My Top 3 Lip Products

6 days is rather a long break between posts for Beauty By A Geek of late, but since I haven't actually wrote any posts since August (My September posts were all scheduled since I knew I'd be so busy starting sixth form) I kinda forgot. I probably will be posting less frequently now because A-Levels are rather freaking hard anyway.

My collection currently stands at 9 lipsticks, 2 lip crayons, 3 liquid lipsticks and 1 lip gloss so it was no mean feat whittling it down to my top 3 lip products. However, the final contestants are- Bourjois Colour Boost lip crayon in 05 Red Island, Bourjois Rouge Edition Lipstick in 05 Ole Flamingo and Maybelline Colour Sensational Vivid in 910 Shocking Coral.

The first is a true cherry red, the second is a bright but dark pink and the final is a slightly neon bright pink. Whilst I don't wear the maybelline one all that often due to its brightness, it's still one of my favourite lipsticks formula wise so I knew I had to include it. 

The lip crayon and lipstick both have a gorgeous glossy finish whilst the liquid lipstick dries matte on the lips. All three are incredibly long lasting so need minimal touch ups and are beautifully pigmented so stay the same colour and don't tend to fade.

Although they're probably not the most wearable, neutral colours, they probably are my most worn colours of all I own partly because I'm a lover of bright lipstick and partly because they just have such excellent formulas.

L-R Maybelline Colour Sensational, Bourjois Colour Boost Crayon, Bourjois Rouge Edition Lipstick

So there's my recommendations, please give me yours!

My Fall Essentials

Rather than doing a September favourites post I decided to do a fall favourites/essentials type post because Fall is quite possibly my favourite season, but I kinda say that about every season except Spring to be honest.

Except for my obvious essentials like big cosy sweaters, mug fulls of hot chocolate/coffee and new boots, three very important things to me during Fall are of course candles, dark lipsticks and even darker nails.

My darkest lipstick (Is it a lipstick? I'm never sure.) is my Apocalips in Eclipse which I adore and wear sooo often in the autumn/winter months. The Bourjois Colour Boost is a rather new addition to my collection but one that I am again loving! Its a strong, long lasting, glossy formula needing minimal touch ups.

Apocalips in left and Colour boost on the right

And two of my favourite autumn candles (the Sugar and Spice one from Tesco's is actually my favourite candle ever, even beating my yankee candles.) help make my bedroom smell like Autumn even if it isnt. The left one is from Tesco and smells delicious and the right one is a Glade Vanilla one which smells just like vanilla fudge and I loveeeeeee it.

And finally the two nail colours I have been swapping between over the last 3 weeks are Barry M Matte nail paint in Crush and a grey BeautyUK one that doesn't seem to have a name. Being the rebellious child that I am I have taken to painting my nails in my free periods at school :0 which inevitably means I end up with at least three dreadfully smudged. 

So there we go, a round up of a few of my autumn favourites, tell me yours so I can have a look...

Nail Polish Stand & Lipstick Holder

Both are these gems were received for my birthday after I asked my parents for them, since my makeup collection is rather overflowing at the moment, but I have to say these really do seem to have solved the problem.

This has been really useful to keep my lipsticks together and ensure that I can see what all the colours are without having to root around in my drawer. I have also taken to keeping my everyday things like concealer, eyeliner and mascara in the front row so that I can grab them easily in the morning.

I recently had a big clear out of all my nail varnishes so I had about 14 left I think. Then lucky for me I received another 7 for my birthday too as you may know if you read my birthday post! Therefore the top tier is currently looking rather empty and I may have to be investing in some more I think!

I got the lipstick holder from here and this is where I got the nail varnish stand from. The price of both of these was absolutely amazing but particularly the lipstick stand yet both are excellent quality.

As a side note, how do we feel about white nail varnish? I can't decide if I like it, please tell me in the comments!

DIY Lip Scrub

I have noticed that the colder months have meant that my lips are getting very chapped, so I have been lusting over the Lush lip scrubs. The problem is that I'm trying to cut my spending and £6 for a tiny little pot just doesn't seem fair. Enter pinterest and the search for DIY lip scrubs.

To be honest all the recipes seemed pretty simple, all you needed was sugar, a carrier oil and then optional flavourings and colours. 

Personally I chose to use vanilla extract and extra virgin olive oil since it was all I had in the cupboard.

If you want a recipe with precise measurements, you can check out any of the three websites I have linked below, but personally I just did it by eye and dumped all the ingredients into the bowl and mixed...

Once you're finished you can just use your fingers to rub a bit onto your lips and it will take off any dead skin cells just like a face scrub would. Then simply wipe off with a tissue or wash off.

Recipe Sources-

• http://www.easy-home-made.com/lush-diy-lip-scrub.html
• http://thebeautythesis.com/2013/10/05/diy-lip-sugar-scrub/
• http://gretalrabbit.blogspot.co.uk/2011/06/diy-lip-scrub-lush-bubblegum-dupe.html

It might not be as pretty as the Lush ones but it'll work for me until I pluck up the courage to spend £6 on such a tiny jar. 

If any of you have tried them please let me know if you rate them!