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03 December 2011

INGLOT Eyeshadow Palette Giveaway

Dia daoibh!

THIS GIVEAWAY HAS NO ENDED. WINNER ANNOUNCED HERE :)

So if you read my post from yesterday you will know what this is all about!! I have a beautiful 10 Square INGLOT Eye Shadow Palette to giveaway to one of my blog followers. I'm really delighted about this! These are the exact same colours that I just bought myself so I hope you like what I chose. There are 7 Pearl finishes (my favourite) one matte, one AMC Shine and one AMC. Here is the palette!

Top Row L-R:

405 12 55 421 423

395 447 358 454 404

Bottom Row Left - Right

This is the top row of the palette in the same order:

405 12 55 421 423

This is the bottom row of the palette in the same order:

395 447 358 454 404

You likey!? You wanty!? Here's how to enter. ENTRY #1 (2 parts) are the two you MUST do to be entered. Extra entries are optional.

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ENTRY #1 (2 parts)

1. Be a follower of my blog - after all this is what the whole giveaway is about. To share some nicies with you lovelies who read and follow my ramblings! If you're not following just click "Join this site" to the right of my blog. If that's not there you can click "follow" on the very top left corner. Make sure to leave your Google Friend Connect Name in the comments below.

1a. Email your answer to the following question to Laura@Fitznbitz.com or else you can Twitter Mail/Facebook PM me your answer.

What other lipstick did I compare my INGLOT 144 lipstick to? <--- click there for some help to find the answer!

EXTRA ENTRY #2(optional)

2. Follow me on twitter HERE

EXTRA ENTRY #3(optional)
3. Tweet the following :

If ud like the chance 2 win a brand new 10 Square INGLOT eyeshadow palette have a look at @FitznBitz 's giveaway here http://www.fitznbitz.com/2011/12/inglot-eyeshadow-palette-giveaway.html

EXTRA ENTRY #4(optional)

4. Add me as a friend on Facebook HERE

EXTRA ENTRY #5(optional)
5. Share the following on Facebook (make sure to @link my name properly so that I see it):

If ud like the chance 2 win a brand new 10 Square INGLOT eyeshadow palette have a look at @Fitz N Bitz 's giveaway here http://www.fitznbitz.com/2011/12/inglot-eyeshadow-palette-giveaway.html

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At the end tell me the number of entries you are entitled to 1/2/3/4/5 in the comments below and make sure to leave your GFC name also.

And that's it. Competition is open internationally and will end on Thursday 15th December 2011. Hopefully it'll arrive before Christmas!

Slán

02 December 2011

INGLOT Limerick Xmas Event & Surprise!

FitznBitz 8:56 PM Beauty Bitz , INGLOT 22 Comments

Dia daoibh!

In case you don't know by now, I consider myself a big fan of INGLOT Cosmetics. They have great quality products, a huge selection and very reasonable prices. I was delighted when I found out that they were opening their first store in Ireland out of Dublin!

Last night I attended the official launch/Xmas Shopping Event at the brand new INGLOT store at the Crescent Shopping Centre in Limerick. The night was full of special offers with 10% of everything in store, more products with even more off and the first 25 people in the door at 6pm received goodie bags! I was not one of those lucky gals as the queue was more than impressive! Nearly though! I did however receive a complementary makeover voucher! (Would you like one? Keep reading!) In-case you don't know, the store is located by the escalators/underground carpark entrance. With permission I took some pics of the fabulous store for you all to have a gawk at!

The Limerick Inglot Team were all so friendly and very helpful on the night. So refreshing to see such great customer service!

How could you not be impressed by that!! At the moment they have arranged some special Christmas gift sets. Here's a look at a few of them.

I bought some goodies for myself.... obvs!!

Oh my am I happy with my 10 Square Eye-shadow palette! (Regular price €55) Swatches coming on tomorrows special post!

Lipstick number 411. It's a beautiful matte burgundy colour. (Regular price €12)

AMC Cream Blush number 84. It's a dusky baby pink colour. (Regular price €14) I think the blush could be really handy for your handbag, because it's small and won't crumble and break like a powder blush. He's a rough pic below of me wearing the lippie and blush. (can't see my coldsore/spot thing from this angle... wink! Looking a bit pale though, apologies, have no foundation on!!)

XMAS SURPRISE!!

Now finally I have a special treat for you all! I spoke with Denise, the manager of the store prior to the event and also on the evening. I also met the Inglot brand manager Jane and we had a little chat about the brand and the new store. They very generously organised to offer me an eye-shadow palette worth €55 to giveaway to one of my blog followers!!! Yay!! I decided to pick the very same colours that are in my own palette. Full of grey, brown, gold, copper, wine colours.

I'm so excited about this!! I want everyone to know and try out some Inglot! I also have two more complementary makeover vouchers valid for the Limerick store.

For the chance to win, check out my post tomorrow!! (NOW HERE!) Yayzers!!

Slán

28 November 2011

Brand new e.l.f Lipsticks alert!

FitznBitz 5:05 PM Beauty Bitz , ELF 31 Comments

Dia daoibh!

If you follow me on TWITTER you might have heard that I was chosen by e.l.f (Eyes Lips Face) Cosmetics to review their line of brand new and un-released lipsticks!! I was delighted to be chosen, as I knew many British ladies were also keen to review these babies!! I was a bit late in receiving mine due to the postal services, but finally they arrived. The lipsticks are part of the permanent regular line and just in the last couple of days, are now available on the website HERE for just £1.50/€1.75! Here are the 6 colours available

L-R: Nostalgic, Charming, Flirtatious, Captivating, Sociable, Fearless.

THE PACKAGING

I personally really like the packaging. I love that you can see the colour of the lipstick straight away. I'm not a fan of clear lids in the effort to do this, so to me this is the best idea I have seen for this! I do have a few little quams though! Scroll back up to the first pic. Notice anything!?? The lid of the 5th one is the opposite way around. I presume this was a mistake. Also, if you'd care to take a look at the picture below, you will notice that 2 lipsticks were missing their name & info labels from the end. Hmmm....not the best start, but nothing disastrous either, just a little hiccup I guess!!

One other slight negative I have about the packaging is that when fully wound closed, the head of the lipstick still sticks out over the clear tube (as seen in the pic below), so it will be easy to take chunks out of it when replacing the lid. Other than these few factors, they are reasonably sturdy for the price and overall I really do like the packaging.

THE PRODUCT

Now onto the actual lipsticks. They have a slight sweet fragrance which is lovely and can be tasted ever so slightly when removing if you lick your lips!

They are extremely moisturising. They leave a moist/wet look on the lips and are very easy to apply and blend. Because they are so moisturising, this means that they are also quite delicate (which as below, you can see I learned the hard way!!) This is my own fault though, as I opened the lipstick to the max for photographic purposes!! On regular usage I'm sure most of you won't be opening it fully!! NOT for the heavy handed! Now my 'Captivating' is a bit of a mess. Boo!! :(

THE SHADES

And now moving onto the most interesting part; the colours!! First impression? B-E-A-uuuutiful colours! Amazingly pigmented. I would even say they are even on par with MAC, including even the nude colour! Here we go!!

Nostalgic, Charming, Flirtatious, Captivating, Sociable, Fearless

NOSTALGIC

CHARMING

FLIRTATIOUS

CAPTIVATING

SOCIABLE

(This has a small amount of silver glitter in it but it doesn't show up in pics or in person! You can see it when you take off the lipstick though! Dono what that's all about!! Perhaps to make it seem shinier!? Meh!)

FEARLESS

UPDATE: I wore Fearless today and just wanted to update of how it wore. Reds are notorious for staying power/staining and this was the same. Most (but not all!!) of the moisture faded as expected but A LOT of the colour stayed. This is how my lips are looking after 6hours 36 minutes! (click to have a bigger look)

I have something to say..... I would GENUINELY wear ALL of these colours! There is not one that I do not like. The nude didn't photograph particularly well, but in person it is fab. I was particularly surprised by it (Nostalgic) I've never come across a cheap nude lipstick as good as this. It really is fantastically pigmented for a nude. Also the red (Fearless) shocked me. In person it's slightly deeper, it looks a little bit pinker in the photo's but it is one of THEE nicest reds I have ever tried!! (even though my boyfriend is scared of it!!)

e.l.f are one company who are great when it comes to special deals/codes etc. It is currently their 4th birthday and details of there offer is as follows:

(Extended until 9am 29/11/2011) Free shipping always gets me!! Keep an eye of their FACEBOOK and TWITTER for more offers too.

I am extremely impressed with e.l.f's new additions and at £1.50/€1.75 they're an absolute steal! Just be careful with them when opening and closing ;) What colours are your favourites? Which do you think looks best on me!!? Is your boyfriend/brother/father/male friend afraid of dramatic colours!!?

These products were sent to me for free from e.l.f Cosmetics for reviewing purposes. All opinions above are completely my own, 100% honest thoughts on the product.

Slán!