Second Bloggerversary Giveaway!

April means my little blog has turned 2! It's become such a big part of my life and has introduced me to so many wonderful people. Last year I hosted a blog giveaway, so I decided to make it a yearly tradition! This giveaway will run for 2 weeks from today and I'll announce the winner on 15th May. Here's what you can win!

A beautiful ceramic 'Love' sign kindly donated by The Crafty Retreat of Scartho, Grimsby. Because this is ceramic you can paint it in any colour you like, or leave it as is.

A tote bag designed and donated by illustrator and generally awesome body positive artist MurderOfGoths! This jellyfish design came from MoG asking for ideas on twitter, and as I love fat merbabe designs, I suggested fat jellyfish and shark babes. And being the genius MoG is, this was the end result. It's so damn cute!

A matte pigment gloss in 'Secret' from L.A. Girl. I love their range of matte liquid lipsticks so snagged an extra red for the giveaway. You can see my review of this here.

Adorable 'Lucky 13' earrings I bought from Punky Pins. These are acrylic mounted on butterfly studs and really cute!

A copy of feminist zine 'Women Can Be : Volume One' kindly donated by Melly Em Clark, plus the fab illustration pictured above. You can read all about the zine in my blog post here.

And finally, this incredible necklace kindly donated by Celia Rose Jewellery. This is a stunning stirling silver piece and I wish I could keep it for myself to be quite honest. Celia is the genius making our wedding rings and I am so thrilled to have her involved in the giveaway.

Entries are made via the Rafflecopter box below.

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Due to the nature of the prizes this giveaway is UK only, sorry! It will be sent via FedEx which is a delivery that will need to be signed for.

Enjoy and good lucky!

Much love,

Kitty xxxxx

LA Girl USA Matte Pigment Gloss Review

I've gotten a bit obsessed with liquid lipsticks. There are so many brands I want to try, but I'm a drug store prices sort of girl, so I just can't bring myself to spend £15-£20 on one liquid lipstick. I came across LA Girl on Cocktail Cosmetics, a UK based site that stock a lot of US faves including Jeffree Starr Cosmetics and Sugarpill. I was hopeful LA Girl would be cruelty free as a lot of the brands Cocktail Cosmetics stock are, and after some googling I was happy to be able to confirm that they are! And so, an order was placed. I managed to snag these on sale on a different site, but having ordered from Cocktail Cosmetics before I can highly recommend them.

LA Girl USA Matte Pigment Gloss

Left to Right - 

Iconic

Stunner

Blackcurrant

Secret

Bazaar

Fleur

The packaging is a cute chunky tube with a matte top. The applicators are a flat doe foot shape, which I found made them a bit trickier to apply as with any matte lipstick you have to be really precise. While these are called a matte pigment gloss, they are your usual liquid lipstick style and not glossy at all.

I applied these left to right, so you can see how quickly they tend to dry. These are swatched in the same order I photographed the tubes above. I opted to swatch all of these on my arm as liquid lipstick can be tough to remove and I didn't want my lips to end up worse for wear.

Fleur is a lighter brown colour that looked like it would be a more subtle look for day to day. And I do occasionally do subtle!

It has quite a terracotta finish, a little bit more orange than I would usually go for but still pretty. I can see this suiting a lot of different skin tones too.

Bazaar wasn't one I was particularly excited about when I ordered it, but I thought it might surprise me, and I was right!

I really love the tones in this. It dried really nicely and is quite an unusual colour for me, but I love it! It's quite neon on the lips which I love.

Secret was an obvious choice. You just have to try out a good classic red! It's a pin up classic for a reason.

Secret has a slightly blue undertone which is exactly how I like my reds. My application was a bit patchy, so blame me, not the makeup on this one. I purchased an extra one of these to give away in my next blog give away, coming soon!

Blackcurrant was the darkest shade I went for, and probably the one I struggled with the most. 

It took the longest to dry by far, and I found it the patchiest. It's a lush deep purple that appealed to my inner goth, so maybe it just needs more patience than I had on this occasion!

Stunner was another easy choice for me, I love a good purple lippy, and this looked like a pretty colour.

Again, much like the other purple, it took a long time to dry and and came out patchy. It seems to have only been the purple toned lippies I had this problem with, as the others were all fine. On the official swatches I've seen this looks metallic and and a lot darker than it actually is. It came out quite lilac, whereas the swatches are a somewhat metallic darker purple. This is the one I was most disappointed with, it looks nothing like the official swatches.

Iconic just looked like candy floss, I had to try it!

Just look at that. It dried beautifully and looks exactly the same in the tube as it does on my arm. So cute! I think this will be a colour I reach for once spring really starts to appear.

In all, for £6.95 a tube, I was pretty impressed. The purples formula was disappointing, but I loved the other 4. I plan to get hold of a few of the other colours when I can!

Have you tried any of their range? What are your fave liquid lippies?

Much love,

Kitty xxxx

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