I love felt tip liners, they are so fast to apply you'll be literally done and dusted in a matter of minutes. I thought I'd share with you a favourite of mine.
The Collection 2000 Extreme 24 Hour Felt Tip Liner in black is one of those liners i think everyone should try and buy. At £2.99 it is so cheap and for a drug store liner I think it ticks all the boxes.
The felt tip itself is sturdy and will not bend. It will give a fantastic thin, medium and thick line depending on your preference. It is also so easy to create flicks and cat eyes. It dries very fast which I love as I hate liners that take forever to dry. As for staying power, it does last a very very long time. I haven't worn it for 24 hours but it has stayed put throughout a sweaty work-out at the gym - which is obviously a good sign of its staying power.
The Extreme liners come in a range of colours from black, purple, blue and teal which is perfect for mixing up looks. Not many brands sell different colour liners for such a good price.
Collection 2000 do mention on their website that this isn't suitable for contact lens wearers. However I would personally disagree as I've worn it a few times with my lenses and haven't had any trouble . . . yet!
So what is your favourite eyeliner? Do you like gels, creams, pencils . . . ?
With a name as catchy as Super Size Fat Lash Mascara you are assuming you're going to be treated to fabulous super sized lashes. Collection 2000's latest offering isn't all that's cracked up to be, let me explain why.
Featuring in my 'TAG: £20 Makeup Look ' video, which you can see here if you like, I had to grab myself a bargain mascara. At £2.99 this is one of the cheapest mascaras on the UK drug store market.
The tube
With the tube donning the big fat words of Super Size, you'd think you'd be getting big results. Wrong! The name of this mascara is completely misleading. Instead of 'fat lash', I think it should say 'what lash?'
What they promise
The wand looks promising, it's just a standard bristle brush. The mascara itself is very dry and it doesn't look like you get much product on the brush. For longevity you're not meant to pump the mascara wand into the tube as that allows air into the tube, therefore drying it out faster and letting bacteria in. Even after a naughty pump or two, you still don't get much mascara on the wand.
The wand
Now for the swatches. I have taken various pictures at different angles so you can see the effect or lack of should I say. Both lashes were curled twice before application and at least three coats of the mascara have been applied. Now see what they look like. . .
The results
Sparse, flat, almost natural looking lashes. Now where are my fat lashes as promised!?! No matter how many times I applied this, it just made no difference. It is hard to believe this is three coats. It annoyingly left product on my lids, it left it so close to the lash line it looks like liner.
There is no big bold volumising effect which the tube says. I'll be honest, I feel like this mascara is a complete flop. I think the name they chose doesn't match the results given, it's creates more of a natural look. So will I be buying it again once I use it all? No, sorry Collection 2000.
I love Boxing Day sales. I don't normally venture out into them but this year I decided to give it ago. It probably helped that I had to return some Christmas presents that were the wrong size, so I had a pretty good reason to pop out.
I went into TK Maxx and picked up these great buys...
2 x Nails Inc Collection Sets and CHI Nourish Intense
The Nails Inc polishes had a £25.00 original price tag on them. TK Maxx had them reduced to £14.99 which is such a excellent price. The CHI was £13.00 reduced to £4.99. Massive savings all round.
These are all the polishes in the sets. Nice range of colours also.
Swatches of all the polishes:
Sorry for the dodgy application of my polish, was rushing
Seeing the Harriet Walk green polish got me thinking I'd seen this kind a colour before. Collection 2000 Bonga Beat is extremely similar if not a duplicate to Nails Inc Harriet Walk. Be it a slight difference. See...
Lovely greens all round
The Nails Inc is more of a Teal colour and the Collection 2000 is a Minty Spearmint colour. The colour 2000 is only £1.79 cool price to pay.
So everyone thats it for now... Happy New Year to you all!!!! See you in 2011!!!
Hey everyone, I just wanted to share with you little find I discovered in Superdrug’s DARE magazine. (DARE is a free teeny weenie magazine that anyone can pick up in Superdrug)
I picked this up this copy the other day....
July/August copy (pictured with Ms Hilton on the front cover)
A few pages in it shows this cool offer by Collection 2000.
“be fresh and flawless this summer with naturally radiant foundation”
This offer entitles you to £1 off a £3.99 Naturally Radiant Foundation. Now that’s a good offer
This is a super cheap foundation anyways, but to give you a £1 off is in incredible. I purchased this foundation a while back for £3.99 and I have to say I love it and use it daily. I think I might review it, it is THAT good. Their comment “fresh and flawless” is completely true from my personal experience. I couldn’t recommend this foundation enough!!!!!
So I DARE you to try to get your hands on this voucher !!!!
The voucher doesn’t expire until 30.08.10 so there is plenty of time. FYI: Collection 2000 offer (UK only... me thinks Voucher doesn't say). And also this is in store only, no online purchases.
Hey everyone, Happy Monday!!!! Hope you all had a great weekend...roll on the next one I say :- )
Anyways, I should have posted this on Sunday - but I was detained else where (I was out sun bathing in my garden, can you blame me). This is a look I did Sunday morning, nothing too exciting, but thought I’d share it with you all as I like it....
You like...? It's a kind of natural looking face and nude lips with a gold/bronze lid with dark crease shading.
It's been a while since I've done a look like this, I'm usually a one shade all over the lid kind a girl.
Products I used are a range of drugstore/high street brands as well as some MAC products....
Randomly I forgot to use the number 3 in the pic above, don't worry i'm not crazy...yet!
1 Primark Bloominous Liquid Bronzer/illuminator
2 Revlon Photo Ready Foundation (shade 003 Shell)
4Collection 2000 Naturally Radiant Foundation (shade 02 Ivory)
13 Mac Mineralised Skin Finish Natural (light medium)
Mac Mineralised Skin Finish( Perfect Topping Ltd edition) 14
15Top Shop Makeup Neon Rose Cream Blush
.....and for shadows see below
Yes they look an odd bunch of eyeshadows, but together they look great. Click picture for names.
Close up of the eyes for you to see in more detail...
Pretty !!!!!
It’s a very simple look to achieve, what I did was put the MAC Painterly P.P. on the lid up to the brow bone and blended with my finger. Then I put Milk NYX J.E.P. on the lid and blended with my finger. Then all over the lid I placed NYX Peach eye shadow. Then with a stiff dome brush I took MAC Copperplate and placed this in the outer corner of the lid and lightly brought it into the crease (approx to the centre not all the way across). Then I mixed MAC’s Blanc Type and Grain for brow highlight. I brought this down lightly into the crease so it blended Copperplate out ever so slightly. To finish the shadows place a tiny amount of Grain into the inner corner of the eye. Line the top lid with MAC’s Feline liner and then rim the top water line with the Dior Water Proof liner. And then to finish just add mascara.
For the rest of the face I mixed both the Revlon and Collection 2000 foundations and also added Primark Bloomious liquid bronzer. Concealed my dark circles and discolorations. Applied my cream blush in Neon Rose. Put the Powder Flage over the concealer. And dusted a light coating of Mineralise skin finish Natural by MAC all over the face. Finished of by highlighting with MAC’s Mineralised Skin Finish in Perfect Topping.
Revlon Peach Petal lip gloss.
To finish off apply
Tad da .....
Ready for some goofy pictures....
So what do you think? Is this look yay or nay? Would love to know you feed back :- )
