Snow day Drugstore, beauty haul.......

If you follow me on instagram, then over the last couple of weeks you will of seen a few of the bits and pieces that I have picked up lately.

I decided to film a haul for you as yesterday after work, I popped into boots, looking for just ONE item after watching Estee from Essie Button and her mammoth Boots haul on Sunday.

It didn't go well is all I will say.......

I got a bit carried away, I admit. 

Hope you enjoy my moments of naughtiness lol.

Mwah

Bourjois Contour Clubbing Waterproof Eyeliners...........

A product that I have been loving for the last couple of months now are the Waterproof Contour Clubbing Eyeliners from Bourjois.

These super soft creamy liners are crease resistant and super pigmented. They last all day in the waterline and on the lash line.

Black Party and Bleu Neon

I started off with the shade Bleu Neon, which is a beautiful green with a lovely shimmer that really makes the eyes look bright. After being super impresses with it, I decided to take the plunge and pick up the black.

I wasn't disappointed.

These are without a doubt my favorite drugstore eye liners. Unlike other so called waterproof liners I have tried in the past they really are waterproof, smudge proof and budge proof.

If you are on the look out for a good value, quality liner this may be one for you.

They are £4.99 and available from Boots and Superdrug. 

Mwah

February Favorites 2013 and a fail................

How excited am I that Spring is on the way!!!

I really am pleased that its time for February Favorites as it means that Spring is nearly here.

I have had a complete skin care over haul this month, although I was seeing some improvements, it wasn't enough, so I got some advice and have started using Avene.

As well as lots of favorites, I do have one fail this month, maybe its something you can help me with?

What have you been loving this month???

Mwah

January Favorites 2013......

Who can believe that dreary January is already over, I for one am glad and cannot wait to see some of the better weather very soon. 

My favorites this month were harder to put together as I have been doing face of the week, although in some ways I enjoyed this, in others I have found that It has left me feeling a lil less excited about doing my face and finding what I love for the month.

I also feel like I didnt have as many favorites this month...

What do you think???

Mwah

My top Foundation Picks........

Over the recent months, I have found that I have been experimenting with a few more foundations than usual. Because of this I decided that I wanted to share with my favorites.

I have a mixture of favorites, both drugstore, mid range and high end. as well as a mixture of finishes, dewy, matte, demi matte and so on. 

I find that I find myself reaching for different foundations at different times of the year as well as different occasions.

The foundations I talk about are.......

Bourjois Healthy Mix

Bourjois 1,2,3

Loreal Lumi Magique

Revlon Colourstay

Mac Studio Fix

Makeup Forever HD foundation

Chanel Vitalumie

What are your favorites?

Mwah

September Favorites 2012...............

Another month has just flow by!! 

Its only 12 weeks till Christmas, it will be 2013 before we know it.

So here we are, Time to share my September Favorites with you again...

Let me know what you have loved this month!!!

Mwah

High end Lipgloss, Drugstore dupes.....

I love a good dupes post. 

The other week I decided that I was going to have a look through my Make up collection and see what dupes I could find for high end products from the drugstore.

I love high end products but my purse isn't too keen, lol. 

I was really surprised how many I found, I have got together Lip glosses, Lip sticks and blushes to share with you.

This first post is Lip gloss.

Above are the swatches that I featured in my Video which you can watch below....

The dupes I found, Top row first from left to right are.....

Revlon Sizzle dupe of  MAC Morange

MUA Out There Plumping Gloss in Candy Pink dupe of MAC Viva Gaga 1

Natural Collection Cherry Pop dupe of Lancome Lychee Juicy Tube

MUA Out There Plumping Gloss in Pin up Pink dupe of MAC Impassioned 

Borjois Rose Symphonic dupe of MAC Like Venus

You can see more of my thoughts on the glosses in the video.

All in all though I am really pleased with the dupes that I found.

What do you think?

Mwah

Recent Purchases.......

I have picked up a couple of bits and pieces over the last few weeks and wanted to share them with you...

I have had a bit of a polish phase going on again lol.

What have you picked up recently?

Mwah

July Empties 2012..........

Hi Everyone!!!!

Hope you are all having a fab weekend?! I wanted to share with you my latest empties.... I was very impressed with how much I used up this past month. 

I have definitely discovered some new loves as well as a couple of things I wont be re-purchasing.

What products have you finished this month?????

Thank you for watching!!!!

Dont forget to enter my OPI giveaway!!!!!

Mwah

Blog Sale time.................

So its time for a blog sale again.

Its the same as always.......

Postage is £1.00 for the first item and 50p for each after up to a maximum of £2.50. Everything after is included.

For international postage please ask for a quote :))
I will weigh the items and check the prices online.

All products have been sanitized with Beauty So Clean.

Please leave your email in the comments :)

Thanks for looking!!!

MAC Fleet Fast LE Blush used 3x £8.00

Crew Highlight Powder used 2x £15.00

MAC Magenta LE Blush used 2x £8.00

MAC Mineralize LE blush Warmth Of Coral Used 4/5x £8.00 

Elf Blush & Contour Palette slight dip in bronzer £1.00 

Physicians Formula Happy Booster Bronzer used 3x £4.00

Famous Baked Bronzer used 3x £3.00

Sleek Contour Palette used 10x £3.00

Clinique Loose Bronzing powder used half a dozen times £4.00

Tarte Amazonian Clay Blush in Adored slight use £10.00

Sephora Blush used 3x £3.00

Maybelline Blush used 2x Golden Bronze £2.00

Physicians Formula Happy Booster Blush used 6x £3.00
Revlon Cream Blush in Pinched used 3x £3.00 

Sleek Blushes

Top Lifes a peach £3.00

2nd row Santorini and Pan Tao, Bottom row Scandalous and Suede 

light use on all £3.50 each 

Jessies Girl Palette unused in Brown eyed girl £3.00

MUA Metallic palette light use £1.50

Jessies Girl Palette unused in The Eyes Have It £3.00

Sephora shadow used 2x In Fame & Fortune £2.00

YSL Single shadow slight dip Shade 7 £3.00

Estee Lauder palette light use £4.00

Lancome Quad in 312 light use £4.00

YSL Palette used 1x £5.00

Lancome singles in Madame Butterfly (£2.00) Sentermental Journey (£2.00) and Strauss Black (£2.00)

Buxom Cream shadow in PUG dipped in jar £3.00

Sleek Palettes

Original on the left and Monaco LE on the right 

£5.00 each

MUA Palettes in Dusk till dawn (Top) and Starry Night

£2.00 each or both for £3.00

All MAC Used as seen

Perfect Day LE £8.00

Hibiscus LE £8.00

Pink Friday LE £8.00

Ravishing £8.00

Abalone Lip Tint used 3x with a brush only £6.00

MAC Viva Cyndi Lipglass used 4/5x £6.00

Models Own Pink Hawaiian £2.00

Cover Girl Kiss £2.00

Revlon  No 714 £1.00

Barry M Moisturising Lipstick in 157 £2.00

Barry M lipstick in 147 £2.00

Sleek Baby Doll used 3/4 times £2.00

Topshop Charmed used 1x £2.00

Revlon Just Bitten Kissable Lip Balm in Rondavous use 1x £3.00

Revlon Lip Butter Sugar Frosting £2.00 ( US Exclusive)

Revlon Lip Butter in Peach Parfit £2.00

Revlon Lip butter Cupcake £2.00

NYX Strawberry Milk £2.00

NYX Thalia £2.00

Maybelline Park Avenue Peach £2.00

Bourjois Sweet Kiss Natural £2.00

Gargantuan Green Grape Used 1x £4.00

Mermaids Tears Used 1x £4.00

Moon Over Mumbai used 1x £4.00

Up close & Personal used 2x £4.00

OPI On Collins Avenue Used 1x £4.00

  A Roll In The Hague NEVER USED £4.50

Into The Night Used 1x £4.00

Steady As She Rose Used 1x £4.00

Devine Swine Used 1x £4.00

Rainbow Connection used 2x 6.50

Save Me Unused £4.00

Go Go Pink Used 1x £4.00

Deborah Lippmann Walking On Air used 2x £8.00

Models Own Disco Inferno Swatched £3.00

Models Own Freak Out Swatched £3.50

Models Own Dancing Queen Swatched £3.50

Revlon Radiant NEVER Used £4.00

Technic Carnaval swatched £1.00

Technic Bedazzled Swatched £1.00

Colourclub Jingle Jangle used 1x £3.00

Colourclub Poptastic used 1x £3.00

Julie G for Jessies girl in Bikini, 9-5 and Oh Me Gee all used 1x £1.00 each or thr three for £2.00

Nina Pro Emerald City usrd 1x £2.00

Nina Pro Blu Blaze used 1x £2.00

Andrea Fullerton Mischa Swatched £2.00

Wet n Wild Used 1x Blue Wants to Be a Milkionair £2.00

Revlon Jelly used 1x £3.00

H&M polish in Peppermint Fusion swatched  £1.00

W7 Mosaic swatched £2.00

W7 Lava Flow swatched £2.00

Bourjois 1,2,3 Perfect.............

As those of you that have been reading my blog for a while will know, I have had varying luck with drug store foundations over the last year.

Bourjois are the makes of both my favourite ( Healthy Mix) and least favourite ( Healthy Mix Serum) drug store foundation discoveries of the year. So when I saw that Boots had an exclusive Bourjois hitting there shelves last month, I knew I had to give it a go.

This is 1,2,3 Perfect Foundation

If you are familiar with Bourjois foundations, one of the first things that you will notice is the upgrade to the packaging. Gone is the usual plastic bottle and in is the classy, expensive feeling. The plastic pump feels average, all in all tho, the packaging looks and feels great.

There are only five shades in the range, the darkest being my shade 56, Beige Rose.

The shades in these foundations come up a bit lighter, I would go so far as to say a couple of shades at least.  

I am not sure if this is because of the 3 colour correcting pigments in the foundation, but I do know that this is going to limit the appeal of the foundation, no matter how fabulous it may be. With even a hint of colour this is going to become far to light for me. I would say that if you are anything over a NW30 ish that you may struggle.

The Bourjois web site does say that there are 9 shades available, I'm guessing that these extra shades will be released shortly.

That being said, I have been using this foundation and enjoying it. It offers a lovely cover, I would say medium to full. It leaves a satin finish on the skin. What makes this foundation different from say Healthy Mix is the 3 colour correcting pigments that are in the formula, Yellow, Mauve and Green.

Yellow promises to conceal dark circles and give a rested look to the skin.

Mauve is to correct dullness and give a radiant appearance.

Green neutralises any redness in the skin and helps to even out the complexion.

Added to all this there is the promise of long wear (16hrs), SPF (10) and 24hr hydration.

Sounds good doesn't it?? 

It is!!

I'm pleased to say that I really do like this foundation, it leaves my skin feeling and looking fresh whilst offering me cover and help in those aggravating areas such as any blemishes that may of left those horrid red tell tale marks.

Even with the limited shade range, I think that this is definitely worth checking out if you are on the look out for a new drug store foundation. 

Bourjois, you have made me smile once again :))

1,2,3 Perfect is available from branches of Boots and on line. It normally costs £10.99 but at the moment has £4.00 off so is just £6.99.

I would love to hear what you think of this foundation.....

Mwah

Some recent fails :((.....................

I don't usually have that many products that I end up really disliking, today tho I have two definite fails.
I would like to point out tho, that just because these products are not for me, some of you may love them.

First up is the eye studio eye shadows from Maybelline. I have just one of these in the purple shade.
You get a 2nd colour in these compacts that is a translucent powder with some sparkle through. Right up my street you would think? Unfortunately not. The purple is not that greatly pigmented, its not the worst I've used but comes a long, long way short of what I look for in an eyeshadow. The translucent powder has terrible fall out and when applied in all honesty looks no different to me at all as the glitter seems to end up pretty much anywhere than on my eye.

As I said it may just be me, but this for me is a total fail.

Next up Bourjois Healthy Mix Serum.

I am a massive fan of the original version of this foundation, Healthy Mix. And when I saw this I had to try it out. This in comparison to the original has a more a serum texture, Bourjois say gel. It is also packed with more of the fab antioxidants that are crammed into the original formula, sounds good so far doesn't it?!?!?

Well I can honestly say that this for me is the worst foundation I've ever tried. It literally for me did nothing. I think that I personally get better results with tinted moisturiser. I don't know why but as soon as it hit my skin it seemed to vanish to nothing. I tried it with and without a primer, with and without powder, I really tried everything as I really wanted to like it.

Sadly for me, nothing could make me like this foundation :((

Thank you for reading my post.

Have you had any products that you have been let down by???

Mwah

More empties, Yayyyyyyyyyyyyy...........

So you may remember my self inflicted spending ban back in October.
Although I didn't stick to my 6 items that i had allowed myself to buy before new year, I really did cut back and use lots of my collection which may of been neglected otherwise.

I did a post back at the start of November sharing with you some of the things I had used up and emptied. ( you can see that post HERE )

This was something that I had really got satisfaction from, and so I decided to do it again.
So here we are these are my empties from November and December.

What Ive used

TRESeme Instant Refresh Dry Shampoo

Batiste Blush Dry Shampoo

Umberto Gianni Backcomb in a Bottle

Umberto Gianni Crystal Mist

Bourjois Healthy Mix Foundation ( Not 100% empty but the pump is broken)

Clinique Clarifying Lotion

Midnight Poison Body Lotion

Angel Body Lotion

Simple Eye Makeup remover

Soap&Glory Hand Maid

Carex Hand gel

Soap&Glory Catch A wrinkle

Jo Malone Pomegranate Noir

Philosophy Pure Grace

Burbury Body ( sample 15ml)

MAC Msf Natural

Clinique Eye Brow Pencil

OPI Nail Envy Original

NYC High Definition Mascara

Some of these are items that I will without doubt repurchase either because they are every day products for me ( clarifying Lotion, Eye make up remover, Dry shampoo) or I have really enjoyed them.

There are a few tho that I wont repurchase.

These are

NYC Hi Definition Mascara. The transfer on this is terrible, I also found that it flaked on me through the day. Added to this I simply just did not like the brush.

The other is the Umberto Gianni Crystal Mist, as much as I enjoyed this product, I'm planning on going a little lighter with the blond in my hair and if I do this will simply make my hair just too golden.

What have you finished recently? Will you be repurchasing or skipping??

Mwah

Everyday FOTD...........

I though you may be interested in my every day look at the moment. I have been loving neural eyes with a hint of smokiness ( I find that if my eyes are too pale I look 'Odd')

Its mainly the colours I love with this combo. Hope you like.....

Eye Products

Rimmel Brow Pencil

ELF Mineral eye base

Barry M Dazzle Dust in Tan (eyelid)

Wet'N'Wild Brulee Mono (Brow and inner eye highlight)

MAC Twinks (Socket)

Estee Lauder Double Wear Gel Liner in Black Onyx

Black Mascara ( I have been using up various ones)

Face Products

Revlon Colourstay Foundation

MAC MSF Natural Medium/Deep

Bourjois Bronzer ( I forget the name the Summer one...:))

MAC MSF Northernlights (Highlight)

The Balm Frat Boy Blush

Lips

Good Ole Carmex, my lips have felt a little dry in the colder weather. Plus Carmex is a maintenance free look :))

As you can see from my pictures, its a soft daytime look.

What are you reaching for day to day at the moment??

Mwah

Can a lipgloss brighten your smile???.........

I'm sure you will all of seen these Smile Enhancing glosses by Bourjois recently. I got this one about a month ago and have been seeing what I think.

The gloss has two ends, one with a traditional gloss, all be it a sparkly one lol, and the other end has a teeth whitening gel.

The gel has particles that are meant to make your teeth appear whiter and your smile in turn brighter.

the colour I chose was a very pale pink, ideal for layering over lipsticks. As you can see from the swatch it has very little colour. The full range does have more intense colours there are 6 available in total, this was just the one I was draw to.

Now as I said I got this about a month ago, in that time I have worn the gloss several times, applying the gel to my teeth.

Here are some before and afters....

Please excuse the scary smile!!! lol

Without

With

Now in all honesty I can not see any difference with my teeth. I do however really like the gloss. Its not at all sticky which is fab, but does mean that you will need to reapply more often than with some glosses.

I think if you are buying this gloss because you like the colour that's fab, also the teeth gel does refresh your mouth with minty freshness so is quite cute. I just dont think the brightening agents give enough of a difference to actually give a whiter smile....

At £8.99 they are on the slightly more pricey side for a drugstore gloss too.

Have you try the Smile Enhancing Lipgloss by Bourjois??

What did you think??

Mwah

ELF Natural Palette Look..........

I recently reviewed the ELF Natural Eye Palette. I decided yesterday that as I wasn't doing much ( Still home poorly :( On the mend tho) I would have a little play around and come up with a look to share with you.

Here are the products I used...

Although I wanted a very natural look, Illness has taken its toll and I needed a Lil bit of extra help with my skin. Hench all the face products.

• 17 Photo Flawless Face Primer
• MAC MSF Natural in Medium Deep
• ELF Studio Stipple Brush
• ELF All Over Colour Stick in Spotlight
• Rimmel Sun Shimmer Bronzer in Light Matte
• Hard Candy Living Doll Baked Blush
• Garnier Eye Roll on in Medium
• Revlon PhotoFinish Foundation In 007 Cool Beige

• ELF Eyelid Primer
• Rimmel Eyebrow Pencil in Dark Brown
• Shavata Clear Brow Gel
• Collection 2000 XXL Volume Sensation Mascara
• ELF Natural Eye Palette

( I am going to refer to the colours like this top row A, B, C, Bottom Row, D, E, F)

I used B On my lid with D as my inner eye and brow highlight. I then blended E over the middle of my mobile lid to warm it up. I put C in my socket and ran F along my upper lash line to Tight line my lashes.

As you can see all the colours are very very natural on me. I'm not sure if this is just down to my skin tone or the shadows. I like the Dark dark brown, this is a colour I will use a lot I can tell already. I think the rest of the colours ( Except C) I will use just for highlight.

To finish the look I used

• Urban Decay Lip Liner in Midnight Cowboy
• Bourjois 3D effect Gloss in 49
• Lancome Lip liner in Rose Rosa

I used Midnight Cowboy around the edge of my lip line for fullness and Rose Rosa to fill my lip.

I then used the gloss over the two to finish the look.

Final Face

Please excuse my round face, it always gets puffy when I get colds and chest infections.

Have you tried the Natural Palette by ELF, What do you think???

Mwah