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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Today I'm going to be reviewing the Lash Magnifique 3D Mink lashes, I found this company on instagram recently, I'm not sure if they're an instagram based company but thats where I found them!  They do eyelash extensions and also sell strip lashes.

I got the Champagne lashes,  these are £21.99 and I think around £24 including shipping, the shipping was so fast it took around 2 days which I was quite impressed with and the box they come in is really nice and really good quality.

The band on these lashes is quite thick so they do feel heavy, but they're also very full so it's kind of expected. I love false lashes and wear them all the time so they didn't bother me at all but I think if you're new to lashes they'd be way to heavy! But for someone who's used to a lot of volume I found them fairly comfy. 

I found a discount code after I bought these lashes, which may have been a blessing in disguise as I was torn between two pairs, these and the Paris lashes, and after I found the discount code (Plouise40) I ordered the paris ones as well haha so feel free to use it, it gets you 40% of the lashes! Side note: The paris ones are absolutely beautiful aswell, the box looks a tad different but its only improved and the lashes are to die for! 

I love how these lashes look, my favourite lashes are iconics by house of lashes and these one are defiantly tied for first now, they have a very similar shape to the iconics being that they flair out at the outer corners, these ones are just a tad more feathered towards the end of the lashes.

Overall I would deffinatley recommend these lashes, they're great quality and I feel they'd last for ages, especially with the discount code then they're the same price as koko lashes/House of lashes and such better quality!

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I did this post a while ago of my top five fave lipsticks, so I thought I'd do it again 3 years later and update you! My lipstick collection has changed quite a bit in three years.  These aren't in any particular order, just my top 5 at the minute!
First off is the MAC Ariana Grande Viva Glam lipstick in deep dark plum (£15.50), I love the colour of this lipstick, it's like a mix of rebel and cyber by MAC. It's the perfect dark purple shade and I love this packaging, this is actually the only thing I've ever bought from a MAC collection and I really like how it just adds something different, and the formula as always with MAC lipsticks is amazing! 
Next is another lipstick by MAC (they're my faves in general if you couldn't guess haha) this one is in the shade Brave (£15.50). This is probably the pinkest shade I wear, pink isn't my thing but I really like this one, I generally wear it over the top of soar lipliner. Its a great combo for every day wear and it goes with so many eye looks! 
(this colour is waaay more plum toned than the picture!)
This next one is by NARS in the shade Charlotte (£24.00), I wanted a shade like this for ages and I couldn't find the perfect one for months and then I stumbled across this shade in selfridges and really liked the look of it, then I read the name and decided it was fait haha. I love this shade so much, its such a nice deep red. It makes any makeup look a little more classy and put together. 
The last MAC lipstick is obviously Velvet Teddy (£15.50), this lipstick is so worth the hype. I don't think theres anything I can say about this lipstick that you haven't heard before, but it is the perfect nude shade, I can wear this with no lipliner no nothing and its just the perfect colour it lasts for ages and its not too matte or too shiny, its actually perfect. I'm obsessed. 

The last one is YSL number 3 (£26.00), this shade is pretty much whirl from MAC (which I also love) but with a bit of a shine. Its a darker then velvet teddy so it might not work for everyone as an everyday go to shade but I'd wear grey lipstick everyday and not think twice so I can't really comment haha. I love this shade I like to wear it on nights out, mostly because it fades so so lovely and I don't have to worry about getting the ring of doom around my lips and touching up my makeup while I'm drunk!

Thats it for my top 5 favourite lipsticks, maybe I'll do an update in another three years haha, 

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Today I'm reviewing the second Plouise makeup video, I wasnt planning on doing another review for these videos but I thought you might like to know how it compares to the first one, if its worth buying if you already bought one of them or if its pretty much the same as the first one!
This video is on their 'Signature look' which is the video that I was most excited for personally as its a look I see so often on instagram, and I just couldn't figure out how they do it! Much like every other look they post haha 

I really don't feel that this was a waste of money even though I also bought the first one, it has a lot of new techniques and its such a different look altogether, they use some different products but quite a few of them are the same. In this video they have added a little zoomed in screen as you can see in the picture above which really helps see little details you might have missed if this wasn't included!

This video isnt on the site Vimeo like the last one,  this is on the actual Plouise website,  it doesn't make too much of a difference, you do have to sign up again but its pretty simple and the payment is easily done through PayPal! I did have a bit of an issue with the video freezing and turning black but that could just be bad wifi, it was also easily fixed by refreshing the page!

I feel like with this video I learnt a few new techniques, where as in the last video I didn't feel I learnt new techniques it was more just techniques I've already seen and showing how they do them. But with this one I did think there was more new things that I wouldn't of done before and not really heard of which is nice especially when you're paying for the videos, its good to have new information and not just the commonly known techniques you see all over YouTube!

The brows were already done in this video and said that they will be explained in another video all about fluffy brow but I thinks that the only thing that was left out, again they covered the full face so eyeshadow, eyeliner, base, false lashes, foundation, bronzer highlighter and lips. It was a very detailed video, much like the last one. 

I think i'm going to get FOMO (fear of missing out) with these videos and I will probably end up with all of them even though I said i wouldn't, but thats not the worst thing in the world. They are very good videos, I still think 48 hours isn't enough time especially paying £19.99 for this one but I guess you can't have your cake and eat it too! 

And like last time here is my recreation of the look in the video,



I really like the look of this and I feel like these colours make my eyes pop! I'll defiantly be trying out this one again. 


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I recently placed a little order at MAC Cosmetics and I thought I'd do a first impressions on what I got! I've tried all of these products once and most of them I really like but I do regret buying one of them!


First is the Studio Fix Fluid foundation in NC15 (£22.00), I do already own this foundation in a darker shade and its one of my favourites, I have quite dry skin and this foundation is very glowy. It doesn't stick to dry patches or cake up during the day, and this shade is perfect for when I'm not fake tanned!


Next is a lip liner in Stone (£12.50), I know alot of people don't really like MAC lipliners but I actually like them a lot! They're not too creamy, so I find it quite easy to over line your lips very neatly. My lip products never bleed over them and they're not too bad price wise. This colour is quite a grey toned brown and I love it!! I wore it all day Monday underneath velvet teddy and it is well on it's way to becoming my new favourite lip combo!


Last is the MAC 224 brush (£23.00) and honestly I'm not too impressed with this, first off it is tiny, I don't know if I accidentally bought a travel size, if all MAC brushes are child size I have no idea, however I'd expect better for £23.00! The brush hairs really aren't that soft and I own better quality brushes from Zoeva for a fraction of the price! This is the first MAC brush I've ever bought and it will be last, I much prefer my bold metals/Zoeva brushes, I wouldn't recommend this at all! (UPDATE: I did accidently purchase the short handled brush which i'm gutted about as it's the same price and not what I wanted! But I still don't like the brush, it sheds so much hair all over my face. Definite no from me)


MAC is one of my favourite makeup brands I just think it has such a huge variety of products and most of them work really well, and for high end products the prices aren't too expensive either, however thats all I got in this order so let me know if you liked this type of blog post, as I've never done a 'first impressions' in a while!!


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I accidentally stumbled across this dupe when I was rummaging through my sisters makeup collection (she doesn't like the L'oreal lipgloss so obviously I took the opportunity to give it a new home haha), the Dior addict glosses (£22.50), have been my favourites for years! They are absolutely amazing and so shimmery, if you don't like glosses with glitter in them you probably won't like these but I personally love them! But for glosses they are quite pricey, but the L'oreal Xtreme Resist Mega Gloss (£6.99), formula is pretty similar!


Both of these glosses have glitter in them, so I know straight away a lot of people won't like that, but personally I do! The L'oreal one is a little but more chunky but you get what you pay for! The finish on them is very similar and I wouldn't say theres too much difference in the wearing time, but glosses don't tend to last for hours anyway!


As you can see the Dior gloss is a bit more peach and the L'oreal one is more pink, the colours aren't spot on but I think they're pretty close! And the L'oreal one has more glitter chunks in it, but they do both look and feel similar. These swatches are one swipe of the dior and two swipes of the L'oreal so it did take a tiny bit more building up, for the price difference this doesn't bother me at all!


The applicators are quite different, one being a sponge and the other being brush hairs. I do think the Dior one packs on more product but the shape of the L'oreal one is really nice and it doesn't take much to build it up. The L'oreal lipgloss does have quite a strong smell, it's quite a typical scent for drugstore lip products and it's the biggest turn off for this product for me personally I hate the smell of these!


The Dior lipgloss doesn't really have a scent, or at least not an offensive one! The brush picks up a lot of product so its great for getting really intense glossy looks. And the packaging is so nice, its such amazing quality! Im a sucker for cute packaging and this is definitely a selling point for me.



Overall I like both of these products, in my opinion the Dior one is better, but mostly due to how fine the glitter is and how off putting the smell of L'oreal one is! I would repurchase them both (I already have a few more shades of the Dior ones) because the smell doesn't last too long, but given the choice I would always go for the Dior Addict Gloss! My favourite thing to do is put the dior one on before I leave the house and top up with the L'oreal, that way it won't sting too much if I lost it! haha

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