Brunette Beauty

Packaging: The packing is very elegant and not a typical cheap looking product which is awesome. Its very channel-esque with the quilt/ crisscross patttern, which makes me feel very important and special. The actual casing is a hard plastic meaning that its pretty durable and can handle being chucked around. I like the engraved  Revlon  on the stick too. Smell: Manufactured plastic smell. Colour: #065 Rosy Nude - reddish pink with a brown/ mauve undertone. Opaque pigmentation with a matte finish. This specific colour does go on a little reedier than my natural lip colour which may interest those who like lip products that look similar to their own natural lips. This colour is not suited for me as it's too mauve-y for my liking (lucky it was free). Texture/ Formula: This lipstick feels light weight on the lips. Though when I remember this I check my lipstick and the colour has seeme...

Packaging: Black shiny tube, with white writing that came off with daily usage. The wand is similar to the CoverGirl LashFushion but is more tapered at the tip and has longer brissles but shorter than those on the L'Oreal extra-Volume Collagene mascara. I thought that this shape of the wand would mean that it will deliver more product onto the lashes and reach more lashes and therefore make my eye more volumised. These brissles are wire and can hurt is you accidentally poke your eye. Smell: Plastic & manufactured. Not very pleasant  even if the mascara wand is out for a few seconds each day. Colour: Blackest black. Opaque pigmentation with a matte finish. Texture/ Formula: This is a thick beeswax texture. It's long-lasting but needs a specific eye makeup remover to take off. There was no flaking but there was smudging. My lashes did feel stiff. My lashes stick together creating 5 distinct lashes...

Packaging: This lipgloss is in a clear acrylic rectangle tube with a black shiny lid and a gold bar around the whole tube that separate the clear bottom from the black top. In this gold bar REVLON is written on the front side. This style of packaging is very similar to the lipgloss packaging of Chanel but at a fraction of the cost. The applicator is a doe foot wand that dispenses the right amount of product in one swipe so that theres not an over load of gloss and so that the colour is opaque similar to what is shown in through the tube. If you want the same opaqueness as in the tube then all it takes is another swipe. Not 3/4. The length of the wand feels a little short with first use. NARS lipgloss wand is longer but this wand doesn't feel as though it's so short that your shoving your hand into your mouth. Smell/ Taste: No. Colour: #150 Peach Petal - pinky creamy beige nude colour. Sheer pigmentation with a glo...

Packaging: Classic essential care formula in vibrant blue & colourful packaging. The lip balm is a slim twist up stick with a cap. Durable and very portable. Smell: Jojoba Oil (no taste). Colour: Clear. Texture/ Formula: This lipbalm contains shea butter, jojoba oil & vitamin E which all have soothing, healing, moisturising properties. This classic lip balm also contains pro vitamin B5 which helps protect against pre-mature ageing caused by the weather elements such as the sun&wind burnt lips. My lips did feel moisturised without feeling overloaded with product & this feeling was long lasting. I felt though I went through the tube quickly, but it was slim enough to put into pant/short pocket as well as into a small clutch and handbag. Available: From Priceline, pharmacies and discount department stores for $4 for 4.8g.

Packaging: This comes in a matte finish squeeze tube with a shiny black screw off lid. The dispenser is a tiny concentrated nozzle that helps control the amount of product coming out of the tube. The numbering/ shade name is done through numbers. This shade reference is at the bottom of the tube (see above right picture). This is a little confusing if you have multiple shades of this foundation and just want to grab one and go and not have to look carefully for the correct shade that matches you at that specific time. It also can get confusing to re-order the same shade, if you toss the black box it came in which has the shade # on the top. But I guess you have to be careful. Smell: None. Colour: #30 Porcelain - light peach shade with more yellow undertones. Medium to full coverage with a matte finish. I got shade #40 by accident as I though that would match me but it was too dark. It hasn't gone to waste as I am ...

Packaging: Small glass jar with a shiny black screw off lid. It comes with a brush that has small rounded brissles. The brissles are small in length, but can be used to create thin & thick lines. I have found that using an angled liner brush gives a much finer, thinner line which is what I am after. Smell: None. Colour: 950 Blackest black. Medium to opaque pigmentation with a matte finish. Available in 2 shades. Texture/ Formula: This gel is smooth and thick. It glides on easily, not leaving any chunks of product behind. A basic makeup wipe will remove it this. I have found that if this gel is loaded on and into the lashes it does take an additional swipe or removal  to take off. The packaging does say this is both smudge and water proof. I have to disagree as it does smudge and transfer, especially if worn on the lower lash line. I've tried various combinations from using this on a bare eye, ...

Packaging: Thee wipes came in a special frosted plastic box to store them. 2x packets fit into the box. To be honest, thats the only reason I got them- so I have a system of storing my wipes in my bathroom. The actual wipes themselves come in a green plastic package with a re-sealable lid on the top. Smell: Like green tea. Colour: White face cloth wipes. The actual makeup remover product on the wipe is a clear liquid. Texture/ Formula: These cloths are very thick, or feel thick in comparison to the Neutrogena wipes I've been using previously. The makeup remover product felt dry as if there was little product on the cloth wipe. These wipes therefore didn't feel as thought the fully removed all my makeup, which I think made my face to be fully cleansed. The makeup remover product is oil & alcohol free, which means for me that it won't dry out my skin or cause breakouts. ...

Packaging: Clear plastic flip up lid. Each quad comes with two single ended sponge tip applicators. There is a application guide on the back of the quad with placement of the corresponding colours in the palette. Smell: None. Colour: 02 Natural Smokes - two warm undertoned shadows with a icy gold shimmer dark brown (lid) & a matte opaque dark chocolate brown with subtle gold shimmer (crease). The other two shades in the quad are cool undertones, one is a sheer matte beige (base) & a matte sheepish mud brown (liner). 04 Charcoal Smokes - all warm undertoned shadows. The first colour is a silver shimmer (brow bone), sheer brown with silver shimmer (lid), sheer purple brown with silver shimmer (crease) & sheer matte black with silver chunks. Available in 6 shades. Texture/ Formula: These shadows are soft, silky, buildable in terms of colour intensity and crease resistant if a primer is...

Packaging: Black plastic shiny compact with a clear lid window to see the colour of the eyeshadow. Each of these eyeshadows come with a single ended sponge tip applicator. Smell: None. Colour: 100 Glam Ice - shimmer silver, icy white. Sheer pigmentation with shimmer finish. 030 Smokey Quartz - gold shimmer medium brown with slight purple/cool undertones. Opaque pigmentation with a satin finish. Available in 15-25 shades depending on the location of where Rimmel is stocked. Top - white Glam Ice Bottom - Smokey Quartz Texture/ Formula: It's a soft and silky shadow. They wear for 6 hours and will crease without a primer. The colour is buildable to the intensity desired. There is some fallout if too much powder applied to lid without tapping excess off before applying. These shadows are okay, nothing fantastic. If your after an affordable shadow that has good pigmentation for a...