Topshop Highlighter | Sunbeam

Happy Saturday Girls! I'm currently on my way to see my boyfriend and am posting this from my iPhone. Ahh, the joys of the Internet! I featured this beaut in my mini Westfield haul yesterday (read it here) and thought I'd share my thoughts in a more in-depth post. This is a repurchase for me as my old one shattered inside its compact last week which is the worst thing to ever happen to a beauty addict. I don't ever skip highlighter in my everyday make-up as I just love the way it lifts the whole eye area, and this for me is a 'holy grail' item which does just that. This cost me a mere £10.00 from Topshop, which I think is such a great price. It really does last forever and I used my old one for 6 or 7 months. I love Topshop make-up packaging, it's so pretty! A really cute matte white circular compact with scribbled little stars on the top and a black box to match. It's set inside the compact very much like MAC's Mineralize Skin Finish products, sort of dome shaped and raised in the middle. I think this means that it is made similarly to MAC's products, slowly baked to uphold colour and pigmentation. 

Sunbeam is a beautiful deep toned yellow gold and as you can see from the swatch below (with my very sausage like looking fingers), the pigmentation is to die for. It sweeps onto my brow bone with ease but if I'm 100% honest it does have a tendency to speckle into my eyebrows. This is completely fixable though as I just use a cotton bud to swipe away any naughty excess highlighter! After using this for quite some time, I can definitely say that I prefer using gold toned highlighters rather than pinks. I find that pink highlighters can look a little bit ashy and slightly washes me out which is why golds are perfect for my skin tone. I used to use Benefit's 'High Beam' as a highlighter but fell out of love with its cream formula. It just felt too heavy on my brow bone and slightly sticky even after it had dried, so my alternative was to start using powder form highlighters, and I genuinely can't rate this highly enough. In regards to staying power, this ticks the box too. I've worn this on nights out and when I get home it's still firmly in place and doesn't budge at all. One thing that can happen is to slightly overdo it and use a bit too much product. I use a very light hand to apply this, and build it up a little bit at a time using my MAC blending brush. If I wear this on a night out which is more often than not, I use a sheet of tissue underneath my eye to make sure no loose bits of highlighter fall onto my cheek. If you have used eyeshadows or highlighters which drop onto the skin then you'll know how much of a pain it is to get rid of it without blending the colour out onto your skin. Using tissue makes sure that doesn't happen! I think once Summer comes along (please hurry up) I'll be braver with application and apply a little more than I do in Winter. 

Have you tried Topshop make-up? Do you love 'Sunbeam' as much as me?

Topshop Lipstick in Pillow Talk

I bought another lipstick. Yes, another one. I really need to stop this ridiculous obsession some time soon, I haven't even opened some and the pile gets bigger and bigger by the day, quite literally. Being new to Topshop make-up and being super impressed by the 'Head Over Heels' blush, (read my review here) I was really excited when I picked up this lipstick. I've heard so many rave reviews about the lipsticks in the Topshop range, and especially 'Pillow Talk' known for its great colour pay-off and ultra moisturising qualities. I'm a complete sucker for pale pinks and nudes so this ticked the box with my name next to it.


I think one of the main reasons people love the lipsticks is the packaging. It has a theme which runs across the entire make-up range and it's so girly and pretty. I love the box everything comes in and I actually keep them (upright if you may ask so I can see which colour I'm choosing. Sad I know) in a box on my dressing table. The lipstick itself is pretty standard, nothing too fancy just plain white made with metal. I like the way it clicks into place so easily when you're finished with it. I notice these kind of things as there's nothing worse than when lipstick lids fall off in your make-up bag. 

I have a big thing about how products smell so was a bit disappointed that this smelt of absolutely nothing. I'm so glad that it doesn't reek of chemicals and what have you like others do though (cough cough MAC) but for only £8.00 I'm so not complaining. There's nothing worse than when you have dry cracked lips and your lipstick gets stuck inbetween the cracks of your lips. I'm wincing at just the thought of it. But I religiously use Lush's Bubblegum Lip Scrub (read my review here) and Pillow Talk sits perfectly on top of my lips all day without that dreaded crackle effect. 

For it's colour and texture I'd give this a definite 10/10. It's so creamy you wouldn't believe and glides onto my lips like a dream without it being too sheer to have to apply two or three coats (even though I do as I love to wear statement lips). Because of this, its a really versatile colour as you can build it up by applying more. Pretty self explanatory. It has a slight gloss to it also as it is a velvet moisturising lipstick. So an added bonus too! 

Have you tried Topshop's make-up range? What's your favourite product? I'd love to know.


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Topshop Blush in Head Over Heels

Hi lovely ladies! Hope you're well, I'm feeling a bit down in the dumps with this awful weather. Typical English summer, warm and sticky with overcast and rain. I go on holiday next month for some much needed sun and sea so I thought I'd better get stocking up on some new clothes and make-up. It's a great thing I did, as I found this blusher from the Topshop make-up range.


So the other day I armed myself with my umbrella and jacket and headed out to do some 'window shopping'. Ahh, I'm excited for the day to come where I go somewhere with a Topshop/River Island/Primark/New Look and I leave empty handed. It won't ever happen. Now, it may come as a shock to you all but I am in fact a Topshop make-up virgin (I know!). It's never really caught my eye in the past, but when I was last there I had a wander over and a little nosey at what all the fuss was about. 

I ended up purchasing a few bits rather than just the one because honestly, there is so much selection. It may just be the Topshop store near me but I really did have my pick of the bunch. After coming to the end of my little nosey I almost walked away and thank goodness I didn't. The blushes which are so highly spoken about screamed "come and get me" so I had a look at the colours which they had to offer. A year ago if you'd have said to me that coral and orange would be my go-to colour choices for lips and cheeks I'd have laughed in your face. But now, I absolutely love it. I think corals are really flattering on every type of skin tone, providing you don't overdo the cheeks. I do love a coral statement lip though.


I swatched Head Over Heels on the back of my hand, held it to the light, and voila! I was in love. I did notice a difference to regular blushes, as it's a cream rather than a powder. Now I'm usually slightly scared and honestly put off usually by creams as I really dislike the feeling that I have something thick on my face. But the cream actually turned into a slight powder format once it dried which was even better. Slightly chuffed with myself I made my purchase and couldn't wait to get home and try it out. 

Once I applied Head over Heels to my face after setting my foundation with powder I actually really liked the effect it had. Those who read a previous blog post will know I only recently have started using blusher as I usually stick to my trusty bronzer on its own but I started to branch out and be more adventurous with what I use (not that adventurous I know but it's a starting point). The picture below makes it look more of a pink coloured blush but I promise it's not (damn camera). I really liked the way it glided on too, so easy and not messy in the slightest. You simply dot it on and blend outwards.


One thing I like about it is the packaging. So simple but so sweet and girly looking at the same time. The only downside is the fact that white make-up packaging gets unbelievably dirty in your make-up bag and it's the same with black bottled products. For only £6.00 it really is a bargain.

I do really like this product from Topshop, so I will repurchase it when I need to. I'm dying to try the other colours of blush as I'm hoping they work wonders as much as this does.

Have you tried Topshop make-up? Or are you a blusher virgin like me and just getting into it?


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