Product Preach – Jeffree Star Liquid Lipsticks. SEND NUDES (Collection)

I have a strange relationship with lipsticks. They are the thing I collect the most and probably wear the least. In both my fashion style as well as the makeup I wear, one thing that is always pretty much top of my priorities is comfort!  This obsession with my lips still feeling moisturised and effortlessly bare means that I do spend the majority of my existence in Vaseline, Carmex and Nivea Lip butter. Despite owning a full drawer of lip glosses, sticks, paints and stains – you name it, I probably have it, and don’t wear it. That unhealthy ‘buy but rarely wear’ relationship changed drastically when I discovered Jeffree Star and his glorious matte liquid lips.

Product Preach – SophDoesNails X Makeup Revolution Collaboration.

Hello lovely people! I hope you are all doing well! Although I am ridiculously invested in the world of YouTube, I’m not one to physically invest in every single collaboration within the web. I often find them over priced, over hyped and corporate feeling, with a clear lack of personality and effort. However, obviously (from the fact I bought both elements!) I saw a clear difference within the SOPH X MAKEUP REVOLUTION collab, and I will tell you for why in this very post.

Product Preach – Rimmel Stay Matte Liquid Lip Colour.

My Product Preach series has been my longest standing blog ‘format’ to date. Before my Blog-a-break, I used to bash one of these bad boys out once a week without fail! I would like to return to that, as these were such an easy, enjoyable format; which if I remember, you all used to enjoy too! Well, lets start this ball rolling again shall we? First, with a lip product which is my new ‘go-to’; and that really means something in my book, because I have a shed full (metaphorically) of lip sh**. I was so surprisingly blown away by none other than the Rimmel Stay Matte liquid lip colours.

Product Preach: Seventeen Define and Contour Kit.

Welcome back to the land of Just Jolie! I’m just popping in with a very affordable preach of a product. If highlighting and contouring is something you are, or would like to get into; this product is the perfect start or addition to your collection! This contour kit is by Seventeen, a brand which I think gets a bad rep. It was definitely where my first ever makeup products came from (when we all wore blue eye shadow and no mascara.. OOOH and dream matte mouse!) , but I don’t think that means it should be forgotten once we become more experienced, it still has some darn good stuff – like this little gem!

We can begin with the wonderful ‘NARZ-like’ packaging which immediately gives this highly affordable product (£5.99) an expensive look which is extremely attractive. the palette contains a very useful bronzer for contouring and a luminous highlighter also, both which are very wearable shades. They won’t knock your socks off with amazing pigmentation and extreme shimmer or anything; but what they are, is very useful as everyday shades that you’ll actually get more use from than a great number of special occasion, expensive products I’m sure you also possess. If this contour kit is anything, it is value for money.

Despite them both actually being extremely useful, the one which I was most impressed by is the bronzer, it is so universally wearable for many skin types and colours. So many drugstore bronzers are very red toned, which isn’t actually something you want to contour with. A contour shade should generally be more cool toned in order to look like a shadow, and I’m so glad that Seventeen have gone against the grain and released this cool bronzer – it’s simply brilliant.

The colour itself is very build able which I like for it’s everyday purpose, as you can make it as natural or intense as you please. The highlight is not going to astound you with it’s pigmentation, but sometimes it is nice to have a natural looking highlighter in your makeup collection, as many of the amazing highlighters are sometimes over powering in an every day context. In conclusion, I would highly recommend this product, as the price tag isn’t a turn off –  why say no?

Just Jolie x

 

 

 

Product Preach: NYX Soft Matte Lip Cream.

What is up my young cherubs? Yes, you are all angelic in my book, and there for you deserve the best when it comes to my recommendations. So today, I’m slapping you around the chops with a Product Preach. It is one of the lippy variety – so pucker up!

I’m normally extremely weary of liquid products which dry to matte, as they tend to be extremely drying, and my lips are twice as unforgiving as other lips when it comes to dryness. However, on the recommendation of my good pal Liv, I tried out this one and was blown away! It is both moisturising in consistency and smooth-looking on the lip, it also feels very weightless once it’s been on for a long period of time. There just doesn’t seem to be a downside to this product!

The colour is a deep plum which is drop dead gorgeous and slap bang on trend! It’s also very buildable and the pigmentation is fabulous, so you can look as little or lot vampy (bad grammar but you get my point) as you’d like! It one of those extremely complimentary colours for your teeth. Hang in with me on this, but you must agree sometimes you put a colour on your lips and your eyes don’t admire your lips themselves, but instead think “dayum, my teeth look hella good!”. I believe it is the blue tone of the red, that brings out the white in your teeth, but whatever it is, it’s fabulous!

In terms of durability, I can tell you that after this picture was taken I went out and drank many a drink with my refillable at Nandos, and ate a great deal of chicken; I have never seen such durability! Not many lip products ever stand up to the Nandos test – but this sucker is unbelievable, and passed with flying colours. If I ever wear a bold lip out to eat, by half way through the main the only remainder is a bold line of colour lining my lips in true 90’s tribute, it is definitely not a good look. However, this lip cream simply does not wear, and when it does slightly lose its brightness, it loses it as a whole, which I must admit is 10x more flattering.

And that is that! I would highly recommend picking one of these up, it’s my first delve in to NYX and I am highly impressed! I’d love to know what else you all recommend from NYX in the comments below!

I am off to London tomorrow for a few days for an art trip, so be excited to see what I get up to later in the week! See you then.

Just Jolie x

Product Preach: Urban Decay Naked 2 Basics Palette.

Hello there my dearies! I’m sorry for the slight lacking in the post department recently, but last week was a very busy week in terms of university offer excitement as well as my driving theory test, which I passed! For now, I am back to normality and hitting you with a family favourite (obviously not a family favourite, imagine that! Gathering round the the screen for your weekly dose of Just Jolie) – you guessed it, mainly by the title but play along; it’s Product Preach time.

When I decided to preach the Urban Decay 2 Basics palette, I was absolutely dumb struck as to why I haven’t thought to write about it sooner; because it quite frankly is my most used eyeshadow palette which I own. I WEAR IT EVERY DAY. Obviously not every day of my life ever, but positively more days worn than not. I was gifted this for my birthday by fellow blogger buddy, Holly of Just A Fashion Blogger; I have never made more use out of a present and Holly, I am forever thankful.

Each and every colour has a use, and they do so to the best possible degree:

• Skimp – the perfect highlighter shade for inner corner and brow bone.
• Stark – My FAVOURITE simple, ‘all over the lid’ colour.
• Frisk – Cool toned crease shade, also occasionally used on eyebrows.
• Cover – Warm toned crease shade, I pick and choose between the two depending on my mood.
• Primal – Darker crease shade if you feel like going for it that day.
• Undone – For outer corner when you really are gunning for it that day.

I literally can’t praise these colours enough, as a brown eyed girl, I think the shades are extremely complimentary; but the beauty of of a nude palette is that they go with literally every eye colour and look stunning either way.

The consistency of the shadows is quite literally silky smooth, they blend like an absolute dream, and they all compliment each other so well that it doesn’t matter that they’re nude – the eye looks you can create are infinite. It is SUCH value for money, an extremely affordable £23 compared to the sometimes unreachable leap of £38 for other Urban Decay Naked palettes. In my opinion it’s such a better purchase to be honest, as you know you will make use of every single shade, when some people only use their favourite 5 shades from their Naked palette, and pay double the price for the pleasure!

Make sure the next Urban Decay palette you pick up is this one, you will NOT regret it! You should also know that the second after I put down my camera, I put my finger nail into PRIMAL and almost cried. The price I pay for being a blogger.

Just Jolie x

Product Preach: Benefit Roller Lash.

Welcome, welcome! Yes, you may have guessed from the title that this Product Preach is about a certain mascara; but I will get onto that momentarily, just let me have my fun in announcing this – I finally bought a new camera!

It’s been a long time coming, but I finally took the plunge and purchased the Canon 700D (for anyone interested)! This will greatly aid me in my media projects, but I’m also thoroughly excited with the quality it can bring to Just Jolie – I honestly can’t wait! Thank you for humouring me, now on with the Product Preach!

The Benefit Roller Lash mascara produced a rather large hype in it’s release earlier this year, and being a huge fan of the They’re Real mascara, I was always intrigued to compare the two. Well, I got it for my birthday and by gum, it’s bloody brilliant!

If the pretty, coral packaging isn’t enough to reel you in, let a proud owner lay down the beauty ‘benefits’ of this eyelash lengthening wonder. Often, brands make some rather gimmicky claims; for example, “Bye, bye eye lash curlers”, sound familiar Benefit? Well gimmicky as it may seem, it’s extremely true! The curved wand effortlessly curls and lifts the eyelashes, giving an eyelash curler effect minus the eyelash curlers – it’s quite a sight to see!

Although, I like volume in my lashes, extreme clumping is a no from me. I find that this product strikes the perfect balance of long, thick, luscious lashes, without overstepping the mark into spider legs – no one wants them! It’s also the only mascara out there that I have discovered so far which, when I apply it to my lower lash line, doesn’t transfer to my under-eye area; which is a problem I always struggle with – It’s a real dream.

There’s no avoiding that if you are used to simply purchasing £7.99 drugstore mascaras, this jump to £19.50 is quite a leap. However, I truly believe that the quality and pay off is a giant leap also, it’s simply down to whether you feel you’re legs can make the jump, and if you can – it’s so worth the stretch.

I just want to say how excited I am to pursue blogging with this new equipment in toe; it’s brought me a whole new load of blogging inspiration which I can’t wait to share with you. Hope you all have a good day!

Just Jolie x

Product Preach: My Holy Grail Hair Products.

Hello people of the future! I am writing this post before what I am actually doing as you read this, which is having the time of my life at T In The Park. So, as my hair at this exact moment in time is a greasy, mop on my head; I would leave you with the way I usually keep my barnet in tip top condition, with my 3 holy grail products.

1) Oil (John Frieda Sheer Blonde Brightening Oil Elixir)

It’s the summer time (well done Jolie.), the thought of adding oil to your hair may sound absolutely absurd to some of you, especially those who suffer from greasiness. You may not realise, however, that your hair gets greasy, but it also gets very dry due to the sun. Your hair gets frizzier due to your hair drying up at the ends, sound familiar? Get some oil, this oil for blonde hair helps me with multiple things as it also brings out the shine in my ombre ends.

Apply it on wet hair or a small amount on dry hair to keep frizz at bay and hair health on fleek. ONLY APPLY TO THE ENDS, or before you know it you may as well be singing with John Travolta in a black catsuit. (Round of applause for THAT one.)

2) Volume Spray (Clynol Massive Volume Spray)

My hair is extremely weird – its extremely voluminous, sometimes too much so, but it’s also extremely heavy. These two factors can sometimes lose balance and the weight makes my hair appear quite flat at the roots. If you have a similar problem, or if you have thin hair, volume sprays really help to boost up the hair, you’d be amazed.

Just spray it at the roots and generally throughout the hair to give an instant lift to any hair in a lifeless state.

3) Mousse (VO5 Mega Hold Styling mousse)

Mousse is a gem in summer, when frizz is on the rise and your hair is comprimised (thumbs up for rhymes.). I never skip this step as I notice a big difference in my hairs resistance to the hot weather. This specific mousse is weather resistant, so come rain or shine, it’s a big help.

Apply to wet hair, working it evenly throughout the hair to ensure all strands are covered and protected from the frizz frenzy, it’s like a shield. You wouldn’t enter a battle field without a shield, so why enter the world without mousse – it as a long shot, it sort of paid off.

And there we have it, my holy grail hair products that get me through my life as a girl suffering with difficult hair syndrome. I hope this helped some of you!

Just Jolie x

ps. I am sorry for my blogging break,fellow bloggers understand the struggle of keeping up consistent content, but don’t you worry, I am back and here to stay.