Hello lovelies, I am back with what seems to be another haul! Once I again I traipsed over to the train station to go to town because of something new that I wanted to get my hands on. Of course, I came back with more than I set out to get, but that is what generally happens when I step into Superdrug. Luckily, nearly half of what I bought is just a small part of my sisters Christmas present, so I don't feel so bad spending money in my favorite drugstore...
It's not a massive haul, it never is with me right now, but I basically got the things that I wanted the last time I went to Superdrug, which was the MUA Sheer Finish Lipglosses. I then decided to finally cave in and get the Intense Kisses lipgloss that I had been eyeing up for a while as well, seeing as there was that magnificent 3 for 2 offer going on in Superdrug. I also happened to pick up a new lip balm, because I accidentally dropped my Carmex on the railway track. R.I.P Carmex, you will be dearly missed.
Sadly I have no swatches this time around, due to poor lighting thanks to how dark it now gets at just 4pm! If there is one thing that I do dislike about winter other than the cold, it is how little daylight we get!
Anyway, all the nail polishes in this haul are a part of my sisters Christmas gift from me. She is a massive nail junkie, and she adores pastel colours! So, I popped into my local Boyes store and picked up two L.A. Colour nail varnishes for her as well as three more polishes from Superdrug. Hopefully she will like what I picked out for her!
L.A. Colors Nail Laquer in Metallic Purple (£1) - I really couldn't resist getting this one for my sister, because the product in the bottle looks so pretty! We both love L.A. Color nail polish, so getting her a few of these was a given anyway, but this colour just really stuck out to me and I knew that I had to buy it! At £1, it really is a seal, and these are fantastic nail varnishes anyway!
L.A. Colors Nail Laquer in Cotton Candy (£1) - This picture really does no justice for the nail polish itself, because it really is a very pretty pale pink colour with a slight metallic sheen to it in the bottle. My sister adores pink, so I really wanted to get her something light and cute in the colour she just so adores! That, and it was the only pretty pastel pink colour I could find, but really, it's so cute!
NYC Expert Last Nail Polish in Lavender Cupcake (£2.49) - If the name isn't a steal in itself, the colour is! This is such a pretty lavender colour which the picture really gives no justice to, once again. It's a beautiful pastel colour, and I really think that my sister will like it. Very girly and dainty! Sadly, I have not tried out any nail polishes by NYC, so I really can't tell you how well they work! Hopefully the polish will work wonderfully for my sister, because it is a gorgeous colour!
NYC Expert Last Nail Polish in Bubblegum Pink (2.49) - This has to be my favourite polish in terms of colour that I have picked up for my sister! The picture I have taken, due to the terrible lighting, really does not show the true colour. In fact, it looks darker than it truly is! But really, this colour is a nice shade of bubblegum pink as the name suggests, and is absolutely gorgeous in the bottle! I love darker pink colours, they really stand out and just look stunning on nails in my opinion! Hopefully this one will please my sister, even if it isn't pas pastel as the other colours!
MUA Love Hearts Nail Varnish in U & I (£2) - I really had no clue what colour to get my sister for this nail polish, and I was actually heading towards another purple colour, until I realised that I had begun a theme in what I was picking up for my sister... so I decided to pick this one up, remembering that my sister wanted a yellow varnish a while back (which ended with her taking my BarryM Lemon Ice Cream polish off my hands, thank goodness!) and I thought that this would be a nice little polish to add to her collection. We both have an MA nail varnish (somewhere), and they are actually very good for the £1 price tag! Hopefully the Love Hearts collection of nail varnish live up to the £1 range, because this colour is just lovely!
Of course, I did have to pick myself something up, and my original intention was to buy the new Sheer Finish Lipglosses from the MUA line - at just £1, you really can't go wrong, and I wanted to try these out myself! I love lip products, however I only have one lipgloss from MUA from their £1 line ( Shade 3), but I do have four of their £1 lipsticks (Shade 7, 11, 15 Juicy and 16 Nectar) , a Lip Boom (OMG) and a Love Hearts Lip Balm (Sweet Kiss). Needless to say, I have a good amount of MUA lip products, but my lip gloss collection with this brand is ever-growing.
I decided to pick up the shades Some Me Time and Happy Days, two of the lighter shades in the collection, though you can't really tell from the terrible lighting in the pictures yet again.
Happy Days is a very pretty peachy pink colour, whilst Some Me Time is closer to a baby pink colour. Of course, as sheer lip glosses, they do go on very sheer but still give a nice hint of colour to the lips.
My favourite of the two upon using them for the first time is Some Me Time - it's very pretty on the lips and isn't too in your face, and makes the lips nice and pretty! Both of these glosses do have a little bit of shimmer in them, and fair warning to those of you who hate sticky lipglosses; These are very sticky, or at least, that's how I find them to be. Not that it is a problem for me personally, but before these glosses came out, MUA did not have a sticky lipgloss from what I knew! Their own £1 range is very smooth on the lips, but these have a different consistency it seems. Also, the smell is quite sickly and the major turn off point for me with this product. For £1 a lipgloss though, who can complain?
These glosses are quite nice I guess, and I can see myself using them again in the future, but not so much in the winter due to the wind and fear of the dreaded hair-sticking-to-lips that happens if you have long hair like me! I will need to come back and give a better review after a few weeks, see how I feel about them then!
Now, here's the dark horse... or at least, the dark horse to my haul. I really thought that I would prefer the sheer glosses over this little beauty, but honestly, I think I have found my favourite part of the haul! The Intense Kisses High Intensity Gloss in Quick Kiss is something which I told myself I would uy, and never did until now. I really didn't know if I wanted it or not, but I am so glad I purchased it now! It's a lovely light red colour, a colour I don't usually head for, but with quite a few of the other colours being sold out in Superdrug, I decided to pick this one up because it appealed to me more, and from the reviews this gloss has been getting, I did want to try it out!
It actually pains me that I can't show you the swatches for this - it's really beautiful! The gloss itself is very high in pigment, and can be layered to give more of an intense colour to the lips. It feels smooth on the lips, and it smells yummy like many of the other MUA lip products that I have!
It's so pretty, and I will give a more detailed review at some point with swatches so that you can all see how lovely this lipgloss is. This is definitely my favourite buy from MUA for today, and I have a feeling that I may buy myself another Intense Lipgloss in a different, lighter colour!
Do any of you have any of these products at all? If you do, which ones are your favourite and what colours do you have at home?
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