REVIEW: Catrice Beautifying Lip Smoother - 060 Blackberry Muffin

Hello lovelies :D

Last year Catrice came out with some new products called Beautifying lip smoother. This year, one of the previous colours left the drugstore and three new came. Since I really like these I decided to try out two new colours, to see, if the formula is still the same. Today I would like to talk about a colour called Blackberry Muffin. I will review another colour some other time.

The product comes in a plastic tube that is in the colour of the product inside and a silver lid. The name of the product is printed in silver letters on the tube. Once you open the product you can see a flat, slanted, spondge applicator that enabeles easy application. There is 9ml/0.30 fl.oz. of product in the tube. All you need to do to apply the product on the lips is, to squeeze the tube and apply it. That makes these products really easy to use on the go and troughout the day. Thr onlx thing that is a bit annoying in my oppinion is the fact that the lettering rubbs of the tube as the time goes on.

Blackberry Muffin is a reddish berry shade, that looks like a sheer glossy tint on the lips. Although it is quite sheer compared to some other products, I feel like it is the most pigmented from the Lip Smoother line. It has some golden tiny micro glitter in it, but they are not extremly visible once the product is applied to the lips. I also did not feel any glitter when I wore this product. Only if you grind your lips together really hard, you can feel the grittyness of glitter, otherwise the glitter is not distracting. The formula is thin and hydrating. The balm feels really light and not sticky on the lips. It is shiny upon first application, but it looses it's shine in 2 hours, with the shine the colour also starts to disappear. These products are definetly not longlasting. The product does not last troughout meals and drinking. The only complaint I have is a slight sweet taste and scent. I am not a big fan of scented make up, since I am quite sensitive to strong scent.

All in all, I really like this product, since it is really easy to use. I usually gravitate towards products like these when I do not have time to do my make up or when I do not want to think about what I am putting on my lips. The range is solid and the sheer colour these give, coupled with hydrating properties, are really perfect for everyday use.

Did you try any of the Catrice Beautifying lip smoothers or do you plan to?

Thank you for reading :D

Have a nice day :)

Tjaša

REVIEW: Sleek Blush By 3 - 365 Flame

Hello lovelies :D

I have a thing for blushes lately. I just love to put some colours on the cheeks and conquer the world for the day. Naturally I need to satisfy my crave for blushes, by testing some new blushes (aldough to be honest, there is no need for me buying blushes... I already have more than enough, but oh well). Specifically Sleek blushes, since their formula and pigmentation is my favourite, alongside with a simple yet really sturdy packaging. The first trio of blushes I got is a nice array of red colours, that look really scary in the pan, but once you put them on the cheeks you hear angels singing. It is almost better than chocolate.

The trio comes in a standard black matt plastic packaging that Sleek is known for. The packaging is really sturdy and slim and quite easy to store. There is 'Sleek make up' written on the lid and blush names with a few things written about the product on the back of the packaging. The palette comes in a cardboard box that has ingredients written on it. There is 20g/0.68oz. of product total in it.

This blush trio has three different red blushes in it. My concern was that these blushes will be too pigmented and they are really pigmented, but they can be sheered out with ease and look pretty on the cheeks sheered or more opaque. They apply and blend really nicely, without any patchyness and they are buildable to your liking. They lasted the whole day without fading or migrating on the face. Aldough the Molten shade has glitter chunks in it, it does not look too glittery on the cheeks, the glitter give a rather nice sheen to the skin. Furnace has some light golden shimmer in it, but it appears matte on the skin.

  

Furnace: A brownish red with slight golden shimmer. The least pigmented of the bunch.

Bon Fire: matte bright red with a warm undertone

Molten: A dark red with red sparkle. 

  

Furnace                                              Bon Fire

Molten

All in all I like this blush palette more than I thought I would. The colours look really scarry in the pan, but sheered out all of them give the cheeks some nice colour and glow.

You can get this blush by 3 on the Sleek website for 13,49€ and click2chic for for 16,95€.

Did you try any of the Sleek Blush By 3 palettes? Which one is your favourite?

Thank you for reading :)

Have a nice day :)

Tjaša :D

My Wet'n'Wild stash

Hello lovelies :D

This blog is usually revolving around a few brands like Catrice, Essence, Sleek,... But honestly I have some make up from other brands that I like but don't talk about that much. Why? Well because my make up stash is too big for me to manage xD I always have these products at the back of my mind but usually my hand fails to grab them when I am searching for make up to put on my face. I decided to show them some love today in this post :D

I think we all heard about Wet'n'Wild products at some point or another, as it is a really well known make up company all around the globe. The first thing that comes to my mind when I think about Wet'n'Wild  is generally good eyeshadow and matte lipstick quality (with a few exceptions), pigmentation and flimsy cheap feeling packaging. I would personally enjoy a good quality product over a nice packaging any day, so that is not a big setback for me. As long as the packaging holds together and is doing what is supposed to do (which is protect the product in it), I have no problem with the way packaging looks or feels.

The first thing that I got from Wet'n'Wild was a wonderfull purple 8 pan palette called Petal Pusher (review here). I fell in love with colours in this palette immediately and it is still my favourite Wet'n'Wild palette, although I can not deny that some of the colours lack the desired intensity and opaqness. A palette that has some qualitty all accross the eyeshadow is the Blue Had Me At Hello (review here) that is full of blue tones with a fun silver and two blacks thrown into the mix. The only thing that boders me here is the darker blue crease shade (in the left column), which is essentialy black with blue glitter. It transfers to my lids like a black eyeshadow, so there are essentially three black eyeshadows in this palette, which is 2 to many.

Walking on Eggshells (review here) is in my oppinion a must have little palette for everybody. It is such a nice naturall palette with colours that would suit everybody. If only they would come out with a matte version, for all us matte eyeshadow lovers out there. It is a lovely little palette that is perfect for traveling and creating quick looks when you just do not have a lot of time to do your eyeshadow. Another 3 pan palette I have from Wet'n'Wild is Cool as a Cucumber (review here). I fell in love with the shade range, since I am a big sucker for green and purple eyeshadows. Sadly the eyeshadows are not as pigmented as I would like, they need quite a bit of packing on to be completely opaque. The sheernes is the only reason I do not use this palette as much as I would like.

Coloricon blusher in Berry Shimmer (review here) is the type of shade that I love to wear during autunm and winter, so I did not use it lately, but it looks really lovely on the cheens and I think that the formula is really good for such a cheep product.

Mega last matte lipsticks are one of my favourite lipstick formulas. They are packed with pigment and really opaque on the lips. Applying them is a bit tricky, especially Sugar Plum Fairy, since they are a bit drying. I found that using a lip brush is almost essential, since you do not get an even lip line otherwise. Other than that they are really longlasting. And I mean realllllllllllly! I ate with these lipsticks and they just stick to the lips no matter what. They are also not extremly drying, but are on the dry side- Just peachy, Sugar plum fairy, Coral-ine (review here) are just a few of the shades I got so far, but there is a massive range of colours and I will definetly pick up more shades in the future. Sugar Plum Fairy is just a perfect dark plum for winter and Coral-ine and Just peachy are nice vivid summery shades.

Those are all of the products that I have from Wet'n'Wild so far, but I do plan to get some more in the future. While not every product is perfect I would say they hawe some really solid drugstore products and a nice eyeshadow formula.

Do you have any Wet'n'Wild products? Do you plan on getting any?

Thank you for reading :D

Have a nice day :)

Tjaša :)

REVIEW: Catrice Shine Appeal Fluid Lipstick - 060 Marry Berry & 110 Best Seller, Truth Teller

Hello lovelies :D

Today I asked you on the social media, what is the product you want to see reviewed first, from my big 'to review' pile. The big majority of you wanted to see a review of the new Catrice Shine Appeal liquid lipsticks that came put about a month ago. There is a wide range of mostly nude, pinky and a berry shade in the whole collection. Today I want to share with you my thoughts on a lovely nude called 110 Best Seller, Truth Teller and a soft berry colour called 060 Marry Berry.

The lipsticks come in a transparent packaging with the black lid. The liquid in the packaging is in the shape of a lipstick, which I think is a really nice touch. The packaging is overall quite sturdy, I experienced no breaking or leaking of product, which is definetly a big plus since I always like to have lipsticks in my pocket, so I can reapply on the spot. The doefoot applicator is a bit different than your usuall applicator. It is thin, really flexible and distributes the product nicely. When you pull it out of the packaging it has just the perfect amount of lipstick on it, so there is no need to dip into the lipstick continuousli while applying the product.

Both of the colours are really high shine, in my oppinion they are more like highly pigmented glosses than liquid lipsticks. They glide nicely on the lips and surprizingly feel a bit hidrating. Although they are really shiny they do not feel goopy, sticky or heavy. I think those are perfect for people that have chapped lips a lot, since the shine definetly makes chapped lips look better. Because of the glossy formula these do not last long on the lips. The shine starts to disappear after around 2 hours and I got at best 4 hours of wear out of them. For me that is not such a big problem when I wear 110 Best Seller, Truth Teller, since it is a nude colour and can be applied with less precission than 060 Marry Berry, which definetly needs to be applied with precision. None of the colours survive a meal and they stain cups and glass, 110 Best Seller, Truth Teller is a nude brownish shade that definetly looks warm on my lips and 060 Marry Berry is a warm berry shade.

So it is all well and good, at least when it comes to 110 Best Seller, Truth Teller , but 060 Marry Berry is a bit of a different tale. All of the above still applies, so it is pigmented, nice to wear, lasts about 4 hours, but it is a very high maintenance colour. I was quite shocked to find out that it bleeds into the lines around lips. That never happened to me before and I was especially sad because I love this colour really really much. Applying less product on the lips does ease the bleading a bit but it is a shame because this lipstick is at its best when applied opaque.

All in all I can recommend 110 Best Seller, Truth Teller to somebody that likes high shine nude lipsticks, but I can not recommend 060 Marry Berry, because it is like a bad boyfriend: freaking beautifull but it treats you like crap for no reason. I love dark plum and berry colours, but I think they are sadly not ideal colours to be put in a high gloss liquid lipstick formula format.

Did you try any of the new Catrice Shine Appeal lipsticks? Do you plan on getting any?

Thank you for reading ;D

Have a nice day :)

Tjaša :)

REVIEW: Catrice Defining Blush - 045 Lilactric

Hello lovelies :)

I think that by now It is a wide known fact that many of us like the Catrice defining blushes. They have a nice range of colours with a nice formula. Allaround nice drugstore blishes with great longevity on the cheeks :) After Catrica announced their new products, that hit the drugstores recently, I could not wait to get my hands on the new colour called Lilactric, which looks really unique. Not that I need any new blushes, but I did not have a colour like this in my stash untill now,and that is enough of a reason to get it, right?

The blush comes in a standard packaging. Transparent square plastic packaging with round edges. There is written 'defining blush' on the lid with gold letters and 'Catrice' with black letters. At the back of the packaging there is a sticker with the name of the shade and some basic information about the product. There is 5g/0.17oz. of product.

I had a few issues with this blush in the first cuple applications, because it did not want to show up as much on the skin. Once I rubbed off the first layer of the product the blush appeared much more vibrant and opaque on my cheeks (a fluffier brush also helped), but it was far of the beautifull colour that you can see in the pan. I think it would look beautifull on fair skin tones, but my skin is currently a bit warmer and darker than it is in winter, so it looks more like a light warm pink on my cheeks. I love to use it with darker eye looks, because it gives some colour but is not overpowering and it does not clash with the eye look. It just perks up the skin a bit. I think that it will look much more true to colour on my skin, once we are deep in the winter months and I will loose some of my current warm skin colour. 

As for the formula it is a bit more dry than other Catrice defining blushes and it does form a bit of a hard pan at the beginning, but once you break that hard layer it is quite opaque. It blends nicely, applies nicely, does not fade or appear patchy. I can still see it at the end of the day so the longevity is definetly there, at least on my cheeks.

All in all I think that the shade is really pretty, I am just kinda sad that it does not look on my cheeks like it does in the pan. If you are more fair and enjoy colours like that I think this blush is for you. You can get it in any drugstore that has Catrice for 3,79 €.

Did you try this shade or any other from the Catrice defining blushes line?

Thank you for readinh :D

Have a nice day :)

Tjaša :D

Essence Make Me Pretty TE Products Review

Hi lovelies,

I think there are a lot of us out there, that couldn't wait for the day when the Make Me Pretty  Trend Editon would reach our stores.

The day has finally come I orderd my stuff from Click2Chic. 

I spent 36 € and I must say  it was worth it.

There are only 2 brushes I didn't buy. lip brush and 3-piece eye brush.

So here are my toughts :D

All brushes come in a plastick pouch as all of the others Essence brushes, on the paper inside there are lovely quotes, wich was a lovely suprise. The face brushes are longer than most of the brushes from standard range. They are all extremly soft and fluffy. They wash nicely too, which is  a plus. They are quite heavy which I like and are easy to hold.

Eyebrow Comb - 01 here comes the brow

I didn't expect it would be that big :D The angled brush part is actualy bigger than other angled brushes from Essence. I like that it has a comb on the other side, The brush is really soft but sturdy at the same time.

Concealer Brush - 01 beauty is my business

I hoped, this brush would be smaller, so I could use it with cream eyeshadows, but it's a bit too big for that. I could make it work, but I would have to be really careful, not to put color also around my eyes :P

Eyeshadow Blending Brush - 01 keep cool & brush on

Not really sure why this would be a blending brush, but I use it to apply eyeshadows on my lower lashline and to smudge eyeliners. It's really soft, so it's gentle on the lids.

Precise Eyeshadow Brush - 01 eye to eye

This is really for precise work, till today I used it to apply shadow in my crease, so it's more intense. It's also perfect for inner corner of the eyes.

Bronzer Brush - 01 walking on susnhine

The star of this collection! This brush is just perfect, soft, dense (more than Nanshy Flawless Foundation brush). I tried to apply liquid and mineral foundation, blush, bronzer and it worked just amazingly with everything. I'm thinking about getting one more...one for powder and one for cream products.

Powder & Highlighter Brush - 01 powder to the people!

I could fall asleep, while draging this fluffy over my face :D Softest brush ever. I love it for applying highlighter and for light contouring. Haven't tryed it with powder, but I belive it would work too.  Also it's usefull for remowing fallout of the eyeshadows.

Blush Brush - 01 blush up your life!

This is a flat angled kabuki/brush. When I applyed blush with it...there was way too much blush on my cheeks, since it's so dense and I am used to less dense blush brushes. You really need to be light-handed. But I love it for contouring and blending contour and also blending blush if you apply too much.

Brush Box - 01 message in a box

 Yes i got it because I always wanted Sigma Brush Box, but this I belive is smaller than Sigma, but still big enough to put in all of my brushes, that I use on a daily basis to apply my full face makeup, if I will do my makeup at my boyfriends house, at college or in a car.

Liquid Brush Cleanser - 01 be-you-tiful

Ok, so we can't really get brush cleaners here in Slovenia, I know for one from Muller but it's 8€ I think gor the same amount as this, So I bought 4 Essence ones. You have to spray the brush and leave it for about a minute, then you swirl the brush on a paper towel and it's ready for next use. I really like it and I hope they will put it in a regular asortiman.

Did you get anything from this TE? Do you like the products as much as i do?

Have an awesome day!

Ajda