Review: Barry M Gelly Hi Shine Lips Pencil

I'm a huge fan of red lips (as you may well know) so when I saw this cute little pencil I thought I'd have to add it to my collection. 

If this colour has a name it doesn't seem to be on the pencil, so I'm going to call it Bright Pillarbox. It's a lovely, shiny, creamy, bright-yet-true red, that applies smoothly and has a great opaque colour. 

This is a lovely colour that's easy to wear, but like most balms/glosses, it does need to be reapplied after eating and drinking. Considering also that this is a pencil, it requires being sharpened, so there will be some loss, but these pencils are around £5 so it's not a huge issue. 

Apart from reapplication and loss, I still think that this colour is great and the price is reasonable. 

Anyone else like these pencils? Don't like them? Let me know xx

Red Lip Month: Rimmel Colour Rush Balm in The Redder The Better

So it's February (on Blogger it's still January 31st but in the UK it's the 1st Feb '14 lol), the month that contains the dreaded day of Valentines. Now, because I'm the least romantic person on the planet I won't be blogging about anything to do with Valentines Day. Instead I'll be uploading every week for the whole month to show you all my 7 most favourite red lip colours (Yup, the colour red is the closest I'm going to get to blogging about Valentines Day lol).

Yes, I have mentioned this lip colour in a previous blog, but I feel it deserves a blog all of it's own. 

This is a balm/stain of the most gorgeous colour that moisturises with high pigmentation and leaves the most beautiful red stain on the lips so it wears off evenly and slowly. 

It has been my go-to red lip colour of the winter. It glides on smoothly, smells of vanilla (yum!) and costs around £6.50 so it definitely won't be breaking the bank. It's light, non-sticky formula leaves my lips feeling pampered and soft and it's a great neutral red that will suit lots of skin tones too, so if you're into red lips... Then you might want to give this little beauty a go :)