Love is in the air with Poppy King from No 7

February 14th...Valentines day...Yet another day of celebration for companies to make money from. And I don't know about you, but there seems to be more companies jumping on the Valentines day band waggon every year with some tedious link to Valentines day. The other reason for my dislike of V day, is it's the day before my birthday, so going away for my birthday is either expensive or impossible, and I don't get a Valentines present and a birthday present, it's one or the other!

So, rather than blog about products you could buy loved ones for V day, I thought I would look at products you could buy yourself to feel ultra sexy on V day!

Now being the day of love, lip gloss/lipstick was the object of my affection for this post. Before my hunt started I took a quick look in my beauty drawers and found a considerable collection of lip products...

But none of them were really hitting the mark for V day. So off I set to Boots, and there I stumbled upon the 75% off Christmas sale!! In the original Boots Christmas gift section I had my beady eye on the Poppy King collections, I have been keen to try her lipstick ever since the 'Lipstick Queen' collaborated with Boots, so I was excited to pick up two lips glosses for £3 and a lip gloss and a lipstick for £5!

The lip glosses retail separately in Boots for £11 and the lipsticks for £12 so I really got a bargain here.

Fabulous Red Lip Stick, Flirty Red Lip Gloss,
Plum Lip Gloss and Deep Wine Lip Gloss 

Swatches starting at the top: Deep Wine, Plum,
Flirty and the bottom swatch is the lip stick

Now, I've seen mixed reviews of Poppy King products on the Internet, but I actually quite liked these products.

The Deep Wine lip gloss is firmly placed on my desk at work as it's the perfect day time office colour. Flirty lip gloss is such a vibrant shade of red that I wore it out on Saturday night and it really made me feel extra special! To see the lip gloss on my lips with the rest of the make-up view my last post here. Probably the most disappointing is the Plum shade, which seems to have no colour tint at all, although this does make it perfect for brushing over the lips before doing the weekly supermarket shop! A couple of complaints, a funny smell to the lip gloss when you first open it up, but this does not stay once applied, and it is not that long lasting, and needs applying again every few hours.

I really loved the lipstick, very creamy and moisturising, and the trick with Poppy King, seems to be to apply lipstick and cover the colour with gloss for a really vibrant long lasting colour, check out below, the combination of Flirty Red Lip Gloss and Fabulous Red Lip Stick:

Would I buy these again? Probably not at full price, but I might consider if I had a No 7 £5 voucher, points on my advantage card, or when the 3 for 2 on No 7 offer is running. Have you tried Poppy King before, and what did you think?

Have a lovely Valentines Day, whatever you are up to, and spoil yourself with some lip loving - you will feel fabulous!

Happy Valentines Day! x

Stace x