Illamasqua haul from my trip to England

Hey you guys. Yes it has been a while. Bad blogger bad. After my trip to England, I came home, did about 4 days of laundry and ironing and putting away. I worked. Then spring break hit and I've just been spending time with the family and spring cleaning (I went crazy with tossing out of old stuff!!) Went to Seattle this past weekend, came home and back to work the next day, daughter has been sick since...**sigh** I've got to learn to organize my time more wisely. Anyway, while I was in London, I made it a point to stop in and visit the Illamasqua counter at Selfridges on Oxford Street. Actually that's a lie. I forced my husband to take me there and to YSL to get my arty ring. Haha. Here is my little Selfridges bag... (click pics to enlarge)

When I got there, I was looking around and one of the sales associates came up to me and asked if I needed any help. I was like, "nope! You can get me this, this, this..." He asked if I wanted to try on the colours and all I kept thinking was nope! Not enough time, just add it to the bag. I didn't get a ton, but I mean with the exchange rate doing damage at the Illamasqua counter would do serious damage to my wallet. Haha. But I did get a few things I had my eye on:

This blush is called Hussy. God, love the name almost as much as I love the colour:

This is blush is called Lover and it is so pretty as an everyday colour:

Actually what I really like doing is applying Lover onto my cheeks and then using literally one extremely light dab into Hussy's pan with my blush brush and popping it onto the apples of my cheeks to give a bit more dimension to my face. Gorge.

This is the bronzing duo in Glint & Writhe:

This bronzing/highlighting duo is a dream. Since you get the 2 products in one, it is perfect for travel or for popping into your bag for touchups.

This lipstick is called Brink. And I haven't had the chance to try it yet, but the colour jumped out at me. After receiving Flare from Illamasqua (which is a true orange lipstick) I've been feeling the orange tones.

Then I picked up 2 rich liquid foundations (215 and 240):

Again, no one can ever seem to match me to a colour. I was told that I was the darkest yellow toned colour of the line and I could see upon application that it was WAAAAAAYY too dark. He said that 215 would be the next for me but it was slightly too light. So why not get both, I'm bound to get darker in the summer and this way I could mix the colours to get my shade. **sigh** but 215 is too pinkish for me, so I managed to dig out my foundation in 205 which a got a little while back and it is a true yellow tone but WAAAAAAAAAAYY too light. So now I can mix to get a perfect me :) Whew. Glad that worked out.

And I picked up a brow powder named Gaze:

I wanted to find something that would replace my beloved MAC brow powder that has been discontinued, but instead I ended up finding a brow powder that I actually like better. I find the application to be a lot easier. Plus you can add the gel sealer to it and make it more like a brow liquid liner that isn't going to budge. I personally like a more natural look, but maybe as a liquid liner for the eyes?? Here are some of the swatches, didn't get the lipstick sorry, but I do plan on doing some more pics and stuff once my hayfever symptoms die down. Ugh. Plus I'll do a review on them and let you know what I think of the products once I get a chance to try everything out. Oh and you know how I mentioned that I went to Seattle this past weekend? Yah, well I picked up more Illamasqua at the Sephora out there. Haha. Obsessed much?? Hope to talk soon!