July's Top 10 Favourite Products

It's that time again. Another month gone, wow. So this month has been the month for pulling out the old products that I've had and frankly need to use before their shelf-life expires.  So there are some new products, but definitely some oldies.

My top 10 favourite and most reached products of July 2011 are:

* Missha Signature Real Complete BB Cream

* Make Up For Ever Glossy Full Couleur lipgloss in 4

* Lorac Behind the scenes eye primer

* Lorac Front of the Line liquid eyeliner in black

* N.Y.C. Color wheel Mosaic Face Powder in Peach Glow

* NARS Okinawa eyeshadow trio

* Dior Diorsnow Whitening UV Spot Corrector

* MAC Seriously Hip Nail Polish

*Chanel Peridot Nail Polish

* YSL macara singulier

* W7 Mega Matte lips 

NARS OKINAWA

 

I usually shy away from matte eyeshadows, but these are not chalky at all and completely blend-able.  I just love the great pigmentation as well.

NYC Blush & Lorac liquid eyeliner

 

I reached for this blush quite a bit this month. Not sure why, I think I liked the neutral look of the pink/peach shade.  It wasn't too glitzy, just a nice matte colour for my cheeks.

The Lorac eyeliner is great.  I hate how some liquid eyeliners really drip and apply super heavy in the beginning and then tapers off to nothing, but as you can see, I was able to control my strokes.

MAC & CHANEL NP's

 What can I say, I loves these two polishes so much.  As I previously mentioned, the colours are wonderful and unique and the formula is superb.

Make Up For Ever lipgloss

 

It looks quite bright and bold in the bottle, but it is very sheer on the lips.

This gave me just enough brightness to liven up my face this month.

 YSL Mascara

I got this back in January as a gift in an exchange, and I didn't use it until this month.  The brush is one of my favourites to date. Doesn't clump and gives an even distribution of formula on the lashes. No spider eyes here :)

 Dior concealer and Lorac eyeshadow Primer

 

 I didn't knw if I could believe the hype about the Dior concealer actually lightening up my scars, but it does.  At least for me. I've noticed a slight lightening of my scars. Now I'm not sure if it's the concealer that's doing it or my BB cream, but whatever it is, it's ligthening up my face and I couldn't be happier!

The Lorac eyeshadow primer is just as good as my usual urban decay primer potion (which I ran out of).  It really helps keep my shadows on :)

W7 LIpgloss

 

As I mentioned in a previous post. I love this little cheapie lippie. It suits me, goes on wet, dries matte, but doesn't leave my lips dry either.  I am contemplating going back and buying more of these!

These are my most reached products this month?

What is your number 1 product you reached for this month?

Share please, I'd love to see what everyone is using xx

Review: LORAC - 3D-Licious, 3D-Mension, 3D-Luxe Eye Shadows

Happy Saturday everyone.
I'm here, just drinking my coffee and having a relaxed morning (for once).

Today I wanted to swatch the Lorac eyeshadows that I was given a few months ago during a forum gift exchange.  Periodically throughout the year, ladies participate in a gift exchange called RAOK (Random act of kindness), where you get a secret name and you shop for that person and you ship off their gift.  In exchange, you will also get a gift from someone else.  It's quite fun, as long as everyone does their end.  In the past we had a lot of drama, but luckily the last RAOK went very smoothly.

My secret person sent me these after seeing that I was wishing for it. It was a limited edition gift set from Ulta and for some reason, my Ulta never had it. So I was really really surprised to have gotten this :) - Sorry Bunny it's taken me this long to do a proper review on it.

These eyeshadows are none like I have in terms of colour. I'll get into that a little bit later. First, the texture is of high calibre.  Smooth as can be..I'm talking - Dior & Inglot buttery texture.  You dip your finger in it and literally you can feel the shadow give in.  It is very nice! The Colors are highly pigmented and duochrome.  Now...in the nail polish world, duochrome is drool worthy, so I wanted to have these to see if that same effect on the eye.

From Left To Right

3D-Mension, 3D-Luxe, 3D-Licious

3D-Mension has a bronze/pink duochrome
3D-Luxe has a beige and pink/peach duochrome
and 3D-Licious has a brown and teal duochrome

My favorite of the three has to be 3D-Mension and 3D-Luxe. 3D-Licious's colors mix together to create a shade that's a bit too red for me on the eyes.  I personally don't like that shade on me, so that is why it's not my favorite, but it is by far the silkiest of all 3.

I may be way too late, but I haven't seen poignant duochromes such as these in any shadow.  I'm going to play with these for both daytime and nighttime look.  I believe that Menion and Luxe will be great for day time and then when you add Licious, it will pump it up for a smokey evening look, and if all else fails, then Licious will become an eyeliner for me.

Overall, texture + unique duochrome = one good product!