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?

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!

Estée Lauder Violet Crush Review

Hello everyone! 

A few days back I got a great product: a new lipstick.

It's called "Violet Crush", a nice matte lipstick by Estée Lauder. It's a purple/pink lipstick. I really love wearing bright colours for lipstick, like hot pink, red and purple so I decided to get this for myself, as a little treat. I wrote about it really quickly in a haul but then I never mentioned it again, so that's why today I wanted to do a review on this Violet Crush lipstick!

The first thing I really like is the packaging. I think it's so beautiful. Obviously I have seen this packaging before but I've never had a lipstick that looked this good (exept for a YSL one). I know that people often say that you pay the packaging too but in this case I don't really have a problem with that, I mean, look how gorgeous it is! 

I just got this without planning it so I can't really tell you why I got that colour. I guess I was just in the mood for something crazy and I loved how it looked on my hand when I swatched it. The pigmentation is really really great. I love the colour. Not everyone will wear a colour like this, I think, but I wanted to try it.

After having it on for a few hours and eating and drinking a lot it goes off a bit but it does leave a purple stain on your lips.

This lipstick is a matte so there's no kind of shimmer or anything in it. Also you just have to be careful because when your lips aren't smooth, you'll see this after applying the lipstick. I don't really have problems with that.

I really think this colour is amazing, I think it's special and cute and I'll probably wear it very often. It's pretty obvious that not everyone will be crazy about this but I am and I'm definently crushing on the violet (get it?) Do you like this colour?

Have a great day!

Shopping Haul

Hi everyone!  Today I'm going to show you what I got when I went shopping yesterday. I know it's a little bit later than expected but the internet is so slow at the moment! Sorry!

I almost got Steve Madden shoes yesterday. After shopping for a few hours I had a lot of money left. I asked the girl in the store if they had the shoes that I liked in my size and she replied that there were almost no shoes left in my size! It made me a little bit sad because I really loved the shoes they had in the store. Next time better?
Anyways I did get quite a few beauty items and I'm going to show them today. There are both budget proof items and a high end item! Here we go!

The first palette I got is "Twinkle in the eye" by Catrice. I thought it looked cute and I didn't have any palette with colours that looked like this.

Swatches! Looks pretty good, huh?

This lipstick is called "Violet Crush". It's a matte lipstick.

Oh how glad I am I finally got myself a lipstick from Estée Lauder! I hear such good things about it all the time. This lipstick is pink/purple. It's a very special colour. I really love it. In the picture it'll look a bit more pink than it is in real life. Normally I like red lipsticks more but this one is really great as well!

 

This "stay all day" eyeshadow by Essence is called "Coppy right". I think it looks great! You can build up the colour and I just love it! The colour is a bit between green and brown.

I got two body butters! Oh god I really love these! They smell very very nice!

Another Essence item! A little while back I got an eyeshadow from the Fantasia collection and now I got a highlighter. The main reason I didn't get it last time is because it was sold out, haha! I heard great things about this and I'm very excited to try it. Doesn't look to bad, now does it? I really love the design.

Nothing really special, this last item. I got an eyebrow pencil by Catrice!
I also got some non-beauty items. I got 5 of the Harry Potter books (like I said, I really wanted them!). It was the perfect day to celebrate the ending of my exams.
Reviews and more pictures are coming up soon!

How was your day?