Adding to the collection: Urban Decay Razor Sharp Liquid Eyeliner in Intergalactic

One of the newest releases from Urban Decay are the Razor Sharp Liquid Liners, the come in an array of incredible bright and more wearable colours and I've been eyeing them on social media for a while. I am partial to a coloured liner so I was really excited for these!

I hadn't even realised they were out yet so I nearly died of excitement when I saw them at my local counter. I knew I had to buy one because I have been lusting for so long but I will admit that I felt a little let down on first look...

Firstly, the counter didn't seem to have all the shades.

Secondly, I felt they were over priced at £16 for such a small amount of product.

Thirdly, the colour that I had most wanted (Fireball) was out of stock.

I perceived, I watched them all and found that many of the shades weren't very pigmented and some even bled into the lines of my skin which is not at all what you want it an eyeliner. 

Intergalactic though, didn't bleed and seemed very pigmented so I chose this one.

The packaging is really lovely, very sturdy with a coloured handle which makes it super easy to tell the different liners apart. I also love the lilac packaging, its just so pretty. 

The product itself is in the smaller silver end, I would have liked to get more product that this for £16 but I can't judge too soon because it may last longer than I'm thinking it will. Who knows. The liner tip looked rubbish to me at first because it is a thin hair brush which I usually find hard to use but actually, it has proven never easy to use. It is thin and precise, depositing colour in a really delicate yet opaque way. 

Overall, I am impressed but I'm not also. It is nice, the product is good, the packaging is grid but I just can't help but feel that you can find something similar from other brands for a lost less money such as the NYX Vivid Brights. 

What do you guys think? Have you tried them or can you recommend another brand of coloured liners? 

Adding to the collection: Urban Decay Vice Lipstick in Lovelight (Sheer Shimmer)

Recently, I've bought a few new additions to my makeup collection so my next few posts will be showing you those items! 

Starting with this gorgeous Urban Decay Vice Lipstick in Lovelight...

I've been eyeing up the Vice lipsticks for a while, there are 100 to choose from, in every colour and finish you could possible think of or need. I've been putting off buying any because how could you possibly decided with that much variety?! 

So the other day I went into House of Frasier, darted to the Urban Decay counter and proceeded to cover my whole arm in swatches. I've done this a few times and just not bought one because I couldn't decided so this time I just swatched loads and made an impulse decision and bought Lovelight. 

Lovelight is a sheer shimmer formula in a peachy nude with golden shimmers. It is a unique shade but it is also very wearable and because it is a sheer formula, it wears away evenly and is super easy to wear. No need for constant touch ups, you won't get the dreaded crusty inner lip and your lips will look like a shimmery delicious dream. 

The packaging for these Vice lipsticks makes me melt, gold base with a gun-metal silver tube. They are shiny and beautiful, the lipstick looks far more expensive than its reasonable £15 price tag. The lid also pops in really securely so I can't imagine that the lid would fall off in your handbag and get ruined! This is a real issue with cheaper lipsticks and it drives me mad, the inside of my handbag is a rainbow of lip products all over the lining! 

I am really pleases with Lovelight and it has definitely spurred me on to buy another sometime soon!

Oh My God though, have you all seen the lipstick palette Urban Decay are bringing out? I need it! 

Devon 2016

Myself, my partner and our puppy, Watson, have recently returned from a wonderful week and in glorious Devon. We stayed in Woolacombe which in recent years has become our most favourite place to visit, it is one of the most beautiful places in England in my opinion with its vast sandy white beaches, crystal clear waves and countryside. We devoured cream tea after cream tea, eat ice cream on the beach and watched our pup encounter the sea and the sand for the very first time! He loved every minute! (head to my instagram for a video!) 

These are our holiday snaps!

Music Review: Mollie King - Back To You 9/10

                                   

                                            

Mollie King has been a fifth of the girl group The Saturdays since 2007. They have always been my guilty pleasure, I've loved every single, every album, loved seeing the girls in magazines and following them on Instagram. They are just captivating. So talented, so beautiful and musically so addicting. 

There strength has always been as a group so I was concerned that them going on a hiatus in order to persue singular efforts would be a flop. Vanessa released an EP not long ago and it didn't really make a dent in the music world and I didn't love it. The second Saturday to release anything is the lovely Mollie in the form of, Back To You. 

Back To You is a breathy. sexy, love song about not being able to leave an ex alone. Just wanting to be with them and no one else despite them not being good for you. 

On first few listens, the song felt repetitive and simple. I liked it but I didn't think it would make it onto my playlist but I kept listening wanting to like it and it worked because now I really do. Mollie has played it safe by sticking to the same fluffy pop sound that The Sats have been so successful with but she has given it her own spin, slowed it down, provided some emotion. 

Her voice sounds beautiful but I do feel the song would have benefitted from Mollie kicking the vocals up a notch in the final verse. It would have really added to the emotion of the song and the lyrics. This is the only reason I have given the song a 9/10 instead of a 10.

I love the single cover art, simple, sexy and the colour hue is very unique and gorgeous. She should have gone for a lipgloss instead of the matte lips she is wearing though because her lips just look dry and this song calls for a moist lip in my opinion! That sounds gross but you know what I mean!

I'm assuming this single will lead to an album and I am very excited to hear it! 

NYX Vivid Brights

Left: Vivid Envy   Right: Vivid Sapphire

I love coloured eyeliner. I love it because I have hazel eyes so brightly coloured eyeliners really bring out the different colours in my eyes. So when perusing my local NYX counter, I came across the most incredible collection of coloured liquid eyeliners and knew I had to try them. So far I have bought two shades. 

The first I bought was Vivid Envy and the reason I bought this is because they were sold out of Vivid Sapphire which was the colour I really wanted. I was too impatient to wait for them to restock so I threw this amazing green one into my basket and trotted merrily to the till. 

I will admit, these are quite hard to apply, they have long hairs as the applicator and they are rather hard to control. They would definitely be easier to apply if they had a plastic tip but I do think the hairs give a better application of colour despite the struggle to get it on. I used a piece of tape to get the liner flicks right, otherwise it would have been truly impossible. 

The green shade is a lot more demure than the tube would suggest. It looks like it would be a more neon colour so it is a little annoying to get a different colour than I expected but I do still realllllly love it. 

Youtuber Gabriella Lindley (VelvetGh0st) was wearing Vivid Sapphire in one of her vlogs and I couldn't stop staring at her eyes. For the next few weeks I kept visiting the NYX stand and the shade was always sold out! I was getting so frustrated because I needed it so badly! When I finally found it I nearly peed myself with happiness. It is the most incredibly intense amazing sapphire blue, it is no surprise that it was always sold out. 

It is just as hard to apply as the green but I love them both so much that I will most definitely be buying the rest of the collection and wearing them everyday until people start referring to me as the rainbow eyes girl. I am addicted! 

Do yourself a favour and give them a try! 

Natural Collection Highlighter Sticks

Left: Rose Glow     Right: Coral Glow 

I look around the makeup section in Boots so frequently that when a new product pop up, I noticed it straight away and if intriguing enough, it will end up in my basket. 

These Natural Collection Highlighter Sticks intrigued me because I'm pretty certain that Natural Collection didn't do a highlighter until now. I have used Natural Collection products before but i've never been too impressed because as the name suggests, everything is very natural and just not all that exciting. But these little guys looked so different from the rest of the stand, beautiful colours with intense shimmer and packaged in petite white twist up chubby sticks. 

I like the packaging mostly, they are very small at roughly 2inches tall, containing a decent amount of  cream highlighter. The diameter of the product is perfectly sized to run along the cheek bone applying just the right amount of product. 

Great for squeezing in a makeup bag and clearly labelled on the bottom of the stick, my only issue is that the lids don't seem to stay on very well. This could cause quite the issue should the lid come off in your bag. 

(Unblended)

As you can see here, the colours are gorgeous. Rose Glow (left) is a dusty pink with golden shimmers, it is a very wearable colour with a huge amount of pigmentation. I feel that it would suit most skin tones as it is a subtle light shade. 

Coral Glow (right) is a weird one for me. It is a strong coral shade with golden shimmer, my issue is that I don't feel that it is a highlighter shade at all. It is just too coral and bright, more of a shimmering blusher in my opinion. I just don't see how on anyone this could be a highlight. It is still wearable though, I like it as a blush but rather than using it on the apples of my cheeks, I blend it from my upper apple and pull it up along my cheek bone so that it kind of acts as a blush and highlighter combo. 

(Blended Out) 

My issue with these occurs when you start blending. You have to be so careful because it is so easy to accidentally buff away all of the colour and end up with just chunky glitter. I actually quite like the chunky glitter look because I'm a weirdo but I don't think many other people would appreciate it! 

These retail at £1.99 each and can often be found on a 3 for 2 offer in Boots which makes these bad boys a freaking bargain. They aren't perfect but I think they are really adaptable, you can use them as a highlight, a blush or even eyeshadow. Considering the price I really think they are pretty good! 

The Shallows Review 7/10

I went to see The Shallows the other day purely because the showing was at a convenient time. I didn't have high expectations.

The film centres around Nancy, a young medical student who recently lost her mother. Nancy decides to visit the secret beach her mother once visited while pregnant with Nancy, she goes alone due to a flaky friend. 

Nancy goes surfing and finds herself trapped on a rock while a shark circles her. She gains a deep leg bite early on in the film and spends the duration of the film sitting on a rock tending to her wound and thinking of a way to get back to shore unharmed. 

Very simple storyline, seems like just you typical shark horror and it some ways it is but in other ways, its was highly enjoyable! And I was in fact very impressed!

Nancy played by Blake Lively could have easily been an annoying heroine, lots of crying and too many sexy close ups but Lively acted her role impressively well and I genuinely felt a connection with the character. She played the fine line between fear and bravery which was a refreshing change from your standard horror movie heroine. 

The movie kept you hooked from beginning to (almost) the end. 

I feel that for the most part the effects and the shark itself looked really impressive, the movie featured some beautiful shots of the beach and the surf, there as also a scene that I found particularly terrifying which included a whole load of jellyfish. 

Little fact about me, I am extremely scared of jellyfish. This particular scene had me biting my nails and perched on the edge of my seat. I don't feel that this movie was particularly scary and I don't feel it was meant to be, it was more about the tension and the build up to the big reveal of the shark but the jellyfish scene really got me. 

My favourite part however which really set the bar a little higher for me was the seagull! Throughout  pretty much the whole movie an injured seagull sat on the rock with Nancy, it was a really clever way to give Nancy a more human feel, she spoke to the seagull and sympathised with him. I know it sounds ridiculous to explain but you'd need to see the movie to truly understand what I mean! 

Now for the criticism, the ending was just silly. The whole film had been solidly good until the ending where it felt like the film makers just didn't know how to end it so they just threw in a load of over the top bullshit. The ending could have been so much simpler and so much better. 

Overall, I really did enjoy The Shallows which was a nice surprise! 

Have you seen it? What did you think?