Sleek lip product review + lip swatches

A few months ago, I received a birthday present from my friend Phoebe – thank you ever so much! As a fan of orange toned lip products the gift was perfect and shows the great quality of sleek products. The gift in question was the Sleek MakeUp Lip 4 Lipstick in the shade siren The first red colour is the most intense, all the colours apply with ridiculous pigmentation a little goes a VERY long way!

This after one coat, it is bold and almost glossy but if blotted creates a nice matte, intense stain. It is a very glam colour and does require a lip brush to apply as with most red lipsticks it is very annoying having to tidy up a red lip that has smeared across your foundation! This is the easiest to apply, it glides over dry patches and sits on the lips comfortably. It doesn’t dry and collect in fine lines and remains very intense for a long time. It is worth the £8.99 just for this red.

The bright orange is a surprisingly wearable shade for everyday. It brightens up the face and sits nicely on the lips it is long lasting and can be made more intense. It dries matte but doesn’t dry out the lips. The product does sometime need a bit of warming up first otherwise application at first, this is the same for every shade except for the red.

This shade is my least favourite partly because I don’t get along with nude lip shade. This shade sits the heaviest on the lips and if your lips are dry will emphasise it but if you apply a balm underneath or a gloss over the top it is very long lasting and is a fun lip colour for experimenting with 60s makes up looks.

The pink shade is almost identical to the orange shade with how it sits and lasts on the lips. It is a fun pop of colour that will suit many skin tones and adds a nice burst of colour taking your make up look into the spring.

Overall it is a great quality palette wit fun shades which last on the lips. The shades will never get old and you won’t be hitting pan on any of them anytime soon as they are so incredibly pigmented! Sleek have a whole range of colour isn’t your thing I highly recommend browsing and swatching some of their other lip quads.
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I’ve fallen in love…

… with a highlighter. It was a sunny day in London, with £10 in my pocket I was browsing the affordable make up section in Selfridges when my eyes were drawn to a Topshop highlighter. Exactly £10, it was fate. Many months later I am yet to dent this highlighter, it is my most used product. If I could cover my whole face in it I would – ok really weird…

A little bit goes along way. It has a buttery texture and glides on easily, perfect to take a look from day to night. I use it on the cheekbones, the inner corner of my eyes, on my cupids bow, on my cheek bones. Even though it is a powder it gives a radiant, dewy look to the skin. It’s beautiful I can’t sing it’s praises any more!

An extreme application not yet blended in but shows where I would apply highlighter I mean if you wanted to look ethereal you could apply without blending I wouldn’t judge!

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P.S. fankz lilz 4 being a gr8 model

Playing the victim

Something I have realised in the past few months is that life is a lot easier when you don’t play the victim. Shit happens, everyone has some great hard ship of varying extremes going on and a lot of time the people who aren’t complaining have it worse off then the people complaining about their lives. As someone who has often played the victim it just makes you bitter and jealous which is a massive waste of energy. We are all the centre of our own universe, yes and everyone deals with situations in different ways regardless of whether they are right or wrong. This year I want to leave all the shit from previous years behind because my gosh it is boring! I don’t want to think of all the time I wasted being unhappy and playing this tragic figure watching my friends awkwardly try pity. The time for the DMC is no more! Maybe I have donned a very Brighton attitude of wanting a ‘flow of positive energy’ but it’s a lot easier. It’s taken me such a long time to realise that maybe the situation won’t change – families are always dysfunctional, people are toxic! Everyone experiences this you’re not the only victim so stop waiting for someone or something to change, change your attitude and maybe you’ll realise that you will have more fun and less regrets. Life may fuck you over but don’t let it fuck you up.

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