These marker pen style lippies seem to be the latest craze. Hot on the tail of Max Factor’s Lip Tint Pens (which personally I didn’t rate… so drying they were sore) comes Revlon’s Just Bitten Lip Stains.

Application was simple enough. Just draw in your lip line and fill your lips in. Only issue here is how steady your hand is. I went slightly over in places and it’s not really a product that lends well to mistakes. You draw it in, it’s staying put… for quite some time…

Located on the end of the pen is a finishing balm. Uber moisturising and super shiny. This is where Revlon blow Max Factor’s product out of the water. You NEED the balm to combat the drying effect of the pen. End of

So how does it wear? Pretty well. This is shade “Gothic” at the end of a 6 hour wear. In fairness not a lot of product remains, however what is nice is that it has faded quite evenly, leaving an equally pretty stung look.

I’m a fan and at a fairly priced £7.99 I’ll definitely be picking up a few other colours.

Even though I used a good base coat with my St Patricks Day Nails, the Rimmel Green Grass Polish has stained the nail bed and surrounding cuticle a gorgeous yellowy green hue. Not very attractive!

In an effort to hide the horror I broke out my latest Revlon Nail Polish “Tropical Temptation”, its a gorgeous vibrant pinky coral, bordering on neon in some lights!

I really can’t recommend Revlon Polishes enough, the colour choice is fab, the price is affordable (around £5 per bottle, currently on 3 for 2 in Boots) and one coat is normally more than up to the job of achieving the bottle colour. The lazy gal in me loves this!

xoxo

Once again it’s a Revlon polish, I am totally loving their colours at the moment, they are bang on trend. It also helps that the coverage is amazing! May look runny if you check out a tester but don’t be fooled, this stuff is opaque.
Currently a few pounds off them in Superdrug, this was a little over £4.

097 Plum Seduction – a wonderful magenta pink

Under flash

What’s on your nails this week? xox

How could anyone not be feeling blue with the constant turd weather in the UK at the moment?

It feel like the sun hasn’t shone in forever, so I decided to bring a bit back using some funky yellow glitter & eye shadow.

I really like the result, has a rock chick edge to it. I’m a big fan of using bright colours on the lid, especially if you don’t take it into the crease. It makes it a bit cheeky and fun, when you have your eyes open you can barely see the colour, then glance down and BAM! it hits you. The Yellow is actually a MAC glitter and its amazing in real life, however I couldn’t quite capture the brilliance on my camera.

Its just for fun today but I would wear it if I was going out clubbing, sadly I was just doing a shop and the school run, decided it might be a bit much for the reserved folk in Ballyholme

My Posh Pout

Products Used

Face

• No 17 Colour Correcting Cream
• Revlon Color Stay Foundation 180 Sand Beige
• Bobbi Brown Creamy Concealer (under eyes)
• MAC MSF So Ceylon (buffed over the entire face & heavily on cheekbones)

Eyes

• UDPP (base)
• Yellow Eye Shadow from Coastal Scents Original 88 Palette
• MAC Glitter Brilliants Crystalled Yellow
• L’Oreal Voluminous Mascara Carbon Black
• Eyelure False Lashes Glamour

Lips

• Stila Lip Gloss Cinnamon (Coleen Rooney wore this on her wedding day… random fact x)

Running low on your Revlon Colorstay foundation?? Or perhaps you fancy trying it out??
Now is the time!

Buy any Revlon Colorstay Foundation in Boots the Chemist and get a Revlon Fabulash mascara worth £8.31 absolutely FREE

Totally off on a tangent here, but can I just take a moment to have a little rant about Boots and their god awful security tag system for cosmetics. Why, god why?!!!

Not only do they stick an adhesive alarm on, but they then use a metre of sticky tape to a) keep the alarm on and b) insure I can’t open said cosmetic and c) make me cry when the tape removes half the pretty packaging or ingredients/ instructions.

I hate your tags and tape Boots, I also hate people who steal, you made Boots apply these crappy stickers you filthy criminals.

Rant over

Am so stupidly excited today about Christmas!!

I am always childishly hyper (hubby would say annoying) in the run up. It has got ten times worse since having my own kids, as I just feed off their innocent hope and wonder towards all things “Santa”!!

It totally hasn’t helped that @cimota presented me with this “surprise” package yesterday. I have absolutely no idea what it contains but can’t WAIT to find out!!!

So in an effort to keep calm I’ve turned to my make-up for a half hour

This is a smokey purple look, almost charcoal looking, but as you can see in the third picture under certain light you see the pretty purple haze. Its very sultry and would be gorgeous for wearing to a Christmas Eve party or even New Years Eve. I have taken the sparkle up an extra notch using body glitter over the lid but you could leave that step out for a more subtle shimmer.

Click on pictures to enlarge

What did I use?

Face

• Revlon Color Stay Foundation 180 Sand Beige
• Barbara Daly @ Tesco Concealer Medium
• M&S Autograph Dark Circle Concealer under eyes
• MAC MSF So Ceylon (highlight)
• Paula Dorf Cheek Color Ballet

Eyes

• UDPP (base)
• NYX Jumbo Shadow Pencil 606 Baby Blue (main lid)
• Coastal Scents Neutral Palette Soft Pink (2nd row, 3rd from left) (brow bone)
• NARS Night Rider (main lid)
• NARS Barbuda (crease & under lower lash line)
• Coastal Scents Neutral Palette Purple Black (top row, far right) (smoked into crease)
• Barry M Loose Body Glitter 8 (applied with mixing medium all over main lid)
• Max Factor Master Piece Glide & Define Liquid Liner (top lash line)
• MAC Powerpoint Pencil Engraved (water line)
• L’Oreal Voluminous Mascara Carbon Black

Lips

• Chanel Gloss 108

This is a follow on look from the “Winter Blues” of last week.
Not everyone will be able to carry off the cold blue, especially those of you that actually have beautiful blue eyes to show off, therefore this is a similar look but with mint green as the focus.

You could add a lovely soft green or silver eyeliner to the upper lash line to glam it up more if you were going to a party. I would also use a white kohl pencil on the water line to keep it looking very snow queen but fresh (couldn’t put my hand on mine!!).

Face

• Laura Mercier Foundation Primer
• MAC Studio Fix Fluid NW20 (using this up, stupidly believed the MA in MAC when she said this was the shade and finish for me, doh!)
• MAC Select Cover-up NW25
• Benefit High Beam
• Coastal Scents Blush Palette (2nd row, 1st pan)

Eyes

• UDPP (base)
• Revlon Illuminance Palette Green Cream Shadow (over lid and into crease as base for pigments)
• Barry M Dazzle Dust 65 Green Iridescent (brow bone area as highlight)
• Barry M Dazzle Dust 83 Green Silver (main lid, crease & under lower lashes)
• Jemma Kidd Crushed Jewel Gel Eyeliner 01 Diamond (top lash line & inside of eye)
• L’Oreal Voluminous Mascara Carbon Black

Lips

• NYX Round Lipstick Thalia
• Maybelline Elixir Gloss Cosmic Pink

Thanks to Revlon I’m all sorted for festive looking talons

The colour is 760 Cherry Crush.
This is far from your everyday flat red. This is a sumptuous ruby red, with a gorgeous cherry iridescence under direct light.

I like Revlon Nail Polish, don’t be put off by the fact that the formulation is quite watery. The colour is opaque and you normally only need one coat (I have a single coat on below).

This is a massive bonus, I do not have the patience to wait on 2 coats drying.
I know from experience if I use a polish that requires two coats (yes I mean you Rimmel London) then I inevitably add the second coat too soon after the first and mess up the whole lot. Nightmare!

Revlon saves me on a lot of swearing

What polish will you be working over the Christmas period?

Its a rainy, dark, dismal day in Northern Ireland

So in an effort to cheer myself up I created this icy blue look.

Excuse the reddish tinged brows in the close-up, I thought I would try a different eyeshadow as a filler, and lets just say it doesn’t quite work

So what did I use……?

Face

• Revlon Color Stay Foundation in 180 Sand Beige
• Barbara Daly @ Tesco Concealer in Medium
• MAC MSF in So Ceylon
• Coastal Scents Blush Palette (second row, 2 from left)

Eyes

• UDPP (base)
• NYX Jumbo Eye Pencil in 606 Baby Blue (main lid & under lower lashes)
• NYX Shadow in White (crease to brow)
• Barry M Dazzle Dust in 20 (outer two thirds of lid and crease)
• No 17 Eye Dazzle in Star Crossed (inner third of lid and under lower lashes)
• Urban Decay 24/7 Liner in Electric (top lash line)
• Jemma Kidd Crushed Jewel Gel Liner in Diamond (over Electric)
• L’Oreal Voluminous Mascara in Carbon Black

Lips

• Gosh Lipstick in 134 Darling
• NYX Lip Gloss in 104 Sweet Heart

Today the family and I took a trip out to Junction One in Antrim which is an Outlet Shopping Centre. I managed to pick up a few bargain Christmas presents and bits and pieces so was feeling very pleased with myself, firmly sticking two fingers up to the Credit Crunch.

Most exciting of all was All Wellan Good which houses branded cosmetics, skin care and perfumes with up to 70% off the RRP.

Make-up wise they have a good selection of L’Oreal, Hard Candy, Revlon, Two Faced, Benefit, W7 and most excitingly of all for me NYX. For those that don’t know (where have you been?) NYX is an American brand found mainly in drugstores, price wise it would be in the same bracket as NYC or Miss Sporty.

Basically very cheap, however NYX has something of a following simply because what you get for your money in terms of eye shadow pigmentation, lipsticks and lip gloss is really rather good. And of course because its something that is hard to get your hands on in the UK , that in itself instantly makes it more desirable.

So if you haven’t yet had a chance to visit, below are a few pics to whet your appetite. I’m off to bed now, but will update tomorrow with my NYX haul

Party season is upon us and its a rare chance to break out the glitter with a vengeance, plaster on the eyeliner, and generally teeter on the thin line (of taste) between glamourista/ strictly come dancing contestant/ drag queen!

I adore silvers and greys but I think they are really hard to wear, especially with my pale skin. Adding glitter to the mix is a must for me, and also a rosy blush, essential if I am to avoid looking like an ice queen.

Although I’m just wearing lip balm above, if I was wearing this look out on the works Christmas do etc I’d wear a bold red lipstick/ gloss with the obligatory falsies (thats lashes, not boobs).

I know its “apparently” a big no no to accentuate both eyes and lips in one look, but I think thats a very boring 21st century rule that I like to break whenever possible. Certainly there are times when playing one up against the other works better but Christmas is NOT that time.

Pump up the volume and glam it up!!!! xox

Face

• Revlon Colorstay Foundation in Sand Beige
• Autograph Illusions Dark Circles Concealer in Light
• NARS Blush in Outlaw

Eyes

• Urban Decay Primer Potion (eye base)
• Bourjois Loose Glitter Eyeshadow in Gris Pixel 26 (main eyelid)
• Barry M Dazzle Dust in Silver Iridescent 8 (inner third of lid)
• No 17 Eye Dazzle in Star Crossed (crease)
• MAC Eyeshadow in Vellum (brow bone)
• Rimmel Sexy Curves Mascara Black

Lips

• Carmex Lip Balm

I took inspiration for my eye make-up today from MakeupByTiffanyD (You Tube). First I prepped my lids with MAC’s Paint Pot in Painterly. The main lid colours are MAC’s Mineralize Eyeshadow Duo in Illusionary/ Burning Ambition. With MAC’s Mylar on the brow bone.

I absolutely love this look, the colours are so warm and perfect for brown/ green eyes. You could go a lot heavier with this look to take you into the evening, but I think its nice like this, where when your eyes are fully open it looks quite neutral and pretty and yet when you glance down, people get a flash of the gorgeous shading and shimmer.

Eyes

• MAC Paint Pot in Painterly (eye base)
• MAC Mineralize Duo in Illusionary/ Burning Ambition (main eyelid)
• MAC Eyeshadow in Mylar (browbone)
• Max Factor Masterpiece Liquid Eyeliner (upper lashline)
• Rimmel Exaggarate Eye Definer in Emerald Sparkle (lower lashline)

Face

• Revlon Colorstay Foundation in Sand Beige
• Barbara Daly @ Tesco Concealer in Medium
• NARS Blush in Torrid

Lips

• Rimmel Moisture Renew in Vintage Pink