Make-up Miracles: Part 1

Benefit Get Bent Brush Review

If you’re anything like me, you’ll probably think make-up brushes are a waste of time, money and make-up. After all, we all have fingers that do the job just as well… don’t they?

Well, maybe not. The Get Bent brush for eyeliner made by kitsch and cool cosmetics company, Benefit, has turned me into a complete brush convert.

You might think the £11.50 price-tag is a bit much for a twig of wood with some bristles attached. But here you would be wrong. Firstly, £11.50 is actually not that bad by professional make-up brush standards – just check out Mac’s massive range of brushes, for which you’d probably need to spend your entire student loan on if you wanted the complete set. Secondly, and most importantly, this brush will actually save you money!

Using this brush transforms any powder eyeshadow into an eyeliner. The bristles are uniquely angled to create the perfect line as close to the lashes as possible, with the brush hard enough to get the job done perfectly and professionally, but not hard enough to poke your eye out.

Gone are the days of struggling with easily-blunted rock-hard pencils and unruly and messy liquids (one slip and you wind up looking like a member of the Adams family) – instead, just dab the Get Bent brush in water, swirl it about in your favourite eyeshadow and let the angled brush head do all the work for you. This multi-tasking of eyeshadows effectively means you never need waste money on eyeliners again. It’s also perfect for creating those fluorescent lined eyes that the likes of Lily Allen have been sporting recently and gives you a far greater range of colour options than the stock brown and black eyeliners that most make-up counters offer.

In short, a true make-up miracle.

Available at Boots, House of Fraser and on-lin

Lee Sippers Lip Balm Review

SIP IT UP!

If you want lovely soft kissable lips, you can’t go far wrong with these Lee Sippers. Apparently, they’re hot in America and with a flavour like (I kid you not) Rootbeer Float, is that really a surprise?!

Though I would quibble with the description of them as being ‘lip glosses’ because they’re most definitely lip balms, they do give a lovely shine. What I cannot quibble with, however, is the price of 89p! 89p!!! I couldn’t even get a bus to go to Boots to pay £2 for Vaseline with 89p!

The best flavour, and probably the most normally-coloured flavour (I reckon the blue and purple ones, whilst tasting nice, do produce a rather weird tinge to your lips), is Watermelon Slush, which is just lush and will have you licking your lips all day. Oh, and Frozen Lemonade is almost a lyric in a Girls Aloud song, so you have to love that one too!

Lee Sippers also have added Vitamin E and Aloe to ensure your lips stay soft. So, I urge you all to give your lips a sip of Lee Sippers today. For 89p, what’s the worst that could happen?!*

*(teentoday.co.uk will not be held liable for anything bad that does indeed happen)

Make-up Miracles: Part 2

Vaseline Lip Therapy Review

Make-up Miracles Part 2

Oh humble Vaseline, how we love you. Faddy lip balms may come and go, yet for once, your Mum really was right about the best way to protect your lips from Blighty’s evil winters.

Quite frankly, I’m sick of lip balms that leave your lips worse-off than before you put the stuff on in the first place. And all those yummy scented ones just result in you wanting to lick them all off (and in one case, a bumble bee attacked my lips).

Vaseline is quite simply the granddaddy of all cosmetic products. Put it on to prevent lipstick drying out your lips and to give them a shine almost as great as a Juicy Tube. Use it on practically any patch of dry skin and it’ll be magically healed in no time – especially when you’ve got a really nasty cold and your nose is practically falling apart because you’ve been blowing it so much (pleasant imagery, I know…).

And what’s more it’s a handy pocket size and comes in what advertisers would now call gloriously retro packaging. And it’s only 96 pence. So now there’s absolutely no excuses for your lips to be anything less than lush.

Available everywhere!!!