough to cover everything and when I purchased them they were 2 for £4.99 which was a bargain! So I think I've finally found the hair dye I'm going to stick with!

What hair dyes do you use? Let me know!

xoxo - Lizzy

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MUA Gel liners.

I'm a huge gel liner fan and an equally big fan of MUA, So when my local superdrug finally got their gel liners in I had to grab 2. They do these in 4 colours but I hardly wear brown liner eventhough i have been meaning to and blue just doesn't work on me. So I grabbed Fairground and Underground which are black and gunmetal coloured.

left to right Underground and fair ground.

I love these, they're highly pigmented and the formula is perfect for creating defined lines around your eyes. The formula is more creamy than other gel liners, but that;s great means its so much easier to work with. They glide onto the skin really easy and create a nice solid line with one sweep.

 The thing I love doing with this is applying either underground or fair ground onto my eyes and setting with either the black or the gun metal shades from the Undressed palette to create a really strong coloured look.

Left to right fairground and underground

You can see from the swatches that they are highly pigmented. Also once these are on they don't budge, after swatching these I was there ages with a make up wipe trying to remove them. I had to use my eye make up remover in the end. This is the same when you wear them, they last all day. No budging, cracking or smudging.

My absolute favorite part of these is the brush. The brush is hidden in the lid and can either be used alone or be placed into the lid to create a longer handled brush. The brush is perfectly weighted and a great size to create definition.

These are only £3 as well so a bargain!

You can buy these at selected Superdrug stores or online Here

Have you used these? What Gel liners do you use? 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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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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MUA powder blushes.

MUA have slowly started to become a much blogged about brand. Having seen them countless times in my local Superdrug and buying a good chunk of their lip stick range, which I love!, I decided to jump right in and purchase a few of their blushers.

Top to bottom shade 5, 3 and 1

The photograph really does not do these blushes any justice at all!!

 I purchased shades 1,3 and 5.

Shade 1

 Shade one is a shimmery light pink.

Shade 3

 Shade 3 is a dark shimmery pinky brown colour.

Shade 5

Shade 5 is a shimmery coral colour.

Top to bottom 1, 3 and 5

I was so skeptical about using these as they are only £1, having used a few cheap blushes before and finding the pigmentation was very poor and I needed to really build the product up to get even a hint of colour on my cheeks I was so surprised by what I got.  These are so pigmented I find that I often have to blend them out as I've gotten so heavy handed with them.  One quick swirl around with my real techniques blush brush gives a perfect amount of colour. They aren't chalky at all and sit perfectly on my skin. The do kick up a fair amount of dust when picking the colour up but most powders do.

For £1 they aren't in amazing cute packaging just standard plastic flip up cases. The case does allow to pop out the pan so you could put them into a palette if you wanted to.

They were completely not what I expected and I must say I'm converted! For £1 I really can't complain about them. Am definitely going to purchase some other bits from their range.

You can purchase MUA at selected Superdrug stores and online Here and Here

Have you used any MUA products? What ones do you love and recommend?

xoxo - Lizzy

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