Rimmel Moisture Renew Lipsticks in Latino and As You Want Victoria

I have been wanting to give these lipsticks from Rimmel a try for ages, and recently a couple happened to fall into my basket when I was in Boots. How convenient!

The packaging doesn't feel particularly sturdy, but I am loving the Cadbury purple lids.

The first shade I'm going to talk about is As You Want Victoria. This is a creamy berry pink, and I'd say it's probably more of a autumn/winter shade, or something to wear on an evening out. The application of these lipsticks is so smooth, and the formula is very comfortable.

Below is Latino. This is such an easy colour for me to wear. It works really well with my skin tone, and I wouldn't feel uncomfortable wearing it at work.

I haven't tried these out for day to day wear yet, but I imagine the longevity depends very much on eating and drinking etc. While I've been wearing them for short periods of time, I haven't found that my lips have felt dry or uncomfortable, but I'd have to wear them for longer to test them properly!

The Rimmel Moisture Renew Lipsticks are available here for £6.49 each.

Have you tried these lipsticks? What did you think of them?

Face of the Day #12

A couple of weekends ago, I was invited to my good friend Samantha's wedding reception. I haven't done a Face of the Day post in a while, so I decided to take a few quick pictures of the make up I chose for the evening!

I started by applying Rimmels matte BB cream. I find that this provides a great light coverage that still allows my freckles to be visible, but covers my blemishes. I usually apply this with a brush, as I find it easier to blend than with my fingers. It doesn't have a very creamy texture, it really is like a light foundation.

Over this I added one of my favourite blushes, Bourjois Rose de Jaspe. This is a lovely peachy pink which I find really brings out my blue eyes!  

On my eyes, I used the Iconic 3 palette from Makeup Revolution. At the moment this is my go-to palette. I love the range of shades, and how pigmented they are. It's great fun to use! I finished off my eyes with my favourite mascara, Lancome's Hypnose Drama. I find the wand of this mascara really easy to use, and it definitely gives me dramatic lashes!

Here's the finished look! What do you think? Do you have a go-to evening look?

Don't forget to enter my giveaway here to win TheBalm's How 'bout them Apples? palette!

You Beauty Discovery Box - March 2014

Having been slightly unimpressed by Birchbox, I decided to have a look at the You Beauty Discovery box. This box costs £6.95 a month, and once a month a shortlist of approximately 10 items is released. You then get to pick two items, and are also sent a couple of small extras. I decided to have a go, and I think I might hang around for the April Birchbox (I've got nearly £20 worth of points in my account to spend in the Birchbox shop!), and then cancel my subscription in favour of You Beauty.

I must be the only beauty blogger out there who hasn't received this lip balm in a beauty box or tried this out! I've seen it everywhere, and really fancied giving it a go. I do tend to suffer from dry lips and I'm pretty notorious for hoarding lip balms, so this was an obvious choice for me! The balm is quite sticky once it's on your lips, and I also found that I had to warm the tube up before applying, otherwise I couldn't get anything out!

This Rimmel BB cream is probably another beauty blogger fail on my part too! I just don't tend to really go for skincare unless I'm sure that it's not going to make my skin flare up. However, I wasn't really sure about the other items on the shortlist, so I've decided to take a risk and see what happens. This little tube has a lot of big claims! Apparently this BB cream minimises the appearance of pores, evens skin tone, mattifies, controls shine all day, smoothes, soothes, conceals dark circles, helps prevent blemishes and gives all day coverage. The claims about preventing blemishes and soothing are what gave me the final push to try this out really. I'll see how I get on with it, and maybe do a mini review at some point.

The extra items in this month's box were a couple of flavoured teas (which I will be passing on to friends) and some toe separators. I like the idea of these little extras, and I definitely think I'm going to carry on this box for a few months. Next month's box is focusing on natural and organic products so I can't wait to see what the next shortlist will be!

What do you think of the You Beauty Discovery box?