UK/US Beauty Swap with Her Late Night Cravings

Hey Everyone!! H|ow are you all doing? Great I hope! Haven't we been lucky with the weather here the last few days in the UK, I hope that you are all getting a chance to enjoy the sunshine.

Enough about the weather, on to today's post.  I have been lucky enough to take part in a beauty swap with the beautiful ladies, Jayme & Mendi over at Her Late Night Cravings.

Now these two girls are amazing!! Their videos and blog posts always brighten up my day, and it was them that made me brave enough to take the YouTube plunge a year ago.

So a couple of months ago, we started emailing and chatting about doing a beauty swap, like the girls, I cant remember how it came up, but I am so so pleased it did. I have loved the whole process of chatting, getting to know the ladies, shopping for them and finally sending and receiving parcels.

Our boxes arrived last week ( I was so excited when I came home to it on Thursday!!) We both decided to film unboxing videos, it was seriously like Christmas. I was so lucky, the girls picked out beautiful items for me that we can not get here in the UK, and if you watch my video, you will see, I was more than a little excited!!lol.

I really can not say thank you enough to you both, I am so lucky to of made friends with you beautiful ladies and had the chance to do this with you :)

Please if you are not already subscribed ( Im sure you are!!) check out Jayme and Mendi's YouTube Channel Here. Seriously, you will love them!!

Also If you would like to see what I picked out for them, please follow the link below....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QPIcMztPox0

Happy Hump day everyone!!!

Mwah 

Vichy Dermablend Setting Powder.....

I have never really been a fan of loose powders as a rule. 

I have used the Elf Hd and Mac Prep & Prime, these two being my favorites so to speak. Neither tho are products that I reach for daily.

Having had some issues with my skin recently (I have PCOS)I have been struggling with breakouts an keeping them covered. 

I had heard a few beauty Gurus on YouTube talking about Dermablend, a brand that has high cover concealers and foundations for those needing a fuller cover. I have tried the foundation in the past, and although I liked it, my skin at the time was pretty good and so I sold it in a blog sale.

Knowing how full cover the foundation is I decided that I wanted to have a look at the concealer and loose powder ( LisaLisaD1 loves the powder!!).

I came away with the powder, hoping that as promised by the box it would be my fixer.

I cannot tell you enough how much I love this powder and how fantastic it works.

Its Hypoallergenic and Paraben Free, both fantastic. The powder itself is designed to set the Dermablend foundations and concealers and promises up to 16 hours with a matte and natural result.

The white soft, finely milled powder disappears on the skin, leaving what I would say is almost a satin finish rather than a flat matte look. Its not at all cakey or powdery looking and really does make my makeup last all day.

Since I have been using this I have found that I hardly if at all need to touch up my makeup throughout the day. For the first time ever I am completely sold on a loose powder.

I used it in my recent get ready with me video if you want to see it in action.....

I paid £14.30 for the powder at Boots you can get it in selected stores and online.

Have you ever tried Dermablend??

Mwah

March Favorites 2013......

Happy Easter everyone!!

I hope that you all had a lovely time with your families.

March is one of my favorite months of the year and I am always sad to see it gone. 

That said, this March really hasn't been like most what with all the snow and strange weather that we have had in the UK. Where has Spring gone??

I had some gorgeous beauty favorites this month, I have enjoyed popping a little bit of colour into my daily look. 

I have rediscovered some old favorites as well as some new ones.

What have you loved this month?

Mwah

Rimmel Scandaleyes...............

As some of you may or may not know I have a love hate relationship with Rimmel products. I so want to love them but so many times I am left cold.

So you can imagine my reaction to finding a product that I really do love from Rimmel.

I picked up the ScandaleEyes cream shadow pencils around the time of the Apocolips launch.

Bulletproof Beige, Bad Bronze and Paranoid Purple.

The cream shadow pencils come in the familiar packaging of the NYX Jumbo pencils. A chunky pencil that can be sharpened with a large pencil sharpener. 

I love the fact that the ends of the pencils are color coordinated to the shade making them easy to pick out if you store them standing up in jars.

Bad Bronze, Paranoid Purple and Bulletproof Beige.

I have found the pencils to be super pigmented and very long lasting. They are nice and soft to apply and don't drag or pull on the delicate skin around the eyes. 

They work excellently both as a shadow base as well as a lower lash line shade. Bulletproof Beige has become my inner eye highlight of choice. They don't run or smudge and really do give a great long lasting finish.

I personally prefer these to the NYX Jumbo pencils as I find you get little of no creasing with these.

The only fault is that at the moment there are just 5 shades, something I'm sure may change in the future.

The pencils cost £5.99, a great price I think for such a versatile and brilliant performing product.

Have you tried Scandale eyes Cream shadow sticks?

What do you think?

Mwah

Naked 2 and Wet n Wild smoky purple eye........

Happy Tuesday everyone!!

Hope you are all having a fab week?!

I have for you today part two of the tutorial I filmed the other day, this is eyes and lips. 

I wanted a mauve silver look and this is what I can up with.......

I used the Urban Decay Naked2 Paltte and my Wet'N'Wild Petal Pusher palette. I really like this look and have worn it to work a few times. To see how I achieved the look, watch below...

Mwah

My First Blog Award.......

In the short time I have been blogging I have quickly begun to feel like so many of you are friends. I feel so so lucky to be a part of our lil community and enjoy it every day.

I have seen various awards on peoples pages and always thought how lovely they are, today I get my own award, and not one but two.

I have been lucky enough to of been awarded the Lovely Blogger Award by Rachel and Kirstin.

Both of these lovely girls nominated me today and I would just like to say a massive thank you to both of you :))

So now it comes to me to award my first ever blog awards.

The Rules

1. Thank the person that gave you the awards, and link back to them.
2.  Post seven things about yourself.
3. Pass the love to 15 bloggers.
4. Let them know they received an award

I'm gonna start with rule number two now....

Seven facts about me.

1. I have 3 dogs, Harry, Charlotte and Albert. They are my babies and I love them to death!!! Harry is a Yorkie cross and Charlotte a long hair Chihuahua, Albert's a short coat Chihuahua.
2. My other half's name is Richard and we have been together for 8 years.
3. I'm obsessed with Vampire Diaries, Gossip Girl, Glee, Grays Anatomy and Jersey Shore.
4. I'm also addicted to Jerseylicious, lol.
5. My birthday is March 19th and that's the day I'm getting Married ( In Las Vegas) next year.
6. I would love to go to Tahiti
7. I had my Gallbladder removed 2 years ago.

That was actually quite hard!!!

Now for the fun bit, giving out my awards.....this is seriously hard, I follow more than 200!!!

Here goes, they are in no order...

Lizzie at DollyFace
The Gorgeous Rachel at Random Daily
Chloe at BlushCrush
The ever lovely Rebecca at BeautyBecca
Imogen at Foxy Locks (AMAZING EXTENSIONS!!!)
Cara an amazing nail tech!!!
Lauran from L'amour Lauran
Nicoletta with Beauty space
The lovely Strawberry Blond
Dinah at DGS Beauty
Victoria with her great blog
Claira at Clairabelle
Joanne the Makeup Fairy
Louise with A Sprinkle of Glitter
Chally with The life of an inspiring Artist


So there are my 15, this was hard as I have lots of blogs that I love.


Have a lovely sparklicious Sunday eve,

Mwah


Maria xxxxx