Comparing: MAC's "Russian Red" and Rimmel's "Kiss of Life"

A budget and a high end lipstick that look a like? I always love it when this happens! 

Today I'm comparing MAC to Rimmel. Could Rimmel's lipstick be the budget version of MAC's Russian Red?

The packaging next to each other. MAC is on the left, Rimmel is on the right.
Below, you can see the two lipsticks next to each other. They do look similar, don't they?

Swatches! The first one is with flash and the second one is without flash. MAC is the left swatch, Rimmel is the right swatch. I do really think they look similar, the MAC one might just be a little bit darker.

And now how they look on my lips... Now, I have to warn you!
Please don't mind my chin - I tried out some new skincare and uhm, let's say that didn't really work out too well.

I would say Rimmel's "Kiss of Life" is a pretty good drugstore dupe for MAC's Russian Red. It is slightly less red and a little lighter, but everything else is pretty much thesame!

Thanks for reading! Stay safe!

Kate Moss for Rimmel London lipstick review

Hello everyone! Remember my red lipstick from Kate Moss by Rimmel London? I talked about it a lot these past months, I love it! Recently, I got my second Kate Moss lipstick. Everytime I walked in my store, the first thing I did was check if the shade I wanted was still there. I actually wanted it because I though it looked like the lipstick that Katy Perry is wearing in her video clip "Thinking of you". I thought her lipstick looked so beautiful and I wanted something that looked alike. Silly?

Last week I decided I HAD to have it, I was tired of waiting.

The colour that I wanted is a darker colour than the first one. It's a dark red, very beautiful, a little bit bold. The colour doesn't have a name, it only has a number. It's number "107". The packaging is thesame as my previous one. Red with "Kate ♥" written on it. Cute!

Oh it looks lovely doesn't it? I do think this might look nice(r) on me because I have pale skin and pale skin plus dark lipsticks. Well, at least it sounds good!

Swatch! The colour is very pigmented, it's quite creamy and you don't need a lot at all. It also leaves a nice stain on your lips after it comes off a little bit. The lipstick smells very good too!

 

This is how it looks on my lips. I do think this colour makes me look more "mature" but I like it a lot!

What do you think? I must admit I'm quite crazy about this colour!

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Little beauty products haul!

Hello all of you! 

Yesterday I did some pre-birthday shopping. It was lovely, I had a great time! These days there's a lot of sales in a lot of shops and I got so many new clothes, I don't even know which item I should wear first! Of course you'll be seeing that in outfit of the day pictures! There are too many items to photograph all of them and put them online (and I can't put them all in one picture like I do with my beauty items). Since beauty items are easy to photograph (and you can put a lot of beauty items in one photograph), I though I'd show you what makeup I got today.

I haven't bought an awful amount of stuff, but I did get a lot of things that I loved and have been fawning over for quite a while.

First of all I got two Catrice intensif' eye wet & dry shadows. These won't be in the stores for much longer (they're going out of the permanent collection) and so I took the chance to get these before it was too late.

Next I got a 2B bronzer, which I'm very excited about, however, I'm probably more excited about my three new lipsticks! I got one from Kate Moss by Rimmel London in "107", which is a darker, berry kind of colour. I've wanted this for quite a while now and it was the last one so I was lucky!

Next I got two lipsticks by Bourjois. One from the Shine collection (first one in the picture) and one from the Rouge edition. They are stunning, wauw! I wish I could have bought more (but I promised myself not to buy too much so, haha!).

The first colour in the picture is called "Famous Fushia", it's a gorgeous, bright pink. The Rouge Edition lipstick is called "Violine Strass". I think it looks a little bit like the one that I got from Kate Moss by Rimmel London. Maybe it's has more of a purple tone to it.

And then I got some new nailpolish. I haven't been doing my nails a lot recently but I missed it! I got two Essence colours, a pastel purple and a glittery topcoat. They fit very nicely together!

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My top three favourite lipsticks!

Hello lovelies! How are you doing?

I have three other Essence items to review but I thought that it would be nice to give it a break and upload them later, after all, too many reviews of thesame brand can get a little boring.

 

Today I'm going to show you my top three favourite lipsticks. They are probably not what you'd expect or what everyone would wear, but it's a matter of love it or hate it. I love it, that's for sure.

 

There's only one lipstick in this top three that's not high end and that's my red lipstick, it's by Kate Moss for Rimmel London and it's in the colour "111 Kiss Of Life" (on the right in the picture). I'm about to get another one of the Kate Moss lipsticks, I am obsessed with them! Not only do I like the packaging, the pigmentation is outstandig! I was actually surprised by how good it was! Rimmel really keeps on coming with amazing products lately; Rimmel, I love you!

With "Kiss of life" on my lips!

The other two lipsticks that I have are high end lipsticks. They're actually the ony two high end products I have in my collection. The purple lipstick is by Estée Lauder, it's a matte lipstick and it's called "Violet Crush". I saw a review on another blog just a couple of days before I got this one and it looked so good on the blogger that I got it as well! I thought it would be too crazy, but people have been a lot more positive about it than I had expected!  

Wearing "Violet Crush"

The one in the middle is by YSL, it's the Volupté Sheer Candy Glossy Balm and this was actually my first high end purchase! At the time I wanted to play "safe" with the colour so I just got a lip balm. I've been quite afraid to use it the first months after getting it, because I didn't want to use it up rightaway. Haha, how silly, but still, I have this with all of my most beautiful/most loved products. Beauty blogger obsessions?

 I might get a fushia coloured lipstick by YSL as well, I love it!

Also, look at the packaging... Oh my ....
The packaging just screams "luxury" and I'm the kind of girl who really likes a product that looks nice. Well, I guess we all love products that look amazing, right?

Which lipsticks are your favourites?

Top 5 drugstore products !

Hello everyone! Today I'm doing a post about my top 5 favies when it comes to drugstore products.

I have quite a few products but if I really have to choose, I would probably pick these products.

 

First product is my "xoxo" palette by Essence. It's a palette with purple colours, but it doesn't look to overwelming, you could even say that it looks neutral if you're looking from a distance. The pigmentation is great and this palette is cheap. Love!

 

Even though I have run out of my L'Oréal True Match foundation, I do really think it's a great foundation. I've used it about 1 year and a half and I think it's totally worth the money.

This NYX lipstick in Eucalyptus was one of the first bright colours I ever got myself. It's a bright coral colour that looks lovely on your lips. Not hot pink, but not red either.

Another palette that I really like is the Essence Sun Club palette in "Long Beach". The pigmentation is a very little, tiny bit less good than the first palette I showed you in this post, but it's still quite good. These colours are also great to use in winter and summer, because the eight colours in this palette are good to combine with each other: there are bright and darker colours.

Favourite drugstore lipstick. Ever. I'm not kidding you guys, I've been wearing this for days and days and days and I'm still loving it! The pigmentation is outstanding and this colour red is the most perfect red you'll ever find! This is from the Rimmel London by Kate Moss collection, it's called "Kiss Of Life"

Let me know what your 5 drugstore favies are!
Have a good evening!

12 Beauty Favorites of 2012

Goodmorning everyone, happy Saturday! I hope you're all doing well!

Today I'm going to show you my twelve favourite beauty products of 2012, so this is going to be a pretty long post, I guess.
2012 has been a great year for me, I got the chance to purchase some high end products and my collection grew a lot! That's probably because of the blog a little bit too, but I think it's great I get the opportunity to do this.
A lot of the products in this post were only recently purchased!

Also, this year Belgium (which is where I live) has got his own beauty box called "Deauty", I've done quite a few posts on this box so if you read my blog often you'll probably know this. Wow! The box is a true example for other boxes, the products were always high quality and in each box I found something that I liked in particular. I'm talking Essie nailpolishes, Clinique and L'oréal mascara's,...

The first product is the very first high end beauty product I ever purchased! It's the YSL Volupté Sheer Candy Glossy Balm. I got it in the beginning of September and I still use it on a daily basis!

This lipbalm by Kiehl's came in my October Deauty Box, which was the very first box I got. I have written a short review before, you can read it here.

Oh dear, this blush is the most perfect thing ever to me! Budget, but such a great product! Read a review here.

Another budget product: Essence quattro eyeshadow palette in "To Die For". I use this palette on a daily basis to create neutral looks, I like it very much, the colours are great and look fantastic when used together. You can click here to see my daily makeup look.

I've been using my L'oréal True Match foundation this whole year. I would repurchase it if I ever emptied mine. It blends in great and matches my skin colour just fine. Also the coverage is nice.

When I discovered this allround concealer palette by Catrice I was really happy. I know it's not a new product, however, I never really tried it. This palette holds five different concealer colours: green, pink and three skintoned colours (you can mix them to get the perfect shade for your skin colour). On the back, there's written what each colour can be used for. The concealers are very creamy and good for daily use. This palette is cheaper than if you'd buy five individual concealers! You can read reviews here. You'll also find some reviews of other products mentioned in that post.

I don't know if you noticed but I've been loving palettes! The next one on my wishlist is a palette by Dior, but for now I'm happy with the (drugstore) palettes that I have. This one is from Essence, it's from the sun club collection and it has the name "02 long beach". This palette holds a few "brighter" colours and a few neutral colours. Great for fall and winter. Very inexpensive as well and as you can see in the picture, the pigmentation isn't too bad either.

There's another sun club palette. The first palette "01 south beach", is a palette with a lot of shimmery, funky, bright colours. It's a palette that holds great colour for summer, such as bright yellow, blue, green, silver and gold toned colours. However, I haven't been using/loving that one as much as this second palette.

 

Do you remember this lipstick?! I only got it recently (last week, I think), and I hauled it already, click here for the shopping haul! A review is coming up as soon as possible! I really love this lipstick! So perfect!

Another lipstick I got! 2012 really was a "lipstick year" for me. I used to hate lipsticks because I thought eyeshadows were more interesting but after wearing red lipstick for a few days, my opinion changed! I really starting loving lipsticks. Most lipsticks I got this year were red lipsticks, because I fell in love with them.
This "Kiss Of Life" lipstick by Rimmel London (from the Kate Moss collection) was the last one in the store! God, am I lucky! It's the perfect red, I like it very much!

 

I haven't done a post on these two eyeshadow yet, but I will soon. These are the colours "Have you seen my unicorn" from the Fantasia collection, and "Swirl it, baby", from the Marble Mania collection. Both eyeshadows are by Essence and they look amazing when used together. Normally I like to use brown eyeshadows for my daily looks, but I've been wearing this combination quite a bit as well! I feel like this is a very safe way to experiment with colour. Also the baby pink is great because, unlike other pinks, it doesn't make me look like I'm dying! Great!

Another product I only recently discovered!
The Essence highlighter from their "Fantasia" collection. This highlighter is cheap, it's quite big (it's as big as my pressed powder), and it looks amazing! Again, a review is coming up very soon!

Et voilà, these were my twelve favies of 2012. Don't forget to let me know what your favourites were!

New In: Rimmel London and Essence

Hello! How are you doing?
So yesterday I went to a couple of stores and one of them sold makeup... You can guess it already: I got something!

I got the last "Kiss Of Life" lipstick by Rimmel London (the Kate Moss collection) and I got something from the new Essence "Fantasia" collection. It's a babypink eyeshadow called "Have you seen my unicorn?"

I'm very glad I got this lipstick. It was on my Christmas wishlist! Also, it was the last red one in the store so I was very very lucky!

How it looks on my lips...

The Essence eyeshadow! A bit shimmery, level 100 of cuteness! They also had a nailpolish colour that looked just like this eyeshadow! I didn't bring it with me...

And this is how it looks! The pigmentation is "okay". It's not "wauw" but it's not bad either. This is one wipe. I will try to make a look with it so that I can show it to you guys.
The colour is very light so it might by hard to take pictures of it, but I'll try!

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