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10:00 15th Apr 2013

Notes: 3

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10:00 26th Dec 2012

Notes: 1

Tags: cruelty free eotd EotN makeup beauty neutral Naked Palette Urban Decay eyeliner liner gel liner

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EOTD: Basic Neutral Eye with Liner

21:31 10th Aug 2012

Notes: 4

Tags: make up cosmetics beauty eyeshadow lipstick eyeliner makeup fashion vampy red lips smokey eye

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Got bored and did my make up! Now for studying… :/ (Taken with Instagram)

Day 7. One Favorite Of Each: lipstick, lipgloss, eyeshadow, mascara, eyeliner, blush, contour

Lipstick: Avon Ultra Colour Rich Mega Impact Lipstick in Fuchsia Fun

L - MUA Shade 12, R - Avon Fuchsia Fun

I really found choosing a favourite lipstick difficult! I don’t wear lipstick on a daily basis only on special occasions and I have quite a lot so I change it often. I have chosen Fuchsia Fun by Avon as I think I’ve used this quite a lot, it’s so sparkly too and I love a bit of sparkle! Because Avon are not cruelty free I have also found this alternative by MUA in Shade 12 by Superdrug who are BUAV approved. In ‘real life’ The MUA one is more corally but they are quite interchangeable, both have nice sparkles!

Lipgloss: Bourjois Gloss Effet 3D in 48 Rose Romantic

Again, like lipsticks I found it hard to choose a lipgloss ‘cause I don’t really wear them. My favourite lipglosses are these Bourjois Gloss Effet 3D and I have them in 3 shades. I have chosen Rose Romantic out of these as my favourite as it is the most versatile and because of the gorgeous gold shimmer in it, it can make any lipstick more interesting.

Eyeshadow: Sin by Urban Decay

Top right eyeshadow is Sin, underneath is YDK.

I had my first experience of Sin in the Ammo palette and I fell in love with it. It’s a lovely shimmery shell pink colour which can be used in so many way - wash over the eye, as a brow highlight (with a gentle hand!), as a base colour then add definition in crease and outer corner. It is also really pretty as a face highlight. Unfortunately the eyeshadow pictured is no more, tragic! I really want to get another one as although it is in the Ammo and Naked palette, I don’t want to use these ones too much!

Mascara: Bourjois Volume Fast & Perfect

I have mentioned this a few times before so yeahh… It’s good! See Day 1 for info on it.

Eyeliner: Avon SuperShock in Blackberry

On the left in both photos.

I got this at the end of January just before I found out about Avon testing on animals - grrrr! So this was on my last Avon purchases! I did a mini haul/review here talking about the other colour pictured and another item I got if you are interested. The eyeliner is a deep, warm brown but it has got purple glitter specks which are subtle but really pretty and unusual. It is also very long lasting and it does not move once you’ve put it on!

Blusher: Any berry colour!

The blusher is the big one!

I just love purpley/berry blushers and the one I have used the most is Berry Merry by E.L.F. Sorry the photo is quite blurry, it’s from a while ago and I only seem to have one! It can also be seen in the wee palette above which is more recent - but I thought it would be better to show a photo of it before I hit pan.

Bronzer (instead of contour): Nars Laguna

On the right, also in palette are Orgasm and Albatross.

I don’t use bronzer very often, only really if I am going on a night out, and I only tend to apply it to the back of my cheekbones. I like this one as it isn’t muddy looking, and also isn’t orange - which is good! It does have some gold shimmer in it which some people might not like but it’s not overwhelming.

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22:28 29th Feb 2012

Notes: 1

Tags: Primark haul make up Superdrug MUA GOSH clothes beauty blusher nail varnish eyeliner

Things I bought today even though I have no money and really shouldn’t have:

Today was payday, yippeeee!! So I decided to treat myself with a wee shopping trip because I have literally not bought any clothes other than wedding pieces for a looong time, last thing I bought was one top for a night out at the end of January, and before then… who knows!

Unfortunately even though I got paid I am still broke so it was Primark for me! I got a few bits so here they are :)

I found this shirt just lying in a random stand (as you do in Primark!) and loved it, especially the back. It is quite long on me, I’m only 5’4 so not a big fan of long things but never mind, I can see past it! Luckily the size I found fitted me fine, it was a 6 and I’d usually take an 8 but it was quite big and baggy. Cost £10.

One can never have too many white shirts! Cost £10.

This little aztec print mini skirt caught my eye once I thought I’d finished clothes shopping of course! I haven’t tried it on properly (I shimmied on over my jeans, all myself, what an embarrassment!) so it might end up going back if it doesn’t fit - hope it does though, love the colours! Cost £4.

Lastly I got this pair of bright orange shorts. If you know me well in person you will probably know that I’ve been quite obsessed with the colour orange recently… So I obviously couldn’t resist these! They also had a navy pair and I was torn between them until my friend reminded me that I already have a pair of navy shorts, so I went for orange. The material has a sheen to it which you can see reflected the flash in the photo. Cost £10.

I also went to Superdrug because I really wanted to look at MUA and GOSH stuff, and I had some points to spend on my beauty card so I figured it wouldn’t be too bad going, even though I am still pretty much boycotting them (excuses, excuses!). I got MUA blusher in shade 6 because obsessed with berry blush - I have about 3 on the go at the moment! It is really lovely and smooth, very finely milled considering it costs a pound, A POUND!!!! Then I saw the MUA nail varnish in a khaki green colour and I don’t have any colours like that, and for a pound again, you can’t really go wrong. Finally I was having a look in clearance section and came across this eyeliner in Bananas (love it!) by GOSH for £2 so I got that thinking it might be a nice waterline colour for when white is just too white. It came to £4 and I could use £3 of my points so I think that wee selection isn’t too bad for £1! Also, you still get points… when you spend your points… mind blown! Damn you Superdrug, I wish I wasn’t boycotting you!

Okay I am done… Well done if you made it through that, or at least looked at the pictures ;)

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00:16 8th Feb 2012

Notes: 11

Tags: Coastal Scents MAC Cosmetics Sugarpill Urban Decay beauty cosmetics cruelty free eyeliner eyeshadow gel eyeliner green eyes make up occasion wedding wedding make up bourjois

Trying out make up for the wedding! For some reason I totally forgot about my lips so I’ve just cropped them out… whoops, I’ll worry about them later! Also I am getting my eyebrows waxed tomorrow, cannot wait! They’re actually driving me crazy so just try not to look at them…

I didn’t use a primer but I will use UDPP on the day as it is going to need to last!
Painterly Paint Pot by Mac over the lid.
I then used a mixture of Sin and Virgin from the Naked palette over the lid.
Then using the two purpley colours from a limited edition Mac mineralize eyeshadow in Eccentricity, I applied these to the outer corner but unfortunately they ended up looking quite muddy and didn’t appear very pigmented - probably my manky brushes…
So I then used my Sugarpill eyeshadow in Poison Plum which is really nice and strong, to go over this in the outer corner and into the crease.
I also brought this underneath the eye, and went over it with Last Call from the Urban Decay Ammo palette, to darken it as the red pigments in the purple made me look slightly ill!
I also tightlined using Avon Glimmerstick in Black.

Here it goes slightly odd because I used different eyeliner on each eye:

On the right eye (pictured) I used blue gel eyeliner in Indigo from Coastal Scents and used Avon Supershock pencil in Golden Fawn on my waterline.
On the left I used Mac Fluidline in Blacktrack and Avon Supershock in Blackberry on my waterline.
Lastly I applied Bourjois Volume Fast & Perfect Mascara.

So now I just need to decide on eyeliner colours, how big to make the wing, lipstick and blusher!

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17:18 29th Jan 2012

Notes: 5

Tags: avon haul review supershock eyeliner gel eyeliner pot eyeliner testing on animals cruelty free swatches swatch

So here is the mini Avon haul/review I mentioned in a recent post!

I bought SuperSHOCK eyeliner gel in Blackberry and Golden Fawn and pot eyeliner in Flashy Brown.

I will start with the eyeliner pencils, these are just fantastic, so creamy and very pigmented. Blackberry is a deep, warm brown with purple shimmer and small glitter pieces in it and Golden Fawn is a light goldeny grey colour again with shimmer and small glitters, I can’t actually tell if the glitter is gold or silver! Although they go on very smooth and creamily, they set quite quickly and do not budge! After taking that picture of the swatch on my hand I rubbed my finger over the swatches very vigorously to see what would happen and they pretty much stayed the same except for some of the glitter moved, but not any of the colour.

The pot eyeliner is quite different considering they are both under the SuperSHOCK name. It is much less pigmented and does not dry nearly as fast as the pencils do, making blending a lot easier. It is also quite sticky so I think it would be better as an eye base rather than an eye liner, as it would be a good adhesive for powders. The photo is not very good, I’m still trying to get to grips with this new camera! I had to use flash which washed it out quite a lot so it is not as pale as that, it is more of a coppery brown. However the swatch is a couple of rubs of the product on my hand whereas the pencils were just ran over once, so it is obvious to see the difference in the pigments of these two products. I have not tried it as an eyeliner yet so it will be interesting to see how well it lasts, I can imagine it will transfer onto the eyelid quite easily.

Please note: Avon lied about not testing on animals, they do in fact carry out toxicity tests.

I am just going to make these my last products I purchase from Avon. I am so disappointed in them!

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