Let's get serious

Hello, 

I have always raved about Kiko, I love their eyeshadows and their nail polishes and all the bronzers and lipsticks and basically everything. I love that it's cheap and also a good quality. However I always heard people talk about Make-up Geek eyeshadows and bronzers and blushes, and I just didn't know if it was worth the hype. Also in UK you can't get them easily. 

You can order Make-up Geek at Beauty Bay website and they are £4.95 for an eyeshadow pan, if your purchase is more than £15 you get shipping for free. They also have lots of other brands. 

Let's talk about these eyeshadows.

 I only have one colour here but I own five colours in total. I have never used eyeshadow so pigmented and cheap and bendable and long wearing. Make-up Geek got it good. It is literally the God of eyeshadow.

This one is in colour Americano and it is dark brown with lots of purple in. The pictures on the website are not the true colours but they are very close. Nor is mine.

I have never worked with eyeshadows so pigmented and they blend easily. They have a really good pay of and they last a long time. 

I recommend recommend recommend to try these eyeshadows and to fall in love with them. They have 94 colours to choose from so I am sure you will find something you like. They might have just a tiniest bit fall out. 

They are so worth it. 

Have you tried any Make up Geek products? What are you best eyeshadows? 

Yours Izabele

xoxo

H&M cream eyeshdow

Hello you all, 

I am always looking for a perfect cream eyeshadow to use it as a base coat as well as to use it on its own when I have very bold lips or when I need something quick and simple. 

I have tried a few but I have never found the perfect brown colour that could suit every eyeshadow I have. 

This Colour Essence Eye Cream from H&M is the perfect colour. It is shimmery but not too much and it has as much tint as you want. You can easily blend this out and have a little colour wash or you can really build it up. I am not lying when I said it suits every colour I have, it just goes with everything. The texture is so light and even silky, it is beautiful. 

I usually apply this with a brush. I don't know why but I honestly don't know how to use finger for this. It looks patchy and not blended and just weird when I do it with a finger so I never use a finger. Maybe I need to go on a course that teaches me how to apply make-up with my hands. 

I must admit this eyeshadow creased after a while so I always put a primer underneath. 

This is in Dauphine Truffle and it costs £4.99.  As I said before it is quite hard to find this in-store unless you are in super H&M store so ordering online would be your best bet. 

If you are looking for the perfect eyeshadow cream that will go with everything and that is lovely in texture I highly recommend this! 

What cream eyeshadows do you use? 

Yours Izabele

xoxo

Gorgeous Eyes

Hello Lovely faces, 

I feel like this needs a little context. I love youtuber Tanya Burr and I also love her everyday make up. She always adds this brownly colour on her lower lash line and with her brown eyes it works so well and it looks lovely and gorgeous. I wanted something like that for me too. Lately I have been looking for a green pencil with gold glitter. I wanted it to have a lot of gold glitter and just a little green pigment and I looked everywhere for a pencil like that and I could never find what I wanted. So I picked this up at H&M thinking this might be it but not bringing my hopes up.

When I tried I fell in love straight away. This was exactly what I have been looking for! 

You can find it only at big H&M stores or online and it cost £3.99.  

Online is probably your best bit but there are a lot of colours that are sold out. 

This colour is called Treasure Hunt, what a lovely name, and it is suppose to be water proof eyeliner/eyeshadow. It is super easy to blend and build up. It doesn't set quickly so you have a lot of play time with this. Honestly I use this most of the time on my lower lash line it is just beautiful and if you have greenish/bluish eyes I highly recommend. You blend out the green colour and your under eyes are left with a little green tint and lots of gold glitter.

I am so glad that this is not just another green pencil I used once and hid it somewhere in my make up draw. I love this so much, I wear it as eyeliner with simple eyeshadows, I wear it with a full on smoky eye, I even put this on my lower lash line when I am only wearing eyeliner and I never do that; I like my eyeliner to be clean! 

Check these eyeshadow/eyeliner pencils. There is 16 shades and some of there are super natural while others are plain gorgeous! 

Do you have an under eye colour? Do you like eyeliner/eyeshadow pencils? Which ones do you use?

Yours Izabele

xoxo

H&M Make-up

Hello people, 

So a few months ago I went into H&M super store and found all this fancy H&M make-up. I picked up a lot of pieces and this is one of them. 

It is a High Impact Eye Colour eyeshadow in Woodwork. 

It is the most beautiful brown colour. This colour will suit everyone as it is so versatile. It is originally a brown colour with a lot of gold and rose gold glitter with a green undertone.  You can really build this colour up and have it very bold or you can blend it down and have a little gold and rose gold shimmer with a hint of brown and green. It is just beautiful for smoking out, you can use a little bit on the eyelid and then build it up at the V (or the corner), you can also wear it on it's own. 

It's very easy to blend and it also says that it should stay put but it doesn't, well on my eyes it doesn't. But with the right primer and lots of layering it does stay on pretty well. 

It does fall out a little but not too much. It is also very creamy and just plain gorgeous. 

I am afraid you can only find these in big H&M stores or online, which is probably your best bit. It costs £4.99. 

The packaging felt a little cheap but then it is cheap. I also looked if there is a magnet as I want to take all of my eyeshadows and put them into one big palette but it is glued so that won't work.

I would highly recommend H&M new make-up range. I think it is brilliant and super affordable and I am always reaching for it! I only have their eye products and I am willing to try out more. (After posting this I am going onto H&M website and I am ordering a bunch of stuff. I am obsessed. ) 

I will be posting more on H&M make-up so stay tuned! 

Have you ever tried H&M make up? Do you like it? Which one is your favourite? Do you have any suggestions for other retail beauty products? Please tell me.

Yours Izabele

xoxo

Kiko Cream Eyeshadows

I have heard a lot of good things about Kiko cream eyeshadows so I though I want to give it a go. I was thinking to get colours I could use underneath my normal eyeshadows but I also wanted a colour I could wear on its own. 

The colours I chose are: 04 Mat Taupe, 08 Pearly Dark Brown. At the moment they are for sale for £3.40 online and I'm pretty sure you might find then in certain Kiko shops. 

These shadows are very pigmented but you can blend them easily and make them as sheen as you want them to be. They set quite quickly but it gives you enough time to play around with them. When they set it feels as if this eyeshadow becomes your skin but they do crease after a while even with eyeshadows on top. When you put powder on a cream product you kind of set the cream product with powder. It is like to fill in the blanks. This way the product stays for longer. 

To be honest I wasn't too sure about the colours when I received them but I absolutely love them once I tried them on me.

The texture of these eyeshadows is very interesting. It feels like these eyeshadows are whipped and it feels really nice on your eyes and your hands. 

I think this is such an amazing and useful product and it is also cheap!!

Do you use cream eyeshadows? what are they? 

Yours Izabele

xoxo

Metallic Shine

Another Kiko post? Of course! 

It is a limited edition very metalicy and shimmery eyeshadow. Not gonna lie I though this was a cream eyeshadow even thought it did say on the website that it was a powder. I think the tub made me believe that it was cream eyeshadow. 

It is from Metallic Shine  collection in colour 06 Dynamic Taupe. I love this colour and consistency. It is super shimmery and has a bit of a grey undertone once it is on the lids. It is quite creamy too. I think this would be super nice for the inside corner. It stays on pretty well and I love how much of the product you get and it also comes in a snazzy as tub! 

As it is a limited edition I don't think Kiko shops have this but you can order it on their website and it is only £3.40. It comes in four very pretty colours and I feel like these eyeshadows are buildable. You can make them as sheen as possible or as strong. I also think it has that wet look once you apply as it so shimmery.  

It is such a good value for money and just a really nice treat for yourself. 

Tell me what is your go to eyeshadow for inside corner of your eyes? I would love to try some more new products. 

Yours Izabele

xoxo

Kiko Eyeshadow Trio

Are you ready for Kiko posts? I have been shopping and I have tons of things to share with you! 

I am in love with Kiko. I have so many things from them and variety colours from their collections and I love it to bits. 

One thing I adore from Kiko is their eyeshadows. They have released now a third 'range' of their eyeshadows and they are just the best. These in the picture are from the second range called Infinite pigment eye shadows and they come in these pans rather than a secure box. To be completely honest I hate the fact that it comes in these pans because you can easily break them. 

I have three eyeshadow from this 'range'. Purely just because I got a lot of my eyeshadow colours in an original 'range'. When I talk about 'ranges' I mean their core range. They do other eyeshadows like Water eyeshadow which you can use both dry or wet there are also many glittery and shimmery eyeshadow that don't fall into these 'ranges' I am talking about. The reason they are different because they don't offer as many colours as the core 'range' does. I hope I didn't confuse you with all the 'range' talk. 

The ones I have are: 239 Matte Gray Taupe, which is a very light ashy/browny grey, 271 Pearly Gray, which is grey with like a light green undertone and shimmer, 289 Matte Dark Oak, which is very dark brown with ashy undertone. I use the 289 on my eyebrows when I am wearing a full make up, if I go for something really light on make up then I use 239. The difference between colours are massive but it works for me. I think using 239 with a full face makes me look like I don't have eyebrows. I would fill my eyebrows with 289 then brush it out and then if I need more definition I would go back to 239 and put that on top and then brush it out again. 

These eyeshadows are very pigmented but they blend so well and they stay on nicely. I just love them. Right now they are on offer for £2.80 their original price was £5.90. 

You can also look for palettes to put in these eyeshadows but I don't think they have many 2,4,6 eyeshadow palettes but you can find a single eyeshadow box for £1.90 on Kiko website.

I recommend you these shadows if you wanna have a few really good quality eyeshadows without hurting your bank account. These are the best!

Have you ever tried Kiko eyeshadows, or make up in general? What are your thoughts?

Yours Izabele

xoxo

Tanya Burr Cosmetics

I already mentioned that I had Tanya's advent calendar this year. I was super excited about the lipglosses and the eyeshadow. Mainly to see if it is any good. I loved the calendar and I love that it had many different products.

I was pleasantly surprised with the eyeshadow. There are two eyeshadows in the calendar and it is shimmery loose eye shadow. They come in colours: Starry Night and Creme Brulee. My favourite gotta be Creme Brulee (the coppery one on the right) purely because it is such a wearable colour and I wear it all the time. As it is loose powder you can build your pigmentation. I think the actual eyeshadow has about medium pigmentation but honestly it holds for so long. Again I use it on a cream eyeshadow and I kid you not it stays in place for the whole day. 

I don't know maybe I bled more as it is a powder but it stays on my eyes the longest any eyeshadows have ever stayed. It is also super shimmery and just really pretty. 

Now I really want to try her eyeshadow palettes. Although these colours are limited edition but I just want to warn you that these eyeshadow are really good, if she ever releases loose eyeshadows again! 

I must say that the packaging is a crap. One of my eyeshadow lids just keep on opening up. However, I can see past that. I give her 15 out of 10!

Moving onto lipglosses I was kind of disappointed. I know that she can do a really pigmented lipgloss and very faint lipgloss. 

Candy Frost (the one on the left) is super light in pigmentation yet it is very shimmery with a little purple tint but it is so faint you hardly see anything but shimmer. This is one of those lipglosses to have on no make up days or on the days where you hardly wear any make up. It is pretty and I love this lipgloss. Good addition to the calendar.

Bewitched (the on in the middle) I was disappointed with this one. In the tub the colour is so beautiful, berry red, however that is not the colour you get on your lips. I wanted more pigmentation. 

Macaroon (the one on the right) this was my first lipgloss in the calendar and oh my it is the prittiest colour you've seen or had. It is really light pink, very nude with lots of shimmer and it is not super glossy it is just the best. Now you can understand my disappointment with the Bewitched. You kind want one lipgloss to be really light, another in the middle and third to be very strong. That's not the case in this calendar. 

I wore this pretty much every day. I ditched my bright lipsticks and just wore this nude pinky lipgloss for weeks. 

I love that they are in the little tubs with only 5ml of product. I will be sad to finish Macaroon but I like that they are so portable and you'll probably use them before they'll go out of date. 

I also just love love love the smell of it. To me it smells like melted toffee and it just remind me of my childhood. 

As these are a limited edition products it might seem a little pointless to write this blog post. However, next Christmas Tanya Burr is bringing out another Christmas range and I urge you to get it. You will be pleasantly surprised.

What is your Tanya Burr favourite product? 

Yours Izabele

xoxo

MUA Eyeshadows

My last product from Glossybox is this MUA eyeshadow palette called Undressed. It is amazing and cheap palette that you can have. It has very neutral colours although most of them are shimmery/glittery. 

This palette can be found at superdug and online and only cost £4, bargain if you ask me! 

It consist of 12 colours (from top left to right): Puff, Rose Ash, Fawn, Gild, Hazel, Lion, Bronze Ore, Burnished Brown, Tawny, Henna, Fuel, Cool Grey. 

I haven't used them all but I tried a few of them. It is a shame that only Hazel is matte colour (which is amazing for crease). I wish there were a few more but nevertheless I still love it. My favorite is Burnished Brown I use it all of the time. It is rusty but not ginger and quite dark and very shimmery. 

I usually apply some sort of cream eyeshadow underneath and that way the colour stay on pretty well. I tried without cream eyeshadow and it creased in a few hours.

The colours are very pigmented and they don't fall out as much as Urban Decay does which is always a good thing. 

All in all this is a great cheap product to have on hand or even as a gift as it has a good verity of colours. 

I absolutely love this palette and I would recommend it to everyone! 

Yours Izabele

xoxo 

Beauty Box

I have known about Beauty Boxes even before they were IT but I never managed to get one.The first one I ever discovered was Glossybox. I have heard many good things about it. It uses really nice products and some of them are full size. 

You can get different subscription but it usually cost £10 + p&p (which is £3.95) per box. You can order yours here. 

You get a few leaflets in this. I had Graze box voucher, a thank you card from Glossybox and a card where all the products are listed and how to use them and their full size prices. 

I will be doing 5 separate blog posts talking about the products in this box.

All I say now is that I am extremely happy with this box and I also think this would make a great gift for your beauty lover friends. 

Yours Izabele

xoxo

P.S. For Diamond Heart Primer go here.

For Eyelashes go here.

For Royals Moisturiser go here.

For Revlon Nude Lipstick go here.

For MUA Eyeshadow Palette go here.

Barry M Glitter Dream

Since in the UK everywhere is Christmas. All our shops are Christmas ready and playing Christmas music. Lots of ice rings and fairy lights, Christmas trees are also out. Oh I forgot to mention Christmas drinks, but that is for another post! 

I feel that is only fair to introduce Christmas friendly products as a lot of people are staring to think what they gonna be wearing on Christmas and New Years and what make-up look will go with their clothes. Christmas time is very magical and glitter is magical too so I think it is the best time to go all out on the glitter and who does better glitter dust than Barry M? 

Well yeah, there are expensive make up brands like MAC for glitter powder but what about cheap options. 

Here I have two different types. One is Dazzle Dust (on your left) and the colour is 90. Which is a purple colour. Dazzle dust is more of a loose eyeshadow rather than a glitter. 

The one on the right is Fine Glitter Dust in colour 21. This one is like a really dark eyeshadow with green glitter. It is very pigmented eyeshadow with a lot of glitter.

Both of these are very messy. Use shields and maybe apply them before your foundation because they will drop everywhere. They are super pigmented but quite workable. However messy they might be I love them to bits! 

They are price at £4.59, which is quite good for a really pretty product that will last you forever, literally. However recently I noticed that Boots or Superdrug don't have it in stock. Maybe the big stores will stock it and you can definitely buy it online.

If you are looking for loose glitter shadows Barry M is great for Christmas or any fancy partaays you might attend! 

Yours Izabele

xoxo

Eyeshadow Pencil

I have heard a lot of good stuff about this eyeshadow pencil so I though I would give a try myself.

It is a Collection Eyeshadow Pencil in colour Vintage Blush 3. I like this colour as it is very light and natural even but it is with a lot of glitter particles. I usually use it as my primer and it does a really good job, must I say. It literally sets within seconds so you have to put it on and blend straight away as it will not move what's so ever. It also says that it is waterproof and long lasting. I never tried it in water but it does lasts a bit. I actually think it works a lot better if you apply eyeshadow on top of it but it would still last you for a while on its own. 

I never had any problems taking it off so I don't think you will too. It is quite cheap (£3.19) for a preduct that is in between eyeshadow and a eyeshadow primer and you get so much in the tub it will probably last you a life time. They do come in a few different colours and you can find it pretty much everywhere.

Urban Decay Naked 3

Urban Decay palettes where always good and it has many colours in them. Although the colours are very natural it does suit everyone really. It is quite expensive I would say but it is a lovely product to have on hand. Having said that there are few downfalls with this palette. One of them is that you get fall outs and it doesn't help since most of the colours have glitter particles in it which leaves your whole face glittery. Another downfall is that some colours aren't as pigmented, for example a golden colour that I have is not a colour is a golden glitter which gives the golden shine but not the pigment itself. 

The colours are (from left to right) :Strange, Dust, Burnout, Limit, Buzz, Trick, Nooner, Liar, Factory, Mugshot, Darkside, Blackheart. My favourite colours are: Strange, trick, nooner, liar, factory,mugshot and blackheart. I feel like you can do so much with this palette whether it is just one colour on your eyelids or a few colours for smokey eye-look. The pigmentation of this palette is really good and the colour are very pretty. I feel like this palette is very pink orientated but 1 and 2 isn't. I really like this palette and for people that love to have natural eye make up I highly recommend this palette. It costs £38 but Urban Decay do have basic palettes based on naked palettes which are a little cheaper.
All in all I like this product even with it' downfalls and I will be using it often especially in autumn season as I think these colours can be autumnal.  

Yours Izabele
xoxo

Eye liners

Everyday eye liners

I am a eyeliner girl and my favorite is black. It's simple it's easy and you can have different shapes to create different eye looks. However, this summer for me was all about light make up and black eyeliner was too strong so I turned to my pencil friends. They are great, you can use different colours like purple, green, blue and you can control the intensity of the pencil which is why I loved it.

The chubby vertical one is Long lasting stick  8 hour no-transfer eyeshadow.  It is priced at £6.90 and the colour is 39 Dark Taupe. I love this colour because it is dark yet not black. It makes your lash line stand out but it is not a sharp colour and it is beautiful with green or blue eyes. I don't know about 8 hour non-transfer as I only use it on my lash line and there is not much to transfer but when I used is as a shadow stick it didn't really hold that well and I have veryyyyy oily eyelids. 

The horizontal eye pencil is Glamorous Eye Pencil in colour 413. I don't seem to see this colour on the Kiko website but it is currently on offer which cost £2.10 but originally is £4.20. It is a beautiful dark green with golden sparkles that is super pretty and goes so well with green eyes. 

They are both from Kiko (my favorite shop) and they both are brilliant. They are very bendable and not too harsh to put on. I used them a lot this summer and I highly recommend them! 

Yours Izabele

xoxo

Make-up Palette

Khroma Beauty.

Right, let me get this straight - I don't like Kardashians. I mean I have nothing against them but I don't follow their lifes or watch them. However, when I saw this palette I really wanted to get my hands on. One of the reasons was because it had the colours that I wanted for quite some time and the blushes sold me. 

It is quite a handy thing, it has a lot of products together and it is tiny so it doesn't take a lot of your space. You can do anything with these eyeshadows, from doing a smokey eye to just wear then on their own. I saw this palette at TKMaxx and it cost £6.99 (I think) which I think it is a barging as this palette is brilliant. Unfortunately eyeshadows don't have separate names but the palette is called Complete Face Palette 106. 

Eyeshadows are four matte and four glittery. Matte eyeshadow colours are (from right to left): 1 skin colour with a little brown undertone, 2 coraly orange, 3 wet sandy brown, 4 muted cherry.

Glittery colours are: 1 golden, 2 skin colour but with a lot of brown in it, 3 cherry, 4 brown.

Blushers and highlighter: 1 very pinky blusher, 2 golden sheen, 3 browny blusher.

I have very oily eyelids and usually eyeshadows don't stay long on my eyes and to be honest these eyeshadows are the same but they are quite pigmented colours. Glittery eyeshadow do fall out so pat it on your eyelids and use a clean brush to blend it. They are very bendable and they look very pretty.  The blushers I really like as I feel like they suit my skin colour very well and the highlighter does a good job which I was surprised.   

All in all I love this product and I used it A LOT throughout this month like crazy. And that says a lot. 

Yours Izabele

xoxo

Make-up

My Kiko collection

Before I took all of my items out for the pictures I though I had a variety of Kiko products but it turned out that I only had eye shadows and lipsticks, and I think they are the best.

These eye shadows are super pigmented and can be used wet and dry. It stays quite well and it doesn't fall out that much when applying. However some of these eye shadows that I own are discontinued. For example:
white shimmery (168 discontinued) - really nice as highlighter and to wear on the inside of the eye. It has a lot glitter sparkles so it's great for dressy make up.
sparkly black (28 discontinued) - again great wet or dry. I use it as eyeliner if I don't want to use eyeliner. Sparkly bits are hard to see but I think they make your make up look prettier.
brown (120 discontinued but could be substituted by infinity eyeshadow 217 satin ebony) - mainly I use it for the eyebrows also because it is mat. It has ashy undertone, which works very well with brown. It creates a really nice natural colour for your eyebrows (works well with all type of hair colours).
satin wood brown (123) - also great wet or dry. This one is lighter than 120 and has shimmer in it. Great colour for crease work. It blends easily and it can be build into intense brown colour.
purple with a blue sparkles (159 discontinued) - this is an amazing colour. It works for purple and for blue as sparkles are blue (or at least it appears so). It is a great colour to have.

 

this is another pallet (addictive song 02) that has been discontinued. I think it was one of their street limited edition pallets. It has great autumn colours, which can be use wet or dry and they are really pigmented and stays on the eyes pretty well.
white gold (18) - sparkle based pigment. It's great for snazzing up your make up because the sparkles as very noticeable.

Let's move onto lipsticks. It's probably my favorite part of the make up.

 

coral (904 strawberry pink) - great every day colour. It is bright but not too bright. It is very moisturizing and has a glossy finish.
pink (911 watermelon) - this colour is very subtle and has some shimmer, it would be very nice with heavy eye make up to make those lips even prettier.
purple (914 amaranth) really dark colour. It does make you look a little bit older and without a lip liner you will not survive but it is really pretty autumn colour and it would work really well on a night out with some light eye make up.

pink (804 pearly watermelon) - these lipsticks are in between lip gloss and lipstick, they are pigmented but they do have a really glossy finish. Also they smell really good. It's a subtle colour and has some glitter particles - great for every day.
purple (811 raspberry ) - same as above, pigmented but super glossy, smells great. However it is much more of a darker colour but not too dark so for those who like brighter lipsticks - this one is for you.
dark pink ( 42 discontinued ) - it is a shame that they discontinued it because it is such an amazing lipstick. it smells like cherries and almonds and the colour is deep but really wearable AND it has a velvety finish - PERFECT AUTUMN LIPSTICK or winter.

Last but not least are the lip liners.

 

purple (  710 rouge noir ) - I use this one with my 914 lipstick as they mach perfectly and sometimes with 811. Also I use it under red lipstick and it gives me a nice dark red with a purple undertone, which looks nice. This pencil is mat and stays very well on the lips.
orange ( 605 orange ) - I use this with 804 as it brings out the coral colour of the lipstick. This pencil is a glossy pencil and it is not as pigmented as the 710 so this could be worn just on it's own. AND it smells like skittles!!

My Kiko collection isn't big but I wear a lot of these products daily. They are at a great price and the quality is just amazing. Also I think the packaging looks so chic. However I tried couple of their mascaras and I was not a fan of those. I liked the wands but I didn't like the actual product. And their pink exfoliating wipes are also really nice, if you like wipes that is (but they smelled really nice).
All in all I would 100% recommend this brand for everyone!

Yours Izabele
       xoxo

P.S. I also have nail polish collection if you wanna see that.