No, I didn’t get to go to Europe but am lucky to have a big enabler that hunts stuff down for me where she lives and where she travels. You probably remember Marie from Mon Coin a Moua through my France swap last year. She is in a blog hiatus for a while now but we still keep in touch. She always offers to pick me up some stuff and send them over.
This first batch of stuff, she got from London a while back but couldn’t send them to me because of the Canada Post strike.
I tried to be good and didn’t ask her to get too much. There wasn’t any LE Sleek palettes around at the time, so nothing for me there.
I got a beautyuk eyeshadow palette #2 and some MUA (Makeup Academy) £1 range: lipstick #7 and eyeshadows #2, #7, #12 and #14, all Pearl finish. It’s silly with all numbers as names, but nothing I can do there lol.
And then, nail polish. Prices are for reference only, I’m shocked sometimes of how little these cost compared to the quality
– H&M Hunt Me Down – I couldn’t find this shade at my store here, €3.50
– P2 Crackling top coat in Golden Rush, €1.75. This completes my main colour range for crackles
– Essence Colour & Go in Where is the Party? – duochrome goodness, €1.25, and a Nail Art magnet, €1.79, to work the few magnetic nail polish I have. We’ll see if it works.
– Kiko #237 Rosso Glitter Sparkle Touch, #278 Viola Orchidea Microglitter, #255 Viola Microglitter and #231 Multicolour Paillettes Sparkle Touch, €2.50 each. Only numbers on the bottles but there are names on their website. I have always wanted to try Kiko, they aren’t easy to get a hold of.
Catrice has been coming out with fabulous LE collections lately and I’m absolutely in love with how they look and even their names.
– From the Papagena collection: Tigerlily Crystal Clear Gloss Stick, €3.99. Same concept as the Maybelline Pop sticks
– Out of Space collection: Beam Me Scotty! nail polish €2.49, Supernova Skywalker and Back To Pandora baked eyeshadows, €3.49 each. There’ll be more nail polish and eyeshadows from this collection coming my way, I wanted to collect them all
– Glamourama collection: Drama, Baby! and En Vogue Absolute Eye Colours, on clearance for €1.50 each, woo hoo! These 2 shades show up on camera brighter than IRL. Can’t wait to do more smoky eyes with them.
The box she sent the stuff in was packed to the rim. See what she sneaked in as extras for me:
– Essence You Rock! collection: Cut Off the Beige, Love, Peace and Purple, Kings of Mints and Speed of Light Blue
– Essence Sun Club in BBC Splash Refresh.
How cute are those tiny little bottles (7ml)? They are slightly bigger than the Colour & Go line (5ml) but are still babies next to the Sun Club (11ml). Love the colours she picked for me, especially Love, Peace and Purple with the duochrome sheen.
Then there’s more.
– Catrice Absolute Eye Colour palette in The Season’s Must Have
– P2 Kiwi Cuticle Peeling
– P2 Me, Myself and I nail sticker
– Essence Blossoms Etc. eye pencils in I Like and Bloom-a-Loom
– Essence You Rock! lip stain in Your Pink is on Fire
– P2 Home Sweet Home Everlasting eye primer in Little Darling, and
– P2 Happy Blooming eyeshadow in Cheerful Lilac.
Besides cute names, the packaging is adorable too. Can I have these brands here, please? All of them? I’m clueless of what to try first, can’t decide. What do you want to see first?
Source: http://sparkledbeauty.blogspot.com/2011/08/europe-haul.html