Sleek Palettes

I mentioned in a post a while back that I got my first sleek palette, in original. Well since then, I got sucked in to all the hype and had to get the new limited edition palette, circus! I think the palettes are great value for money at £5.99 for 12 very pigmented eye shadows!

Original

The packaging on all the permanent palettes is the same, sleek black. I like this, its plain and classy!

You get a generous amount of shadow, and a big mirror!

As you can see, there is a wide range of colours, all highly pigmented. They are all pearl except the black, which is matte. This is a palette I can see myself getting alot of use out of.

Circus

The limited edition palettes are normally a different colour, and this one is red, which is befitting to the circus theme!

The colours in this one are very bright and circus like.

I am not sure I will get quite so much use out of this palette, but it will be great for adding a pop of colour to an eye. There are alot more matte shades in this one. Now I just need to practice my eye make up skills, so I can post some eye of the days.

Hope you enjoyed a look at my sleek palettes, any recommendations for my next one?

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e.l.f and Sleek goodies

Good evening Ladies!
Hope you all had a good week, mine was fun as I was down in London visiting my bro, and also got to catch up with the boyf who was down for work!

I didn't buy much when I was down there, as the pennies are running very low, but I did get my first ever Sleek Palette! I chose Original-

I haven't done any swatches, as I guessed most people have seen them before, I'm a bit late jumping on the Sleek bandwagon! Please let me know if you would like to see any though! I chose this one as the colours seem very versatile, and not too bright, which I'm not keen on. I really want to get better at eye make up, so i'll be playing around with these alot.

So I  have had a wee list accumulating of stuff I wanted from e.l.f, and when last weeks offer of free postage, free lip glosses and competition entry came up, I could resist no longer! Here is a pretty bad photo of what I got-

Pretty restrained, hey? I have been wanting the brushes for a while, in particular the flat topped one.

I got the studio powder brush (flat top), studio blush brush, and defining eye brush. I plan to use the blush brush to develop my contour skills, and the eye brush along with my new sleek palette, to do better eyes! I'm going to be busy in front of my mirror (and youtube!).

Closer look at the flat top-

This is called a powder brush, but I bought it for putting on my foundation. It is very dense, and I did try swiping it over some powder, but it seemed to pick up a bit much for my liking. I prefer my e.l.f studio complexion brush for powder. I haven't tried this yet for my liquid foundation, but I have high hopes after reading about it on other blogs!

The other thing I got was the studio blush in Gotta Glow, which is a highlight rather than a blush, i'd say.

I really like this product, its got a nice sturdy case, its shimmery, but not too much, and gives a nice highlighted effect! Yay for e.l.f!

Hope you all have a good weekend, I have a hen do, so need to decide what to wear!