My Everyday Makeup

Hey!
I have been recently trying a lot of new makeup things so I thought I would share with you my new everyday makeup look. Its pretty L'Oreal heavy which is weird as before last month I have never really used anything from them.

So this is the look I have been wearing most days.

Base

• L'Oreal True Match Foundation ~ N1 Ivory
• Bourjois Healthy Mix Concealer ~ 51 (To cover redness on my nose, chin and cheeks)
• L'Oreal Lumi Magique concealer ~ 1 Light (Under my eyes) 
• Rimmel Stay Matte Pressed Powder ~ 001 Transparent

Eyes

• Max Factor Excess Shimmer ~ Bronze
• MAC Eye Shadow ~ Woodwinked
• L'Oreal Super Liner Superstar ~ Black
• Rimmel Scandaleyes Khol ~ Nude (I forgot to put it in the picture)
• L'Oreal False Lash Superstar Mascara ~ Black

• Rimmel Brow This Way ~ Medium Brown (I only used the powder part)
• L'Oreal Brow Artist Plumper ~ Light/Medium

Cheeks and Lips

• NYX Blush ~ Taupe (Mines looking a bit worse for wear but it's my favorite contour colour)
• Natural Collection Blush ~ Peach Melba
• MUA Shimmer Highlighter ~ Iridescent Gold
• Bourjois Rouge Edition Velvet ~ 07 Nude-ist

That's it! I love wearing this look, it features some of my newest (and oldest) favorites. Let me know what you think.

Here is the look a few hours in after the lipstick had came off (I ate and didn't bring it with me so I had to remove it).

Until next time!

Byee!

Beauty on a Budget

Hey,... So it has been a while.

I thought I'd share some of my favorite budget makeup products. Since I'm on a student budget the majority of my makeup is 'cheap' and my high end makeup tends to be gifts, from lovely lovely people, or things I have saved up for. Hopefully this might help people on a budget like me.

Base

Foundation - Rimmel Match Perfect in porcelain - £6.99

Concealer - MUA Cover & Conceal  in fair - £1.50

Powder - Seventeen Miracle Matte Pressed powder in porcelain - £3.99

Contour/highlight - Seventeen Define & conquer kit - 5.99

Blush - Natural collection in Peach Melba - £1.99

Eyes and Lips

Eye shadow - Natural collection duo in Mink Sable - £1.99

Brows - Natural Collection solo in Crushed Walnut £1.99

Eyeliner - Collection Extreme in black - £2.99

Mascara - Primark PS Love volumising mascara in ultra black - £2

Lips - MUA Matte in Lilac Belle - £1

So the total?

£30.43

A bargain for a full face that looks good and features some of my absolute favorite products.

That's all for now.

FOTD || Everyday Makeup

I haven't blogged in a while but I am going to make an effort to do it more since I really enjoy it! To start it up again I thought id so a quick post about the make up look I wear most days at the moment.

Base

• MUA Undress Your Skin Foundation in Porcelain (Review coming soon)
• Seventeen Stay Time Concealer in Extra Fair
• Seventeen Miracle Matte Powder in Ivory Porcelain
• NYX Blush in Taupe as contour
• Venus from the Naked Basics Palette as highlighter
• Benefit Blush in Dandelion (Mini from the 'Do The Bright Thing' kit)

Eyes

• Naked 3 Palette (Limit and Dust over the lid, Nooner in the crease, Liar on the outer corner, Strange on the inner corner and Blackheart as liner)
• Naked Basics Palette (Naked 2 on lower lash line and Venus as brow highlight)
• Natural Collection eye shadow in Crushed Walnut on the brows
• MUA Clear mascara to set the brows
• Bourjois Twist up the Volume Mascara on top lashes
• Seventeen Doll'd Up Mascara on lower lashes

Lips

• Collection Deluxe Lipstick in 02 Talullah

I love this make up, Its simple but still quite dramatic from the eye liner. Some days I don't line my eyes to give a softer look.

That's all for now.

Bye!

♥

First Impressions | Bourjois Healthy Mix Serum Foundation

Hey Guys!
Recently I have been stuck in a rut with heavy coverage foundations but since the weather is getting warmer,(It's been boiling here in England!) I thought I should really get a lighter foundation. I had heard great reviews on the Bourjois healthy mix serum. I only bought this yesterday so I thought I would share my first impressions on it.

I picked this up while at Boots along side their twist up the volume mascara (They have a 2 for £14 offer on Bourjois at the moment - here). I got the shade 51 because I have fair skin and this seemed to be the lightest colour. When I first started applying it I was worried that it was a bit to dark (I still think it is but I can work with it). It's a lot more yellow toned than my normal foundations but I have yellowish toned skin  so it actually works quite well for me.

It gives a slightly dewy finish which I was expecting as it is a radiance foundation. I hate my skin looking dewy as my skin is oily/combination. But it looks fine with a little bit of powder. I have found I need less powder with this foundations than ones I have used in the past. I have only been wearing this foundation for around 5 hours now and it still looks really nice. It looks almost like skin and a lot more natural than my other more heavy foundations. It doesn't have as much coverage as I'm used to (I'd say light to medium but definitely buildable) but its nothing that a little bit of concealer can't help.

I will do a more in-depth review after I have tested it out a bit more but for now I really like it!

Have you tried this foundation or any other Bourjois products?
What do you recommend?

Chat | Spring Resolutions

So spring has sprung and I thought what better time to take some time to start blogging again! (Deffinatley not procrastinating from revision!) Kicking it off I thought I would share my spring resolutions. Just a few things I want to try and do more of (beauty, fashion and life).

1. Wear more dresses!

Despite owning a few dresses I never seem to wear them. I am extremely lazy so jeans and a t-shirt every day always seems like the best option.

2. Shop my stash!

I own a fair amount of make up but always find myself reaching for the same products every morning. I am challenging my self to sort my make up out and show some forgotten things some love. 

3. Get organised!

I have exams and assignment deadlines fast approaching and so I need to make sure I can organise my self to get everything done in the little time left. (Also I should probably tidy my room...)

4. Do some exercise!

I am probably one of the laziest people I know. I would much rather sit in bed eating crisps than go outside. However, my boyfriend has started playing basketball and so hopefully he can help motivate me to leave the sofa and do something healthy!

So that's it 4 resolutions lets hope I can stick to them. I will let you know how I get on. Have you decided to do anything new this spring?
Thanks for reading!

Blogmas Day 12 | MUA Matte Lipstick Wild Berry

I love the MUA £1 lipsticks and my favorite lipstick formula is matte. So imagine my delight when I wander into Superdrug and find MUA have added matte formulas into their collection. There was only 3 colours left in the shop, but out of the ones there this one really stood out to me. It looks very scary, a kind of deep purple/burgundy colour. When its on the lips its a really nice purpley red. I really like it! I'm a bit disappointed it doesn't come out as dark as it looks but i guess that's a good thing for wear ability. (This lipstick is very wearable, day and night!). The formula isn't to drying and its not as 'matte' as my other matte lipsticks but it gives a really nice look. Just make sure you moisturise and exfoliate your lips before wearing it or it will cling to any dry parts.

For £1 I cant recomend it enough and can't wait to try the other colours in the range!

You can find them in super drug or on the MUA store!
Have you tried the new Matte Lipsticks from MUA?
LEt me know what you think! :)

OOTN | Halloween Poison Ivy

Cheesier smile maybe?

So if you read my previous post (Here) you'll know I am being Poison Ivy for Halloween this year. I really love my outfit so I thought I'd show you what I wore.
Poison outfits are hard to come by and any I found I really didn't like. So after scouring the internet I found this corset. It is just perfect! Green satin with black leafy design. I got so many compliments about how nice the corset is at the Halloween party! Admittedly it was quite uncomfortable to wear but once I got used to it i was fine. It was also pretty well priced at £18.99 on ebay. (Find it here)
I also wore dark green leggings from Topshop (here) and my black pixie boots from Primark.

For my hair I wore my extentions and curled them so they were wavy. I then clipped back my left side and quiffed my fringe. I used Leaf clips I made from cheap Primark hair clips and fake leaves from a craft store. I made some single leaf clips and clipped these down the left side of my hair.

Overall I am really pleased with my outfit. I can't wait to wear it again tonight!

What do you think of my outfit?
What are you being for Halloween?

FOTN | Halloween Poison Ivy

 I have never really celebrated Halloween much further than trick or treating as a child. However, Halloween is my boyfriends favorite time of year and so for the first time ever I could get excited for it. Me and my friends went to a party last Saturday and all dressed up as various comic book characters. I chose Poison Ivy. (Mind control, toxic lips and long red hair why would I be any one else?!) So since this is my first proper Halloween I thought id share my excitement with you and show you my Poison Ivy makeup.

Now Poison Ivy is shown with different makeup in each comic/film so I just improvised with some green. and was so happy with the result!

I wanted my skin to look as flawless as possible (she is a comic book villain after all) so I used two layers of MAC Studio Sculpt (NC15) to get full coverage. I then used my trusty Collection Concealer in fair to cover anything my foundation didn't (mainly under my eyes and on my nose). I set it all with my favorite pressed powder, Rimmel Stay Matte in Transparent, and contoured with MUAs bronzer in Shade 3. I didn't use a blush, instead dusting a bit of Natural Collections eye shadow in Spring green over my cheekbones.

Now for the fun part! I used the green end of Max Factor's smokey effect eye shadow in citrus thunder on the inner third of my eye and L.A colors jumbo eye pencil in lime aid on the rest of my lid and blended them in with my finger. I wanted the inner part of my eye to be lighter and both act nicely as a cream base for eye shadow. I brushed on Natural collections eye shadow in spring green all over the lid and a little bit out over the inner corner of my eye. I then blended my MUA eye shadow in Shade 7 in the outer corner of my eye and through my crease to create a graduated smokey effect. I lined my lid with Rimmel's gel liner and created long cat eye flicks. I lined my waterline with Rimmel scandal eyes khol eyeliner in black. I then added a small coat of Revlons Lash Potion mascara in blackest black and added some false eyelashes. (I forgot to photograph these but they are the Boots Perfect finish Natural Volume false lashes). Then I used Natural Collection  Crushed walnut eyeshadow to define my brows and their clear mascara to set them in place.

On my lips I wanted an orangey red colour so Macs lipstick in So Chaud was perfect. This matched really well to my Essie nail polish in Snap Happy. Both (I think) are perfect for  poison ivy.

Me and my boyfriend being cute at the party!

What do you think of my Poison Ivy makeup look?
What are you being for halloween?
Let me know!

Haul | MAC

Hey, just a quick post to show you what I got from MAC recently. I only owned one MAC lipstick before this so I'm very excited! I have had my eye on the eye shadow Woodwinked for a while now and I am super happy to finally have it its a really pretty bronze colour and I have worn it pretty much everyday since I got it. I have been needing a decent foundation for a while no matter how many I try from boots they never seem to work for me. I asked for a sample of the studio sculpt foundation and fell in love with it. Its alot more expensive than foundations I'm used to buying but its definitely worth it since it actually works on my skin!

What I bought:

MAC Studio Sculpt Foundation NC15 - £25

MAC Eye shadow in Woodwinked - £12.50

I love both of these products and will be doing reviews for both soon.

Have you tried these products?
What MAC products do you recommend?

Overnight Makeup Bag Essentials

Over the last few weeks I have been staying overnight at my boyfriends house quite a lot and so have built up a pretty trusty group of products I like to take with me. As I don't like to spend a long time getting ready on a morning when I'm out of my house I only take my essentials. 

Rimmel Wake me up concealer ~ Ivory

I used to hate this concealer but recently I dug it back out and have really fallen in love with it, it is an illuminating concealer and I really like to apply it under my eyes to brighten them up.

Bourjois Healthy mix Concealer ~ 51

I dab a bit of this concealer on any redness or blemishes I have on my face and it covers everything really well and lasts for hours. I love the tube it comes in as you can squeeze out as much as you need and it feels a little more hygienic than doe foot applicators that other concealers have. (Especially since I use this on spots). I blend it over my face using the Real Techniques Contour brush.

Rimmel Stay matte powder ~ Transparent

This has been my go to powder for quite a few months now and I love it! I blend a bit of this over my whole face to set the concealer and mattify using the buffing brush from Real Techniques. I find that this combined with the concealers gives a finish I may actually prefer to a full foundation look and it takes less than half the time!

Rimmel Eyebrow Pencil ~ Hazel

I never used to do anything with my brows however suddenly filling them in has become an essential. This pencil makes doing my brows really quick and easy (I already have quite defined/thick brows and so only need a tiny bit of filling in anyway). Also the little comb on the lid means I don't need to take my brow comb.

Natural Collection Mascara ~ Clear

This stuff is cheap (under £2) and does the job. I use it to fix my eyebrows in place after I used the pencil or, if I'm in a real rush, just on its own.

Maybelline Colour tattoo Cream eye shadow ~ On and on bronze

I use this pretty much everyday blending a bit over my eyelid. The ultimate in speedy makeup applications!

Rimmel Scandaleyes eyeliner ~Bronze

I smudge this on my lower lash line to give a instant 'I-actually-made-effort' look despite the lack of actual effort. It lasts a good few hours, is cheap and is a really lovely colour. Winner all round!

Seventeen Backlash Mascara

This is my go to mascara at the moment. It gives really long volumized lashes in just a couple of coats so is perfect for when you're in a rush.

MAC Lipstick ~ So Chaud 

I very rarely leave the house without a lipstick on these days and this on is my current favorite. It is a lovely orangey red and makes any makeup look amazing!

Candy Store Silicone cosmetics bag ~ Purple

I got this as a gift for Christmas and i love it! Its the perfect size to fit these makeup bits in without being to big. Plus it is made of silicone so if anything leaks it just wipes clean. 

I love all these products and I find when I get ready on a morning using them it takes less than 10 min. What are your makeup essentials?

Where to find:
Rimmel

Seventeen

Bourjois

MAC

Maybelline 

Candy Store

Haul | Boots

I recently went for a day out shopping with my Mam and found myself in Boots. I thought it would be cool to showed you what I bought. (I really like seeing what other people buy I'm so nosey).

Kicking it off with makeup, first I got Rimmel Stay Matte Powder in transparent. I buy this powder over and over again, its the best one i have tried and its only £3.99 so can't really go wrong. I also got Natural collections blush in peach melba. I had this once before but I dropped it and it broke. I don't wear blush often but this one is a really nice subtle shade so is perfect for me! I  have been wanting to try the BarryM Dazzle dusts for a long time so I finally took the plunge and got one. I chose copper because it looked really nice when I swatched it on my hand however i find it a bit yellowy on my eyes (I'm trying to find a way to make it work). I also got a Seventeen lip crayon in bold which is a really nice glossy orange shade.

I got 2 new brushes, a retractable lip brush (something iv been wanting for a while) and a new No7 Eye contour brush. This is my favorite brush for blending out eye shadow so i thought having a second cant hurt!

I got 2 nail varnishes a clear one from Natural collection (the BarryM one I normally get was out of stock and this was cheap). The other is a black and white graffiti nail effect. Its really cool and looks like paint splatters (review soon?)

This one is a little bit boring but this is the hair dye and colour I use on my hair. It was starting to grow out so I needed some more.

Boots own Dry shampoo! Its a little bit cheaper than my favorite batiste and does the same job! (it smells like the tropical batiste which is my favorite sent too!)

Hair masks can be expensive and I really needed a new one for my hair extensions. This one was not to expensive and smells amazing! (I love coconut)

Now these may seem weird but I have suffered with acne for quite a few years, on my body and my face (gross huh?!) I am always on the look out for new products that might help and I spotted the boots tea tree and witch hazel back spray. They have a whole new range of products to tackle body acne which is something I have never seen before. I am going to give this a good try and let you know how I get on! I also found this clearing gel from Good Things, I have never herd of this brand before but it wasn't to expensive and it has no nastiness in it so it is worth a try!

I never thought to look in Boots for jewelry but they had some really nice pieces in for pretty good prices! these two will be perfect for summer / autumn and i love the look of stacking up bracelets.

A random one to finish off. My boyfriend has really bad hay fever at this time of year and my mum suggested this would help him so we picked him some up. Its vegan, organic and drug free so can be used with what ever other hay fever medication you're on. I will let you know how he gets on with this soon!

You can find everything I bought at boots!

Have you tried any of these things?

Let me know what you think!

Review | MUA Undress Me Too Palette

When it comes to eye shadow I love neutrals. This palette is the perfect mix of 12 bronze and brown shades ranging from matte to metallic and it is just amazing! Each shade has amazing pigmentation (as per with MUA eye shadows). I have the Undressed palette as well but this ones shade range is so much better for me. I have herd it livened to Urban Decays Naked 2 palette but I don't have that so I cant really comment. (If it is similar I don't see the point these eye shadows are amazing for just £4!)

The shades are absolutely beautiful and I love that they gave them names this time! I love using  fiery and dreamy to make a bronze smokey eye. Good matte blacks are hard to come by, but corrupt is perfect. 

Overall I love this palette and I think it is well worth the £4 price tag. In fact I think I would happily pay a lot more than that for the quality! It definitely gets a 10/10 from me!

You can find MUA here and at your local superdrug!

Have you tried  this palette?

Let me know what you think!

Tag | How much is your face worth?

(Sorry for the rubbish lighting in this photo)

I have never done a tag style post before but I have seen a few people doing this one, it looked kinda fun so I thought I would give it a go! If you haven't seen this tag before the idea is you list every product you have used on your face that day and add up the prices. So here I go...
MUA Undress your skin Flawless face primer - £5
Revlon colour stay makeup (ivory) - £12.49
Bourjois Healthy Mix Concealer (51) - £7.49
Rimmel Stay Matte powder (transparent) - £3.99
MUA Bronzer (shade 3) - £1
No7 Skin Illuminator (Peach) - £11
Maybelline Colour tattoo (on and on bronze) - £4.99
Rimmel Scandaleyes eyeliner (bronze) - £3.99
Soap and Glory Thick and fast Collagen coat mascara - £10.50
Rimmel Eyebrow Pencil (hazel) - £2.99
Natural Collection lash care mascara (clear) - £1.99
Maxfactor lasting lip tint ( 03) - £6.99
MUA Pro Base Fixing mist - £5

Total : £77.42

I use a lot of products that are on the cheaper end but its scary to see how quickly it adds up! I'm pretty proud of my self considering most of these posts I have read have totaled at well over £100. (Does this mean i can treat my self to more makeup?!)
Have you done a pose like this? I really enjoy reading them!