I was in Boots yesterday, and decided to pick up a few bits – Revlon has a special 3 for 2 offer on at the moment, and I decided to take advantage as I don’t own much from the range – everyone raves about the nail-polish, so I picked up a couple, and then threw in one of those matte lippies for good measure…

I chose nail varnishes in shade #200 “Steel Her Heart”, a lovely shimmery silver grey, and shade #025 “Plum Night” – this looks amazing in the bottle – a lovely dark cream purple shade – very autumn/winter. I haven’t tried either yet, but I’m looking forward to the purple in particular…

I also picked up one of the lipsticks from the Matte range, in the shade “Pink Pout” – I know we have all seen this one before, but here’s a photo anyway… Again- I haven’t tried this yet, and to be honest, I’m really no sure its “me”, but heck, it was free…

I also perused the Natural Collection stand, as the blogosphere is buzzing with rumours that their lipsticks/glosses are really rather good… I picked up a Moisture Shine lippie in “Rose Bud” (Orson Welles Flashback anyone?), and a lipgloss in the shade “Parfait”

As suggested above, the lipstick is indeed sheer, but a pretty pink. Its a pretty non-descript shade, but nice enough. It smells a bit chemically, like, well, like a cheap lipstick to be honest, but if that doesn’t bother you, then the range is definitely worth a look for very reasonably priced (£1.95 a piece) everyday colours.

The lipgloss has a somewhat more pleasant smell than the lipstick, slightly vanilla, slightly orange, slightly chemical, but not unpleasant in my opinion. Its creamy and fairly well pigmented as well – the formula might be a bit drying on people with very dry lips, as this is not one of those really succulent, moist looking glosses.

Above – Rose Bud on the lips – clearly very sheer, but completely non-offensive

Above -Parfait on the lips – as this shows, this is a fairly well pigmented gloss, and will be popular among fans of the Nude Lip look – I’m not altogether sure about it on me though – slight corpse like effect has been noted.

Any other “must haves” from either of the ranges?

MizzWorthy xxx

Finally, after a loooong wait (five week months are a total drag), I got paid, and was able to treat myself to a couple of bits… *makes mental note that Christmas is coming and she has to actually buy thing for other people, and so mustn’t let the makeup haze take her…*

Spurred on by Cosmetic Candy’s tweets about a “cat collection in shu uemura”, which in turn triggered memories that BritishBeautyBlogger had mentioned this too a while ago… I decided a little trip to the Trafford Centre to investigate further was warranted. Unfortunately, my trip coincided with last years X-Factor losers runners up JLS, who were switching on the Christmas lights and throwing some shapes – long story short, parking was a mare and it was an even bigger mare to get home afterwards, but if they float your boat you can see how they “thrilled fans” here *MizzWorthy tries not to be all Bah Humbug about JLS, but makes mental note to check the events section of the Trafford Centre website next time*

Anyway, the end result, I picked up three things – 2 from the”cat collection”, as well as an eyeshadow I liked the look of…

First up, the thing I wanted most of all – The Tsumori Chisato for Shu Uemura Duo Colour Highlighter i “Stardust”.
Yes people, this is a highlighting powder with a cat on it! Not just any cat though – a cute gold cat…. look – Its just peeping over the “wall” there… awwww.

Sorry to be a bit of an odd bod too, but I can’t bring myself to swatch this baby just yet – I don’t want to “spoil” it with my mucky paws, and ruin its perfection. Obviously though, I will soon. The cat bit is not just an overspray either – I checked that! Beeyootiful packaging too. It cost an eyewatering £35, but I LOVE IT!

From the same collection, I also picked up a Rouge Unlimited Lipstick in the shade “Jupiter Brown”, which has similar cute and adorable packaging. There is also a pink shade in the collection, but I didn’t really think i would work with my skintone, so I plumped for this one…

As you can see, its a really warm peachy brown, and it appllies very sheerly, and on me this works well as a nude colour with a bit of punch – proper nudes make me look like one of the undead, but this, I like… Here it is on the lips;

There are some very lovely palettes too in the collection, but I felt a lot of it was dupable and exercised a rare restraint. I can never resist their eye shadows though – they are very very good indeed in my opinion. Very blendable, creamy consistancy, and some lovely colours too…

I picked up the shade ME Orange 250. Here is a picture of it, with a swatch thrown in for good luck…

I really like the formulation of the Shu lippies actually – they are light and sheer, but that makes them more wearable – I am going to look next time for a sheer wearable red that doesn’t make me look like a serial killer next I think…. Any hints from ladies in the know would be much appreciated…

MizzWorthy xxx

I posted this haul yesterday on youtube, however I was asked by Kelly (Happy1234) to post some pics on here too due to her having problems with the sound on her computer…

I visited my Illamasqua counter on Friday and picked up another haul from the “Sirens” collection…

I picked up a set (exclusive to Selfridges) containing false lashes, two nail varnishes, lip gloss and “Solstice” liquid metal.

“Solstice” is an amazing product, which can be used on eyes/lips/face to add a beautiful golden glaze, and can be made as sheer or strong as you want… The lipgloss is a beautiful shade, a pale cool peachy pink shade shot throught with a subtle gold sheen.

The Illamasqua nail varnishes are really well pigmented and you get “bottle colour” in one coat with most shades. They seem to last well under everyday wear as well!

Sorry the lashes didn’t photograph well her they are as the appear on the website!

I also picked up shimmer creme and two “fat pencils” which are metallic soft blendable pencils which can be used anywhere on the face or body… Here they are with swatches.

Next on the hitlist was a bronzong duo which I bought in the lighter shades (“Glint” – the lighter of the two, and “Writhe” the darker shade.) Both sides have a very subtle shimmer to them, which seems to add a lovely sheen to the face. I am SOOOO pleased I bought this!

Finally, I picked up a powder shadow in the shade “Intense”, a beautiful deep teal blue/green shade, which I think will add a perfect twist to a smoky eye…

I had a little play with my collection this afternnon and came up with a couple of quick looks (Please note – I am not wearing any foundation in the pics so forgive the skin… I’m having a slight breakout issue at the moment!)

Firstly I did a daytime look -

This was really easily achieved using the bronzing duo to sculp and highlight the face a little. I added a little shimmer creme over the brow and cheekbone, a slick of the lipgloss and used the fat pencil in “perverse” to make my eyes a little shimmery.

I then had a play with the other products to make the look slightly more night-time -

Here I smoked up my eyes a little using bronze and teal shades from my large SirensPalette (http://mizzworthy.blogspot.com/2009/04/illamasqua-haul-sirens-collection.html), and added the light gold shade as a brow highlighter. I then very lightly used solstice gold liquid metal on the cheekbone, added a little of the peach blush and a pop of solstice to the inner corner or the eyes. On the lips I used my fat pencil in Wilful (Copper) and topped this off with copper liquid metal (“enrapture”), dabbed a little of the gold shade in the middle of the lips and blotted…

Unfortunately the light was rather rubbish by he time I took these and hence the pictures look a little less bright than they did in real life… but hopefully you get the idea!

Let me know what you think!

MizzWorthy xxx

Hi everyone! Hope you are all well

I finally got paid today, so I unleashed myself on the Trafford Centre to visit my new favourite brand, and went to see the lovely makeup and see the lovely makeup artists at Illamasqua – this is a new British brand. It’s currently available in Selfridges in London and the trafford centre in Manchester at the moment, but over the next few months, the brand is rolling out over the UK, and I was told it’s launching in Newcastle today as well. I am in love with this brand for several reasons – Illamasqua’s roots lie in theatrical Berlin and I love the way the brand completely captures the artistic and dramatic feel of the theatre. This makeup makes me feel special, and at the end of the day, this is what Make up is all about to me – the perfect fusion of art and beauty.

Naturally, with makeup and images this beautiful, I have been doing some serious hauling – this is stuff I’ve bought over the last couple of weeks by the way – my credit card has not had a totally serious bashing!

Illamasqua Pure pigments in “Charm”, which the makeup artists acurately described as “mermaid blue”, and “fervent”, which is a bronze-brown based shade with reflects of blue, green and copper. These can be mixed with any mixing medium, they are highly pigmented and there are some beautiful colours available – They retail for £15 for 1.3g of product.

Pigments with “Underworld” Lipstick. The photograph is good, but really doesn’t do this beautiful lipstick justice. Underworld is a rich true purple frosted shade with blue reflects. This sounds strange, but the reflects give this a beautiful understated glow – I can wear this shade subtley in the day time, or I can really vamp it up for a night time look. I absolutely love this shade! I also find the formulation lasts really well and is not drying on the lips. Lipsticks retail at £14.

Here it is on the lips – this is how I would wear it in the day, and again, I have to say the pic does not do this justice!

I also got a cake eyeliner in “Zeal”, a deep dark green shade, this is a solid cake to which to add a drop of mixing medium (which comes with it)and mix to the depth and consistency you desire – I have been using this as you can see! Liner cake is also available in black, grey, deep blue, purple and a muted brown shade, and the cake and mixing medium cost £16. I also bought an undereye concealer, which I’m so far very impressed with. It stays put really really well and doesn’t crease/shift or gather into those fine lines I’m trying to pretent I dont have… It covers my dark circles well too! Under eye concealer retails for £11.74 for 2.5mls.

Illamasqua have an amazing range of matte and creme shadows (they do make a few shimmer shades as well) – I purchased a grey cream shade in “Amorous”. This is a pale shade with a muted purple undertone, and gives a beautiful subtle colour. These are great base shadows, and come in a range of bright and basic shades. I also bought powder eye shadows in “Bruised”, a deep plum/burgundy shade, and “Predator” a beautiful passionate pink. The powder shadows are very well pigmented and give really great colour payoff, which can be applied for a subtle pop of colour or built up for full on drama. These all retail for £14, for 2g of product. They can also be mixed with the mixing medium to create intense eyeliners for dramatic looks.

Naturally, to set off my beautiful shadows, I simply HAD to get some dramatic lashes – Illamasqua do some amazing lashes ranging from individual to complete and utter drama, all of which retail for £11 and are reusable.

Finally a couple of beautiful cream blushers – I have to say that I have had issues with MAC blushers in the past in terms of the fact that they dissappear on me after about two hours. This is not true of Illamasquas blushers at all. They are available in powder and cream formulations, and some fabulously dramatic shades are available. I purchased “Dixie”, which is one of those magical shades which seems to suit everyone, and also “Lies”, a paler pink which can be used to give a beautiful sheen of colour to the cheekbone.

The ethos behind this brand is all about exploring and unleashing your alter ego! This has been the inspiration behind the competition which I am going to be launching tomorrow!

Hope you enjoyed!

Love MizzWorthy xxx

xxx

Hi everyone,

Hope you are all ok – as promised here are some pics of my haul from RMK, my new nails and the one non makeup related item I bought! Me and my lovely mum went to the Trafford centre in Manchester, our first stop was Selfridges and we spied some lovely Cath Kidston stuff in there… For some reason I love really nice mugs and stuff, so when I spotted that they were only £4 each I deliberated over which one I should get, and finally decided on this one;

Tres Kitch, but I love it!

Next we travelled down to the cosmetics section, the best bit. This seemed to take forever as we walked past the concession area for “The White Company” (they sell candles and room spray, nice towels, pyjama’s, soaps etc, which are all – yes, you guessed it, White). My mum wanted “a quick look” but I swear she smelled every candle in the place before buying the first one she’d picked up lol. It was very nice though!

Finally we got to the cosmetics section – This was where I discovered the RMK stand – My mum wanted to get her HG moisturiser from Sheseido and while she was getting it, I was looking around and on the other side from the sheseido, was RMK. Hmm, I thought, I’ve never heard of this before! I looked closer and I realised that some of the colours were fab, so I started to play – the eye shadows, they have some really unusual colours and various finishes too – powder, liquid and cream, and I noticed sme great coloured blush too…

So in the end, the most friendly sales assistant I think I’ve ever met came over to see to us, she had this totally fab accent – a mixture of japanese and cockney! She told me a bit about the company when I said I hadn’t seen the brand before. RMK is apparently a sister company of Kanebo, which used to be fairly widely available in the UK, but for some reason is very hard to find now. Anyway, it used to be a favourite company of my Mum’s and they did some amazing skincare too, so I was very interested! (Not that it takes much to get me interested in makeup…)

Anyway, this company make three primers, one of which has won awards, and the foundations are top sellers in Japan, so I decided to try the primer as I have been consistantly unimpressed by all the primers I’ve tried… I also got a cream eye shadow in a soft brown colour with copper/bronze reflects. Next I got a powder shadow in a pewter grey colour, and I also picked up a limited ediction shadow duo from the spring collection. This one contains a lovely mid brown matte shadow, and a frosted pink with silver reflects. Both colours are nice on their own, but the SA explained that if you layer the pink over the brown it creates a third colour…

Here are the goodies in the packaging – everything comes in matte silver boxes with things like “choose me”, and “open up” embossed on them. As you can see I got a load of freebies too! A candle, Blusher brush and LOADS of samples!

Here is everything opened up – the cosmetics come in silver plastic casing, but the individual shadows can be made into palettes – my shadow duo was originally two shadows and I boutght the palette separately for£7. You can also see the primer there. It is really runny liquid, but so far I like it – it seems to actually make foundation last longer, and makes my skin feel really soft – at last, a foundation primer that does what it’s meant to!

Finally, I just wanted to show you all the samples I got too! She was soooo generous and basically gave me one or two of everything! I ended up with three foundations to try, three different types of primer and loads of skincare, including a cleansing oil, which I can’t wait to try!

Since making the haul yesterday, I have looked into the company a bit more, and at the moment it’s available in London and Manchester branches of Selfridges, but is not otherwise available outside of asia at the moment – but I think you can buy off the website – www.rmkrmk.com

Has anyone else tried any of their stuff?

Finally, we popped to Debenhams, where I got my nails done;

I was actually thinking of getting acrylics as I really fancied having some long nails for a while, even though I knew they’d wreak havoc with my natural nails. Luckily, at the Nails INC nail bar, they talked me into having calcium gels instead – AKA a three week manicure. This is basically a french manicure (but you can also get coloured ones too) sculpted from calcium enriched gel which sets hard. While it’s on, it’s meant to make the natural nails stronger and make them grow faster. It was expensive though – a whopping £50 to have them applied (my lovely mum treated me!), and it costs £20 to get them removed every 3 weeks too, so I’m not sure how long I can afford to keep them up!

I also got this kit for £20 at nails inc- It contains a buffer, topcoat and base coat/ridge filler and a nail oil pen. Buying all these thigs individually would have cost about £40, so it was quite a bargain!

Hope you all like this – let me know if any of you have used any RMK before though, and what you all thought of it!

Oh yeah! I nearly forgo I got my back up of Pink Fish too! I wont post a pic of that becaus the entire world knows what it looks like now lol!

Love MizzWorthy

xxx

Hi everyone, for various reasons after work today I decided to get a few treaties for myself so made a quick trip into town to MAC and Superdrug…

First off Superdrug!

I have to say, I’ve not been to Superdrug to seriously look for makeup in such a long time. I usually get a dazzle dust or a mascara, but thats about it. However I was educated by lovely bloggers and youtubers such as lollipop26, sirvinya and panacea81 that it is worth a look, and I am soooo glad I did. There are some great things to be had there!

Today I picked up :-

1. Bloom Lip Gloss in ‘Girlie’ for £6 (on sale – usually £8). This is a fab brightish pink colour which goes on quite sheer and can be layered over lippies etc. Bloom is an Australian brand, which was sold in Boots about 5 years ago and then disappeared for some reason… I always loved the lipglosses, they are scented and flavoured with mandarin and vanilla oils and come in a great range of colours – nudes, pinks, reds and darker shades…
2. Barry M Lip Paint in 132, a GORGEOUS shade, which I wasn’t sure would look as good on as I hoped but I love it! As advised by Lollipop26, this is a dupe of NARS Galaxy Girl. I LOVE IT!!!! This could be the colour that begins my conversion back to lipstick -I’ve been a pure gloss girl for about the last 3 years!
3. MeMeMe Nail Polish in ‘Rio’ (shade 41) – A metallic dark electro blue. I don’t know why, but I really love blue nail polish. Maybe because I used to wear it when I was a teenager lol!
4. Sleek Eye Liner, Ink Pot in Yellow – This comes with a little mini brush and cost £3.99. I know yellow might be a strange choice but I bought MAC shadow in Chrome too, so I thought I could use this as a base/ undereye liner to creat some kind of funky looks! This range is WELL WORTH a look – I’ve never seen it before but it was recommended by Sirvinya, and it seems such good value for money!
5. Sleek Eye Dust in ‘Spellbound’ – Seems to be similar to ‘Beauty Marked by MAC but in pigment/loose shadow form. Similar to a dazzle dust but about three times as big for only £2.99!
6. Sleek eye palette ‘Divine Chaos’ – Contains 12 x 1.1g pans of eyeshadow in a range of fairly bright colours – two other palettes are also available. The shadows are well pigmented, and this cost a mere £4.49!

I will be going to Superdrug more often!!!

Next, MAC… I was intending to simply exchange my full coverage foundation which I had bought in NW20 for NC20 as I felt the NW would look pink on me – I have ‘issues’ with my undertones lol!

1. Paintpot in ‘Painterly’, for use as an eyeshadow base – I’m also wondering if this could be used as a stand in for ‘lip erase’… Hmmm!
2. Full Coverage foundation in NC20.
3. Mineralise Skinfinish in ‘Soft and Gentle’ – I have wanted this for ever but they have not had it in for months now – Yay! So glad I got this for my pale as heck skin!
4. Powder Blush in ‘Well Dressed’ – Saw this on various blogs and I lurve it – might be my new favourite!!!
5. Cream Colour Base in ‘Improper Copper’ – Have been wanting to try one of these for ages and I fell in love with this colour – seems like a slightly more shimmery and coppery version of ‘Rubenesque’ paintpot… Lush!
6. LipGlass in ‘Posh it Up’ – Lovely pinky peachy shade which is fairly highly pigmented and has gold reflects in it. Would look really great over the Barry M Lip Paint…
7. Pro Palette eye shadow pans in ‘Chrome’ and ‘Samoa Silk’ – I have wanted both of these for ages, and decided to just get them today… I will find a way to make Chrome work on me without looking silly lol!

If anyone wants a review of any of these products just let me know!

Also, any other great products from Superdrug I should know about?

Love Mizzworthy xxx