Not a whole load of items this month, but still some serious goodies in here!

Spending ban be damned, I was going to have this blush! This stunner (Petal Power) is from MAC‘s A Fantasy of Flowers collection for Spring 2014. It’s one of their mineralize blushes which tends to mean slightly less colour payoff in my books, so I’ll just have to pack this one on. A lot of pictures online of this blush seem to vary in shades and tons, and mine varies from everyone’s as well. I see Petal Power as a coral blush with a golden sheen – It’s not quite rose gold because it’s got too much orange in it.

The next few items were presents from a wonderful friend but I’ve looked up the prices just in case anyone is interested.

I don’t usually buy bath bombs from Lush for myself since I find them rather expensive, so receiving them as gifts feel pretty sepcial! The one on the left is Space Girl and I’ve already used this one up – I had thought it was going to be purple, but when it hit the water, the pinky-red bit at the top exploded and turned the bath water dark pink. Lush indicates that this one smells like grapefruit but I can’t say I noticed a ton of grapefruit smell. The green one is Lord of Misrule and I think it was a Halloween special. Lush says it smells of patchouli and black pepper.

Now this is really cool. Like one of those pseudo-mood changing rings of yester-year, this balm changes colour based on the heat of your skin. I barely own anything by Sephora‘s own brand so this was really neat to try out. Unique Pink goes on the lips slick and smooth (Sephora says it has a honey flavour, but it smelled generic “sweet” to me)and feels just like any other balm. At first it’ll look like a very pale-tinted pink lip balm (see the bottom right shot of my hand, the swatch on the left is what it looks like right after application) but eventually it turns pinker and pinker (swatch on the right was about five minutes after it had been applied). After multiple applications throughout the day, it eventually made my lips hot pink and definitely stained them which just made it look all the more natural. One thing I will say though is that this has a tendency to bleed outside the liplines over the course of multiple hours, so try not to apply it too often to minimize this.

This is AWESOME. I have always wanted to pick up a coloured mascara but could never bring myself to spend the money on something I wouldn’t wear as regularly as black. Once again, this is Sephora‘s own brand and the colour is a beautiful vibrant purple. As my eyelashes are naturally quite pale due to my blonde hair, this shows up exceptionally well on them (I took a few shots but none of them were clear unfortunately).

That’s it for the month of February. You can thank my wonderful friend for getting me a whole stash of stuff otherwise this post would’ve been only that MAC blush! As I’ll be visiting the US mid-March, next month’s haul is going to be an absolute motherload of stuff.