Week in photographs #14
Sunday, March 31, 2013
My week has consisted of: snow (again), uni work (again), Pizza Hut pizza, Easter chocolate, depotting eyeshadows, shopping and spring cleaning!
Snow...again, I hate snow! I have been burning/melting my Kringle Candle wax tarts this week, as I wanted a change and I have quite a few of them. I love the vanilla lavender scent, although it can be a little strong. Also, its Easter, so family and friends have been round so that and the cold weather have led to unhealthy eating in the form of a Pizza Hut pizza (Margherita with cream sauce) and a giant milk chocolate Lindt bunny! *drools*
This week has also been spend sorting out clothes, makeup and depotting eye shadows - I have a couple of large Front Cover makeup sets so I cut out all of the eye shadows (which did take ages and resulted in sore fingers) but they are great baked shadows. I am going to buy the 'dome Z palette' soon for them - I probably should have bought the palette first but I was in a cleaning/sorting mood!
Also this week I send my review of the Benefit Fake Up Concealer to Debenhams. I have been using the new Benefit concealer for about two weeks now and I do really like it - although it isn't as amazingly incredible as I thought it would be. Full review coming soon!
I hope you all had a great week and have a nice Easter! x
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Makeup Collection: Primers & Concealers!
Friday, March 29, 2013
Firstly, sorry I haven't been posting really, I have been so busy with my dissertation and friends coming over! Anyway here is the second part of my makeup collection (ft Muji acrylic storage drawers). This part of my makeup collection contains my eye and face primers and my concealers (of which I have a fair few)....
Firstly, concealer - I have quite a few concealers (that's a bit of an understatement...). I have quite a few as I am on the quest to find the best concealer for my very dark circles but it has to be very pale like me and it has to be moisturising. I haven't found my perfect concealer yet but here are some of my favourites! I have concealers from Kiko, Revlon, Lierac, Vichy, Loreal, Smashbox and more.
I love the ELF Tone Correcting Concealer (shade: Ivory) as it is super moisturising and it never looks caky or dry, although it only has light coverage. I also really like the MAC Moisturecover Concealer (shade: NW15) as it is similar to the ELF concealer but it has a lot more coverage - however on my dry skin days this concealer can look a bit caky and obvious. My favourite under eye concealer right now has to be the Clinique Airbrush Concealer (shade: 04 neutral fair). I received two travel size ones (gifts with purchase) and I LOVE them! My least favourite concealers have to be the Revlon Photoready and the Kiko Skin Evolution as they are just too drying and caky on my already dry skin. I now also have the Benefit Fake Up Concealer (which I won!) which I will review fully soon!
Now onto primers! These are a mix of face and eyelid primers from Laura Mericer, Too Faced, Elf, Jemma Kidd, Smashbox, Nars, Benefit, Body Shop and Murad. My favourite face primer has to be The Body Shop Moisturise it Primer, it is great for keeping my makeup lasting throughout the day and for keeping my skin looking fresh - LOVE it! I also really like the Laura Mercier Foundation Primer (I think I am going to buy the radiance version from SpaceNK soon). My least Favourite primers include: the Too Faced Shadow Insurance which doesn't work for me and the ELF eyeshadow primers are not great, in my opinion. I also have a full size Smashbox primer (that I have hardly used) which is ok. My favoruite eyeshadow primer has to be the Nars Pro-Primer Smudgeproof Eyeshadow Primer - it is the best eyeshadow primer I have tried (and everything creases on my eyes)!
I am thinking of creating a blog sale soon, comment if you are interested! (UK only).
I love the ELF Tone Correcting Concealer (shade: Ivory) as it is super moisturising and it never looks caky or dry, although it only has light coverage. I also really like the MAC Moisturecover Concealer (shade: NW15) as it is similar to the ELF concealer but it has a lot more coverage - however on my dry skin days this concealer can look a bit caky and obvious. My favourite under eye concealer right now has to be the Clinique Airbrush Concealer (shade: 04 neutral fair). I received two travel size ones (gifts with purchase) and I LOVE them! My least favourite concealers have to be the Revlon Photoready and the Kiko Skin Evolution as they are just too drying and caky on my already dry skin. I now also have the Benefit Fake Up Concealer (which I won!) which I will review fully soon!
Now onto primers! These are a mix of face and eyelid primers from Laura Mericer, Too Faced, Elf, Jemma Kidd, Smashbox, Nars, Benefit, Body Shop and Murad. My favourite face primer has to be The Body Shop Moisturise it Primer, it is great for keeping my makeup lasting throughout the day and for keeping my skin looking fresh - LOVE it! I also really like the Laura Mercier Foundation Primer (I think I am going to buy the radiance version from SpaceNK soon). My least Favourite primers include: the Too Faced Shadow Insurance which doesn't work for me and the ELF eyeshadow primers are not great, in my opinion. I also have a full size Smashbox primer (that I have hardly used) which is ok. My favoruite eyeshadow primer has to be the Nars Pro-Primer Smudgeproof Eyeshadow Primer - it is the best eyeshadow primer I have tried (and everything creases on my eyes)!
I am thinking of creating a blog sale soon, comment if you are interested! (UK only).
Week in photographs #14
Monday, March 25, 2013
My week has consisted of: my dissertation, my sisters virtual fake baby, snow, new boots, benefit fake up concealer and sorting out my makeup!
So, I entered to take part in the Debenhams VIP Panel (on their Facebook page, UK) to try out the new Benefit Fake Up Concealer and I was chosen! I asked for the shade 'light' because I am super pale and I have been testing out this concealer for the past few days and I really like it. I was going to buy this when it came out but I don't have to now (very happy bunny). I will post a full review of the Benefit concealer soon. And on a side note, I love the packaging of the actual concealer and the way they wrapped it - adorable!
Ok, it has snowed again in England if you haven't heard (everyone has heard!). I live in north Manchester and I didn't get that much snow and it has all gone now but where I go to university is higher up, near the pennines and it is much worse there - nothing to the extent of the rest of the country though. I hate snow and because of the cold, snowy, windy weather I have eating some cheeky comfort food - I had popcorn (from my Graze box), English muffin pizzas and another krispy Kreme chocolate pecan doughnut yesterday (only 49p at the Tesco checkout for some reason)!
And to add to the misery of the English weather, my sister brought home a virtual (fake) baby from college. It cries (very loudly), it screams, it needs feeding/changing/burping/rocking...it was funny at first but that wore off very quickly - it is safe to say I am not having children! Myself and my sister named it Lena - I just love that name!
This week I made a cheeky order on Newlook and I bought two pairs of ankle boots - the same style but in two different colours - I really didn't need both...I did need both! I love them although the black pair fit smaller/tighter than the tan pair but anyway, I love them with tight and dresses (or maybe a nice pair of fitted trousers, if I can ever find some that I like!). I also bought some things from Topshop, La redoute, the body shop and amazon over the past couple of weeks which I still need to put in a haul post.
Lastly, I have been sorting out my makeup this week. I received another pair of acrylic wide drawers from Muji. I don't even want to think about how much money I have spent on Muji acrylic storage as I have 7 drawers at around £10/11 each (oops) but I adore the drawers. I am in the process of going through my makeup collection and I will create a post on my muji storage too!
Hope you had a great week, sorry for the late week in photographs post again, I have been really busy with uni work.
Hope you had a great week, sorry for the late week in photographs post again, I have been really busy with uni work.
Makeup Collection: Foundation
Saturday, March 23, 2013
Here is part of my makeup collection - this is a series of posts about my makeup collection, what I have and my favourite products in my collection!
Here are my foundations! I will just list the ones I have and then I will go through my favourites! So I have: a mini Nars sheer glow, Jemma Kidd Pro Finish Moisture Tint, The Body Shop Moisture Foundation, Lancome Teint Miracle, Maybelline Age Rewind 'the eraser' foundation, Illamasqua Light Liquid Foundation, Benefit Hello Flawless. Then in the second drawer I have: Kiko Medium Foundation, Bourjois 10 Hour Sleep Effect, Model co 2 in 1 foundation, Collection Cover and Go (foundation and concealer), Avon Ideal Flawless, Rimmel Lasting Finish, Kiko Anti-Age foundation. And some foundations are not in these drawers as I forgot to put them in and I sorted out these foundations later on. So the other foundations I have that are missing from the photographs include: Shu Uemura Nobara Cream Foundation and the Bourjois Healthy Mix Serum Foundation. I also had the Bourjois brush on foundation which I LOVE but it ran out last year, I will have to get another one!
My favourite foundations from my collection include: Illamasqua Light Liquid Foundation, Jemma Kidd Moisture Tint, Bourjois 10 Hour Sleep Effect and I also really like the Maybelline and Benefit foundations but they are too dark for my very pale skin.
I have a few foundations that are too dark for my very pale skin and some other makeup items that I have sorted out so if you want a blog sale then just leave a comment!
My favourite foundations from my collection include: Illamasqua Light Liquid Foundation, Jemma Kidd Moisture Tint, Bourjois 10 Hour Sleep Effect and I also really like the Maybelline and Benefit foundations but they are too dark for my very pale skin.
I have a few foundations that are too dark for my very pale skin and some other makeup items that I have sorted out so if you want a blog sale then just leave a comment!
Empties #1
Friday, March 22, 2013
I have posted quite a lot of 'empties' blog posts over the past four months or so but I have been waiting for the end of the month to do my 'monthly empties' but I always have SO many products at the end of the month and sometimes I can't remember what they were like exactly so I am going to do empties posts when I have a good amount of products to show rather than the end of month empties posts. This is the first in a series of posts about the empty products I have used up recently and there will be mini reviews of the products I feature.
1. KMS California Curl Up Conditioner: I bought this last summer as it was reduced at about £4 on salonskincare I think. I have been using this for the past month or so (on and off) and I really like this conditioner. The scent is quite nice, it really conditions my hair without weighing it down and it detangles hair hair (mostly). The main claim of this product thought is to enhance and support curls, I have really wavy/curly hair naturally and I find that this did help a little bit but not as much as I thought it would. Overall, it doesn't help curls that much but it is a fantastic conditioner. Recommended.
2. Yves Rocher Clarifying Shampoo: I bought this last summer and it was on off so I had two bottles of this (buy one get one free). I love the scent, it is so fresh and lovely. Yves Rocher definitely make the best smelling hair products! The shampoo is a really good clarifying product although it did make my scalp quite dry which I didn't like but other than that it was good.
3. The Body Shop Ginger Sparkle Body Butter: I received this in a gift set at christmas and I really like the scent - it smells like ginger/cinnamon muffins. I have used a lot of the body butters from the Body Shop and I love most of them but this one was very thick, heavy and it didn't absorb quickly. I prefer the other body butter! Not recommended.
4. Soap and Glory The Daily Smooth Body Butter: I LOVE S&G products! They smells gorgeous and this one is no exception. The scent is gorgeous, it smooths on easily and it absorbs fairly quickly. However, it is not my favourite body butter by far! I probably wouldn't buy this again as it is not amazing.
5. Lush Let The Good Times Roll Facial Cleanser: This product is a Christmas limited edition but you may be able to find this on eBay. The cleanser smells amazing! It smells like toffee, baking and vanilla - heaven! The cleanser was exfoliating but gentle and it cleaned my skin well leaving it smooth, soft and comfortable. Love this cleanser and I may buy it again this Christmas. Save your empty Lush pots/tubes as you can get a free face mask if you take back five empty containers (unfortunately I keep forgetting)!
6. Boots Botanics Fair trade Bergamot Body Butter: I have tried a few mini body butters from this range and they are all great! I like the scent of them all and they smooth on easily. They moisturise really well and they absorb fairly quickly - LOVE!
Its snowing today (again)!
Its snowing today (again)!
Wish List #2
Thursday, March 21, 2013
Another wish list, I posted one a few weeks ago and I bough one of the things straight away - striped jumper featured in one of my outfit of the day posts. I thought I would create another wish list post because there are some makeup and clothing items I have been drooling over for the past couple of weeks.
1. H&M Speckled cardigan: I saw this online and I had it in my bag for about one week and I kept delaying buying it and now it is out of stock online - I will have to look out for it in store!
2. Revlon Nude/mannequin collection: These are available online on Boots now - I haven't seen them in store yet but I will have to pick up one or two - I LOVE nude nails. The Revlon colorstay polishes have really good reviews.
3. Urban Decay Theodora Palette: As soon as I saw this on Debenhams, I really wanted to get it. But I convinced myself (very successfully, go me!) that I had enough palettes to stock a shop! I have watched a few video reviews and tutorials of this palette (eg: Pixiwoo) and it looks fantastic.
4. Revlon BB Cream: Revlon have been on the top of their game recently - I bought some of Revlons new products at the weekend. I haven't had a great track record with BB creams but this one looks great. Also love the packaging.
5. Benefit Fake Up Concealer: So many good reviews of this product - it looks amazing and as I am a concealer hoarder...well, a makeup hoarder! (I was picked to test this concealer - Debenhams beauty club VIP Panel! So I get it for free, hopefully it will arrive today!)
6. H&M Striped Jumper: Yet another gorgeous jumper from H&M - LOVE H&M jumpers and stripes so this is a winner for me.