Estee Lauder Pure Color Gloss in Passion Fruit - Review & Swatches

I got this gloss (full size!) as a gift with the purchase of Marie Claire magazine. This was only available in Australia and it was quite a while ago so this issue won't be available anymore =( At the time these glosses were only just released so the gift was obviously to promote the product and get people to try it.

On with the review...Estee Lauder's Pure Color Gloss in Passion Fruit has a shimmer finish (this collection comes in 3 different finishes: shine, shimmer and sparkle).


I adore the colour of this gloss, it's a vibrant red-y pink shade with pink and gold shimmer. It has a sheer-medium coverage, so the colour does show up while allowing your natural lip colour to show through. I would definitely prefer if it was more pigmented. If you have very pigmented lips, this would probably be a bit too sheer for you.

Bare lips:

With gloss:

Overall, I really really enjoy this gloss, it adds a nice bit of colour to your bare lips. I like using it on top of bright pink lipsticks such as NYX Round Lipstick in Rose. I think that this gloss is very fitting now that it is Spring.

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Ebay false lashes from oooushop

If you've seen my recent couple of posts (Aa Ball 2010 - Night of Luminance and Bold black and silver eyes), you probably would have noticed I was wearing false lashes. This was the first time I bought false lashes and the ball was the first occasion which I wore false lashes to. I have helped others to apply false lashes in the past...but never on myself before...I know...weird...lol

Anyway, since this was my first time, I decided to go with cheaper lashes so I could practice and if I screwed up I wouldn't be wasting like another $15 on good lashes.

I bought a box of 10 pairs from the oooushop on ebay. They were extremely cheap, I believe they were on special when I got them and they cost me only $2.35AUD including shipping (from Hong Kong to Australia). To see the exact pairs I got click here. The shipping was pretty fast, they arrived within a week from when my payment was confirmed and I had no issues with their service at all, however they could have had more secure packaging. They sent the box of lashes in an envelope but when they arrived the envelope was not securely glued down and was semi open. Plus the box was a bit squashed on one side.



These are not made of real hair so they can look plastic-y.  They have thick bands that aren't very flexible so can be pokey and uncomfortable to wear. 

Overall these lashes do add a lot of length and volume.  They looked 'relatively' natural against my heavy eye-makeup.  But without heavy eye-makeup, they would definitely look over the top and fake.


I probably won't be using these again.  They served me well on the night, but they were just a bit too uncomfortable especially now that I have used other brands.

Mini Inglot Haul

A few weeks ago I went shopping with my best friend because she was in need of some accessories and makeup for her ball. We stopped by Inglot and can you believe they had some things on sale!! It wasn't like a whole section or product on sale, just random items. So there were a few shades of eyeshadow, blushes, powders, pigments, etc. with little sale stickers on them. So I'm not sure if these sales are consistent through all stores in Australia.

Anyway I was pretty excited when I saw them. I had only bought a pigment, angled eye liner brush and makeup remover from them previously so I really wanted to try some more stuff. And how often do you see this stuff go on sale?!

First I bought 2 AMC Eye Shadows in number 67 and 52 . (Yes it totally sucks that they don't have names lol).
They were originally I believe around $20 AUD but these were reduced to $8 each. They have a net weight of 2.4g.


52 is a yellow toned brown shade with brown and gold sparkle/shimmer.


67 is a medium to dark indigo colour with blue and white sparkle/shimmer.
The reason I say "sparkle/shimmer" is that the flecks in it aren't fine enough to be shimmer as you can detect each individual fleck, but it's not chunky enough to be a glitter. I was somewhat disappointed with these as they only have reasonable pigmentation. When trying them in store with fingers they seemed really pigmented but when actually applying with brushes it wasn't amazing. I was expecting full-on pigment after hearing good things about Inglot eyeshadow. However I think it may just be this particular line of eyeshadows because my friend bought one of their Freedom System palettes and the pigmentation on those was absolutely stunning. Nonetheless, if you apply some base or primer they turn out pretty well.


I also bought a Face Blush in 26.


This is a matte light peach shade.
The blush was originally around the $20-25 mark as well I think (sorry I've forgotten all the prices) and was reduced to $6!! It has a net weight of 2.5g which isn't very big at all which is a shame. The pigmentation of this is amazing and so smooth! I've been looking for a cheap straight peach blush for ages (no shimmer and no pink tinge). On my yellow toned skin, the peach colour is definitely more subtle than a pink. It makes me look more tanned. The only downsides would be the quantity which I mentioned earlier and also the packaging. It comes with a screw top lid, I would much prefer a flip top since I tend to misplace the lid lol.

That's everything!