Some Autumn Favourites

Today's post features some of my favourite products for lips and tips that I've been wearing a lot of during these past autumnal months. The perfume I included is Flower by Kenzo and it is one of my all-time favourite perfumes. It's a heavier floral scent, perfect for this time of year.

Nail polish wise, I have loved wearing these 5 shades - when I'm not trying out new polishes of course! I'll link to previous post swatches if I have them. 

• China Glaze Riveting is the ultimate orange polish.
• OPI Vampsterdam is a great, deep purple.
• Chanel Fantastic is a mauve pink with and intense shimmer undertone.
• Chanel Particulére is my favourite mushroom brown.
• Finally Essie Bahama Mama is a new but instant favourite of mine. A gorgeous plum-pink.

I have three lip colours that I have reached for over and over again these past few months and I can see this trend continuing for the next few! 

If I just want a quick wash of berry colour I've been using the Revlon Lip Butter in Berry Smoothie. Very easy to apply and is my current favourite daytime colour. Unfortunately Berry Smoothie is one of the lip butters unavailable here but I managed to get it for a good price on eBay (Brand new of course!!)

My next favourite is another Revlon lip product, this time one of their Just Bitten Kissable lip stains in the shade Crush. This is a highly pigmented berry colour and is perfect for wearing at night. I really like all of the Just Bitten lip products that I've tried, I'll do a review post soon. Very impressed with so many of their products releases this year.

The final product is a lipgloss by MAC in the shade Dreamy which is a purple/pink colour with slight gold reflects. It's a colour that I never would have gotten myself but my mum picked it up for me when she was away and I love it. It is beautiful layered over the berry shades. Although it does mute the berry shade slightly, the combination that it creates looks fantastic.

What have your favourite products been this Autumn?

Some New Stuff From Boots!

I've been lurking in my local Boots for the past few weeks waiting for them to stock the new Revlon and Maybelline items. I was  getting angsty as I saw on Twitter that all the Dublin and larger stores seemed to have them all in stock already. Oh, the joys of country living!

Eventually, I went in last Thursday evening and there they were, the Revlon Lipbutters and Maybelline Colour Tattoo eyeshadows. And as a bonus, there was new shades in the Revlon Colourburst lipgloss range! Delighted.

I was relatively restrained with my purchases but I know I'll be picking up some more soon.

Colour Tattoo Eyeshadow in On and On Bronze, Lipgloss in Bellini, Lipbutters in Candy Apple and Cotton Candy.

Swatches - On and On Bronze, Bellini, Cotton Candy and Candy Apple.

Have you picked up any of the new items yet?

Collective Haul: February 2012

This month was a fairly heavy buying month mostly, nail varnish.

Most of the make-up items that I got were earlier in the month and were featured in this post.

My excuse for all the nail vanish you're going to see?....new collections and they ALL called to me. What's a nail polish addict to do?

China Glaze Electropop collection. The 'Lights' part.

                           

L-R Fuchsia Fanatic, Dance Baby, Electric Beat, Kinetic Candy, Sweet Hook and Gothic Lolita.

Most of the OPI Holland collection. I absolutely adore this collection and I think I'll get the final 3 as well. I've never being more in love with a collection.

L-R I Have A Herring Problem, Dutch Ya Just Love OPI, Pedal Faster Suzi!, Red Lights Ahead...Where?, Did You Ear About Van Gogh?, Gouda Gouda Two Shoes, Thanks A Windmillion, I Don't Give A Rotterdam and Vampsterdam.

Some miscellaneous nail varnish I picked up.

L-R Butter London Trout Pout, OPI Bikini Envy, Venus di Violet, Fly, China Glaze pull Me Close and Magnet, Essie A Crewed Interest, Go Overboard, Navigate Her and Van D'go.

And I still managed to pick up some more make up stuff!

L-R Bioderma Créaline H2O, Boscia Black Mak, Revlon Lip Butter in Peach Parfait, Nars Eyeshadow in Lhasa and Maybelline Falsies mascara.

Phew! That was way too much spending this month. Definitely not buying much for the next few months!

Review: Revlon Lip Butter in Peach Parfait

I caved. I just couldn't help it. I couldn't wait any longer to try out a Revlon lip butter. I certainly didn't want to wait until April to be able to get them here. And so I went to eBay. 

For my first foray into the world of the much hyped Revlon Lip Butters I decided to only purchase one. The chosen one was Peach Parfait.

(It came completely sealed thankfully!)

Peach Parfait is deeper than a nude.  It really was as surprisingly pigmented as everybody says.

The colour. 

Did I like it?: Yes. I found it to be moisturising with good colour pay-off. The colour wasn't extremely long-lasting but after all it is essentially a tinted lip balm so I wasn't exactly expecting 24 hours worth of wear time. The only gripe I had was that I could slightly feel the gritty texture from the small amount of glitter in it. However, I think that was only because of the shade it was and that not all of them will be like that.

Cost: $14.50 including shipping from eBay. Roughly converts to €11, which is what I've heard they will be priced at here.

Re-purchase: Definitely. However, now that I have one I'm content enough to wait until I can buy more here, seeing as I won't even be saving any money.

Have you tried any of the lip butters? Are you excited for the launch of them here or are you just a bit meh with the whole thing?