Showing posts with label Kylie Cosmetics. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Kylie Cosmetics. Show all posts
Hey guys so I purchased the Kylie Cosmetics 325$ holiday edition bundle kit she was offering on the first launch (21st November). First off I want to say my experience on actually trying to 'purchase' the collection was a NIGHTMARE! As per usual, it's a mad rush to order from Kylie and you end up in a long 'waiting' page to get on to the checkout. 

Ordering Experience 
It was a major stressful experience, but what annoyed me the most was 95% of the products selling individually sold out pretty much instant but the holiday edition bundles stayed in stock for two days after the launch?
- Okay fair enough
But then! Then, Kylie offered a huge 20% Black Friday discount PLUS freebies if you purchase on the Cyber Monday? I was so annoyed when I herd this, first off because I paid FULL price but the fact the item didn't really 'sell out' instant was frustrating that I could of waited a few days and saved a huge amount of $.

 Order Processing
What lead to an even more distressing experience was it took about 12 business working days before they even dispatched the item. Like what? On her website it says between 4-5 business working days to process and dispatch. I attempted to contact Kylie's customer service slightly frustrated as people who ordered LATER than myself have had theirs dispatched. In-fact, I could of simply ordered at a cheap price and got it sent out sooner than waiting this time... There response was 'due to the holiday season, and high demand we are taking a little longer than predicted' , 'we can not do anything about a refund, or price changing' which is a complete RIP OFF!

 Shipping
So after the long awaited shipping, then international shipping my product finally arrived in the UK just before Christmas. On my USP tracking it was completely messed up, it was informing me my item had traveled from London up to Scotland (completely bypassed my home address) and had attempted to be delivered but nobody was in? I was slightly worried due to the high amount of money I had invested in, so yet again I attempted to contact Kylie's customer service team. I actually emailed them three times over my UPS tracking, where was my product? But I had 0 response, nobody has ever to this day replied from her service team. As a result, I had to rush around, find phone numbers for UPS and UK posting services and track down my own parcel. I had to travel over 30 minutes in the car to pay a custom fee charge of £65+ then pick my parcel up! (so whats the point in shipping when I have to collect it myself, so annoying!)

So the actual products?
Merry Lip Kit - 30$ each
Now if I'm honest, I am totally disappointed in this product purely down to the shade. I was expecting a gorgeous red/burgundy colour that was dramatic but different. But honestly, its very orange toned like a washed out red which goes so patchy its unreal! I used this product once and that will most likely be the last time I will ever use it.
Rate: 2/10

Vixen Lip Kit - 30$ each
I LOVE this kit! The shade is 100% my colour, its a dark deep purple/plum and applies so softly and smoothly I feel like the pencil wears down rather fast is will probably 'run out' rather quick. But the colour is so dramatic and perfect for dark hair, pale skin, and for ME! I'm using this all the time this winter.
Rate: 10/10
Snow Kyliner Kit - 26$
Well, value for money? I'm not sure, if I'm honest I am not very sold on this product. You get the gel pot, a brush, and a pencil (the pencil is pretty useful) and the pot/brush seems to work fine. I'm just not sure I can justify paying 26$ for it when there is very similar products out there, plus the colour 'white' isn't all me. I mean, its great for a dramatic look or something different but well.. I'm just not sure!
Rate: 6/10

Holiday Palette Kyshadow - 42$
WOW! I'm in love with this beauty, this was the main product I was most excited about. The shades are beyond pigmented its crazy, one swipe across your eyelid and BAM you have maximum pigmented colour. Plus, the combination of colours seems to work great they are a little darker than expected but oh well! And, the silver shade is super pigmented but I'm currently obsessing with applying a small amount on my waterline (it looks majorly dramatic, it lasts literally ALL day and doesn't irritate at all)!
Rate: 10/10
Camo Creme Shadow - 20$
This is a.. 'Bleh' item, I feel like its majorly overrated in terms of the shade I was expecting a pigmented, shimmery tone but its much more just plain and creamy. It's nice and smooth to apply but the shade just isn't for me, it's too simple, boring.
Rate: 3/10

Golden Plum Creme Shadow - 20$
This is probably my favorite shade out of all three of the creme shadows, it's a nice deep tone but again, it lacks in shimmer and the 'wow' factor. 
Rate: 7/10

 Yellow Gold Creme Shadow - 20$
Out of all the creme shadows this is the worse, the colour is just shocking if I'm honest. It's very plain, yellow and not majorly shimmer or pigmented its just so... well! Something I would not recommend.
Rate: 2/10
Makeup Bag - 36$
If I'm honest this is completely overpriced at 36$ it's just crazy! When it arrived I was a little took back, I was expecting it to be very 'cheap' like material. But I have to give Kylie some credit, the material of the bag is rather thick, heavy quality. You have a zip across (which does seem a little plastic like) but inside you get two rather large pockets and is very spacious. But I would never pay the asking price...
Rate: 7/10

 

Full-Size 4PC Matte Liquid Lipsticks & Gloss - 45$
Cupid (coppery rose gold) GLOSS: 
I LOVE this shade, it's a major favorite of mine! It's super pigmented, shimmery, shiny and I love the metal texture. It doesn't last very long and does come off rather quick but still! I LOVE IT!
Rate: 10/10

Angel (mauve-y pink) Liquid Lipstick:
This is the worse out of the set, the shade is something I would probably never personally wear, why? Well it's very 'washed out' pinky tone, it looks too plain for myself and doesn't stand out much.
Rate: 3/10

Blitzen (deepen raspberry-plum) Liquid Lipstick:
I love love love this product, it matches perfect with the Vixen lip kit too. The dark shade is just honestly a new favorite for me it goes perfect with my hair/skin. Although again, after a short while it does become patchy, and wear off so you need to carry it with you and top up throughout the day.
Rate: 10/10
Noel (true copper) GLOSS:
This is another product which seems to somewhat catch my eye, I mean myself personally I prefer a GLOSS anyway. The product is very shimmery, and glow like but the colour is a little odd, its something a bit more harder to match with an outfit etc.
Rate: 7/10

 Mini Kit Matte Liquid Lipsticks - 36%
I was totally shocked when I saw these, I know from Kylie's birthday edition the mini's was a major popular item and sold out FAST! But the products themselves are so small and tiny, I was completely shocked they are something I personally wouldn't ever buy again. You get a good range of shades, something which might be useful to try out before buying full sizes but they just didn't appeal to me. I feel like after 2-4 uses they will be completely empty.
Rate: 4/10


Dancer Metal - 18$
The shade of this product is another LOVE! First off the texture of the metal is WOW, it stands out so much plus it has that shimmer shine. As for the shade, its perfect for my dark hair, stands out and lasts somewhat longer than some of the other products in this collection.
Rate: 10/10
Jolly GLOSS - 15$
This is a super pigmented, deep raspberry like gloss that is so soft and smooth on the lips! What more could you ask for? I love it!
Rate: 10/10

 Naughty GLOSS - 15$
The shade of this product is much more apple red and honestly, I feel like it looks a bit plastic like the shade could of been better.

Rate: 4/10

Overall;
I wouldn't buy this kit again, some of the products are great but most I either wouldn't use again or felt like it was overpriced/overrated. I would much rather take the risk and buy separately, however with the lack of support from Customer Services and yet again the high custom fees I won't be ordering from Kylie again.
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So I finally decided to commit and purchase off Kylie Cosmetics again (last time was a total disaster see the blog post here) after noticing the dramatic saving on the KoKo Collection I really wanted to get my hands on the set. Normally, the matte singles are 17$ each and the glosses are 15$ each but in this set you get x3 mattes and x1 gloss (value of 66$) for just 40$!

So lets clear up the 'technical' stuff before we get into the products, I ended up purchasing two Koko Collection sets for 40$ each (total of 80$) and got free international shipping. I ordered the product on the 17th November 2016 and they arrived on the 26th November 2016, I was majorly shocked by how speedy the international shipping was this time round. 

The downside, I ended up having a custom fee of £21.02 which is roughly 26.35$ (a LOT right?). Anyhow! Both came in super cute packaging, nothing damaged, no problems. The only thing I noticed was the quality of the lip product container wrapping was easy to chip (the gold bit on the tube).


So the shades?
Khlo$
This is a very nude shade matte lipstick but more of a dark nude, it somewhat reminds me of the Literally GLOSS Kylie offers. The shade is my second favorite, it stayed on my lips pretty much all day but did go patchy after the first hour-two hours of wear. Plus I noticed every-time I took a sip out of a drink it left that horrible stain on the cup!

 Okurrr
This product is a bright pink shade matte lipstick its probably suited to a blonde, or pale girl (but then again I'm just thinking of barbie) which is what this shade reminds me of. It's going to be one of the least favorite out of the collection, but that's purely down to the colour not suiting myself and something I wouldn't wear often.

Gorg
A deep red tone super pigmented and honestly I've just fallen in love with the shade, it's 100% suited to dark haired people like wow! It didn't seem to patch too much and the colour stayed somewhat even (as long as you didn't touch the lips, or drink) else you might have to top up. But this is by far my favorite out of all the products in the set.

 Damn Gina
This was the product out of the four I was most excited for, purely because I'm a major gloss lover. But because it looked so delicate and pretty, on the images I had seen of swatches its a light pinky, glittery, clear shade. But when I applied it onto my lips, honestly I felt like it didn't do much in terms of colour. If anything, it looked like I just had a clear, glitter gloss over the top of my natural lip colour (very disappointing). 

Overall, I'm rather impressed with Kylie Cosmetics first off she is now offering special prices (bundle packs you save money). Free shipping over X amount total cost, and speedy delivery. The only downside left with Kylie Cosmetics is the custom fees us international buyers are left with (which some companies don't seem to get there customers this charge??), and the fast sell out leaving us to rush, fight and try our hardest to be one of the first to purchase. 
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So I finally managed to get my hands on the Kylie Cosmetics GLOSS collection on the very first launch which was the 1st April 2016. It was all a bit of a rush to order if I'm honest, my mum noticed she posted on snapchat and instantly I grabbed my computer and card to make a payment. One thing which instantly confused me was the trio option she has on the page (Get all three shades for 45$), I mean you save 0$ on this option but I suppose it's a quicker option to buy all three and make a payment faster since they always sell out after a few minutes. When I managed to get on the site this option had been "sold out", although all three GLOSS's where still available to buy (I had to select them individually), after making a successful payment my order went through!

Shipping Process:
So as you will probably know I am based over in the United Kingdom(UK) so I had to pay for international shipping which was 15$ (which I suppose wasn't too bad, although that's the price for x1 product itself). On the 7th April I got a USPS tracking number and a email saying my order had been dispatched, each day the tracking system seemed to update about my parcel being on the move. When the 10th April arrived the product had arrived in Los Angles then on the 11th April it had arrived in London, UK. It was then processed for 8 days, on the 19th April I received a letter in my mail box explaining I had a bill of £14.38 custom fees for a parcel, the parcel itself was being held a the nearby Posting Depo and I could pay cash for it there (before 12am) or I could pay online and then wait a further 5 days before it could be dispatched. 
If I'm honest, this kinda bugged me purely because I had waited so long already and now I had to find the time to drive to the Posting Depo (which is about 10-15 minutes via car) and pay out even more money just to receive the parcel. Thankfully, my mum managed to pick it up for me and cover the custom fees (which in my opinion where pretty high). 

Products:
Each of the products where 15$ each, when they arrived they came in a black and white "KYLIE" cardboard box. The actual box was pretty damaged, the corners had been bashed in a lot and slight discoloring on the cardboard had begun (although I wasn't too bothered considering it had been shipped half way across the world). Inside the products where wrapped in a foam like packaging where all three products lay, and a small message card.


x1 Literally ;
When I first saw this product I felt it would be the wrong colour for me, my skin is very pale and porcelain and this was the darkest shade out of all three products. When I opened the product up I honestly wanted to cry with disappointment, the brush applicator was all misshaped and the individual brushes where all over the place! I mean it wasn't majorly bad at first, but after a few times of putting it back in and re-opening it the applicator was pretty much unusable. It was a real task trying to apply this neatly, it would smudge in the inner-corner of my lips and go on my skin which was a real pain and more time consuming. However, the colour itself I fell in love with, it was PERFECT! The shade was the darkest but it was personally the most pigmented, you could notice I had a a colour on my lips and it was the perfect shade to match browns/gold toned eye-shadows & contouring.


x1 So Cute ;
This shade was the one I was most excited to use, it's the lightest out of them all and more of a natural 'nude' option. When I first applied this on my lips it was pretty much unnoticeable, it felt very clear and only a slight pigment shade. After applying several layers of this you could start to see the colour better, I felt like I was too pale for this product if I'm honest. When I had applied I felt like it reminded me of having foundation left on my lips and then I had applied a clear gloss over the top, it just felt like a very odd shade to have on and didn't suit me at all! (Which was a major disappointment)

x1 Like ;
This shade is the 'in-between' option, it's not too dark but not too light either and honestly I didn't know what to expect from it. When I applied on my lips it was more pigmented than So Cute but wasn't as dramatic as Literally, I felt like this was more of a simple-easy going shade. It was just your average shade, nothing stood out to me and nothing pulled me towards loving this product if I'm honest.

After doing a bit of research, I noticed a lot of people where receiving the misshaped applicators and writing to Kylie Cosmetics customer service, where they was reshipping all the orders out. In attempt, I wrote to them.. I mean I was bothered by the applicator because it was unusable but I had gotten over the fact and just accepted it. After a few hours of writing I got a email back (which I was surprised by how fast the response was), it was very brief explaining they knew about the problem and that they would be reshipping all the orders from the 1st April out and to expect another USPS tracking to be confirmed soon. I wasn't informed when or what would be reshipped, I expected it to be just the applicator wand itself? My mum expected it to be a whole new GLOSS? Who knew?

 After about a week I got another USPS confirmation with a tracking number, after a few weeks the parcel finally arrived (again I had a custom fee which was £14.38) so being out of pocket yet again I went and paid. When they arrived they weren't in the "KYLIE" black and white box, but instead in a black thin envelope with a bit of bubble wrap inside. No personal card message either, just the products inside (which I was disappointing). However I was shocked to find they had reshipped all three products, (even though it was only shade Literally which was misshapen) all three had the new applicator which was perfect and I am beyond grateful for.

 Overall, I am not impressed with the whole "Kylie Cosmetics" which everyone has been making out to be so "amazing". I felt the whole ordering process was very stressful, there have been times where I've previously tried to order and after adding bank details and billing addresses I get rejected, times where I've been put in a waiting line for over 20 minutes to then get a popup saying "Sorry We've Sold out".
Plus the shipping was very disappointing, paying 15$ on international shipping I would of expected them to cover the custom fees and on the original order I had in total paid  35.75$ on shipping (considering all three products add up to 45$ I felt ripped off and wouldn't of ordered again). Then with the reshipment custom fees that came to 56.50$ on shipping! The customer service seemed to be fine with me, although when I had my issue I did research and see people ranting over having empty boxes arrive, missing products, order being shipped to the wrong location, order not arriving and so many horrifying stories where customer services where ignoring them. All I can say is thank you for reshipping the products out, although with custom fees I probably would of preferred not to even have them now, I personally won't be going through all the stress of ordering again and then being left with the bill at the end for shipping and fees, I just feel like it's not worth it when all I liked out of these three products was the GLOSS 'Literally'. 

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So I recently got my hands on a Kylie Cosmetics lip kit, first off if you don't know Kylie's products sell out within minutes each time they launch making virtually impossible to order or own. After various searches, long hours trying I gave up but recently a friend of mine managed to get two and sell me one for the regular price (which I am honored for).


Packaging:
So the packaging for the lip kits is super cute and stylish, its packed full of colours (which I love) and it has a lot of information regarding about the product etc on the back! Inside the box its separated into two small sections where one holds the lip liner and the other holds the matte lip product. When I saw this I must admit I thought it was a pretty cool idea, it prevents them from bashing against each other but I did struggle to fit them back in once I had taken out. I noticed whenever I placed both products back in the box I struggled to close the top fully without it pushing out (slightly annoying).

Lip Liner:
I must admit, the liner itself is pretty straight forward its smooth to hold, a decent average size in height (and it can be sharpened). As for the lid, it's a nightmare! I feel as though the lid for the liner is too big for the actual pencil, if you hold the lid with your finger tips then the pencil slides straight out. And the same if you held it upside down by the end of the pencil, the lid slides straight off again. This became really annoying when I tried to place in the original box, the pencil would slide out and then the product would mark the surrounding area with a red line (making a mess and forcing me to clean up, it's not wise to use around a white-toned area trust me!). As for the application of the liner, it was easy to use and no major issues with it, the colour matched perfect with the matte lip.

 Matte Lip:
As with all of Kylie's products, I love the tube packaging its simple, stylish and just perfect to sit on a desk. The brush tip is a sponge like applicator, making it easy and smooth to apply. When I applied it went on smooth and fairly "liquid" like, it didn't dry out instantly (which was good to try even the product out). However, one major issue I occurred on  my first time using was if the product smudged slightly onto the skin it would mark majorly. I caught a small patch on the inner corner of my lip (onto the skin), and I tried to wipe off with my finger and it instantly smudged everywhere. With the product being a deep red, the colour was very noticeable and stain like - I had to go over and over the patch a LOT with my foundation/concealer/powder to try hide the stain mark (which is annoying and more time consuming). The product dried out after about 2-4 minutes of application, it became matte like and I had no issues... I noticed everytime I took a drink, or a bite into food it did mark the glass or fork I used (which is a major hate for me). After wearing for about 3-4 hours and having eaten lunch I noticed the colour had pretty much worn off from the center part of my lip close to the inside but the colour had maintained pretty much all around the outer edges. (which looked really stupid if I admit, if you was in public this would be a major crisis, especially if you hadn't brought the product with you). The colour did stain/stay for hours on end after I had washed my face, cleansed, and attempted to remove the reminding product on my lips (mainly the liner) which is an unattractive look.

Overall? 
Overall, the colour itself I love, I love how matte it looked without drying my lips out or making them feel dry. But I did hate the liner lid, how it stained for such a long period after various attempts to take it off, how it left marks on glasses after a drink.

If I had the choice to buy this product again I would probably not order, simply because its too much of a stress to buy it "in time" from the Kylie Cosmetics site. But also because international shipping is 15$ and with the GLOSS's I purchased I had a majorly high custom fees (making it about 37$ on shipping alone). With the kit costing 29$ it just seems like a lot of hard work and money to purchase something which I can honestly say is very similar to other high end & high street products. The only "special" thing about this I would say is the outer packaging, the "brand name" and the appearance of the tube. I personally think the product is highly over-rated, but that's just my opinion.

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