Christmas gifts from Revlon

Whether you're shopping for secret santa, or for a present for a beauty-loving friend, Revlon have put together 3 boxes full of beauty.

This box is their beauty box which comes in a red glitter-print box with black shredded paper inside (think GlossyBox).  There's 5 of their hero products in the box and a little guide on how to get-the-look Emma Stone is sporting on the cover.  Inside you have:

Lipstick in revlon red, nail enamel in revlon red, bold lacquer by grow luscious mascara, colourstay 16 hour eye shadow palette in siren and their colourstay skinny liquid liner - both the liner and the mascara are new products to their range too.

This would make a great gift for friends that love makeup, or fans of Revlon - personally, their nail polish is probably my favourite brand, such great quality and pigmentation :)

Revlon have also launched 2 other boxes, a Parfumerie box for £19.99 with 4 of their parfumerie nail polishes in, and a colourburst balm box with 4 of their colourburst balms inside (2 matte and 2 gloss) for £19.99.

What's your favourite box?

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Revlon nail enamel in moon candy

I've actually been meaning to review this for a while.  Revlon released a few different combinations of these double ended nail pens, this shade is Moon Candy.  It's navy blue at one end, and a bright sparkly blue top coat with shimmery holographic flakes in the other end.

As you can see, the blue is very dark, but not quite black dark.  This photo was taken a couple of months ago in the height of summer when my nails were in better shape :)

Every time I've worn this, I've had so many people comment on how lovely my nails look, and I know a couple of people who've bought it themselves after seeing it on.  Sometimes it's hard to know if something will work until you've seen it on someone else in situ.  The durability on this was decent, much as I've come to expect from Revlon's nail enamels.  I had a good 3+ days out of it before it began to chip, and even then it was only very small chips.  It wasn't too horrible to remove either, you know with glitter it can so often be a horrific nightmare to remove?  Yeah well this wasn't that bad :)

Sorry this is such a short review, but I don't really have anything else to say about it :P  I picked up mine in Superdrug for £7.99.

This months Bigest-Pixi3 advertiser is the lovely Karen from Liverpool Lashes

 

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My lip product collection

Hey guys!  Ok a couple of things about this post, it's my lip product collection (excluding lip balms), now, I haven't listed every item because there's too many too list.  Similarly I haven't swatched them all either :p  What I will be doing over the coming weeks is lots of posts on Top 5 (lipsticks, glosses, glitter glosses, reds, pinks etc etc) but I just wanted to start that series off by showing you the collection I'll be making my picks from :)  So without further ado here's the collection :)

There were a few I missed out which I found afterwards, but not many :) So over the coming weeks, be prepared to see lots of posts featuring these items :)  I'm also making a pledge to myself, a pledge to wear a lip product from this collection every day :)  Clearly judging by the size of the collection, I love lip products and need to make better use of them :)

You'll notice I've got quite a mix of products, from MUA to Chanel - when it comes to lip products, I'm not loyal anywhere, if it's good and I like it that's all that matters.  When it comes to skincare it's a little different, things need to be a little better, the ingredients need to be right etc - that doesn't necessarily mean it needs to be expensive, just good quality :)

I might do a Project Lip Pan - so using 5 lip products lots and not allowing myself to buy any more until they're gone :)  Food for thought :)

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Revlon Photoready Creme blush

Hey guys!  How about this rain then eh?  So miserable!  Well, on that happy note, I'm sitting here, a bit poorly and with a cup of tea - writing a lovely review for you guys :p  A few weeks ago I bought the new Revlon Photoready Creme blush in Pinched.  Here's the pics :D

My Thoughts

The creme blush is a lovely natural looking colour (it looks a bit darker in my pics than it actually is).  It's a nice consistency and blends really well.  There's no real scent to it.  What I don't like about it is when you blend it, it takes off the foundation you have underneath leaving you with a patch of skin.... weird.  Also, when you blend it in, it becomes really sheer, so you don't have colour on your cheeks, but a bland bit of skin that looks silly :p  It's not something I plan on using much, in fact I may end up adding it to a blog sale to see if someone else has better luck with it :p  Other colours may be better, but I'm not very impressed with this one.

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Revlon Customeyes

Hey everyone!  Hope you're all having a fab day, what have you been up to?  I just want to say hello and welcome to all my new subscribers too :)

A few days ago, I picked up a Revlon Customeyes palette in Rich Temptations (030), here's the pics, and what I thought :)

This look was done using the green/teal colour from the palette.

My Thoughts

I love the set of colours you get, purples, green/teal, pinks, it's a lovely assortment.  On the back they do have a guide of wearing them all at the same time, not something I'm brave enough to do!  There's only one colour I was a bit disappointed with and it's because it doesn't really show on me because of my skin tone - and that's the light pink colour on the far right.

The green/teal lasted really well - I put it on about 11am, and took it off about 11pm and it was still there, almost as vibrant as it was when I put it on.  It's safe to say these colours have great staying power, not something I'd ever doubt in Revlon :)

All in all, I love this palette, and I might well pick up one of the other sets of colours :)

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Revlon Photoready 3D Volume Mascara

Hey everyone!  Whee 2 blog posts in 1 day!  I'm on a roll!  As usual when I popped in to Superdrug the other day my trustee insider showed me some sparkly new stuff that I couldn't wait to get my paws on!  It was Revlons' new Photoready 3D Volume Mascara - BEHOLD!

3D Volume Mascara

No mascara

1 Coat of Revlon 3D Photoready Volume mascara

The low down

It's quite 'wet', but not too much - the Top Shop sisters of the moon mascara was a much wetter formulation.  This one has really interesting bristles, they're really thin and fine, and kinda rubbery.  The first time I used it, I didn't really like it and I'm still not 100% convinced.  I naturally have fairly long eye lashes so I tend to go for volume mascara's as opposed to lengthening ones.  Being that this is '3D volume' I thought it'd be right up my ally.  However, volume is what I feel it lacks.  It does give nice looking eye lashes, and lasts really well, but it doesn't give me the thickness I like.  I'd still go for Maybelline the falsies or Covergirl lash blast over this one any time.

Do you like the mahoosive pics?  Or prefer them the old size?

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Revlon smokey shadow stick

Hellorio everyone!  Grab yourself a cup of tea and have a read :)

So, I was in Superdrug today speaking to the lovely lady that shows me all the goodies that aren't on the shelves yet, and she happened to have one of these beauties!  Clearly, being a person who's of sound mind (I actually spelt that mound 1st time... ), I bought one!  Whoop!  I picked up the colour 201 Torch Incendiaire - it's a shimmery neutral one end, and a deep brown the other end.

Now, I'm not good with cream shadows, if you've watched any of my youtube videos, I'm sure you've heard me say time and time again that my right eye is very hooded and creases very quickly, and both eye lids are very oily.  But, I thought I'd give it a try all the same.  Now, I can't say anything about how well it lasts as I haven't worn it yet (I plan to have worn it by the time this post goes up tho).

Here's some swatches for you, enjoy :)

Enjoyed?  Me too!  Now, this is only first impressions of course, and so far, I like!  When I blended them in on my hand, they did feel quite powdery for a cream, we we'll see.  I like the twist action to be able to get more product, otherwise it'd be quite an expensive buy for just that little bit!  I know this might be a bit defeatist but I don't hold high hopes for these :(  Sad face I know... see I've watched quite a few videos, everyone seems to like them, they just don't have great staying power.  Well, I will do the dirty work for you, I'll try it out to the detriment of my oily eye lids and let you know what I think :)

Either way, enjoy the rest of your day/evening/weekend/weekday - depending on when you're reading this, and enjoy the rest of the cup of tea!  English breakfast I hope ;)

Have you tried these yet?

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Revlon Lip Butters - they're finally here in the UK!!!

Guys guys guys, I'm super excited!!! I've been searching and searching for the lip butters for days / weeks now, and after reading up about other girls who've managed to get places like Superdrug to sell them to them before being showcased I thought I'd try my luck at my local superdrug too, and boy am I glad I did!!!

So, I'll cut to the chase, I bought 4 awesome colours!!! Lollipop, Creme Brulee, Cupcake and

Strawberry Shortcake - Lollipop is definitely my favourite, I'm actually wearing it as we speak I love it so much!

All of the colours are gorgeous - and I'm pretty sure I will wear them to death :p

As for the consistency they are exactly as we've all watched and read about - a balm, a lipstick, a gloss - all rolled into one - they have a lovely finish on them and they all have different qualities, some are more matt than others, some have glitter, some don't etc, but ultimately what brings them all together, is their pure awesomeness! They are so wearable, and for what they are, I'm happy with how well they last. I've been wearing the Lollipop colour now for about 3 hours, I've

had 1 cup of tea (which quite a bit of lipstick was left on the cup), but my lips still look well covered and I haven't had to re-apply.

Here's some swatches for you :)

I believe Superdrug will be having an offer on them which will be 2 for £9.99, they wern't on offer for me, I paid £7.99 for each of them, which is about $10 each - so quite a lot, but on offer they'll be a great deal :) I paid it anyway as I really wanted them :)

So all in all, very very happy and impressed - well done Revlon - I'm so glad I've re-discovered you :)

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Revlon Lip Butters

Ok so I know this is old-hat for our friends over the pond in the USA, but we don't have these here in the UK yet.

I've contacted Revlon, and they're being launched in March, which is any time from 2 days time and the next 4 weeks.

To say I'm excited, doesn't quite cut it! I feel like I've been waiting for these forever, and hopefully in about 1 weeks time they'll finally be here! Roll on March!

So, just in case you're as excited as me, here's some info on what to expect.

Assuming they'll be launched with the same range of colours and names as the US, they'll be launching with 20 different colours, 20!!!!! That's a really amazing range of colours which I'm super impressed with. Here's a list of the colours

Pink Truffle, Sugar Frosting, Raspberry Pie, Tutti Frutti, Brown Sugar, Peach Parfait, Fig Jam, Candy Apple, Red Velvet, Cotton Candy, Berry Smoothie, Cupcake, Gumdrop, Creamsicle, Cherry Tart, Lollipop, Strawberry Shortcake, Sugar Plum, Sweet Tart and Crème Brulee.

What Revlon say "Buttery balm with beautiful shiny color to give you baby soft, healthy glowing lips - 94% of women felt lips were softer, smoother, and instantly hydrated."

These come in the typical Revlon packaging which is cases to match the colour of the product, similar to Maybelline with the Colour Sensational lipsticks too. They also have the same diamond pillow effect on them which has become a signature of Revlon. These also have see-through tops so you can accurately see the colour of the product inside (just in case you have a few and you've put the wrong lid on) :)

The lip butters are a cross combination of a lip balm, with the colour strength of a lipstick and a lipstick form, whilst having a sheen similar to a gloss.

All I can say is, BRING ON MARCH!!!!!

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