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

A Few Wish List Items

It isn't my birthday for more than two months yet, but I like to think making wish lists early is organised right? I distinctly remember me and my brother making Christmas lists on boxing day! So these are just a few ( nothing close to all) makeup items I'd like to try out that are actually a plausible price to receive as gifts.

17 Peep Show Mascara/ Max Factor Lasting Lip Tint/ TopShop Nail Art Pen
Models Own Glitter Polishes/ Maybelline Dream Soft Blush/ Bobbi Brown Gel liner

Just to be clear I haven't tried any of these products, they are just things I have heard great things about. Well actually I have the black glitter Models Own nail varnish (Mixed Up) and I adore it *here*. I have also tried on some of the Bobbi Brown eyeliner in Selfridges, which is why I am now lusting after it!

What are you wish list items? Let me know

This is all, 

Gemmm xxx

Maybelline Dream Mousse Blush

I forgot to apologise in my previous post for being MIA for while. I went to Rome during half term, (which was amazing by the way).I did try and do a post the night before I went, but my laptop shut down, literally just as i was about to click publish and lost the whole post. I would normally have re done it but it was the night before flying and I still hadn't packed. So i thought for the lack of posts over the last couple of week I would do a few in a row to make up for it.

 Anyway excuses over, now I will get on with the actual purpose of this post, which is to review Maybelline's Dream Mouse Blush. I had to phych myself up for a while to buy this, and I managed to find it at a discount shop in my town centre for £2.99. For any one who lives in Wigan, I'm talking of the very locally famous Glamour Point.

 You only need a tiny bit of this and it's just a really fun product to apply. I am aware how strange that sounds, but it's not tedious at all, it just applies really pleasantly and easily. I've used it pretty much every day since I bought it. This is also a really pretty colour as you can see in the swatch below. The product just looks so natural on the cheeks and actually lasts through the average college day.

So of course Sods' law dictates that as soon as I finally try this product it gets discontinued! Argh! What are you thinking Maybelline?! This is a wonderful product and ...uh-sad face :( I imagine it will still be available on the interweb and in discount make up stores for a while so I'm going to have to stock up. I would so highly recommend this product and I am completely gutted that it's been discontinued. The only up side to this is that they have been replaced with the Maybelline Cream Soft Blush, which I hope are going to be even better, or else  I don't imagine Maybelline would discontinue such a popular product.

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

This is all,

Gemmm xxx