The Swatch Files: The Body Shop Lip and Cheek Stain: Bronze Glimmer

Like the rest of the beauty blogger congregation, I got this free with a copy of InStyle magazine.

I have to say that I have never read InStyle magazine and I enjoyed it more than I enjoy magazines like Glamour.  There are a lot of ads in it but that's to be expected of any magazine.

Anyway, the Lip and Cheek Stain.

Fine glittery bits..

The wand is not pictured here as this isn't a review BUT it is a gorgeous purpley-pink colour and for some reason the product is cold when you put it on.  I've never experienced that before.

I tried to get swatches under as many lights as possible to show you the colours of the stain.  The first photograph is swatched straight off the doe foot applicator, the second and third are blended in a tiny bit and the last is what remains when you wipe it all off.

I used it on my lips and it made me look like I'd smeared my lips with glittery butter so that's a no no, I will stick to using it as a cheek stain (NOT that kind!) from now on.

It IS a stain.  I had to wash my hands with soap for about 10 minutes to get all the colour off.

Click to expand so you can see it in detail!

The Swatch Files: YSL Gloss Repulpant Shiny Lip Plumper Shade No2: Glossy Plum

I bought this with a gift voucher about three years ago and it still hasn't finished.  I used it practically every day, until I found that I had lost it after a trip to my parents' house.

I wanted to put it in the Files ages ago but as it was MIA, this proved somewhat difficult.

I love this as it goes on very shiny and then fades to a stain during the day.  It looks like a lipgloss but ha the intensity of a lipstick.  You know when you put lipstick on and then gloss over the top? This little gem does it all in one.

For some reason, it was very hard to photograph, it's not at all patchy and both my lips were in fact the same colour as the top part of my upper lip.

It works very well with my skintone and has a lovely minty smell to it.

It cost me £15 or so but I think the price has gone up a bit now.  I bought it from Selfridges and I have to say that the ladie who work on that concession are always super helpful, regardless of how busy they are, they have never ever been rude or dismissive.

What happens when you blind yourself

Let me set the scene.

It's a Thursday.  The body you live with is having a shave in the bathroom and you're playing with makeup in your bedroom.

You manage to totally mess up a practice eye that you're doing and you decide to remove it.

You take your wipes out of the drawer and wipe the makeup off your eye.

The aforementioned body struts into the bedroom looking rather handsome.  You take your eye makeup off (because you want to have a secret perv) and your eye feels dodgy.  It transforms from a normal eye to a bloodshot wonder in the space of 10 seconds.  The other body in the room decides to point this out to you.

You clean your eye with water and go to sleep.

You wake up at 2 in the morning and find that your eye has puffed up so much that you can't open your eye.  You assume you've gone blind.

You wake up the other body and make them do some "at home doctoring" before you go to the hospital.

The doctor tells you that you've had a reaction to the wipe and cleans the eye for you.  He trots off to get something and you comment to your companion about how handsome the doctor is and just your luck that you're blind in one eye.  Your companion gives you the "I have to be up at six tomorrow" look.

The doctor comes back with a patch in his hand.  He affixes said patch to your eye and sends you home.

You encounter a drunk guy who calls you Captain Hook.  You inform him that Captain Hook had two functioning eyes and that it was his hand which gave him his name.

You go home and fall asleep.

You wake up in the morning feeling like P Diddy..if he, too, had a reaction to some wipes.

You phone your boss, tell him what happened and he lets you pull a sickie.

Wave the other body off to work and plonk your one-functioning-eye behind on the sofa.

You do nothing bar chat crap on Twitter and type up some cases.

You get bored and decide you want to take your patch out so off you go.

You go to Boots to pick up some DECENT eye makeup remover.

You see a clearance section.

You go a bit mad.

You buy this:

Crapness of photograph is to be accredited to the injury

You feel rather chuffed with yourself.

You feel even better when the guy behind the counter talks like Angelos Epithemiou and does his best Angelos impression for you.

You come home, clean your eye out with the blue liquid and marvel at how much rubbish comes you of your eye.

This is what happens when you blind yourself.

EOTD: How I got Stila Smudgepots to work!

I bought a fair bit of Stila back when they had their warehouse sale and I was a noob to the blogging world.

Smudgepots were the one item that confused me, I wasn't sure how to use them.

I'd read that you could use them as an eyeliner and as a cream shadow.   They were priced at a fiver each, I bought two (Jade and Black) and then I found Purple lolling around in the £1 box so I picked it up too.

Look at the little goldeny flecks..handsome!  I must have bought a dodgy one as it doesn't touch the sides like my others, it still works just as well though!  Well actually, how can I say it works just as well when I've never used one was placed properly in the jar? It works PROPERLY is what I should be saying.

The big brush of FAIL was utilised as I'm not ready to give up on it yet and it actually worked quite well.  I also managed to "fix" the bristles after using it, I cleaned the brush on a bog standard tissue and it's back to its fluffy self.

The end result! I'm still working on getting the flick just right but I see improvement because there is no space between the lash line and the eyeliner.

It's quite wearable.  I've worn the liner to work, albeit with a very small flick, it has a slight glittery element to it but it doesn't make you look like a discoball.  I used to think that this smudgepot was terrible but it turns out that you just need to coat your brush properly and away you go.  It spreads across the eyelid with ease and is very creamy. 

As an aside, you don't know how many times I've tried to make this smudgepot work for me.  It always failed.  I couldn't figure out why it was, then I realised that it was probably the brush I was using (this one).  I saw a video by Lisa Eldridge on the 'tube about how to line your eyes, I followed the directions and I came up with this.  She used a thin eyeliner brush, the one I used was clearly fatter but the principles are the same.  Do a thin line practically IN the lashes first and then build up and it looks FAR better.  I've been a good blogger and found the video for you too! Click here to see it.  I know I got the flick wrong but it's a work in progress, if I can figure out liquid lining, I can figure this out too!

If you can find any on ebay or something, I'd say buy them.

My Models Own Loot

I have been lusting after two Models Own polishes for ages, after seeing this post. Thus, when they had their 50% sale on, I decided that I'd place a little order with them.

I placed the order on Saturday or Sunday and my goodies turned up today.  To say I was excited about their arrival would be the biggest understatement of the year.  I was coo-ing over them all day at work, itching to get home and test them out.

I've been home a few hours now and feel lousy, I'm sure I have a cold coming on thanks to the rain!  Thus, I haven't swatched any of them but I have taken photographs.

Here's what I got..

Your invoice comes in this envelope..it impressed ME!

The photos are edited to show the colours are true to life as I could get them.  Silver Fox, Mixed Up and Gold Finger came in a set and the other three were individuals.

And they're glit-tastic!

The middle colour in the bottom row is Mixed Up.  You can't tell that it has multi coloured sparkles in it but it's a beaut.

Disco Mix is even more handsome than I assumed it would be and I can't wait to layer Silver Spangle over my favourite black polish.

I've been on the lookout for a decent eyeliner and pencil brush for ages and when I saw these in the sale, I snatched them up.

Anybody else buy anything? I'm more than tempted to make another order but I need to remind myself of the amount of polishes I already have.  Also, before I forget, the code is FACEBOOK50 and the sale ends tomorrow..so get ordering!

One product until the end of time..

My cousin paid me and Simon a visit on Saturday.

He is seven years old and totally besotted with "man things", by which he means things that men stereotypically do.  He is therefore going through a massive hero worship of Simon, my brothers and my dad.  His dad is a builder and he has spent the summer holidays living in his hard hat.

He pestered Simon into having a shave and lending him some aftershave.  He sat on the edge of the bath totally enthralled..watching Simon shave and asking him a million and one questions about shaving, building, aftershave and the offside rule.

He barged into the bedroom whilst I was putting my makeup on and asked me why I had so many eyeliner pencils.  I tried to explain to him but it was falling on deaf ears..he couldn't understand why someone would need so many of the same thing. 

The stash in question..minus two Stila pencils and a Rimmel one.

After having a good old nose through everything, he piped up with "If you were only allowed to use one thing from this drawer until the end of time, what would you choose?"

I'm not ashamed to say that it took me an age to provide him with a reply. 

In fact, he got bored of waiting and ran off to play FIFA on the Xbox with Simon.

I had an answer when they were in the middle of their second game. 

Pencil eyeliner. 

Thought I'd be helpful and put swatches up.  The ones sans names are not available to buy anymore.

He wasn't impressed that I'd made him pause the game whilst I delivered that bit of life-changing news. 

His next comment, which had me in stitches was something along the lines of "Is that why you have so many? So you don't run out?"  It was one of those "you had to be there" moments.

So, via the 7 year old smart-arse that is my cousin, "If you were only allowed to use one item of makeup from now until the end of time, what would you choose?"

EOTD: How to wear black eyeshadow

Back when I was unable to blend ONE colour, I would never have attempted using shades which weren't browny in colour.

You might wonder why black was the first colour I was drawn to..well, I line my eyes with black pencil (eyeliner pencil!) and it makes my eyes look browner so I assumed that black eyeshadow would do the same.  However, I'm not so naive that I think slapping black eyeshadow all over my lid will work miracles.

Here are a few ways that I've worn black eyeshadow recently..I hasten to add you will see eyebrow hair as I've been growing my brows out and these are all "practice eyes" BUT, I will be wearing most of them to the many desi functions I have lined up.

So, here we go!

This look happened totally by accident, I was trying to do a light yellow lid with a defined black crease but as per usual, my hands didn't want to co-operate with my brain and it went wrong.  Thus, I decided to cover my lid with the browny colour and then cover it with the black.  I blended it enough so that the sparkle from the browny colour came through as the black is pretty matte.  I really like the effect I got.  I think it's perfect for Indian/desi functions when you're wearing gold and/or silver and you can't figure out how to do your eyes.  The browny colour comes through silver or gold, depending on the lights..as you can see in the photos.

I don't have a photo with my eye open but it did make my eyes stand out a fair bit.

This is the second look..

The pronounced crease in the first photo only came about because the eyeshadow refused to blend until I used some force.  Once again I've used the yellow eyeshadow as a base (patting in on with your fingers and blending with a brush is the easiest way to build up colour which is something I needed as my lids are quite dark).  I applied the darker side of the eyeshadow all over my lid and blended.  I went over it with the silver side and then added eyeliner.  I thought the black side of the eyeshadow would be a lot darker but I still think it looks OK.  The colour combo reminds me of the Bobbi Brown layered look I did.

This is the final look (and yet the first of the three I did).

Once again, there was no intention of using black as a base as what I was trying to do was a cut crease but it wasn't to be.  I think I just need to realise that a cut crease will never work on my fat eyes.  Anyway, what I ended up doing was covering my lid with the the Badgal pencil, blending it and then applying the Eye Dazzle all over it.


I found overall that black eyeshadow does enhance your eyes if they're brown.  I was always adamant that purple would..I should try that next time.

Ta Da! Queen of Shaves?! Ooh La La!

First, some background..

Being an Indian girl, the hair on my arms/legs/face is darker than that of my white and Asian counterparts.

This leads to the often embarassing situation of having arms which look hairy, simply because the hair is darker and more obvious.

I have been shaving my arms since I was about 15..I tried waxing a few times but my arms got super sensitive so I went back to shaving and stuck with it.

My arms were more prone to cuts and nicks than my legs so I'd have to go really slowly and carefully when shaving.

I'm like Jay Z (no patience and I hate waiting..which technically means the same thing, poor form for one of the "greatest rappers of all time") so I was always on the lookout for a decent shaving "condiment".

Then Simon bought a King of Shaves razor and some of their shaving gel which I was forbidden to touch.  You may think he's being a bastard but I do have a habit of taking his stuff and making it mine.  A case in point is the brand spanking new Gant hoody he bought himself and I stole to wear to sleep.  That obviously cut him deep.

I went to TK Maxx soon after and they had a KoS set on sale for £10 which contained (amongst other items) a shaving gel.  You can see my thought process here, "buy this for Simon, take the gel for yourself and let him use the rest".

I forgot about the whole thing until it was arm shaving time and I was rooting around the spares drawer for some (much needed) post shaving moisturiser.

Then, there it was.  The gel.  The KoS gel.  Time stood still and I swear I heard a heavenly choir.

I practically ran like Paula Radcliffe (not very well!) to the bathroom and began shaving at a speed more befitting Usain Bolt.  These running gags doing anything for ya? Well they made me laugh!

Post shaving checks revealed no cuts or nasty bumps.  I'd found my ideal shaving partner.

Needless to say, I started using only the King of Shaves gel on my arms AND my legs.

I have fat legs.  It wouldn't be long before I was rumbled.  I decided to remain quiet on the off chance that Simon wouldn't realise.

Then came the revelation. Simon said he'd never buy KoS again as the gel ran out way too quickly.  Where before, he could use the same can for a good few months, this was running out in two.  I knew the jig was up and decided to come clean.

THEN I found out that King of Shaves had come out a women's version of their shave gels called Queen of Shaves.  I only saw them in Boots this weekend and they were on an introductory price of £1.99 so I picked up both variants..

Now you see where the title of this post comes from.  What can I say? I'm a cheese connoisseur

The one which smells of nothing smells stronger than the one which smells of aloe vera.

Do these work as well as the King of Shaves shave gel?
YES! You don't know how glad I was when I saw that KoS had released a women's version of their shave gel.  No longer would I have to steal Simons, now I have my very own and the packaging looks far sexier than his!  I can shave as fast as I want, I get no cuts or scrapes and it leaves my skin feeling nice and smooth.

Now I just have to find some space for it in the cabinet..

You'd never guess that I shared that cabinet with a man.  Simon DOES brush his teeth but he keeps his brush in the window.

Random bit of information for you, the guy who started up King of Shaves is called Will King..when one of their biggest competitors is called Wilkinson Sword.  I know, I know, simple things.

EOTD: How I change the shape of my eyes

You know when you watch a Youtube tutorial and it's about how to change certain parts of your face? Be it contouring your cheeks or making your eyes look bigger..I seldom see the difference.  I've only ever seen one person master the contour.

I've been getting a few emails recently about the makeup I wear to work..I found out (totally by accident) that the look I sport actually makes my eyes look bigger and changes their shape.  So, here I am..sharing the wealth.

This is basically my work face...now you see why I use bright colours in my EOTD's.  I dislike the gloss I am wearing but it is very moisturising and my lips actually look decent.  Plus, as I tie my hair back most of the time, there is no gloss/hair copulation going on.

This photo shows the effects better, I love how the Colossal fans out your lashes and opens up your eyes.  I haven't curled them in this photo, it's all the work of the mascara.

This is what I use.  I'm a bit pissed off because once again, I've found my perfect lid colour in a palette, WHY DOES THIS ALWAYS HAPPEN TO ME?!
 

Anyone else see the subtle change?

Could you be..the most beautiful balm in the world?

There was a time in my life when if you had asked me about my favourite lip smoother, I would have unequivocally told you that Nivea was the way to go.

So, how did I convert to Carmex? I was on the way to law school and horror of horrors, found that my lip balm had finished.  The Boots by Moorgate station only had Carmex and as it was only a couple of quid, I decided to bite the bullet.

I have never looked back.  Carmex is all I buy now.

All the other lip balms used to take about three to four days to make my lips feel smooth but Carmex does it from the first application.  I also found with other lip balms that if you use too much, your lips reject it..this doesn't seem to happen with Carmex.  Also, you know sometimes you use a lip balm so much that when you stop, your lips dry out? This doesn't do that, either.  When my lips messed up last year thanks to a Primark gloss, this (and some butter) came to my rescue so it really does have healing properties and goes beyond the standard "moisturising" spiel that most balms promise.

Whenever I use it, the smell ALWAYS takes me back to my time at law school, I went through so many of these whilst I was doing my LPC..isn't it funny how the slightest whiff of a familiar smell can take you back to places you haven't been to for years?

There is however, one cautionary piece of advice..avoid the tub version.  I'm not sure why it  does nothing for me at all, I assume the ingredients are the same but it must be the solidifying agent because the tub version is more solid than the version I have.  However, you can use that on cuts and the like, I've given mine to Simon who uses it when he cuts himself shaving or doing other man fings (footballing injuries).

What have you learnt since you started beauty blogging?

I was thinking about this the other day and I decided to do a little post about it..then the post went into my draft files and someone beat me to it.

Being a sole-icitor, I can't help but show proof of me not being a copycat:

 So, here's what I've learnt:

• You need more than one brush to do a decent full eye of makeup
• Expensive doesn't always mean better
• Nobody is born knowing how to blend eyeshadows, practice makes perfect
• When there is a light and dark colour on the eye, it's not always two different shadows, you can blend it out 
• UDPP is not the be all and end all of bases
• Primer keeps your foundation on for longer
• Liquid liner is not impossible..keep trying
• White bases make colours appear brighter and lighter
• Black bases make colours appear more vibrant
• You can wear practically any shade of blusher if you blend it properly
• You can successfully layer eyeshadows
• When you find yourself using more of your mascara than you did when it was new, it's finished
• Just because an eyeshadow from one brand is pants, it doesn't mean the rest of the products from that brand will be equally crap
• Online swatches are seldom accurate

In closing..has anyone else learnt anything? Annnnnnnnnnnnnd...

How fucking cute is that?! I especially love the las two pics, the smile on the face of that tiger is way too cute.

How I made my own toner

I decided to make my own toner after I couldn't find my current favourite in any Boots' store.

This is the story of what happened.

First, the characters..

What became of them..

 
The happy ending.

A little bit less than half of the Tesco toner, a little more than half of the rosewater and a about a capful of the citric acid powder.  I only used more rosewater than toner because after originally doing half and half, I felt my skin was a bit tight and dry so I amended it.  If you have combo skin, I'd suggest doing that but if you've got normal skin then keep it at half and half.

Works just as well my old Skin Tonic and worked out a lot cheaper!

ETA: I've had some comments asking me where I got the items from so I'll tell you.  I got the toner from Tescos (duh) but any alcoholic, bog standard toner will do.  The citric acid is from the Indian shop but I'm sure you can find it in any supermarket.  Likewise, the rosewater is from the Indian shop too but I've seen it in supermarkets. 

This month I have mainly been..

Given a very nice shade of  nail polish from my Grandmother.. (if only the staying power of the polish was as strong as the staying power of the aforementioned Grandmother).

Going food shopping and finding some brilliant bargains (it was originally £8)

Eating far too many of these..and I mean far too many, I ate three in one evening.

Stabbing myself with a quick unpick (cucumpuck to the Indians amongst us) whilst trying to liberate a mascara.  It was a futile mission as the mascara isn't that brilliant but it DOES hug your lashes.

So, I ask you:

Pore form!

I know, I know..what a pore joke.

*ahem*

I'm forever banging on about pores. Pores in the morning, pores in the evening, pores all over the damn shop.

Why are some products called pore perfectors and others called pore minimisers? I know you can't get rid of pores full stop so shouldn't they all be called pore minimisers? If pores were perfect, they wouldn't be there!

I bought a pore minimiser the other week..got home and realised I also had a pore reducing serum that I'd never used so I decided to put them both to the test.

I should point out that one is marketed as a pore minimser and one is a marketed as a pore minimising serum.  I'm not too sure what the difference is there but the instructions on both aren't identical.

The first is this baby, L'oreal Derma Genesis Pore Minimising Serum:

I'm not too sure where this came from..I assume either Boots or Superdrug.  Going by the hazy nature of its acquisition, I'm not sure of the price.

This is marketed as a serum and the instructions state that you should put it all over your face but not near your eyes.

I take issue with that, for the following reasons:

It says smooth all over your face but not the eye area..I count the eye area as stopping where the eye socket bone is.  So I didn't put any there but instead whacked it over the rest of my face.  It stung me so bad I had to remove both it and my moisturiser.

So now I have pores which are being minimised and pores which are being left out..not the results I really wanted.

Anyway, once you've had a bit of trial and error with it, how does it hold up?  Hmm..I like it BUT I have to be careful when applying it due to the sting factor.  It does minimise your pores and it keeps your skin nice and non greasy looking throughout the day.  I put a fair bit on my nose and it didn't dry it out at all.

It does have problems.  It smells pretty potent.  Not a nasty smell, just an in your face smell.  It smells like Comfort washing liquid.  The pump which dispenses the serum always has that one bit of cream on it which was left from last time and has since hardened.  The annoying thing is that it lives inside the pump so you can't expel it all at once.  You don't need to use much to get decent coverage of your face so in that respect, it's pretty good.

Another "negative" thing..I always thought that pore minimisers did just that..minimised your pores on application.  I couldn't see any immediate minimisation..

The second is this, Almay Pore Minimizer.

This directs you to just smooth it over wherever you have prominent pores so I put it on my forehead, my nose and the sides of my nose.

It did dry my nose out a tiiiiiiiiiiiiiny bit so I had to add some extra moisturiser.  The L'oreal one didn't do this.  However, for the sake of science, I applied this all over my face too (including the scene of Sting-gate) and it did sting me.  HOWEVER, atleast this one tells you where you should put it.

Another massive plus point, I COULD SEE MINIMISATION OF PORES! The area surely looked a lot smoother than it did (immediately) after I applied the L'oreal serum.

Which do I like better?
For foolproof application: The Almay one.
For not giving you a sliiiiiiiiiiiiightly dry nose: The L'oreal one.
Price wise: The Almay one was £1 from the Pound Shop, I think the L'oreal one is about a tenner?
For best all over results: The Almay one.

By the way, when I was Googling a face photo, Google Images suggested this which freaked the hell out of me.

You can buy it as a piece of art for your house but looking at the link online scared me enough, I can't think of anyone who wouldn't be a bit spooked seeing that staring back at you in the middle of the night.

Anyone had any success stories with pore perfectors/minimisers/serums? Let me know because I'm still on the lookout.

The 300 follower giveaway! NOW CLOSED!

I won't go through the old "I never thought I'd get this many followers" line because for me, it's true.

Here's what I'm giving away as a way of saying thanks:

A MAC eyeshadow of your choice

A MAC fluidline of your choice

Rules:

• Be a follower.  Like I said last time, if you're a freebie mongerer, I will know so feel free to try your luck but it won't work.  If we converse on Twitter and you are blog-less, enter but do let me know!

• Answer this question: If you were on death row, what would your last meal be? It can be a whole three course affair if you wish and I'll let you choose a drink too, 'cos I'm nice like that.
  

• You get one entry for posting it on here.  Three entries if you blog about it.  Five entries if it's in your sidebar.  Let me know which of these you've done and leave a link if you can.

• The giveaway is worldwide.

The giveaway has no end date yet, I'll end it when I see fit..

GO MAD!

PS As a few have asked me what my ideal meal would be, I thought it only fair that I answer, so here we go:

Starter: Deep fried mozarella/deep fried Jalepeno peppers stuffed with cheese (see a recurring theme here?)


Main: It's a toss up between either sweet and sour pork with noodles, meatballs and spaghetti or chicken biryani.  I've been craving noodles for ages, I'm having meatballs tonight and I had biryani last week so I'll go with the noodles.


Dessert: This caused me the most anguish but I'm going to say Ben and Jerry's Phish Food.

Drink: Non alcoholic: Diet Coke.  Alcoholic: Organic apple juice and Smirnoff..no other variant of vodka or apple juice will be accepted.

Stuff I want...nay..NEED

I haven't done one of these for ages because nothing was really jumping out at me as I think I lost my makeup mojo for a bit but it's back now so worry not!

I have pores.

Pores which it seems only I can see, you can't see them in photos and whenever I ask the most brutally honest people I know, they can never see them..and they would tell me if they could.

Anyway, I know they are there and I think that if I can see them, anyone with two eyes can.  I've used pore "perfectors" before but they all seem to fall out of favour with me as time goes on.

I used to love Benefit's Dr Feelgood but it stopped performing..well, I'm not sure if it changed or if I changed..I just stopped seeing it in the same light as I did before.

I really want to try this and can't wait for it to come out in the UK.

On the subject of pores, I'm sure that they could be smaller and cleaner which is why I've been eyeing up the Bliss range, I only seem to see their bodycare things in the shops, never the skincare..Anyway, me wanty:

 

A few weeks ago, I bought Ashes to Ashes by NARS and it has very quickly become my "go to shadow".  It's easy to apply, blends in seamlessly and even if I don't blend it to my usual expert standards (modesty!) it still looks pretty good.  It has a little sparkle in it and I feel that it makes me look a bit more awake.  

The downside of my NARS love is that I now want the following.

The swatches do the shadows no justice at all.  Daphne is a handsome, rich purple.  Night flight is more black than it is blue and it has blue glitter in it.  I know that doesn't sound too exciting but I swear the shade of blue is perfect for the shade of black.  I've swatched it many a time and always left it because I couldn't justify the purchase of a colour that I would seldom use.  Strada is a light purple (almost lilacy) colour with goldeny flecks of glitter in it.  For some reason it reminds me of the skyline from The Jetsons.

Thanks to Yinka, I've started to buy more and more blusher and I'm now venturing out into the cream/gel blusher territory which has left me hankering after this..

I have no idea how I'd blend it in or which brush I'd use but I've been so near to buying it but then I've been reminded by the annoying voice (Monlar) that I have more blushers than he has jeans..which is a bare faced lie because he has about a million pairs of jeans and I've got all of 9(?) blushers.

I've been in to swatch these and after lusting after only ONE..I know want the whole range.

So, that's what I'm lusting after..anything catching your eye?