Colourpop || How to get Colourpop to the UK & Swatches...

This post is all about how I got Colourpop shipped to the UK. I will take you through how long it took and how to do it via an online shopping site that couriers overseas. 

I have wanted to try Colourpop for a super long time and finally plucked up the courage and did a fairly large order, some of which involve Christmas presents both to and from my sister. 

After watching many YouTube swatch videos and reading many blog posts I decided on several Super Shock Shadows and two Lippie Stix.

Colourpop is a very affordable makeup brand but only ships to the US, Canada, Australia, New Zealand and a few others.

Almost all of their products are Vegan apart from a small list of eye shadows which you can read about here.

Here is a list of links to what I ordered, some of which I have swatched below 

(apart from my Christmas presents) -

Lippie Stix -

Tootsi

Lady

(I got 2 of each colour of Lippie Stix as a Christmas present to my sister, she does know...)

Eye Shadows -

Collection - 

Metamorphosis

Single Shadows -

Mixed Tape

Party Time

Bae

Central Perk

Partridge

Doe-A-Deer

So Quiche

La La

After watching this video where Jennie Jenkins from Beauty by JJ does a massive swatch video and explains how she got hers to the UK, I then decided that I would use the same postal system as she did -

>> comGateway.com <<

I found this website very easy to use, it basically allows you to buy from American sites via them and their courier business. And as Colourpop only allow American payments & addresses I had to use their BUYFORME service where I bought my items through them and then get delivered to their American address. 

The BUYFORME service does have a small fee of 10% of your order. 

My Colourpop order came to $80 and with their fee came to $88 (around £58). I didn't get charged postage from the Colourpop website as I think it's free over a certain amount.

After shopping via their website, I completed my order and received various confirmation emails. I placed my order on the 4th November. On the 7th I got another email saying that Colourpop had posted my order and it was on its way to my 'US Address', the day after (8th) it arrived which is where I then had to organise how fast and where I wanted it posted in the UK. This is where you pay for their postal service, my cost was $31.77 which is around £21.

My expected date of delivery was the 18th.
On the 10th I got another email with a tracking number which said expected delivery on the 16th. And sure enough it arrived on the 16th, I was at work at the time so couldn't wait to get home to photograph them (photos below...a lot of them).

From placing my order and it arriving at my door step took a total of 12 days.

Here is a summary of what I paid -

$80 (£53.14) - 11 x Colourpop products

$8 (£5.31) - 10% BUYFORME fee

$31.77 (£21.09) - Shipping to UK

TOTAL - $119.77 (£79.54)

UPDATE (24th November) - Import Tax - £21.76
NEW TOTAL - £101.30

Below you will find close up photos of all the products, I have tried to capture their colours as realistically as possible...

I really hope you found this useful and go on happily to purchase Colourpop products from the UK.

Make sure you follow me on Instagram - cfochler - where I will most likely be posting lots of makeup looks using these products.

Coco
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Born Pretty Store || Metallic Transfer Tattoos + Discount Code...

I'm going to start by saying sorry that I have not posted on here for a while but I do have a few exciting posts lined up for the month.

A while ago a lady from www.bornprettystore.com contacted me and asked if I would like to choose something from the website and review. I of course said yes and chose some metallic transfer tattoos.

Below you will see close ups of the tattoos applied to my hand. I chose to use the golden leaves as I thought it was quite autumnal and pretty. I also tested out one that says 'Let yourself be free' which I thought was super cute.

Links to the tattoos I have - 

Golden Leaves (Pattern 71)

Longer Strip Design

Boho Feathers etc (Pattern 114)

I've only tried one other brand of metallic transfer tattoos from Claire's which you can read about here... But I have to say these are a lot better quality. 

I absolutely fell in love with this leaf design, applying it was super easy and it lasted so much longer than the Claire's tattoos. 

You apply it like any other transfer tattoo, onto clean dry skin... as soon as I put it on the transfer itself felt more sturdy and stuck firmly to my skin. I let it air dry and it lasted 3 days, well 2 days and then it started to fade around the edge but not in a peeling horrible way, just faded slowly which I found really lovely. Generally I like these a lot more and will be using them regularly.

In the pictures I hope you can see the quality of these tattoos...

The quality of these tattoos are so so good and they have many other designs to choose from, link here.

She kindly gave me a 10% off code for those of you who want to do some purchasing - FOCH10 - this code is only valid on items which aren't already discounted.

The store has so many amazing things I want to try and they have free worldwide shipping which is always good. 

If you want to follow me on Instagram - CFOCHLER - I regularly post photos and will do lots of updates as and when I use the rest of the tattoos.

Also go check out their Instagram - bornprettystore

Thank you for reading and I hope you have as much fun browsing on their site as I do...

Coco

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Lush Blogger Event || Lush AW15 - Halloween & Christmas...

Before you get any further into this post, I do warn you this is a super picture heavy post... I couldn't help myself... everything in Lush is soooo pretty.

About a week ago I attended another Lush Blogger Event this time it was on their new Christmas (Autumn/Winter 2015) collection. I will have links to all of their new products throughout the post so you can go buy whichever product takes your fancy. And right at the end of this post I will do a mini review on the goodies I got from this amazing event.

The amazing lady from Mrs Browns Bakery in Plymouth made some beautiful cupcakes for our Lush event, they were nearly too pretty to eat but we did and they tasted so good!!! She has some amazing Halloween themed cupcakes on her Facebook page (linked above), you should definitely go check her out and give her page a like.

Oh how I wish I actually had a bath to use, however I am not sure I would want to use this amazingly cute Sparkly Pumpkin...

We got split into 2 groups and were given their Fun Bars of mould-able soap - one called Santa and the other called Snowman. Within a certain amount of time we had to create said creation. A lot herder than it looks when you start panicking and are under the pressure of being timed. We did however win this little contest, even though our Santa didn't manage to get a face... Yay!

Again most of these products are so pretty I wouldn't want to use them, this bubble bar star is called The Magic of Christmas.

This white star is called Star Dust, which did live up to it's name and was rather dusty.

Yog Nog bath bomb in front of the beautiful Snowcake soap (more pictures below)...

The oddly cute handmade Peeping Santa bubble bar.

The lovely ladies below were demonstrating the sweet smelling dusting powders.

Fairy Dust & First Snow. 

Below you can see how shimmery Fairy Dust is and it smells amazing.

Here is a slightly 'he got forced into it' demonstration of the Santa Lip Scrub, which I will go into more detail at the end as it is one of the products I chose to try.

My blogger friends having fun... 

www.abbzzw.com (on the left)

www.beckawoo.com (on the right)

How cool is this soap?!? This is the Reindeer Rock soap where the look of it is based on cave drawings.

Super cute Butterbear bath bomb.

Bath Melt - Snow Angel.

Bubble Bar - Candy Mountain.

My absolute favourite smelling solid soap - Yog Nog. I just wanted to take the big wheel of it home. It smelt super sweet, almost good enough to eat...

I am not a bag fan of marzipan but those of you who are this is the soap for you - Snowcake.

There are too many to go into so here's the link to all of their Christmas Gift...

Shower Scrub (to the left) - Salt and Peppermint Bark

Shower Jelly (centre) - Snowman

Shower Jelly (to the right) - Santa's Belly

We were allowed to choose four items to take home with us. A lover of sweet smelling things I chose the sweetest smelling products they had. As I don't have a bath I chose things for the shower instead. 

Shower Gel - Snow Fairy - Smells like sweets and I love it!!

Shower Gel - Rose Jam - smells like Turkish Delight and found this scent lingers the most after showering.

Santa's Lip Scrub - leaves lips super soft and you get to lick it off the cola flavour sugary goodness after using it.

Yog Nog Soap - the most delicious smelling soap ever!

If you made it to the end of this lengthy post, thank you! 

There were a lot of products I didn't manage to photograph so haven't mentioned them in this post, if you are curious here's a link to the New Lush Products and you can have a good browse.

Apologies in advance if I end up making you spend all of your money...

Coco

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