Argh! I got me some Lime crime!

**This is quite a long post with many pictures! Just an FYI**

A few weeks ago, I decided that I was going to order myself a few Lime Crime lipsticks.  I had put it off for so long as I don't wear lippie that much and they are relatively expensive but the lure of the unicorn proved too strong and I bit the bullet *pun totally intended*.

I ordered directly from the website, here and they arrived all the way from the US in about 8 days, not bad!

First off, the packaging!  Even the box was super colourful and really cute.  The lipsticks themselves were well wrapped in lilac and lime green tissue paper.

Even the invoice was lilac!! Also included was a Lime Crime badge, which was a nice touch.

Here is the sole reason for me doin' the deed and purchasing these badboys - HOLOGRAPHIC UNICORNS!!!!! Amazing, although I'm getting totally OCD about having them lining up now. 

The three shades I bought were, 'Babette', 'Geradium' and 'Centrifuschia'. Each one of these cost $16.50, I think (the website is currently down so can't check but they certainly were not more than this).

I had originally ordered 'Great Pink Planet' but then discovered I had meant to order 'Centrifuschia', I sent off an email to their customer services as soon as I had realised my mistake and I got a reply within 24 hours to let me know my order had been changed! Big points to Lime Crime's customer service dept. for that! 

Poor 'Babette' arrived ever so slightly scuffed but she had travelled quite a distance so I let her off.

Nude usually isn't ma thang as my lips are naturally quite pigmented and with my pale skin, I'm aware I can look quite 'moon-faced' if my make-up doesn't bring out my features.

'Babette' isn't like all the other nudes out there though, she is an apricot based nude and so brings a bit of warmth to the features without making teeth look too yellow.  I wore this with a daytime smokey eye but I think I would love to try it with a full blown smoked out look. This was opaque in one swipe, I would like to find a lip liner to go with this.

 

'Geradium' is the most perfect pinky coral I have ever had the joy of holding in my hand! 

Making lips look full and juicy, the beautifully pigmented 'Geradium' goes on opaque in one coat and is just lovely, lovely, lovely! 

Please excuse the flaky bit in my top lip, that is not the lipstick, merely me chewing my lips whilst having a cold and missing a bit whilst exfoliating my lips!

'Centrifuchsia' is the diva of the group.  Again, superbly well pigmented, it goes on nice and smoothly with a nice sheen to it which after a few hours of eating and drinking is still firmly in place albeit slightly less shiny.

This picture is from the morning AFTER the hen night that that I wore this to, amazing staying power as I had taken my make up off when I got home!  Defo two thumbs up for this one if you need something that's going to last.  

A few more swatches, again, these were done with just one swipe of the bullet.

I would really recommend these, 'Babette' was probably the least long wearing out of the three, needing topped up after two hours with no eating and drinking.  These are superbly opaque and would be great to pop in your handbag for a quick burst of colour.  

I would love to see Lime Crime take out lip liners to compliment these shades.

*** Lime Crime are having a Black Friday sale where you can get 30% off from 9am EST on 29th Nov until 11.59 EST on 30th Nov.  This could help sway you if the $10.95 delivery is putting you off!

You can also get Lime Crime cosmetics from Cocktail Cosmetics, here.

I have a few more on my wish list, one being 'Poison Berry' and another 'Glamour 101', not bad for someone who 'doesn't really do lipsticks...'

Have you tried Lime Crime Lipsticks before?

What are your 'go to' shades? 

Weekend mani #11

This mani is a bit different this week as it is the weekend of my chums hen night and hence the weekend I dress up as the cheshire cat!

 I posted about my clothes and accessories here, although there were a few slight changes.  Instead of a feather boa, I used two pink magic scarves and a purple one too, similar to these.  One of the pink ones acted as a belt and the other two were twisted together to give a striped effect.  Much more 'furry' than the boa and much less shedding too! I got them from the pound shop and I can use them again over winter, although Honey has kinda claimed the purple one! 

I also got some bright pink tights to wear along with the stripey socks. It's gotten very cold in Aberdeen this weekend.

Without further ado, onto the nails! I started off with a base of OPI nail envy matte and then used two coats of OPI Strawberry Margarita.  I have not taken that many pics of this as I have previously posted about my love of this colour here and here. 

Once they had dried thoroughly, I got some scotch tape and placed it on some greaseproof paper.  This is something new I have discovered and makes cutting out strips or shapes from the tape ALOT easier.  I then applied the strips of tape to my hand a few times before applying them to the nails.  

I then popped OPI Plum and Get it over the top, which is a lovely, shiny purple.  I was running quite late by this point and so only ended up doing two fingers on each hand like this as I didn't want to take the time to do them all and probably end up mucking them up or smudging them.  And that was it, I didn't bother with top coat as they were coming off the next day and I didn't want to risk smudging the lines.  

I made my own Cheshire cat mask, I even made the stick to attach to the mask completely from scratch.  I traced the smile onto some paper, coloured it in and then attached to some card with PVA glue to make it a bit more sturdy.  I was super chuffed with this little bit of DIY! Easily amused, moi?

This picture was taken before I applied my base, so apologies for any offensive porey bits! I was in a bit of a rush by this stage so couldn't go for the super dramatic cat eye that I was planning but this was effective enough.  I used Barry M Liquid eyeliner in 'Black', Maybelline 24Hr Colour Tattoo in 'Painted Purple', Collection Glam Crystals in 'Dancing Queen' (pink) and 'Shake it Up' (purple) and Maybelline 'The Rocket' waterproof mascara in 'Black'.  I think I put something in the crease too from the 'Heaven and Earth' MUA palette, pics here.

Lips were one of my new LimeCrime babies, which I will review soon, called Centrifuschia.  A blue toned pink that gave an impressive hit of colour.

The base was just my usual foundation with a hint of Hoola bronzer, my Mary-Lou miniser highlighter (review soon!) and my bourjois blush.  I kept it all quite minimal as the eye make-up and lips were enough to be getting on with! 

I was the only Cheshire Cat out and had a great night with the girls! And no hangover either! Yay!

What do you think of fancy dress?

Did you dress up for Halloween?

Hugs,

Jodi 

xxx