sleek liquid illuminator review.

Hey ladies, 

This is a review on the oh so glamorous sleek glisten me liquid illuminator, Now I've been a big fan of highlighter/illluminators for a while now but I've only ever used powders. Any how i bought this months ago tried it once couldn't get to grips with using a liquid so slipped it back in my draw and forgot all about it. Oh how wrong i was to do so! I noticed it in my draw a few weeks ago and thought i'd give it whirl see if i could get the hang of it, i tried using my fingers and used different brushes and sponges to see which gave the best result, i found it worked well with my beauty blender then i used my real technique expert face brush then to go on and realise it worked amazingly with my real techniques contour brush! HALLELUJAH!!! now i've found the perfect brush to pair it with and have got the hang of it i haven't left the house without this baby on my face! i absolutely love it! The highlight itself is very gold in color it looks quite frightening in the bottle but on the face comes out very subtle. The main concern for me was it looking oily, now i have oily skin so the thought of putting a liquid highlighter on my skin was terrifying i thought it might make my skin looks even more oily than it already it or being a liquid i thought it might feel greasy but it doesn't and it just looks glowing. I cant wait for summer when i have a tan i think it will look GORGEOUS! The bottle itself is a bog standard 30ml bottle but because you need the tiniest little bit this will last you months and months!! :) I've did the "how long does it stay on my face" test and i worked from 8 in the morning till 5 at night last week and when i left work it looked the same as it did when i first applied it. yippeee!! when i apply it daily to my face i put it on my cheekbones, cupids bow, and my tear duct but if i'm going out after work i'll pop it down my nose, on my brow bone and also if you're wearing a dress you can pop it on your legs or collarbones for that oh so glamorous shimmer. Now i can't find this on the sleek website anymore i don't know if they've stopped stocking it (i bloody hope not!) or if they're just out of stock but you can get this on amazon and ebay for about £5/£6 

so check it out and let me know if you love this as much as i do!
:) xx

naughty lulu

Hey ladies, so i've been very good lately and i haven't bought anything for myself in a while but yesterday i popped into town and ended up buying quite a few things and treated myself. Oops. 

I seen these rings in newlook a while ago and loved them but £7.99 for four rings is a bit steep (I think so anyway) but when i nipped in yesterday they had buy on get one free on ALL jewellery so i actually got eight rings for £7.99 which sounds much better don't you think? Then i popped to boots and picked up this vichy cleansing gel, my skin has got very bad lately and i've heard great things about vichy so i had to pick something up there was a few other products i liked the sound of from vichy which i might pick up next week. then i got a couple sleek lipsticks from, wait for it.... POUNDLAND yes you heard right, poundland sell sleek lipstick. I also bought a couple sleek pout paints i've heard great things about these so had to try them for myself and i tested them last night and WOW! the pigmentation is incredible and they glide on your lips first impressions are very good! I bought some quinoderm which is a "behind the counter" thang! I used to use this but didn't notice an improvement in my skin until i was reading someone blog last week (i can't remember who's dammit) and they said how it's their holy grail product and they raved and raved about it so i thought i would buy it again only this time be a little more patient and give it some time to work with my skin. Fingers crossed it works. then i got a few other bits and bobs which i won't talk about because this was supposed to be a short "look what i bought" post but instead i rambled on and now it's not so short. sorry. Any how that's all for now i hope you liked this.

have you tried any of these products? 

:) xx

lipstick dupes.

mac candy yum yum - sleek amped

unfortunately I dont know the name of either of these because the labels have worn off i think the barry m lipstick is
in the shade 116 or 118 but i'm not certain which is a shame because these are an EXACT dupe that would save you £10!
i will try and find the names of these out and let you know soon. 

mac fetish - sleek blaze

collection 2000 mudslide - sleek mulberry
the left one looks a little more purplier (is that a word? no? it is now) but they are a dupe they just show up different colors. 

sleek cherry - nivea berry charms

mac so chaud (my favorite lipstick ever) rimmel kate moss 111 mixed with gosh flirty orange 153
you can buy these 2 lipsticks for the price of one mac lipstick BONUS  ;) 

mac snob - rimmel kate moss 101

 So these are just a few dupes i discovered and i love looking at dupe blogs or youtube videos but there aren't many about at the minute. A lot of people can't afford or just don't want to pay £14 for a lipstick especially when you can get a very similar one for a quarter of the price. I also seen another dupe for mac candy yum yum which is always sold on of my local mac store, i'll have to buy it and compare them because it was only £1.99 which is ridiculous. so i hope you liked this and i'm sorry it's a bit all over the place but i'm so tired, i was going to put this post up tomorrow but i haven't blogged in a few days so thought i'd do it quickly today so do forgive any sloppiness (i hate that word, sloppiness, ew) that's all for now.

hope this was useful :) 

xx