Thursday 5 August 2010

Nude lipstick swatches - Nyx and E.L.F

Today i'm posting comparison swatches of 3 nude lip colours - Nyx's Circe and Orange Soda and Eyes Lips Face 's (E.L.F's) Natural Nymph.

All these lipsticks are roughly the same price, which is very affordable - Natural Nymph is £3.50 and the Nyx colours vary prices depending where you buy them from but can be bought for roughly the same price if you're including P&P from Ebay.

Anyway here are swatches!


All have the same creamy finish.
Circe is a brown based nude. Looks less brown on. A good nude colour. I find it a bit boring/deadish on my skin though because I suit more warm colours. If Natural Nymph is too light for you then this would be a good alternative.
Orange soda is an orangey nude, looks less orange on the lips but does have a slight concealer-lips effect. Definately better for those with warm undertones.
Natural nymph is the perfect in the middle nude, imo. However it'd be better suited for lighter skin tones as it's too light for me and makes me look a bit dead. Blots out natural lip colour well.

Personally I only use these colours to blot out my natural lip colour before applying either a nude coloured gloss or another lip colour on top, and my colour of choice is Orange Soda as I have warm undertones and the other two are a bit lifeless on me. However im sure they could be worn alone if you really wanted, but they all look gorgeous with glosses over the top!!

What d'you think of nude lips? What are your favourite nude lip colours and glosses?

Tuesday 3 August 2010

NYX round lipstick swatches :)

I ♥ the brand Nyx - they have good quality products for really affordable prices, similar to that of ELF, but there's more variety imo :)

Unfortunately it's a brand hard to come by in the UK :( But luckily there's a great Ebay seller who sells loads of their products for unbeatable prices and is more than happy to ship internationally. For your fix of nyx, check out joy017 haha :)
Click here to go to her Ebay shop

Anyway onto the swatches! I bought 6 of the round lipstick shades, but today i'm only swatching 4 of them, as 2 were nude colours (Orange Soda and Circe) and I will swatch them shortly alongside ELF's Natural Nymph so we can compare!



Tah-dah! Aren't they beautiful!♥
Tea Rose is a cute reddish-pink which I think suits the name perfectly :) It does come out a little darker on your lips but it's very pretty and elegant, it reminds me of posh tea parties haha. I think this would suit cooler toned people more though, or maybe i'm just too young to fully appreciate it aha. It is nicely pigmented and has a satin finish.

Harmonica is a veryy frosty light pink which is actually pretty sheer (probably something to do with the finish; I found the same thing with Darling). My lips are quite dark naturally so it looked a bit funny on me and I think would suit people with less pigmented lips, but it looked nice when I used foundation to blot out my lip colour first + added a light pink sparkly lipgloss ;D

Darling is again frosty and sheer, and also has lots of sparkles in it, I found. It's a kinda brown/beige/bronze colour but it didn't do much for me; I tried putting it on my au naturale lips and foundation-lips and it just didn't really show up. Guess it's to do with my darkish lips though, not sure what it would look like on other skin tones.

INDIAN PINK - this is my new all time fav lip stick! I wore this to prom it's gorgeous :) A nice corally pink with gold shimmery undertones = utterly beautiful and reminds me of a pink Indian sari with gold embroidery and jewellery. Very nicely pigmented too!

All the lip sticks are very creamy and have the same taste which is quite nice imo but if you don't like it then it's not a problem as it wears off in a matter of minutes. I will definately be buying more, might steer clear of the frosty finish's though.

Do you own any products from Nyx? What do you think of them?

NYX Orange Soda & Circe & E.L.F Natural Nymph swatches coming soon!