I ordered a few items from the internet over the past few days. I used http://www.debenhams.ie and http://www.beautyemporium.ie/ . I didn't have to pay shipping on Debenhams, I think they have a promotion going on or something. I paid a flat rate charge of €2 on Beauty Emporium for my items. But if you spend €45 or more there you get free shipping. It's an Irish company based in Wexford so you know it's great to support Irish owned businesses and the Irish economy.
I really reccomend this website because they have alot of the makeup brands that there is a pretty high charge for shipping on. But €2 is amazing. They usually always have a sale on and the makeup when it's not on sale is pretty cheap anyway! Great for your purse and your makeup collection. They also do beauty tools, eyelashes, nail polishes and much more. Check them out it's really worth the look. And the most amazing thing is you have your items within 2 days of ordering them! http://www.beautyemporium.ie/
My items were late from beauty emporium because their software shut down and they couldn't access anything to work on the orders. So they got in contact with me when it was back up and running and told me what had happened. They apologise and gave me 2 free items to show they were sorry. I think that's pretty amazing because not may other companies would do that. I had my items the next day.
So without further adieu here is my haul. :)
I'll start with Debenhams!
Yes I bought the NAKED PALETTE 2! By Urban Decay! I love it!! I always loved the naked palette 1 but the number 2 is AMAZING! It comes with a double ended brush (crease brush & flat shader). A mini lipjunkie lipgloss in the colour naked. It's now packaged in a tin case that securely closes and can be cleaned with a wet wipe. It has a huge mirror on the inside also. I defiantly prefer the packaging of the Naked 2 because it can't open in your bag like my original one did. And fluff doesn't stick to the outside of the case either.
The colours are amazing. All Urban Decay shadows are usually amazing quality but these are superb. And they are even better when you use them with the primer potion. Sadly one isn't supplied in the set like in the original naked palette. It's €40.50.
The colours are : Busted (deep brown – shimmer), Blackout ( black - matte), Pistol (light grey/brown - shimmer), Verve
(oyster - shimmer), Booty Call (cork - shimmer), Foxy (creamy bisque - matte),
Half Baked (golden bronze- shimmer), Chopper (copper with slight silver glitter
- shimmer), Snake Bite (dark bronze – shimmer but also metallic base), Suspect
(light golden beige- shimmer) Tease (creamy light brown- matte), YDK (cool
bronze- shimmer but also metallic base)
The brush that comes with the pallet!
Crease end -------------------Flat Shader end!
That's just what it looks like inside.
A comparison between Naked 1 & Naked 2 shadow colours!
Mini lipjunkie lipgloss in the shade Naked.
Open.
Swatch of lipgloss
I really like this lipgloss. It's very minty and smooth. It's also sheer so the colour is buildable and it's extremely creamy. I will defiantly be buying this lipgloss full size.
Debenhams also included a sample of the new Ghost Whisper perfume for free! I will defiantly be purchasing that perfume full size! It smells amazing!
Beauty Emporium purchases!
The first thing I bought was a Sleek blush. Well 2 actually, one in the colour Coral & one in the colour Rose Gold. The blushes were €6 each. Which is very good for a blush and a blush of this quality. Because these blushes are extremely pigmented. A little bit really does go along way with these! And the packaging is very sleek smooth plastic that closes perfectly!
Rose Gold - Dupe for Nars Orgasm blush. Peachy pink colour with gold shimmer! Absolutely beautiful.
Coral - a beautiful coral colour perfect for these springtime trends!
Swatch of both blushes. Rose gold on bottom and Coral on top.
eos lipbalm - Strawberry Sorbet.
Love it, makes my lips very soft and doesn't sting like Carmex. €5.75
A bourjois eyeshadow set. (free item)
A teal green colour and a white sheer shimmer colour are in this set. It was a free item and I'm so happy it was because the shadows are terrible! There is barley any pigmentation. You really have to get alot of the green colour on your brush to even see it.
Here's a swatch.
As you can see very bad quality. You can barley make out the white colour.
Sleek lipgloss in the shade " in your dreams 738 " (free item)
I really don't like this lipgloss. The colour is strong but the lipgloss it's self is very thick and gloopy and extremely sticky! Once again I'm delighted I didn't have to pay for this or else I would be disgusted that I wasted my money on it. It's a lanyard too so it's very very small.
Open!
Swatch of the gloss.
All the items I bought!
All in all I'm very happy with the items I purchased and the sample of perfume but the free gloss and eyeshadows are terrible! And I wouldn't reccomend anyone to buy them. But I do reccomend the beauty emporium website and I will be purchasing from them in the near future again.
Niamh.x
