Haul + E.l.f. Lipstick Classy

I bought a couple of nail polishes this week. Both are from Essence, one is called Just Shout!, which is a orange-coral shade, the other is Choose Me!, which is a teal with shimmer. Swatches of Make Up Factory's lipstick will be posted shorty, but here are swatches of E.l.f.'s lipstick in the shade Classy, which my cousin gave to me (she dislikes the shade and feels a bit intimidated by a bit brighter colours :) )

Classy is a dark mauve pink with a mat finish. It's very thick (something like Barry M's lipstick), but it doesn't apply patchy. It's very pigmented, it stained my hand a little when I swatched it, so it is quite long lasting. It has a very sweet fruity-berry scent but mixed with plastic. The packaging looks very cheap and is of poor quality. If I compare them to Essence, which is in the same price range, E.l.f. one's are more opaque and last longer on the lips, the packaging of the Essence lipsticks is better and I still prefer them to E.l.f. one's. These cost 1,7 �. The swatch I made is very accurate, but bear in mind I'm very pale, so it might look lighter on you.

Classy je temnej�e roza barve z kar nekaj vijola tonov, ima mat fini�. To ni ena izmed lahko mazljivh �mink, vseeno pa se da lepo nanesti (v primerjavi z naprimer Barry M-ovo 147, ki je podobne teksture). Je zelo pigmentirana in kar precej obstojna. Ima nekak�en zelo sladek sadno-malinast vonj pome�an s plastiko. Embala�a je stra�no zanic in izgleda slabo narejeno. Ce jih primerjam z �minkami od Essence, so E.l.f.-ove bolj pigmentirane in bolj obstojne, ampak Essencove imajo bolj�o embala�o in manj vsiljiv vonj, osebno so mi �minke od Essence bolj v�ec.  E.l.f. �minke stanejo 1,7 �. Swatch zgoraj je precej dober, na meni izgleda tako temno. Vseeno pa imejte v mislih, da sem zelo svetla, tako da morda na vas ne bo izgledala tako temno.

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.