Today I'm going to be reviewing these Lime Crime Velvetines (£1.26) I found on eBay, I admittedly spend way too much of my time scrolling through eBay seeing if I can find anything worth buying, whilst trying not to make my bank account cry, and I stumbled across these liquid lipsticks. As they're only £1.26 I thought I'd might as well try them! 

I can't say I'm a supporter of Lime Crime products (you can google the drama surrounding that brand if you wish), however I have heard good things about the velvetines so when I found these dupes I was quite exited. I ordered 12 of these liquid lipsticks but one didn't arrive (shade pansy, I got a refund all is well) and I've already managed to loose one! They took around three weeks to arrive, but the estimated delivery date what much later than that so I was happily suprised!

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First off these liquid lipsticks are excellent value for money! The packaging is quite cute and they defiantly don't feel like I spent less than £2 on them! A few of the colours are go a bit streaky and take some building up but it's nothing worth complaining about. 

They last for so long on the lips, I really didn't expect the wear to be as good as it is, however a downfall to these liquid lips is that they dry your lips out like nobodys business. After 2/3 hours of wearing these lipsticks your lips feel like could actually shrivel up and fall off, on the upside you can't tell by looking at them! The liquid lipsticks stay put and still look nice, so if you can deal with the dry feeling it doesn't make them unwearable. 

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I will say that, like with most liquid lipsticks, you do get the ring of doom on the centre of your lips and if you eat anything with oil in it the product does start to break down, so not ideal for meals out! I like to wear these for work when I'm doing weddings as I'm there for hours, I don't have time to be touching up my makeup and I also don't have time to eat so I don't have to worry about that haha

Over all I really like these liquid lipsticks, I would recommend giving them a go. If you just buy one to try the formula and don't like it you've only spent £1.26 on them so it's really not that bad! Let me know if you've tried these and what your favourite liquid lipstick brand is! 

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 This palette comes with four shades and first off these pans are huge, I wasn't expecting them to be this big but I'm happily surprised! My favourites for my skin tone are 'sunburst' and 'bubbly' but the other shades are lovely as well, I like how this kit does have a variety of colours and works with multiple skin tones, I can just about get away with 'dripping in gold' with my natural skin tone but I have used 'golden bronze' when i've fake tanned and it looks so beautiful. 

 I like to apply 'bubbly' on the tops of my cheeks, nose, upper lip and centre of my forehead and concentrate 'sunburst' on the tops of my cheeks over the 'bubbly' shade and it creates such a lovely glow. It is quite dramatic but I personally like that, obviously you don't have to layer and create a full on glow you can use this palette to create subtle looks as well! 

Overall I'm really happy with this palette and would defiantly buy more, the 'Sweets' glow kit looks amazing! I would say it is worth the money, compared to highlighters such as Champagne Pop by Becca x Jaclyn Hill (£30.57), you get a lot more product and personally I like the formula a lot more! 

Let me know what you think about this palette, if you have it or want to try it! Thanks for reading,

I've seen this trick quite a lot on the internet and decided I wanted to give it a go! My Champagne Pop (£28.50) highlighter broke, so first of all I'm just going to say this highlighter should come with isopropyl alcohol it smashes so much, don't get me wrong its a great highlighter but everyone who i've spoken to who has it, its broken and its almost £30...

Anyway, with it being almost £30 I'm not throwing this away anytime soon, so I fixed it.

So all you have to do is crush your compact up even more, which is actually really satisfying to do, and then pour some isopropyl alcohol and mix it all up! Its so easy to do, my worry with doing this was if it was going to change the formula or the pigment of the product, however I'd completely given up on champagne pop for a hot minute so I didn't really care. 

I also did this with soft and gentle by MAC (£24.00) which smashed after my nephew decided it was a bouncy ball (it isn't), it was a little bit harder to do, it didn't mix quite as easily but it still worked, it just took a bit more time. Its such a good little trick that can save very expensive products! Overall would really recommend. 

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NYX has been quite hard to get in the UK, but recently they've opened a counter in boots in Manchester and I am over the moon! I've heard so many great things about this brand and being drugstore products at good prices I was quite intrigued! Obviously the most talked about are their lip products and so far thats all I've tried (I did well not to get carried away haha).

First are the NYX butter glosses (£5.00), I have Creme Brûlée (top picture) and Fortune Cookie (bottom picture). I love these lip glosses, they're thicker than other glosses I own and have more of a colour pay off, I'd say they are more like a glossy liquid lipstick with how pigmented they are. I find they don't last ages but they fade nicely and for £5 who's complaining. The issue I have with these is if my lips are a tiny bit dry they don't apply well at all so I have to make sure my lips are exfoliated and moisturised before I wear these but it's not a big deal. 

 This is the NYX liquid suede (£6.50) in Stone Fox, they do have much more wearable shades in the collection but I love this colour! You do get quite an obvious 'ring of doom' around your lips but it's to be expected with grey! Also this lipstick does transfer quite a bit, I found it doesn't seem to dry 100%, that being said I don't find that this lipstick crumbles like a lot of other liquid lipsticks which is nice considering its only £6.50! Over all I do like the formula, but with a colour like this it does need frequent touch ups, but most statement colours do! 

Last is the NYX soft lip creme (£5.50) in Copenhagen, these lip cremes last for ages! I can't fault them at all and this colour its gorgeous! These are one of the most talked about products and I can definitely see why, again like the liquid suede, this collection does have more wearable everyday shades that need less attention. This lip creme fades throughout the day with, eating, talking, drinking so it does need touch ups but I haven't ever looked in the mirror and though "what on earth has happened to my lips!" which has happened a few times before with cheaper liquid lipsticks! haha 

Over all I do like these lip products and I would defiantly recommend them, you can get better liquid lipsticks (such as the Anastasia Beverly Hills ones) but for the price of these they are so worth the tiny bit of extra effort you put in to make them look perfect all day.  

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