Been a while! Haul + Finally found something (:

Hello Gals (:

Just updating, had a hectic weekend.

putting a long story short, here in England we've had an extremely hot weekend. and its been almost unbearable tbh!. my boyfriend got his car locked in a parking place, my boyfriend brought me my first starbucks frappuchino after 5 minutes of refusing to enter Starbucks, due to their inhumane efforts at paying their coffee baggers a fair wage LOL, it started off tasty, ended up shit (excuse my language i have a habit of that). also did you know people are getting ID'd for energy drinks now? i hate energy drinks but my boyfriend got id'd for one this weekend luckily enough he has id on him but the whole thing was silly, i also found out that a cheap store here called the 99p shop (for those who dont know is a concession shop which has mostly discontinued or overstocked products at 99p) has got Rimmel lipsticks, and i literally picked one up and saw the shade and DA DA DAAAAAAAAAAAH, its the shade i have been after for ages, and online has been out of stock for a while. or priced at 2.50 or 3.00. being the cheapskate i was extremely lucky to find it in there so happy!! i also did a quick shop In Superdrug, which i purchased another gift for my bf (his birthday Wednesday), also i saw that a special offer was on collection 2000, buy 2 products get a free lipgloss.

I was standing there dumbfounded cause i dont buy collection 2000 cause i believe you get what you pay for, and collection 2000 is one of the cheapest makes out there, and my first purchase of lipgloss at 12 years old lmao so i dodge the brand.and just swooped up a blush i had previously ran out of from their line. and tried one of their lipglosses called lock n hold in colour body pop. and OMG it is goooorgeous. and of course i got a free lipgloss which is some random squeezey tube.

im very impressed with the lock n hold and i am no longer going to criticize collection 2000.

thats a promise guys! scouts honour, so anyways i will be leaving for bedtiemzz now. but i'll be back to swatch and post the pictures and stuff. hopefully you'll carry on reading me but i know im slacking lately :(

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Products I Really Regret Buying Since Last year :(

Hello (:

I was thinking about making a post like this a while ago but didn't want to make so many negative posts.

So here i am writing this. in essence this will probably take away from the guilt of how many gimmicky products i've brought in the last year or so, my bank balance is building because i'm buying less and less. and buying quality not quantity = little amounts used = less money spent

I'm going to give you all the awareness of why i dislike and why products didnt work for me.

so im going to start with foundations!

we all love making ourselves look a little short of perfection with our base on our face.

since last year ive moved so far away from foundation that if someone was to bring one to me, i am a negative magnet and it will repel from me, this is not because of too many bad experiences but because i am trying to look healthy from within my natural face. and find even a peasize ammount of foundation gives me a slick and false look about my face, however that doesnt mean that foundation didnt look good on me at all. its just im trying to look more ordinary and less, 'omg shes wearing foundation' look. which happens everytime i apply the littlest bit of it.

why am i going on? well i brought a foundation from boots last year from the rimmel line.

and rimmel has never been anything but brilliant for me tbh, i entered a competion last year and won their 'new' foundation at the time which was the stay matte foundation (beige and green tube) which was hitting on fantastic for me and i loved every last drop from the tube! recommend that one completely.

so after being extremely won over by rimmel i decided to buy the Match perfection foundation.

gives me the creeps just saying that name now tbh.

can i just say, i hate strong fragrance in foundation and avoid it usually like the plague, but made the mistake of buying when i was coming down with bad ass hay-fever so couldnt tell at the time.

The foundation smells so strong, like a parfume and i really hated it.

after applying the smell goes away but really slowly.

the texture is greasy and oily and often was the cause of my breakouts. ( i assume)

because i had been broke for a while i was using this till i couldnt take no more and usually had to powder hard on my face to get it to stay on there without dripping off and making me look like a mess.

just curiously i looked on the blogspot to see if other ladies had the same problems as i did.

it seemed like most of them disliked it too. but one lady shattered my whole earth by saying 

"I RECOMMEND THIS FOUNDATION TO ALL PEOPLE AND TEENAGERS ITS FANTASTIC!"

LOL WAT, teenagers dont try this at home.

dont do it!!!!

i beg of you

If you are extremely sensitive or just average in oils on your face dont even bother.

This foundation was the biggest pain in my life lol. slapping this on while going to college fixing overheating computers? yeah that's a disaster lol

ew gross i just dont wanna talk about it anymore.

so onto the next of my death wish haha

is l'oreal bare naturale powdered mineral foundation

i brought this from the states and i dont hate this as much as the match perfection (chills*) lol

it's kinda like a mineral foundation but its not

i dont know what it is, just made my face look messy and weirdly ashy, but strangely enough although buying a beige which is a universal colour which goes with my olive skin, it came out quite reddish undertones to it. and it was very difficult to blend with my skin unlike most mineral foundations.

it also oxidized really quick leaving me with my bare skin i had before but a more ashy look to it. so that's why they call it bare? lmao,

i gave it to my mum who rarely uses it so sadly its not one for either of us.

*thumbs down l'oreal*

Next Product is

 Aubrey Organics Lip Balm In TANGY TANGERINE

Please its not in my nature to diss natural and organic produce because i love it

but *WRETCH*

this is diiiiisgusting. and you think how can you even go wrong with a lovely orange lip balm?

You can, i didnt believe it but after trying this i know now

It's a horrible sickly smell to it. doesnt really smell like oranges or tangerines at all. more of a gross scent of it that tastes and smells synthetic and must have so much beeswax in it that it just killed itself.

I dont know why, but it's not for me. think im going to try a yes to carrots in future, cause they have never let me down as a company.

Give this a miss, but do check out Aubrey organics other products as their line is fantastic, just void off those lipbalms tho, dont even try! lol

So thats all to my post, hope you've taken this in.

Although what may not work for me may work for you, and i am not trying to give these companies a bad name as i have various products from each line which i find good or better.

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whats the worst product you have brought before?

Review + swatch: Max factor Vivid Impact Lipstick in Skinny Dip Best nude for olive skin? yes

 Heyyy guys <3

  i know its been a while. but i didn't think just showing a swatch and a lipstick was substantial enough for a post.
I've actually been contemplating deleting my blog as i feel like my posts aren't good enough hhaa.
anyway, I'm here and onto the product.
I brought Max factor Vivid Impact lipstick in Skinny Dip (I believe vivid impact has been discontinued now :( )
i searched thousands of blogs in my time in order to see what nudey colour will suit a olive complexion
I wasn't going to go for Gosh darling, that's a corpse colour, i wasn't going to go for a mac. because im anti mac cosmetics (listen ladies you can get the same quality product for less money, your just buying a status label) & I wasnt going to go for rimmel's nude, and revlon's nude.
so it left me with hardly any choices.
In retrospect is a nude supposed to look pale? or is it supposed to look like your natural lip colour?
im still having that debate with myself. but have found that nudes that look close to my lip colour with tints of pink or peach look really nice on me
I also love L'oreal colour Juice stick in Personali-tea which is gorgeous, but more mocha nude. so brightening up max factor vivid impact in skinny dip was perfect to me.
after buying it, i swatched it on my hand and it came out a really nice light pink nude.
and on my lips i think it looks even better.

Heres the pics.

The Lipstick :)

And here is what it looks like on the lips

my greasy face, and messy room sorry :) still the the lipstick is gorgeous

As you can tell by my smile on the photo i really liked this lipstick, actually its borderline one of my faves forever now as long as i can still get it somehow. and ive only had it a week!!

Good points:

Really Lovely Colour, 

i enjoyed applying as it wasn't making my lip cracks look any worse than they were already

The formula is pretty creamy and not too thick.

quite a bit of product for your money.

Good company ethics

Really nice to wear as a pink nude, will suit almost all people!

Stays for pretty long if you layer it and butt it out on a tissue.

creamy & moist.

no frost or sparkle. and no gritty texture

Cheap-ish?

Great pigmentation

you'll love it :)

Neutral Points:

Can run out of it quick if your an avid lipstick user

Ordinary Lipstick Scent

Bad Points:

will need touchups during the day if you want your lipstick to stay punchy

a subtle colour not bright if your into brights

You will become depressed if you can never find the product again (because its discontinued)

PS. (my tip is to buy from ebay, they will almost always have it listed as sellers want to rid their stock)

My Overall Reaction to this product is

It's a fantastic gorgeous shade that suits almost anybody, it is lovely and soft on the lips and doesn't exaggerate lines or cracks. its universal and usually found cheap for all of us to indulge in

although you may run out fast due to being so in love with it, you will be able to find at least some online. it is not as nude as a expected, more of a milky pink, kind of like a pinker tone of peach apricot honey lipgloss by melliesh.

as you can see below

and im giving this my first 5 star rating, im in love with it, i think everyone deserves to try it!

have you tried vivid impact lipsticks before? this is my first one so how do you feel about one that you have tried?