Max Factor Color Collection Lipsticks

 

The range of colours may be large, but none of the shades appeal to me. I actually bought one years ago, but I sold it within a week. It was the shade 640 called Soft Suede and it looked so much pinker and lighter under the deceiving shop's lights.These are very pigmented, in fact they stained my hand. Seriously not even with soap the colours didn't wash of completely. Most of the shades are frosty, which I profoundly dislike, I think only the red shades don't have any shimmer. The red shades (812, 820) are actually really pretty. I think this is the first time I've seen a copper shade of lipstick (which btw looks as horrible as it sounds), I doubt shades 770 and 775 look good on anyone (they marked them here as appropriate for darker skin tones). If you like really light, nude shades, you won't find any here, especially if you're as pale as I am. All in all another completely unappealing range of shades for me, but quality-wise I remember them being quite long lasting. If you like frosty lipsticks this just might be the range for you.

�e ena linija �mink, katere odtenki se mi niti pribli�no ne dopadejo. Enkrat sem celo eno kupila, sicer je bilo to leta nazaj, pa �e prodala sem jo skoraj takoj. Odtenek je bil 640 Soft Suede, ki je seveda izgledal kompletno drugace v trgovini pod mocnimi lucmi, kot v naravni svetlobi. �minke so zelo pigmentirane, dejansko mi jih �e z milom ni uspelo popolnoma odstraniti (rdeci odtenki se �e vedno poznajo na roki, pa je �e pol dneva mimo). Velika vecina odtenkov ima frosty fini� (kar mi ni niti malo v�ec), se mi zdi da samo rdeci odtenki (812, 820) nimajo nobenega (vidnej�ega) �imra, slednja odtenka sta meni zelo lepa. Izbor vsebuje tudi dva bakrena odtenka (770, 775), ki sta za moje pojme brca v temo, komu taka odtenka pristajata mi �e ni cisto jasno (sta pa oznacena kot primerna za temnej�e polti). Ce so vam bolj v�ec kak�ni svetlej�i odtenki, jih tu pravzaprav ni, �e posebej ce ste tako svetli kot jaz (640 je na meni izgledala zelo temno roza). Za moj okus kompletno brezvezen nabor odtenkov, kar se pa kvalitete tice se jih spomnim kot precej obstojne.

Here is an ancient picture of Soft suede, the packaging is quite nice:

I hope this post was helpful and thanks for looking!

Latest Haul - Escada, L'Oreal and Bourjois

 

I love the sweet, fruity, summery LE fragrances from Escada (last years's Marine Groove is my favourite fragrance ever!). The most recent is called Taj Sunset and it smells like mangos, I adore it. Note include ''Alphonso mango, nectarine and blood orange as top notes, the heart features aquatic flowers with raspberry and pomarosa or Malay apple. The base consists of coconut, sandalwood and musk.'' (From Fragrantica.com). 

My L'Oreal Voluminous mascara dried up and I just hated the way the formula thickened towards the end. I had to wipe off a lot of the product from the brush, otherwise it would look like a disaster. So I bought a new mascara, this time Million Lashes with extra black formula. It's another one with a rubbery brush, which I prefer. I find it an average mascara, it works the same as all other mascaras with the plastic brushes (and I've tried almost all on the market, from HE to drugstore). It gives length and it defines the lashes, which is what I'm looking for. It a good daytime mascara, but if you're looking for volume try Voluminous instead. The brush is too big in my opinion, I manage to poke myself in the eye regularly when using it (the same thing happened to me with the False Lashes by Max Factor).

I've already posted the swatches of 3D Max line here and the swatch of 62 Rose gold, which I already used up. So here is the swatch of 61 Rose Acidul�. It a light to medium pink with a bit of coral tones. It's very shinny, but it doesn't contain a lot of shimmer like shade 62, here the shimmer is much more subtle. This swatch is the very accurate (I'm very pale btw, somewhere around NC 15).

Here's another swatch with Natural nymph by E.l.f. underneath.

Another comparison with Chanel RA Extrait de Gloss in 56 Imaginare. They are very close.

Thanks for looking!

February Favourites

Here are my favourite/most used products in February:

• John Frieda Brilliant Brunette Conditioner - review can be found here, I love how the scent lingers for days.
• L'Occitane Almond shower oil - (click for review) I know I probably sound like a broken record, but I just adore the scent of it.
• E.l.f. Tinted Moisturizer - I just purchased it recently and I wore it almost every day in the last month. (click for review)
• Benefit Coralista
• Max Factor white eyeliner
• Jemma Kidd highlighter in 01 Ice Gold
• Mac fluidline in blacktracks
• Mac lipstick in crem� cup
• Nyx soft mat lip cream in Istanbul

In the last month I basically wore the same make up every day - a thin black line (with Mac's fluidline) on the top lash line, Max Factors white eyeliner in the waterline, mascara (I just bought a new one, Million lashes by L'Oreal), Tinted moisturizer by E.l.f. with some Bourjois Healthy Mix concealer, Coralista on the cheeks and Jemma Kidd's higlighter. On the lips I mostly wore NYX's Istanbul or Mac's Creme Cup.

Have a great day!

Bourjois Effet 3D Max Lip Glosses

Next on my swatching list are Effet 3D Max lip glosses by Bourjois. I already owned and used up shade 62 Rose gold (swatches can be found here) and I recently bought shade 61 Rose Acidul� (I will post swatches of it in a few days). Shades 64 and 65 are missing, I guess they aren't sold here anymore, 64 is a beautiful red called Framboise ardent. These are very shinny but also very runny. They aren't sticky and because they are thinner than other run-of-the-mill glosses, they tend to bleed a bit. The applicator is unusual, it's a plastic spatula, I like it, some don't. Here they cost around 10-11�.

O teh glossih sem �e pisala, no vsaj o odtenku 62 Rose gold (slike in ocena so tukaj), ki sem ga �e porabila. Nedavno sem kupila �e odtenek 61 Rose acidul� (poslikala ga bom v kratkem), ki ga zanimivo kar dolgo nisem nikjer na�la. Ni mi uspelo najti odtenkov 64 in 65, kar je cudno saj so oba �e imeli. 64 Framboise ardent je zelo lep rdec gloss, takrat ko sem kupila odtenek 62, sem razmi�ljala tudi o nakupu 64. Ti glosi so zelo svetleci in nelepljivi, so namrec zelo tekoci, vcasih kar malo zdrsi z ustnic. Plasticen aplikator je precej nenavaden, meni osebno je v�ec ampak marsikateri ni. Stanejo okrog 10-11�.

Bourjois Sweet Kiss Lipsticks

I already swatched the Sweet Kiss Natural lipsticks and here are swatches of the regular Sweet Kiss line (the ones in the dark violet packaging). A couple are missing because they don't sell them here. I don't own any of the colour, I don't find any of them particularity appealing. If you're looking for a good tomato red lipstick 56 is a good choice. It's also the most pigmented of the bunch. 41 and 42 aren't as pigmented as the others and most contain light shimmer. The picture was taken outdoors in the sun like most of my pictures.

Slike Sweet Kiss Naturel �mink sem �e objavila, zdaj sem poslikala �e navadno Sweet Kiss linijo (s temno vijola pokrovckom). Drugje je na voljo 12 odtenkov, pri nas sem jih na�la 9. Sama nimam nobene Bourjoisove �minke, tako da ne morem podati ocene o kvaliteti, sicer pa mi noben odtenek ni kaj pretirano v�ec. Moti me da ima vecina odtenkov rahel �imer (najraje imam mat �minke, pac zgledajo najbolj naravno). Ce i�cete lepo �ivo, retro rdeco je 56 odlicen odtenek, je tudi najbolj pigmentiran v tej liniji. 41 in 42 sta najmanj pigmentirana, bolj pride do izraza �imer kot barva. Slikala sem na soncu, tako kot vecino mojih slik.

Hope these are helpful. Do you like any of the shade?

Upam, da vam ti swatchi kaj pomagajo. Je vam kak�en odtenek v�ec?

E.l.f. Haul

I only bought two product from E.l.f. this time, blush in Shy and their tinted moisturizer in Ivory.

Tokrat sem narocila le 2 stvari od E.l.f.-a, blush v odtenku Shy in obarvano kremo v odtenku Ivory (ocena v sloven�cini je pod drugo sliko).

I'm not a huge fan of foundations, I rarely use them all over the face, mostly I apply it only under the eyes and around the nose. Anyways I don't need much coverage in my opinion, so I've been on the look for a nice tinted moisturizer and I think I found a pretty good one. I like the fact that E.l.f. ones come in so many colours, Ivory is a perfect match for me (it's a tinted moisturizer anyways, so even if you take a shade darker or lighter it will probably still suit you). It's a quite thick cream, provides a sufficient coverage to even out the skin tone, however it's light enough that it doesn't cover freckles. If you layer it, it covers mild dark circles (not mine, mine are too dark). It doesn't clog my pores, I was a bit worried about that since it contains Caprylic/Capric Trigyceride. It leaves a very dewy finish, which is lovely, just not on my forehead which shines like a disco ball, so I powder it. It lasts quite long, I've been testing it for about a week now and it definitely lasted from 7 a.m. to at least 4 p.m. (I couldn't really check later, because the light was fading and I couldn't really see the actual state under the yellow artificial lights.). The scent is actually lovely (unlike their stick foundation) it's a nice orangey scent. The packaging is really small, which I like, because I intend to carry it around. Price wise it's really cheap, a mere 1,7� for 12g (strangely there's no info about ml) and it has an SPF 15. I like it a lot and I will definitely repurchase.

The blush is gorgeous, it's such a beautiful bright bubble gum pink. It gives a perfect pink flush and it is quite pigmented. It's my favourite pink blush and I have quite a few. I used to have another shade called glow (untill mom broke it :O ) and that one was gorgeous too. As all products from their regular line it costs 1,7�. The only thing I don't like is the packaging, the way it opens is a bit complicated (that's how my mom broke it, she was trying to open it unsuccessfully). Simply a brilliant product.

Ne maram kaj pretirano tekocih pudrov, zelo redko ga nanesem po celem obrazu. Vecinoma ga nanesem le pod oci in ob strani nosa. Itak se mi zdi, da ne rabim neke mocne prekrivnost, zato sem iskala eno dobro obarvano kremo in mislim, da sem jo na�la. E.l.f.-ovo sem vzela v odtenku Ivory, je odlicen odtenek zame (itak je obarvana krema, tudi ce vzame� odtenek presvetlo/pretemno, bo verjetno �e vedno v redu). Je kar gosta krema, lahko prekrivna, izenaci ten ampak ne prekrije na primer peg. Ce nanese� �e eno plast prekrije kak�ne rahle podocnjake (moje ne, moji so precej temni oz. rdeci �e od vedno). Meni ne ma�i por, ceprav me je Caprylic/Capric Trigyceride na 2. mestu zaskrbel. Pusti svetlec fini�, meni je v�ec, z izjemo na celu, ki se sveti kot disko kugla, zato nanesem puder v prahu. Zdr�i precej dolgo, testiram jo �e 1 teden in definitvno zdr�i od 7h do 4h popoldne (potem je �e te�ko kaj dobro videti, glede na to da je tu �e tema, rumenim lucem pa ne zaupam). Di�i zelo prijetno (za razliko od E.l.f.-ove podlage v stiku), nekako pomarancno. Tubica je zelo majhna (12g, podatka o ml ni), meni je to vsec, ker jo nameravam nosit okoli. Stane 1,7� in ima ZF 15. Mislim, da jo bom �e kupila, meni se zelo dopade.

Blush je cudovit. Je roza barve z hladnim podtonom, zelo pigmentiran in da cudovito roza rdecico. Definitvno moj naljub�i roza blush,. Vcasih sem imela �e odtenek Glow, dokler ga mami ni razbila, ko ga je posku�ala odpret, namrec ima dokaj glup in enigmaticen sistem zapiranja. Stane 1,7�, je pa dokaj majhen. Meni je briljanten izdelek.

My Favourite Brushes

Ulmiel from Did someone say nail polish?  requested me to do a post on brushes. I don't own loads of brushes, but these brushes are the ones I like to use the most.

Ulmiel iz Did someone say nail polish? me je prosila, da napi�em objavo o copicih. Nimam neke velike zbirke copicev,, ampak ti copici so samo tisti, ki jih najvec in najraje uporabljam. 

Eyeshadow brushes:

• MAC 239 - I know this brush is included in almost every favourites and essential brushes posts, but yes it is that good. It's perfect for packing colour on the lid and under the bottom lash line just with the tip. If I'm really lazy, I even use it for blending. / Vem je bilo o tem copicu napisano �e ogromno, ampak je res tako dober. Odlicen je za nana�anje sencila na veko in pod spodnje trepalnice (ce nana�a� sencilo s konico copica). Ce se mi da vzeti 217 ali Round Crease copica, ga uporabim tudi za neko osnovno blendanje.
• Mac 217 - The perfect eye shadow brush. It applies and blends the eyeshadow. However, it's a bit big for applying eyeshadow in my socket/crease (I don't even have much of a socket, since my eyes are hooded). I got mine on eBay./Perfekten copic, super za nana�anje in blendanje sencila, ampak je malo prevelik za nanos sencila v gubo. V Sloveniji se ga ne da kupiti, priporocam izlet v Gradec/Benetke ali pa nakup prek eBaya (ampak pazljivo, ponaredkov kar mrgoli).
• Coastal Scents Round Crease - It's not really produced by CS. I believe these are massively produced in China and can be bought on eBay. It's a really good brush for applying the eyeshadow in the socket/crease, or highlight in the inner corner. I even use it to apply eyeshadow all over the lid and it's a good blending brush./ Zelo dober copic za nana�anje sencila v crease (gubo), ker je majhen in dovolj natancen. Primeren je tudi za nanos sencila v koticke ocesa in blendanje. Jaz ga uporabljam tudi za nanos sencila po celi veki. Ti copici so proizvedeni na Kitajskem in stanejo drobi�,  jaz sem jih kupila od Coastal Scents, ceprav tega trenutno ne najdem na njihovi spletni strani, sem ga pa na�la na Carodejki (klik).
• Coastal Scents Lange Chisel Fluff - A decent eye shadow brush. It's a bit bigger than 239 and softer (which kind of annoys me). Good for applying the eye shadow and even for some basic blending./ �e kar dober copic. Je malenkost vecji od 239 in mehkej�i (mene to osebno moti), dober za nanos sencila po celi veki in za osnovno blendanje. Sama se ga kupila od Coastal Scents, isti copic se dobi �e marsikje drugje, sigurno na eBayu (vcasih je bil celo na Carodejki).
• Ecotools Bamboo Eye Shading Brush - I't not that good for packing the eye shadow on the lid, it's simply too big. I use it for blending and applying a base colour all over. I even use this brush for contouring under the cheekbone (just to get the colour on. Then I blend it with a bigger brush). / Ni najbolj primeren za nana�anje sencila na veko (razen za neko osnovno nevtralno barvo) ker je prevelik, je pa super za blendanje. Jaz ga uporabljam tudi za sencenje pod licnico, pac da nanesem bronzer in potem z vecjim copicem zblendam. Ecotools se dobijo v vecjih Tu�ih, (Inter)Sparih in Leclercu.

• Alverde Gel eyeliner brush - Fantastic brush. Very small,  precise and just perfect for applying gel eyeliner. And it's so cheap, just under 2�./ Odlicen copic, majhen in natancen, perfekten za nana�anje gel eyelinerja. Ne vem ali je pri nas �e vedno samo omejena kolekcija, ker v Nemciji je v stalnem sortimentu. Je pa zelo poceni, nekaj manj kot 2�.
• Ecotools Bamboo angled eyeliner brush - For me it's a bit too big for applying gel eyeliner, however, it's great for applying a dark eyeshadow on the top lash line (even on the waterline, but it's almost a bit too big) and I suppose it works well as a brow brush./ Zame je malo prevelik za na�anje gel eyelinerja, je pa super za nanos temnej�ega sencila ob zgornje trepalnice in predvidevam, da je dober tudi za obrvi (sama se ne ukvarjam, kar pretirano z obrvmi). Ga pa prodajajo v Sloveniji.
• Coastal Scents Angle liner brush - I find it difficult to apply gel eyeliner with this brush, but some like it. I rather use it to apply a dark eye shadow on the top lash line and waterline . It works perfectly for that. If you want your waterline really black, use a black eye shadow in the waterline. It stays longer than a regular eyeliner too. / Meni je te�ko nanesti gel eyeliner s tem copicem, nekaterim pa ta ustreza. Uporabljam ga za nanos temnej�ega sencila ob zgornje trepalnice in v waterline. Za  v waterline je super, ker je majhen. Ce �elite res temen liner okrog oci, nanesite crno sencilo v waterline, saj zdr�i dalje kot navaden eyeliner.

Face brushes:

• Ecotools Bamboo Bronzer Brush - A brilliant brush, it's so soft and dense. I use it for powder and bronzer. It's a bit big for blush application, but it still works well if you don't have anything smaller. It's perfect for applying mineral foundation too. Oh, and it doesn't shed./ Odlicen copic. Je izjemno mehek ima zelo goste �cetine, dlake mu ne odpadajo, skratka super. Uporabljam ga za nanos pudra v kamnu in bronzerja, super je tudi za mineralni puder. Za blush je malenkost prevelik, vseeno ga nanese cisto ok, ce �e nima� nicesar manj�ega.
• Bobbi Brown blush brush - I have the travel size. It a good blush brush, dense and it doesn't shed./ Moj je potovalne velikosti. Je dober copic za nanos blusha, vseeno bom morda kupila drugega.
• E.l.f. Powder brush - This brush is really soft and dense, it doesn't shed and it's perfect for applying powder, mineral foundation and applying liquid foundation. / Zelo mehek, gost copic, ne izgublja dlak in je super za nanos pudra v kamnu, mineralnega pudra in celo tekocega pudra.

Copici na voljo v Sloveniji

Kar se tice izbire copicev v Sloveniji je bolj uboga. Po mojem mnenju najbolj�i (kombinacija kvalitete in cene) copici na na�em tr�i�cu so Ecotools. Na voljo so v vecjih Tu�ih, (Inter)sparih in Leclercu. Najbolj priporocam Bronzer brush, dobra sta tudi angled eyeliner brush in eye shading brush. Na voljo je �e copic za blush, powder brush in majhen copic za tekoci puder, ki jih sicer nimam, so pa precej pohvaljeni. Ce vam ga uspe najti je Alverdejev copic za gel eyeliner fantasticen. Spodoben copic za nanos sencila na veko je M�llerjev Body & Soul copic za sencila, meni je malenkost premehek in ima premalo �cetin ampak ce nimate dostopa do nicesar drugega je v redu. Se pa v spletnih trgovinah (tudi slovenskih) najde kar nekaj copicev, vendar z njimi nimam izku�enj.