A Pastel kind of day :)

 

The weather in Wales (and the rest of the UK) lately has been amazingly lovely :)

It's been warm, sunny and very summer like, which has put a spring in my step ;) We've had lovely blue skies and temperatures of 20C, which for March is amazingly good. Please remain like this until October pleaassseee weather :p

All this sunshine and warmness has made me crave pastel colours, and the other day while in TK Maxx I found this mint coloured blouse for £3, ha! It isn't a great fit, but after a bit of playing around I managed to make it look ok (I hope).

 Carrying on the pastel theme I wore some OPI Panda-Monium Pink nail varnish, which is a light baby pink, with a little splash of lilac. It's a very opaque, creamy finish.

I've had this nail varnish lying around for so long (along with OPI Lucky Lavender) but I've never gotten around to wearing them. I remember liking them when I first bought them, but then I decided I wasn't so keen on how they looked. I'm glad I kept them now though and didn't give them away.

 Thank you for reading and I hope you have a lovely week :)

Guerlain Cruel Gardenia and Guerlain Météorites Compact Teint Powder Compact

 This is how rubbish I am at blogging lately, I bought these two beauties way back at the beginning of February and I'm only blogging about them now. Yeah, I suck!

To treat myself back in Feb I bought these two, I couldn't resist.

I'm not really a highlighter wearer but Guerlain's Cruel Gardenia looked so pretty in magazines that when I saw it I knew it would be mine :)

Me being me I couldn't resist buying myself The Meteorites compact :)

So here's some pics.

 As you can see the packing is so pretty =) Looking at it you'd think they'd be heavy cases, but they're not, they're both pretty light. They do feel a good sturdy light, if that makes sense?!

The only thing I'm not keen on with the Cruel Gardenia packaging is the twist off top, I always feel as though I'm going to knock the lovely flower patten as I take it off, so I'm always extra careful.

 So here is Cruel Gardenia in all it's glory.

As you can see from the swatch it's a beautiful, glowy light pink and I wouldn't say it was frosty at all, just glowy.

I can imagine that this highlighter might be a little too light for some skin tones, but I might be wrong.

It was pretty pricy at around £40 (sorry I can't quite remember how much it was now), I'd never usually pay so much for a highlighter, but it's so pretty I couldn't help it. I guess it was a one off.

 Next onto Guerlain Meteorites powder compact, it comes in 3shades 01Rose, 02Beige and 03Dore.

I bought it in Rose as I'm pretty fair skinned and I have a pink base.

I use this to set makeup or for touch ups during the day. It provides a light, barely there semi matte finish, but still radiant at the same time. 

It also smells like those little violet sweets that use to be sold in pharmacies back in the day, and for some reason the smell makes me feel calm which is just what I need when I feel stressed out as hell.

You can buy it at Debenhams for £34, it's a pretty steep price for a pressed powder, but it's just so pretty and light and it makes touching up feel glamorous :)

  Guerlain Meteorites in 01Rose swatch.

Thank you for reading x

Clarisonic Mia Poppy - Cleansers I'm currently using

The Clarisonic Mia is probably my most favourite beauty gadget, ever. My mum bought this as a gift for me at Christmas and I really don't know why I didn't get one sooner (price is a probable factor). I had the Christmas version in a poppy red and was around the £120 mark I think.

Since having this sexy little gadget I think I've only exfoliated my face twice, before it was everyday as I get blackheads on my nose and dry skin.

For the first few weeks of having the Mia I was using the sample cleanser which came with it, and I found it lovely to be honest and will purchase some more when my wallet allows me as I think it will be perfect for the summer months, though  I found it slightly drying for the winter months and for everyday use. 

That's why during January I bought Dermalogica's Ultracalming cleanser which is more suited to sensitive skin, it's a lovely cleanser to use with the claisonic as it gives enough slip and doesn't irritate skin, but I found it not to be so good when removing a days worth of makeup :/ On a light use of makeup it's fine, but when you've been out all day and you want to thoroughly rid your skin of nasties I felt I had to use a lot of product and at £20 odd I felt as though I was wasting a lot of product for the price.

That is why Boots No7 Beautiful Skin Cleansing Balm is my favourite of the two. It costs only £9 and a little goes a pretty long way. There's good slippage and it doesn't dry or sensitize my skin (though dermalogica didn't either) and it's really good at helping the Mia cleanse skin. Plus the squeezey tube makes it more convenient for dispensing the product, which is good if you have the Mia in the other hand :)

Anyway all of that said I have found my skin to be much smoother since using the Clarisonic, and I feel that moisturisers or oils penetrate my skin better instead of sitting on-top of a layer of dead skin, Yuck! Therefore they do their jobs better :)

I only use the clarisonic at night, and usually give my skin one day a week off from it, to give it a little rest.

Thanks for reading x

Pink Opal Pandora Ring and Veggie Carnation Jelly Attemp

 

 I've been meaning to blog about this ring for yonks, but kept forgetting, even though I admire it everyday and never want to take it off :)

This for my first Pandora piece and before Christmas when I purchased it I had a lot of trouble trying to find somewhere with stock in my size (I'm a Size K or 50, both mean the same thing).

I was able to get my size though from Hugh Rice where one of their assistants ordered the ring directly from Pandora for me :)

So one day when I arrived home from work to find it had arrived I was overjoyed and it was definitely worth waiting for.

 I'd always fancied an opal as it is the stone of my birth sign, however I could never find anything I thought to be special enough and most opals tend to be white and as a Libra I'm a hopeless romantic and I read pink opals are meant to bring love.

I paid £35 for this ring and I'm so glad I did, although I do want to buy some rings to stack with it now though, maybe one day soon ;)

On a different note I have just stuffed my face with what was meant to be milky jelly, however it turned out to be more of a mousse :/ Tasted nice though :)

I'm a vegetarian and have been since I was 12, and as a kid my mum always made milky/carnation jelly, but since turning veggie I haven't had any :( due to the jelly containing gelatine.

Finding vegetarian jelly is a bit of a pain, and when you find the little powdered packets it doesn't gel as much as the gelatine based jellies.

I came about craving milky jelly when  I was drooling though my favourite cookery book the other day 'Sophie Dahl's Voluptuous Delights' and I saw her recipe for Carnation Jelly I had to attempt at making my childhood desert.

However mine didn't go to plan, and as I mentioned it turned out more moussey than jelly and bouncy like, though on the bright-side it was lovely and I now have a little recipe for mousse.

I think in future I will add some argar-argar which is a veggie gelatine substitute and we shall see what happens, lots of experimenting get on with :)

Thanks for reading lovelies :) x

Maybelline Forever Strong Nail Polish - Rose Nudes

 As a fan of nude colours I'd had my eye on these polishes for a while, but for some stupid reason I kept putting off actually buying them. 

Until last Saturday that is.

Superdrug had them on offer at £6 for two,  instead of £4.09 each. So I scooped them up.

First-up is Nude Rose 135, which is a pretty medium, soft pink. 

I had the polish on for 4days so it may look a little aged, but I think it lasted pretty well considering I've been gardening, cleaning rabbit hutches, housework and other daily things.

Next we have Rose Poudre 130 which is a subtle, soft nude pink. 

 

These two polishes will probably my go to polishes for the next few weeks, as they're easy to wear and make nails look pretty.