Illamasqua Intense Gloss - Frenzy

Illamasqua Intense Glosses (£12.50 for 7ml) aren't kidding at all by naming these intense because these are the most pigmented, opaque glosses I have ever seen in my life! What you see in the tube is what you get on your lips.

It has a high-gloss finish, comfortable to wear, not sticky in the slightest but will be gloopy if you applied a lot (and don't see why you would need to) they have a very faint scent to them but it isn't enough to repulse anybody who really dislike scented products, and although in the lip product World more pigmentation means more ingredients to suck the moisture from your lips (well OK, that mainly applies to lipsticks, but...) Intense Glosses will not leave your lips feeling and looking parched, and the glossiness will fade in about two or so hours, but the colour itself is quite long-lasting, and when it's gone after say, a meal, itslightly stains your lips to a MLBB shade.
So really, it's almost a liquid lipstick that does not dry out the lips.

I bought an Intense Gloss in shade 'Frenzy,' which the website describes as a 'Hot fuschia pink,' and I would have to disagree with the fuschia part - Frenzy is pure hot-pink, baby.

The product is within a thin, sleek tube which is quite firm when squeezed. The product is released via a plastic slanted tip and it isn't very good when trying to give a precise application, but I use a lip brush so that solves it for me. I'm actually happy there's no added brush because I think they're stupid and they waste product.

Picture taken in full sunlight

Alternative picture 

 Picture taken in sunlight and shade

With flash on bare lips

Would I buy more?: Heeeeeeeeeeeelllllllllllllllllllllllllllllll yaaeaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I can't wait, I can't wait, I can't wait! I don't even know which shade I should buy. Maybe a totally radical one like Repulse (pure black) or Gender (apparantly sky blue, but it looks teal to me) or maybe the bright orange one.

 Grade: A-
I wish it had more diifferent shades (I don't know, but the lip swatches on the website look quite similiar...) and I just wish the tube was slightly fatter! I want more product... but other than that I love it.


What shall my next Illamasqua Intense Gloss shade be, and would you buy them?

Petals, and Peacocks, and Pan

I bought MAC's Amplified Petals & Peacocks lipstick today from the Liberty London collection for the insane UK (plus tax) price of £12.50. That's nearly $20.

Anyway, you've probably already seen 5000x different pictures in other blogs and websites, but I'll just quickly skim through;

Outer Packaging

Go on, tell me more about what you're wearing...

Brave to be Barefaced? And Yay/Nay Lippie?

I totally understand that makeup can be fun - I am only just realising this - though what I also realise is that some do it because they're insecure. Oh, and I also understand that makeup can be used to enhance ones features.

(I don't know what I'm getting at here anymore...) Why don't we have a day of 'letting our skin breathe' (which I know is preposterous because skin can't actually breathe but I'm just sayin'...) I had been completely bare-faced for about 17 years, before I got into makeup, and I'm still insecure as heck and completely self-concious. Oh, and I beat myself up a lot (verbally and mentally)

So I show the World a picture of myself that I took, right after I woke up - OK, right after I brushed my hair after taking two pictures before it but those pictures made me look like a caveman so I'm not showing them, but hey, I'm still barefaced!

Also, is it just me or does your skin look amazing when you've just woken? I think the natural oils give me a soft focus effect or something.

Click to full-view if you want. F.Y.I. my lips are stained from last night's coral lipstick.

Lippie in question with poor, overly yellow lighting.. And yeah, I was laughing HARD at a youtube video whilst taking this.

Better lighting to show true colour of lippie on me, but I look like a GANGSTA, YO.

I know it's not a nice sight! But I hope you enjoy regardless.

Let's see your morning faces, girlies!(Or I dunno, your 'I just had coffee' look?) I bet you all look beautiful

It's O.K. to look imperfect