Limecrime Velvetines. My New Love

This week my husband and I celebrated our fifth year wedding anniversary. After several hints, the boy did good and surprised me with not one but two lip lacquers from the Velvetines range. 

First was Red Velvet. A rich deep red colour and beautifully matte, just perfect!

They stay put for a good few hours. I even went out for ribs and barely needed to reapply.

Next was Utopia. Not quite pink, not quite purple but suited my complexion perfectly. 

 Even love the packaging. That's a bit sad right? 

As much as I love lipstick, they just don't seem to last as long as I would like them or they are too shiny for me. With Christmas right around the corner, I think I need to drop a few hints about Salem!

The full Velvetines range can be found here http://limecrime.com/lips/velvetines-39.html

Joyful June Present Swap

For June the ever wonderful Debz had the idea of doing a present swap for us bloggers. We had a £10 budget to buy a fellow blogger a gift as a surprise swap. Much like a secret Santa. We got told who we were to buy for but not who was buying for us. I LOVE getting parcels in the post so I was truly game.

I happen to adore the person I had to buy for so found it pretty easy to choose something. 

The gifts I received were so generous and the gifted certainly knew my taste!

This is what I got! (Such a lucky girl!) The colours were spot on, I've used every product and wore the necklace which reminds me of funky bunting. The lip laquer is amazing. I thought they were like a lip gloss but I was wrong, it's matt and stays put for hours. I'm so hooked that I've ordered the other colours in the range too!

I can't wait for the next swap and a massive thank you to my secret sender xx