lipsticks – sarah fynn

Beauty Blvd Mattitude Lip Liquid Review and Swatches

Beauty Blvd, the brand behind insta worth Glitter Lips launched their brand new Mattitude Lip Liquids last month and I was instantly drawn to them! The new Mattitude Lip Liquids come in 12 bold shades, with a cream to matte formula and vivid pigments.

Beauty Blvd also describes their new lip liquids as long lasting, non-drying and non-sticky that glides on for a smooth finish. I received 3 shades for review: Remedy (Nude), Damn Fine (Red) and Secret Passage (Hot Pink).

Before I get into my review, here are swatches of the shades I received

Review

I love the packaging! It’s not the usual lipstick box you get, the boxes have the shape of lips with the corresponding colour on it. I did think that the colours on the boxes are slightly darker than the actual colour of the lipstick.

The lipsticks come in the standard tube with a doe foot wand which makes it easier to line the lips and apply. I find the two bolder colours: Damn Fine and Secret Passage are more pigmented than Remedy which is nude. The colours look great on my skin tone. Remedy is quite a light nude so I have to pair with a brown lip liner, the other two shades I can get away with fine.

The lip lipsticks go on smooth, feel comfortable and dry fairly quickly. What I really like about the new Mattitude lip Liquids is that they are not extremely drying and they are not sticky. Longevity wise, they hold well during the day and after drinking but I find after eating I have to reapply. The only thing I don’t like about them is the scent but this doesn’t linger.

Verdict

The new Mattitude Lip Liquids are really nice and come in a range of bold colours. I have had these for a while now and even took them on set with me for a photo shoot. If you want matte liquid lipsticks that are not extremely drying these are for you. I love the shade names too and the packaging (I held onto mine for the longest).

The New Mattitudes are £9.50 available at BeautyBlvd.com

Tips for wearing the new Mattitude lip liquids and other matte liquid lipsticks

Always make sure your lips are moisturised before application. I always put on Vaseline before I start my makeup and wipe it off when it’s time to apply lipstick

Exfoliate! Matte liquid lipsticks are unforgiving to the dead skin on the lips: they emphasise them! Not so much with the Beauty Blvd ones I realised but for the smoothest application and finish always make sure you have exfoliated your lips. Use a lip scrub, Vaseline with an old toothbrush or I simply just rub my fingers in circular motions all over.

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Ultimate Drugstore Makeup Kit

A full makeup look featuring 100% drugstore makeup? Yasss hunty! In this post, I am sharing my ultimate drugstore makeup kit featuring 100% drugstore brands! By sharing, I hope I give you some new products to try out and new brands to experiment with. These are products I personally use and love and if I have reviewed them here on the blog, I will leave a link for you to check out! let’s get into it.

My Ultimate Drugstore Makeup Kit

Primer – I never do my makeup without this and I have loads! I am currently switching between a few but I super love the Makeup Revolution Face Primer which is only £4

Foundation- A good base from the drugstore? For dark skin? Some drugstore brands are killing it atm. I am currently loving the Body Shop Fresh Nude Foundation for everyday wear. It feels lightweight and has the dewy fresh finish I love. I have the darkest shade Tuscany but what’s genius about this range is that they have Shade Adjusting drops you can use to lighten or darken your foundation for your perfect shade!

Colour Corrector- I use Orange colour correctors to cancel out any dark areas on my face. Hands down my fav and best one I have used so far is the LA Girl Orange Corrector

Concealer- A super cheap and very popular concealer. I bet you know what I am going to say. It’s the one and only LA Girl Pro Concealers! I have the shade Toast for everyday wear

Under eye setting powder- I used to love Sacha Buttercup Powder as an under eye setting powder until it turned on me. I use the Black Opal Deluxe Finishing Powder in Deep to set my concealer nowadays

Brows- I haven’t really mastered the art of filling in brows and I am so thankful I have thick brows. I always use a clear brow gel to brush them in place. At the moment I am using one from Collection

Face powder- I live for my MAC Blot Powder but on super casual days, I reach for my Milani Pressed Translucent powder which gets the job done too.

Highlighter- When it comes to highlighters, you know Makeup Revolution is killing it right now! I have loads of them but I tend to reach for the Rock on World Baked Bronzer the most. I have swatches of all the highlighters below in my Best Highlighters Pos

Blush– A good pigmented blush is hard to find in the drugstore but Sleek never goes wrong with these. I have 3 of their blush palettes and I reach for the Sugar palette the most

Contour- I’m only starting to learn how to contour so I decided to start from the drugstore. I have been using the Nyx Contour Palette in Dark

Setting spray- I’m a lover of setting sprays! I really like the BodyShop Vit C & E face mists, or the Makeup Revolution Setting Spray

Mascara- It has to be the Revlon Ultimate All in One Mascara. Lengthens and thickens!

Eyeliner- Barry M Kohl Pencil, very nice and pigmentated

Eyeshadow – I’m really an eyeshadow for special occasions kinda girl but if I am feeling fancy I will pull out the GOSH quad. I love the neutral colors and it doesn’t crease either

Lipstick- For lipstick, I chose the Lottie London Liquid Lipstick in Hey Bae, a super casual brown/nude color. I live for drugstore lipsticks and have quite a few.

SO that’s it folks, my Ultimate Drugstore Makeup Kit featuring all my fav drugstore makeup items. I linked reviews/posts I have on products so make sure you check those out for detailed info on them

Finally hit me up on insta with products you would like to see reviewed or to keep up to date with new products. SarahFynn

xoxo

NEW! ColourPop Ultra Satin Liquid Lipsticks

The liquid lipstick game is still going strong! Almost every brand has at least a matte liquid lipstick line to their name! One of the most affordable and well known matte liquid lipstick brands, ColourPop is back with a new formulation in the game! Introducing their new Ultra Satin liquid lipsticks! Matte lips are bomb! They are long lasting and most are transfer proof but some of them are not the most comfortable things to wear! The drying formula can leave your lips looking dry and cracked and without the proper prep to wear these, the whole look goes downhill.. FAST

The ColourPop Ultra Satin lipsticks promise comfort and a satin finish. From all the videos I have watched (guys, I watched a lot!), they look super pigmented and people say they are super comfy too. Beware though, it is not promising transfer proof or long lasting results (compared to their ultra-matte formula) but it looks like they stain lips. They are 16 shades in total (my birthday is coming up just to let you know and I only want 4 shades Frick n Frack, Panda, Magic Wand and Echo Park cough cough ) and it seems the most popular shade is Dopey which is sold out.

Anyway, enough rambling, check out these swatch videos!

MAC LIPSTICK COLLECTION AND SWATCHES. WOC

Hey guys, happy new month! (Can you believe 2015 is just 4 months away?!) Anyway hope everyone is doing well and preparing for back to school. I hope all your summer plans were successful and was a nice welcomed break!

So today’s post is something a bit different. It’s a collection with lip swatches of my mac lipsticks! I hope it helps someone trying to find suitable shades for their skin. ( I also made a video you guys for YouTube, bear with me whilst I laugh at myself and edit it hopefully I can edit this post later to include it)

But I decided to do this because there isn’t many lip swatches on YouTube for WOC especially. And sometimes the swatches on the hand do not do the colour justice. Also I found that most people combine the lipsticks with lip liners/other lipsticks whereby interrupting the true colour of the lipsticks, so with my swatches no other colours used! Just lipstick and lips LOL. Since I am terrible at describing these colours, I got the ‘official’ description from the mac website for you! Also I have linked a few videos of some lovely ladies on YouTube whose lip swatches helped me pick some of my colours. Check them out they are very useful.

If you are interested in the acrylic lipstick holder ( I’m sure by now everyone has heard of them) I got mine from eBay for about 2 pounds I think but I just found really good ones and bigger too on amazon. click on the picture. it will take you straight there. They are perfect for people who like to display their makeup.

Ok guys this post may be a long one. Sit back and relax. And whilst you are here check out my eBay store. (http://www.ebay.co.uk/usr/slimtings1?_trksid=p2047675.l2559)

Let me apologise in advance some of these pictures don’t show the true colour because of the lighting. Sorry guys.

Ruby woo- vivid blue red. Very matte

All fired up- bright fuschia matte. ( retro matte)

Flat out fabulous- bright plum matte ( retro matte)

rho virgin hair. kenya moore inspired colour. check out the posts on these!

Heroine- bright purple. Matte finish.

Pink nouveau- bright pink. Satin finish

Viva glam 2- muted pink-beige with shimmer satin finish

i promise you i dont walk out of the house like this! this shade is a bit light for me so i always mix it with a darker nude

Vegas volt- full power coral. Amplified creme

Up the amp- lavender violet. Amplified crème

Half and half- creamy pink amplified creme

Alright folks thats all! I do apologise for the lighting. But these videos do the shades justice.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=omO0Bc0Gik8

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wVwfPAP9JNs

http://youtu.be/RekhGOSfxTY

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stay blessed xx

SLEEK MAKEUP: COLLECTION, SWATCHES AND THOUGHTS

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Hey guys, I hope everyone is doing well. (Wow second post today, I’m on fire!). Anyway I have been recently contact by some ladies to do a makeup collection and as I love sleek products right now I decided to do a sleek make up collection. I don’t have a lot of their products, I recently bought some and it’s on its way in the post but that is another story I am going to tell you about now.

So if you want to try sleek products and unless it’s your only choice I do not recommend purchasing online ( from their website that is) It is a UK based company so you can walk into your local boots or Superdrug or the beauty supply stores and get yourself what you want. Why do I say this?

Well-

When I was in Spain and I couldn’t get my hands on their darker shades I ordered some products online. It took a while to get to me and I thought maybe it was because of my location (however even with all the other stuff I bought online from the UK, everything took week tops). so I emailed them and they replied in their own time later saying yh its going to take a while
They came out with their new foundation range- the bare all foundations which I really wanted to try. But it wasn’t available in Spain for swatches. I emailed them to recommend what shade they would suggest telling them that I was a shade deep in their BB cream. That email is yet to be replied. I am now back in the UK and have gone to superdrug and swatched them. Thank you.
Recently bought a few more things online (which I wanted to include in this post) and paid for 3 days tracking. I had problems with tracking so once again I emailed them. And they said they’re courier was having problems etc. so I am yet to receive my items.

I had wanted to include those items in this post especially the powder because I havenot seen that around but I will just update the post once they are here. So I got the powder and a replacement bb cream and a blush by 3 palette in pink sprint. (If you search on YouTube you will find some swatches)

Any way moving on my collection of sleek products is not the biggest but I have got some essentials. So I have the sleek bbcream in dark, 2 blush palettes: one in sugar and the other in lace. One face contour kit in dark. And 3 lipsticks: mystic, exxagerate and amped.

Collection/swatches/thoughts

Bb cream (dark) – I LOVE this bb cream. I came across this when I was on the search for a bb cream that actually fits my skin tone; most of the drugstore brands fit the pale to lighter skin tones. So when I found this I was so happy. It is full coverage and I didn’t expect that from a bb cream but it’s ok. It works like a charm. It’s very breathable and buildable. And I don’t get breakouts from it. (Which is a plus) and for £8.99 you get 50ml of product. Good value for money.

2. Face contour kit (dark) – I love the highlighter in this palette. It is so pretty. I love that they did a combo palette with the dark powder and the lighter powder for highlighting. the only problem I have with this is the power is too dusty (lol I don’t even know if this is a valid problem) for £6.99 you get 14g of product and a good sized mirror

3.Blush by 3 palette in LACE. The shades are crochet, guipure and Chantilly. I love this palette. Combo shades of both matt and shimmer powders. And a good sized mirror. My fav in this palette is Chantilly and I usually wear this wear a nude or neutral pink lip.

from left to right: chantilly, guipure and crochet

4. Blush by 3 palette in SUGAR. the shades are turbinado, muscovado and demerara. this is my fav pallete. fav shade has to be demerara. It looks so good with a fuschia pink lip or matte nude lip. (If you are thinking of getting any of these palettes which I think you already have anyway, try this pallete the shades are gorgeous especially against darker skin tones.

from left to right: demerara, muscovado and turbinado (lol and me in the mirror)

All the palettes have a total of 20g of product each that’s about 6.6g per blush. Pallete are either £9.99 or £12.99 each. Not sure

5. Lipsticks- I love their lipsticks and I am looking to get more shades. It’s very affordable (1/3 of a mac lipstick) and they have a variety of shades. The only shade I do not like this exxagerate. I love the purple colour (guys this is a dupe for mac heroine) however it has shimmer in it and I HATE SHIMMER on my lips. So I will be selling that soon on eBay. ( whilst you are here perform a seller search on eBay for slimtings1 and check out my items, very good quality used clothing or makeup and accessories) I have hardly worn it. Lipsticks are £4.99 each and you get 3.5g of product.

from left to right: mystic, amped and exxagerate and the lip pencil

I love the sleek packaging. The matt black finish makes and gives the products a more expensive feel. The palettes are fairly easy to open and close. I think my favourite product from sleek is their bb cream. I am to try more of their products but we will see as time goes on. They came out with the new foundations, CC creams, a limited edition eyeshadow palette and 6 lip gloss shades. If you have any of these products, let me know how they are working for you.

Other place you can get the sleek products online is amazon, check out their range by clicking on the image >>>>

That’s all folks; I hope you have a wonderful day, until next time… bye xx

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