Beauty Brawl Day 3- Eyeliner

Day 3- Eyeliner

Gather around friends and companions, I have a sad tale to tell...it is the epic tale of HOW MY EYELIDS DON'T LIKE ANY EYELINER.

Whew...anyway. I have highly sensitive skin, it goes red if the temperature changes even slightly, part and parcel of Rosacea and sensitive skin. I'm fortunate in that over the past few years I have gained a lot of control over my skin, and now my main issue is just the redness and not really spots or veins etc...but, because I don't want to aggravate the skin Gods when my skin does play up against a new product I let my skin win it's little tantrum, for an easy life. So I DID buy a lovely liquid eyeliner to review today, but instead I am going back to an old faithful that I never have any issues with. I'm breaking the brawl rules slightly but when needs must...

Make up Revolution Awesome Double Flick Eyeliner (surprise!) 

Product: 80

Price: 95

Packaging: 60

My lovely old faithful is still not perfect. My issue with the product itself is it runs out so quickly. I do eyeliner nearly every single day. Other eyeliners I've used similar to this have lasted a good couple of moths...this is usually a monthly purchase for me. But considering it's only £3.50, even tightly budgeted months I can actually afford to get this product. 

When i'm doing special event make up on clients I always use high end products, usually Jane Iredale, Lush etc...but this eyeliner is always one I come back to for clients too. I even end up getting them hooked on this item too. 

The packaging is ideal for keeping in your handbag, a clutch or even a pocket. So you can literally top it up any time. It's super easy to use, even if you're not very skilled at the cat eye look. My only advice and stipulation would be to not use it for your lower lid. It's far too harsh and hard to blend out. Overall a great and inexpensive product.

Love and light. xoxo

Please go and check out Beth's Reviews so far over on her blog Here.

Beauty Brawl 2017 Day 2- Brow Product.

 Day 2- Brow Product

 Brows are important these days, long gone are the days of pencil/drawn on tiny lines and in with the bushy natural  looking (for most), eye framing brows. I quite like my brows, and like most people mine are definitely sisters and not twins. I had one that cooperates without question and the other that's a rebel without a cause. That's usually the one I hide under my hair, also happens to be the massive deciding factor in what side of my head I chose to shave. 

For this one I chose another Make up Revolution Item; Their Brow Pomade in "Graphite"

Brows done :) 

Product: 98

Price: 90

Packaging: 75

This product is actually amazing for the price. It's £6.00! That's INSANE for what it does. If you're not too apt at doing brows it may take a bit of practice, but once you get the hang of it (and have the right shade for your brows) this product is perfect. The consistency of it actually is quite waxy, which means it holds the brows into place, its easy to wipe off and adjust at first but also equally quite easy to remove at the end of the day...but also as a plus if you don't take it off at the end of the day your brows are actually still there the next morning. The packaging initially is the usual gold/black box, in keeping with the brand's style, but the actual product itself comes with an excellent little duel ended brush that is perfect for filling in on the flat side and shaping on the angled side. the little jar fits perfectly into your daily makeup bag. My only gripe is that the brush is really hard to clear off excess product if you do want to take it in your make up bag, and you do end up painting everything in your bag with the excess off the brush. 

That said this is an excellent product. 

Love and light. xoxo

Please check out Beth's day two Review Here

Beauty Brawl 2017 Day 1- Liquid lipstick

Day 1- Liquid lipstick

Not going to lie, I'm not a fan of liquid lipsticks. I'm an artist, make up artist and illustration, I like to be creative, wild and make a mess. Liquid lipsticks are harsh and unforgiving. They require you to be precised in a way only a surgeon can be... and then there's usually me plastering it on like a reject from a Miranda Sings lookalike competition. 

I went with an old faithful brand and chose Make up Revolution's Salvation Liquid Lipstick in "Velvet rose" , I also teamed it up with one of my favorite and a bit more pricier lip liners by Jane Iredale also in the shade "Rose" 

This is pretty much the only photo of me wearing this lipstick where it isnt smeared half way across my face or on my teeth.

Product: 40

Packaging:  70

Price:   90

All marked out of 100, as you can probably tell I wasn't too impressed. It took ages to dry and go matte, it dried my lips out and stained them really bad until the following day, and despite the fact it was stained it didn't actually stay on my lips very well, in fact the lip liner stayed on my lips a lot longer. The packaging is swanky and makes it look a bit more high end then it is, it feels nice to put on, although given how precised you have to be it's a bit tricky to get the hang of even for a pro. The best part about it was the price as it was only £3.00, which is insane. 

I've tried their darker liquid lipsticks and they all seem to be amazing in spite of my hatred of liquid lipsticks, I may just have had a dud, or because it is a lighter colour it doesn't perform the same as the others, or am I just making excuses. Regardless, only impressive thing was the price!

Love and Light. XoXo

Please go and check out Beth's Day 1 Review Here. 

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Beauty Brawl 2017

If you've followed me for a while now you know I let life get in the way of my blog. And for that I will not apologize as i'd rather live a life...but I will make it up to you guys whenever I can! So as a peace offering I am very happy to announce I am taking part in the Bloggers Beauty Brawl for summer 2017!!!

I loved doing this back in December and I am excited to be doing it all over again with new products and honest reviews for this summer.

Our shopping list this time is:

Day 1) Liquid Lipstick

Day 2) Brow Product

Day 3) Eyeliner

Day 4) Make up Remover

Day 5) Nail Varnish

Day 6) Face mask

Day 7) Primer

Day 8) False Eyelashes

Day 9) Hand Cream

Day 10) Bronzer


I'll be stepping out of my comfort zone with some of these items this time around, but none the less I am always willing to try something new!


(Update) This post is later than planned due to unexpected technical issues, Original post dated (20/05/2017)

2017

I'm only like...two months late to the party. Yet again life and all of it's little (and not so little) issues has got in the way of my regular blogging!

But a quick update. I'm still Ginger. I have a new job and I was given the all clear for my suspected melanoma on my foot! It actually took quite a long time to get the all clear confirmation, considering my op was November 3rd, I received the latter on new years eve, which frankly I was really happy about! Who wouldn't want to start the new year with a clean slate! 

Anyway, I now have a new full time, salary paid job at a well known beauty and hair distributor...that't NOT Sally's, and I freaking love it! 

Also in other exciting quick update news, i'm finally having my fertility issues addressed, (i'll do a separate post about that) I'm getting a new tattoo in a couple of days so i'll finally be able to updtate my tattoo blog. and The Man and I are talking about doing a vow renewal! But as more of like a wiccan/pagan/'viking esq hand fastening ceremony. I have no idea when, and Secretly I am kind of hoping he'll re-propose first. But this year will be the ideal year to do it as it's our 10 year anniversary of meeting, and our 5 year wedding anniversary. 

So exciting things to come. I'll do an updated post about my hair and products I've been converted to aswell, if you haven't already head over to my Instagram @sway_moonchild 

Love and Light. xoxo