My Barry M Lip Paint Collection

Barry M has probably my favourite and most colourful range of lip “paints”.

Being a drug store brand they are cheap (just £4.49) and very easy to get a hold of. 

However, the shops tend to only have a few colours in stock; if you wish to see the full range of Barry m lip paint colours visit their website: www.barrym.com.

I quite like their website, the swatches are not that great, but their site is easy to navigate, the time it takes to dispatch your order is quick and efficient and they package your items well.

My only quibble with this brand is that you don’t get the colour names on the packaging; you can only identify each colour by a number. 

On the website they have names, but I don’t see the point, why bother naming the colours if all you get is a number on the packaging?  Oh well never mind

I have 12 of their lip paints and I love them, love the packaging and love the formulation (on the most part)
Here I will swatch them in order of colour, from the lightest shades through to the darkest.

100 Baby Pink: Matte, very pigmented but quite drying.  It’s too light for me

113 Sheer Pink: Hence the name, it isn’t as pigmented as the others, but it isn’t as drying either

130 Pale Pink Sparkle: Pigmented and soft but can dry a little gritty if you don’t use with a lip balm or gloss. Most importantly a gorgeous colour.

132 Pinkie Gold Sparkle: My all time favourite.  Creamy, pigmented, glossy, beautiful colour, catches the light wonderfully.

140 Pink Sparkle: Very Strong colour but also very gritty.  Not a winner in my opinion.

147 Peachy Pink: Matte, requires a gloss/lipbalm but the colour is worth it despite how drying it is.

53 Coral: I can’t really comment on the colour with this one, my lips are very pigmented already, so this colour turns pink on me.  But I love it for its sheen.  It isn’t sparkly but it isn’t matte either, it sits happily in the middle. Thumbs up!

153 Pink Ribbon: One of their newest shades.  Its formulation is very creamy.  On the lips it looks almost glossy. I love love love the colour!  It reminds me of strawberries and cream.  My 3^rd favourite colour

152 Vintage Rose: Another of their newest shades:  It’s very similar to my actual lip colour, just a little bit more dusky.  I wear it a lot.  The formulation is one of the best in the collection alongside numbers 153 and 132.  It’s my 2^nd favourite colour of my collection.

144 Cerise Pink: This is very pigmented and therefore a little bit too strong for me so I don’t really wear it often enough to have an opinion on it.

141 Royal Raspberry: The perfect colour for that vampy look.  Honestly you can’t beat it, its dark, its daring, its pigmented, its actually a lot darker than it is showing up in the swatch on my arm, the picture really isn’t doing it any justice at all, trust me, it’s a great lipstick to have in your collection for occasions such as Halloween. 

107: Horrible, pointless, don’t by it.  The downfall of this collection.  There is always one dud in every range, and this is it.

Apologies if I repeated myself numerous times, but pretty much all of them really are little gems

End!

Gina xxx

Barry M Products Inspired Look: Autumn Forest at Night

A dark and daring look.  Obviously one for the more adventurous girl.

Being a very typical girlie girl I love pinks and purples and anything that sparkles, glitters or shines.  Naturally one of my favourite make up brands is Barry M, I am a hoarder of their eye shadows.  I just can’t resist, every time I go into Superdrug I get hypnotised by the shiny baubles that are their Dazzle Dusts.

I am also in love with this time of year, autumn is perfect in my opinion.  The colours of autumn just take my breath away.  I am experiencing all over again the joy of leaves crunching under foot, wearing my cosy scarves and watching the landscape change.  I’m a very lucky girl in that I recently moved to Suffolk where autumn is all the more beautiful.  I grew up in Greater London and the country parks there offered up only a tenth of the beauty I can see just from my little bedroom window.

So of course I had to incorporate these two loves into the makeup look for my 1^st blog post.I took the plumy shades of drying leaves, the grey from the darker clouds of autumn and created a fun eyeliner design for the bare trees.  As the shades used were quite dark this look couldn’t be anything other than a night-time look, therefore, extra drama was required.  This was achieved simply by lining both the tightline and waterline.

To achieve this look you will need:

Moisturiser, I use Olay Beauty Fluid (let it sink in before putting on foundation)

Foundation, I use E.L.F. Mineral Foundation (Fair (not pictured)) with E.L.F. powder brush

Concealer, I use E.L.F. Mineral Concealer (Fair) with E.L.F. concealer brush

(N.B. Do your foundation after you have done your eyes so that you don’t need to worry about fall out from the loose eye shadow)

Eye shadow primer, I used Urban Decay Primer Potion

NYX Jumbo Pencil in Rust for a colour base

Barry M Dazzle Dust in Mushroom (51)

Barry M Dazzle Dust in Fig (55)

A good eye shadow brush, the Barry M one “ain’t arlf” bad

A Black Liquid Liner, I used Wet n’ Wild liquid eyeliner

A soft black eyeliner pencil, I used NYX Jumbo Pencil in Black Bean

A plum pencil liner, I used E.L.F. Brightening Eye Liner in Plum

A black mascara, I used E.L.F. Mineral Infused Mascara

And for the lips I applied some lip balm, let that sink in and then put over the top the Barry M Lip Paint in Vintage Rose (152)

To create this look:

Start by applying the NYX Jumbo Pencil in Rust on the lid and blending it out.

Then over the top of the Rust pack the Barry M Dazzle Dust no.51 from the inner corner of the eye to across 2/3rds of the lid.

Next place the Barry M Dazzle Dust no.55 on the outer corner and blend into the crease and wing it out slightly.

Line the eye with black liquid eyeliner.

Do not wing it out, but use that same liner to trace a very rough outline of tree branches, keeping within the no.55 Dazzle Dust.

Line your tightline and waterline with a soft black eyeliner pencil.

Line the lower lashline with a plum eyeliner pencil and cover with the no.51 Dazzle Dust.

Finished!

Gina xxx