Blushes nd Brushes

Hello beautiful people,

I wouldn’t usually do this. Why? Because I am nowhere close to whom I want to be spiritually. However, sometimes there is so much awesomeness in the Word that I just have to share.

So in church today we discussed the above topic, and when the pastor cited John 11:35, I actually rolled my eyes. In my mind, I was like” who doesn’t know the story of Lazarus and how Jesus wept?” but at the end of the service, my mind was blown!

First I will try to summarize the preceding events before Jesus wept. John 11 from verses 1-34 explains the circumstances surrounding the death of Lazarus. Jesus was told that his friend Lazarus was sick but he waited two more days after which Lazarus died. Verse 17 describes his arrival to Bethany, four days after Lazarus was laid in the tomb. When Martha and Mary arrived, they both told Jesus that if he had arrived earlier, their brother would not have died.

Let me offer a little insight on this situation.

So in case you were wondering if this was a follow up post for my haul, yes baby it is. I mean why do just one glazed lip paint when there's more right?.

So the LA girl glazed lip paints have been some of my favorite buys of recent. I have always been a lip gloss over lipstick kinda lady, and lip balms were just for moisturizing and nothing else. Lip glosses have always been there from primary school, I'm talking those ones in the bottle like containers with the rolling ball at the top... ring a bell?... lol...
Now here I am in the future falling in love with lip paints. Okay I have to admit when I first saw them i really thought nothing much of them. I was just like lets buy and see where this goes so I got them in

• TEASE (a very bright rosy pink. It's not as tame as the packaging may make you think and its shimmery, though not noticeably)
•  TEMPT (a very deep purple. slightly darker than the packaging to me and also seems to have a major berry undertone. I like),
• FEISTY (a orange with a reddish undertone that I think has still refused to favour me. I'd get back to you when I conquer it)
• TANGO (by far my favourite so far. A medium peach). So about these baby girls yea?

PACKAGING: I am not so much a fan of their packaging. They come in a regular tubes that look like minimized toothpaste containers. On the other hand I like the fact that although the tubes are not transparent they are made to be seemingly identical to the gloss on the inside, which I think is kinda cool. The writing and covers re gold which is also kind of attractive.

APPLICATOR/APPLICATION: I very much dislike the applicator which is just a plastic slanted part of the package with a hole I think is too big. Thus direct application might be a problem depending on how you choose to use it. I'd much rather apply with a brush. It is also not sticky which is a great thing.

PIGMENTATION: It is highly pigmented and glossy. It dries out to a cool lacquered finish but stays glossy. It is nice and creamy and a little goes a long way, i.e. why I think the hole at the applicator is too big. It makes things get messy. It is still easy to take off despite the pigmentation which is a green light for me.

If you are not the touching up type you do not want these cause they need touch ups after every couple of hours.

I have had no problems with them bleeding and for me they are very easy to work with. They blend well and work with other lip products quite nicely. P.S you do not want to apply these on dry lips.

SCENT/FLAVOR: Peppermint, which of course is mostly nice on the nose but it gave me this tingly sensation after application which I rather do not appreciate. My clients complain about this also until I assure them it fades away. I still wish it could be done away with.

PRICE: they are very affordable ranging between N800-N1200 depending on where you purchase them. They can be found almost on any online beauty store and in the shops themselves.

Would i buy them again?

Yes I would and in fact I did. Which was how I landed with COY (a bright lilac/purple shade for bold people. I love love love)... so tell me, do you have any of them?, would you buy more?, why or why not?... see you soon.




How sweet are your words to my taste, sweeter than honey to my mouth.-Psalm 109:103

Okay it's a very small haul and of course its greatly overdue so here goes... oh I hope y'all missed me too???, I missed you so much I forgot to say hi...

Errm... except if I am home I hardly do purchase makeup by myself, I mean Sike still lives and breathes so therefore why stress myself right?. The girl loves to shop online, I on the other hand love to shop in stores, I dearly hope I am not the only survivor of this rare specie of humans in our generation. So anyhow, I got a couple of things which includes;

1. The LA girl gel liner in very black
2. The Duo eyelash adhesive
3. The BH cosmetics 10 colour camouflage concealer palette and
4. The LA girl glazed lip paint in coy.

It would interest you to know that before this purchase I had never used gel liner before.
I mean everyone around me did but I was so comfortable with my liquid liner I just never tried... until now. Also I badly needed a new concealer palette. The one I had previously was just bleh cause it didn't fit will with WOC (women of colour) and guess what I look like and what country I reside in?, so yea that had to go...

Well I hope you follow up for my review posts on each of these. It should come up next... see you soon

My strength is made perfect in weakness
- 2 Corinthians 12:9

Hello beautiful!

So someone felt like I should be a little more personal on the blog. Instead of makeup posts all the time, sometimes let us know you Sike. Ok boo, I gatchu!

So hey again, hope you have been great? I have. I'm back with the next part...

How did my makeup journey start?

Hmmn... so let's skip the part about how my mum and I had endless makeup spats during my pre-teen and teen years cause I'm sure a good number of us had those and get right into the part where I learned about the magic behind eyebrows and the like.

So upon all the makeup spats mentioned above, as at the beginning of my second year in university I had never ever touched any of my eyebrow hairs and I am pretty sure I wore only shadows and never lined my eyes not to talk of foundation and what in the name of beauty was concealer?????.

Hello fellow bloggers and blog readers, welcome to my world of fashion... By the way, my name is Patsy but professionally Lush... so let me just cut right to the chase, I have always loved all things fashion related and by always I do mean always, like since baby always. I once broke a whole shelf of my mother's stuff just to get to an oversized pair of white heeled sandals at the age of nothing above five and my aunt says I pulled at anyone's hair I thought was pretty. Violent baby huh? I am much more subtle now no worries. So presently I am very much a hair stylist and makeup artist and looking forward to going into other things.

How did my hair journey start?

Hello beautiful!

So you know that even though I am a shopaholic, I still love cost effective stuff. So for these products, I got the cheaper one awhile before I got the high end brand and you can imagine my horror when I realized that I already had the same exact colour!