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Showing posts with label makeup. Show all posts
Showing posts with label makeup. Show all posts
Tuesday, 6 January 2015

Quarterly Beauty Favourites: 09/14 - 12/14

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Hi everyone. I've been thinking about the way I do product reviews. I post so infrequently that it seems a waste to do a post that reviews just one product, or at least it does to me. That's when I remembered the favourites videos I used to do on youtube where I'd do mini reviews of a bunch of products I'd been liking recently & since I organise my blog photos quarterly I decided to do quarterly favourites. You could also think of them seasonal favourites, so these would wind up being my Autumn-Early Winter favourites... Or I could witter on more & really annoy everyone ^^


I thought I would start with the hair dye I use as I forgot to include it in the group photo (is it just me or does this background look really cute?).

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Friday, 19 December 2014

Wheelchair Fashion: Walk in the Park

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It is getting so cold out now that there is no way to take an outfit photo outdoors without thermals & a lot of layers so this is that kind of outfit. I kind of wanted to call it 'Walk in the Park Realness', the way outfits on RuPaul's drag race are 'evil hench woman realness' or 'dog park realness' but then that normally means that there is no realness involved lol ^^
I have been getting into RuPaul's drag race in a big way better late than never & have been going more drag with my makeup. You probably can't tell I these pictures but I have contoured like CRAZY. I had to answer the door part way through my contouring & I had stripes of grey & super pale concealer all over my face....the postman was majorly confused ^^

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Tuesday, 18 November 2014

Review: No7 Christmas Palettes

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I realised a few months ago that I have been buying makeup WAY faster than I've been using it & that - however much I love buying makeup - something had to change. There was no way I was going to be able to use my makeup any faster so I probably had to stop buying.
You would be really proud of me, I had managed more than a month, almost two!.....and then the Christmas collections came out & I lost all sense.

I think the problem is that Christmas is when all the best palettes & sets come out & they are my true weakness. I have probably 20 palettes or gift sets that I keep looking at as if my staring at them will suddenly make them appear in my makeup collection...and yes I know that is crazy ^^
But in reality I don't know what I would do with all that makeup so I limited myself to one palette...and somehow ended up with two.

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Monday, 8 September 2014

Makeup with Purple Hair

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Hi guys, I am so happy to be back to blogging! I thought I'd open with a makeup post & there have been some changes in my go to makeup.
Whilst I have been away from blogging I dyed my hair purple, a kind of burgundy meets violet purple, & as such the colours I use in my makeup routine have changed a little. My usual makeup was warm toned - peaches, gold toned neutrals, warm red browns - with pops of colour. Now my hair is slightly more on the cool, purple side those colours are clashing a little. Not so much that I have to replace all my makeup but just enough that I needed to make a few changes.

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Tuesday, 22 July 2014

OCC Tint - Tinted Moisturiser for Pale, Pale People

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OCC Tint Obsessive Compulsive Cosmetics Tinted Moisturizer

I'm finally getting round to reviewing some of the goodies I bought myself at IMATS, it's only taken me what...a month? Whatever.

With all this amazing weather (the UK has been CRAZY warm, even Yorkshire has had temperatures above 20 C) I've been wanting to wear lighter & lighter bases & I'm sure I'm not the only one! My problem is that lighter bases usually come in less colours & rarely come corpse coloured....like me ^^
OCC is a brand that doesn't have a problem with pale,

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Monday, 30 June 2014

IMATS - my experience & haul

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This is the last time I am going to talk about IMATS honest. Last year when I went to IMATS I was really starting to realise that my illness is degenerating & I was honestly doing less & less. I was scared to make things worse, I felt like it wasn't worth taking risks. Then I went to IMATS having planned for about six seconds (I decided to go 2 days before IMATS) & IMATS was amazing. It honest to goodness changed everything about the way I deal with being ill. Every risk I've taken, every event I've been to, every time I've left the house after 6pm...all of that can be attributed to IMATS. That first IMATS meant the world to me & every IMATS will be a confirmation that there are risks worth taking & that I have to live my life whilst I still can. So that's why I have not shut up about it.
So anyway, I went to IMATS on Saturday, did a lot of shopping & saw some really interesting talks...the things you do at IMATS.

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Monday, 23 June 2014

IMATS Tag

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IMATS Tag Photo from IMATS London 2013
Image from last years IMATS post
With IMATS (the international makeup artist trade show) coming up this weekend I am getting kind of over excited....I'm pretty sure this will be the last year I'm going to be able to do this ^^ Anyway I noticed this Tag on Chocolate & Lipstick & I thought it would be a super fun way to get pumped for IMATS ^^

1. Which IMATS are you attending?
 
London 2014 IMATS that's coming up this weekend. I'm going on the Saturday - a.k.a. the best day to go when everyone is there & none of the stalls have started to run out of stock.
 
2. Have you ever been to IMATS before?

I went to IMATS last year - the post about it is here - & had an amazing time but I was really too shy to talk to anyone.

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Monday, 9 June 2014

Lip Product Addict Tag

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Lipsticks were the first makeup products I fell in love with. Red lipsticks mostly. It kind of spread from there though until the point now where I have a whole draw of lip products..... I kind of feel like this tag was made for me. And I was actually tagged & everything! The lovely Lindalgirl from acolourfulmess.com actually tagged me when she did this tag.
This tag was actually invented by EssieButton & AmeliaLiana in a YouTube video & has kind of developed into a blog tag too.

Question 1: Favourite balm/treatment

Crabtree & Evelyn Lip Butters.


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Monday, 26 May 2014

Primer Perfection - High-End & Budget

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I never think of myself as a primer person, but then when I was moving rooms I realised that I actually have an amazing number of primers. The problem is I've never found one I really liked using. Until now.
Life being life, I've now found two stunning, very different primers. In two very different price ranges; one that costs £11 & one that costs £28, one that makes you look radiant & one that makes makeup apply better than I have ever had makeup apply. One for perfecting under makeup and one for perfecting makeup.

I'm going to start with the Hocus Focus primer from Soap & Glory. You've got to love a brand that has such cool product names & you've really got to love a brand that creates such amazing products.

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Monday, 19 May 2014

Review: Rimmel ScandalEyes Eyeshadow Pencils

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Does anyone else remember when these came out how disappointing the shade range was? There was I think one neutral shades & a black, a blue and a purple....something like that. That seemed to be enough for most people to discount them.
I know I did.
But then I used them in my chronically ill prom tutorial, I noticed that there are a LOT more shades now & there's a matte formula too.
So, what are these like? Were we wrong to write them off?

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Monday, 5 May 2014

Beauty Essentials

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Have I mentioned that we are moving rooms? I have? It's been really boring? Tough, it's kind of all consuming at the minute. Currently my brother is homeless, my room is full of the things that had been in his room & what will be my new room...well it's not pretty.
Tonight is the last time I'll have room of my own until my new room is finished (thursday/friday) so I've put together a basket of the stuff I don't want to be without.....so erm, that's what this post is.

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Sunday, 4 May 2014

Sunday Post: Room Moving Mania

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Most images from my instagram
I've had a stupid week with the room moving & the 'renovating'. It is driving me nuts, I'm not sure how I am managing so well...I have yet to flare badly, collapse or have waking dreams. I've even been able to do some basic cooking to help out (I made French toast for my brother & salmon tacos for tea yesterday, so when I said basic cooking I really meant it).

Anyway, other than the room moving I've had a good week,

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Monday, 28 April 2014

How to Post with Blogger's Block - Beauty Blogger

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I sat down at my laptop this morning, took a long look at my screen and realised that I didn't have any products I wanted to write about. I mean I have been using products still - obviously - but none of them are super exciting you know? They fulfil their purpose but they aren't so exciting I want to review them you know?

So what do you do when you don't have anything to review?

  1. Write a wishlist - as beauty bloggers there is always something we are lusting over, so post about it.
  2. Post about part of your routine - it can be morning, evening, makeup, skincare, hair care whatever. It could even be what you do when you check your makeup in the bathrooms at work.

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Monday, 21 April 2014

Mauve Makeup Medley

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There was a time that if someone described something as 'Mauve' I was instantly turned off it. It just wasn't my shade & I knew it. BOY was I missing out!
It turns out that mauve is a great shade that suites basically everyone (particularly pale people like me). Who knew? Okay, I bet a lot of people knew but I didn't. These are the products that opened my eyes to the awesome-ness of mauve.

Starting with the product that started it -

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Monday, 14 April 2014

Review: L'Oreal Liquid Lipstick

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I am not ordinarily a big liquid lipstick person...or really a gloss person. I do, however, have a soft spot for the YSL Glossy Stains that I have wanted for ages but have never gotten around to buying (£23.50 always feels like A LOT of money). So when these liquid lipsticks came out & people were saying it was a dupe...I had to try it out.
I don't know that this is a dupe for the Glossy Stains (only having tried them once) & they don't seem to stain that much (although if you saw the instagram picture of my arm after swatching you'll know that they do stain just enough to be annoying).

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Monday, 7 April 2014

Review: No7 Instant Radiance Highlighter

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So highlighter....obviously not a required makeup product but one the people with round, undefined face (like mine) might want to invest in. The point of highlighters is that they make the part of the face that you put it on look more prominent...so if you have rubbish cheekbones highlighter makes them noticeable, or if your nose is as flat as mine this is a lot cheaper than plastic surgery lol.

Unfortunately for my flat nose, my skin eats up highlighter. Usually highlighters have to be very strong for it to do anything for me....that is, until I bought this highlighter.
I have to admit, I did not intend to buy this highlighter. I had heard all the hype but I really didn't think it was worth even trying,

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Wednesday, 2 April 2014

March Beauty and Random Favourites

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My monthly favourites this month are all things I ADORE. This shouldn't be called favourites it should be called something like 'monthly amaze-ball product rave'. Or not quite that but believe me...that's the gist. I'm not crazy believe me....okay, maybe a little.
The products I mention are particularly good. Plus Hart of Dixie is the BEST - not fantasy/sci-fi - TV series I've seen in basically forever. And these Kinder Chocolate with Cereal bars are INCREADIBLE....I'm not sure I could live without them anymore! 

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Monday, 31 March 2014

Best Mascara Ever?

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Words cannot describe how much I love this mascara. I have literally only just to say got this mascara & I already have so many good things to say about it. I have NEVER had lashes look like this!

I know I said that words cannot describe my love for this mascara but I'm now going to have to try - this would be a useless review otherwise...
Okay, so.....mascara.

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Wednesday, 26 March 2014

What's in my bag? video

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I cannot believe I never filmed one of these before. Actually that's not true. I never used to have a handbag before so this video would have been pretty difficult lol. When I started using a wheelchair it became really difficult to hold a handbag (anyone who has ever self-propelled will testify to this) & I already had enough problems with my school books on my lap. I DID NOT want to add to that with a handbag. And then when I couldn't self propel anymore, but still had a manual wheelchair, I would often end up with my mum's bag on my lap whilst she pushed me.
So...what I'm saying is that the handbag is new because of the added freedom my electric chair gives me.....end speech :)

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Monday, 24 March 2014

Sephora Wishlist

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Okay, I am probably the thousandth British beauty nerd to get over excited by the fact that Sephora is shipping to the UK. I have already made one order & am contemplating making another. Yes I am that sad. No I am not embarrassed.
So to try & defuse some of my Sephora obsession I thought I'd post a wishlist. These posts are great for my bank balance as I only ever end up getting one or two of the items I put on a wishlist....I don't know it's probably some kind of bloggers curse, one that totally works to my advantage.
 
Seriously though there are some awesome beauty bits & pieces available on Sephora & these are the ones I'm lusting over the most.
 
  1. Tarte 'Eye-ssentials' discovery kit: This kit is something I am definitely going to order. 

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