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butter LONDON Enters Lip Category with Launch of LIPPY

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butter LONDON™ Enters Lip Category with Launch of LIPPY butter LONDON™, the cult phenomenon of the nail industry, built their reputation on cutting edge colour.  Their 3 Free nail lacquers are create backstage at Fashion Week and have made their way from catwalk to sidewalk in record time.  This season, butter LONDON™ will expand their hold on colour with the launch of LIPPY, a range of long-wearing, lacquer-like lip glosses in shades to match their famous nail lacquers.  As a backstage fixture, the brand noticed a growing trend for S/S 2012 in "matchy-matchy" manicures, pedicures, and lips.  This elegant, classic look is making a comeback, but modernized with fresh new colours.  The LIPPY colours are rich and densely pigmented for a look that's deliberate, high fashion, and luxe, just like the brand’s nail lacquers. LIPPY will launch with five bespoke butter LONDON™ shades in April.  (Ulta will have exclusive availability in March) Primrose Hill Picni...

Ellis Faas Milky Lips in L205 ~ Review + Swatches

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Hello Beauties! Im back with the Ellis Faas Milky Lips :) Don't you just adore the Elite Design? ;) i Love it! Lets hop onto the review now :) What they Say? For a more fluid and translucent appearance, try Milky Lips. For a subtle look with just a trace of colour, either apply a feather-light layer all over the lips or apply Milky Lips to the middle of the lips and fade it with the fingertips. ShyCheeeks Experience Ellis Faas Milky Lips is sort of a 'Lipstick and a Gloss in one' formula The texture has moisturizing feel to it! Its more of a translucent formula, unlike the creamy lips..but its still hydrating like the creamy lips..even if my lips are dry, i don't need to apply a balm before this :) [picture taken from Ellis Faas Product Catalogue]   The shade is L205, a nice peachy coral..The color looks more pink-y over here, but its actually more on the peachy side! I have pigmented lips, so i mute my lip color with a concealer first and then apply this for the actual...

Ellis Faas Creamy Lips in L107 ~ Review + Swatches

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Ellis Faas is really an innovative brand! I'll be talking about their Creamy Lips today, read more to find out how it is :) What they Say? For classic lipstick definition and longwearing coverage, use soft and velvety Creamy Lips. Apply Creamy Lips with the spongy applicator first by painting the lips with just a small amount of lipstick, then fully load the applicator to fill inside of the lips. Versatile Creamy Lips is also great for a more stained effect -- just load a tiny bit of the lipstick onto the applicator, apply and blot for a matte stain.  ShyCheeeks Experience I actually am more of a lipstick girl rather than a lip gloss fan..This Creamy Lips is actually a moisturizing Lipstick formulation, its highly pigmented and glides on your lips easily with hydrating the lips aswell :) This doesn't accentuate the dry lips, i can skip the lip balm when using this! The Applicator is sponge tip one, it maybe tricky to use for people who are not used to these Ellis Faas Pens! The...

Oriflame Carbon Black Kajal Eye Liner ~ Review + Swatch

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Kajal was the first makeup product i used and i love it since then! <3 I got tempted to try the Oriflame kajal that comes in a lipstick kind of a packaging..lets see how it was :) Oops the name got erased, sorry :P What they Say? Ultra long lasting, blacker than black kajal for intensely sultry eyes. Contains chamomile extract and antioxidant properties to help soothe and moisturise. Light, non-greasy formula leaves your skin with a wonderfully soft, velvety feel. 25 g. I love lining my waterline, my makeup is never complete without it..thats the main reason i went for this baby! I really like the lipstick sort of packaging, and Oriflame being an organic company was another plus point :) Heres the swatch! This Kajal is nice and Black on the eyes..Glides pretty easily on the waterline, i didn't have to try so hard to get the intensity :) BUT!! After an hour or two the color lost almost half the intensity and the worst part was that i got a weird black line under the outer half pa...

Smashbox Soft Lights in Prism ~ Review + Swatch

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Blushes can make or break your look, i've seen girls wear blush the wrong way and they end up looking like they've got swollen cheeks, seriously! Anyway, lets see hows the Smashbox Soft Lights in Prism :) What they Say? Get a gorgeous lit-from-within glow with this silk-like shimmering powder. The illuminating formula softens the way light reflects on your skin and wakes up your complexion for a radiant look. Best of Sephora Award Nominee for Best Blush. ShyCheeeks Experience Even though i don't go for shimmers too much, this blush is really a nice choice! Its a rosey pink with a very subtle shimmer..Gives your cheeks a nice radiant glow :) The Packaging is sleek, its smashbox's rubber packaging..some people will complain about not having this in a compact with a mirror..but for me, i don't really have any problem with that because i don't use these compact mirrors! The pigmentation is pretty good, it goes nicely on the skin and can be sheered out aswell..the on...

When Blue met Gold ~ NOTD

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Recently i've been loving the different nail color style! so heres what i came up with :) I don't usually wear dark nails, so i paired Sweet Touch Sparkling Blue Nail polish with Essence one in Gold Rush! Sweet Touch has lots of fine shimmer in it, while the essence one has less shimmer and has a pearl finish Sweet Touch Sparkling color was for 110 PKR and Essence one was for 200 PKR Picked these both from Shazz Supermarket few days ago! And i've been loving this pair, what do you guys think? Will be waiting for your comments/ questions/ opinions...till then, takecare :) ShyCheeeks signin out ~