Face of the Day (or Night) - Easter 2016

Detract from eye bags with bright lipstick!!! And a tube of concealer...

Dear Sparkles

I was the eager recipient of some freebies (see pic below and on Instagram - not to mention upcoming posts) and set about colouring in ALL OVER MY FACE with glee this Saturday. It's so nice to have a few days off work and makeup is essentially meditation for me!

Full product breakdown is below.

Hope you all had a fab holiday and were able to pamper yourself as well as enjoy mucho choco.


Til next time - love, hugs and dark chocolate kisses

xx Josephine xx

Sparkling 2015: Lip of the Day (LOTD) Maybelline Color Drama Pencil - Keep it Classy #210

Salutations lovelies!

Today's lip of the day has a bit of Drama to it - courtesy of Maybelline. Lip colour pencils are handy as you can pop them in even the smallest of clutch bags and they act as both lippie and liner all in one.

The Color Drama pencils are relatively new and I've not historically had a lot of luck with pencils as they've been relatively matte in formulation and so drying (and potentially dragging across the lips). Not so with this little beauty - smooth and shiny this feels very comfortable to wear. Although the creme formulation means that the wear time might be a little reduced.

Product review: OCC Lip Tar

OCC Lip Tar and Colour Pencil
Black Dahlia

Happy Friday beauty junkies!

In celebration of the upcoming weekend and (relatively) pleasant autumn vibes, I'm hoping to rock a vampy lip today - it is dress down so hopefully my day job coworkers won't be too shocked!

My view:

Lip tars are tricky. However, widely seen as being worth the effort given the really fun shade range available. This shade is my second and given the issues I had with my first one I highly recommend looking at swatches online before buying so you've got a realistic view of the shades before you might order online. My preferred application method is to use a similar lip liner shade as a base, then apply a bead of colour to the provided brush and apply from the centre out per the instructions.

Long time object of lust….Lime Crime Serpentina

Serving Victoriana goth
realness in this vignette shot

Greetings Guys and Dolls,

This post is probably one of the more "alternative" ones that I do, since it definitely won't have universal appeal, but ever since I saw this little beauty online my eyes were shaded a beautiful metallic green of pure covetousness!

Hardly for everyday wear, but something which appeals to the beauty experimentalist in me - let's be honest I'm not going to wear this one out of the house in daylight hours, but actually think it will work for a different take on the typical vampy lip look which we're seeing a lot of in the autumn and winter months. Probably a year or two too late to be keeping up with the Pantone shades of the year, but there we have it…