Which '-end' is best for you: High Lippies

Part three of three! In this post I will only be able to showcase one lipstick for you I'm afraid, even I know when to reign in my spending and after my first major high-end product (a GORGEOUS Chanel lipstick) I realised my spending forte is in low/mid-end without inducing a migraine of worry over how much high-end products are hurting my bank account.

Chanel Lipstick - Shade 424/ Edith

I bring you - the Chanel Rouge Coco Lipstick in 'Edith'. I tried not to cry as the nice lady gave me my receipt as I knew it would probably come back to haunt me in some way, I'd probably miss my train and not be able to afford a new ticket because of this lipstick, I'd probably lose this lipstick and the insane amount it cost me, but alas, all was safe and I have begun the process of actually allowing myself to touch the packaging without sterile gloves in fear of tainting the beauty. at £26 this beauty is worth every penny, every 26,000 of them. Gorgeous pigmentation, sheer application and moisturising extras. I don't have to worry about how my lips look with this on, I can simply trust the hole in my wallet that this was a real investment for my makeup collection, one I'll cherish forever (yet hopefully never run out of - don't wanna be paying £52 for just two lipsticks...I could get 52 MUA ones for that price! They just wouldn't be Chanel...)

Well that's that my loves! The first full installment of my 'which -end' series! Let me know if you love/hate them and I'll continue/stop on that basis.

As always, leave a comment with your favourite '-end' lipstick so I can check it out! xxx

Which '-end' is best for you: Mid Lippies

Here comes the second part of my lipsticks 'which -end' series! By far my favourite in the field of 'mid-end' lipsticks comes MAC, I'm not sure I would call it 'mid-end' exactly as it is, really, a high-end brand (in that it features in department stores, not drug stores.) But the competitive prices make it hard to compare (price-wise) to the likes of Estee Lauder, Dior and Chanel.

Yves Rocher Lipstick - Shade 21/ Litchi

Up first comes the likes of Yves Rocher. A, slightly cheaper, yet quality makeup brand. This fits perfectly into 'mid-end' with it quality pricing, but sours way past high-end with it's quality. I've been in love with this lipstick ever since it arrived in one of my Birchboxes (before they randomly stopped sending them to me that is.) I'd previously owned a fantastic red shade, so seeing a more natural colour for a more day-to-day basis really excited me. This is available on Yves Rocher's website for purchase at a quality price of £12.90.

MAC Lipstick - Shade 'Velvet Teddy'

Following on comes MAC, a brand I'm sure everybody has come to know and love. My favourite shade for the coming months is Velvet Teddy, it's a matte shade, so make sure to apply plenty of lip balm beforehand! Despite the difficulty of making sure my lips are in perfect condition before I apply this out of fear the whole world will see my flakiness, the colour pay-off is incredible and I wouldn't trade it for anything else. It also goes excellent-ly with MAC's lip pencil in 'Whirl' or Rimmel's 'Tiramisu'. This can be found on the MAC website for a stunning £15.50. A lot to spend in comparison to MUA, but well worth it.

Two parts down, one to go! I hope you're enjying this mini series, I have to say it really helps me post more regularly as it hurts my inner neat-freak much more to see a series left unfinished for two weeks than just no blog post for two weeks!

Anyways, toodlepip my loves! As ever, leave me your recommendations in the comments! xxx

Which '-end' is best for you: Low Lippies

Like many beauty addicts, my spending habits often result in a compulsory budget around two days after pay day. So here I've decided to begin a mini series - which '-end', meaning high-end, mid-range (or mid-end for the sake of this series,) and low-end. Each have their pros and cons, which I will try my best to highlight these here (with examples of my favourites of course.)

Starting with low-end, I could go on for days about some of my favourites (there are just so many amazing drugstore brands!) But for the sake of really highlighting the differences in prices I will be showing you my favourite MUA and L'oreal lippies.

MUA Lipstick - Shade 11

For some reason only half of the MUA lipsticks have actual names (i.e. Flamingo, naked, etc). This is my favourite from thir collection to date, the picture really gives no justice to the sheer pigmentation in comparison to when it is applied directly to the lips (straight from the bullet and using a brush seem to give a slightly different pigmentation.) This is available in Superdrug for just £1!

My next low-end favourite is a L'oreal repurchase of mine - 

L'oreal Lipstick - Shade 136/ Flamingo Elegance

This is an incredibly beautiful, sheer, highly pigmented recommendation of mine, I also love that it has the brand engraved in the bullet - it gives it such a high end look, and for only £6.99 you get the best of both worlds!

I hope you enjoyed this little installment in what I hope will be a much-loved series! Each category (i.e. lips) will be split into three posts - low, mid and high. This saves for too much writing for me and reading for you!

What's your favourite drugstore lipstick? Let me know in the comments and I'll be sure to try them out! xxx