12 Day Blogger Challenge - Day 2: Review a Product, Service or Brand

I came across the Sleek makeup brand a couple of months at a friends party. I admired someone's lipstick which turned out to be a Sleek matte me ultra smooth matt lipcream. It was bursting with pigment. I was shocked when I heard the price! A few weeks later in Boots I went looking for it. What I found was so much better: Check it out.   

Rows and rows of eye pallets for €9.99!! There are 12 shades on each pallet, which is an absolute bargain. I chose two pallets Vintage Romance 141 & Oh So Special 658, a blush pallet with three shades called Lace 367 with “intensely pigmented matt and shimmer blushers” and an eyebrow pallet: Light 817! I also chose one of the matt lipcream’s in Petal 435.

Vintage Romance

Vintage Romance

I love the brow kit as I’m having an issue with thinning brows over the past few months, so the brow kit helps to keep my brows full looking without being too false. The kit comes with a handy mini tweezers, angle brush to get the shape just right with the pigmented wax, and another handy brush to brush on the setting powder. 

You can check out the Sleek website here.  

I'm sure you will love this brand as much as I do! 

Enjoy 

Juls x

12 Day Blogger Challenge - Day 1: Why Do You Blog? Plus Five Random Facts!

I came across the 12 day challenge on Miss Sugar Spice Blog and thanks to Amy from Style Storms Blog for sending it on!

I started blogging in 2011 after my first year in college, as an outlet for my writing passions. I had imagined there would be some form of college newsletter or magazine I could contribute to, but sadly not. So this along with my love of literature, theatre, Film and life led to my blogging path.

This blog is actually my third, after two years developing the other two I finally realised what I wanted to focus on and moved on to Juls Hidden Gems. My blogging journey has been such a learning curve for me. I love writing, I just get lost in it. Unfortunately when I was finishing my thesis earlier this year, it had to be put on the backburner, but it has my full attention again. I have time now to actually root out those little gems around Dublin and on my other travels to share with you!

Five Random Facts

1.      Penguins have knees

2.     I have moved over 20 times in my life

3.     This winter is set to be the coldest in 75 years FACT

4.     The male seahorse carries the foetus

5.     Nanook of the North  (1922) is the first known documentary film

Juls x