Estee Lauder's Pure Colour Cheek Rush in Pink Patent

Toted as ‘the new way to blush” Estee Lauder’s New Pure Colour Cheek Rush in Pink Patent is a buildable water-light gel blush, designed to brighten your face with a lightweight and innovative gel that gives cheeks a pop of sheer color for a fresh-faced, natural finish.

Pink Patent (RRP. £24) can only be described a sheer Barbie pink – which is super freaky when you consider that my iPod suddenly switched to Aqua – Barbie Girl while I was taking these photograph (I didn’t even know I owned that song, I swear!!!). While it initially pumps out a strong neon pink and blends into the skin like a silky dream, I feel that Pink Patent is just too sheer and light a colour to easily show up on my dark skin. I would have to apply many layers to get this colour to show up which probably devoids the whole “sheer-finish” aspect of this blush.

Pink Patent is effortless beautiful. I adore it's gold cap and it's  easy-to-use plastic nozzle (which is even indented to fit your finger. There are 4 shades to get in the Cheek Rush Collection - Techno Jam, X-Pose Rose, Hot Fuse and Pink Patent as well as co-ordinating lipsticks and glosses for you to pair your cheeks to.

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Estee Lauder's Pure Colour Cheek Rush in X-Pose Rose

Cited as "so unique . . . your cheeks have never blushes liked this before" Estee Lauder’s New Pure Colour Cheek Rush in X-Pose Rose is a sheer,, buildable water-light gel blush, designed to brighten your face with a lightweight and innovative gel that gives cheek a pop of sheer color for a fresh-faced, natural finish

While X-Pose Rose (RRP. £24) is not described a cheek stain on the Estee Lauder website, this gel blush does dry to a gorgeous wine shade that looks amazing on dark skin. This is the kind of shade that I practically live in during the winter months and with a wear time of 6-8 hours, I can already predict what will be on my cheeks while I’m tucked away under my scarf and beanie.

 X-Pose Rose is lightweight and absorbs into the skin easily, making it effortlessly easy to apply . . . and don't even need to use a brush - if you don't mind stained fingertips *wiggles fingers*.

There are 4 shades to get in the Cheek Rush Collection - Techno Jam, X-Pose Rose, Hot Fuse and Pink Patent as well as co-ordinating lipsticks and glosses for you to pair your cheeks to.

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Estee Lauder's Pure Colour Cheek Rush in Hot Fuse

Described by Tom Pecheux as an “acqua color” Estee Lauder’s New Pure Colour Cheek Rush in Hot Fuse is a buildable water-light gel blush, designed to brighten your face with a lightweight and innovative gel that gives cheek a pop of sheer color for a fresh-faced, natural finish.

The Pure Color Cheek Rush is packaged in a high-gloss-finish pump bottle with a silk-screened golden collar that matches the concentrated shade.Hot Fuse is definitely an on-trend deep-orange SS13 shade. We have been going ga-ga in the beautysphere over orange in 2013 and Estee Lauder have certainly taken that in mind when they launched Hot Fuse/

 I find that Hot Fuse dries into a warm red-orange cheek stain which is great for longevity as I found that my swatch lasted between 6-8 hours which is great  if you happen to be anything like me and hate touching up your makeup during the day - Ain't noone have time for that. I personally love anything in a pump as it make it that much easier for you to slip this blush into your makeup case without fear of it opening and covering everything.


There are 4 shades to get in the Cheek Rush Collection - Techno Jam, X-Pose Rose, Hot Fuse and Pink Patent as well as co-ordinating lipsticks and glosses for you to pair your cheeks to.

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Review | Estee Lauder Bronze Goddess Bronzer in Rich Deep

I believe a wise woman once said:-

 . . . or I could just be making that up (which is highly likely). Esteé Lauder's Bronze Goddess Bronzing Powder in Rich Deep (RRP. £30) has been stared at (because it's very pretty), poked and played with ever seen I was gifted it by Estee Lauder almost 3 weeks ago but I really couldn't decide how I felt about this bronzer so kept delaying this post . . . but then I realised that this Bronzer is actually LIMITED EDITION and the longer I dilly-dally around, the harder it is for you guys to run over to Boots, House of Fraser or Selfridges to pick it up (My bad!).

Bronze Goddess' Bronzer in Rich Deep really has me stuck on the Fence.

I love that it's matte-with-a-hint-of-shimmer formula because it looks gorgeous once the light hits it and it comes with an amazing tipped-brush to help you with your contouring. The Con's for me, is the packaging. While my bronzer didn't arrive cracked like Adrienne's, the mirror keeps popping off everytime I open and close it and that is really irritating for me as I can't find my super glue and I like the mirror too much to take it out!!

Despite my annoyance with the Bronze Goddess Packaging, there is no denying that it is absolutely beautiful but I don't think it's dark enough to truely act as a bronzer for darker skin tones.

If you look at my swatch above, (you might have to squint a bit) you can see the slight red/bronze colour of the bronzer against my skin. I honestly believe that if the Bronze Goddess Bronzer was a shade deeper or had a stronger red tone then I would probably go and buy this in bulk. As it stands I don't think as a bronzer I could use by itself without a bit of help from a contouring powder HOWEVER I have been using it as a face powder. It's the perfect alternative to my MAC Mineralize Skinfinish in Dark Deep as it's subtile shimmer makes me look very healthy and natural.

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Review: Estee Lauder Sumptuous Extreme Mascara

 Estee Lauder’s Sumptuous Extreme Mascara is probably one of most expensive mascara I own but it is also the mascara I would happily beat down someone over if I catch them trying to use this (and seeing as I’ve only been in fight once in my life and that was with my sister, that is saying something).

Why do I love the Sumptuous Mascara? Why on earth would I happily shell out £22 for a mascara? Well apart form being shiny (it’s sooo shiny), its mousse like formula contains gels, pigments,silica, mica,  etc. etc. etc. doesn’t clump. I find that it adds a lot of volume to my lashes without making them feel stiff or break off.

The first thing you will notice is how humungous the wand is; I am warning you now that the mascara wand is quite big, it is roughly 1 inch and a half in length but when you think that Estee Lauder stuffed tri-blend multiplying fibres (Hollow Tube Fiber, Solid Rod Fiber and Micro-Locking Fiber) into this wand, they must have needed the space. Colour wise, there are 4 shades that you can get but I love this mascara in extreme black

The Sumptuous Extreme Mascara brings back a lot of memories for me as it reminds me of my blogging journey and how much blogging has become a central part of life, as it was actually one of the first products I reviewed on my blog more than a year ago.

 The original pictures taken back in March/May 2011 were dark, had sooo much glare and taken on a black throw that I keep on my bed (which honestly made the picture look even darker) , but it just marks how much I’ve learnt and experienced in a year +, so on that note this was probably more of a sentimental purchase than anything but I do love the humongous wand on this as I get that cute little flick in the corner of my eyes.

FYI Boots are supplying the Sumptuous Mascara in a set 

Is it weird to get so sentimental over mascara? What products do you have that remind you of a certain journey in your life? Please Share by leaving a comment below because I’m nosey like that

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