REVIEW: Models Prefer Sweet Kisses...

A few weeks ago I was incredibly lucky enough to win the gorgeous Tulip Love's Sweet Valentine Giveaway, and the prize was a Models Prefer Sweet Kisses box of make up. (Before I go any further, this beautiful lady is having a massive 500,000 + page views giveaway till 3rd April!). I so rarely get to Priceline, so I was overjoyed to score this huge kit of all sorts of products, but I was particularly excited about the eye shadows (natch!)...

This is such a cute tin, heaps bigger than I had originally thought (about the size of a box of chocolates). There are two layers inside, each with a plastic protective film over the top. The first layer is made of sturdy compressed foam with little ribbon tabs on each side for easy lift out, and contains 16 eye shadows. Despite being lovingly encased in mountains of bubble-wrap by my darling Tulip, it would appear that Australia Post may have used it for football practice(!), and one of the pans (Truffle, bottom left) was smashed to smithereens - everything else was in perfect condition though ♥.

After numerous unsuccessful attempts, I do declare that my swatching ability totally sucks, so I'm sending you over to an expert, the beautiful Gemma Sapphire, who reviewed this tin back in October last year :-) They are a mix of mattes & shimmers, and as is often the case with palettes, the pigmentation of some of the colours leaves a lot to be desired, but there are some absolute GEMS (OMG Mint Slice!) as well. I've done three EOTD's so far using these shadows, and I'll upload them over the next few days...

The bottom layer contains all sorts of goodies - two blushes (pink & peach), a bronzer, highlighter, eye primer, double-ended brush and a combined volumising mascara & brow gel. All the removable products are housed brilliantly in the moulded foam, and snap securely into place...

So far I've only tried the blushes (very wearable & blendable), slightly shimmery bronzer (a bit deep for me but works beautifully in small doses) & the brush, one end of which is flat and perfect for applying my cream gel bases onto my lids. The other end is domed (I think it's called a pencil brush) - I don't have anything else like it in my kit, and I'll be experimenting with it for smudging eye crayons...

I'll report on the other items in future posts as I use them. I'm determined to get the chalky less pigmented shades to work, but overall I'm loving this tin, and ever so grateful to Tulip Love for the opportunity to add it to my collection ♥

Take care of you,

kats xxx