My lipstick collection

I first wrote this post back in June last year and since then my lipstick collection has grown quite a lot so thought I'd do a new post.

 Avon lipsticks L-R:

Color Trend - £3.50

- Sequin

- Berry Pink

- Creme Caramel

Smooth Minerals - around £8, can't find on the website

- Smooth Nude

- Smooth Berry

Swatches in the same order as above 

Boots 17 lipsticks L-R:

Supreme Shine 'Bella' - £4.99

Mirror Shine lipsticks - £4.59

- Sugar Daddy

- Flirtini

- Hollywood

- Peace

- Belle 

 Swatches in the same order as above

Left - Right:

 No7 Sheer Temptation 'Attract' - £10.00

No7 2011 Limited Edition - No longer available

Benefit 'LaLaLand' - no longer available

Kate Moss for Rimmel 'shade 3' - £5.49

 Swatches in the same order as above

Left - Right:

L'Oreal Naturals 'shade 235 nude' - £

L'Oreal Studio Secrets lip glow - £8.49

Mac 'Midimauve' - £13.50

Collection 2000 lasting colour 'Queen of Hearts' - £2.99

Collection 2000 Cream Puff 'Cotton Candy' - £2.99

Collection 2000 Cream Puff 'Fairy Cake' -  £2.99

Swatches in the same order as above 

My current favourite lip products are Collection 2000 Cream Puffs and 17 Mirror Shine lipsticks. What lip products do you love?

Blog sale! Mac, Benefit, St Tropez, New CiD and more!

It's blog sale time again! Here's a few terms and conditions etc etc.

1. All sales are final

2. UK buyers only

3. Payment is via Paypal as a GIFT!

4. Items damaged in the post aren't my responsibility but proof of postage is always obtained

5. P&P is a flat rate of £1.25 no matter how many items you buy

6. Email me at: beautyandbeyond88@yahoo.co.uk if you want to buy and I'll send you my Paypal email address for payment

7. First come first served!

1. Mac eyeshadow

Paradisco - £6

Used about 3 times

 2. No7 eyeshadow primer

Used once or twice - £3

3. L'Occitane peony eyeshadow

Used a few times - £3

4. Urban Decay eyeshadow palette

Shades swatched, Fishnet, Shag and Scratch used the most. Loads of product left.

Will be cleaned up before send out. No applicators or primer potion

£7.50 (RRP £27)
SOLD

5. Jane Iredale rose gold shimmer powder

Lightly swatched, seal still on covering holes - £3

6. New CiD i-gloss in Baby Doll

This has a mirror on the side and a light on the wand. Swatched on hand only - £5

7. Harajuku Lovers Music 10ml EDT

Used once - £4
SOLD

8. St Tropez wash off face tan

Used once, 90% left - £6

9. St Tropez wash off body tan 

Used once, 90% left - £6

BUY BOTH FOR £10

10. Benefit Erase Paste - Shade 2, medium (3.2g pot)

About a third left - £3

11. Benefit Boi-ing concealer - Shade 2, medium (3g pot)

Used about 3 times, loads left - £5

12. Make Believe face bronzer

Used twice - £4

She's got her lipstick on...da da dum

First of all I apologise for the use of Jedward's lyrics for this post's title, yes I am slightly ashamed of myself!

So as the title suggests this post is about lipstick. Other than nail polish lipstick is my vice. I probably don't have anywhere near as many as some of you but I think 10 is quite enough for me! And as you'll see many of the shades are practically the same!

L-R:

No 7 Limited Edition: Grace - £10.00

No 7 Sheer Temptation: Attract - £10.00

17 Mirror Shine: Belle - £4.59

17 Mirror Shine: Sugar Daddy - £4.59

17 Mirror Shine: Flirtini - £4.59

Swatches in the same order as above

L-R:

Mac: Midimauve - £13.50

L'Oreal Color Riche Naturals: Nude 235 - £8.19

Benefit: La La Land - Discontinued, can't find a price

Avon Sheer Minerals: Smooth Berry - can't find a price, around £8

Avon Sheer Minerals: Smooth Nude - can't find a price, around £8

Swatches in the same order as above

A quick low down for them:

My favourites: No 7 Grace and 17 Belle

Natural look: L'Oreal Color Riche Naturals

Glossy finish: No 7 Sheer Temptation and 17 Sugar Daddy

Block colour: Benefit La La Land and 17 Flirtini

Sheer finish: Avon smooth minerals

Have you got any of these? What's your favourite lipstick?

I was in it and won it!

The last few weeks I've been lucky enough to win a number of competitions and giveaways so here's a round up of what I've won.

Tigi Your Highness Catwalk

I won this from Escentual on one of their online competitions. The set includes a small paddle brush, root boosting mousse and thickening gel creme.

Mac

I won Sherries competition on her blog (if you don't follow her already then do so now her blog is fab!) where the prize was a MAC lipstick and eyeshadow of your choice. 

As I have never used MAC before (yes I can hear you all gasp in horror at that fact) I wasn't sure about which colours to choose.

I chose Retrospeck eyeshadow and gave Sherrie the choice of two lipsticks to choose from to give me a surprise and she chose Midi Mauve which I LOVE!

ASOS

Ms Red was offering a voucher code for £5 off a £20 spend at ASOS and I won! Yey! I have my eye on some jeans so am going to put this towards them. There are still 2 codes left to be won so check out her blog for a chance to win them.

And finally....

Ren

On their Facebook page they were offering samples of their new Micro Polish Cleanser to the first 500 people who emailed them and I was one of them! All I have to do is try the product, email them back with my feedback and I could win 1 of 10 full sized products! Review of this to come.

Have you been lucky lately and won something? Let me know in the comments below!