Nars "Orgasm" dupe....

Nars "orgasm" creates a big buzz in beauty blogging and youtube - it's a cult product. However at £21.50 it's also quite pricey, especially for students like myself! I actually bought mine when asos did student discount at 25% so managed to get a few pounds knocked off it. It's a gorgeous colour that would suit any skin tone, its a lovely rosey colour with gold shimmers and is definitely worth having.

The colour looks like its come out a little dark in the photo but you can see the gold shimmers in it! Gives a really nice glow to the cheeks.

HOWEVER, Sleeks blush in "Rose Gold" is a very similar colour for a fraction of the price at £4.49, and not only is it much cheaper you also get much more product (8g worth compared to 4.8g in Orgasm).

This picture seems to have caught the light better than the nars one but you can see how similar they are even with the bad lighting (I blame my halls!). Lovely colour, with really nice packaging fairly similar to the nars, however I do find this quite hard to open but I don't know if I just got a dodgy one!

Rose Gold is one the left and Orgasm on the right, Rose Gold looks perhaps a little darker but you can still see how similiar they are in appearance!

Rose gold on the left and Orgasm on the right. They are very similar when swatched, and I believe Rose Gold is actually MORE pigmented than Orgasm!!

In my opinion if you want Orgasm give Rose Gold a try first, it's much cheaper and as you can see its so similar in appearance and you get much more for your money! If you do want Orgasm and you're a student then the best place to get it is Asos as it's 10% student discount with uni days or an NUS extra card - and you may be lucky like me and get it 25% off :) superdrug also do 10% student discount with an NUS extra card - I didn't realise this until recently as they don't advertise it anywhere - cheeky!

What do you think of the two blushes? Do you think Rose Gold is a good dupe?

Thanks for Reading!

EMILY X X X

Maybelline Colour Show Polka Dots

Sorry for the lack of posts recently, I've had uni exams and haven't had much time to blog, but I have now got a bit of break before my next one so thought I'd do a few posts! :)

It's no secret that I have a nail varnish obsession (I have over 110 now!!!) and I've been really in to confetti style top coats. I'm gutted I haven't been able to find Loreal's "Confetti" but Maybelline have released a new range in their "colour show" polishes that have this confetti effect and I couldn't resist buying some! Unfortunately they didn't have the black and white one that I really wanted! But I did manage to get my hands on the "shooting stars" shade....

It's a gorgeous dark blue colour with black and white confetti style pieces in, they don't really look like "polka dots" but they are still very pretty! The consistency of the polish itself is quite gloopy which makes it hard to do neatly around the edges of your nails and to get a good colour I'd recommend 2 or 3 coats!
Heres a picture of it in action on my nails!

Have you tried any of the polka dots? or any of the other equivalents? What do you think of them? Any colours I should add to my collection?

Thanks for reading

EMILY X X X