Goodbye Crunchie....

Today we said goodbye to our lovely little Crunchie. We're all going to miss him.

FOTD: 18/05/13

Well, it has been quite some time since I posted a FOTD on here! I have been wearing make up but it has been more of just one Maybelline Colour Tattoo on my lids and a bit of mascara.

I used:
-Black Radiance Shine Control Primer
-Bare Minerals Concealer "Summer Bisque"
-Diorskin Nude Foundation "020"
-Bare Minerals Mineral Veil
-Accessorize Merged Baked Blush "Sensation"

-Urban Decay Primer Potion
-Fyrinnae Pixie Epoxy
-Accessorize Baked Trio Eye Shadow "Heavenly"
-Elf Studio Shadow "Sand Dollar" - highlight
-Maybelline Gel Liner "Black Chrome" - top liner
-Urban Decay 24/7 Liner "Stash" - lower liner
-Mascara

-Buxom Gloss "Sugar"

     

Small Bare Minerals Haul!

With only 100 days to go until I next hit Atlanta, I am keeping the make up shopping down to a minimum. But since Bare Minerals is gaining popularity over here and a counter has opened up near my house, who am I to refuse?

The shop I went to had its first Sunday opening and the place was empty. The woman working at Bare Minerals was utterly bored and did all my make up rather than the one thing I had been looking at! I loved everything she used but I'm waiting for the counter at Sephora as it's rather a lot cheaper in the US.

I did buy a few things that I clearly needed right now:
-Concealer "Summer Bisque" - this stuff gets rid of my under eye circles. Win.
-Eye Colour "Queen Tiffany" - looked so pretty when applied, can't wait to use it over Pixie Epoxy!
-Ready Blush "The One" - this has been on my wishlist for a little while, love the colour.   

Nails: Rimmel Salon Pro "Navy Seal"

I can't say that things are going brilliantly here, but doing my nails is always a nice distraction! There was a whole bunch of new polishes on the Rimmel stand last time I visited Superdrug so I just had to investigate. I think this was around £4.99.

Navy Seal is a cream finish deep, slightly dusty blue. It's not deep enough to be navy but there's a very slightly greyed tone to the colour. As usual the brush from Rimmel was excellent, one of the wide flatter ones. The finish on this polish was really glossy!

Nail polish doesn't really last too well on me but I got 3 days wear before it chipped so I took it off.

I'm usually impressed with nail polish from Rimmel and this is no different!  

Review: Bobbi Brown Gel Liner "Black Plum Ink"

I'm coming back to blogging with another Bobbi Brown liner review! I found a few pictures in a folder waiting to be edited so I thought I'd start with those!

The packaging is pretty standard for gel liners, Bobbi Brown offers theirs in both glossy and matte glass jars. I'm not sure what the difference is, I've got a mixture of both in my collection. They're available for £17, with quite a good shade range available.

Black Plum Ink isn't really black or plum. Instead it's a glossy warmish brown without any shimmer. It's not so red toned that I can't wear it and it does lean towards plum tones.

This has a really good level of pigmentation. I have found that even with Bobbi Brown, the gel liners without shimmer have better pigmentation than those with. I wear this a lot with more neutral looks when I don't want anything as strong as black liner. You can smudge it for 30 seconds or so until it has set, but once it has set on my lid it doesn't move until I remove it. 

Sirvinya.com is once again open!

I've definitely got my blogging hat back on! Over the last week I've been running reviews and FOTD ideas through my head so I know that's a sign to get back into blogging.

I just want to say thanks for all the lovely comments I've had while I've had my break. The break was mostly health reasons, partly time reasons while I focused on working to get my new youtube channel set up (InkyLeaves).

Now, back to the make up! 

Just A Brief Note...

Just to let you know, I'm going on a blog hiatus until the end of the month. I'll be back in May but I just need a bit of a break :)

Review: Bobbi Brown Gel Liner "Graphite Shimmer Ink"

While MAC's Fluidlines were the first gel liners I ever used, I think Bobbi Brown's Long Wear Gel Liners are my favourite.

The packaging is pretty standard for gel liners, Bobbi Brown offers theirs in both glossy and matte glass jars. I'm not sure what the difference is, I've got a mixture of both in my collection. They're available for £17, with quite a good shade range available.

Graphite Shimmer Ink is a deep, shimmering cool toned grey. This was the first of my Bobbi Brown gel liners so it has had plenty of love! I've had it quite a few years and it isn't showing any signs of drying out!

The pigmentation of all my Bobbi Brown gel liners is really high. I would expect those with a shimmer finish to not be quite as pigmented as the matte ones and that's true here. However, they're not like the MAC ones that need a couple of layers. While this doesn't have quite as much pigmentation as a couple of the matte Bobbi Brown gel liners I have, this only needs one good layer to be opaque.

This will last all day on my lashline without smearing or crumbling and removes nice and easily at the end of the day.   

Review: Maybelline Color Tattoo "Pink Gold"

I've mentioned a few times how much I'm loving Maybelline's Color Tattoos, they're one of the best products to be released on the High Street recently. Maybelline has been releasing new shades, which makes me very happy indeed!

Maybelline Color Tattoos come in a pretty solid glass jar. The US versions have a plain black label on the top and the UK versions have a label that matches the contents. You get 4g of product for £4.99 in the UK and around $6.99 in the US.

Pink Gold is a relatively new shade in the UK and I believe it's permanent. It's a metallic, neutral pink with golden tones.

This is really nicely pigmented and blends out wonderfully! I find that the shades with a metallic finish work better on me than the other finishes. They seem to set with a more solid finish and last a good 10+ hours on my lids. This pink is nicely neutral, pinks that are too warm just don't look good on me and very cool pinks can look a little harsh. I have been wearing this alone on my lid as a very lazy eye look. 

Review: Bare Minerals Ready Blush "The Natural High"

So far I have tried only a few things from Bare Mineral's Ready range and I've been hugely impressed so far! So when I saw the new limited edition collection, I knew it was worth adding a blusher to my collection!

The blue mirrored packaging isn't quite the fingerprint magnet the really shiny Christmas palettes were but this still shows them! I love the aqua blue though! There's a mirror filling the whole of the lid. This was £22 for 6g of product.

Half the space inside the case is given over to a brush. While it's actually quite soft, it's small and is still going to give you more of a stripe than a blended look. The colour of the blush isn't that unique to be honest. It's a golden, rosy pink with gold shimmer. I've seen it compared a lot to Nars "Orgasm" but I find this has a deeper base colour. And it actually shows up without having to pile it on.

This is a rather pigmented blush, pretty much what I'd expect to come from the Ready range. It's a touch dry in texture but blends nicely without looking patchy or powdery. I love the flush that the base pink gives and the golden shimmer gives me something of a glow. I get wear for the whole day from this, with the golden shimmer fading a little by the end of the day.