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I am still building my lipstick collection (which is the biggest part of my makeup collec haha) which is mainly thanks to Nyx for their affordable & huge lipstick range! So I only have 12 lipsticks, 6 lip liners & 3 lip glosses but I am getting there, I promise! I find the best place to purchase these on the web is through Joy's Cosmetics store on ebay- click here - where you can get a bunch of items say 3 l/s for about $7 and I have ordered from her so much &have had no problems at all! Anyway- onto the swatches =] Pic Heavy so apologies in advance! Also, click the pics to view them larger! Left To Right- Harmonica, Strawberry Milk, Narcissus, Tea Rose, Margarita, Chloe Harmonica- Frosty, hard to apply from the tube without it being streaky. Strawberry Milk- Matte light pink, opaque compared to harmonica. Narcissus- Matte bubble gum pink Tea Rose- Matte muted pink, great for everyday Margarita- gorgeous shimmery coral colour. I love this over pinky L/L Chloe-  umm not ...

If you're unaware of what Big W is, it is a store in Aus much like K-mart, Target etc. Anyway we went up to the city the other day & pretty much the only shop we had time to go to was Big W. Since Winter is approaching over here for me, I was inspired by Aria @ Make-me up   to go on a boot hunt. Originally I found a pair I liked from the shoe shed but I found these & couldn't justify spending $70 instead of only $30! I also preferred to buy boots in the store so I could try them on and then if they didn't fit I'd have to send them back blah blah all that mucking around so I found these & I quite liked them I also had time to have a quick look at the cosmetics, & lucky for me there were quite a few specials so I got this Rimmel Lipstick (My first Rimmel item =)) & CG Lipstain (Which I had wanted for agess & since it was about $6 cheaper I had to get it) & Also 2 FOA items- Impact-full Volumising Mascara & Blush in Outback Primrose. not the...