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Red

September 21, 2012 BY Ali Hassan 0 Comments

There is nothing more iconic than a red pout and while I love my Manhattan Soft Mat Lip Cream in 45H, I wanted a really bright matte red. Another red I purchased along the way is Essence's Stay with me lipgloss in 07 Kiss Kiss Kiss.

Bourjois pencils are not the softest pencils in the world, but the colour does stay put for hours. It survives eating and drinking with no problems and most importantly it doesn't transfer (that is of course if you don't put any lipgloss or lip balm on top).

Here is a swatch of the combination of pencil plus Lip Smacker Coca-Cola Cherry.

And here is my growing collection of Stay with me lipglosses by Essence. I'm not a fan of lipgloss, I almost never wear it, but these are my favourite because they are very pigmented, smell really nice like fruity and candy, aren't too sticky and of course they are cheap. Here is a link to previous swatches and review click. It a nice way of wearing red without being too much.

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Essence Stay With Me Lip Glosses

March 27, 2011 BY Ali Hassan 0 Comments

I already swatched and reviewed the shade 01 Me & My Ice Cream (click for review)). As I wrote in the previous post Stay with me is a new line of lip glosses by Essence. I am liking these more and more. I got another shade called 02 My favourite milkshake which on me looks way prettier than 01, just because it's more peachy. I also have my eye on 03 Candy Bar which is a coraly-red shade. These are really good glosses, especially for the price (around 2.5 €).

So here are the swatches of both:

Edit:
I'm adding the swatches of shade 03 Candy Bar (coral) and 04 Trendsetter (raspberry)

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Haul - New Lip Products From Essence

March 20, 2011 BY Ali Hassan 0 Comments

First of is the new shade of lipstick called 53 All About Cupcake, which is a pink slightly peachy shade, a beautiful neutral, everyday colour. Local Műller didn't have Coralize Me yet which is one of the new shades and interested me most. Swatches of shades 44 and 45 can be found here.

Prvi na vrsti je nov odtenek šminke 53 All About Cupcake, ki je roza z nekaj breskve, res lep nevtralen odtenek za vsak dan. Najbližji Műller še ni imel odtenka Coralize Me, ki se še zanima od novosti. Slike odtenkov 44 in 45 lahko najdete tu.

Stay with me is a new line of lipglosses, with 7 new shades. They introduce a new for of applicator, which I personally am not a fan of, but it works just fine. 01 Me & My Milkshake is a milky pink shade and a dupe of Nivea's Milkshake lipgloss and E.l.f.'s Bubble Gum. Staying power is average, they're not sticky, all in all just an average lipgloss, for the price a great product. The range of colour is nice, 02 My Favorite Milkshake is very similar to this one, just slightly peachier. They have a nice, faint fruity scent.

Stay with me so novi lipglosi v 7-ih odtenkih. Imajo novo vrsto aplikatorja, meni se kaj pretirano ne dopade, ampak deluje ok. 01 Me & My Milkshake je svetlo roza odtenek, identičen Nivejinemu Milkshake (btw Nivejina ličila grejo iz prodaje) in E.l.f.-ovem Bubble Gum. Obstojnost je povprečna, niso lepljivi, v glavnem povprečni glosi, super za ceno. Všeč mi je izbor odtenkov, 02 My Favorite Milkshake je zelo podoben temu, le bolj breskov. Imajo rahel sadni vonj.

Essence also introduced a new shade of a lipliner called Coral Nude. I also purchased a shade Cute Pink and I previously owned Soft Rose.
Essence ima tudi nov odtenek liplinerja imenovan Coral Nude. Kupila sem še odtenke Cute Pink, že prej pa sem imela odtenek Soft Rose.

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Latest Haul - Escada, L'Oreal and Bourjois

March 05, 2011 BY Ali Hassan 0 Comments

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 Acidulé. 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.

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Bourjois Effet 3D Max Lip Glosses

February 27, 2011 BY Ali Hassan 0 Comments

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 Acidulé (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 že pisala, no vsaj o odtenku 62 Rose gold (slike in ocena so tukaj), ki sem ga že porabila. Nedavno sem kupila še odtenek 61 Rose acidulé (poslikala ga bom v kratkem), ki ga zanimivo kar dolgo nisem nikjer našla. Ni mi uspelo najti odtenkov 64 in 65, kar je čudno saj so oba že imeli. 64 Framboise ardent je zelo lep rdeč gloss, takrat ko sem kupila odtenek 62, sem razmišljala tudi o nakupu 64. Ti glosi so zelo svetleči in nelepljivi, so namreč zelo tekoči, včasih kar malo zdrsi z ustnic. Plastičen aplikator je precej nenavaden, meni osebno je všeč ampak marsikateri ni. Stanejo okrog 10-11€.

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