Maybelline Colour Tattoo's xx

Blue

Yesterday I picked up the Maybelline Color Tattoo's.
I got the colours 20 Painted Purple, 25 Bad to the Bronze and 40 Tenacious Teal.

When purchasing in store, I was really disappointed with my local Priceline.
All the swatches had dried up, and because of that, I purchase because of colours that "looked nice" and I will explain why in a minute, why I was disappointed.


I love the packaging kind of. I have found a lot of the packaging labels were very off center, more so the ones on the bottom, which I did not take a photo of, oops. This is really due to mass production. I hate it though, as a blogger, products I love and blog about, I want to showcase them at their best. No biggy, but I do love they fact they are glass pots.


I love these a fair bit as eye shadow bases or just alone. Once it's on, it's set and doesn't budge.
Yesterday, I walked down the street with it, and with the minor sweat, no budging. Even removal with eye makeup remover was a bit hard to make it budge.

I was really really happy with my brown and blue colour, BUT I wish I had the chance to swatch the purple in real life properly. I love the shimmery-ness in these, which is half the reason I got them. I will be using them as a lid colour.
In the pot, it looked like a gorgeous deep purple. When I got home, It was nothing like it.
I had almost no shimmer like the blue and brown, and I actually found the purple to be a bit patchy during application. It was nothing like the other two.

You may not be able to tell in these photo's but in the pot it looks to be a nice deep phantom purple. Once I swatch or use it, it goes almost to a lavender colour. I have also noticed that it loves the little lines in the skin, and I had to layer it to get a good colour.

I will see how I go with this product a bit further down the track.
If it doesn't improve within the next couple days I will be returning this product.
In my full review, I will post how I have gone with this certain colour and whether I have returned it or not.

The Battle of the Mascara's no. 2!!! eep!

Battle of the Mascara's

So it is that time again. Battle of the mascara's! I have seriously not done one of these since September 2012 and when I realized I had quite a little collection going on and I hadn't done this post in a while, then I though I may finally do it!

I literally hoard my mascara's just for Battle of the mascara's! eep!


Revlon Photoready 3D Volume Mascara in 01 Blackest Black

This honestly is a really good mascara. It coated my lashes quite well and it isn't typically a wand I would choose anyways. This was gifted to me in 2012 for Christmas.
I only had one issue, which is an issue with a lot of these mascara's.
I didn't have the waterproof one. I must say this Mascara was the worst for getting in my eyes! It stung so badly! This was the worst for stinging.


This mascara is really similar to the designer brands mascara I had last time I did Battle of the Mascara's. Very similar in person, It didn't show well in the photo.


MaXFactor Masterpiece Max Mascara

I love this mascara. I got a lot of volume and lift from this mascara.
Not much to say apart from I LOVE IT!


Maybelline Define-A-Lash Volume Mascara

This was a shocking mascara as well to be honest. It did nothing but clump all of my lashes together. And leaving very big balls of mascara on my lashes.


The wand was really similar to my Rimmel one.
These are both very shocking masara's...
Like very shocking...


Paintbox Curling and Volume Mascara

Okay this was horrible.
I cannot stand this mascara!
I honestly got nothing from it. Maybe a little curling but that is it.
I have no clue what went wrong with this. It clumps, it is hard to build up, coverage is minimal etc.
HORRIBLE!

The wand is very much the same as the NP Set Glamorista Mascara.
I hated them both............ awkward!


Essence Get Big Lashes
This is one of the best mascara's I have ever owned.
It's cheap, it's great. I love it.


It is very similar to my Maybelline The Colossal mascara, which I also really adore.
I did a review on the Essence Get Big Lashes Mascara which is viewable here:
http://sparrowstylings.blogspot.com.au/2014/03/essence-get-big-lashes-mascara-review-xx.html

So that is it for my Battle of the Mascara's again!
Hope this helps you in picking your next Mascara!

:)

Essence Get Big Lashes Mascara Review xx

Essence

When Priceline had it's 40% off sale I needed desperately to replace my Maybelline The Colossal Mascara. Although I was on a very tight budget.

Instead, I decided to try out a mascara from the essence range.
I chose the Essence Get Big Lashes mascara which retails for $4.25 at Priceline as apposed to Maybelline's The Colossal which retails for $19.95 at Priceline.

I love this mascara. The main reason I chose this is because the wands were somewhat similar, which you can tell in the photo below, although the essence one is larger, and also because of cost.

The Essence mascara has really grown on me.
From the packaging to the application.
This covers my lashes well with no overly noticeable chunks which I commonly find with alot of cheaper mascara's. Even though I do typically comb my lashes out before it dries, chunks or no chunks.

This is a very good mascara for it's price tag, and I am very very impressed :)


Once again, thank you for reading. Feel free to leave a comment :)

Maybelline 8-in-1 BB Cream xx

8in1
So today in the mail I received my samples of the Maybelline 8-in-1 BB Cream. I got this product recommended to me by another blogger for Oily Skin BB Creams. So when I saw this on Facebook...


I though meh I will register and hope my samples come and well they did :)


I've had a bit of a play with it so far. All my samples are in Medium-Light which is a bit too dark for me. It's actually close to my summer-time colour, and I'm still pretty tan skinned throughout the whole year.


In this swatch I had rubbed it in a bit on the bottom and it's got a bit too dark of a yellow undertone for me personally. I don't think this would be suitable for oily skin as it has way to much of a shine to it in the sun... And it does feel very greasy. I am still considering purchasing a full size and testing it over summer, but if I feel it's greasy already it may be a bit of a miss otherwise I will be touching up with a translucent powder throughout the day which I have already touched up once over this past two hours...

What are your thoughts on this, especially if you have oily skin? I would love to know so I can make up my mind whether or not to purchase the full size or stick with my Garnier!! :)