The best places to buy makeup

Well hello :)

I though I would share with you a few of my favourite makeup stores. These shops have well priced makeup, nail varnish and other beauty products for prices that aren't going to make you purse cry. Basically I'm talking about the 'cheapo' shops. Things line BnM bargains, Poundland, Poundworld are like treasure troves for amazingly priced, genuine makeup. Not only this, but they have some makeup stock that has been discontinued, which means I've been able to be reunited with some old favourites.

I thought I'd give you a quick round up of a few products I've bought, I'll review each item separately, this is just a round up of what you can expect to find.

NYC Chroma Blusher

Poundworld £1

Discontinued

Revlon Matte Nail Polish

Poundland £1

RRP £6.49

Rimmel Last Finish Blusher

Poundworld £1

RRP £5.19

*Review*

Bourjois Clubbing Mascara

Poundworld £1

RRP £7.99

Rimmel Lasting Finish Foundation

BnM Bargains £2.99

RRP £6.99

*Review*

There are of course more, and I will be letting you know about what i get and if the products are any good. I apologise for the absence of any pictures in this post, so i used so colours to make up for it. So yeah, basically get yourself down to Poundland/Poundworld/BnM!

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

This is all,

Gemmm xxx

Jelly Pong Pong Lip Frosting

If you read my previous post you will know that I got a goodie bag at The Clothes Show Live from Jelly Pong Pong. This is going to be quite a quick, very positive post on the Lip Frosting. This retails at £10.00 which is a little steep, but there is a massive 14g of product in the tube and you don't need very much.

I love, love, love this product! It's quite unusual, it's like it was the best parts of a balm and a gloss combined. It feels lovely on your lips and is really moisturising yet is still lovely and glossy. It also smells great, like ice cream, which is always good! It's a very pink shade, which would normally put me off but it's very wearable. 

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

This is all,

Gemmm xxx

Jelly Pong Pong Wide Awake Palette Review

At The Clothes Show Live this year they were selling Jelly Pong Pong goodie bags, it wasn't a brand that I had ever tried before so I was curios and decided to buy one, I was really happy with all of the products that I got in the bags, one of which was this palette.

The packaging of all of the Jelly Pong Pong products is really pretty, especially this palette. It retails at £15.00, but is currently out of stock on the website. I like this palette and use it a lot when I'm going out. The only reason I don't use it on a day-to-day basis is because they are hard to get hold of and I don't want to run out to quickly. 

The palette looks like this and also came with a pair of decent tweezers and a pretty cheap brush that I don't think I will use very much. The star of this palette for me is definitely the highlighting cream, I love the gorgeous glow it gives when applied. I'm not sure what the illuminating cream is for, but i use it as a highlighter also. I use the highlighter on my cheek bones and the illuminate on my cupids bow and under my eyes ( before concealer). 

The palette's downfall is the eyebrow sculpture, there's nothing wrong with the quality, the pigmentation is great, as is the lasting power. But the colours aren't quite right. The darker colour is fine if you have darker eyebrows but the lighter colours are a little orangey when applied.

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

This is all,

Gemmm xxx

Free 17 Blush and Glow at Boots

So I was at boots yesterday and when I checked the offer on my boots card I was pleasantly surprised to find that this wonderful freebie deal. When you buy any ( yes, any!) product from the 17 line you get this a free 'Blush and Glow' worth £3.69. The great thing about this it's literally anything from the line, so the product you buy can be cheaper than the free product you're being given. Amazed by the offer, I hurried to print the voucher off the boots card machine

When I first went to the counter there were none of these left (presumabley because of this amazing deal!), but I asked the nice lady who worked there got me a new shiny one from the draw. The only shade they had left was Peaches and Cream, but looking at the other colour on line i would have chosen this anyway.I wasn't sure what to buy, but before I decided my Mum, who I was shopping with, decided to buy the new Miracle Matte foundation anyway, so I just got the freebie and saved my cash.  

Onto the product now. Both the blush side and the highlighter side are lovely products in their own right. The blush has a tiny bit of shimmer, but it comes across more satin and dewy. I only have on highlighter other than this so I'm not the best person to review it, however I do really like this, it definitely highlights but in a subtle way so it can be worn everyday. The only thing i dislike about this is that it's hard to get at either side easily with a brush, so I have to use one of my smaller brushes. 

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

Models Own Eyeshadow Dusts

Every Decemember I attend The Clothes Show Live, this year I bought the Models Own giftbag and recieved 15 items for just £10! In the gift were these three of the Models Own answers to a dazzle dust.

The shades unfortunatley don't have a names but I have a quite bright red colour, a shimmery, light pink and a shimmery charcoal grey, as swatched below.

The pink shade is beautiful when applied, however it would definatley require some form of cream base as there tends to be a lot of fallout when applied to a dry lid. The Charcoal shade has tiny specks of grey glitter in and looks gorgeous with a smokey eye. This colour is the highest quality of the three by far as the pigmentation is great and the fallout is more minimal ( I would still recomend a base/primer though).

That just leaves the red, 

A red eyeshadow was never going to a favourite for me regardless of the quality, I find red shadows look lovely on people who can pull them off, but can be very unflattering of those of us that can't. But if you are looking for a red shadow, I would recomend steering clear of this particular one, you can see from the swatches how poor the pigmentation is and there is an awful lots of fallout aswell. As much as I like the other sahdes I have, the red was a real miss for me.

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

This is all,

Gemmm xxx

Natural Collection Lipsticks

Boot's own Natural Collection range is often overlooked due to the cheap products and the cheap looking packaging. However with the products all at under £1.99 I felt almost obliged to pick something up. Well, that was over a year ago and since then I've bought a number of things from the line, the star of which is the lipsticks.

I have five colours from the Natural Collection range, however the selection is huge! I'm not sure exactly how many colours they do, but there's more variety present than in a lot of higher end lipsticks, which is lovely to see in such a cheap brand.

"What are you waiting for woman, get on with the review!" Okay, okay, well quite simply I love these lipsticks. The pigmentation rivals more expensive high street lipsticks I own, such as Rimmel or 17. The thing I really love about these though is the consistency, they feel more like a balm on your lips and can be applied without a mirror, just as a balm could, yet there is still a good colour pay off. 

I also have the colour Autum Glow, however  I bought it after taking these pictures.

Out of the colours I have my favourite is defiantly Coral Shimmer. The collection has some very bright and dark colours as well. These would be a great buy for anyone considering starting to wear brighter lipsticks, but don't want to waster their money on an expensive product if it may not suit them. 

There has to be a catch? Well yes, the only problem is that the staying power isn't great, however due to the fact they can be applied so easily this doesn't bother me too much. I also can't be too picky when I've only spent £1.99 on a product.

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

This is all,

Gemmm xxx