A Little Bird

A Little Bird's Boots Purchases

Monday 24th March 2014

So as we all know as beauty lovers it's pretty much impossible to walk past Boots when they have their huge 3 for 2 on. Today I want to show with you the products I picked up and my first impressions of them...



First up is the Revlon Colourburst Laquer Balm in 105 Demure (£7.99). On swatching this in the shop I thought it looked like a beautiful everyday shade as I'm much more into muted pinks than a really colourless nude. The formulation is also really creamy and looked like it would be lovely and moisturising on the lips. I noticed that Revlon had also released a matte version of these Colourburst Balm's and although the colours were lovely I thought I'd probably be better going for the creamy version as I sometimes get quite dry lips and hate the way matte lipsticks fade and go patchy on the lips. However, I must say on first application I'm not overly impressed with this, I was indeed really happy with the colour, a really creamy pink nude not dissimilar to MAC's beloved 'Hue' but my problem lies with the way it faded on my lips. There seemed to be a slight bleed and I found that the colour quickly disappeared leaving a nothing but some chunks of glitter behind. Having said that, I'll be giving it another go and I won't be tossing this to the back of the draw just yet as I really do love the colour and the lovely refreshing minty scent it gives off.

Next up is Bourjois Volume Clubbing Black mascara (£7.99). So I'm one of those people obsessed with mascara's and yet to find my ultimate holy grail product. For a while it was the well hyped Benefit They're Real but I got so sick of having to fork out the £18.50 every month when it dried up! After trying this Bourjois one I have to say I'm still searching. To me it did nothing special, it has a nice chunky brush and a lovely black formula but it just didn't give me much excitement, no WOW factor. I do have naturally very long lashes so maybe I'm just picky but I really do want the perfect 'false lash effect' as I know I've achieved it in the past, if only I could remember with which mascara!

The last makeup product I picked up was the Revlon Nearly Naked Foundation in 150 Nude (£8.99). When this foundation first came out last year it was so highly hyped so of course I picked it up and typically I just didn't get it! It did nothing for me and I quickly chucked it to the back of the draw, until now. On a whim I pulled it out the other day and decided to give it another go, I was honestly amazed. I really liked it, I barely had to use any, just topped up any red areas with a concealer and it looked so lovely and natural. The colour I have is 120 Vanilla, pretty much perfect for my pale complexion at the moment but I thought while the offer was on I may as well pick up a slightly darker colour in anticipation for the coming Spring/Summer months.

Finally an extra product I grabbed while in Boots is the Garnier Micellar Water. I've been using Bioderma for a couple of years to remove my makeup before cleansing and when L'Oreal came out with their own Micellar water a while back I of course had to give that a go. So when Garnier hit the shelves with their version I knew I was going to pick that one up next and I must say I really do like it. I think its much closer to Bioderma than L'Oreal's and much less drying, it really does just feel like water on your skin and at only £3.33 in Boots can you really go wrong?