Seventeen Falsifeye HD Mascara Review

Seventeen is not a brand that I wouldn’t usually buy, and truth be told I don’t think I’ve bought anything from them since I was a teenager all those years ago. However saying that when I saw the new Falsifeye HD Mascara it caught my eye for looking that bit more mature and unlike some mascaras from brands like Seventeen it looked like it would actually do what it claims to.

At first I wasn’t too impressed by it but I think that’s because it didn’t stand out from any of the other mascaras that I had tried out over the last few months. I convinced myself though that it was good but it was just living up to the same levels as the other mascaras.

When I bought it I didn’t realise that I had bought it in the brown/black colour which could have been one of the reasons why I wasn’t completely impressed as I’m sure if it was in the black it would have made my lashes stand out even more. The brown/black colour just made my lashes look the same as my natural colour but with better definition.

From the blurb on the box and online it says that it doesn’t clump which it doesn’t, the comb is plastic and combs through your lashes separating them completely. It says that users found more definition but compared to other mascaras I have used recently I think it has just about the same if not a little less definition then the likes of Bourjois 1 Seconde Mascara. 92% say it was long lasting which I would agree, it stays put all day, doesn’t smudge and when wet it didn’t leave too much of a panda eye. Finally and the statements that I don’t agree with is that it lifts and curls and thickens lashes, basically it didn’t do any of that for me. I have straight lashes that rarely curl even with using an eyelash curler so could say that’s more my problem then the mascaras but I definitely didn’t see thickness, I have other mascaras that give me a lot more thickness than this one.

I can’t say that I hate this mascara, it is quite good but it just didn’t live up to my previous buys who proclaim the same sort of volume. As I said it is good, I used it pretty much every day since I bought it. It’s a very good mascara for just throwing on for work and it helped me brighten up my eyes giving them a more natural look.

I bought this just as it came out and was €5.98 but it’s now €8.89 which makes it a good mascara for the price but I think I’m still so in love with my Bourjois 1 Seconde Volume mascara that it really had to live up to all the expectations I had for it to be amazing and it just didn’t.

So I really could take it or leave but if you’ve bought it let me know your own thoughts on it as I’m really on the fence about this one and would love to know how you found it.

Thanks for reading.

Love Sarah xoxo

Bye Bye Spots

 

About a week or two ago I received a box of Dream Dots for Spots in the post. I’ve seen a lot of blog posts and pictures of this product going around Instagram and twitter the last month or so, so I’m happy I got sent it to try it out. The only thing was that my skin has been pretty amazing for the last few weeks so I had to wait a while before I could try them out.

So after waiting for a while I got a doozy of a spot on my cheek. That morning I could feel it before it got red or swollen so as soon as I took my makeup off that night I put the Dream Dots for Spots on. At that stage is was swollen and super red.

The product is a clear circle patch that you put over your spot at night and leave on while you sleep. When you take the plastic off you place it on the spot and hold it down for a few seconds to make sure it’s stuck on good.

I don’t know what the science around it is but there’s some sort of magic in these little patches. After the first night I took it off and the swelling had gone down, the pain and the redness had also gone. The next two nights I put it on in the same place just to make sure it had completely gone and it had.

These are like magic little things, they’re amazing and I don’t know how they haven’t been around sooner.

The only problem I had with them is that when you go to take it off it’s like taking off a plaster, it’s a bit difficult to come off and does hurt, I think it’s from pulling the baby hairs on your face. I’m not sure if it’s because it was on my cheekbone and maybe it’s a bit more sensitive to other areas but the redness from pulling it off did go away after a minute or two so I can live with that.

I would definitely recommend these, I’m not sure how they work on spots that have a white head on them but I’m sure they help just as well.

I’m heading away next month and they will be in my bag for my trip just for emergencies, being on planes for hours does nothing for your skin so if I do get a breakout I won’t be too stressed over it.

You can buy them on their site for €14.95 which includes free shippin and are also stocked in most pharmacies around Ireland including Lloyds, McCabes, Sam McCauleys and Cara, so you guys have no excuse not to get Dream Dots.

Finally, I usually do photo’s of before and afters but I figured we’ve all seen what spots look like, they can be pretty gross and no one wants to see that but they did work on me and I hope you all go out and try them because they will work for you too.

Thanks for reading.

Love Sarah xoxo

Soap and glory Archery Brow Tint & Precision Pencil

I love eyebrows, there’s nothing more satisfying for me than perfect eyebrows. I get some serious brow envy sometimes especially looking at the likes of Elizabeth Taylor, Jaclyn Hill or Kim Kardashian, their eyebrows are the most amazing perfect things I’ve ever seen.

For my brows I usually use a pencil, I’ve no particular brand I use, but I have the Anastasia Beverly Hills Brow Powder Duo which I love and if I don’t use the powder I use one of the MAC shadows I have in my palette.

So the point of this post is to tell you about the new brow product in my life, the Soap and Glory Archery brow pencil.

This is a duo pen, on one end is a twist up pencil to shape the brow and on the other is felt pen to tint and fill in the brow. It only comes in two colours, either Love is Blonde or Brownie Points. Even though I’m blonde I have dark brows so I got the pen in Brownie Points.

Before and After

The felt part of the pen I love, usually I just fill in my brows with a pencil, which can be a bit harsh on your brows and depending on what pencil I’ve used it’s taken a hair or two as it filled them in so I love how the felt pen isn’t harsh. It’s also super quick and easy at filling them in.  The only thing that annoyed me about the felt part was that it dried out sometimes and you had to turn it upside down to get the tint to go back to the top.

The pencil part I didn’t totally love, it crumbled a lot. If you don’t have the pencil twisted back into the pen then the lid cracks it which really annoyed me and you think I would have learnt my lesson the first or second time that I did it but I’ve kept doing it so I’m sure I’ve lost a lot of product because of that.

The pencil cost €13.00, which I think is slightly more expensive than it should be but that could just be because I only loved half of it. It could also be in more colours, having only 2 in the range meant I had to go with the darker shade and sometimes my brows can look very dark after applying it.

So I didn’t love it but I didn’t hate it! My brows actually looked well when I used it so I suppose it wasn’t all bad but I don’t think I’ll be buying it again as I’ve been waiting till America to get the Anastasia Brow Wiz and Dipbrow Pomade, even though I can get them at Elysian Brow in town but I think it’s cheaper in the States.

So have you tried Archery? Let me know what you thought of it.

Thanks for reading.

Love Sarah xoxo

Danial Sandler Watercolour Fluid Blusher Acid Review

A few months back I was watching Sam of Pixwoo do a makeup tutorial on their YouTube channel. In the tutorial she used a new blusher from Daniel Sandler, which I have to admit I had never heard of the makeup brand before. The blush is a watercolour blusher which is completely new to me, I had only heard of powder and cream based but never water based.

The colours come from a special summer collection and come in the colours Acid (pink) and Trip (orange). They are really vibrant neon colours created for the summer season.

When I was in IMATS a few weeks ago I saw them on sale at one of the stands, when I saw them I grabbed Acid and luckily for me it was the last one they had. I didn’t buy Trip as I didn’t think it would suit me so I bought the pink colour in Acid. As it was at IMATS it was only £12.50, it usually retails for £15.50. There are only 3 stockists in Ireland and none in Dublin but you can find them here or you can order them online from the site as well.

The first time I tried the blush I just opened the packet and put it straight onto the back of my hand and thought to myself “this sucks it’s just water”, I didn’t cop that you had to shake it first. Once I knew what to do I shook it like a Polaroid picture and then put only a small drop on the back of my hand. The colour that comes out is so pigmented and I did think I was going to look like Noddy but with a light hand it went on perfectly.

For application I use a stippling brush rather than my normal blush brush and just buff it into the skin. If you want to have it darker you just need to add a bit more onto the skin. In the photos I only put on a light amount but the blush looks much better with a tan and you can get away with having a bit more colour on the skin but as I am a lot paler when I don’t fake tan I only put a small amount on.

When applying it I apply it straight after I apply my foundation so the foundation hasn’t dried fully yet and then I apply my bronzer, highlighter and powder.

I’m going to have this for a good long time as you only need to use a drop or two at a time, it’s probably more suited for a MUA to have in their kit but I’m happy that it’s in mine.

Before

After

The colour does last a lot more than any other blusher seems to do on my skin whether that’s because it’s more noticeable because it’s highly pigmented or it actually does stay on my skin I’m not sure. The only negative that I really say about it is that on certain foundations when it starts to clump into dry patches the blush clumps too but that’s more of the fault of my foundation than the blush.

Thanks for reading!

Love Sarah xoxo

Bourjois Rouge Edition Velvet Review

These Rouge Edition Velvet Lipsticks are amazing. I bought one a good few months ago when they first came out but I didn’t love all the shades but late last month they released 2 more colours that where a bit more up my street. There are a total of 8 in the collection now (€10.49 each) and if you haven’t tried them yet you need to!

The cream velvet formula leaves your lips feeling like silk on application, all you want to do is rub your lips together when you apply it and I do, a lot. The lipstick dries as a matte after a minute or two and when fully dry will stay on your lips for a long while. As these are a highly pigmented lipstick even if the product starts to wear off the colour will have stained on your lips but without leaving a ring of colour around them that you might get with other lip products.

The applicator is also pretty amazing, you can just swipe it over and it gets perfectly around the lips so no need to line them and if you do go over the lip line you have a few seconds before it dries if you do make any mistakes.

I’m in love with these lipsticks, the packaging is sleek and so handy that I’ve had one or two of the in my handbag since I got them. I hate it when you pop a lippy in your bag and the lid comes off ruining your bag and the lipstick.

The first colour I bought when the collection came out was Olé Flamingo and it’s a bright hot pink. For me it’s not an everyday colour but it’s one for the weekend or a night out.

If you’re new to Beauty Blunders then you’ll not know that I have an obsession with dark lip colours, although this summer I’ve been trying my best to wear some more brighter colours. This shade called Grand Cru, I really couldn’t resist it it’s just the most perfect dark vampy red which is my favourite kind of red.

I’m saving the best for last, Nude-ist, I’ve been wearing it nearly every day. I don’t wear nudes but this is more of a pink brown which I think suits me a bit better. 90’s colours seem to be coming back on the scene and this reminds me of something from that era and it’s also along the lines of the colour Kylie Jenner has been sporting recently so if you’re into those looks I’d really recommend this one for you.

I’m hoping they bring out even more colours because I’m in love with these and I don’t think any other companies have anything similar.

Thanks for reading!

Love Sarah xoxo

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Collection Lasting Gel Color | Review

I bought these during my Boots Haul last week. They were on offer - 2 for €6.50 or €3.99 each, so obviously I had to buy the two. I love gel effect nails so I was excited to try these, I had tried the Models Own Hypergel polish and wasn’t impressed at all so the fact that these where much cheaper than the Models Own I my expectations weren’t too high but still optimistic at the same time.

Vixen Red

Raspberry

I love the brush, it’s wide and gets the full nail pretty much on one swipe a bit like the Rimmel 60 Seconds nail polish or the YSL polishes, I hate really thin brushes they never work the way I want them too.

Firstly as a beauty blogger I want to try everything at once and as I’ve had Shellac on for so long I couldn’t wait to get my nails painted and polished again so I put one colour on each hand.

On my left hand I tried Vixen Red, from the bottle it looks like a deep burgundy red but when applied it has more of a plum hew to it. With the application I applied two coats to get a full colour, one coat was too thin. With this hand I applied a top coat when I was finished and the drying time was very short, it almost instantly dried to touch but it needed a short few minutes before it was fully dry. I love these kinds of colours especially for the autumn.

After over a week’s wear the red had hardly chipped other than looking a bit dull around the tip of the nail.

No chips after a full week of wear

On my right hand I had the colour Raspberry, it’s like a hot pink but a little darker another one of my favourite colours but this one is more suited for the summer. On this hand I didn’t put any top coat on just to see if it made any difference having it with or without it. Again after a week there is literally just one obvious chip and a little dulling around the tip of the nails.

 

The application on the colour was much better than the Vixen Red, the colour is thick enough and only needed one coat but I put two on just for luck.

Only one obvious chip after a full week

I’m so impressed by these polishes, they have a high shine that has stayed for the week, no chipping with or without a top coat and they are a bargain at only €3.99. They look more like a normal polish on the nails rather than having gel on the nail but I’ll let that slide as the overall quality is really good.

Thanks for reading J

Love Sarah xoxo