Burberry Kisses Gloss

BURBERRY-kisses-headerBurberry Kisses Glosses are an exceptional product and filled with luxury. Rightfully so as the 6ml buildable glosses are made in Italy! With a flexible doe-foot applicator and a dab or two into the product your lips are glossy without being sticky, streaky nor feathering. The applicator has just enough to cover my bottom lip, sometimes I’ll pinch my lips together to add a bit of shine, but I’ll have to go back into the gorgeous glass tube to apply more to my top lip.

Kisses-GlossThe attractive packaging is an eye catcher, as the hefty lip gloss is made of glass with the gunmetal top with Burberry’s classic etching. The Kisses Gloss comes in 28 colours from their classic military red shade, to perfect nudes like one of my favourites: nude beige.

The four shades of Burberry Kisses Gloss are all pigmented enough to wear on its own, or of course to be topped over another lipstick. I tend to keep my makeup quite simple with little layering as possible, so I love to wear these on their own, and it creates a subtle colour to finish off my makeup application.

The formula is excellent, as it feels hydrating and lightweight on the lips with a buildable colour payoff depending on how opaque you want the shade to be. And the texture is also fantastic since it’s not thick, or runny — instead it glides onto my lips smoothly keeping them hydrated. However I don’t find the formula incredibly long-wearing.

no-lipstickSo you can see a true definition of what my lips look like with zero lip product on them (above).

Burberry-Gloss-Nude-BeigeBurberry Kisses Gloss | Nude Beige No. 17
My favourite colour out of the four, a perfect everyday shade. It is fantastic blend between beige/pink without washing out my fair complexion.

Burberry-Gloss-City-PinkBurberry Kisses Gloss | City Pink No. 49
I would describe City Pink as quite a playful pink with cool blue undertones.

Burberry-Gloss-TangerineBurberry Kisses Gloss | Tangerine No. 77
A gorgeous reddish orange colour that adds a bit of fun to your makeup look.

Burberry-Gloss-VermillionBurberry Kisses Gloss | Vermillion No. 81
This shade has a bit of sparkle to add a bit more shine and shimmer to the lips, but not gritty where you can feel it. The colour is a wearable and buildable shade of peachy pink.

A closer look, with the four Burberry Kisses Gloss swatched on the back of my arm. Top to bottom: Nude Beige, City Pink, Tangerine, Vermillion.Burberry-Kisses-Gloss

Burberry-KissesGloss-flatI absolutely recommend you pick up one or two of these Kisses Glosses from their 28 colour range, especially come winter time — I cannot get over the hydration these give my lips, it’s incredible.

Thank you to Burberry for partnering with me and sending me these beauties!

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Make up of the day | Burberry Fresh Glow

Makeup-Of-The-DayI like wearing makeup that doesn’t take me any more than ten minutes from start to finish. I always look for easy-to-blend foundations that give me a bit of coverage yet allows my skin to breathe, better yet, looks glowy too!

Look-day

up-closeI’m slowly accumulating a handful of favourite foundations, and Burberry Fresh Glow is already up there. Thus, I wanted to highlight this foundation I used on a particular day last week considering it’s the perfect satin finish, providing me with a healthy looking complexion. It has a medium coverage to it, and lasts me the entire day. Do note, I never like to touch up my foundations at all during the day.

Looking-downFace|

Burberry Fresh Glow in Honey
Cle de Peau concealer in beige
Chanel Les Beige No. 50
Rituals Cosmetics blush in Peach Glow
Hourglass ambient lighting powder dim light
Dior All-In-Brow 3D Backstage Pros in Blonde

Eyes|

Too Faced Sweet Peach palette
Tweezerman eyelash curler
Joe Fresh mascara

Lips|

Dior Addict lipstick in Nude Fever

Makeup-Of-The-Day-FlatlayIf you’ve been following me on Snapchat you’ll know I received a PR package from Burberry not too long ago. I mentioned my love for the (new-to-me) Burberry Fresh Glow Foundation in my September Favourites video, and I thought I’d feature a look of the day using it on the blog to show you how it looks on me.

You know I get fancy when I break out the eyeshadow palettes. I wanted to capture a few up close shots of my eyes since it’s rare I wear any colour on them at all. The Too Faced Peach Palette (it’s coming back for Christmas you guys!) is what I’ll now reach for if I want any bit of neutral shadows on my eyelids.

Are you guys into these sort of blog posts for makeup looks? Or would you rather a step-by-step one like this?

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She’s pregnant!

My neighbour is no longer my neighbour anymore since her family grew out of the apartment they were living in. Luckily for us, they still live within a ten minute drive of us. So I get to see them quite often regardless of her not being ten feet away anymore.

baby showerShe’s pregnant with her second child, and I ended up missing her baby shower last month, so I put together a similar gift to the New Mom Basket I did for her first born. It’s no surprise I enjoy spoiling my friends!

Although not sponsored, most of everything from the basket was from one of my favourite stores down here in California (for home-decor stuff), World Market! They even have baskets for purchase where it includes a wicker basket, cellophane, ribbon, and fluff to put inside the basket. So you don’t have to make all those hard decisions yourself. Ha!

I have to admit, I looked back at my other basket I put together for her so I could see what I added, and do something similar (like including a Diet Coke for instance). Here’s what I added to the basket, and finally brought it over to her house yesterday when we went on our walk.

baby shower gift3 AHAVA lotions (these smell amazing, and I used it on an every day basis for YEARS when I lived in Canada). So glad it’s easily accessible here in the USA (you can buy it at Ulta). The hand cream is to die for, and it sinks into your skin like butter. Amazing. Try it, please! Lol. The bar soap, Rose lemonade, mints, bubble bath, chocolate bar are all from World Market. The other goodies I picked up from Target: Honest wipes, cotton rounds, gum, onesie, pom-pom decorations for wrapping the basket. You’ll also spot a new MAKE UP FOR EVER excessive lash in there too, it’s a new mascara and it’s awesome.

baby clothesI picked up this adorable onesie at Target, and the Bioderma is straight from Canada! It’s one of my favourite gentle makeup removers, and it feels literally like water on your skin.

gift baby showerHere’s the basket all in its glory! So many gifts to spoil Nicole with! She was so happy!  :)

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