Top 5 Lipsticks ♡

[Sorry for the grubby packaging!] Left - Right: MAC Rebel, Revlon Pink Pout, Barry M 158, Barry M 147, Illamasqua Scandal. 

Left - Right: Illamasqua Scandal, Barry M 147, Barry M 158, Revlon Pink Pout, MAC Rebel. 

I found it particularly easy to pick 5 of my favourite lipsticks because these are the ones that always end up out with me & floating around my bag. I don't tend to use Illamasqua Scandal as much as it's quite expensive and I don't want to waste it all. They're all such wearable colours even though MAC Rebel may look really dark in the tube it turns into such a wearable plum colour & I love wearing it I think It's one of my favourite lipsticks in the world. I think I have a very worrying obsession with lipsticks I don't think there will ever become a point where I think I have enough. Is anyone else like that? 

Short post today, Hope you're all well & enjoying your weekend!

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Beauty Blogger Tag ♡

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I've seen this tag around on other's blogs for a while and I loved reading about others blog stories so I thought I'd do it myself. I believe Sophia of Tattooed Tealady created this tag so credit to her & check out her blog she's amazing. 

Why did you start blogging and how long have you been blogging for?

I've been blogging for 1 year and 3 months on and off. I started in August 2011 but I've never been really flowing with posts I left my blog for a few months in April for reasons stated here. I started blogging because I'd read blogs and watched YouTube videos for such a long time I really wanted to be apart of it. I firstly considered YouTube but I noticed how much hate the YouTube guru's get and it's so horrible and I don't think I'd be able to cope with daily hate. I decided blogging was my way of getting myself into the online beauty community and the support is so lovely and it's so nice to be able to have my own little place of the internet. 

Whose blog did you fall in love with first?

Zoella. I adore Zoe. Honestly I adore Louise too. They're both so beautiful and their blogs are so beautifully written. I found Zoe's YouTube videos first then found her blog and I loved it. She's the reason I started my blog. She makes it look so easy that a 'normal' girl can express her feelings on the beauty in the world. 

What was the first blogosphere hyped about product you bought and was it worth the hype?

There is a lot of products I've tried because of blogs and loved. UD's Naked Palette being the main one. It took me so so long to get hold of one! I ended up having to ask for it for Christmas and it having to be ordered from a different country but I love it and use it almost everyday. Second to that being Real Technique brushes. They're amazing. 

What are your favourite five things about blogging and being a beauty blogger?

1. Having my own place of the internet that's made completely by me and where I can write about whatever and whenever I want. 

2. Knowing that whenever I log on there's lovely comments from lovely supportive people. It's nice to know people read the rambles I post. 

3. Discovering a whole world of different products and being able to hear other honest reviews before you buy something. 

4. Having a interactive hobby. It's so much more for filling than collecting stamps or train spotting isn't it? 

5. Talking and meeting lovely people from all over the world.

What have you learnt from being a beauty blogger?

That most bloggers have the same mind path and are most likely thinking the same way. Also that anyone can be apart of it you don't have to act like something you're not to be successfully. 

Have you changed anything since being a beauty blogger?

Only my bank balance! I've become so poor since blogging. I'd be out and be like 'OOOH I saw that on so and so's blog I must try it' and before you know it you've spent £80 in Boots when you only went in for some face wipes.

What advice would you give to a beauty blogger just starting out?

Be yourself and not try and write like anyone else. Reveal your own personality not what you think will be popular. Don't worry on your followers count because If you enjoy what you write then readers will enjoy too and then follow you. 

Name your top five brands!

Illamasqua, Sleek, NYX, Estee Lauder, MAC.

Recommend your top five favourite beauty products!

Estee Lauder Double Wear foundation, MAC Lipsticks, L'oreal Mythic Hair Oil, NYX Jumbo eye pencils, UD Naked pallette. 

I tag everyone to do this, share your blog story.

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Holy Grail Items ♡

These seven items are ones I really can't live without. They're all I really need. If you've noticed there isn't a mascara there because I've never really found one I'm completely happy with I'm still on the perfect mascara hunt. As long as I have these seven items I'll be set for anything.

♡ MAC mineral skin finish in Crystal pink - I'd never used a MSF before I bought this one. I didn't really know what to expect. I fell in love, instantly. It's the perfect blush/bronze shade for my pale skin. I love it alot. I got it over a year ago when the collection (forgotten it's name) came out and I've only just used up the dome part and I use it almost everyday. I also have my eye on soft & gentle but as I'm on my spending ban so It's just going to have to wait. *cries*

♡ Illamasqua pure pigment in Beguile - My first ever Illamasqua product and my favourite. It's a gorgeous white glitter pigment with flecks of mint green & pink. It's absolutely incredible, whenever I'm off out on a night out I add this to my lids & dust some on my cheek bones & chest and I'm ready for a night on the town, it adds so much glamour to any make up look. My night out make up wouldn't be the same without this. For a cheaper alternative try Barry M's glitter dusts. 

♡ Collection lasting perfection concealer - I think everyone who's tried this loves it. It gives the perfect coverage you would need in a concealer and it never creases on me. I've heard it does crease on some people but I've never had that problem. It's a lovely concealer and unless it gets discontinued I'll continue to repurchase.

♡ Collection Extreme 24 hour Pen liner - I love this. There isn't much to say about it. It's the blackest black & it can go over the darkest glitter-est shadows and still be blacker than anything. It's a really overall good eye liner and it's so inexpensive, but also so much better than other more expensive eye liner I've tried in the past. I'll continue to repurchase forever. 

♡ Estee Lauder Double wear - The perfect foundation in my opinion. I cannot rave about this product enough. It's expensive though, the only product that I've found that can 80% match up to it is Revlon Colour Stay. If you love full coverage that won't budge then you'll love double wear. 

♡ MAC Paint pots in Bare Study & Indianwood - I love these. They're the perfect base for almost every eyeshadow look I wear. They're that gorgeous they can be worn alone with no eyeshadow over. I like to blend them both together to make a gorgeous pale gold. Again, these are on the expensive side. Maybeline Colour Tattoo's are a good dupe, so I've heard as I haven't tried those yet. 


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Sunday Summary ♡

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♡ I got 50 Followers! I'm so happy! Now, I know 50 followers isn't exactly thousands but I'm so happy since the last week I've had twenty new followers. I was stuck on 31 for months so Thank you so much to the 51 of you who've followed me. I hope you stick with me. I feel really proud for hitting that half way to 100 milestone. I don't blog for followers but It feel so nice to see people wanting to read my rambles. Big smiles!

♡ I've had my hair cut tonight by my friend Jade. I love it. She's cut all my frazzled ends off and added lots of choppy layers and a side fringe. I would take a quick picture on my webcam but I'm all tucked in bed and in no fit state to be exposed to the interweb, but I'm loving my new locks & so happy all the dead ends and scraggely bits have been chopped off so it can continue to grow nicely.

♡ Exams. Yes, exams. I think everyone hates exams and I've got my first set next week. In the course I'm doing (Hair & Media Make Up) we have to take exams and practical assessments after every unit which sucks but it's better than having to remember every little detail about every unit until end of year exams because I forget everything. I'm pretty confident for these exams though & they're multiple choice questions so they can't be too hard. 

♡ I'm on a spending ban - BOO! I've decided that I spend too much money on stupid things like alcohol & more make up I don't really need. So from yesterday until new years day I'm not spending any unessesary money on anything and I plan on sticking to it. The only thing I can't back out from is my work Christmas night out because It's already booked. This is going to be so hard but I'm looking forward to treating myself to something nice with all the money I would of saved. 

                    Thankyou so much again for 50 followers! Hope you've all had a good weekend.

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October Favourites ♡

Just a few favourites for this month. Make up wise I've kept everything pretty much the same. I have bought a few new things but late into the month but they'll definitely make my November Favourites. 

Salon Creative Cleansing Raspberry Body Butter - Can you even believe this huge body butter was 99p? It's from the 99p Stores and it smells absolutely fabulous and it's just so moisturising its unreal. I cannot believe it's only 99p. It comes in other scents too, Coconut and Cocoa Butter I think. I've had this for ages but only just started to use it regularly, it's gorgeous.

Batiste Dry Shampoo - I think everyone loves this dry shampoo. If not another scent of it. I usually use the Tropical scent but the last two bottles of it I've bought have been broken I think. Usually when I spray it a white powder comes out doesn't it? But the last few times on the tropical one nothing has came out? Not sure. This scent however is gorgeous & smells lovely. It's the Cherry one & I love it. Does the job, saves my life. I hate washing my hair more than once a week so this is just a life saver.

Superdrug Deep Action Anti-Blemish Gel - I've never been one for expensive skin care because like I've said in previous posts It's just a waste of money because I'll more than likely have an allergic reaction to something in it or my skin will just go worse from it so this is perfect. It was around £2-3 from Superdrug and it works perfectly as an overnight spot treatment. I did buy Lush's Grease Lightening but UGH NO. It made my skin 100% worse. It was horrible.

Lush Popcorn Lip Scrub - I always thought these were really weird. but I couldn't resist this one. It came out  recently with the Halloween or Christmas Collection. They both came out together so I don't know which one it came out with, duh. This tastes amazing like bitter sweet caramel. and does my lips wonders! love.

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All Hallows Eve - What I wore.

Hey Beauties, On my Sunday Summary post, I mentioned that I was going out for Halloween dressed as Carrie from the horror movie 'Carrie' and a few of you commented asking me to post pictures of it. I'm never one to dissapoint so here they are. I adapted the make-up a little to make it scarier, in  the film Carrie's face was just bloody but I wanted to add something extra. 

I used: 

- White face paint mixed with the tiniest amount of foundation to make it go on easier and not go patchy.

- Liquid Latex to make open 'wounds' around my eye and cheek. 

- Black and red eye shadows for the dark eyes and wounds.

- I then mixed a dark green with a touch of black eye shadow to go around the wounds to make them look bruised. I also did this in the natural creases of my face too to make myself appear dead.

- Then I smeared fake blood on my face wherever I felt it needed it.

- Lastly I back combed my hair so it was really really big and messy then hair sprayed it for the hold &  I also used a glitter spray just for added glamour as open wounds and black eyes aren't exactly the most girly look to wear out ;) & the dress was just an old white one I had and I just took it into my back garden & attacked it with red food colouring.

Heres some more pictures of the night with friends, I also did their make-up too. 

Zoe & I.

Lauren, Myself & Zoe.

Hope you're all having a good weekend so far, I'm off to work now - boo. 

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Empties #2

Aussie Miracle Moist Shampoo & Conditioner, Aussie 3 Minute Miracle Conditioner, VO5 Hot Oil Moisture Soak Elixir, MAC Studio Sculpt Foundation. 

Hey beauties, I've accumulated quite a few empty products this week so I'm doing my second empties post. As you can tell by the pictures I've been loving hair products recently! I'm really trying to grow my hair and get it into a good condition again because for so long It's just been limp, dull & frazzled. My poor locks. 

I really liked using the Aussie Miracle Moist shampoo & conditioner, they weren't anything life changing but I did notice a change in the moisture of my hair. I don't wash my hair a lot, once a week twice maximum but when I do I like to use repairing, moisturising products because being a blonde my hair is subject to bleach, and I got told once the lighter your hair is the more prone to breakages it gets? I'm really unsure of how true that is but it seems to be true with my hair! I'd repurchase both again for sure. I can't remember how much they were but I can guess around £5 each.  

Sticking with Aussie.. (Who doesn't love a bit of Aussie?) and every one I know loves the 3 Minute Miracle reconstructing conditioner and I like it too, I don't love it. I don't feel like it works as well as people make out. I like it as a conditioner, it makes my hair soft don't get me wrong I just don't think it does what it says on the bottle! however I will repurchase it because I love the smell & it works well as a conditioner.

Last hair product is the VO5 Hot Oil Moisture Soak Elixir, I really did love this. It took me a while to buy it. I kept seeing it in Superdrug, pick it up then I'd put it down again but when I saw Lily talk about it in her YouTube video's I bought it the next time I saw it & It didn't disappoint! It was lovely. I used it every other time I washed my hair & It made my hair gorgeously soft & really helped with the frazzled horrible parts of my locks.

Lastly MAC's Studio Sculpt Foundation. My shade is NC15, pale as a ghost I am - Boo. I really love this foundation. It's brilliant coverage however I find it difficult to get it to stay on my face. Easily solved though I just mixed a tiny half pea sized amount of another foundation usually Revlon Colour stay or Estee Lauder Double Wear or anything I know stays well and It's the perfect combination. I'm 100% going to purchase this again. It's a gorgeous foundation, as you can tell by the grubby packaging, mines been well loved. You get 40ml in this which is more than average and I think It's £20-£22. Totally worth it though this tube lasted me ages. 

I hope you all had a lovely Halloween whatever you got up to. My Halloween post is coming up over the weekend & Happy November everyone! 

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