My Lip Heroine

Evening ladies!!

Cracking on with this post whilst i'm waiting for the glue to dry on some iPhone cases i'm working on tonight. Gotta love organised time management!! 

As most you may know i have been out to play in London this week. So gutted to be back in deepest, darkest Derbyshire again BUT...... Upon my return home i was greeted very warmly by THIS little beauty...

MAC Heroine Lipstick (Matte)

I can't say this is a colour that i would automatically fall over myself to buy but i'm a sucker for Loreleicakes on Instagram (if you don't follow her then do it NOW, she's an amazing MAC artist and sickeningly beautiful to boot) and it looked so stunning on that i just HAD to order it. It came out with the Reel Sexy collection of lipsticks so is LE so i snapped it up while i could. To be honest, none of the lipsticks from the new Hey,Sailor collection grabbed me at all so this was a great consolation. 

MAC describe this shade as Bright Violet/Purple which is spot on. I tend to be a lot bolder with my lipstick choices when my hair is darker but i did fear that (teamed with my new nose piercing) it may make me look a bit..... well.... GOTH!! But i am happy to report that it is not as dark as it may look once it's applied. I took a 'softly softly' approach with it to begin with but in the end i just whacked it on and loved the colour!! 

Here's the photo of it in natural light. This lipstick is actually quite true to the bullet colour but not as cool in tone as it appeared to me in online swatches which is great. To me it seems quite grape-y in colour once applied to the lips. I do love a good purple as, although my skintone is warm (NC30), i have green eyes and purple makes them POP right out! 

PLEASE excuse how rough i look above. I'd literally JUST stepped in from London having been on trains and buses for hours (and up since the crack of dawn thanks to some extremely inconsiderate polish decorators). 

So all in all this is another MAC matte hit for me! I seem to have bought 3 matte lipsticks of theirs lately (the other two are Quick Sizzle and Honeylove) and their formula really is so superior to other matte lipsticks in my opinion. I didn't set out on purpose to order matte lipsticks but it just so happened that the colours that appealed to me just happened to be matte.

I know most people went nuts for the Reel Sexy lipstick from this collection, but i urge you to consider Heroine as it's so fantastically different to other lipsticks around at the moment! If you're too unsure and don't wanna risk the £13.50 for Heroine, i hear Max Factor have a lovely deep purple shade as well. 

Heroine is available while stocks last on the MAC website and MAC stores and concessions.

Have you dared to be different with colours recently?? What are your latest MAC must haves??

NOTD: OPI Metallic 4 Life

Another quick post tonight girls!

I'm trying to get my number up for April as i have totally FAILED blogwise this month. This is the lowest amount of posts per month i have had since i started my blog a YEAR ago! So i decided to snap a few piccies of my goffik, metallic Nicki Minaj mani yesterday as it just looked so sparkly and enticing haha.

I first posted about the OPI Nicki Minaj nail polish collection back in February. At the time i only posted about two of the shades out of the 4 i have so i thought it was about time to show the others some love. You can check out 'Fly' and 'Did it on em' HERE but today is the turn of 'Metallic 4 Life'...

I've kind of saved this polish and not wanted to waste it as it is possibly my favourite out of the collection. However, the other day i just REALLY fancied it and decided to give it it's first solo outing. Up to now i've only used it as an accent nail. 

One coat of this polish will do NOTHING for you. It's silver glitter contained in a greyish black jelly-type polish. Used on top of another colour it may be quite effective but one coat of this alone is VERY lacklustre. HOWEVER, once you add a second (or even a third) coat it really does start to look FABULOUS!! 

Over the weekend i received some beautiful pieces of handmade jewellery from Rhi of othersideofcool.com and all the skulls and crosses made me feel VERY rock chick so i just went for it! More to come on the jewellery later in the week. 

This polish hasn't disappointed me and i will definitely be coveting it and keeping it for special occasions. I may even attempt to get my hands on the full size because i will be very sad when it is gone. You don't get that much in a mini size. 

That leaves the only shade out of the collection that is unblogged to be Pink Friday... I guess i didn't rush to blog about it because i knew that it was the shade that would get the most attention elsewhere and i wanted to be different haha. As soon as we actually get some decent Spring/Summer weather i may indeed get my girly pink head on again and break it out. 

Do you love glitter?? Are you a metal freak when it comes to your nails?? What are your favourite OPI shades??