March Bargain Haul :D

The other day me and mum popped into some discount stores in town, as they were the only shops in our tiny town that were open after 6pm (we went out a bit late we left home about 4pm).
I wasn't planning on getting anything, but I saw all these little items very cheap and started picking them up,hehe.


I've been fancying Dior's collagen lip maximizer gloss for ages, and it's always sold out :( So I saw this Sally Hansen Thin Lip Collagen Boost for only £2, so I had to buy it and it's actually quite nice :)
I don't know if it really boosts lips that much, but they do look a little more pouty :) It also smells very sweet, and you need to blend it a bit when you apply, other than that it's nice and moisturising and well, quite nice :)


I also picked up a Revlon Colorstay Overtime LipColor in Maximum Mauve for only £2!! I remember buying these back in 2003 when they first came out and I use to wear it to work everyday, until it fell out of my bag on the bus (well I'm guessing it was the bus) and I started wearing lipgloss after that.

What I love about the Revlon colourstay lip colours is that they don't dry your lips out.
Usually when I use say Maxfactor Lipfinity or the Maybelline version, I'm rushing for the gloss end of the product because they usually make my lips feel tight and dry, but with Revlon you don't feel that way. I know they've come out with a newer version of this (which my mum has), but I still like the longevity of these older ones :)



The next two purchases were £1 each :D
I've been looking for a cuticle product (a cheap one) for some time, and well Sally Hansen's Cuticle and Nail Refiner is a nice little exfoliator for both cuticles and nails :)

Sally Hansen's Nail Quencher was my other £1 purchase, and it's meant to make your nail color last for up to 4days, and I did doubt it as nothing ever lasts on my nails, due to me washing my hands all the time and scrubbing the house and stuff.


But so far it has made my nail polish last, even after cooking, cleaning and decorating for a few days :)
So that was a proper bargain for only a pound :D

The nail Varnish I'm using over Sally Hansen's Nail Quencher is Bourjois Nail Polish in Beige Rose, which I bought for £2, hehe another bargain.
It is meant for Golden Skintones , but I wear it anyway. Rules are there to break :)

Two other bargain products I bought were some T-Zone nose strips and Roc's Completelift day cream.
As I've mentioned before I always get blackheads on my nose :( and Yes I do spend ages squeezing them, which I know I shouldn't do, so I bought these strips.
Although sometimes strips do pull some of the skin off my nose 'Ouch', I figured maybe it's better for my skin that I don't pick at them so much, and just use these strips when I need to.

I'm a huge lover of French Skincare Brands, and Roc is one of them.
I never have any problems whatsoever with Roc products, I have sensitive skin on my face and I know when I buy a Roc product I don't need to worry how my skin will react to it.
I've used this product only a few days no, so it's still too early to praise it, but it has left my skin nice and soft and does sink in very quickly, and makeup goes over it nicely :)



I've always fancied trying Jemma Kidd's Makeup, so when I saw this little product for £3, my eyes popped out and I grabbed it.
It's a small little beauty palette, so there's no better way to try out a brand you're not sure about.
I haven't yet used it, but I swatched it and the gold eyeshadow is very nice and pigmented and goes on smoothly.
The darker bluey/ charcoal colour with sparkles doesn't go on so smoothly, and it fades rather quickly, and the sparkles disappear in seconds. So I don't really rate that one.
The blusher is a nice colour though and reminds me of Macs Springsheen.
There's also a little gloss on the side, which is a bronzey rose colour, and I don't find it at all pigmented and it also disappears very quickly on the lips.
Saying that about those products though it hasn't put me off buying some of Jemma Kidd's makeup in the future.



Last but not least is something I had no intention of buying.
I was on my way out of Dorothy Perkins feeling disappointed and some boots caught my eye.
So I quickly had a look at them and at the size (no point drooling over something that's not in your size), and they were a size 5, which I can fit into, depending on the shoe brand.
I ran into the shop and tried them on and they were a good fit, so I ended up with some lovely boots for only £10 :D They were meant to be £50.
They're suede, with stud detailing and I'm planning on wearing them with skinny jeans, and a very girly top and these boots will toughen up the girly top a bit. :)

Sorryyyyyy.....

Hello everyone, I'm so sorry I haven't been blogging lately, I've not been buying much, and I've been keeping the makeup low key.
Anyway I just put some nail varnish on, and I though I'd post a quick picture :)
Sorry I didn't clean off the marks on the sides, I'm in a lazy mood.
Even though Bourjois So Laque is meant to last 7days, I find it only lasts 3-4 days before chipping, but I love the smoothness of the application, and the shine, so that makes up for the chipping :)
Plus loads of nail varnishes claim to last a long time and never do anyway.
Anyway the colour is Dangereusement Rouge 29, and it's a lovely black, gothic red :)
I've been into my nude polishes lately, so this nice dark colour makes a change.
Anyway sorry for the lack of posting, and I hope to resume to business as usual soon :)

P.s I hope everyone is well? I need to catch up :) x

Fave Makeup of 2009

In 2009 my love for natural makeup and sultry looks became stronger, so I liked to look as though I hadn't tried much (even though I had).
So I didn't try much in the way of colour, and I just liked to keep everything simple.


I have quite bad dark circles (it's inherited) and my nose not being the smallest casts even more of a shadow.
So I needed a concealer that covered my dark circles without masking them and making them look more noticeable and for me Macs Moisturecover concealer did just that.
It has a nice, light consistency which can be layered up, and doesn't just lie in fine lines, which as I am getting older seem to notice more :(


Next product was just a bit of a fluke, I was playing around with makeup in boots one day and I tried a bit of Bourjois 10 hour sleep effect on my hand, and it was so soft, light and smooth that I was sold.
I thought that as soon as I'd worn it over a week that I'd get bored of it, but no this one seems to come into my makeup routine quite often.
The colour really suits my skin (I bought it in rose clair 72) and it's not at all heavy and blends easily. It's worth the £8 something I paid.

For my birthday I had Bobbi Browns Skin foundation, which is a really gorgeous foundation.
It's pretty light, but I sometimes mix a little bit of moisturiser with it if I'm having a good skin day, and it still looks good.
It hides the large pores on my nose well, and creates a nice smooth, even complexion.
I know if I'm having a bad skin day I can rely on this.

I like to have a couple of concealers for different things, and I find Bobbi Browns Creamy concealer kit to be quite effective at hiding my birthmark, and the little pot of loose powder on the bottom of the little stacker helps set the concealer to give it staying power.
I do however find it a bit heavy around the eye area sometimes, but saying that it's really good at hiding the odd spot.



Next is my weak spot, BLUSHER!!
If I don't wear any blusher I feel naked, blusher awakens my complexion and makes me look alive.
I do like matching the tone of my blusher to either my lipstick for some reason, it looks more natural.

The first blusher is YSL Blsuh Variation 13, which when you look at it you think "how on earth is that going to look natural", but when you put it on it gives a lovely plum glow, which looks oddly natural.

Mac's Springsheen was a blush I'd eyed up for ages, and in the end I gave in went skint and bought it, and I'm so glad I did.
It gives a really lovely natural peach colour, it contains shimmer and instead of looking harsh the shimmer looks glowy, so you get a nice healthy glow.

The item isn't really a blusher, it's more of a blusher/bronzer. I use it as a bronzer as I have very fair skin and there's enough pink in it to make it look natural on me, and make me look less corpse'ish.
I use this most days underneath my blusher, just to set it off a bit.



My favourite eye shadows of the year were from the Bobbi Brown palettes.
I have the Shimmering nudes palette and earth metal palette.
The shimmering nudes allows you to create a glowy, smokey eye, and the earth metal palette contains golds, a silver, forest green and brown which you can create a more earthy metallic look with.

I love these palettes as they're so pigmented and easily blended, they're a dream to apply.
Plus the earth metal palettes contains lipsticks that are really handy if you can't be bothered searching for a matching lippie, or really handy when traveling.



I have a thing for lipsticks and lipglosses, they can make you look groomed and made up in a matter of seconds.
I don't like drying products on my lips as I like to keep them as moisturised and plump as possible.
I don't like products that are too gloopey or sticky either, and the products I keep in my handbag and reach out for most are the above, which are:
Macs cremesheen shy girl, Bobbi Brown's rich color gloss in dusty rose, Mac cremesheen glass in melt in your mouth, Givenchy's gloss interdit 02 and Macs Mimmy from the hello kitty collection.



My mascara of the year is L'oreal's double extension mascara.
Before this my HG mascara was Mac's Plush Lash, but after trying this I couldn't go back.
It's double ended and contains the famous renewal serum on one end, which is meant to make your lashes grow longer.
It then has a lovely black, liquidy mascara on the other end, which makes it easier to get those lashes in the place you want to.

And they're my fave products of 2009, wonder what products I will love in 2010.

Fresh cut FOTD

I really look like poo today, and couldn't pose for the hell of me and I was having a crap hair day, but I just wanted to show the new Mac stuff I got yesterday.
Here's what I used:

I'm off to bed now, I'll have another go playing around with the fresh cut palette tomorrow :D

I want to be French fotd

Today I popped a black and white striped long sleeved top on, and some black jeans, along with my urban outfitters quilted grey bag and I felt instantly french, even though I probably didnt look it,hehe.
I just thought I'd pop the pictures up for you to see anyway :)

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I used:
Face: Bourjois 8hr effect foundation (I'm still loving this stuff).
Mac Select Moisturecover concealer.
MeMeMe poppy tint on cheeks.

Eyes: Yves Saint Laurent E/s Duo in 7, I used the green all over the lid, then applied the gold to the inner corners, and just a little in the center of the lid, and lower lid.
Mac steep on the brow bone.
Bourjois Clubbing mascara

Lips: Poppy Tint.
Vaseline Rosy Lips (damn I forgot to take a picture of this), I really like this stuff too, it smells really nice.

FOTD! Just a quick neutral fotd.

So I thought I'd pop a quick fotd up, it's nothing special but I put some darkish eyeshadow on the bottom eyelids (which I never do).

I also tried the Bourjois 10hr effect foundation that I bought on Saturday, and I love it. Its nice and light and blends so easily into my skin, with no fuss, its great :)

I used the Yves Saint Laurent Blush variation too, and used the Mac 168 brush, and it went on so smoothly, I will definitely buy YSL blushes again. Its goes on so nice and lightly, and looks natural, and can be built up easily too :D

Something else I was quite surprised about too was the BeautyUK eyeshadow palette. I bought this on Friday (sorry forgot to mention it on saturdays haul) and these eyeshadows are actually quite pigmented, and I love the neutral browns. The application is smooth too.

So I'd definitely reccomend those 3 products, I'm very happy with them.

Here are the pics.
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This is what I used all together


Oops, I've been busy doing this and was meant to put things in the oven before mum comes home, and she's home.
I'm in trouble,lol.
Better make a nice dinner hehe.

Saturday is Makeup day ;)

Today I bought a few little things :D
I wasn't planning on buying anything today, because I need to start using what I already have.
So anyway, I'll show you the goodies.
I bought: Bourjois 10 hour sleep effect foundation in Rose Clair 72.
Urban Decay Brow Beater in Brilliant Blonde.
Yves Sanint Laurent Blush Variation 13.
Urban Decay Eye shadows in Eldorado and Blunt.

I didn't intend on buying a foundation, but today I was looking and feeling very rough. So I was waiting for my mum in Boots and started looking at Bourjois and saw this foundation and thought "I need this" lol. This foundation feels very light. I can't really say much about it until Ive used it for a week or two, but I'm really excited for a change in foundation. Ive been using Mac, Chanel and Korres foundations lately, and even though I love them, i just needed a change.
Even though I can't review this right now I have taken some swatch pics to show you the colour and to give you the idea of the consistency.


Onto the Urban Decay Brow Beater, I'm really excited about this i really love neat looking eyebrows. I usually use the Mac Brow shader in Malt/Auburn but again feel like a change.
I've been feeling like I fancy my having my eyebrows look a little lighter lately (mine are very blonde and almost invisible), so I think this blonde colour will get it inbetween the darkish colour of malt/aubrun and my natural colour.
Plus this Brow beater has a little wax pencil on the other end to fix eyebrows in place :D
And even more :D this wax fixer can also be used on lips to stop lip stick and lipgloss from bleeding, woohoo.


I also bought the Yvest Saint lauren Blush Variation in 13, which is a nice plummy colour and I cant wait to use it.



Finally two Urban Decay Eye shadows in Eldorado and the other in Blunt.

Blunt is a sort of dirty antique type gold. Blunt really reminds me of Macs Honey Lust, but less bitty and a more smooth version. I also think its like Macs Flip e/s but lighter, it has the same tonal quality.

Then Elorado is a more yellow gold, it feels quite gritty when you try it on your finger, but it feels smooth when on the skin, and its quite pigmented. Even though I love Macs goldmine, I feel like this shows up more on the skin.


I have too many Golds, I need a change! Help!lol.