Natural Collection Lip Liner in 'Ruby Rose' and 'Plum'

If you're a long time reader of Bee's Knees, you'll know I am a real lipstick girl. My collection is quite large, although I don't actually own that many lip liners. I think I only had these two lipliners before I purchased some from Natural Collection at Boots.

I picked up two when Boots was doing its Buy One Get One Half Price promotion across make up. The two shades I plumped for were Ruby Rose and Plum

These are generic pencil liners, £1.99 each so not loads to fork out (and even less if you bag them on offer like I did!)

The swatch shows Plum on top and Ruby Rose on the bottom. Plum is perfect to line most darker red or berry lipsticks, and Ruby Rose good for brighter shades. Both also work well on their own with the lip filled in, but Ruby Rose in particular looks gorgeous as it's a nice red/pink tone.

Have you tried any of Natural Collection's range? What do you think?

xx

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Natural Collection Lipstick Review

In my pootles around the blogosphere I noticed lots of bloggers posting good reviews about the Boots Natural Collection lipsticks! I never even gave any thought to trying these before, but curiosity got the better of me and I decided to try 3 different shades with Boots' recent 3 for 2 offer - at only £1.99 each it wasn't really that much to gamble!

The packaging could be a lot prettier, but I suppose you get what you pay for. The lipsticks feel cheap and light and plasticy - and a little wobbly in their tubes which was my biggest concern. It's always awful when a lipstick breaks whilst safe in its tube in your bag!

The shades I went for were Cranberry, Cherry Red and Pink Orchid. I hoped to try some sheer and matte shades to get a really good feel for the overall collection.

Here they are, from top to bottom Pink Orchid, Cherry Red and Cranberry. I think you can see that Pink Orchid was more of a sheer colour and requires the colour to be built up quite a lot before you get this amount of payoff. Cherry Red is a gorgeous bright red that's perfect for autumn and looks lovely with my pale skin tone. But my favourite has to be Cranberry - its such a nice natural colour and just brightens up my whole face when I wear it.

These lipsticks aren't the best for moisturising your lips, despite being 'Moisture Drench' lippies, but they're nowhere near as chalky as Barry M or other 'budget' brands. I do like all the shades I chose, but the one I would probably repurchase after it runs out is Cranberry. It's so versatile and easy to wear, day or night, dressed up or down. I really recommend trying at least one shade if you've never used Natural Collection lipstick before, for the price you can't go wrong!

xx