Showing posts with label POP Beauty. Show all posts
Showing posts with label POP Beauty. Show all posts

Thursday, 14 February 2013

Review - POP beauty baked eyeshadow palettes

You may have seen these featured in my sale haul post a fews ago but if not I bought these from ASOS just after christmas for a mere £10.50 each instead of £14.


I had never used POP products before so was really exited to try these out. They are baked which means that the powder is pressed and baked in tiles and can be used wet or dry.


When I got these I notices that the brown coloured on (top on this photo above) had a slight crack in two of the shadows (the last and second to last on the right) but didn't think too much of it, then when I tried to use one of these they both just crumbled which meant I had to do a repair job.


Yes my palette got messy, very messy! When I decided to do was scoop out the two colours which had cracked and put them into two little sample pots. This was I could still use them albeit I probably won't get anywhere near as much use out of them as I would if they were still compacted.

Anyway onto the review, as they are baked the pigmentation tends to be better than normal eyeshadows and this was certainly the case here. I have only used these dry but they have a lovely pearly finish which lasts all day. I have only used a few colours so far but I can't wait to experiment with the others and try them out wet as I imagine the pigmentation will be amazing.

I would certainly buy more POP products in the future and ASOS stocks a wide range of them.

Monday, 14 January 2013

Sale hauling!

I had planned on posting this around new year but as some of you may know I ended up with Norovirus and could hardly walk let alone blog so I'm now catching up on blogging!

This is just a quick post to show what I picked up in the sales, some prices I can't remember due to buying them so long ago but I'll try my best! 


 New Look
Studded shoes - £5
Gem shoes - £9

Glitter slippers - £7
Brown bow shoes - £9


ASOS
Pistachio cross over bag - £12.50
Cath Kidston luggage set - £7
POP eyeshadow palettes - £10.50 each
River Island pegasus pendant - £7.50
Fekkai shea butter hair treatment - £9 (was over £30 originally!)



I will review these once I've tried them out properly.


Clinton Cards
Cherries in Snow medium jar candle - £8.49 (I did want a few of these but this was the only one left)


Lush
500ml Snow Fairy shower gels - £5


Next
Stitch bedding - £30

Knee length boots - £20


Topshop
Pauls Boutique bag - £44
I also had a giftcard which had £16 left on it so this was a real bargain as it was originally £66



Boots
Benefit Crescent Row perfumes
Ralph Lauren Big Pony perfumes
Both of these were around £19.99


 Debenhams
Watercolour butterfly duvet set - £34

Philosopy shower gels - £7
Nip & Fab set - around £12.50

Not pictured:
Fogarty duck feather pillows - £20 (was £40)
Snuggledown luxury springbuck duvet - £36 (was £120) 


I did order a few more Philosophy products but when my order was dispatched I got an email saying they were now out of stock. Slightly annoying as there were lots of different shower gels I could have got instead. Also when my Debenhams order arrived two of the packages were open as the bags hadn't been sealed properly.



So that's my huge sale haul! I still have a few things from Next on their way but I was really happy with what I picked up and it was all done online so I didn't even have to brave the sale shoppers!

Link me to your sale hauls and I'll check them out!