The overabundance of pink here was completely unintentional, it wasn't until I was photographing the products that I thought to myself, "Christ, do you have enough pink?!" I went into Brisbane CBD after work on Friday to buy a birthday present for a friend, and of course I couldn't resist buying a few pieces for myself. I'd been dying to check out the Hello Kitty collection at Priceline for quite some time, and I always enjoy popping in to see if Sportsgirl have any new products out. I ended up buying my friend some gifts from Lush, and I'd never tried any Lush myself so I decided to purchase a little something for me.
products, and I continue to be impressed by the brand. I had a major lemming for the Glow and Behold Illuminating Bronzer after seeing
I find it curious that the packaging alternates between calling this product an 'illuminating bronzer' and an 'illuminating powder', since the latter is more accurate. I can't imagine this being a bronzer on even the palest, most translucent of people. It might be able to pass for a blush if you're
, but otherwise it sits firmly in highlighter territory. Pretty, wonderfully tacky leopard print-y highlighter territory.
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It also features a pull out drawer with a little brush, but it felt a little like I was rubbing steel wool on my face so I binned it :|
Now for some swatches of everything! I apologise for not taking close-up product photos of the other items but they're not terribly exciting, and the ingredients lists on the back of the Hello Kitty eyeshadows are so tiny my camera would probably explode. :( The sun was hiding when I took these swatch photos, but I hope you get a good idea of how beautiful the products are! Everything is swatched heavily to get a tidy line, but they're all nicely pigmented on their own.
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In natural light/shade without flash
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Left to Right: Hello Kitty Eyeshadows in Les Grenadine and Majorelle, Sportsgirl Glow and Behold Illuminating Bronzer and Sportsgirl Give Some Lip Liquid Lip Colour in Forever Young
I can't find a website with the Hello Kitty product descriptions, but Les Grenadine is a metallic rosy pink with pink shimmer. I purchased this with the intent of using it as a blush, as I've been really into obnoxiously shimmery and glittery blushes lately. I used it over the weekend, and it doesn't look like a disco ball or a weird metallic patch when I apply it on my cheek, it just imparts a nice shimmery glow not unlike the bronzer.
Majorelle is a beautiful deep metallic blue, just a little too dark to be classified as a royal blue. It swatched nicely and I don't own anything quite like it, so it went straight in my shopping basket. Haven't had a chance to use this one, but when I can get back to real life and do actual makeup I'll be sure to post FOTDs using it :)
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| This was as close as I got to sunshine that day :P |
The Sportsgirl Glow & Behold Illuminating Bronzer is a super fine, super shimmery pinky champagne highlighter. It has a metallic sheen and the shimmer is very finely milled. I imagine this will be nice as a highlight with pink blushes, and I can see myself using this on the cheekbone with Les Grenadine on the apples for crazily glowy cheeks.
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I've talked
at length about how much I love the
Sportsgirl Give Some Lip Liquid Lip Colour glosses. They're basically everything I love in a gloss: medium pigmentation so they can be worn alone but play nicely with lipsticks too, just the teensiest bit sticky to the point where they don't slide off my lips, and they're also affordable by Australian standards.
Forever Young is another stellar addition to the lineup, and I've already decided I'm going to purchase 2 backups. I wore it on the weekend on its own and it made for a nice juicy hot pink lip, but over a bright pink lipstick it's insane. I also wore in on the weekend over the OCC Liptar in Pageant (which isn't even that bright) and it was damn near fluoro. My camera spazzed out and couldn't capture it, but I'm going to keep doing FOTDs and working at it until I get a colour accurate photo.
My first Lush product ever! I'm probably preaching to the choir here, but Snow Fairy smells
so delicious. It smells like I'm bathing in lollipops, so it's a product for those with a serious sweet tooth. There's also some blue iridescence in there which is beautiful, but I didn't notice it transferring to the skin. I've never really been into bath & body stuff and I'm hoping I don't develop an addiction, because Lush stuff is expensive! :X
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I hope you enjoyed my random little swatchfest! I have swatches of a haul from Darling Girl Cosmetics coming up, as well as a few CQ pieces I won in a giveaway a while back. I still need to swatch all those Asian cosmetics from a few months ago and do some comparisons for my Illamasqua products. I'll have an off topic geeky haul post coming up soon too. :)
