Showing posts with label NYX Cosmetics. Show all posts
Showing posts with label NYX Cosmetics. Show all posts

Wednesday, 22 August 2012

Eye Look #2: Teal Glitter!


    Another recent look by me. I was trying something new with my makeup, trying to add more colour into my looks as I'm not the biggest user of colours normally but I always like to keep doing different things. 
    I recently bought a couple of NYX Glittered Eyeliners, and one of those was a gorgeous Teal coloured liner. It looks absolutely amazing on all eye colours, probably mostly on brown eyes but sure my blue eyes will have to do. 

    Teal and Black, defo a combination I would never wear. First up, I placed one of my new shadows from Inglot, no.32, across my lid. I really packed on this colour so that the teal would come up super strong. I then blended this out with Mac's 'Swiss Chocolate', a rich caramelly brown colour which is what you see in the photo blended above my socket. This helps to act as a blending colour so that when I used the black shadow it makes it super easy to blend.
    I used Mac's 'Black Tied', a sparkly black (looks gorgeous as an eyeliner), and placed it in the outer third of of the socket blended upwards and towards the teal. You need to make sure that the black is blended nicely with the teal in the lid. The next step is to draw the liner, I used my normal Inglot 77 Gel liner in Black. I brought this into the waterline and smudged out 'Black Tied' under the eye.
    The final step was using the NYX Glittered Eyeliner on top of the no.32 teal shadow. I simply kept applying this until I was happy with the final product. This gives a gorgeous sparkle to the eyes and really finishes off the look!!
Products used.
Glitter really changes the end product of eyeshadow. And also makes a nice change from just simple matte shadows!

What are your thoughts on this glittered look? Would you use glitter in you night time eyes?? Let me know what you think! :)

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Kate xXx

Wednesday, 1 August 2012

Mini Haul!!

So, apparently I am beyond crap at a 'spending ban' and I think I might have only lasted one measly day at stopping myself from buying anything but sure....here's a mini haul of things I have bought in the last little while (I have bought a lot more but I lost my new Mac Lipstick :( and the others things will come in a later blog). Also, these products were all bought online of which I will leave links to as well!!

Honour Blush; RoseGold Blush
First up, Sleek Cosmetics. I bought two blushes, one of which I had tried to buy before but they were out of stock. I bought RoseGold Blush, a gorgeous pinky colour with gold through it, it is a lot sheerer than I had thought it would be so I have being applying it along with another colour but it does highlight the cheeks nicely and is nicely natural. The second product I got is also a blush (although I thought it was a bronzer when I bought it). It is a limited edition product from Sleek which they brought out for the London Olympics. It is a lot more purpley brown than I would like so I haven't used it that much, but it does look nicer on the skin than it does in the pan. Bought these blushes were 5.50, a very good price particularly for the quality of products you get. (Also the shipping from the UK is around 9euro, expensive enough). Ordered from SleekMakeup.

Next, is from another random makeup brand, NYX Cosmetics. I ordered these from Cherry Culture, an American website as the brand is American itself. These products were all on sale on the websites, probably the reason I bought them at all (and the colours seriously attracted me, Magpie much??? )
4 lipglosses, 2 glittered eyeliners. The lipglosses (Mega Shine Lipgloss) are amazing, the smell alone is fantastic, smells exactly like bubblegum, YUM! The four colours I got were, L-R: DollyPink, FrenchKiss, AfricanQueen, Pop. Pigment is fantastic and did I mention the scent??? :O (French Kiss is my least favourite, very metallic on the lips, a look I don't like and the pinks a gorgeous, Orange one is mainly a sheer lipgloss with glitter in it, bit disappointing to be honest). The glittered eyeliners (Crystal Pink & Crystal Aqua) have brilliant pigment, not something I will be using a lot but I have a certain look in mind, I'll keep you posted. Altogether I spent around 30euro including shipping from America, I was really pleased and the products came pretty quickly. Thumbs Up from Me!
Swatches, on my freckly hand :D


Have any of you used NYX or Sleek before? What do you think??
Thats all from me for now, check out the websites, both are worth a look for sure!!!

Thanks for reading!
Kate xXx