Showing posts with label pink. Show all posts
Showing posts with label pink. Show all posts

Friday, 29 August 2014

MAC Lipstick Collection

In the last month or two I have purchased a few MAC lipsticks and I have definitely been enjoying them quite a lot as would be expected from a lover of lipstick like me. I am fairly new to more expensive make up so MAC isn't a brand I have owned a lot of products from before so my collection is only just beginning and hopefully will continue to grow in the coming months/years. If anyone is reading I would love it if you could recommend some good ones as I'm kind of spoiled for choice whenever I'm at the MAC counter! Currently considering getting Impassioned.
I have 3 lipsticks from MAC at the moment (pictured below in the following order) - Angel, Bombshell + New York Apple.


If you are familiar with these lipsticks you may well have noticed that they are all of the Frost finish. This was far from intentional, these were simply the colours which I happened to like (please bear in mind that the swatches provided aren't particularly good as my camera hates me today). I am definitely interested in trying some of the other finishes when I next buy a MAC lipstick.
Angel is a fairly subtle baby pink colour that edges towards a nude, although I definitely wouldn't describe it as a nude. I really like this colour but I wear it the least as unfortunately it melted slightly and snapped off. It is now partially reassembled but I'm wary of breaking it again. May repurchase to avoid the the stress of breaking it. You could definitely wear this as an everyday lipstick and would not have to be reserved for more exciting occasions.
Much brighter than Angel, Bombshell is an eye-catching pink colour. I typically wear a pink lip rather than a red so these two lipsticks are great for me. I find it to be the least moisturising of the three but isn't particularly drying compared to some lipsticks I have.
My favourite (and the most recently purchased) of the lipsticks is New York Apple. It's such a gorgeous berry red that you could either play up for the evening or down to wear casually. It is also the most moisturising of the three from my experiences so far. I just love the colour and I feel that it would look good on most skin tones and I also think that it would be more suitable for the Autumn/Fall and Winter months so I look forward to getting a lot of wear from it soon!

Tuesday, 26 August 2014

LUSH Melting Marshmallow Moment Bath Melt

A week or so ago I found myself in Lush, mostly drawn in by the AMAZING smell all Lush shops have without the intention of buying anything due to the quickly decreasing amount of money in my purse caused by all of my other purchases - going to Westfield was probably a terrible idea.
Although I managed to restrain myself somewhat I still came out of the shop with one product: the melting marshmallow moment bath melt, which looks like this -


It had a fairly strong scent while solid which I wouldn't necessarily compare to a marshmallow but was definitely very sweet and obviously a very pleasant scent (although I found that if I sniffed it for too long it became a bit too much).
Being a bath melt rather than a bath bomb it didn't fizz a great deal and took a while to actually completely dissolve and I ended up crumbling it. This isn't too much of a big deal though as it happens with a lot of bath products. It turned the bath pink, unsurprisingly.
This is how it looks in the bath -

It creates a few bubbles and smells amazing, much less overwhelming than when it is solid. Overall it made for a great relaxing bath and I smelled just like the bath melt when I came out of the bath. It also did not stain the bath pink which is a plus. I would recommend this to anyone who likes sweet-scented bath things!