There have been so many new makeup releases over the last few weeks. It is so hard to keep up, even for me 🙂 The Inglot What A Spice Collection was one that really caught my eye though.
I’m lucky enough to live not too far away from their South Anne Street Branch, so I toddled in this past Sunday to have a look up close. The Inglot What A Spice Collection consists of ten lipsticks:
Five complimenting lip liners:
The main event for me in the collection though is the Freedom eyeshadows:
There are ten eyeshadow shades in total. All matte. Inglot know how to make an eyeshadow, I think we can all agree on that. I am a big fan of their formula. The shades in the What A Spice Collection are literally Autumn in eyeshadow form 🙂
I ended up picking up four shadows from the collection.
Well I would have picked up more but that’s all my budget would allow me, and my conscience, I’ve been a bit spendy lately 🙂
I tried to go for the shades that looked a bit different to what I have already.
The first one is 305 which to me, is a warm chocolate brown shade.
My second choice was 304. This is a more cooler toned dark brown shade.
Number three is 299. This is a matte red toned brown.
Then, my last purchase was number 303. This is a warm toned mid brown with a pink base. I have nothing like this shade in my collection so I’m particularly excited to play around with this colour 🙂
Here’s all four of them side by side so you can see the differences.
304, 299, 305, 303
You can purchase the entire Inglot What A Spice Collection in store or online from their website here now. The lipsticks are €15 as are the lipliners. The eyeshadows are €6 each. I know there is nail polishs and lip tints as part of the collection elsewhere, but we don’t seem to have them here in Ireland, so I didn’t include them.
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I have here some of the new Essence Autumn/Winter releases for 2016/17.
It’s safe to say Essence have been kicking ass of late and are constantly upping their game with their releases. So, I thought I would bring you through some of the products that are going to be hitting stands soon in the Essence Autumn/Winter Collection.
I’ll start with some of the eye products.
We have ‘The Metals’ single eyeshadows.
These come in six colours. I have the shade ‘Frozen Toffee’ to show you here.
These will cost €3.10.
Eye contouring is playing a big part in the Essence Autumn/Winter Collection. We have the Contouring Eyeshadow Set.These are available in 4 colour combos. I have the shade 01 ‘Mauve Meets Marshmallows’ here.
They cost €3.10
There’s a Contouring Eye Pencil too. Essence say it can be used as a liner, eyeshadow or highlighter, and it’s available in two shades. One for darker skin tones, and there’s one for lighter which I have here. It’s called 01 ‘Caramel Meets Frosting’.
They cost €3.10.
There is six shades of the new Extreme Lasting Eye Pencil.
I have the colour 05 ‘Rockin’ Taupe’.
These are said to be waterproof and ultra longlasting. They cost €2.50.
The Rock ‘n’ Roll Duo Stylist Eyeliner Pen has a ball-shaped felt tip for creating dots and lines on the eyes.
It costs €3.10.
There is three new mascaras in the Essence Autumn/Winter Collection. I have two of them here to show you.
The Rock ‘n’ Roll XXXL Volume mascara that has long and short fibers within the formula.
And, the False Lashes Mascara Dramatic Volume Unlimited.
All three mascaras are priced at €3.50.
Up next we have lip products. There’s a bundle to choose from including lip balms and plumping lip glosses.
We also have Matt Matt Matt lipsticks.
These come in a total of seven colours. The shades I have here are 07 ‘Purple Power’. And, 02 ‘Perfect Match’.
These retail for €2.90, not bad at all!
Essence have also jumped on the matte lipgloss bandwagon with these Matt Matt Matt Longlasting Lipgloss.
There will be five colours in these. I have here 03 ‘Girl Of Today’. And, 01 ‘LA Vie Est Belle’.
They again cost €2.90.
There’s BB beauty balm Lipglosses that contain vitamin E and shea butter with a subtle hint of colour. There will be five shades in this range. I have 05 ‘Heartbreaker’.
The retail price for these is €2.50.
The final lip product I have is the Essence 2 in 1 lipstick & liner. These are also part of the Matt Matt Matt range and come in three colours. I have the shade 02 ‘Make Some Noise’ here.
You are supposed to be able to define your lip line with these aswell as apply full on colour. They cost €3.10.
The Essence Autumn/Winter Collection has all new face products included too.
There’s the Camouflage 2 in 1 makeup & concealer. This claims to offer long lasting high coverage and provide a matte, flawless finish.
This is the shade 10 ‘Ivory’, there is a total of three to choose from.
The price is €4.80.
Here we have the Get Picture Ready Long Lasting Compact Makeup.
You get a mirror and a sponge inside the compact and the cream to powder texture is meant to be great for on the go. It comes in four shades. This one is in 10 ‘Mat Ivory’. And, it will set you back €4.95.
We have a Get Picture Ready brightening concealer too. Essence say it has light reflecting pigments to help diminish under eye circles. You apply to product with the ball shaped sponge applicator. It comes in two shades. This one is 10 ‘Ivory’, and it costs €3.80.
We also have a Light Up Your Face Luminizer Palette with three highlight shades.
It costs €4.95.
There is three Satin Touch Blushes for Autumn/Winter. This is in the shade 10 ‘Satin Coral’.
These will cost €3.10.
Last but not least we have an abundance of new nail products.
I am a big of The Gel nail polishes so I’m delighted to see Essence adding to the shade range.
I believe these cost €1.99.
The nail care products range from €2.10-2.50 and even includes hand cream and nail stencils!
Phew, so there you have it. Some of the products to expect to see from the Essence Autumn/Winter releases. 🙂 Anything tickle your fancy?
You can see them all listed on the Essence website here.
PS. Shout out to Rosie for all the help with taking the pictures in the garden 🙂
I managed to nab a Becca Jaclyn Hill Champagne Collection Face Palette. Phew, that’s a mouthful, right? 🙂
I went in to Space NK Grafton Street just to have a look and ask about them as they had had a shipment the week before. Low and behold the lovely ladies told me they were getting another shipment in the next day and I could put my name down if I was certain I could be in to collect in that very day. And so, I did just that 🙂
Completely spur of the moment really, the Becca Jaclyn Hill Champagne Collection Face Palette became mine.
If you don’t know already, Jaclyn Hill is a very successful American beauty You-tuber. She had previously collaborated with Becca Cosmetics and that was when Champagne Pop was born. (I have a full review of it here). The collection has now grown and includes: Champagne Splits which are a blush and highlighter combo. Liquid and cream Champagne Pop shimmering skin perfectors. There was also an eye-shadow palette that Becca controversially had to take off of the market because of quality issues and of course finally what I am showing you now, the Becca Jaclyn Hill Champagne Collection Face Palette.
I really love the gold and white packaging of the palette. It is smooth to the touch, is a little weighty so feels nice in your hands and contains a large mirror in the lid, which is always appreciated.
It contains 5 powders in total. 3 blushes and 2 shimmering skin perfectors i.e highlighters.
We have Rosè Spritz which is deemed a luminous blush.
Amaretto – A mineral blush.
Pamplemousse – This is also a mineral blush.
Then we have the highlighter that started it all Champagne Pop.
And then finally, Prosecco Pop.
Here are all the powders swatched together just so you can get a sense of the colour differences and finishes.
With the flash on
Without the flash on
All of the powders are as you would expect from Becca super soft and pigmented. They swatched really nicely onto the skin. The blushes are a good mix of colours and finishes. I use Champagne Pop alot already even though I think it might be a little too deep for my skin tone, I don’t care, I love it 🙂 I am foreseeing I might have the same problem with Prosecco Pop, it is very golden. But, it’s very pretty so I’ll make it work 🙂 I think it will make for a lovely eye shadow too.
The Becca Jaclyn Hill Champagne Collection Face Palette retails in Ireland for €54 from Space NK if you can get your hands on it. They do have it on the UK website here though if you want to get it shipped and it costs £48.
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This is the first time I’ve picked something up because I was asked so many times had I tried it before and what did I think about it. It’s a nice feeling 🙂 So we are talking here about the new (here in Ireland) Maybelline The Blushed Nudes Palette.
I’ve been talking about Maybelline alot of late, just because they’re really consistent with releases at the moment. Some of the releases I am liking, some are a little meh!
Within the Maybelline The Blush Nudes Palette you get 12 eyeshadows with the palettes total weight at 9.6 grams.
Without Flash
With Flash
The packaging is alright, just your basic plastic encasing. The colour does compliment the name and the shades. It has a clear lid so you see the shadows within it, and you get a dual ended applicator too.
Maybelline say of the palette: ‘This 12-shade eye shadow palette features dazzling colors infused with rose gold pigments. From bold beiges and sultry sands to brazen bronzes and tempting taupes, this makeup palette is perfect for creating versatile eye makeup looks‘.
The colours within are what you would imagine, complimenting blushed tones. All of them but one is shimmery. It is being compared to the Urban Decay Naked 3 online alot and I can understand why looking at it in the pan, although the one that was launched in America seems a little different to the palette we’ve finally gotten across the pond here.
Onto the swatching 🙂
Top Layer
Bottom Layer
The colours swatched well on my arm, but for me the shades don’t really vary alot when it comes to applying them on your eyes. I think any look you do with this palette is going to look very similar. For me, I would have to incorporate another, maybe brown tone palette (with a couple of mattes) into the look.
I can’t say I would call it a dupe for the Naked 3 really either. The shadow quality is definitely not as good as Urban Decay and you have to work harder with them to build up the intensity of the colour. What I will say though, if you want to get the same tonal eyeshadow look without forking out for the Naked 3, you can do so with The Blushed Nudes, it just might take a little longer.
I used the lightest shade here on my brow bone and inner corner, the matte shade in the crease, the last colour on the top row on my lid (and on the lower lash line),with a bit of the golden shade (the first on the bottom row) on top of it here, to show you some of them in action. The colours do blend and they are pigmented, although there is alot of fallout. However, you can probably see for yourself here, there is no real differentiation of colour after you blend them into each other.
You can pick up the Maybelline The Blushed Nudes Palette in-store from Boots or online here. It costs €14.99.
The new limited edition Sleek Whimsical Wonderland Collection contains three colours of their new gel blushes, three new limited edition complimenting shades of their VIP lipsticks and what I am showing you in this post, the ‘All The Fun Of The Fair’ eyeshadow palette.
I do love a Sleek eyeshadow palette so I was excited when I saw one left on the shelf in Boots while I was doing my new in makeup beauty rounds 🙂
Like all Sleek iDivine Eyeshadow Palettes, the shadows are packaged in a thin, matte plastic case with as always a large handy mirror in the lid.
The name ‘Whimisical Wonderland Collection’,I think is most fitting to the ‘All The Fun At The Fair’ Palette. To me, the other products are quite normal and wearable everyday colours, whereas the palette is a pretty assortment of matte and shimmery pastel shades.
So onto the swatching 🙂
As with all of the Sleek palettes, you get a plastic sheet over the top of the shadows telling you their names, which are all very cute and fitting to the ‘All The Fun At The Fair’ theme.
Here they all are swatched from left to right:
Carousel
Shoot The Chutes
Loop The Loop
Ferris Wheel
Twister
Teacups
Hit The Bell
Swing Boats
Hook A Duck
Helter Skelter
Dodgems
Hall Of Mirrors
On first swatch, I can tell that the shimmers definitely pack more of a punch than the mattes do. Unfortunately, this is the case for alot of palettes, especially when it comes to brighter matte colours. Overall, the shades feel really nice, none of them are powdery or hard to work with. I think there’s some good wearable shades in the All The Fun Of The Fair palette for the lid, the crease and transitioning, aswell as some interesting shades that will be fun to play around with maybe with a white base to help them pop a little more.
You can pick up the whole Sleek Whimsical Wonderland Collection from Boots in store as well on the Sleek website. Cloud10beauty have the whole collection here too if you want to have a closer look at the other products included. The All The Fun Of The Fair Palette will set you back €10.45 on Cloud10beauty.
Ok, I finally gave into the hype and picked up the Sleek Solstice Highlighting Palette!
There has been so much talk about this over the last few months about the Sleek Solstice Highlighting Palette after people like Jeffree Star have gotten their hands on it and have been loving it.For some reason, even though it’s been so readily available here in Ireland I just never picked it up. But with so many people talking about it and loving it. I had to give it a whirl for myself. So here are my first impressions :).
The packaging of the Sleek Solstice Highlighting Palette is really pretty and a little different for Sleek considering most of their products are encased in sleek (get it? 🙂 ) matte black. It has a magnetic closing too which I always appreciate, less stress on our perfectly manicured talons! It has a large mirror on the lid as well.
You do get a little brush inside, which isn’t the worst brush ever to come free with a palette, but I personally won’t get any use out of it.
The 4 shades have names which I always really like, it just helps us distinguish between them.
The first one is ‘Ecliptic’.
This is a rose gold shimmering cream highlight.
‘Hemisphere’.
This is a baked dusky rose powder.
‘Subsolar’.
A pale yellow gold powder. Probably the most subtle shimmer of the bunch.
And then finally, ‘Equinox’.
A baked peachy champagne shimmery powder.
First impressions are good! The cream and all three powders apply really nicely to the skin without too much effort. Ecliptic is probably a little too dark for me to wear as a cream highlighter or base, so I would probably use this on the eyes, but if you have a deeper skin tone than me, it will work really nicely. The colours are a bit frosty in my opinion so be wary of that if that doesn’t float your boat.
All Four Swatched Together
Blended Out On The Skin
They do apply better more opaquely with your fingers. I had a quick play with them on my mug (without any other makeup on may I add) and with a highlighting brush and they applied more wearable I think, and gave more of a shine to the skin than a frost.
I think I am really going to enjoy playing with this palette. I am sure I will be talking more about it on Snapchat and the likes, so be sure to be following me on there if you want to keep updated 🙂
I picked up the Sleek Solstice Highlighting Palette in store from Boots, Henry Street, Dublin. It seems to be sold out at alot of stands, but they were fully stocked. Boots have stock online too here, the Sleek website here is sold out. Cloud10beauty is another place that’s great for buying Sleek here although they are sold out at the minute too. So keep an eye if you’re in the market! I paid €14.49 for the palette, it does vary in price by a couple of euro depending on where you get it.
So tell me, what do you think? Do you think it’s worth the hype? Have you bought it already? Let me know 🙂
