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4 Mar 2012

Honeybee Gardens Truly Natural Lipstick Swatches

These are the other swatches I ordered from bewellstaywell.com, all Honeybee Gardens.

I have grown to love Honeybee Gardens, especially their lipsticks, they have the most creamy texture and amazing colours, and the lipsticks are also very hydrating.

Soft Kiss: I think my attraction to barbie pink lipstick's is becoming dangerously obsessive, none the less, this color is amazing! To me this colour is the girlie version of Karma, I will be buying this for sure.

Valentine: Another barbie pink but this one has a slightly mauve-ish hint to it. I definitely think I will be purchasing this one also.

Celestial: It's really hard to explain this colour...I guess its a deep champagne type shade with brownish hints.

San Fransisco: Similar to Celestial but with a more mauve-ish hint.

Paradise: This one is a perfect mix of both Celestial and San Fransisco, with brown and mauve hints to it.

Burlesque: I am so dissapointed with how this shade turned out in the photo, the actual shade in real life is one of the most amazing colours I have ever seen in a lippy. It's a deep fuschia type colour, I have to buy this.

Desire: The perfect red. I was unsure when I first opened the pot to this, as it appears really dark, but once applied this colour lightens out, again, the picture doesn't quite do this shade justice. This is the type of colour that would go perfect with winged eyeliner, a loose updo and an LBD.

{T-B, L-R: Soft Kiss, Valentine, Celestial, San Fransisco, Paradise, Burlesque, Desire}

All the colour's are great, but i'm not sure that I would purchase Celestial, San Fransisco or Paradise as they don't really suit me. It's a shame really, the swatch for Paradise on the Honeybee Gardens website looked really promising, but sadly, it looks nothing like that in real life.

Honeybe Gardnes are bringing out 3, maybe 4, new shades soon!!! Aztec, Bombshell, Superstitious and a mystery shade they are unsure of. I can't wait to buy Aztec!

19 Feb 2012

Honeybee Gardens Lipstick

(Romance-Karma)

This is my first time trying the Honeybee Gardens lipstick's and it was a surprising experience. I have never really been much of a lipstick wearer because most lipstick's i tried made my lips dry almost instantly and I would spend days trying to recover them. I have read great reviews about this brand so I wanted to give them a go, choosing colours was the hardest part! I had seen swatches of the shade Karma so I definitely had to give this a go as I believe every girl should own a nice nude lip colour, and as tempted as I was to go for a barbie pink, I went for something a little more classic and wearable, Romance.

(Romance-Karma)

I'll start with Karma. Love it! The shade is perfect for my skin tone and has that nice hint of colour in it that makes it look oh so flattering and not at all washed out which is really hard to find. When I first tried applying Karma, it had a kind of waxy coating on it that made it really hard to get any colour onto my lips and it sort of gripped which tugged on my lips, so I found myself applying it to my hand quite a few times just to remove ithe coating. The texture is rather thick, thicker than the other shade, and quite pigmented so you don't need a whole lot but it you do need to smudge it in and blot, otherwise it appears patchy and looks really terrible. Another thing I found with this particular shade is that it works best if you don't put balm underneath. Perhaps it needs the dryness or something, but over balm it seperates and looks patchy also. I would suggest putting a tiny layer of balm over the top though as this Karma is a bit drying, nothing major, but enough to bother me. Apart from that I think Honeybee Gardens has done a great job with this shade.

Ingrediants: Karma

Canola oil, ricinus communis (castor) seed oil, cocos nucifera (coconut) oil, sesamum indicum (sesame) seed oil, butyrospermum parkii (shea butter) fruit, beeswax, theobroma cacao (cocoa) seed butter, copernicia cerifera (carnauba) wax, tocopherol (vitamin E), origanum vulgare (oregano) leaf extract, thymus vulgaris (thyme) extract, cinnamomum zeylanicum (cinnamon) bark extract, rosmarinus officinalis (rosemary) leaf extract, lavandula angustifolia (lavender) flower extract, hydrastis canadensis (golden seal) root extract. May Contain: titanium dioxide, iron oxides, ultramarine blue, carmine, manganese violet.

Romance, a really nice pinkish red, has the best formula of any lipstick i've tried. This goes on incredibly smooth and gives the lips a sheer but pigmented colour hit, it also appears a tiny bit glossy, like you've added a layer of balm over the top which looks really refreshing. Romance isn'drying at all, bonus, and the colour is extremely wearable for any occasion. The best part about Romance, is that the colour is buildable, one layer gives of the same hint of colour that I get from, say, Burt's Bee's tinted lip balm, 2-3 layers for a more lipstick type shade.

Ingrediants: Romance

canola oil, ricinus communis (castor) seed oil, cocos nucifera (coconut) oil, sesamum indicum (sesame) seed oil, butyrospermum parkii (shea butter) fruit, beeswax, theobroma cacao (cocoa) seed butter, copernicia cerifera (carnauba) wax, tocopherol (vitamin e), origanum vulgare (oregano) leaf extract, thymus vulgaris (thyme) extract, cinnamomum zeylanicum (cinnamon) bark extract, rosmarinus officinalis (rosemary) leaf extract, lavandula angustifolia (lavender) flower extract, hydrastis canadensis (golden seal) root extract. May Contain: titanium dioxide, iron oxides, ultramarine blue, carmine, manganese violet.

Both were purchased from iHerb.com for $8.99 each.

26 Jan 2012

Honeybee Gardens Pressed Mineral Powder

In my latest iHerb haul I bought a few Honeybee Gardens products, one being the Honeybee Gardens Pressed Mineral Powder in Supernatural. Supernatural is the second lightest shade in the range of 5 and is described as a 'neutral light shade', it suits my skin tone perfectly. The compact is purchased seperatey and has a magnet in the botton to hold the powder in, a mirror, and it also comes with the little powder puff pictured.

The powder looks so perfect on and the company is true to it's word when it say's that this powder 'evens out skin tone leaving a natural silky finish', I could not have described it any better. The powders are talc free, paraben free, fragrance free and oil free, and if you smell them up close, you can subtly smell the aloe, chamomile and cucumber extracts.

As far as the little powder puff goes, I don't really use it. It is a little bit stiff, so it sort of digs into the soft powder, grabing too much, I just use the EcoTools powder brush and that works great with this powder. I do love the little bee imprinted on the puff though.

Ingredients: Mica, Kaolin, Zea Mays (Corn) Starch, Magnesium Carbonate, Zinc Stearate, Boron Nitride, Squalane, Polyglyceryl-3 Diisostearate, Sodium Dehydroacetate, Potassium Sorbate, Chlorphenesin, Tocopheryl Acetate, Ethylhexyl Palmitate, Aloe Barbadensis Leaf Extract, Anthemis Nobilis Flower Extract, Cucumis Sativus (Cucumber) Fruit Extract. May Contain: Titanium Dioxide (CI 77891), Iron Oxides (CI 77491, 77492, 77499).

Powder $7.49

Compact $8.99

9 Jan 2012

iHerb Haul

A few weeks ago I placed my first order with Vitacost.com which I was really excited about, as they have products that iherb doesn't, but after a lot of stuffing around, I ended up cancelling the order, the reason being the lack of communication. I was highly dissapointed but I have decided to give them another go in the future. Anywho, I placed an order through iHerb on friday so I was really surprised when I got the order today. These are the products I ordered and also what I will be reviewing in future post's.