Sleek Ultra Matte Palette - V2 Darks

I love matte shadows and I love i-Divine palettes so when I saw that Sleek were releasing two all matte palettes I knew I had to have at least one, although I am still very tempted by the brights too.

The palette consists of 12 matte shadows in a variety of (darker) colours.

I am a big fan of Sleek shadows and in particular their palettes.  The colours in this one are great and I love the fact that all the shadows are matte, sometimes I find shimmery and glittery shadows a bit too bling for daily work wear. 

Unfortunately I am finding the formula a little difficult to work with so far.  The shadows seem to go a bit muddy if you blend them too much and being darker colours they do need blending.

I've only used the palette a couple of times so far so i am hoping it's more to do with my cack handed, rushed attempts than the quality of the product as I really like the colours and think I could get a lot of use out of the palette.

Sleek Blush by 3 - Lace

I have been keen to try one of these Blush by 3 palettes since they were released a few weeks ago and when Superdrug's 3 for 2 offer came back on I decided it was time.  I'd recently seen a mention of the Lace version on a YouTube video saying that the middle colour was a dupe of Orgasm by Nars and since I had been considering trying a few darker and bolder blush colours and have always wondered about Orgasm I thought that Lace would be a good option.

My initial impression was that the colours were very dark and bold, and seemed to have great colour pay off.  Just from swatching them on my hands they were very vibrant.

The palette comprises of a bright orange, crochet, the shimmery peach Orgasm dupe, Guipure, and a cherry red, Chantilly.

Swatches on my arm.  The colours are quite a way away from the sort of blush I tend to use and I think they will take some getting used to.

The colour pay off is incredible, they are so highly pigmented that only the tiniest amout is required.  So far I am still a little scared of the colours as they are vwey bright and I'm a bit of a blusher newbie but hopefully in time with a bit of practice these will make a great addition to my collection.

I'm definitely tempted to try out another at some point in the future as the quality of the product is excellent for the price (£9.99).

Sunset

A couple of snaps of the iDivine Sunset palette from Sleek, which obviously I couldn't resist when I saw it.







Another collection of really wearable shades for a bargain price!

Graphite FOTD

A couple of eye looks with my new Graphite palette from Sleek, decent photos of a siler grey effort:









And smudgy, blurred ones of a more purple shade:

Famous last words

I popped into Superdrug today, to check if the new Sleek stand was in, one of the SAs told me last week they were expecting a new one, and see if I could have a closer look at the Sunset iDivine palette. Sadly, no new stand and no Sunset.

However! They did have one Graphite palette randomly sitting in with the other mainstay palettes, so I had to have a quick look, for research purposes obviously, since I wasn't intending on buying Graphite, the colours appearing to not really be my kind of thing in the online shots I'd seen, needless to say, despite the fact I am not a big grey fan, I had to have it.

There are several grey tones and another black which I probably won't use that much, however what really sold me on it was the fact that it incorporates 3 stunning purple blue shades and has two nice light colours too.

It was really hard to get them to show up in photos for some reason, I suspect my camera is misbehaving, but the photo will give you a rough idea:







There is a grey blue with an obvious holographic sparkle, which should be fairly wow once it's on, a purple with sparkle and a slightly less sparkly blue purple which looks a bit like the colour of a Dairy milk wrapper to me, along with a pure, sparkly white and a gorgeous chiffon pink shade.

So despite the fact there are 4 very similar greys which I don't think I'll get much use out of, for under £5 I couldn't leave it on the shelf.

More iDivine palettes!

Yes, more!

Two in fact, a new mainstay, Sunset and a new limited edition Graphite, both should be in shops round about now (Graphite launches the 28th October, I'm not too sure about Sunset, I think it should be out right now though).

I want to see them in person before I decide whether I really need them both, I'm not great at smokey eyes and don't tend to wear much dark grey or black - I'd rather use navy or a dark forest green or brown to do my dark smokey looks - so I'm not sure how much use I would make out of the Graphite, it does look fantastic if that's your sort of look though.



Sunset looks, for me, more adaptable, lots of lovely bronzey colours and a couple of brights too, so I think I will probably be adding it to my collection.





The lighter colours look particularly gorgeous!



So, more goodies to look out for soon.

Lips!

And more talk of Sleek palettes, are you rolling your eyes at my obsession yet?

I was playing about the other day and realised that the pinky colours in their palettes mixed with a little clear gloss make really nice lip colours, if you can ignore the giant porny lip pictures demonstrating the colours:




Have a try, I bet some of the new reds from the soon to be released Sunset palette will work really well.

Everyday eyes

Here are a collection of my recent eye looks, for no reason other than I have taken the photos and feel like I should do something with them. Excuse the varying quality of the pictures, and brows!

Blue / Orange from Sleek's Neon palette:






Pink / purple from Sleek's Neon palette:





Green / yellow:





UD Stash liner and Stash alike shadow from the Sleek Curious palette:






Purples:






Greens:





Teal UD liner:





Dark greeny:





More purple:





I am currently looking into new ways to distribute the colour on my lids, or shade differently, I feel like no matter what colours I use I am always putting them in exactly the same place and blending them in a similar way, although it can look different with the very bright obvious colours, I feel like every look is very samey and I'd like to try new things. Sadly, I'm not finding much out there online, so if you have any suggestions, leave a comment below and I'll take a look.