Review: Maybelline 'Brow Drama'

I actually bought this product in my recent visit to Florida, I had heard a lot about this & I really wanted to see what the fuss was about.

Honestly, I am in love with this product. I have tried a couple of eye brow products in the past including Benefits 'Brow Zing' brow shaping kit & the drugstore dupe Sleek's Brow Kit which are both one side powder & the other side wax.

This product is very different than the ones I have used in the past as it is a gel substance.

As you can see the applicator is a lot like a mascara brush but in a rounded shape.

This makes the product very easy to apply & the wand picks up all the little hairs that you can't see which makes your eyebrows look fuller.

I tend to apply this product by lightly stroking the rounded end upward towards the top of the brow & then continuing this motion along the rest of the eyebrow.

I could definitely see the difference this product made to my eyebrows. Also the wear time of this product is incredible, it stayed on my eyebrows all night until I got home. Again, especially wearing this product in a hot country, I did worry about it smudging but thankfully it kept my eyebrows looking great all night long!

The price of this product is around the average £5.00 mark. You really can't go wrong...

If you are just starting out in makeup or trying out different things on your brows I would definitely recommend this product as it is very easy to apply & you can't really go wrong.

Overall, I am very happy I purchased this product & I will keep buying it until I find something better (that is if I do find something better!).

What are your thoughts on this product?

Love,

Melissa Victoria x

Review - The Body Shop 'Born Lippy' Lip Balms.

The Body Shop's 'Born Lippy' lip balms. 

Now I have had plenty of these in my lip balm collection over the years and I can honestly say I always forgot about them and probably ended up losing every single one I had! 

However, my mum bought these for me for Christmas in a gift box that was shaped in a lolly (how cute?!) So I have decided to try them all out and share my opinions with you lovelies. I hope you enjoy...

This one has to be my favourite. It is the flavour Raspberry. The scent is quite refreshing and not too sickly. When I put this on my lips it's not 100% in your face and you can't smell it too strongly. I don't think these lip balms are very pigmented but this one just makes your lips a bit more pinker and give them a glossy effect. If you are a fan of subtle raspberry scents & a lip balm that is light on the lip and nothing too vibrant this is probably perfect for you. You can check this product out here. 

 This is the Satsuma Shimmer lip balm. I have to say I thought this was going to be my favourite because I love anything that smells like citrus fruits. I was so disappointed when I took a whiff of this scent. It is way too sickly for me, if I smell it more than like 3 times I begin to feel sick. If you are a fan of super strong citrus scents you might like this but for me, I will be giving this to either my sister or mum! I will say it looks very gentle on the lip even though it does have glitter in. If it was less smelly I would definitely use this. You can check this out here. 

Watermelon is by far the worst one for me. I can actually say I hate the smell of this. It reminds me of when I was younger and I had a sickness bug, but when I was poorly with the bug I wore a watermelon scented lip balm. I seriously think it put me off anything that smells like watermelon for the rest of my life! I haven't actually used this on my lips so I can't tell you how it looks but according to The Body Shop website it claims to leave soft pink colour and glossy finish.

You can probably see someone has been using this but it actually is my mum. She loves it! You can check this out here.

Next up is the Passionberry flavour. This to me just smells like blackcurrant juice. I don't mind this one, I wouldn't pick this one out of the others (excluding watermelon) but I don't mind it. It can become sickly after a little while so I do leave this one out. I thought this would leave a purple tint on my lips but I don't think it does. Maybe if you put loads on it might but I only use small amounts at a time and in my opinion it just leaves a glossy finish, no colour. You can check this out here.

Last but not least... 

This is the flavour Strawberry. I also really love this one. I think I prefer the sweet berry scents, as you can see I have used this one a lot! It is definitely my go to lip pot out of all the others. Again, it isn't sickly, I can apply this 2 or 3 times a day and it doesn't bother me. Yay! This leaves my lips looking lovely and red with a high shine finish which I love. I would recommend this to sweet berry lovers like me. 

Overall, I think some of the Born Lippy lip balm flavours could be made to smell a lot nicer, however some of them smell amazing and leave lips looking wonderful. One thing that bothers me about these products is the texture. I am more of a lipstick girl rather than a lip gloss girl. I don't really like anything sticky on my lips. (I do realise that can be read in the wrong way but I strongly don't mean it to be haha). I think I will only continue using the Strawberry and Raspberry ones and give the others to my sister and mum. They are a great present for somebody if they aren't as fussy as me... Another thing, the price is really good, only £2. 

Thank you so much for reading guys, 

What's your opinion on Born Lippy lip balms? 

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Love, Melissa Victoria x

Lush 'Christmas Penguin' - Review

Hi guys! I hope you are all well & excited to hear what I have to say about the Christmas Penguin from Lush.

Again I do apologise that I didn't take a picture of The Christmas Penguin as when I got round to using it, it had kind of become miss shaped & its nose had melted... I didn't really think it would make a good picture but you can check it out on Lush's website here.

To start off, I was a little skeptical in buying this product because of the smell. It smells like old soap, but because it looked so cute I bought it anyway!

I have to say I really really enjoyed using The Christmas Penguin as it left my skin feeling extremely soft & moisturised. I was pleasantly surprised.

It turned my bathwater a lovely light blue colour & it didn't actually smell too bad. I would say it has a very clean scent. You have probably read by now in another Lush review that I have very sensitive skin & I suffer from eczema, so branching out in products that I use on my skin was a bit scary but turned out to be well worth it!

The Christmas Penguin bubble bar left my skin feeling great and it will definitely be purchased again.

How to use a Lush bubble bar - Simply crumble (in my case) The Christmas Penguin under a running tap & it will result in changing your bathwater a light blue colour.

What was your opinion on The Christmas Penguin bubble bar? Comment below.

Thank you so much for reading guys!

Hope you enjoyed reading my thoughts on The Christmas Penguin.

Don't forget to follow me on all my social media links...

Love, Melissa Victoria x

Lush 'Magic Wand' - Review

Hello lovlies! Today I am carrying on with my slight addiction to reviewing the Lush Christmas products.

The product I will be reviewing is the Magic Wand reusable bubble bar. Unfortunately I do not have a picture of this product as silly me used it thinking I had already taken a picture but I hadn't! Oops.

The Magic Wand reusable bubble bar is meant to create lots & lots of bubbles & smell like sweet treats. The actual smell of this product is Snow Fairy but I just didn't think it did. I thought it smelt way to sickly & ended up making me want to get out of the bath.

I think the Magic Wand was the one I was most looking forward to using but I was sadly very disappointed. I was a little bit surprised by the price of this product which I believe is £5.25, but I bought it thinking I could use it over & over again & it would dry out quick and easy.

Onto my next rant, it took the absolute biscuit to dry out properly and left my windowsill all sticky & stained it with pink marks. I changed where I placed the product several times but it just would not dry out properly. I had to put what was left of it in the bin because it really was getting on my nerves. Even the colour it turned the bath water wasn't that exciting.

Overall, I think this product is overpriced, messy & really hard to dry out. I was very very disappointed by the Magic Wand & will not buy it again. Sorry Lush!

Thank you all for reading this post & I hope you enjoyed it!

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Don't hesitate in leaving any comments about how you felt about this product & any recommendations on other Lush products are welcome :)

Love, Melissa Victoria x

Lush - Snow Fairy Review

Hi guys, I am back again with another review for you...

The product I am reviewing is the Snow Fairy shower gel from Lush. I know around this time of year it is some peoples tradition to go and get a few Christmassy products from Lush, this year I jumped on the band wagon and went for a look myself... I actually ended up spending around £25 (oops)!

Before buying this product I read a couple of reviews to see if people actually liked it, all the reviews I read seemed to be positive so I added this into my basket. 

I am always weary of using shower gels that I haven't tested before as I suffer from dry / sensitive skin and eczema which is a pain in the bum! Later that evening when I came home from shopping I ran myself a bath and tried this shower gel out. 

I was pleasantly surprised when it left my skin smelling and feeling amazing. The scent is very very sweet but if you are like me and is a sucker for sweets this product is perfect for you. The scent does cling on to the skin for around 1 hour after which can get a little annoying but it does wear off eventually. I only bought the 100g bottle as I was just trying out, however I am waiting until payday and going to get a larger bottle so it lasts longer. 

Although, if you are a person who isn't a fan of anything glittery going onto your skin or if glitter affects your skin this product does actually have glitter in. I didn't realise this until I started using it and I started seeing little specs of glitter on my body. Personally, the glitter doesn't affect me so coming from a person who has really sensitive skin it should be fine! 

The link to this product - click here

That is the end of this post lovelies! 

I hope you enjoyed this review and I hope it gave you some insight as to what lush products won't affect sensitive skin. 

Thank you so much for reading and don't forget to go follow me on all my social media links. 

Love, Melissa Victoria x

L'Oreal Super Liner 'Perfect Slim' - Review

Hey guys! So I think I should update you on why I haven't been posting for a whole month... basically my old Sony laptop decided to break on me so I was left without any laptop for around 3 weeks. Lucky enough my family decided to get a MacBook Pro as they were getting annoyed with my old Sony laptop breaking. Therefore, I am back and now with a MacBook Pro... Yay! 

Today, I am going to kick off my blog with a review.

The product I am going to review as you have probably seen by the title of this blog post is the L'Oreal Super Liner in the colour 'black intense'.

Over the last month I have been using this product religiously. I love it. I have been looking for a really great eyeliner pen for absolutely ages, I think I have tried nearly every drugstore liquid liner but this one is by far the best. 

It has a really good quality nib which can make different sized lines on top of your eye to make a cat eye or just to give the eye more definition. 

This product is really easy to use for eyeliner beginners and it even makes it easier for people who are brave enough to attempt the cat eye effect. Coming from me who really is useless at doing flicks I have found this is the perfect one to make them look perfect (almost). 

I do know some liquid / pen eyeliners can make the skin around the eye sting but honestly this is amazing. It glides over the eye smoothly with no trouble at all. I am definitely going to be re-purchasing this product over and over, also I used to think L'Oreal products could be quite pricy but this eyeliner wasn't too bad, I believe it was around £6.99.  

Links to the product mentioned - Click here

I recommend this product to every girl who struggles with creating the perfect cat eye effect. It works wonders. 

That is the end of this post, I hope you enjoyed it guys, 

Thank you for reading, 

Love, Melissa Victoria x

Review: EOS lip balms!

Hey guys, today I am going to be writing a review on a product that has been around for years but has just recently become raved about in the UK. The product is EOS lip balms...

I only started really hearing about EOS about six or seven months ago due to one of my friends having one and me being very intrigued by the shape and smell! My friend had the sweet mint flavour and whenever she got it out of her handbag I would always ask her if I could use it or if I could simply smell it.

A couple of weeks after me hearing about these I went on the hunt to find where sells them. I discovered Harvey Nichols sold them but for a quite expensive price. However, I liked them that much that I paid the price which I think are £7.50. I bought the 'Strawberry Sorbet' flavour and instantly loved it. I used it everyday and up to 10 times a day! 

Later on in the year I went to Florida and found they sell them in Wal-Mart (my supermarket lover) for like $3 which was crazy! I went mad and bought three more... 

I can honestly say that EOS lip balms are the best lip care products I have ever owned. They leave your lips smelling and tasting lovely. They also leave them moisturised and extremely soft. I can definitely also say they last a really long time. As you can see I bought the Strawberry Sorbet one (the pink packaging) around seven months ago and it has only gone down a small amount. I know in the UK they are quite expensive but I would definitely try searching for them on Amazon or if you live in the USA or go on holiday there quite often I would pick them up there for $3 in Wal-Mart. 

I do have to say there are some flavours that I dislike more than others. In my case I really don't like the Summer Fruits scent as it is a bit too sickly on my lips and I do find after a while I take it off. My definite favourites are 'Blueberry Acai' and 'Pomegranate Raspberry'. The Sweet Mint flavour is very strong but it does turn into comforting scent in the end. 

What plays a big part in me loving these products are the shape and colours. The shape of the EOS lip balms are so unusual and are a cubed shape. I was honestly fascinated by them, (I am easily fascinated). 

EOS lip care range are made to soothe sore lips and protect the skin with vitamin E which helps skin to keep moisturised. I can say that they definitely do just that. I would recommend this product to anyone who suffers from dry and chapped lips or even if you just love using lip balms!

Which products are which?

The one nearest to the left is 'Blueberry Acai'.

The next one a long in the dark red packaging is 'Pomegranate Raspberry' 

The one after that in the pink packaging is 'Strawberry Sorbet'

Finally the last one in the light green colour is 'Sweet Mint' 

How do you feel about EOS lip balms? Good or not so good? Let me know in the comments!

Thank you so much for reading,

Love, Melissa Victoria x