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.

You know you have Problems when...

Well it's almost 5am here in Wales and I'm still up. Insomnia!
You know when you have even more problems when you start looking around your room, and looking at your makeup collection at almost 5am and find a Gorgeous Blush that you've never even looked at :S
Clearly I must be nuts :P

Anyway enough of my weird nocturnal behaviour, look what I found, and I'm definitely going to wear it tomorrow.


Well it's the Yves Saint Laurent Palette Pop Collector Powder for Face and Cheeks from the Spring 2008 collection (I think).
I'll be mixing all colours for a nice medium pink colour.
I love that it gives a little, tiny bit of shimmer and isn't OTT with it, as some blushers can be, which make me look greasy instead of glowy.

Sorry the swatch above isn't that good, my camera is a bit rubbish.
I'm so excited I found this :D

Anyway I'm going to hop back off to bed now, and try and get some kip, though I'll be waiting to get up so I can put my makeup on and try this :)
I'm excited.

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.
(Click to enlarge)

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.

Yves Saint Laurent Lipstick and Todays outfit :)

So I just thought I'd post a picture of moi wearing the YSL Rouge Personnel I bought on Saturday, even though I think this lipstick has been discontinued I really like it. I paid £6 for it the other day in the village shop that sells makeup really cheap :) The outfit today is just something I slapped on more or less, I didn't have much time to get out the door an be gone, so I picked whatever was nearest to hand, lol. I'm usually more organised when dressing, but not today.


And here's what I used:

Last night I found my Chanel Mat Lumiere Foundation, that I'd completely forgot about (its in a tester size).
The beige colour is a bit dark on my skin, but it did blend in quite well, and if I put some St.Tropez tan on it will match very well.
I do actually like how it feels, it's quite light and satiny, and it does give a really nice flawless finish, so I was really pleased I'd found it, as my skin was needing a little more cover today as I'm looking quite pastey.

I want to buy the Bourjois Clubbing Mascara tomorrow, so if I do I'll try to review that, and compare it to the L'oreal Extra Collagen Mascara I'm using that the moment (I usually use Macs Plush Lash Mascara).
Ooh and tomorrow I'm having my hair cut for the first time since I was diagnosed with Alopecia, so I'm really excited about it. My hair needs a damn good trim.
When I was diagnosed about 10 weeks ago (or more) with alopecia I wasnt sure if I'd lose all my hair, so I left my hair be for a while. I'm not certain it won't all fall out, but the thinning has eased a bit and I think I've found new growth :)

Argh, I need to organise what I'm writing on these blogs better, so I know I've said all I wanted to. I'm sure I will get better at it though, in time :)

Skint, Lazy day.

So today was a quiet day, and I just went for a quick walk in the little town near where I live, so I didn't dress up or anything today, but since I was doing an fotd I thought I'd just show my new waistcoat :)

Face :Chanel teint innocence
Mac Moisturecover concealer
Mac Honey Light High-Light Powder
Mac Beauty Powder- Summer Rose

Eyes: Bamboo e/s all over
Flip e/s on Lid
Romp e/s on outer corner and crease
Goldmine e/s above crease (All Mac)
L'oreal Extra Volume Mascara

Lips: Up the Amp l/s by Mac


I did buy a few things today however hehe ;)
In the village where I live there is this little treasure of a shop, the lady there sells everything from Antiques to Cosmetics, and well yeah she sells cosmetics. And being as obsessed as I am, I called in there and bought a few things.

I bought Estee Lauder High Gloss Plump in Melon Plump, this is a very nice peachy colour. It has a menthol tingley feeling (not like some of the harsher ones) but this is a really nice one, it feels refreshing and its not sticky, so I really like this one.

Estee Lauder High Gloss Plump -Melon Plump

I also bought a Lip Stick by Yves Saint Laurent - Rouge Personnel in 13 which is a shocking pink colour. It slides on really smoothly and feels really moisturising. It doesnt have as much pigment as say a mac lip stick, but this one can be built up and its a dream to wear, feels sort of like a balm, its really comfortable. I do really like it.

YSL Rouge Personnel 13


And so last but not least I bought an Urban Decay Eye Shadow Delux in Scratch. Which is a Pink Champagne colour. This eyeshadow is a really smooth and highly pigmented eye shadow, I think I will include it in a near future fotd as I'm eager to try it out.
I would have posted a swatch of it, but the lighting in my room is terrible. So I might add one at a later date.

I'd also like to thank the people that have joined my blog :) I hope to get better at it, and make it more interesting as my experience of blogging grows :)