ღ Review: Monave Minerals ღ

Hi there.

Todays review is of a company called Monave. This company sells a wide range of cosmetics, skincare and also brushes.
Check them out by clicking on this link Monave

Monave sent me 9 amazing products out for review.

First impressions
The package came in a flat box and was packed with a brown paper to stop the products from rolling around in the box. The products were placed in a zipper bag to keep them all together.
The delivery of this product took from the 23/2/2011 till the 01/03/11 which is exactally 1 week. Providing that the package came all the way from Baltimore thats some seriously fast shipping!
I took a quick peek at their youtube...this video and i was shocked to see when the woman was mixing the ingredients together that she wan NOT wearing gloves.

Blush Brush
 The blush brush came in a plastic package to stop the bristles and the handle getting damaged. Also the plactic package would help for the brust to be hung up in stores.
The brush weights 15 grams and has a plastic handle, Metal ferrel and light golden synthetic bristles.
The brush is great for fitting in your makeup bag or handbag and is a great collection to anyones brush collection. The bristles are super soft and dont scratch. There were a few stray bristles and a few fall outs but i just slightly cut the stray bristles so they were all back in line with the rest. This is a great brush for if you have very sensitive skin like me and can only use super soft brushes.
The brush retails for $15 which is an excellent price for this product.

The link for this product is: Blush Brush

Angled Liner Brush
This brush also came in a plastic package to keep the bristles and the brust safe from getting damaged. The brush weights 4 grams and also has a plastic handle with a metal ferrel. The bristles are of an orange colour.
There were no stray bristles on this brush.This brust will also fit perfectally in your makeup bag or purse and is also a great collection to your brush sets.
$7.50 is a great price for this brush.

The link for this product is: Angled Liner Brush

Liquid Matte Foundation-Tan Girl and Claire
This foundation comes in a glass tub with a black lid.
This foundation gives excellent corerage and they are also vegan. It has a very nice parfume smell to them aswell. This actually made me break out so bad so i had to stop using it. Im not saying that this makes everyone break out because iv seen reviews on it on other people blogs etc and they havent broken out. I guess ill just stick to my normal foundation. I didnt like the texture on my skin either. I felt like my skin was going to crack and everytime i moved my lips i could see lines on my face from my experessions. Maby i put too much on. I should have really added a tiny bit of moisturiser but due to the breakouts i decided not to use it.
Thier foundations come in a large range of shades for different skin colours.
The tan girl shade is great if you want your skin to look nicely tanned so ill use this in the summer time.
You can get them in either full size which is 7g for $8.50 and they also do a 1/2oz pot for $32.
I think this is a great price for thease excellent colours.
I think i may have needed a slightly lighter shade for my skin tho.

The link to thease products are:Claire Matte Foundation
                                               Tan Girl Matte Foundation

 Claire foundation

Blush- Mystic Rose #216
The bluch came in a clear tub with a clear lid. The blush adds a really cute glisten to your cheeks. Its a really girly rose pink colour and looks great. It has very tiny silver sparkles in it which makes your cheeks glow. You can get this blush in full size for $13.50 and also in a sample baggie for just $1.

The link to this product is: Mystic Rose Blush

Cream to powder for eyes and eyebrows-Black
This cream to powder comes in a plactic tub with a clear lid. The lid had actually came off this product and the cream was exposed and therefore there was moisture on the top of the cream so i had to sanitize it before doing this review. You have to really tighten the lid on this products else the lid comes loose and comes off. Im not sure if this will happen to any of the other cream to powders or if this is just a dodgey lid.
You really have to work this product to get enought to make the creams colour come out properly.
Again this is great for if you have sensitive skin/eyes as it does not irrotate in any way.

The link to this priduct is: Cream to powder

Versatile Mineral Powder- White Sparkle #61, Nuteral Lips #54 and Soft Brown #43
Thease versatile powders have many different uses. They can be used to give sparkle to the face or body. Be used together with clear lipgloss to add colour to the lips or even as eyeshaddows.
The white sparkle powder is great if you want a really nice sparkle to your body. Add to your shoulders at night and you will sparkle underneath the stars.
You can buy thease powders in either full pots which cost $7.50 or in sample baggies which are just $1.
The Neautral lips powder is on sale at the moment and costs $5 which is a great price.
Thease powders are great for the price you pay.

The link for thease products are:White Sparkles #61
                                                Neutral Lips #54
                                                Soft Brown #43

My final thoughts about this company.
I feel that this company has some really good products. Their cosmetics and brushes are great for people who have very sensitive skin.
When i looked at one of their youtube videos and saw that the woman in the video was not wearing gloves when mixing some ingredients together this really shocked me because i know that this is against health and safety. I hope the company wears gloves any other time and this was just a one off for the video they did.
I think the comsetics and brushes i reviewed were great value for money and i would deffinatly reccomend them. The company responds in a very professional mannor and although they get swamped with emails everyday, they do try their hardest to get all emails replied to as soon as they possibly can.



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Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄ƷDISCLAIMERƸ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ
Thease products were sent to me for free for review purposes only! This is my honest opinion and it is not influenced in any way, shape or form. I am not being compensated by this company.

Thanks and stay beautiful

ღRandom: What my bf bought me for valentines dayღ

So the 14th February was valentines day.
Valentines day is celebrated by couples exchanging their tokens of love to eachother. A day of love.

Some people dont actually know the real reason of Valentines day. Its actually the day that St Valentine(Who was a preist) got be-headed for performing secret marriages hundreds ov years ago! How sweet.

Putting all thet behind us. My boyfriend bought me a truly amazing gift for valentines day. We went for a mean a coupld of days before valentines day because we knew that on the 14th the resturants would be totally full of couples having means.

My boyfriend had a 12oz burger with steak chips, salad and colslaw which he ate all up with alot of difficulty haha. I had American chicken with barbeque sauce and cheese on top, along with steak chips and salad with coldslaw which was amazingly good.
I love it when me and my boyfriend go out for a meal because its just so romantic and i love spending time with him.

So i bought him quite alot of things for him inclusing a photo album of picture of us and out pet hamster, Ginger. He loved it.

I thought he actually didnt buy me anything because he said he didnt knoww hat to get me. When we got back home he was going on about something he bought me and it had a mirror in it but he wanted me to guess what it was. At the end he said he didnt buy me anything but he just wanted to make me happy. I felt really sad because i got my hopes up and everything. Then he pulls something out of a bag and said here....it was my gift.! OMG it was hello kitty!!

he know i love hello kitty. He bought me a hello kitty cosmetic bag with a compact mirror. I love it so much! Its on my computer table and i have all my makeup in it!. i love it so much. its the best valentines gift ever =).

Thank to my boyfriend for making my valentines day so special and i love him so much.

Here are some pictures =).

My boyfriends dinner

 My Dinner

 For dessert we had vanilla and chocolate ice cream with cookies, chocolate buttons, flake and cream...Yummm....Oh with choco sauce *Drool*

Randomness

 

What he bought me

ღReview: My Lip Stuffღ

Todays review is of a company called My Lip Stuff. This company sells a wide range of products ranging from Lip balms to Parfume sprays.
Check them out by clicking on this link My Lip Stuff

My Lip Stuff sent me a gift bag with 3 lip balms to review.
 
First impressions  
The website in my opinion is alittle unprofessional and its kind of hard to use. I could not find the items they sent me out for review so i had to email them and they had to send me the links to thease products.
To be quite honist, If i came across their products in the shop i would not buy them due to the packagng being plain. Their packaging just looks like they have printed out a plain label with just words on. In my opinion i think they should make their packaging labels a different colour. Maby a different colour for each catagory and then change their site(The tabs to the different catagories) to represent each colour or each catagory.

Besides that, the staff are very promessional and respond to your emails rapidly. They help you as much as they can which i think is brilliant. They sent me the lip blams in a cute plastic bag with a pink bow and their card attatched(See pictures below). I think they packaged the packaging of the lip balms are really cute.

Their cheapest balm is $2.50 each and those are the generic plain label balms which is what they sent me. You can but a pack of 6 for $13.
They have other balms which are called 'Fun labels' and thease have coloured labesl and thease are alittle more then the generic plain labels.
You can have anything you want on the custom label balms for a higher price.

My Lip Stuff sent me 3 lip balms in 'Caramelized Pear' which is very sweet smelling. I have never tried caramelized pear so im not sure how it tastes or smells in real life but i have asked one of my friends who has and he says it smells very similar to the balm they send me throught. At first i wasnt too keen on the smell but it has totally grown on my and i love the smell now and cant stop smelling it and using it.The sent of the balm is in a brown colour.

The link to this balm is: Caramelized Pear

The next balm they sent me was 'Nogged Latte' This balm doesnt have a strong smell like the other balms i was sent but you can deffinatly smell a small hint of latte. Again the packaging is plain with words on. The sent of the balm is in a very dark browncolour.

The link to this balm is: Nogged Latte

The last but deffinatly not least balm they sent me is a balm called 'Orange Creamsicle' This has to be my best out of the balms they sent me. If you have ever smelt terry's chocolate orange then you will know what this balm smells like. When i first smelt it i knew exactally what  it smelt like but asked my bf to smell it aswell just incase i had chocolate orange on my mind. Again this balm is plain with the scent in an orange colour but the scent totally makes up for it. I deffinatly reccomend this balm 100% for people who love the smell of chocolate orange.

The link to this balm is: Orange Creamsicle

Another thing about the balms is that they leave quite a gritty feeling to your lips.

All in all i think thease products are pretty amazing. The only thing that lets thease balms down is the plain packaging. I think they should consider changing maby the colour of the packaging to make it look more professional. I think maby they have made the packaging plain to keep costs down. The website is alittle hard to use but if you look around you can find things. I think maby, they should consider getting their website profesionally done so that customers dont just go to their site and think its alittle 'Childish' and just go straight away.

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Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄ƷDISCLAIMERƸ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ
Thease products were sent to me for free for review purposes only! This is my honest opinion and it is not influenced in any way, shape or form. I am not being compensated by this company.

Thanks for reading and stay beautiful