Catrice: Absolute Eye Colour Palette in 010 This Seasons Must Have

Hello my lovelies! Today I have for you another review/ swatch post from my blog swap with Nina from Nina's Bargain Beauty (see initial post here), from last year.

I have been so delayed with these, however I'm trying really hard not to procrastinate! 

Lets get on with the post.

The four colours in this palette are very spring-like, with an aubergine purple, cool blue/grey with silver shimmer, a pinky shimmery champagne colour, and a satin-like mint green with with a wee bit of shimmer.

All the shades apply quite evenly; the pinky peach shade in particular is my favourite, it blends beautifully, I wear this almost every day for a multitude of looks.

My favourite combination is to wear the pinky peach colour on my lid the purple in my crease, the colours compliment each other really well. 

My lids aren't particularly oily, and I always wear concealer as a base, so I get a nice long wear out of these shades without creasing. If you have oily lids then using a eyeshadow primer will be perfectly fine with these.

Time for swatches! 

Here are my swatches, they are dry without an eyeshadow base. The top image is in daylight, and the bottom is with flash.

These are beautiful, and a great addition to my collection, thank you so much Nina! 

I've still got a few more blog posts from the swap to go.. Woops!  

Until next time,

xoxo.

Catrice: Intensifeye Wet & Dry Eyeshadows in Vanilla Sky Ride &Charly's Chocolate Factory

Hello my lovlies! 

Here is a post I should of uploaded literally months ago, but never got round to it (Like many others, unfortunately!) However, better late than never, eh? :) 

These are two of the products I received from Nina over at Nina's Bargain Beauty, when we did a product swap. They are the Catrice Intensifeye Wet & Dry Eyeshadows in 030 Vanilla Sky Ride and 020 Charly's Chocolate Factory, which are part of a range of 6 colours in total, all beautiful baked shadows in sturdy clear plastic packaging.

030 Vanilla Sky Ride

Vanilla Sky Ride is a lovely light cream shade with golden veins running through it with added sparkle. It is seriously beautiful! Especially great for highlighting when used dry. You can see from the above pictures that when used wet, them become much more intense in colour. Love it! 

Here are the swatches, dry swatched on the left and wet swatched on the right. Top picture natural light, bottom with flash.

020 Charly's Chocolate Factory

Charly's Chocolate Factory is a deep chocolate brown with goldeny bronze running through it and golden sparkles. I am in love with this colour, it is perfect for brown smokey eyes. Once again when used wet, it becomes more intense becoming a lot deeper in colour.

Here are the swatches, again, dry swatched on the left and wet swatched on the right. Top picture natural light, bottom with flash.

They both have good staying power and are fabulously pigmented, such great products! Thank you Nina. 

You can find them here on the Catrice website, as Catrice is an european brand it isn't available in the UK, however I have found it on the Maquillalia website here.

Until next time,

xoxo.

Catrice: Absolute Eye Colour Mono in 'My Souvenir From Moon'

Hello my lovlies! 

Here is another post from my blogswap with Nina over at Nina Bargain Beauty.

This is the Absolute Eye Colour eyeshadow in '120 My Souvenir From Moon', which is a shade from a range of 27 colours. 

Swatches, top: Daylight; bottom: with flash.

This shade is a beautiful taupe colour with silver glitter. This may not be for everyone, I've seen in some places that people found it gritty, but it's perfectly fine to me!

The staying power is great and it doesn't crease on my lids. (I don't use a primer just my Collection 2000 concealer.) I love wearing this with a slightly darker brown in the crease for a daytime-ish smokey eye or smokey it up even more with darker browns/blacks in the crease for a fab night time look! 

Whilst looking on the Catrice website I have now discovered that this shade has been discontinued! That's really unfortunate, as it's a lovely shadow! :(

Until next time 

xoxo.

Catrice: Made To Stay Long Lasting Eyeshadow in Metall of Honor

Hello my lovlies! Today I have for you my first swatches and review from the Blogswap with Nina. 

The one I received is in 050 Metall of Honour, which is one of 6 shades (you can find them here on the Catrice website)

This is a gorgeous shade of bronze with gold flecks of glitter, I seriously love it!

I find this is best applied with my E.L.F Studio Line Concealer brush, and then I tend to pat on a shadow on top. Below I have added some of my BFTE pigments on top, (find my BFTE haul here). The first colour is Metall of Honor on it's own.

From left to right; 1) with out shadow. 2) Grape. 3)Meteor Shower. 4)Beam. 5)Cocoa. 6)Wizards Wand. 7)Errai. 8)Honey. (Bottom row is with flash)

I like how the base changes with different colour overlay. I can't wait to play with it some more. The colour pay off is great, a little goes a real long way, and it has long lasting colour too.

Until next time! 

xoxo

My Catrice & Essence Swap With Nina's Bargain Beauty

Nina was ever so kind to agree to do a beauty swap with me after telling her about a Catrice lipstick I had seen that would be perfect for my prom. I sent her over some lush products, as her closest Lush is about 40 miles away (whereas its about 10 minutes away from me, traffic permitting) and she sent me some Catrice and Essence products, as we can't get them here in the UK. We agreed on spending about £20 on each other, excluding postage, and the above picture is what I got. I am so so so grateful to her for doing this with me, it really was fun shopping around in lush trying to find the perfect items for her. 

I am going to do separate posts for everything (as I'm still a little lagged on blog posts at the minute) and will link them on here so it's easier for you! 

Blog posts so far:
Catrice: Made To Stay Long Lasting Eyeshadow Base in Metall of Honor

Catrice: Absolute Eye Colour Mono in 'My Souvenir From Moon'

Catrice: Intensifeye Wet & Dry Eyeshadows in Vanilla Sky Ride &Charly's Chocolate Factory

Again, thank you Nina for being so fab! 

xoxoxo.