My competition win!

I was so excited last week to receive an email from ELF to say I had won a goody bag from them by entering a competition. I never win anything so I was really surprised. I never really enter comps because I just don't win but thought I would so it for fun whilst I was on my own and bored. The competition was to try and guess what the products were that were blurred out. I got the email from them on Friday and received my brown box on Wednesday. It was definitely more than I was expecting.

Here are the goodies that ELF kindly sent me.

It was even more exciting as I had no idea what I was going to be sent :-)

The first thing I spotted in my box was the beauty encyclopedia for eyes. It contains 12 eyeshadows, 2 cream shadows, 1 eyeliner and 1 brush. All of the colours are really wearable and are quite neutral earthy shades, they range from a lovely light highlighter shade up to a dark plum colour with lots of loves browns and lighter purple shades. They are seriously pigmented colours and looks great on. There are two matt shades and the rest are shimmer. I actually thought the cream eyeshadows were highlighters but I think I will still try and give them a go as a highlighter. There is also an instruction guide printed on the other side of the palette.

Next up I got two of the eyeshadow quads, teal dream and punk funk. I haven't used these yet so can't give a full opinion but I can't wait to try them, especially the teal dream.

They also sent me the lengthening and volumizing mascara in black, I currently have a couple of mascaras on the go so haven't tried this either but again can't wait to give it a go. I'm really hoping this is good though, its only £3.50 so if its as good as some people have said this could save me a small fortune :-)

And last but certainly not least was this cute little box, it contains 10 mini lipglosses that you can attach to your phone. I wont do this but I will certainly use the glosses, there is a good range of colours and they all seem to give a really good hint of colour and not too sticky or too sickly or weird tasting. I've put a little swatch of each of them on my hand below.

I'm so happy with my package, I really didn't expect to win and certainly didn't expect as much as I got. I really appreciate them sending me all these goodies and will certainly be entering more competitions now I know I can actually win. As they say, you have to be in it to win it!

Thanks for reading all.

Hope your all having a great weekend.

Lots of Love

CF x x x

Depotting Urban Decay Primer Potion

Hi all,

I had a couple of UDPP minis that came with some Urban Decay palettes and gift sets. I find them great for travelling but unfortunately they both ran out. I decided to cut open the bottles to see if I could get any dregs out to give me a few more uses. I was amazed by how much came out.

 

Here are the tubes after they were cut open. I just used an old bread knife. (If you do this PLEASE be careful, especially with minis as you don't have much finger room) They cut through pretty easily.

 First tube after it was cut open. As you can see there is loads left in this tube, considering I couldn't get any more of the product out of this with the applicator.

 The second tube, not as much although it was a smaller tube, I still got quite a bit out of this one right down at the bottom.

Here is the primer in a plastic tub (I got these from Primark, it cost £1.00 for 3 of these tubs and either 2 or 3 lotion bottles and also some printed labels to stick on the bottles) Just look how much product came out of this, and to think I was just going to throw these away. I would recommend anyone with some used up UDPP get them out, cut them open and see what you can get out. 

Thanks for reading

Lots of Love

CF x x x

Vivo Cosmetics

Hi all,

Second post of the day. I'm sure most people will have heard about Vivo cosmetics, they are being sold in Tesco and are proving to be extremely popular. They are super cheap but that doesn't mean that the quality isn't there. I purchased a few eye shadows a while ago. I got shade 10 golden leaf and shade 7 dusky pink, both are pearl shadows and are very pigmented and excellent value for only £1.50 for 3.8g of product. The packaging is very sleek and fairly sturdy, I couldn't see a problem taking this on your travels with you.

Dusky pink is...well a dusky pink colour, I don't think there is a better way to describe the colour than the name of the product.

Golden leaf is a very deep green, this colour is extremely pigmented I only had to lightly sweep my finger across the shadow once to get a really good amount of colour. 

Both shades blend really well and with a primer last for at least 6-8 hours without fading or creasing. I can't wait to try out some of the other colours in the range, and they do have alot of colours. 

 Taken without flash

Taken with flash

Today I popped into a Tesco that wasn't so local to me to my husband could go for a tinkle. Whilst I was in there I couldn't resist having a quick snoop in the make up section and I was in luck they had Vivo. I picked up 3 items, an eyeliner in black, an eyeliner in white and some eyelashes by the name of Feather Boa . They have feathers on them and were reduced to £1.00, I couldn't resist, I don't know when I will use them but they just looked so cute and will add to my collection of other bizarre lashes that I own that I will never find a suitable occasion to wear. 

I was really gutted when I went to the self service checkout to find that the white eyeliner wouldn't scan, the girl came over and told me as it wont scan they couldn't sell it to me. I told her it was fine but I'm sure the look on my face told her that I was devastated. I so wanted that eyeliner. So much so that I got my husband to drive me to another Tesco to find one and I did. Yay for me! I also picked up the radiance boost highlighter whilst in there. The only thing that bothers me about the Vivo section is people feel the need to open and test all the non tester items, even when there is a tester on display. I had to open 3 of the boxes to find one that hadn't been used. Grrrr come on people that's what the testers are for!!!!!

Both the eyeliners swatched are really creamy and the black is really dark, which I really like I often find with cheaper brands that the black is sort of wishy washy and if I'm wearing black liner I want it to be black so I'm really looking forward to trying this out. Again with the white, its very creamy in Constancy and hopefully when on my waterline it will make my eyes look wide awake even when i' knackered and sleep deprived.

The highlighter I'm a little concerned about, I haven't used it yet but trying to get the product onto the brush I had to click about 30 times and then it came out a little lumpy and really thick, I'm not sure if I have a duff one or if its supposed to be like that but I shall reserve judgement until I have tried it out properly. It seemed to blend out quite nicely on the back of my hand so we shall see. This only comes in one shade and does look a little dark for my very pale skin, I'm hoping when on my face it doesn't look as dark.

And for the lashes, clearly I haven't used these yet but what more can I say, just look at them sooooo cute :-) I love long lashes and I love feathers, perfect combo.

Thanks for reading.

Lots of love

CF x x x