Products of the month and new products I love!!

My new goodies ;-)

My all time favourite body butter , I get very dry skin in winter and this solves that problem will making me smell likes coconuts. I love to wear this in summer to its such a summery tropical smell. I always get compliments on how good it smells. Its rich and creamy, its perfect :-)

Rimmel stay matte pressed powder. This is a shine control powder with natural mineral,and helps to minimise the appearance pores.I used to always use MAC's blot powder for oily skin but this is just as good and is a new favourite.

No7 Stay Perfect Lipstick 'love red' I recently purchased this lipstick after seeing it on my favourite So Sue Me Blog, its her favourite red lipsticks and always looks gorgeous on her so I'd thought I'd try it out as I love my statement lips. Red lips add instant glamour to any makeup look. No7 Stay Perfect Lipstick's are long' lasting and hypo -allergenic  provides gorgeous colour that last up to 8 hours and keep your lips comfortable and  hydrated. These lipsticks have a matte/satin finish which I love! I will definitely be trying out alot more of these lipsticks.

My two favourite mascara's at the moment NYC big bold curl 'black' mascara and Maybelline collasal volum' express waterproof 'black' mascara. The NYC mascara makes my lashes super long, really black and thick while the Maybelline one is more natural looking while giving great length to my lashes. These mascara never go clumpy or flake so these are a winner for me.

LUSH 'Bubblegum' lip scrub

After hearing great reviews about this lip scrub I  had to try it, I suffer quiet a bit from dry lips from travelling to and from hot and cold countries. This lip scrub is amazing it gets rid of any dry skin from your lips. All you have to do is add a tiny amount of the products onto your dry lips, massage gently all around then remove the excess with a damp cloth its also safe it lick it off its totally edible and tastes like candy :-)

This LUSH face and body scrub is my all time favourite face scrub I have been using it for years. I always get a tub of it when I'm in the UK or Ireland. All LUSH products smell amazing!  Most of LUSH's  products are organic, vegan, vegetarian and cruelty free. The Ocean salt face and body scrub is ideal suitable for all skin types its good for brightening the skin, clearing blackheads,blocked pores and blemishes. 

New face products I'm trying out

Maybelline baby lips 'pink punch' lip balm

I recently purchased this lip balm and I have to say I absolutely love it! It protects and moisturizes lips for up to 8 hours. It gives a lovely pink tint to your lips and looks very pretty. It comes in 6 shades.

My new Real techniques brushes. I have been using Real technique brushes for quiet a while now and all the brushes I own are still in perfect condition so I wanted to add a few more to my make up brush collection. I purchased the real techniques blush brush, stippling brush and miracle complexion sponge. I really loved the blush brush, the stippling brush was good and I didn't particularly like the miracle complexion sponge as it seemed to soak up most of my foundation and not go on my skin well so it was kind of wasting my make up. 

My favourite brush out of the three I purchased. This Real Techniques blush brush was so soft, applied my blusher beautifully. Also, I love that their brushes are self standing 

I have finally got my hands on this gorgeous contouring kit. I purchased the 'light' shade. It comes in four shades fair,light,medium and dark. All the colours blended beautifully and had great colour pay off. The light contouring kit has a lovely bronze shade to contour, a stunning highlight colour with gold specks and a rose gold blusher which is very flattering, I would recommend a contouring kit to everyone. Contouring and highlighting gives great definition to your face. This palette is great for achieving that Victoria secret glow ;-) 

Sleek makeup face form 

Swatches of the colours

W7 'loads of lashes' fiber lash mascara

W7 'loads of lashes' fiber lash mascara and w7 'just brows brown pen. I purchased both these products before Christmas and I've been using them all the time. I have never heard of W7 brand before until I went into Cara pharmacy in Galway. My sister first posted over the brow pen for me to try out, I live in Marbella so some make up brands aren't available here. I really loved the brown pen as its water-resistant and last long and gives lovely precise definition to my brows. The fiber lash mascara was also recommended to me by my sister, It was my first time trying out a fiber lash mascara and it really lenghtened my lashes like I never knew was possible. I used it with my favourite NYC  big bold curl mascara and my lashes looked like falsies even my fiance said so :-)

I have been using the Maybelline fit me foundation for a few months now, I usually go for full coverage foundations but I thought I'd try something different! The Maybelline fit me foundation is a medium coverage foundation with build-able coverage, it gave my skin a lovely healthy sheen, it covered my blemishes and redness and lasted long too. I got the shade '210' its almost an identical match to my MAC studio fix fluid foundation. Overall, this is a great foundation.

I recently purchased the Maybelline fit me concealer as I was so happy with their foundation I thought I'd give the concealer a go.I got it in shade '10' Its the lightest colour from their collection. It covered my dark circles, blemishes and any discolouration I had. I would definitely purchase this again. 

MAC prep and primer highlighting pen 'bright forecast'. It's perfectly natural looking and also add a gorgeous and subtle sheen. I use this pen when I'm highlighting and contouring my face, it is peachy toned so its great to counteract dark circles and discolouration. It does a great job at covering dark circles and it barely noticeable on the skin even when looking really close. Its available in four shades.

MAC 'blacktrack' fluidline gel liner
I usually use liquid eyeliner and have recently been using my gel liner's again. I really like this MAC gel liner its easy to apply with a angled or pointed liner brush, I just wish it was more black. I always end it applying liquid liner over it to make it look as black as possible

Urban Decay 'SMOKED' palette

I got this eyeshadow palette last year for my 24th birthday off my friend, I was so excited when I seen it I couldn't wait to use it!! I use this palette for daytime or night-time looks. It includes ten shades,it has a selection of matte and shimmery colours. I love every colour in the palette their very wearable. It also comes with a full size 24/7 glide on 'perversion'  blackest black eye pencil and a mini primer potion in original.  I'm thinking of doing a full in depth review and swatches of this palette, Love it :-)

Thanks for reading, Louise xox

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Louise Bourke MUA: Nee MAKE UP MILANO REVIEW

Louise Bourke MUA: Nee MAKE UP MILANO REVIEW: I was recently invited to Golden tarts beauty salon to blog about their new line of make-up they stock! Nee make-up Milano have an amaz...

Nee MAKE UP MILANO REVIEW

I was recently invited to Golden tarts beauty salon to blog about their new line of make-up they stock! Nee make-up Milano have an amazing selection of colourful and playful make-up. Available from their face line was an impressive selection of foundations some of them are compact, mineral, mousse, high protection, non transfer,perfect skin oxegen foundation to name a few! They had loose powder, liquid powder, makeup camouflage, concealers, blushes, highlighting pens to use for highlighting your face. I was quiet impressed with the variety to choose from!

Golden tarts beauty salon
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Nee Make up Milano have a large variety of hydrating lipsticks,sparkling lipsticks,matte etc.  They had a pretty selection of lip glosses, All were very wearable colours.

Above are some great compact foundations,powders and bronzers. The bronzers where a real winner  as they had great colour pay off and a nice texture.

Above are some colour swatches of the metallic eye-shadow as you can see some of them had better pay-off than others. I would describe some of them as sheer eye-shadows as they just had a light wash of colour.

Above are some  swatches of there amazing lipsticks! I absolutely loved each and every one of their lipsticks and I would wear all of them too. They had a great selection of colours and textures, they had a moisturizing formulation which is always great! 

Here as some of the Nee make-up Milano brushes, Most of the face brushes are ground goat hair cosmetic grade or duo fibres. The large powder brush was almost identical to MAC's large powder brush. The Nee duo fiber face brush was my favourite out of all the brushes it was super soft and perfect for fluid foundation's to achieve a beautiful flawless finish. 

Above are their great selection of mascara's, they had  a high definition mascara, a water -resistant stay collagen mascara, extra volume vitamin b5, deep black extention mascara and a gel  for eyelashes and eyebrows which had two brushes one of eyelashes and brows. There was a mascara there for every woman's needs whether you needed to strengthen your lashes, want hd lashes,water-resistance (a must- have when living in hot countries) and a revolution lash ball mascara that is designed to get into every last inner and outer corner lash!

Above are some of the gorgeous slick packaging, I particularly loved the top secret palette it had three eye-shadows, three lip colours and a bronzer. All the shades complimented each other, they were beautiful neutral colours! What girl doesn't like  some cute packaging ;-)

Here are some of Nee's perfect liner liquid eye-liner's!

All the colour's I swatched had a great colour pay off and where beautiful colours my favourite colour was the bronze one.

Above is the Nee liquid bronzer I absolutely loved this one! It has three colour's to choose from, it has a light-weight and long- lasting formula it can be used both on face and legs it provides intense hydration, It provides you with a natural bronze and illuminating effect without the need to expose yourself to the sun, its great when you need that extra glow for day or night, it' is simply amazing.

Above are a selections of Nee's long lasting lip pencil and their eye pencils. All colour's compliment the selection of lipsticks and eye-shadows. 

Nee Make up Milano have a great line of eye- shadow's from mono's, duo's trio's, powder glitter's and palettes. They had a gorgeous colour collection from matte's, shimmer's, metallic's, and sheer eye-shadows  to create lots of make-up looks in-line with the latest fashion trends. Some of the lighter coloured metallic eye-shadow's (top left) didn't have great colour pay off! Other than that I absolutely loved all of them. As soon as I seen the eye-shadow's I felt like I  was in make-up heaven ;-)

All products on display on the Nee Make-up stand are available for retail at Golden tarts beauty salon in Puerto Banus, prices starting from 7.50e  https://www.facebook.com/goldentarts?fref=tse

I really enjoyed my visit to Golden tarts beauty salon, The manager Sarah is always so warm and welcoming, the staff in their are fantastic! I loved every moment of swatching the colours and reviewing them. I certainly will be experimenting with some looks from Nee make-up Milano's gorgeous make-up collection.

Thank you for reading, 
Louise xx
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