Primark Lip Crayon Review & Hiatus

I've had a pretty hectic 4 weeks, I'm trying not to make any excuses, but I just can't help it. I've moved house and started a new job, so I've neglected this blog for a little while. I'm about to rectify that. Also, now I have a trusty iPad Mini to encourage me to complete posts and allows me to take and edit images all in one place, a bonus.

So, to the review. Yesterday I popped into Primark for some well earned retail therapy, I exited with only one top, some socks and a lip crayon (a rarity for me to leave with one of the small bags). 

I've been on the lookout for more crayon lip colours since I purchased my Revlon Just Bitten Kissable Balm Stain (jumping a little late on the bandwagon). I was a little sceptic of the Primarks efforts; it swatched lovely in store and the colour payoff looked great, but I know store lighting can be deceiving.

As soon as I got home I got in front of the mirror and gave it a test run. The packaging merely says 'Moisturising Lip Gloss Crayon', nothing else. No true product name and no colour name either, not even a number. There were quite a few colours to choose from, but I went with a bright pink, it looked like such a spring colour.

After trying it on my lips my first impressions were good. The colour payoff was brilliant and the formula proved very moisturising, it didn't dry at all and gave a glossy finish. After using it for the rest of the day I would maybe go as far as saying I prefer it to my Revlon Just Bitten Balm Stain. As far as I can tell the Primark Lip Crayon hasn't stained my lips at all, which I would say was one of my major dislikes about the Revlon counterparts. 

The only thing I would say is that the product does need topping up on the lips every few hours or so, but for £1.50 is that such a bad thing? 

I'm hoping to pick up a few more colours and maybe compare them to the new MUA Lip Crayons when I manage to get my hands on one.

Have you tried the new Primark Moisturising Lip Gloss Crayon? What did you think? Until next time...

My Instagram Week #5

Dot to Dot with Beauty UK 'Smokey Lilac' & Max Factor 'Silver'/Carrot Cake/My 5 Product Face

OOTD in Grey/My Favourite/Lottie in the Sunshine

Joined Up Not Neat/MAC Paint Pot #1/MUA 'Pistachio Ice Cream'

If you fancy seeing what else goes on in my little world then follow my Instagram at lunnybunny9, I'm taking part in Photo A Day each month to try and keep to my New Years Resolution of taking more photographs, let me know if you're doing the same. Until next time...

MAC Paint Pot in Vintage Selection Review

I'm still feeling stupidly ill, so I've been confined away from the keyboard for almost a week, horrific is one word to describe it. So to cheer myself up I treated myself.

I've been looking at MAC Paint Pots for a while now, I thought that to maybe lengthen the period of time my shadows stay on I could use a Paint Pot as a primer. I had my eye on Painterly, simple and skin toned, a perfect priming base, I'd read review after review, I did my research, I'm not parting with almost £15 for nothing. Alas, when it came to ordering my new best friend, it was unavailable, typical! I was determined to put a smile on my face, so I had a quick browse of the other shades and ended up picking Vintage Selection.

It's described as a 'frosted dirty peach', I like peach, so why wouldn't I like this? 

The pot itself was a lot bigger than I imagined it to be, one point to the paint pot. After opening the lid I almost didn't want to touch it, I love the look of untouched brand new make up, so clean! 

In the pot the product looks a lot darker than I imagined, more of a bronzed peach than a dirty peach. I have been going through a bronze eye colour addiction at the minute, so this wasn't a problem. 

After swirling my finger over the product (much to the distaste of my OCD inner self) it looked quite golden and metallic on the finger, I do wish it would make its mind up. 

In the end, on my hand, it looks like a 'frosted dirty peach', hoorah! It has tiny glitter particles throughout, which doesn't bother me at all. After wearing it throughout the day I did find a little fall down from the glitter, but the colour did last all day, and took a little work to remove. 

All in all, I think I'll be delving into the Paint Pot pool a little deeper, a fabulous all over colour, and I still think Painterly will be my next stop. I'm thinking I might try Vintage Selection with a little All That Glitters, a match made in heaven? We'll see.


What Paint Pots have you tried out? Any recommendation? Until next time...

My Morning Routine #1

I completely forgot to take photos of my food today, so no What I Ate this week.  I wrote this post around the beginning of January, I love reading about other bloggers morning skincare routines, it gives me a little inspiration and introduces me to brands or products I've never heard of, or never had the bravery to try out. So this was my morning routine until around the end of January, I'm going to get a post up for my evening routine soon, so keep an eye out for that (excuse the present tense throughout the post, imagine it's January).

The first thing I do is probably something that beauty lovers everywhere would smite me down for, but I use cleansing wipes. Before you grab your whips and shackles to lock me up as a skin care devil, let me explain. I don't have a bathroom to myself and when you're in a house with four people it's hard to get time to carry out a full blown cleanse session before bed and in the morning. I will one day invest in a proper cleansing routine, but for now, I'm using the T-Zone Shine Control Cleansing Wipes. Recently I've had a few blemishes pop up here and there and have found that since using these wipes they have all since disappeared. They do smell strongly of tea-tree oil, but I don't mind that, and if they do the job why not? I like to use wipes at night and in the morning, just to get rid of any excess I may not have picked up the night before and whatever may have accumulated over night. 

After receiving the Premae Skincare Balance Rescue Face Tonique in my January Glossybox I've been using it constantly, it smells very strongly of lemongrass, but I love that, and it makes my skin feel refreshed and cools it down, making it feel tighter and more 'awake'. I wipe that all over my face with a cotton pad, and you'd be suprised how much a toner can pick up off the skin that a face wipe can't. Then I move onto moisturising. Since receiving a sample of the Body Shop Vitamin E Moisture Cream in my October Glossybox I fell in love with it. It has a very delicate scent to it and moisturises my skin brilliantly. I have quite bad eczema patches on my temples throughout winter and using this product helped keep it at bay.

Then I move onto my eyes. First of all I use my Simple Kind to Eyes Revitalising Eye Roll On. It has a metal roller-ball which helps to wake up the skin under your eyes and the product itself smells like cucumbers and makes my skin feel much cooler. This product alone isn't the least bit moisturising enough for the skin under my eyes, so I follow that step with some Balance Me Wonder Eye Cream. This is, yet again, another sample from my October Glossybox, still going strong. It is a nice cream, but I still don't find it moisturising enough for my skin, I'm just trying to get rid of the sample before starting a new product. 

Finally I focus on my lips. After watching a few of Miss Glamorazzi's videos featuring the Lush Mint Julips Lip Scrub I asked for a pot for Christmas, and Santa was very nice to me this year! I've been using this sugar scrub every day and night and I've noticed a dramatic difference to my lips. I have very dry lips at the best of times, but throughout winter they get worse. I love looking at different lipsticks, but think to myself, 'no, it'll look cracked and horrific'. After using this product though I find myself reaching for a lipstick almost every day with no worries of looking like a member of the walking dead. It helps that it tastes like After Eight Mints as well, I'm a sucker for those.


So that was my morning routine, if you liked this post then let me know in the comments, or if you want a more in depth review of any of the products included. You could let me know what your morning routine is and how it differs from mine. Until next time...

Outfit of the Day #3

I apologise for the lack of post on Tuesday, I'm still not feeling 100% since last week, stupid illness, get lost already. Anyway, I did take some photos of my outfit on Tuesday (my intentions were there I promise you), some are a little lacks in the quality department but I'll try better next time. 

It was actually quite a nice day on Tuesday, a little sunshine and a temperature in the plus category, my god it must be Summer! So I decided to pull out something a little less Winter-esque. 

I purchased the long chiffon material top a while ago from a local shop called Newlife, it was £2.99, a total bargain. I love the feather image used on the fabric, and the sleeves are very flattering, a short bat wing style. The belt around the middle helps to accentuate my waist, and I think that's a plus anyway. Underneath I wore a beige vest from Primark, they're really inexpensive and I use them under jumpers and t-shirts to add extra layers when the temperatures aren't high enough for me. On my bottoms I wore as always a pair of my £3 Primark leggings, I love leggings, I think they're really versatile and you can wear them with a million different outfits. 

For accessories I wore my engagement ring and eternity ring, along with some silver owl earrings that my Auntie gave me on my graduation and a 'statement' necklace from Primark. It's a brushed dark silver colour and I've been obsessed with it for the past month, a favourite appearance may be made, and for £4 it was a total bargain. 

For shoes I wore my new brown knee high boots, I love them. They're really comfortable, I got them in the sale at ASDA for £20, which I don't thinks too bad for real leather. They'll last me a good while and I think brown makes a nice change to black sometimes.

I don't know whether nails count as part of an outfit, but I love them at the moment. I took some inspiration from a post on Anna's blog (Vivianna Does Make Up). The base coat is Beauty UK 'Smokey Lilac' and the dot at the center is Max Factors 'Silver'. I'm thinking of trying a beige base with a gold dot. 


So that's what I wore, let me know what you think, and maybe what you would wear on a Spring day. Until next time...

My 5 Product Face

It's a well known fact in my family that I need at least a good 45 minutes to put my 'face' on (my Grandad lovingly refers to it as 'the mask' which automatically brings to mind Jim Carey in green, charming eh?).

One day last week I was in a hurry to go prom dress shopping for my Cousin, I was under family peer pressure to get up and get going and found myself using only five products. It took me 10 minutes, a fraction compared to my usual record to apply. I was so blown over with it I've been using this look all week and thought it could be worth sharing.

For my base I did stick to my usual Revlon Colourstay 24 Hour Liquid Foundation (I've not found myself able to brave the BB Cream world outside of my house as of yet, I'm trying though). My shade is 150 Buff Chamois, and I use the Normal/Dry Skin formula. I love the smell of this foundation, and the yellow undertones in this shade is perfect for my skin, I traipsed around Boots carrying a bottle of No7 Stay Perfect Foundation in Cool Vanilla to try and find the right shade for me, and 150 really is that. The foundation itself is very easy to blend and feels very light on the skin whilst giving medium coverage, I really enjoy using it and love how it makes my skin look. To apply my foundation I've been using the Real Techniques Buffing Brush since last October, it's very effective and easily blends the foundation into my skin with little effort, a staple in my eyes.

With my foundation giving only medium coverage I find myself needing more for my huge under eye baggies, although I'm fortunately blemish free at the moment. So I just apply the Collection 2000 Lasting Perfection Concealer underneath my eyes and around my nose to cover any redness. After a rookie mistake I'm using Light 1, I originally bought Fair 2, which in hindsight was a thousand shades too dark and way to orange for my skin, silly me. As many bloggers have expressed, this concealer has very good coverage and lasts a great length of time. It does go a little cakey and creases a little on my skin, but I do have extremely dry skin in the areas I use it. I blend the concealer into my skin with a Real Techniques Base Shadow Brush, I assume this brush was designed for eye shadow, but I find it's the perfect shape to get into my eye contours and around my nose.

For my eyes I do cheat a little (strike me down now, I'm a sinner), but they are in one little compact, so I count that as one product. I'm still head over heels for my MAC shadows since the beginning of the year, and February has been no different. For this look I've been using Omega all over the lid with Satin Taupe blended into the crease. I found these colours really compliment my eye colour (green with orange centers if you cared to know), and they go really well with the outfit's I've been throwing on, which have consisted of mostly greys and creams. MAC shadows are a new obsession of mine and I'm determined to add a fourth to my little trio by the end of February. To apply these shadows I use the MUA E3, I am absolutely obsessed with this brush, it blends very effectively and is really soft. I use the whole brush to apply Omega, then add a little Satin Taupe on the tip of the brush and blend. A great 2 in 1, and a new staple in my brush collection, I'll be purchasing a few more very soon.

To finish my eyes I've been using Seventeen Wild Curls Mascara in Black for months and I honestly adore it. I never thought I would use a comb wand in a mascara, I love big bristly wands, however, since using this mascara I think I've been converted. It picks up all of my lashes with an even coat, it adds a little volume at the base and lengthens the lashes, but not so much that it could be deemed unsuitable for daytime. I've a feeling it may be repurchased very soon. Before I apply my mascara I do use some eyelash curlers, mine are just a cheap pair from Superdrug, but I'm hoping to save for a pair of Shu Uemura ones, or maybe even a Chanel pair to compare high end and drugstore.

Finally, to finish it all off I added a dusting of Revlon Colourstay Pressed Powder in Light. The powder adds a little more coverage and helps keep the make up in place for a lot longer. I wouldn't say my make up lasts all day, mainly the concealer ends up wearing a little thin eventually, but I'm hoping one day soon I'll find a concealer perfect for me. To apply my powder I use the MUA F4, a brilliantly big face brush, very soft and picks up a good amount of product, I'm really impressed with the MUA range and can't wait for them to perhaps extend their brush line in the future.


So that's it, my 5 product face, not too shabby ladies and gents. I'll probably end up going back to my usual 'face' application next week, but this is going in the vault for another week where I'm feeling I need to get back to basics for a while. What five products do you think you could survive with? Until next time...

My Instagram Week #4

Vanilla & Mint Choc Chip, my favourites/They didn't work, much to the boys anger/Primark Studded Flats

W.I.P Nail Art/Addicted to Tapped Out/A Very Proud Boy

My Future Car Reg/A Very Happy Boy with his Electric Drums/Beauty UK 'Smokey Lilac'

If you fancy seeing what else goes on in my little world then follow my Instagram at lunnybunny9, I'm taking part in Photo A Day each month to try and keep to my New Years Resolution of taking more photographs, let me know if you're doing the same. Until next time...