Essie Chinchilly

Chinchilly is my first and only Essie nail varnish. After hearing great reviews about the brand I decided to try one out. The colour of Chinchilly to me, is a kind of  greyed-out mink brown. The application and coverage was fine, I loved the colour and there was fairly decent chip resistance.

Would I purchase Essie again? Yes, but not in the same way that I buy OPI or how I plan to buy more China Glaze. Essie just doesn't really do it for me. Yeah, there's one or two colours that I like the look of such as Turquoise and Calicos and I'll probably get that, but I'm not going to be keeping track of the collections or seeking out the best colours.

(The application looks dreadful in that picture!)

All in all, it is a good varnish, I can't deny that, but as a personal preference I won't be aiming to build up a collection of Essie nail varnishes!

February Favourites

I can't believe that I'm doing my February Favourites post already! This month has gone unbelievably quick - probably because it's missing 2 days lol!

Now down to the good stuff!

Mac Pro Pan Palette 

I mulled over the idea of getting a pro pan palette for quite a while. I loved my eyeshadows in their cute little pots but sometimes opening up all the little pots in the morning took time, not to mention they take up quite a lot of room. At the time I only had 6 eyeshadows, so I can't realllly accuse them of taking up too much space but I knew over time my eyeshadow collection would grow and to be honest the thoughts of having a drawer full of little eyeshadow pots that I had to root through every morning was not my idea of fun.

The other thing I was wary about was having to depot my 6 current eyeshadows. I knew I was better to be attempting it when I only had 6 and not 60 but still I was kind of nervous about it.
I finally decided that a palette was the way to go and took the the plunge and bought a 15-pan palette. Thankfully my depotting went without a hitch (kind of - I completely shattered club but managed to put it back together thanks to YouTube!).
I am thrilled with my palette, it really is so much more efficient in the morning and it looks so pretty! Thanks to my most recent haul I now have it completed, with two extra shadows in a 4-pan quad, which I bought for travelling. I'll have to pick up another 15-pan one the next time I'm at a Mac but for the moment I'm delighted with one complete one! Someday I'll have a palette for each colour!Woot!





Sanctuary Salt Scrub
I'm not going to say too much about this as I have a review coming up on it during the week(which I meant to have up before this one - d'oh) but it is amazing stuff! Being addicted to it since I bought it near the beginning of the month!

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Ok so I only started using it over a week ago but it is so much fun that it deserves to be in my favourites!

Herbal Tea of the Month: Pu-reh Blackcurrant Tea


Yummy. And it's a cool shade of purple! Smells slightly weird but I think that happens all blackcurrant based drinks when they're heated. I don't think it'll pass out last months favourite of Lemon and Ginger, but it has definitely been one of my main go-to herbal teas this month:)

That's my favourites for this month, not too many beauty/make-up related probably because I was just in love with my mac palette for the month!

GOSH Peachy

Colour wise, this nail varnish is stunning. A beautiful coral, with orange/peachy hints but no pink tints, which is nice for a change.

The major letdown with this nail varnish was its application. Atrocious. It wouldn't dry for ages. At first I thought it was because I had put the coats on too thick and after denting the nail varnish one too many times and having it pushed completely to one side of one of the nails, I gave up and took it off.

Take 2: This time, I decided to put on really, really thin layers of varnish and wait as long as I could for it to dry. It worked!! Nearly. I still managed to dent my ring finger:-/



It's such a pity as it's such a gorgeous colour, perfect for brightening up a look. I'll wear it again but I'll probably put it off as long as I can because it's such a pain to apply. And I'll have to do a 3-coater the next time as I can still see a visible nail line after 2-coats:-(

In short; stunning colour, shame about the application.

And it was impossible to capture it's true colour in a picture! Argh, it really doesn't like me!! These pictures are  showing it a bit more neon than it is in real life.:-/

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It just occurred to me that I didn't officially tell ye that I'm now on Twitter!:)

I suppose it doesn't really warrant its own post but meh I'll do it anyway!

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Mac Makeup Haul!

This haul was not exactly planned. I ended up having to go somewhere and where was a Mac counter (oh no). I had 6 depotted eyeshadow pots with me to B2M so I knew I'd get a lipstick anyway. I told myself that I wouldn't get any eyeshadows as it wasn't  a pro store and I didn't want the hassle of depotting more eyeshadows just yet when there was other things that I knew I wanted to buy.
So the things I had planned on getting was more brush cleaner, a fix +, a fluidline and a 187 brush. That was plenty I decided.

However, when I got to the counter.....they had pro pan eyeshadows. Well that threw me! And I went a bit mad buying more than I intended lol! Ah the dangers of mac! This will definitely be the last mac haul for quite some time though.

                                                                     The haulage!

                                                    Lipsticks in Viva Glam Gaga and Myth. 

                                                              Fluidline in Rich Ground

                                            Pro Pan Quad, Brush Cleanser and Fix+ Lavender

                                                       Brushes 187 and 224

Eyeshadows L-R: Phloof!, Steamy, Satin Taupe, Expensive Pink, All that Glitters, Beautiful Iris and Paradisco. 

That should keep me going for a while lol!

Review: Revlon PhotoReady Foundation

This was the foundation that I bought in my 'necessities haul'.
I've been using a Bobbi Brown foundation since the summer, which I have found wonderful but unfortunately there is no Bobbi Brown counter near me and when I ran out of it, obviously I needed to replace it with something!

My local pharmacy had an offer on Revlon foundation, €14.50 instead of the rrp of  €19.95.  I had never tried a Revlon foundation before but I was willing to go out of my comfort zone and give it a go.

It is a liquid foundation (which is what I always use for my primary foundation) and I have being using shade 003 Shell Coquillage. It is what I'd call a medium coverage foundation, which is certainly a change for me as most foundations that I have used are very light coverage. The application is good although on a few occasions I have felt that it is a bit 'masklike' both in feeling and appearance. However, I feel that this has happened because I've been a bit heavy-handed with the brush and is not a fault of the foundation itself.
It definitely lasts all day and I haven't experienced any flakiness on my cheeks which I'm prone to due to my dry skin.

Overall, I'm extremely pleased with this foundation and I'll definitely finish the bottle. Would I buy again? At the moment I'm not sure. While I like the product, I don't think it's an absolute saviour of a foundation that I want to keep using forever. I'll see how I feel when I'm nearing the end of the bottle!lol!

China Glaze Peace on Earth

What a gorgeous colour! The application for this was flawless. It wasn't streaky at all, it just glided on smoothly and even with the first layer, had a really good opacity.

I believe I used 3 coats in these pictures. It's an olive toned green with goldy reflects. So, so pretty, I couldn't stop taking pictures!:D

 

This is only my second foray into China Glazes nail varnishes, with my first one being Fairy Dust. Fairy Dust is a silver glitter suspended in clear jelly, which I've used as a topcoat, so it's hard to rate it as an actual nail varnish colour and on it's application. 

After trying Peace on Earth, I'm glad that I've purchased other China Glaze colours and will definitely be buying more!:) 

What are your favourite China Glaze colours?