barrym pinks

In a way you could kind of say these were my hauls for the month of March, although some were ordered in Feb & I am waiting on a couple more. As you may remember I have ordered from Cherry Culture a couple of times before but this was the first for ordering through the actual Sleek website and also from iKatehouse.com which is a recently discovered website.

 Cherry Culture
So from the lovely CC.... although I have ordered from them fairly recently, there were a few more items I wanted to try out, and a few more colours I wanted to get of products I already owned.

Milani Baked Blushes

Milani Baked Blushes in Coralina & Dolce Pink

 I already have a couple of these in Fantasico Mauve & Luminoso  & love them so I thought that I may as well buy two more, as they were going for $6.99.... (original price $7.99, only saving a dollar lol) I knew I wanted Dolce Pink because of Coco's swatch & I have heard Coralina was nice, and although the "swatch" of it on the website looked nice, it looks prettier IRL & way more corally.

Top to bottom: Dolce Pink, Coralina.

 As mentioned Coralina is a warm, coral tone with a satin finish but Dolce Pink is a cooler pink with a satin/ shimmer finish which can also look a bit frosty. I will post about these properly among my other Milani Baked Blushes.

La Splash Glitter Splash

Purple Passion & Pineapple Coral

I have done a review on these glitters recently here so my opinion hasn't changed, but as these were also marked down from $5.99 to $4.49 I thought I would buy a couple more from different colour families. I have updated that post with these swatches so please click on the link above to view them if you wish.
 La Splash Diamond Dust Shimmer
 Yet another sale item for $7.50 down from $8.99, I haven't tried the Diamond Dust Shimmers  before but they looked gorgeous. Although it looks like glitter in the jar they are certainly more like pigments, but the shimmer is lost quite easily. To prevent that, after patting it on with a brush I dab a bit of Fyrinnae Pixie Epoxy and go back in with the colour to bring the shimmer back.
Snowflake is a weirdly pretty colour because it looks completely white in the jar but once I took the plastic off the sifter it came through with a purple reflect. The swatches are done with no base.

La Splash Metallic Cream Shadow
 Something I have been wanting for a while was a gold base for gold eyeshadows, so I thought I would give this a go for $6.50. It is not very pigmented so I do wish I just bought the Maybelline Color Tattoo in Bold Gold instead. I haven't used it as a base yet so I don't know about creasing so we shall see.
 Nyx Eyebrow Cake Powder

I haven't used an eyebrow kit for a little while since running out of my E.L.F eyebrow kit & using eyeshadows from the Sleek Storm palette, and I bought this in the colour Dark Brown/ Brown. I wont go into much detail as I will probably do a review on it soon, but when I first used it I wasn't too impressed, but now I know how to use it properly so I'm liking it more.
Sleek Haul
For the first time I ordered off the Sleek website.  It took just over 2 weeks to get here from the UK which is pretty good for being on the other side of the world.
The pout paints are $6.49 each, and I definitely want to get more! I will do a review/swatches in a separate post.
Pout Paints from Left to Right- Cloud 9, Peek-a-bloo, Pinkini, Peachy Keen.

Ink Pot in Dominatrix
 I've been needing a new gel eyeliner for ages and so far I am happy with this one. The brush as always is pretty pointless. I will post a review once I've used this a bit more.

Sleek Eye Dusts

L-R Vintage, Jet Set.

These pigments are very chunky, which means you cannot escape fall out unless you are holding a tissue underneath your eye. Both beautiful colours & highly pigmented, non the less.

Swatched over NYX White Base

L-R, Sleek Jet Set, Sugarpill Darling.

Ikatehouse.com
This website sells products like E.L.F, La Girl, La Colours, a huge arrangement of eyelashes & much more at a very affordable rate. I heard about this site mainly for the E.L.F products but they don't have much of a range of their studio products.

 Random assortment of eyelashes, LA Girl blush, E.L.F Studio Cream Eyeshadow, E.L.F Shimmering Facial Whip

I envy by Kiss in Juicy Volume 03, Carie Eyelashes (no name), Almine Professional eyelashes 4150

I haven't heard about any of these brands before, so I chose them purely on looks. I love the fullness and the flared look of I Envy by Kiss, the Carie eyelashes reminded me of Ardell Whispies & Red Cherry #43, and as you can see I've used the Almine ones which are extremely natural and add extra thickness without too much length.

LA Girl Illuminating Blush

L-R Nectar, Just Pinched

I found it very hard to find swatches online of these 2 colours, I am not overly impressed with either and I have found that I already have similar colours (another post!) but for the price of $2.99 there's no loss, I will probably just give them away. I wouldn't exactly call them illuminating either, as they are both matte.

L-R: E.L.Cream e/s in dawn, Shimmering Facial Whip in Golden Peach & Pink Lemonade

Dawn is a gorgeous taupe colour... it works perfectly with Urban Decay's Sidecar. The formula feels more like a mousse than a cream. I've heard a bit about the E.L.F Shimmering Facial Whips, although I wasn't expecting Golden Peach to be so bronze. I think it is too much with my skin tone as a highlight unless I was to tan a lot & Pink Lemonade is just a really pretty light pink, both would look nice on the apples of the cheeks.

L-R, Dawn, Bronze, Pink Lemonade

Blended out

 That concludes my latest drugstore hauls over the month of March! I wish I could post these hauls pretty much on arrival but I have so many other posts in line that these usually get pushed to later, so when I do post them please note I have probably been using the products for a couple of weeks!
I also have a couple of other smaller hauls which I will be posting soon.

Have you ordered from any of these websites before?

Thanks for reading! I tried to keep it a bit more compact than originally planned with more pictures & swatches but it got too much so I thought I would save them for separate posts. So I hope this isn't too long already!
xx

 Recently-ish I I received my La Splash Glitter Splash that I purchased from Cherry Culture as I had shown here. I've only really tried NYX's loose glitters before so I will be doing a little bit of a comparison between these 2 brands and a small review & swatches. Oh, I plan to (and have already ordered some more ;) ) buy more in the near future so I will keep updating the swatches.

Swatches


Lava Dust is a beautiful orange glitter with a tiny amount of red specks.
You can see it in a makeup look here.

 Starlight Red is a stunning bright red, that's all I can really say about it haha. It was used in my Aussie makeup here.

Tropical Lime doesn't exactly live up to it's name as I would call it more turquoise then anything (which I knew it would be when I ordered it) so as long as you know it is not actually lime when you purchase it will be alright. It is so gorgeous, though!

Deep Blue Sea is a dark blue colour also used in this makeup that is mainly a royal blue with some navy blue flecks.
 Miami Beach (sexy pink) is a hot pink glitter with  white reflects which really does make it a sexy pink colour. I used this one here.  When I ordered it I thought it would be a little bit different from my hot pink glitter from NYX, but I will show you in a couple of comparisons below.
 Gold Treasure is a champagne-gold colour.
Newly added 19/3
Purple Passion is a royal purple with no other reflects.

Pineapple Lime is an interesting name no doubt, but is a gorgeous exotic green with lime reflects. I can see this looking gorgeous over a dark emerald smoky eye.




La Splash Glitter Splash Mini Review
As mentioned I purchased these from www.cherryculture.com which has a huge selection of different colours. I really like the colours for the ones that I do have, although some probably wont be very practical... but when are glitters really, anyway!? I would like to try Starlight Red on top of a red lipstick for a glamorous look! They are also for the face & body if you wish.

How to Apply
 After I have finished applying my eyeshadow, I dab Fyrinnae's Pixie Epoxy (the tiniest amount to prevent creasing) on with my finger into the area I want it placed and then using the same finger which is still tacky, I go into the glitter (tapping onto lid to prevent fallout) and then dab on top of the base. You can find different bases with other brands and I'm pretty use La Splash has one, or you could even use false eyelash glue. To deal with fall-out on the cheeks I use a piece of sticky tape to pick it up or you can brush it off but the glitter sometimes likes to stick where it's not wanted.

Comparison with Nyx Glitter Mania
For the colours I have that were the closest to my Nyx glitters, they matched very well. Both were applied on top of the sticky base but you can see La Splash are more pigmented. I bought Miami Beach because I thought it was slightly different to Nyx in having white reflects but they are both almost the same, and I thought Gold Treasure was going to be more champagne but it isn't.
Nyx glitters come in a jar with 5grams although it doesn't seem like it has more than La Splash which has 3grams, but at least their jars have a wider opening so you are actually able to get it out with ease. To use the Nyx glitters I have to cover my finger over the top & tip it upside down to get any product out which is messier because I can't tap it back into the lid without it going everywhere.
Also Nyx only has I think 10 glitters to choose from but La Splash has many more.


Top: La Splash [Miami Beach, Gold Treasure], Bottom: Nyx [Hot Pink, Gold]

Overall I definitely really like La Splash's Glitter Splash with their huge colour range and everything else about them, I would recommend them if you like to experiment with glitter! I hope this review is helpful to someone, thank you for reading. xx

I know it's almost been 2 weeks but as long as it's still February, right? (I always seem to be late, lol!)
But I still wanted to share my day-to-night makeup that I wore on Valentines day/ night.... because I can! Not that I need one day out of the whole year as an excuse to wear pink ;)

~Day




As you can see I kept everything in the colour family, starting with my eyes using mainly Inglot, my cheeks & my lips, but I didn't want an actual pink lipstick, this is more on the purple side which matches half of my eyelid!

Products
Face: Rimmel Wake Me Up, Garnier BB Cream.
Nars Laguna Bronzer,
ELF HD blush in Headliner, Nyx Blush in Peach
Eyes: MAC Painterly Paintpot, Nyx Eye Base in White
Inglot AMC Shine 39 [light pink, inner lid, lower lashline], AMC 74 [purpley-pink, outer lid, lower lashline], DS 460 [crease, light brown],  P 393 [highlight]. Maybelline Master Precise Eyeliner, Nyx JEP in Milk [waterline], La Splash Miami Beach [lower lashline]. Essence I <3 Extreme Volume mascara.
Lips: Inglot lipstick #253.

Night~

As natural as the light could get.

Products
Face: Same foundation as earlier but reapplied heavier. Same bronzer & highlighter.
Bourjois blush in #54 
Eyes: Basically the same Inglot eyeshadows used during the day reapplied on the eyelid and blackout from the UD Naked 2 palette in the Outer V blended with the same crease colour as before. Pixie Epoxy on the outer half of the lid & La Splash Miami Beach glitter. Ardelle Demi Wispie falsies.
Lips: Bourjois lip liner in #11, but I think the lipstick was a mixture of a few colours.. Nyx Black Label lipstick in Nude & Revlon Colourburst lipstick in Candy Pink was it, I think!