7 Deadly Sins Of Beauty Tag

I've been wanting to do this tag for a while now, so here it goes!

Greed

What is your most inexpensive beauty item? What is your most expensive?

My most inexpensive beauty item has got to be a 12 piece eye liner set, I wanted to try. I found it on eBay for about £2.70 for a 12 piece set! You can't sharpen them so onceI've used the tip up its all gone, but you really can't complain for £2.70! You get 12 different colours; Black, Navy Blue, Light Blue, Inky Blue, Olive Green, Grassy Green, Burgundy, Pink, Gold, Bronze, Purple and Brown. They have a crayon like texture, and glide on so smoothly, I wear them to school, and when I get home 6 hours later, it's still on! They're great and it says they can be doubled as lip liner, however I can't really see myself using them for that!

My most expensive item, is my Benefit Smokin' Brows and Eyes kit, which retails for £28.50, however I didn't pay for this item, and received it  from Elle magazine. So the most expensive item I've paid for is my Benefit, Bella Bamba blush! I love this blush so much it's absolutely gorgeous, and it's said to have a 3D effect! Theirs not much else to say about this blush! It's just great! It has a slight shimmer to it, and totally worth the money, as yet I haven't come across any dupes for it!

Wrath

What product do you have a Love Hate relationship with?

This has got to be my Miss Sporty So Matte foundation, as some days it can make my skin look flawless, yet other days if my skin hasn't got much of a colour, it can just look like a big orange mess, and I have to take it all off and use a different foundation! It's odd because sometimes this foundation is my colour, but as soon as my skin is a bit lighter than usual it looks awful! I usually use this product when I have fake tanned, as that's when it's a good match for my skin.

Gluttony 

What are your most delicious beauty products?

My most delicious beauty product has to be my MAC Dazzle Glass, it's in the colour 'Like Venus' and its Amazing! I love love love the textures of the mac lip-glosses as they glide on and aren't overly sticky. Also the colour is amazing! I just generally love Mac Products. These retail for only £17!

Sloth

What beauty product do you neglect due to laziness.

As much as I love wearing eye shadow, I really don't spend enough time perfecting it! I wear eye shadow most of the time, however I often just sweep a neutral shade all over my lid, instead of a smoky eye. This is my biggest fault!

Pride

What product gives you the most self confidence?

No doubt about it, this has to be my MAC lipsticks! When I put any of them on I feel absolutely great, and when I walk into a MAC store or up to a counter to purchase one I always feel guilty, but the get such a buzz of excitement after! I own MAC's Girl about town, Pink Pearl Pop, Violetta and Viva Glam Nicki. They each are quite different and means I always have one to suit the look I'm wearing. My favourite without a doubt is Girl about town, and recommend it for every skin type!

Lust

What attributes do you find most attractive in the opposite sex?

This is an odd question for this tag! Anyway, they need to have a good skin complexion!  I hate spots! I'm very lucky, as I rarely get spots, however I know that people can prevent their spots! They need to just look after their skin! It's a must! 

Envy

What product would you most like to receive as a gift?

Oh! How hard! Pretty much anything from MAC that I haven't already tried! I'd love to try Mac Face and Body foundation or something from NARS like a lipgloss, as I've never tried NARS before! 

Mac 'Girl About Town' review & DUPE!

Yes I finally caved in and bought it! Girl About Town is one of the must have staple lipsticks for MAC's huge collection! The lipstick isn't the cheapest though as they are £14 each.

I was so excited on getting this lipstick as I've heard so much about it from so many other bloggers, and when I was in MAC the other day, I just couldn't resist!

The lipstick is a bright fuchsia pink, with some blue undertones to it. I find this colour so easy to wear, even just on a day to day basis. The colour looks scary in the tube but it really isn't when you apply it. The colour lasts for hours! It has a creamy consistency when it's first applied, but then tried to a stain kind of form. It's an Amplified form lipstick to you need very little to give an amazing look!

DUPE!

When reorganising my makeup table the other day I found my much loved MUA lipstick in Shade 3. Opening it the colour looked pretty familiar, so I opened up MACs Girl About Town next to it and the colours looked similar but not identical.

I then swatched them both next to one another, and they are pretty similar! Close enough to be a dupe anyway! I'm really expressed at the pigmentation of the MUA lipsticks, they either get it so so right, or so very wrong! The MUA lipstick has an almost satin/amplified Finnish to it.

To conclude all of this, I don't regret getting Girl About Town at all as its such an amazing lipstick, however if your not able to pay the pricey £14 for this lipstick and still want a great colour,I highly recommend the steal MUA lipstick which is just £1!   

Mac Viva Glam Nicki

MAC VIVA GLAM NICKI Lipstick Satin

I first saw this lipstick when visiting the Mac counter with my friend Sadie last week, and instantly new i wanted it, however it would have been my 3rd Mac lipstick within 2 months if i did buy it... However Sadie persuaded me and after much conflict between my head and heart, i made the purchase and im SO glad i did!

Mac Vivia Glam Nicki is one of Nicki Minaj's lipsticks in the Viva Glam range, in which ALL of the proceeds go to the Mac AID's fund, which is one of the reasons i felt less guilty about buying it! 

A quote from the  http://www.macaidsfund.org/ says;

"The M·A·C AIDS Fund’s mission is to serve people of all ages, all races and all sexes affected by HIV and AIDS. To partner with the bold, the visionary and the brave who confront the epidemic in countries and communities where people are most neglected, off the radar and at highest risk. Responsive, agile and alert, MAF funds innovative programs that deal directly with the most marginalized, stigmatized and under-heard victims. MAF celebrates humanity, life, creativity and individuality. Making a difference, one VIVA GLAM lipstick at a time."

Now on to the Review!

It is a satin finnish so it has a semi-matte finnish and its conditioning to the lips, which i enjoy because unlike the amplified lipsticks it doesnt gather, and the pigmentation is AMAZING! You need the smallest amount across the lip, and it lasts pretty well. I reccomend retouching it up about every 3 hours! As always the smell of this Lipstick reminds me of cake mixture... Mac always make their lipsticks smell good!

That was with just one stroke!

I'd highly reccomend this lipstick to anyone daring enough for the brights!

How to spot a fake MAC lipstick

Now days their are so many great replicas of fake products, however if you only want the real deal, then before you buy, do some research! 

1) Fake mac lipsticks are often in a different size container to the real one, as seen as followed, the lipstick on the left is the real and on the right is the fake. The al lipstick is a little bit smaller than the real mac lipstick, unfortunately unless you are buying it in person and have a real mac lipstick with you this is often tricky to tell.

2) If you look at the label underneath the sticker should have slight texture to it and not look as if it has just been printed off. The real mac sticker also shouldn't say Mac on it, however the fake one does.

3) The ring around the opening of the fake mac normally tends to be more shiny than the real one. The real mac ring is a matt finished silver metal look,however on the fake it is quite shiny, not matt. 

4) The fake mac lipstick is printed on to the container and can scratch of easily, however the real mac writing is slightly engraved and it is very hard for it to come off!

Hopefully some of these ways will help you tell if your buying the real mac or not. Here are some extra tips for you.

-Only buy from trusted sellers, such as the mac website, shop or counter.

-The real mac containers are smooth and don't feel horrible when you scratch it with you nail.

-If it's cheaper than £10 it probably isn't real.

-On the boxes of the mac lipsticks it should say 'Back 2 Mac' on the inner tab.

Hope this helped!