Pink Haired Princess

Post does not contain affiliate links or PR gifted items. Hello, I hope you're all well. Today I'm sharing one of my absolute favourite glosses and I'm really sad these don't exist anymore.  Last week, I wrote about the Jonathan Saunders collaboration with 17 if you missed it, but read on for the gloss of my dreams.

Post contains affiliate links (which when clicked, can earn the blog a small commission on purchases made).  No PR gifts included in this post, promotional (gift with purchase) items are noted. Beauty Lately is a selection of mini reviews of makeup and skin, body and haircare products I've been using lately and good, bad or in-between, I discuss them. It's been a while since my last post (beginning of September), but you can find it here if you missed it. Today I have 6 items for you.

Post contains some affiliate links, no PR/gifted items. Beauty Lately is a selection of mini reviews on beauty products I've been using lately; good, bad or meh, I include them all! You can find my post from last time here and today I have 6 items for you. Sorry it's taken so long to finish this post, but my back 'went' the other week and I had to drop everything and rest until it was better.  It's completely back to normal now, so I'm happy to be standing up straight and walking again (crawling like a hunchback to the toilet is no fun!), so let's get straight into the beauty bits.

Post contains some affiliate links, no PR gifted items.   I'm back resurrecting a blog series from several years ago. I started Beauty Lately...  in the summer of 2017 and I don't quite know why I never posted again, perhaps because the period that followed was filled with gallstone attacks (!) I don't know, but I want to reinstate it. If you didn't read my blog back then or can't quite recall the post, it's basically mini beauty reviews; good, bad or indifferent (skincare, makeup, fragrance, body, hair) that I'm currently using or have used lately. I have my next post almost ready to go and have used a few new things for the post after that, so let's get stuck into this one and I have 5 items for you today.

Post does not contain gifted items and contains some affiliate links. I took a bit of a chance ordering the MAC Bronzing collection earlier this month. It's not launched in the US yet, I believe it came out here (UK) first and for me anyway, it was out of the blue as I hadn't seen any teasers and for some reason MAC don't email me newsletters of new releases (yep, I've ticked the box to allow it). I used to buy (direct from them) regularly and I think at some point the emails just stopped and my interest waned as I didn't stay on top of new launches like I used to. Marketing, take note!  As I've been saying on the blog, I'm really enjoying the MAC limited releases again. The second I saw this, I was intrigued with the packaging. It reminded me slightly of the water droplet (aka the best packaging ever) Alluring Aquatic range from summer 2014, so I ordered some bits. There were no social media photos or swatches anywhere . MAC describe their shades, ...

Post contains some affiliate links.  No products gifted.   Before Christmas I ordered a couple of bits from the Clarins Spring 2020 Milkshake collection . At the time, it was an online exclusive so there were no swatches or info as nobody had bought it yet. To be truthful I wasn't quite sure what I was buying, as it's an entirely new formula for the brand, but I ordered one of the mousse lip colours. I've been getting more and more into MAC again recently, but missed the Pony Park K-beauty collaboration last Autumn. A few weeks ago, I noticed they had some back in stock, so ordered the highlighter and a lip product. Again this was pegged as a mousse formula, so I wasn't quite sure what it was going to be like. When it arrived, it immediately struck me that it was similar to the Clarins one I'd bought (and promptly put away because I wasn't that enamoured with it), so I've photographed and swatched them both to review.

Seeing as I now own five of the six shades available, I thought it was a good time to compare and swatch all my Clarins Instant Light Natural Lip Perfector balms. I've raved about these time and time again on the blog (no wonder it's an award winning balm), so you can imagine I was thrilled to see three new shades launch this year. This is what Clarins have to say about them: A softly textured lip gel with a deliciously sweet scent. Lips are left looking soft, smooth, shiny and plump. Sheer, but has enough colour to wear alone or to complement your favourite lip shade. I completely agree with the Clarins description, it's a soothing, ultra smooth and glossy texture which feels nourishing and indulgent on the lips without being sticky. The shine makes lips look and feel plump and I either wear it alone or over a lipstick. The sweet scent and taste is really soooo yummy and probably the main reason I fell in love with these. I try and keep one wherever I go i.e. on...

For no reason, other than I felt like it, I started photographing random bits of makeup from my stash today! The sun was shining (sometimes) and it looked all pretty and sparkly in the light! In saying that, these glosses don't need much light to sparkle as there is oodles of glitter in each one. I'm pretty sure I have another one (or two) hiding somewhere, but here are my YSL Golden Glosses (GG). GG come in an oblong bottle with gold branded lid and a small brush/wand applicator. According to YSL, the gloss forms a mirror effect on the lips, sparkling with mother-of-pearl. There's nourishing oils to protect the lips and did you know each gloss contains 0.2% of 24 carat gold? Erm, you totally sold it at that fancy, sparkly point! Swishy sparkles aside, I have to agree with their description, they do feel very luxurious on the lips, are comfortable to wear and not particularly sticky. I find the glosses make lips appear more plump with their super-gloss finis...

Any free makeup and you know I'm all over it! Diet Coke have taken a break (haha, see what I did there?) from their usual Nails Inc promotions of free nail polish and opted instead for a collab with Models Own. You get a free lipgloss (worth £6) with the purchase of 2 small bottles (500ml) of Diet Coke at Boots . There are 4 different glosses to collect and each has been specifically designed for this 'Christmas Kisses Collection', so you can't buy them anywhere else. My sister immediately got me the Golden Nude one, as she knew that was 'my colour' and then I asked her to also get the Pure Plum one the next day (which she thought would be the other one I'd like-doesn't she know me well?). The other two colours are a very festive red (Lacquer Red) and a milky pink (Glossy Pink, which I'd quite like to see in person). Both the glosses have loads of glitter in them, which doesn't feel gritty on the lips at all. I wore Pure Plum the other day a...

Firstly, I'd like to apologize to Rimmel for taking so long to review this. Unfortunately it was delivered during the time I was without a computer, so I do have an excuse! Now that I'm back on my feet (kinda), I wanted to get this review down. I'm losing track of how many variations or relaunches there has been of Rimmel's Vinyl glosses...quite a few I reckon, this one is 'Vinyl Max Gloss' and comes in 6 shades. It aims to deliver full coverage, thick, voluptuous shine in one effortless stroke. The plumping formula with magnifying complex based on Hyaluronic spheres aims to volumize, smooth lips and reduce fine lines for a fuller, plumper look. The colour I tried was 211 Desire and I have to be completely honest and say I wouldn't have picked that. Brown lips can get a bit of a bad name in the makeup world, but I'm quite fond of them usually. This gloss is a deep rusty reddish brown though and just isn't a particularly nice colour to look at ...