I had to do it at least once! When Colourpop announced they are now shipping internationally, my heart skipped,skipped a beat 🙂
My heart then proceeded to drop when I saw what they were charging to ship internationally. $25! And that doesn’t include custom clearance! But like the good little makeup fiend that I am, I couldn’t stop thinking about ordering. They give you $5 off if you sign up to their newsletter so I thought, feck it! I’ll even just do it the once and take the hit. Then, I proceeded to go over the Irish customs limit too (I think anything over $25 puts you in the danger zone of having to pay tax. I just couldn’t justify all of that money to ship it over and only getting a couple of things. I wanted to get my monies worth. I risked it and it paid off. I did not have to pay customs on the package. But that doesn’t happen all the time, I think it really is just the luck of the draw. If you fancy fancy seeing what I got. Here’s my first ever Colourpop haul.
Colourpop really know how to package a…package! The box is so pretty.
The packaging on the products themselves is really nice too.
I picked up two of their Super Shock eyeshadows.
‘Game Face’ which is a penny bronzed metallic colour.
And ‘LALA’, which is a rose gold metallic shadow.
They both cost $5 each.
I picked up one of the Supershock Cheek Highlighters.
This is in the shade ‘Lunchmoney’.
Colourpop describe it as a soft light gold with a reflective duo chrome finish.
These cost $8 each.
The powder products feel like nothing I have ever used before. They’re nearly wet to the touch and have a gel like consistency when you apply them to the skin. Colourpop tell you that the formula is best applied with the fingertips.
I chose one of their Crème Gel Colour Liners to try.
This is in the colour ‘Show Me’.
I thought it would be complimentary to the shadows. These are $6 each.
And one of their Crème Gel Liner Pencils too that will hopefully go with the other eye products.
This is in the shade ‘Stomper’. These are $5 each.
Onto to lip products. I ended up getting three.
One of their sheer Lippie Stix.
This is in the shade ‘Tiger’.
It’s $5 each for these.
And then, two Ultra Matte Lips.
‘Beeper’.
‘Bumble’.
The Ultra Matte Lips are $6.
Colourpop haul dunzo 🙂
I placed my order with Colourpop on the 12th of July. They did give me a USPS tracking number and I could track my package up until it went on to the international flight. Then, I couldn’t get an update on it. I received my order from my regular postman, on the 26th of July. My total bill was $66 with the $5 discount. That worked out at €61.31 and I paid with Paypal. As I mentioned already though, I was lucky customs let the package through and I didn’t have to pay an extra penalty.
What do you think? Are you tempted? The products themselves are really reasonable priced, I think. If they brought down the shipping, I think I would be more than happy to shop with Colourpop again. First impressions are really good, I like the products I got, alot 🙂
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Love the look of the bumble lippie. Gorgeous colour
I ordered a few things last week came to about $69 with postage and got charged a custom charge of 9.98 and also an post charge of €7. It was worth it. I love everything I got and have just put another order in with Mags very excited.
This article was so easy to read and really informative 🙂 SADLY I ordered two sets that ended up being around 50 quid.. it arrived and I needed to pay.. 25 QUID?!?
Devastated haha 🙂
I ordered my stuff on the 27th Dec, USPS stated that it landed in Dublin and was on way to my address. but it is now almost three weeks and still no sign, does it always take this long? 🙁
That’s an An Post issue unfortunately, if it’s over €25, customs could have it and that might mean it’ll take longer to get to you and you’ll have to pay tax on it. Unfortunately shipping isn’t something I know a lot about, so sorry xxx
Hi Gemma, I’m a big fan of your blog, I regularly check in but this my first time to say hi. This brand color pop look great, the colors u got are gorgeous! Hope they make it over to Ireland in the near future. Keep up the good work
Hazel, You’ve made me year! Thanks for taking the time to comment, I really appreciate it. Oh fingers crossed they set up shop here. Cant be dealing with the custom charges ha x