Blogmas day 12! -Sleek Advent

A new day, a new door! I was very excited when I opened up number 12 to see another palette! As I opened up the case I saw 12 beautiful colours. The packing of the palette is the same as the previous one, plain black with the Sleek logo on.

It's filled with 12 beautiful colours, I would definitely say it's more of a night time palette.  There's lots of shades with glitter in and also a lot of dark colours. Brilliant for smokey eyes!

I've swatched the colours to show you how bright and pigmented the eyeshadows are! and you lucky lot have also got a full face of Sleek make up photos and my first Youtube video (which I'll leave down this page somewhere.)

So much colour in one wipe of each eyeshadow! I'm also going to put in a picture of the pigment that was left on my fingers after I'd swatched them! 

Can you see how much is still on there?! -I mean that blue is something else!

The colours I swatched on my fingers from L-R were number 9, 5 and 10.

I am now going to show you my full face of make up I used using all the products I have received in my Sleek advent calendar so far! - for such things like contour and foundation I have used my own other products as these wasn't in the calendar. However where I could I've used only Sleek.

Find my first Youtube video here: 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uC5ICJAVLL8&t=18s

 Subcribe if you like and I may do more and even get brave and talk!

Be nice! I've even got my Christmas Jumper on!!!

Day 13 tomorrow..

Blogmas day 11! -Sleek Advent

What's behind door 11 you ask? Well today's Sleek product was a makeup brush. This brush is to apply eye makeup, so lets have a look a bit closer.

As you can see the brush is all black with white hairs at the very top. The brush is so soft and quite fluffy therefore it is brilliant for blending. It is also an angled brush which helps apply make up into corners.

I have swatched an eyeshadow onto my wrist to show how well the brush works. The swatch at the top is an eyeshadow applied with one of my flat brushes which has packed the pigment onto my arm brilliantly however the line is quite harsh. The bottom swatch is applied with this Sleek brush we got in today's advent. In the picture you can see how well the brush has blended the eyeshadow in without taking away the pigment. It has left no harsh lines it's all soft so will apply the eyeshadows beautifully making smokey eyes easier!

I definitely need to try a smokey look with the Sleek palette from this advent calendar and now this fluffy angled brush!

See you for day 12!

                                

Blogmas day 10! -Sleek Advent

How have we now done 10 days of this?! Behind today's door we got another lip pencil. Again it's from the twist up range which as I've said many times before is a lot easier. The colour of the packing is the shade of the pencil which is a lovely berry tone, again perfect for autumn/winter.

The nib on this pencil is again thin therefore it's easier to be very accurate when doing your outline.

The pencil is so smooth and glides so wont hurt when applying as some pencils can when they need sharpening and also helps for a perfect application.

I had a look through my lipstick collection to see if I had something that could match this lovely colour and I was over the moon when I found one of my lipsticks from the Rimmel Kate Moss range matched. The Sleek pencil shade is - Shabby Chic and the Rimmel is - Rossetto Rouge 104. In these pictures I've swatched Sleek on the top then middle line is Sleek at the top of the line mixed with Rimmel straight underneath and finally Rimmel on the bottom line just to show the difference (or lack of) in the shades.

I know in the picture it looks like there is hardly any difference but that is because these colours match SO well! -Good find and match by myself if i do say so myself.

Hope you've all had a very festive snowy Sunday! - Any pictures comment them down below this post!

Blogmas Day 9! -Sleek Advent

What was behind today's door? Well  you'll be pleased to know that it isn't an eye product for the fourth day in a row! Today's product is a nail polish!

This shade is so lovely! and I love love love the colour! It's a plum/berry colour! I think it's such a lovely shade for autumn and winter, you can mix it with so many colours; blacks, browns and mustard colours go really well with it!

This particular shade from Sleek is called 'Velvet Supper.' Once again I was too excited by the colour to read the bottle. So when I applied it to my nails I was surprised that it was drying matte! As I've said before I love the matte finish but there are gel top coats out there if you prefer the shiny look -Although I definitely think it doesn't need it.

The shade is a little bit lighter than what it is showing up on the photos. Before anyone says.. I know I haven't painted them perfectly. I have had to quickly paint my nails, take my photos and write this blog post to get it up asap as I have a party tonight so I really should be going to get ready!

Lets see what door number 10 brings tomorrow!

Blogmas day 7! - Sleek advent

Day 7 and behind today's door was another eye product, an eye pencil. The packaging is all black with the white 'Sleek' logo at the bottom.

The eye pencil is from the same range as the lip pencil -twist up. Again no mess or effort sharpening!
The colour today was black, perfect to go alongside any of the colours from the palette in yesterday's post!  The shade is 'Midnight 133'.

The nib on the eye pencil is quite a thin point so it is good for winged liner if you don't feel confident using liquid liner or even just feel like winging it with pencil. This pencil did smudge very easily which is a good thing it makes it absolutely perfect for smokey eyes! -Always a gorgeous look and a definite favourite of mine.

The top line is showing how thin the liner can be and also how thick and dark it can go depending on the pressure when you apply it. I feel like this eyeliner would be long lasting because I had my hands in water and it didn't come off. Perfect for long days/nights wearing it or on the waterline you know it wouldn't come off straight the way.

Speak tomorrow!

24 days of Sleek - Days 1 & 2 -Blogmas

I'm going to be completely honest here.. I have waited weeks to open my advent calendar. I had my eye on the sleek one weeks before I got it. So When the day finally came I was excited. I contained that excitement for a few more minutes whilst my little one opened his Paw Patrol and Lego City advents first.

Day one:
I opened up door number one to a little compact case. With the usual lovely smooth Sleek packaging, black with their logo. Very simple but I think it works, not too busy. I then opened up the case with a mirror on one side and a Beautiful rose gold blusher. It is a stunning peachy/pink coloured blusher with gold specks of highlight in and it is perfect and for those who know me, know I love me some highlight. I have needed a new blusher because the current one I was using was a bit dark and dim. This is honestly gorgeous and will definitely become a statement in my everyday make up!

Day two:
Here we are on December 2nd and day two of the advent. This one I had a good Eye- dear  (I will get the pun police after me!) anyway, I had an idea that it was a make up brush because of the shape of the door - I'm sad I know -but c'mon when someone gives you a malteaser shaped box you shake it to make sure it's them don't you?

So the brush in day number two is a fluffy but flat eyeshadow brush. Its again in the Sleek design of black and the smooth material -perfect for grip!

I've included a picture of today's make up, I did use the new blusher and also used my new eyeshadow brush to apply my eyeshadow. I used the brush to apply my eyeshadow across the middle of my lid, This brush applied it lovely, picked up loads of product and went on lovely I just finished it off by using a blending brush to get rid of any harsh lines.

So at the end of day 2 of my Sleek advent calendar, I am very pleased. This is what I have received so far and we're only on day 2! 

Who's excited for more?