Lime Crime Velvetines in Red Velvet

This is one of those products that I searched for and searched for, and patiently waited for it to be restocked.  Then one day, out of the blue, boom, there it was on the Cocktail Cosmetics website.  I put that bad boy in my virtual basket quicker than you can say 'Lime Crime Velvetine, you're mine!'.  Adding a couple of other products to my basket I hastily checked out before they sold out again.  A few days later this little beauty was in my sticky paws waiting to be adorned.

Luckily for me I had a party to go to just two days after it joined my family of lip products, so, here's what I thought.

** left, me before heading out, right, me after about 5 hours of drinking cocktails **

My Thoughts
Holy mother freakin' moley do I like this.  Just to get some idea of the staying power of this, after the party we headed back to my friends house who's birthday celebration it was.  We continued drinking and partying there.  At about 1am I headed to bed (we were staying at their house) in somewhat of a state.  I was far too drunk to even think about taking my makeup off, so I collapsed in a heap on the bed fully clothed (except for shoes and sunglasses which had lived on top of my head the whole night).  At about 5am I stumbled out of bed to go to the bathroom, looked in the mirror only to see my lipstick was still impeccable!!! In fact, it wasn't super easy to remove, some of it clung on for dear life before I was happy to show my face in public!

The only re-applying I needed to do was along the line where my lips meet - for me, that always disappears quite quick, but this wasn't too bad, I just kept my eyes on it.  I love the red velvety finish and how it didn't bleed outside of my lips, it didn't go patchy, but it stayed beautifully perfect even through to the next morning.

I have not one shred of regret in purchasing this, and I can't wait for an opportunity to wear it again!  Just be sure to prep your lips first to make sure you'll have a perfect base for applying it.  I used the Lush sugar scrub in Mint Julips first, and applied lip balm while I was doing the rest of my makeup until I came to the lips (which I saved until last).  I lined my lips first using a Neve pastello lip liner in Crimson.

I picked up mine from Cocktail Cosmetics for £11.50 - and at last check (now), they're still in stock!

This months Bigest-Pixi3 advertiser is the lovely Stacie from Life is worth the fight

 

Written by Georgina Kent

Cocktail Cosmetics haul

I have to confess, since coming off my 100 day spending ban, I have gone a bit haul crazy.  It's mostly lots of little hauls, but they soon add up!  Anyway, one of the things you've said you'd like more of is haul posts, so here you go <3

EOS lip balm in Strawberry Sorbet £5.95

Sigma F40 brush (so soft!!!) £13.95 

Sooooooft! 

Lime Crime Velvetines in Red Velvet (oooh mama!) £11.50 

Sigma extended wear liner in Drift £8.95*

I was super chuffed when I saw Cocktail Cosmetics had the Lime Crime Velvetines back in stock, I'd been patiently waiting for ages and checking on lots of different sites to see if they were back in stock and finally they were!  I do have some pics of me wearing it on a night out too, but I'll save them for my review of it, so keep your eyes peeled for that :)  As a little teaser, I will say I went to bed in quite a state that night (don't underestimate what a state I was in, my hangover lasted 2.5 days!), and had ALL my makeup still on, including the Red Velvet lipstick, and it was still there looking near perfect in the morning.

The Sigma brush is so so so soft!  Perfect for contouring with bronzer which is what I bought it for, and the fact that I wanted to own a Sigma brush and see what all the fuss is about, well, that's now backfired a bit as I want more!  I'm not sure which I'd pick next, maybe the E40 blending brush, or E30 pencil brush... but, if I'm really honest with myself, what I really want is this beautiful wonderuss collection, the 5 Kabuki brush set, but I don't think I could bring myself to pay all that money for them!

The EOS lip balm is a no brainer, it's now #3 in my collection and has a very happy home next to my laptop on my desk.  My first one was the Honeydew/Honeysuckle one which I had in a makeup swap with a lovely lady from Canada, that one has a real sweetness to the taste.  Then I had the Lemon Drop one which is a really refreshing scent, and now the Strawberry one, yummy!

Finally, the Sigma eye pencil, I haven't used this yet, but I'm seeing it as an under eye liner to be heavily blended to give a light glow, what do you reckon?

So that's my littleish haul - no doubt there'll be another one next week after my trip to the London blogger meetup on Saturday :)

This months Bigest-Pixi3 advertiser is the lovely Stacie from Life is worth the fight

 

Written by Georgina Kent