April Glossybox 2013 - Big Disappointment.

Today I received my glossybox. It was free this month (redeemed my glossydots) and so I thought why not. This was mostly because I had got an email saying that the star product this month was an Essie nail varnish, so I was very excited to receive my box. I love Essie :D

I opened my box and firstly saw that I had not received an Essie nail polish but a lipcote lipstick sealer. WHAT? This is not even close to the price of an Essie polish, it retails for £3.99. 

The other products were OK, but that is all. The most exciting thing in the box was an Illamasqua pencil. Even that wasn't very good, they have given me a bright pink colour. 

Then I got a Nip+Fab body butter. It seems nice enough but half the product seems to be missing. It's ridiculous. 

The perfume sample is a Yves Rocher eau de parfum. The bottle is pretty cute, perfect for my handbag. The smell doesn't do anything for me, but I will probably still use it. 

The last thing is a collagen and aloe Vera hydro mask. You get one mask in the packet. It  doesn't look amazing. I'm young, I don't really need a collagen mask, but I suppose I'll give it a try. 

I would swap an Essie Nail polish for all these products any day. 

Really really disappointed with this box. 

had such high hopes. 

The main issue I had was that I received an email saying that the star product was an Essie polish. I assumed that the email was saying that everyone would be getting one.  It's false advertising. There was no little disclaimer at the bottom, saying, not all boxes include this, it is very misleading. I have already complained. I wish I could send my box back and get what I really wanted and thought I was getting. :(

Thanks for reading :(

Naked palette vs Sleek Storm - Similarities and Differences

So, just recently I managed to buy a product that I have wanted for a very long time. The Urban Decay Naked Palette. I went to France for the day and decided in Sephora that I just had to get it. For me there wasn't a big struggle when choosing between the Naked 1 and 2, I had always wanted the Naked 1, so that was that. I love it so much. It became the eye shadow palette that I use every day. My favourite colours are half baked, sidecar and buck. Buck is a very simple matte brown, but it is so good for your crease. Also this palette is quite neutral, which means you can wear it as your everyday look. 

I also have the sleek storm palette. I bought this a long time before the naked palette, and had been using it occasionally, but no where as near as much as I use the naked palette. it is a good palette, full of perfect colours to use day to day. 

I thought that because these palettes are quite similar it would be nice to compare them. I have been neglecting my blog for a while, so I thought that now would be a good time to write a new post. 

Firstly I'll list the colours that are very similar to each other. 

It is hard to do because sleek palettes don't have names for their shadows, but I will insert a picture here. The top row will be 1-6 starting from the left and the bottom row will be 7-12

Gunmetal - 8

Toasted - 5

Naked - 3

Buck - 11 (11 is a bit darker)

Creep - 10 (slightly similar)

Half Baked - 1 and 4

Virgin - 2

I would also say that 7 is similar to smog and darkhorse.

So there you have it. 

Now onto the comparison

Colours - In each palette there are 12 colours. Some similar, some different.Both palettes contain neutral colours.  

Price - The sleek palette costs £7.99 and the Naked palette is £36

Bonus Items - The Naked palette comes with bonus items - a good karma brush (which I really like) and a mini primer potion. I love the primer potion and I have already bought a full size for when my small one runs out. 

The sleek palette comes with a normal eye shadow sponge brush. It was perfectly ok, that is until it fell of one end. It was however a lot better than the normal, tiny sponge brushes. 

Packaging - The sleek palette packaging has sort of fallen apart for me. The lid has come of the little hinges and now it takes a lot of effort to close it. The Naked palette does not have the most practical packaging but I find that if I need to put it in my bag or take it on holiday I simply tie a few hair bobbles at the ends which really helps. 

My opinion - IN my opinion the naked palette is worth the money. Yes it is £36 but yes it does live up to very high standards. It is amazing. With the sleek palette, I suppose I was expecting more. I would buy another palette from sleek but for me it doesn't really compare the the naked palette. The pigmentation is very good and the colours are lovely for a drugstore eye shadow palette but spending a bit more gets you a very lovely palette. 

So that's it guys. Please tell me what you think and follow this blog. 

I also recently purchased the Naked 2 after I fell in love with the naked 1. As well as the UD book of shadows - New york , which was on offer a couple of weeks ago at the airport. If you would like some reviews of those, or an in depth review of the naked 1 please let me know. Thanks for reading 

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