Particle Contour sticks come in a cute, handy little lipbalm-esque tube that twists at one end to get to the product. I like that I can just pop this into my bag when I go out and if my face is losing it's precious bone structure I can sneak off and bam, here comes Cheekbones McGee. Something I also like about the packaging is that the label breaks when you first open it, which is useful if you have multiples or if you're concerned about hygiene, because you know whether the product has been opened before.

Once I'd opened it, I noticed that it smelled a bit like a crayon, and had a waxy kind of feel. I was really worried that it would be difficult to blend, but I threw caution to the wind and drew on my cheekbones regardless.

I'm so happy to have finally found a contour shade that suits my ridiculously pale skin! I find that powders you can buy mainstream are far too warm for my cool toned skin, and far too dark for my ultra-pastiness. But Alpha is a taupe, almost-grey kind of colour and it's fairly close to the actual shade that shadows make on my face. Which is great!

Cardiac Colours

First of all, I love this theme so much. Perfect for hopeless romantic nerds, like me! The samples come in Eppendorf tubes, which is absolutely adorable and I wish I could steal a tube box from my lab so that I could store them in one. All the Lip Theories smell like vanilla which is lovely, and they have a thick, paint-like consistency which makes application with a lip brush quite easy. The full size Lip Theories come in a tube with a doe-foot applicator which is even better. I've found that with these lipsticks, it's useful to line your lips or it'll get quite messy, especially with the darker colours.





Bicuspid Beige

This shade is a beautiful brown-toned pink, with a consistency that I've heard is similar to OCC Lip Tars, but I've never used those before because wah, international shipping costs.

I wasn't sure if I'd like this colour, but I really, really do. It's a 'your-lips-but-better' kind of colour for me, and it gives my lips a little bit of extra pizazz. It seems like it would be really good as an everyday, neutral lipstick.

Atrial Apricot





This shade is more pink-toned than Bicuspid Beige, and has a slight coral tinge.





It's not usually a colour I tend to wear on my lips, but I was pleasantly surprised! This actually looks quite pretty.

Mitral Mauve





This shade is a cool/neutral toned purple-mauve.





It's a really pretty colour! This one needed more coats for the colour to stay, which made it feel a bit more wet than the others, but I still love it.

Semilunar Scarlet





Red lipstick scares me, not gonna lie. And this lipstick is a true, blue-toned red.

Holy pigmentation, Batman! This is just one coat of the stuff. This kind of red is supposedly really good with my skin tone but I'm not so sure. I might see if I can make it look a bit darker with a dark layer of lipstick underneath.

Vagus Violet

This shade is an interesting, warm-toned purple.

It's a really gorgeous colour, but it was a little bit patchy to apply. Perhaps if I used a lip-liner beforehand it'll apply a bit easier! Once you get a couple coats on, it's really pigmented and a striking colour to wear. Once I took this coat off it stained a bit, so be careful when applying it.

Purkinje Purple - it's pronounced 'Purr-kine'!





This shade is a beautiful, true dark purple. I'm so excited to try this one on!

Yep, I really like this one. It's quite messy to apply though so I'd recommend using a lip liner before you apply it. Something like Cyber World from Mac.

Coronary Cobalt

Got to admit, I'm a little bit scared about this one. It's a dark navy blue. I'm intrigued.

It's so dark on my lips! I'm getting instant sea witch vibes. Really good pigmentation too, but like Purkinje Purple, it's quite messy to apply.

Equilibrium

A really lovely, almost rusty metallic red. I feel like this will go really well with my own eyeshadow Haemoglobin

I really love this shade. It's a metallic vampy red that is really shiny, so it makes your lips look all plump and nice. I felt like I had to apply more of this than the Cardiac Colours to get a good level of pigmentation, but I feel like a single coat would look amazing as a top coat to a black lipstick!

Gravity

I'm so excited about this one. It's a metallic black. Lets go!

Unf, this stuff is magical. It's so metallic it almost looks like chrome, like I'm wearing liquid mercury. But, yknow, without the toxicity. It's a lot thinner than all the others but like with Equilibrium, this would be lovely as a top coat to other lipsticks.

Van der Walrus Forces

Inside the ~mystery envelope~, Life's Entropy sent me a free eyeshadow sample!

It's a beautiful, shimmery purple-neutral brown kind of colour.









It's a really pretty, shimmery shadow that isn't too warm for my skin tone. There was a lot of fallout, as is common with loose pigment shadows, but it was easy to brush away with a fan-brush and didn't leave a stain.

I'm so pleased with my haul! Thank you so much Life's Entropy, I'll definitely be ordering from you again!

It takes a while to blend out and you need a fairly dense/hard brush, but it does look really blended out when you're done. It also feels quite waxy on your face at first, but once you blend it out it feels fine. I'm anxious to see if the waxiness causes me to break out or not, but I bloody hope not because I'm having quite a good time with my skin at the moment!Thanks for reading, guys! If you want to hear more of my ramblings you can follow me on Twitter Instagram and/or Tumblr