Wednesday 27 June 2012

Review: 17 Wild Metallic Cream Eyeshadow

Hi everyone,


I've been testing out some new cream eyeshadows this week that caught my eye in Boots at the weekend. They are by the 17 which is Boots own make-up brand and at only £3.99 for 12ml of product I had trouble deciding which colours to get. In the end I settled for Wild Green and Wild Purple, as they are two colours that complement my colouring quite well.


The packaging is very packaging is very clean and simple (clear plastic jar with black screw lid) and I like the leopard print detailing on the top label:


I like the cute packaging, clean and simple
The Purple eyeshadow is a more a lilac with the obvious metallic shimmer. The green is somewhere between an olive and a sage green and almost glitters in sunlight.




The texture is soft and creamy and glides onto the skin, the colours come across just as vibrant and shimmery on the skin.
Wild Purple and Wild Green - With flash
Wild Purple and Wild Green - Without flash
While these colours swatch well on my arm, after trying them out on my eyelids I found that they creased pretty badly. They blend easily as a single colour all over the eyelid but the fact they crease after little over an hour means they don't work very well on their own. However if you put a powder eyeshadow over the top these creams work amazingly as a coloured primer. I know that's not what they are meant for but I'd rather use them for that than just never use them again.


I think from all the good reviews I have read on Maybelline Colour Tattoo 24hr eyeshadow, I will be checking those out instead of buying any more from 17.


See you soon


Jude


xxx

Sunday 24 June 2012

Review: Collection 2000 Lasting Colourgel Liner

Hey everyone,


I had a bit of a splurge on Superdrug's website and my parcel has arrived! I was so excited to test out all the goodies that were inside, so you will be seeing lots of reviews over the next few weeks.


The first of which is going to be the drugstore brand Collection 2000's new Colourgel eyeliner. I have always used liquid liner and have been quite taken with their pen liner recently as a handy make-up bag staple, so when I saw this online I thought I would give it go. 


At a price of £4.99 it is definitely a lot cheaper than other gel liners on the market, with MAC's blacktrack fluid line costing £14 I wondered if the cheaper price would reflect the quality but I have to admit I have been pleasantly surprised.


It comes neatly packaged in a small glass screw top jar, containing roughly 2.5g (the box jar doesn't actually tell you the weight but have worked it out approximately from the price). It is a very matt black, no shimmer, no glitter.


A very simple jar but it does the job


First I tested it on my hand by painting a simple line with my fine eyeliner brush and was very impressed at how quickly it dried to a smudge proof finish. Even a make-up remover wipe took a bit of scrubbing to get it off. I then used it while I was testing my new Avon quad eyeshadow palettes and was again very impressed by the consistency, the smooth application and the long-lasting smudge-proof finish. I even used it in my waterline and it didn't budge!


Left line is using the collection 2000 brush
Right is the Louise Young fine liner brush




The only downside to this eyeliner is the brush that gets supplied with it. It bristles are too thick and the handle is too small. It makes the brush very difficult to hold and fine line work near impossible so I would recommend using a different fine liner brush (Louise Young Superfine Liner is a great example) but for the price of the you pay I think that the gel liner itself more than makes up for the not-so-good brush.


The brush supplied is slightly round and too wide for doing fine line work
It needed to be an flat angled brush instead




All in all this is a very good substitute for more expensive Gel eyeliners and I think I will definitely be going back to get the other 3 colours, the usual brown and the more experimental Teal and Gold.


See you soon


Love Jude


xxxx

Saturday 23 June 2012

Review: Avon True Colour Eyeshadow Quad - Green Flash

Hi everyone,


My avon lady has been away for a few weeks after winning a free holiday for being the best seller in our area, so I had to wait a while for my order. But it was definitely worth the wait.


I order the new True Colour Eyeshadow Quads compacts, the colours were so looked so bright in the catalogue I new I would have some fun creating new looks with them so rather than choosing between them I ordered both.


First up for review is "Green Flash". To make sure this doesn't just become me rambling on , I thought I would show you my photos of the compact first, then a sample of me wearing the colours and finally I'll let you know what I liked and what I didn't.


Avon packaging is the same for most of their compact products




Swatches without primer - no flash
Swacthes without primer - with flash

What I Liked:


  • The packaging is very simple in a classic black rounded square compact
  • In the lid is a very sizeable 2.5" square mirror, which would work very nicely has a touch up mirror when on the go.
  • You get 1.5g of each colour, 6g in total
  • The colours are very shimmery in the packaging and 2 greens complement each other really well

What I didn't like:

  • The compact is called "Green Flash" but only 2 of the shadows are green the other 2 are very similar shades of brown. I was kind of hoping there was going to be at least 3 shades of green with maybe one contrasting colour to allow for light to dark blending on the eyes.
  • Despite the colours looking gorgeous and bright in the packaging the pay off is not that great. As you can see from my swatches above, without any these colours do not have the impact the could do. 
  • Their staying power isn't that great either, when I tried them out I only got a couple of hours through my day before I was doing touch ups (maybe that's why they give you such a big mirror! lol!) 
  • I must say though I haven't tried these wet yet so I am hoping that this will give me the high impact colour I am after.

Overall:
I must say I am a little disappointed by these shadows, although they look great in the packaging and I love the pearly finish, shades like this are likely to worn on a night out with a statement dress or accessories and you don't want to have to be re-touching your eyeshadow over couple of hours on a night out do you.  I will keep trying with these becuase i love the colours so much, but at £8 a compact I'm not sure I'll be repurchasing these, Sorry Avon!  

Come back soon as I will review my other Avon purchases including the second eyeshadow quad "Vivid Violet".

Love

Jude xXx
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