Beauty: palette wishlist

There are soooo many beautiful palettes out at the moment. I've probably missed another 10 odd that I want.

I think its safe to say from the above picture I NEED a lorac palette in my life!!! I've heard such good things about these palettes! Such great colour selections! even in the mini unzipped palette!

The first palette is an Estee Lauder palette in current desire, there was at least another 2-3 versions of this palette that I would like too but of all of them this was my favourite. I think its got perfect christmas party shades!

We've got 2 cheeky Urban decay palettes the on the run palette which i dont think is out yet! everything you need everyday I think this palette is going to be a bag space life saver! the Vice 3 palette has some amazing colours and what I like about this palette is they include some colours I would never go for so if I ever needed them there is an opportunity with this palette!

Lastly is the NARS virtual domination cheek palette! £45 I'm sooo undecied to buy thus, the packaging is beaaautiful but in the Narcissist palette I already have laguna and deep throat. but. two limited edition shades....and that coral shade looks so nice.... DILEMMA. A few people have said that the pigmentation isn't as good as a stand alone blush, has anyone tried this, is it true? I do find this is the case with my Narcissist palette

What palettes are you all lusting after?

Ciao x

Beauty: Autuminal Favourites

I know I have been off the blogging radar, I got a new laptop and can't seem to get photoshop on it, to edit my pictures so I may have to get back to the old laptop again....I am pretty useless with technology!

So a lot of people are going on about their Autumn favourites and there are some excellent selections going on. Of course we all have the standard dark A/W lip, I know a lot of people are going for berry's but this dark brick red ( MAC's hearts aflame) is the one for me this Autumn( if you want a cheaper version look at the Kate Moss for Rimmel collection 07).  My daily lip is MAC's Yield to love, I love a good Mauve ( I've probably said this countless times) - mylipbutbetter. Anybody have a few good Mauve's to recommend? Illamasque seem to have some good ones going!

I got this rimmel bronzer to replace my beloved topshop bronzer and its perfect! I always prefer a bronzed cheek to a blush and this is quite subtle, I was debating the bodyshop honey bronzer but I was broke and this was cheaper...what's new? but it was a great decision, same quality! On top of this I have been loving dabbling the Rimmel stay blushed! I am going to do a review of this because I love this so much more then I ever anticipated.

A few weeks on and I am still wildly in love with the Naked basics 2, it actually hurts to debate using another palette, like I feel like such a judas I have to find a way to sneak this one in as well. I think it's brilliant to do a simple shadow sweep a long with the brick red or a brown smokey cateye with the mauve.

And lastly I have fallen back in love with my Realtechniques blush brush! I always put this aside for my Kabuki brush but recently this has been coming out on top.

What are your favourites?

Ciao xo

Beauty: Urban Decay Naked Basics 2

Everyone is blogging about this little palette... maybe you don't need another post telling you how amazing this is but here is my 2 cents....

When the Basics palette came out, it just wasn't for me the colours were just too far, the black too dark and the pales too light for my poor pale skin, it was all too harsh. The middle shades didn't really looks like ones I would use either.

Then I saw the naked basics 2 on instagram and I knew. I just knew it was going to be the one I couldn't let pass me by. The muted black, the softer beige and the stunning taupe-browns. This was the travel palette for me. There isn't a single colour I wouldn't use, they work amazingly together as well and I have used this every single day since I bought it!

This retails around £22 which I would say is definitely worth it, if you are familiar with the quality of urban decay eye shadows you'll understand they are worth every penny, I have yet to hit pan on any of my naked palettes, I think this could be the first palette I do that on...

I actually bought this for £15.40 on cohorted where you basically can get discount on the product depending on when you buy it I think. the more people that buy it the more it goes down, something like that until it can't go down anymore. I don't 100% understand but basically each week there are 4 new products you can get a discount on, and these can be some amazing beauty products - MAC lipsticks, too faced palettes, realtechniques brushes all sorts, you gotta be quick though and get it before everyone else. The postage is free within the first month and posts really quickly. I really recommend getting yourself registered onto this place!

Whats your best cohort bargain? What do you think of this palette?

Ciao x

Palettes

15.09.2014

01.09.2014

Beauty: 15.07.2014

Beauty: Nice and easy 1920's inspired make up.

I have tried to film how I did this, it is crazy simple so I will try to edit and upload to my channel within the next few days. It's one of my favourite go to make up looks - I don't think I captured it so well in this picture but I am going out( so I can't spend all day trying to get one or two decent shots of myself!) Actually. I think I'm running late. Oops.

Beauty: The current top 5 lid-sweepers

It's happened to us all.... slept in a little too late rushing your make up and then you get to eyeshadow....what shade do I pick? Do I have time for shading? Under-eyes? Sometimes it's easier to just sweep one shade over, nice and neutral( even if you aren't in a rush). At the moment  I have 5 go to shades that I love just sweeping across my lid with one easy brush. Simplicity at its finest!

1. MAC - Sable: This is my numero uno shade. I LOVE this, its a frost shade that I pretty go to anytime I am unsure what eyeshadow to wear. It has a rosy coppery tint that goes just about with anything I wear.

2. Urban Decay - Tease: I have this as part of the Naked 2 palette but you can buy it as a single. This was my go to shade before Sable came into my life. Tease for me is my lids but better, its possibly my favourite most natural looking shade. It's a matte shade.

3.Urban Decay - Half baked. This is possibly the only shade that isn't a natural shade. It is my favourite going out shade for a 1920's vibe look. Match this perfectly with a red lip.

4.  Urban Decay - Nooner. Aaah Nooner, UD Naked 3 tease counterpart, as you would expect with the Naked 3 being a rose gold palette this is like a darker pink/coppery version of Tease, it is Matte aussi.

5. MAC - Haux: Possibly MAC equivalent of Tease, a neutral shade that makes you look like you haven't got anything on at all...

What are your favourites?

Ciao x

Beauty: Review- NARSissist Blush Palette

Hey guys!

So, when I recently caught my eye on the NARSissit palettes I was in LOVE. I immediately tried to get the eyeshadow palette - sadly with no luck and settled for the Blush palette. I had been looking at investing in Laguna and Orgasm for quite a while so thought £35 for both and a highlighter? Why not?!

First off when I initially opened this, I won't lie I was a little heartbroken. IT'S TINY. I had to close it and reopen it thinking I was dreaming.( when I saw the eyeshadow palette in person it was the same.) I was like... I've just spent £35 quid on THIS. ( When your as broke as I am, this is a big deal) But you get a mini Laguna, Orgasm and a limited edition highlighter and a brush to use with it.

So I went to Amsterdam and came back monday and looked at it and thought okay, it might not be so bad, so I tried it out, I have to say it takes a few goes to make it look like you have used it but I do really like the colours and I like how subtle Orgasm looks. The highlighter I feel doesn't do much for me but that might be because I am just THAT white. It's also lucky that you get a brush with it as all my blush brushes were far to big, Realtechniques just SWAMPS this little guy.

When you think about it, Nars brushes are like £20? And this is actually a really nice soft brush, so in a sense you have paid £5 for each of the shades, so when you look at it like that its not really a bad purchase. The travel size is also really convenient so that's a bonus for it.

I think I was so disheartened at first because already owning the naked flushed which is £20 and much bigger - I was expecting a bit more then what I got. I guess when it comes down to it, the Naked flushed trumps the NARS palette hands down for me in value, size and pigmentation.

What did you guys make of it?

Ciao x 

Vlog 2: February Haul

Hey guys!

So I thought as we are nearing the end of february it's only right I do a haul video! 

Now I know I forgot to feature one or two things but this may not seem like much compared to some vloggers hauls and to some people it may be quite a bit. But I make a good wage but I do have a lot coming out each month so I don't get heaps left over for shopping sadly!! 

So the products I featured are: 

ASOS Jumper - Lady and the Tramp, £30

New Look Boots £20 ( on sale)

Rimmel Apocalips - Galaxy and Across the Universe ( 2 for £9 in superdrug)

MAC eyeshadows - Mystery and Cranberry ( £10 each) 

Urban Decay - Naked 3 Palette

H & M skirt

MAC Brush Cleanser £10

Lush shampoo bar - New ( £8.50ish... for pot and bar)

Bumble and Bumble - Super rich conditioner(£5.95) and defrizz ( £12.50)

L'oreal - super liner. (£ 9)

Maybeline BABY LIPS! - Intensive care & Cherry ( Around £3 each) 

So that's everything!! What have you guys been buying this month? 

Ciao x

Vlog 1: How to look average

Hey guys!
 So here it is! My very first vlog!! Go easy on me because everything that could go wrong did! Lost my tripod so the original video I wanted to do I couldn't so I thought I would do something pretty easy:

My daily make up routine! Basically I get up real early and I have like 15 minutes ( pretty much always less then this) to do my make up, so this is a eaaasssy daily make up look you can do in no time!
As I thought trying to add text on top was a little too much for my first video I'll do a run through here:

1) Prime face with- Benefit: Porefessional
2) Apply foundation -Benefit:  Hello Oxygen
3) Apply - Rimmel: Stay Matte powder
4)Apply Blush (/bronzer & Highlighter in this case!) - Urban decay: Naked Flushed
5) Shape eyebrows - MAC: Mystery
6)Apply eyeshadow- Urban Decay Naked 3 : Nooner ( also blend this in on the creases)
7) Highlight underbrows - Urban Decay Naked 3: Strange ( Or Foxy in Naked 2)
8) Apply Eyeliner - L'oreal: superliner
9) Apply Mascara - Rimmel: Scandaleyes
10) Apply concealer - Benefit: Erase Paste Shade 2
11) Small coat of lip balm - Maybeline: baby lips - hydrate
12) Apply Lipstick - Topshop: Beatnik.


I just want to add that Adobe Premiere pro is heaaaaaaaaaaaps easier then Windows movie maker which kept crashing on me!! This was so easy to use, if you haven't used it before there are a lot of tutorials on youtube but its quite easy to pic up, and I am horrendous with technology!! You can trial it for free on Adobes creative cloud along with other adobe products which is amazing!

Any suggestions or comments in video editing are appreciated! Let me know what you think of the video and what are your daily essentials?
I have an idea for a make up look next week I am beyond excited about, what did you think about the no speaking format? I couldn't quite get the hang of talking to the camera so I thought this would be easier to start off with especially as it is a pretty straight forward look. Anyway here it is the finished video!

ciao x

Beauty: Review - Naked 3 palette.

So... since the day I first laid eyes on the fact there was a naked 3 and the shades in it, I think my heart exploded a little inside. Of course the entire beauty/blogging world also went mad for it and it was sold out preeetty much straight away.
                               

When I was home it was heaps more expensive from sephora so I waited; and waited, till the day I found it again, and NOW IT'S MINE!!!!
The shades are exactly the kind of shades I am putting in my MAC eyeshadow palette, whites, pinks and browns. Pretty neutral but thats what I love.

In the Naked 2 palette, Tease was my ultimate favourite go to day-to-day eyeshadow a nice matte purpley brown that wasn't overly obvious. So...from the day I saw this palette I was preeeeeeeeetty excited about Nooner which is a more pinky matte and I have to say its GORGEOUS!! I can't pick a favourite honestly!! The other Matte shade is limit a really soft pink which I like to use on the inners and then blend out into nooner sometimes to open up my eyes a little.

It has two dark shades which are Darkside which is like a dark chocolatey brown and Blackheart which is a black with pink shimmer. I really like darkside because sometimes I find the black in the Naked 2 palette is just a bit too strong for me so this is a little more suttle. I also tried a smokey eye with Liar and factory which I really liked. I might do some Naked 3 Palette looks as a blog post, what do you think?  The strange in this palette is pretty similar to Foxy and Dust is a little sickly looking so I think those will be the two I use the least. Trick is also very similar to half baked.

I will say the brush is A LOT better in this palette, I found in the Naked 2 the brush just didn't pick up the pigment really at all and occasionally I would use the blending side but this brush picks it up and applies it really well on either side!

I think that this is definitely my favourite palette of the 3 which I really didn't think was possible considering how much I loved the naked 2. It retails at £37 which okay maybe it feels expensive but your getting twelve heavily pigmented shades and it works out around £3 per shade so when you think about it this is an absolute bargain!! And in all honestly I used Tease nearly everyday for 6 months and I am no where near pan!

Here's some more pics and comparing it to the Naked 2 palette.

What are your favourite shades?? Or Naked Palette? 

Ciao x

Beauty: Review - Urban Decay Naked Flushed.

Hey Guys!
So.... you've probably all seen this product before or probably own it. I'll admit I'm a little late on this one. I had seen this and liked it but since I was broke I didn't give it too much thought,also I was blinded by the idea of owning the naked 3 palette... So I initially looked at this as something to get my friend for Christmas and then all of a sudden.. I NEEDED IT. I don't own many blushes as I find that bronzer is more suttle(? - I think that's how you spell it?). So the day I got it for my friend it turns our my mates got me it for my birthday!! HAPPY DAYS!
Here it is in all its glory:

So you get 3 shades, a big load of bronzer some highlighter and a gorgeous shade of blush. I have tried all 3 separately but I think I need a new smaller brush to apply the highlighter better. and they work amazing, and even combined they work so well. You don't look like you've got a pink crayon smudged all over your cheeks. I'm in love. The brozner is quite matte while the blush has a slight shimmer to it.
The packaging is beaaautiful. A sort of tanned shimmery case with gold writing, very simple but it doesn't really need to be any more then this. At £20 I think this is the most amazing bargain. You know Urban decay is a guaranteed good product that lasts, especially if you think your paying something like £21.50 for just one Nars blush.
If your thinking about this - go for it!!!
Ciao x