Maybelline Lasting Drama Gel Eyeliner

This is possibly the most hyped high street product of the past year so when I bought this i was expecting great things! *here*

I have a real love hate relationship with this product. Althought saying that, you can see how much I've used, I use it about half the time and I love having a lined eye as I think it looks super pretty. 

So why do I have such an odd relationship with this?

I feel like this product can't make up it's mind on whether to be good or not. Some days it will slip right of, be smudgy and I will be really annoyed. Whereas other days it stays on completely perfectly and looks amazing! I feel like whenever I tell someone it's great, it starts being bad, and whenever I tell someone it's bad it starts being great!

I've figured out where I've been going wrong though, basically applying this to naked eyelids is a bad idea! It just slips off. I don't wear eyeshadow everyday, so when I wear this I first set the eyelid with a translucent powder. 

I've got applying this down to a fine art, I find it so easy to do now and I was a train wreck when I first started! I've used endless amounts of brushes to apply this and the one I use depends purely on what's close and what mood I'm in. I don't have the brush that comes with it as they had all been nicked out the packet! So I managed to get a discount and got 10% off so it was £5.40. Oh, whilst I remember I'd recomend buying this from Asda instead of boots as it's on £6!

Is this a good eyeliner? When applied properly there's no doubt that it is a good eyeliner, it can last all day and is pretty dark too.

Is it worth the hype? In my opinion that's a no. I'm constructing a birthday list at the moment and I'm thinking of investing in a Bobbi Brown gel eyeliner!

Okay, so I have no idea why as I'm almost certian this isn't disconinued but I can't find a link online to this, sorry guys!

Would anyone like a tutorial on how I apply this? Had anybody tried a Bobbi Brown eyeliner? Let me know!

This is all, 

Gemmm xxx

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

Collection 2000 Glam Crystals Eyeliner

Well hello there, so I was in Asda the other week and this Eye Liner had been reduced to about £1.50, so seen as I'd seen it recommended in a video I figured it would be foolish of me not to give it a go. They're only £2.99 from boots anyway though, so it's not a monumental loss should it not be to your liking if you paid full price.

Okay, so I will stop babbling and review this product. The lasting power is definitely good, but saying that I don't have a lot of experience with glitter eye liner so I can't really compare this to anything else.

I have to apologise for the shadow on this picture, I've not quite mastered the whole picture talking thing yet. Anyway, as you can see in the swatch above the glitter is really pretty, lots of different colours of flecks that gel really well together when applied and just look really beautiful. It's super easy to apply as well, I'm quite good with gel liner but I've never been good at getting the right control with a liquid liner. ( I am getting slowly but surely better though )

I love this product and would definitely recommend anyone to buy it. The only problem is that it's so hard to find an occasion when glitter eye liner is appropriate, so it's just sitting sadly in my make up drawer feeling forgotten about. Poor eye liner :(

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

ELF Powder Brush Review

Like more or less everyone else I find that ELF products can be very much hit or miss, so I always like to read reviews before I buy anything from ELF. More so the studio line as although the products are cheap, it's really easy to get carried away and spend a lot of money, especially when you live in the UK and have to rely purely on the website.

So this is what the brush looks like, it's from the studio line so was only £3.50. I'd heard a lot of good things about this brush which is why I bought it. When i first got this brush it did shed quite a few hairs, but now I've pulled the loose hairs out it no longer sheds, even after being washed. 

The brush actually wasn't properly round when I got it, so I washed it to reshape it and as you can see it's pretty spot on. I really like this brush, it's so wonderfully soft on your skin. A lot of people like to use this for foundation, but I tried it out and I didn't like the whole stippling thing, I prefer using a regular foundation brush. This is however wonderful for powder, I've used it for bronzer, blusher and loose powder and in regards to application I cannot fault it.

Obviously the fact the brush shedded put me off it at first, but I'm glad I waited a couple of weeks before I did a review as now it's done shedding I really love this brush, and at £3.50 it's worth every penny.

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

This is all,

Gemmm xxx