ELF Professional Eye Shadow Brush

I put off this review for a while purely because I thought I had already done it! But a quick look at my blog and I realised that I hadn't so here it is.

I have tried a few brushes from the £1.50 (UK) range and sadly I haven't been bowled over by any, that is however with the exception of this one. Now it's no secret to anyone who spends any time reading/watching blogs that this is considered to be the best brush available for the price. Well, I'm happy to inform you that in my humble opinion this is actually worth the hype.

It's just a wonderfully dense brush that couldn't be more perfect for packing on colour, I use it pretty much every time I do eye makeup and it hasn't missed a beat. It doesn't even shed, unlike certain other ELF brushes. *cough* concealer brush *cough*. This has been washed a lot and it's just as perfect as when it was first bought. But of course the best thing of all is that it is a mere £1.50 here in England, it's even cheaper else where in the world.

Have you tried this brush, is it worth the hype? Let me know!

This is all,

Gemmm xxx

Ancient Collection 2000 Mini Palettes

So who remembers when Collection 2000 packaging looked like this? It's certainly been a while, which really put me off buying this little trio at first as it's just such an old product. I found this in Poundworld and it came with a little nail varnish as well.So I figured that old doesn't necessarily mean bad and that even if it was awful for a pound I might as well give it a go.

I was shocked at how much I like this! As you can see the lighter colours are a tiny bit shimmery, but certainly not too much for everyday wear. The darker colour is quite matte which I prefer as I only really use dark colours in my crease or outer-v.

(Apologies for the random blue line the camera decided to add in)

I forgot to mention that this palette is in Sin City. Anyway, you can see that the colours are well pigmented, particularly the centre colour, they also last really well too. This is the perfect palette for just throwing in your bag before a sleepover and knowing the next day you can still do something pretty with your eye makeup if you want to. 

I actually have two of these as Poundworld have started selling these in sets of two, and I wanted the other trio that came with it, so I ended up with a second one. If you can manage to snap these up at Poundworld then you'll only really be paying 50p for them, which sounds really great! But it does kind of occur to me that even before this was discontinued, it was probably only around £3 anyway, so the saving is good but not incredible.

If you can't find this in your local Poundworls( they have like, loads in mine ) then you can buy it from Amazon here for £1.82, or alternatively there are quite a lot of people selling these on eBay.

Please do let me know if there are any products you'd like me to review,

This is all,

Gemmm xxx

Ebay 88 Warm Palette Review

If you are interested in the original eBay palette I have done a review of that here.  This is all about the warm palette which is favourite palette out of the two and to be honest out of all the palettes I own. I should point out though that these are the only large palettes I own.

So this is the lovely palette, unfortunately the flash has washed out a lot of the paler colours. But I promise you that there aren't just twenty shades of white. The colours in this palette are so pretty! My friend was getting ready with me once and just gazed in awe as the colours are so nice. They're really flattering colours too that are right up my street. I'm very pale and I don't find that bright colours suit me, but I still adore experimenting with makeup and this palette allows me to do that.

All the colours in the shot are matte, but they're are some shimmery colours and some with a satin finish as well. I cannot recommend this palette enough, I payed about eight pound for this, which makes each eyeshadow nine pence each and I honestly would use every single one of these colours! They're really good quality as well, they last all day and are well pigmented. The only thing I should point out about this palette is that the individual eye shadows are small, about the size of a penny (a British penny that is ).

Please do let me know if there are any products you'd like me to review,

This is all,

Gemmm xxx

Ebay 88 Pallete Review

Most of you will have heard of the Coastal Scents or BH Cosmetics palettes, there is a lot of love for them out there as the variety of colours is so large and the quality is supposedly great. I opted for the cheaper version and bought two palettes off eBay, the original and the warm palette. This is a review of the original palette.

You can see for yourself just how good the colour selection is of this. If you search "88 Palette" on eBay and arrange the results by cheapest first, you can usually snatch on of these up for less than a tenner. I was lucky and managed to get mine for about £7, which works out at less than 8 pence per eyeshadow. They pigmentation and just general quality of these shadows will shock you! They're incredible, in addition to that they have a great lasting power!

The only real downside to this palette is that the shadows themselves are quite small, about the size of a penny, but this can only really be expected when there are so many of them for such a good price. The other thing is that I've heard of people finding the casing very poor. I don't know if I have just been lucky, but I've had no problems with mine as of yet. This palette is perfect for anybody just starting out in makeup who can't afford to be buying new eye shadows for every new look they want. For me though although I love the quality of this palette and there are a lot of great colours, there are probably about ten or more shades in this I will probably never use, such as the red and bright pinks.

Let me know if there are any products you'd like me to review,

This is all,

Gemmm xxx