Shopping my Stash

I've been working diligently on using up some of my staple products over the past few months, but I get antsy every now and again and bored of wearing the same exact look day in and day out. With the hopes of some new makeup hitting my collection over the Christmas season I decided to hold out on buying something new (touch wood!) and instead turn to my own makeup collection - that's right, I shopped my own stash!

As my long-time readers will know I'm a true #blushfiend, and so shopping my blush stash is usually a pretty exciting endeavour for me. It never fails to bring a smile to my face when I revisit an old cheek love of mine, truth be told. I first hauled Cream Soda from the MAC Archie's Girls collection in early 2013 (see the haul post here!) and find it funny that it looks so pale in the pan (even for me!) but on the cheek it makes me look so healthy, and is definitely pigmented enough once you build it up. I admittedly travel through stages with this shade where I wear the heck out of it before returning it to my makeup drawers, and the same can be said for the palette you see above...

I've never fallen head over heels for the Lorac Pro Palette in the way that everyone else in the beauty community seemed to, but I can still appreciate the nice mix of textures and Garnet sure is a showstopper shade in my collection. I keep giving it a go in the hopes that it will grow on me, so we'll see how I go with it this time around. Any tips on colour combinations you use with this one?

Another eye colour I've shopped my stash for is the stunning Chanel lllusion D'Ombre cream eyeshadow in Epatant, once again a product that falls in and out of use with me but that I love using with a matte chocolate shade through the crease for a great 'peppermint chip' eye look (see my representation here if you like!)

Lastly I went for that cliché holiday red with the Revlon Balm Stain in Adore (original post here) which is a gorgeous deep red with a minty kick that I adore. Mumma Bovary wears this shade quite a bit and inspired me to pull mine back out from the Revlon lip drawer and give it yet another whirl as I get myself pumped for Christmas.

When did you last shop your own stash?

Has anything from the 2015 holiday collections caught your eye?

Are you already pumped for Christmas?

-Emma

Adore & Devotion // Revlon Just Bitten Kissable Balm Stain

 

Not much beats a lip crayon in Chez Bovary, and I have amassed quite a stash from all realms of the attainable price points. The long-named offering from Revlon (Just Bitten Kissable Balm Stain…from now on referred to as ‘the balm stains’) are one of my favourite lip crayon formulations, and these were the first two I chose when they launched.

Cherish is one of the many pink offerings from the range, and though they don’t make as big an impact as the darker/brighter shades, they make a lazy lip pairing easy as they go with any eye look.  Cherish is the Barbie pink option, but they also have some great bright pinks, neutral brown pinks and a lavender toned one to boot. I will have swatches of all of my lip crayons up in the near future, to show you how the shades all look side by side from each brand.

Even though I have now amassed the majority of the Revlon balm stains, Adore remains my one true love. A deep, sexy, wearable red, I never fail to garner a compliment when I wear it. My Mum, who (as documented here) does not explore much in the lipstick realm, rushed out and bought it the day after she saw it on me. The peppermint scent is uplifting but not too tingly, the colour is buildable and the stain left behind is even, meaning that touch ups aren’t a ‘do or die’ sort of thing if you’re too busy at work to look into a mirror.

 

The swatches here can be sheerer, or built up to a bolder look depending on your preference. I definitely recommend trying out one or two of these, I bought them during a Priceline promotion and the regular retail price is $17.95 AUD.

 

Have you jumped on the lip crayon band wagon? Which brand makes your favourite crayon?