Kiko Cosmetics @ Trafford Centre

Kiko has been one of my favourite brands since I discovered one of their stores in Taormina, Sicily back in about 2010; I knew I would love the brand and products from the first venture into the Sicily store and I managed to spend €40...oops.

Kiko eyeshadows, nail polish and lipsticks are all fantastic, I also love their makeup setting spray! I made up my own eyeshadow palette a few months ago and I'm so impressed with the pigmentation, quality and how easy they are to blend. Kiko have amazing sales, I always end up treating myself!

Last weekend, I went to the Trafford Centre and after so much queueing and incredibly busy traffic, I finally arrived at the new Kiko Cosmetics store! After hoping for a Kiko store to open near me, I was so excited when this store opened on the 31st October (it's next to the Cath Kidston store in the Trafford Centre). I have been in a couple of Kiko stores in Europe, such as the one in Florence and Taormina and both of those stores were bigger than this one but it isn't small either and it's well stocked.

The store has such a fantastic and wide range of their eyeshadows and nail polishes as well as the new christmas collection including the pretty gift sets. I didn't treat myself this time, I'll wait until the christmas sale and I do have quite a long wish list of their 'cosmic starlets' christmas collection and the 'perfecting powders' collection:

Will you be visiting the Trafford Centre Kiko store? Do you have any of the christmas products on your wish list?

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Kiko Clic Palette System + Infinity Eyeshadows

Kiko has been a favourite brand of mine since I discovered them about five years ago while on holiday in Taormina, Sicily - I spent over €40 on kiko makeup and I do believe that the price have gone up very slightly but the products are still inexpensive especially for the quality. I wanted to try their clic system for a while and all of the shades were on sale so I thought it was the right time to make my own palette. 

The Clic System features numerous sizes of palettes which you can choose from including singles, duos, trios, quads then the 9 pan palettes and a massive 24 pan palette - I was so tempted to get the massive palette especially as the palettes and eyeshadows were 40-52% off. I chose the 9 pan palette and obviously 9 eyeshadows for it which was about £26! 

The eyeshadows come individually packaged, they have the shade name on the box and on the back of the eyeshadow - there are two stickers on the back so you can keep one on the eyeshadow pan and then the other can be place onto the inside lid of the palette if you want. The eyeshadows are so easy to remove from their packaging and clicked into place in the palette. 

I picked all natural, neutral shades as those are the ones I use daily and I am so happy with them. The shades are mostly matte, with a few satins and shimmers and the pigmentation is just fantastic. The texture is so buttery smooth with minimal fall out; they also blend so beautifully. They crease on my deep set eyes after almost three hours (with no primer) and my skin as unusually oily the first time I tried them too. I will have to test them fully with my primers.

Here are all of the shades I bought with swatches so hopefully you can see the pigmentation and shades - as the palette is black, my camera has washed out the swatches a bit especially for the lighter shades. 

200: Pure white with micro shimmer - slightly chalky 

236: Metallic slightly bronze champagne - almost wet looking

238: Cool grey (micro shimmer isn't visible on the skin)

215: Warm chocolate brown with golden shimmer - very pigmented

240: Matte cool medium brown with purple undertones 

217: Rich warm matte medium brown - very pigmented, slight fall down

235: Matte burgundy brown 

288: Matte cool toned concrete grey 

295: Matte black - very pigmented 

My favourite shades are 200, 236, 240 and 295 which blend perfectly together. The 217 and 235 shades when swatched are quite similar but when used on the eyes, they are different. I definitely want to get the bigger palette and buy some more lighter shades. My only negative point about this palette/system is the size of the palette itself - it is quite chunky (2cm thick) and fingerprints show up very easily. This competition is open to the general public; for more information follow this link: www.justmylook.co.uk/blog/2015/02/get-featured-on-justmylook-as-blogger-of-the-month/. Overall rating: ★★★★★, 5/5.

Have you purchased any Kiko eyeshadows? What do you think of the shades I chose for my palette?

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A week in photographs #5

Candles // New Tea Light Holder (middle) // Candles against the night 

First Attempt at Depotting Eyeshadows // Second Attempt at Depotting Eyeshadows // I finally got the hang of it!

Depotting Eyeshadows successfully // Kiko eyeshadows // MUA Shade 11 Swatch

All Three Images from Pintrest!

My week has consisted of candles, depotting eyeshadows, essays and pintrest! Firstly, candles, I have been burning a lot of candles this week (everyday basically) as I am trying to use up the older ones I have so that I can burn the new ones I received at christmas. I love the way candles look, they are so homely and cosy - and great at this time of the year when it gets dark at about 3:30 in England. I have also been trying to depot eyeshadows this week with the first two attempts not going so well...but the rest went fine! Finally I have been obsessed with pintrest this week, I didn't really pay any attention to it before but this week I have been looking through pintrest once a day (at least). And on a side note, it has started to snow in England..snow day, snow day!

Also I am selling a few things on eBay.co.uk  - my username is Iann7948 

I am thinking of having a fringe cut in and I have been searching pintrest for ideas, what do you think? 

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