Belated Christmas Gifts: Beauty

Right so I know Christmas was now nearly a few weeks ago, and everyone else posted their presents on Boxing Day and such, but Im far too lazy, and forgot to take photos. So I had a little time on my hands earlier on and decided to pull out everything, or nearly everything that I got from good old Santa. Im doing it in two parts, this is the beatuy related stuff and the others just random things. Really sorry about the picture quality I used my phone as my camera lead is still missing, and some of the photos came out a bit blurry. All of my gifts were either from my family or my boyfriend...

Some of the lovely things I was lucky enough to get at Christmas

Sex and the City Gift set, with the gold clutch, atomiser, compact mirror and the lipgloss. Suprisngly the lipgloss is gorgeous, its more clear than you would expect and it isnt sticky at all. He also got me the gold Sex and the City compact mirror as I had asked for it, its gorgeous. The mini OPI nail polishes were in he Burlesque Mini Tasters set and theyre gorgeous! Theres another reddish one but I cant find it. I was suprised to get the Barry M nail paints in Mushroom and Grey, Ive wanted these colours for a while but hadnt mentioned it, my Mam is a mind reader.

I was in need of a new foundation and my Nana gave me the money to go find one, I didnt want to take advantage so I didnt go highend, but the healthy mix one is beautiful anyway. Ive had my eye on the eyeko graffiti liner and the big eyes mascara for ages, and I picked them up and gave them to my Dad to put away for me. Also I got the Barry M crayon in this pretty pearly cream shade which Ive been using on my inner corner. I love the Carrie make-up palette as well, it contain four eyeshadows and a lip colour.

I got the Andrew Barton blondes giftset containing hair grips, a comb, a nourishing hair mask which Ive used, and shampoo and conditioner. I also got the Lush Christmas Star set containing six bath ballistics which are Lil Lush Pud, Cinders, Winter Bath, So White, Butterball, and Mrs Whippy. I also got the Christmas Allsorts set with three bath ballistics but Ive used them all up!

I recieved the two Soap and Glory gift sets you see above which are amazing. You can see what was in them on the pictures but if you would like any more detail on a particular item just leave a comment.

I asked for this off my auntie, the Babyliss curling wand. Ive yet to use it though, I may do a review or tutorial on it when I do.

I was so excited to get this! The box contains Coralista, Dandelion and what I believe to be Dallas. I was suprised to recieve anything from benefit as Ive never mentioned it to my family. Im suspecting my boyfriend has been acting as a spy for gift ideas. Its great for travelling and all of the powders go well with ym skintone, I just love it.

I picked these out with my Mam jsut before Christmas so I was excited knowing I had these to open on Christmas morning. Top to bottom - Plushglass in Big Baby, Lipsticks in Shy Girl and Bombshell. I also got an eyeshadow in Satin Taupe. Ive been using them constantly since I got them.

Thats it for my beauty post. I'll get on with my other one and get it up as soon as I can

Much Love

xoxo

2011 Beauty Wishlist

Ill be a very happy girl if I manage to get my hands on these over the next year. This might end up a huge list, jsut so I can look back this time next year and see if I actually got anywhere with it....

MAC:

Eyeshadow: Ricepaper, Shroom, All That Glitters, Mythology, Coppering, Cranberry, Silver Ring, Greensmoke, Deep Truth, Carbon.

Pigment: Vanilla, Pink Bronze,

Paint Pot: Painterly, Bare Study

Lipstick: Costa Chic, Impassioned, Speak Louder, Kinda Sexy, Cosmo, Sweetie, Brave Red

Lipglass: Viva Glam Gaga, Just Superb Cremesheen, Internationalist Dazzleglass,

Lip Pencil: Subculture

Foundation: Face and Body, Studio Fix Fluid

MSF: MSF Natural, Soft and Gentle

Blush: Pinch Me, Melba

Fix+

Benefit

High Beam

Coralista

You Rebel

Creaseless Cream in Sippin and Dippin, Skinny Jeans and Get Figgy

Hoola Bronzer

Erase Paste

Barry M

Nail Paints: Indigo, Pink Flamingo, Green Glitter, Once Upon a Time,

Dazzle Dusts: Winter Berry, Fig, Mushroom, Beige, Fawn, Old Gold, Khaki

Other

Liz Earle Cleanse and Polish

OPI: Flower-to-Flower, You Dont Know Jaques,

Eyeko Fat Balm in Frosting

Urban Decay Naked Palette

Umberto Gianni Backcomb in a Bottle

Rimmel Lash Accelerator

Sigma Brushes

And for now, I think thats about all I can think of!

xoxo

Ins and Outs

In...

-Having loads of new products to try out from Christmas, slowly working my way through the Soap and Glory Big Pink set, and Im completely in love with my OPI and MAC items...maybe I should do a post on them.

-Getting back to real life after the festivities. Im not really a scrooge, just I kind of breathe a sigh of relief once its gone, it messes with my body and I havnt a clue what day it is or anything. Time to sort my life out!

-New Year bringing more motivation than ever to get a new job and get stuck into my coursework, just sort everything out to how I need it to be.


-Going away for New Year, definately beats staying here and going to some house party where I probably dont even know or like most of the people there. A nice private New Years celebrated overlooking Lake Windermere with a stiff drink and a fireworks display was just gorgeous, Ill never forget it.

-Buying Sex and the City 2 today saying as I didnt get it for Christmas, excited to watch it later, I seen it five times when it was in the cinema.

-No snow has fallen for a while, yey!


Out...

-My boyfriend getting loads of x box games for Christmas, Ive lost him to Call of Duty, and the bedroom constantly sounds like a war zone.

-Being a million years behind with coursework as I was off college ill for 2 weeks before Christmas, I'll pay the price when I go back tomorrow and have so much catching up to do.

-Taking down the Christmas tree, always makes me feel slightly sad.

-Christmas mess everywhere, presents you cant find a home for and loads of selection boxes lying around. It messes with my OCD tidy mind.

-My boyfriend Cineworld Unlimited card running out and I still have mine. I no longer have anyone to go and see an unlimited amount of films with, boo.

-I just want it to be spring now that Christmas is over with, I cant jusitfy the cold weather anymore, its only acceptable for a white christmas.

xoxo

MAC Champale Collection

Ive read loads about this collection, watched a fair few videos and seen loads of swatches. Its fair to say I wish I had kept my Christmas money so I could buy literally everything in this collection. Theres many beauty bloggers around showing swatches, which sadly I cannot do, and talking about the products and reviewing them, so I wont bore you by jumping on the bandwagon.

My main reason for this post is to ask if anyone knows when this collection comes out in the UK? It came out on Boxing Day in the U.S, but nowhere seems to be able to tell me when I can get it in England. Its not on sale on the website yet either...hmm.

I jsut dont want to miss out on some of these gorgeous looking products and would hate for the launch date to pass by and the good stuff to be gone instantly witohut me knowing about it. Everything in the collection has this sort of heavenly glow about it, pearly, goldy, or metallic and a mixture of them all. Just gorgeous.

In particular my wishlist consists of:

Eye Kohl in I Get No Kick

Paint Pot in Vintage Selection

Lip Gelee in Bubble Lounge

Special Reserve Highlight Powder in Chez Chez Lame

Nail Laquer in Soiree

We shall see how successful I am in getting my mitts on these in the near future!

If anyone has any dates that would be grand

xoxo

My First Blog Award!!...The Versatile Blogger

So the story goes that Ive just got back from my beautiful New Years get away with my boyfriend and I log into my blog. I read the first post that I find which is this kind of blog awards tag, and at the very bottom, the award has been passed on to a number of people, including me! I was suprised to say the least, what a fabulous start to 2011!
So thankyou millions to Lauren at communicatingbeauty! Her blog is amazing, I read every one of her posts so this award kind of felt like an honour to recieve it. Everyone should go and follow her blog shes fab!

The point of this blog award is to tell your readers a bit about yourself. I think I already ramble on far too much about myself and random life stories rather than acutal beauty products and such but ehre we go...



The "Rules":
1. Thank and link back to who gave you the award
2. Share 7 things about yourself
3. Pass it along to 7 blog you've recently discovered and enjoy
4. Leave your recipient a note, telling them about the award




7 Things about myself:
- I am obsessed with crafts. Making and creating things is what I love to do, even if I rarely have time to do it. Mainly baking and cooking as this seems to fit around everything else I have to do the easiest, and can normally be done with whatever I have in the cupboard. One day I want my own little bakery and make beautful cakes and decorate wedding cakes and such like. Sounds like a dream to me.
- I have applied to study busines studies at five of my most local universities, jsut waiting to see if I get in now, eeek!
- I live with my boyfriend with his mam, stepdad and little brother, I keep a lot of my stuff at my nanas house as there isnt enough room for my mountains of rubbish in his place. My mams new place only has one bedroom, and my dad has jsut moved out of his tiny flat into a huge run-down victorian townhouse, which we are going to decrate beautifully and Im gonig to move in there.

- I don't have a job right now, which can be difficult considering my obsession with buying anything and everything. My last job as in a sunbed shop, but my boss was evil and refused to even pay me minimum wage, totally not on, so I left after I got completely sick of him.
- I love to travel as much as I can. Although Ive noyl been to Florida once, America is my favourite place, and I want to travel there as much as I can. In recent years Ive done a lot of travelling with my boyfriend such as The Lake District, Edinbrough London, Spain twice, Gran Canaria and Majorca. Hes more obsessed with holidays than I am.
- I have a rather large extended family. I kind of count my boyfriends family as my own now, so In total I have about 4 "mothers" and "fathers" and 6 "siblings" haha. I do love it though, I would  spend all my time with them if I could theyre all great company.
- I eat far too many "Large Chicken Nugget meals" from McDonalds. Like I mean wayyyy too many. But never mind!



10 Questions:
1. Why did you create this blog?
Around april last year I bought a bottle of St Moriz...having not venutred far into false tan before I searched for it on youtube and cameacross swalermakeup's tutorial on it. I was intrigued, and ended up spending the rest of the day watching all of her videos. From there I jsut loved the beauty community of youtube. I tried once of twice filming a video but just hated how I looked and sounded, the whole thing seemed rubbish. Bu I then found blogging, and I jsut knew it was my forte. Ive always loved to wrte and ramble on, and its jsut perfect for me to let out all my ramblings on here. Whether anyone reads it is another story, but I dont really mind!


2. What kind of blog do you follow?
Mostly beauty blogs as thats what Im most interested in. Ive found the odd craft blog I enjoy, and theres one by a wedding planner which I LOVE!
 3. Favorite Makeup Brand
Tough one! MAC or Benefit, I feel like its such a treat when I get something new from them and I love all their stuff.


4. Favorite Clothing Brand
Topshop or Miss Selfridge are my very favourites. I do like a trip to Republic and H&M , you can get some good bargains.


5. Your Indispensable Makeup Product
I NEED mascara. Sounds silly but I lok like my eyes are disappearing into my head without it.
6. Your Favorite Color
Lauren had this as her answer but I agree, mine is gold. It looks good on everything and in any form, eyeshadow, christmas decorations, jewellery, its just gorgeous.


7. Your Favourite Perfume
Alien by Thierry Mugler, or Christina Aguilera By Night


8. Your Favorite Film
Forever and always will be The Lion King
 9. What country would you like to visit and why?
America, specifically New York. Because its the city that never sleeps and neither do I, I think we would really hit it off.


10. Are you a Cat or Dog person?
Dog! I am in love wit hmy dog Molly, shes just gorgeous and I hate that I dont live with her properly shes so nice to snuggle up to. Cats jsut hate me anyways for some reason.



7 Blogs that I pass this award to:
Kate at dollybowbow
Emily at emily--charlotte
Fleur at fleurdeforce
Rhiannon at heygorgeous
Kelly at kelanjo
Leanne at leannemarie
Lauren at lovelaughlauren


Those winners are in no particular order I love reading them all

Thankyou Lauren once again! Its made my day

xoxo

50 Things To Do In 2011

Last year I made a list of 100 things I wanted to attempt, or acheive by the end of 2010. Creating the list was a bit of fun at first, listing things like "learn to ride a horse" which in reality I wasnt gonig to get round to, but I ended up putting in things like "spend more time with my dad". Things I should and can do. Last time I read through the list, I think I'd achieved about 18 of my goals, bearing in mind some of them can only be measured after the full year like "drink water every day".

Anyways, I thought this year it could be interesting to do a similar list but on my blog, and I could tag my readers to do one as well, its a good way to motivate yourself and get you thinking about even the smallest things you would like to do better or change in the coming year. Ive shortened my list to 50 as 100 was a bit too difficult and long, but you can do as many or as little as you like!

So without further ado...

1. Take time out to read more.
2. Exfoliate more often.
3. Take breaks without nail varnish so my nails aren't so weak
4. Drink water every day
5. Go to the gym at least once a week
6. Take fruit for breaks at college rather than spending a fortune in the vending machines
7. Get 3 stars on every angry birds level, dont judge!
8. Finally pass my driving test
9. Get distinctions on my college courses
10. Get in to Northumbria Uni
11. Stop losing my phone charger
12.Travel somewhere Ive never been before
13. See Legally Blonde in London
14. Get a good camera
15. Stop burning my fingers when I light candles
16. Persevere with sales rails rather than being put off by them
17. Make a good charity shop purchase
18. Do a car boot sale of all my old stuff
19. Find new teas that I might like
20. Finally have my holiday with the girls
21. Teach my little cousin not to be afraid of the water and maybe even teach her to swim
22. Learn a new craft
23. Work my way through every recipe in a cookbook(yet to purchase one)
24. Stay awake through films my boyfriend wants me to watch rather than falling asleep
25. Train myself to like nachos so the smell of them in the cinema isnt so bad
26. Order something Ive never thought of trying in a restaurant (Im a picky eater)
27. Get into a proper sleeping routine
28. Actually start saving up for New York
29. Spend less money on junk food and actually cook stuff, stop being lazy with my food!
30. Start watchig Gossip Girl because every says I would love it
31. Decorate my room at dads new house and generally help him with "Project Oxford Ave."
32. Try every Lush Bubble Bar that there is
33. Finally get skin matched for MAC foundation
34. By September have somewhere stable to live, possibly my own flat, and definately only live in one house rather than having all of my belongings split three ways.
35. Make a genuine friend out of blogging, why not :)
36. Help out a friend in need, because they've done it all for me
37. Start training to do a marathon for MacMillan Cancer Care in 2012
38. Get my ears pierced
39. See those friends who I miss loads more
40. Treat my hair better and get it trimmed more often 
41. Be a tidyer and more organised person in general
42. Get a good job
43. Continue on my blogging journey throughout the whole year
44. Do something memorable for my nana, I dont know what yet, but she deserves something good to come her way.
45. Take Molly out on the fields. Yes my dog has never been let off her lead on a field, she needs to get over her fear of dogs first. Im determined to get her over it.
46. Watch a horror film, this is a big ask for me.
47. Go camping
48. Eat at Romanos again (last time our meal for two was £100, and was worth every penny)
49. See Rihanna live again
50. Take my boyfriend to feed the lambs at Whitehouse farm, hes never fed a lamb, I consider this as something that has to be done.

xoxo

Sexy Mother Pucker!

Yes, you read right...I'm refering to the Soap & Glory lipgloss which I'm sure most of you are aware of anyway. Ive heard loads about it and how its meant to "plump" your lips. I've never been sucked in by it, to me lipgloss is just lipgloss and not really something Im obsessed with.

However, I recieved the "Pink Big" Soap & Glory gift set for Christmas (lucky girl). I was aware that it was on sale for £25 in Boots down from £60 and told my dad. He didnt have a clue what it wa sso when we were Christmas shopping in the Mterocentre I dragged him into Boots and people were queueing for miles to get there hands on them as soon as the staff brought them out, it was crazy! But we picked a few up for my family and one for me!

So whats in it I hear you ask?...

- Clean On Me Creamy Clarifying Shower Gel
- The Righteous Butter Body Butter
- Flake Away Body Scrub
- Girligo Scented Body Moisturising Mist
- Glad Hair Day Ultra-Shine Super-Shampoo
- The Breakfast Scrub Body Smoother- Hand Food Hydrating Hand Cream
- Scrub Your Nose In It Face Scrub And Mask
- Super Colour Sexy Mother Pucker Lip Gloss in ‘Pink Apricot’
- Off Your Face Cleansing Wipes
- Giant Super Sudsy Shower Puff
PLUS: Bonus foldable fabric storage box!

And every item is full size as well! Crazy for £25 I think!

Anyway, my point was that until I recieved the lipgloss in this gift set I had never been overly attracted to buying it. How wrong was I to bypass it! Ive fell for the gimicky tingly lip thing hook line and sinker, it feels mad. Ive had it on all my female family members and they all hate the feel of it, but its like I'm addicted. If the tingle wears off, which does take a while, I have to reapply to get the feeling back. Not only that, the "pink apricot" colour is gorgeous, it matches my skin tone perfectly, and theres no need for any lipstick underneath it. This stuff lasts ages once applied, its really not going anywhere unless you try your very hardest.

This has been my new favourite lipgloss by miles since Christmas day, I havnt used any other lip product at all! Thats saying a lot coming from me.

So thats a big 5 stars for Soap and Glory once again!

xoxo

My Favourites of 2010.

This post is basically just a list of products Ive loved this year. Where has the year gone! So without further ado Ill get started...

Skincare:

Cleanser: Neutrogena Visibly Clear 2 in 1 Wash and Mask

Toner: The Body Shop Vitamin E Hydrating Toner

Moisturiser: Clinique Dramatically Different Moisturising Lotion

Make-up(brace yourselves its a long list):

Foundation: Bourjois Healthy Mix

Tinted Moisturiser: Avon Solutions+ Total Radiance

Primer: L'oreal Paris Studio Secrets Smoothing Resurafcing Primer

Powder: E.L.F Complexion Perfection

Bronzer: E.L.F Contouring Blush & Bronzer Duo

Blush: Benefit Coralista

Highlighter: Avon Shimmer Swirls Face Illuminator

Lip balm: Cherry Carmex

Lipstick: MACs Bombshell

Lipgloss: Avon Plump Pout in Pink Nectar

Mascara: Maxfactor False Lash Effect

Eyeliner: Avon Supershock Luxe Lace Gel Pencil Liner

Eye Primer: Benefit Lemon-aid

Most Used Eyeshadow: MAC Woodwinked

Eyeshadow Palette: Sleek Original 954

Nail varnish: Barry M in Raspberry or Navy

Best Discovery of the Year: MAC MSF in By Candlelight

Hair:

Shampoo: Pantene Aqua Light

Conditioner: Pantene Aqua Light

Mousse: VO5 Heat Defence Volume Whipped Mousse

Volumising Secrets to Success: TIGI Bed Head Superstar Blowdry Lotion and VO5 Extreme Style Surf Style Texturising Paste

Dry Shampoo: Batiste Tropical Dry Shampoo

Heat Protectant: Toni and Guy Iron It Heat Defence Spray

Hairspray: L'oreal Elnett Diamond Hold Hairspray

Electrical: good old trusty GHDs

Body:

Moisturiser: Soap and Glory The Righteous Butter

Body Wash: Soap and Glory Clean on Me

Exfoliant: Soap and Glory Flake Away

False Tan: St Moriz Mousse

Bubble Bath: Lush Dorothy Bubble Bar

Perfume: Thierry Mugler Alien

Random discoveries of 2010:

TV Show: Celebrity Juice

Scent: Yankee Candle in Christmas Treats

Film: Sex and the City 2

Food: Frankie and Bennys American Deli pizza

Snack: Pancakes

Pass time: Blogging!

Clothes: Aviator Boots and Peter Pan Collars on everything.

Location: Windermere with my beloved, aww

Happy New Year Everyone

xoxo

I'm SOOOO Excited!

I have been absent from my blog over Christmas and even though its only been a few days I've really missed it!

I've been really ill over Christmas with what my whole family is insisting was swine flu. I'm not so sure but it was definately more than your average winter cold. Anyhow I battled on through Christmas and still had a lovely time even though I could'nt eat anything, I may be the only person ever to come out of Christmas a few pounds lighter. In my poorly state I didnt take any photos, and forgot to take any of my presents in the past few days and I've now found "homes" for most of my stuff but I'll try and dig them out and do a Christmas present haul to show you lot, as were all a bit nosey like that.

I got a fantastic suprise as I was reading through the blogs and catching up on my blog reading that Ive left for a few days, and I came across the winners post of a competition I entered at the beginning of September....and you'll never guess who won! ME! The girl who never wins anything won :D YEY!

The contest was an advent competition with a prize unveiled each day leading to Christmas by Kirsty at Fashion Face. I lvoed the idea and was the first to enter and I was so suprised to find that I'd won! So thankyou Kirsty! I can't wait to recieve my prizes and Ill do a post on it when my package arrives.

Im going to squeeze in a few "proper" posts before I go away with my boyfriend for New Year, rather than these rambly update ones, but for now its over and out from a very happy and spoiled girl.

xoxo

Christmas Tag

Ahh, its Christmas Eve Eve! How quick has Christmas came around, its scary! But I'm completely in the Christmas spirit now and found this tag post on sugarbeauty-x. Again I'll apologise for slacknig recently but hey its Christmas!

1. Whats Your Favorite Holiday Movie?
The old Santa Clause movie, my family have to watch it on Christmas Eve night before bed, its my all time favourite.

2. Whats Your Favorite Christmas Color?

Red and Gold

3. Do You Like To Stay in Your PJs Or Dress Up For Christmas?
Dress up :)

4. If You Could Only Buy One Person a Present This Year Who Would It Be?
My boyfriend, as he's done so much for me this year I can't even begin to repay him!

5. Do You Open Your Present Christmas Eve Or Christmas Morning?
Christmas morning of course

6. Have You Ever Built a Ginger Bread House?
Nope, I wanted to this year but I just havent had the time at all

7. What Do You Like To Do On Your Christmas Break?
Spend time with my family and friends, chill out and party.

8. Any Christmas Wishes?
For all of my family to have an enjoyable festive period!

9. Favorite Christmas Smell?

Christmas trees, mmm :)

10. Favorite Christmas Meal Or Treat?
Pigs in blankets on the Christmas dinner. Mmm, we should have them all year round.

Bad Blogger.

Yep thats me. I've pretty much ground to a halt recently on the blogging front. I've just been so busy with everything else I havnt had the time to squeeze posts in. However I havnt totally forgotten you guys, I've been taking photos so theres a few posts I have in mind, a few hauls, a winners and losers of 2010 post and the odd FOTD or NOTD here and there. Its just getting enough time to upload photos.

This past week has been spent catching up on coursework, and college is all done until January so I dont have to think about that for a while! All manner of Christmassy things have been filling my time, and altouhgh I really enjoy blogging, most things I have to do will end up on the backburner in favour of anything to do with Christmas for these few weeks of the year. So Im very sorry but I promise I will try my best to squeeze some in and Ill throw myself right back into blogging after Christmas. Everyone loves to take some time out with their loved ones and do lovely Christmassy things Im sure, cant blame a girl for that!

Thank-you to al my gorgeous followers! I know this was a bit of a pointless post but I dont want people to think Ive jsut disappeared forever

xoxo

Tag: My Beauty Story

Ive read this on a few different blogs and thought I'd give it a go as yet again I can't get to sleep on an evening where I really should have an early night as theres a busy day ahead tomorrow...on with the post.

1. How old were you when you first started wearing makeup?
I was pretty much a late bloomer where make-up is concerned. I used to get the little girls make-up sets to play about with and didnt really bother with anything apart from nail varnish. I liked to muck about with my mams make-up bag but never really got into it until I was around 15. Even then it was a bit of eyeliner, mascara and lipgloss and I was done. In year 11 I started wearing a light foundation to school along with mascara and eyeliner and eyeshadow if I went anywhere "special". Once I left school I really started wearing full make-up a lot, and it was about a year ago when I had jsut turned 18 when I really got into trying different brands and different kinds of make-up.

2. How did you get into makeup?

Its kind of sad and annoying, but I suppose its the same for most girls. Really jsut because thats what I thought women do and thats what I should then do. Also once I tried a bit of it I liked how it made me look compared to without it, so it just contnued from there.

3. What are your favourite brands?
My favourite is MAC, its good quality but desnt come with a HUGE designer price tag. Drugstore brands I use a lot are Maxfactor and Rimmel.

4. What does makeup mean to you?

Like a lot of girls, it makes me feel much more confident. This doesnt mean I need full make-up all of the time, a coat of mascara and a sweep of eyeliner and that can be ok. My eyelashes are naturally quite light so I can look slightly strange completely make-up free.

5. If you could only wear 4 products on your face what would they be?
Mascara, eyeliner, foundation, and blusher. :) Easy

6. What is your favourite thing about makeup?

How it can transform how you feel about yourself. I can feel in a crappy mood with myself, then I can jsut take a shower, do my hair and make-up and feel tons better about everything.

7. What do you think of drugstore makeup vs high end?

I think it varies. Normally I live by the phrase "you get what you pay for", but really I don't believe this is always the case. For the likes of foundations and concealers I think you have to go high end for anything really decent, but mascaras, and nail varnishes can be just as good from drugstores, such as Barry M polishes.

8. What is one tip of advice you would give to a beginner?

Take it one step at a time so you can get used to it. You dont want to be totally bare faced one day then caked in make-up the next, itll just look wierd, like an overnight change of personality. Plus if you just start using every product under the sun all at once you probably wont learn how to use each of them too well as you have so much to think about. Get something like your mascara and eyeliner right first, then find a foundation that suits you or something.

9. What is one makeup trend you never understood?

False tanned face with concealer on the lips. Just why?

10. What do you think of the beauty blogging community?
I love it. Its so good to be able to read and share genuine opinions from normal girls rather than just promotional material from companies or celebrities paid to say a product works.

30 Day Challenge: Day 30! Hurrah!

So this is the last of my 30 day challenge posts, and although some may have been a little late, hey I still finished each one! This jsut means I'm going to have to stop being lazy relying on these posts to fill out my blog, time for some real hardcore blogging!

But for now, the last post asks for a photo of when I was happy. I'd say Im pretty happy most of the time so as usual I cant pick just one, here goes...

March 2010

A trip to the Langdale Hotel, yes that is a bath tub in the background and the tap came from the ceiling, and the bed was triple king size! With full unlimited use of the hotel's spa. My boyfriend knows how to treat a girl. :)

Halloween 2008

The first photo of me and David, who knew we would still be together 2 years later.

December 1999

Me and my best friend Jen before we went to see the Spice Girls in London, how cute were we haha! I had the velvet trend down way back then.

June 2008

Year 11 prom, needless to say my hairdresser was sacked that week, but we had a lovely time, I still have my dress I refuse to sell it.

May 2008

Last week of school, Year 11 relaly was the best year of school I miss it so much! These were my four best girls at school, still love them millions, wish we got to see each other every day still.

Oops, think I did a few too many. Time to stop Hayley haha.

Anyhow, thats th elast of the Challenge posts so you can look forward to better posts to come.

xoxo

Miss Selfridge Lust List...

I've loved Miss Selfridge for a good few year now, I can always find something pretty there, heres a few things that I really like, hoping to find them in the sales after Christmas...

Berry Velvet Dress - £32.00

Pink 1 Shoulder Top - £35.00

Bronze Glitter Platform Heel - £50.00

Berry Suede Lace Up Brogue - £38.00

xoxo

30 Day Challenge: Day 29

I'm finally nearing the end of this challenge, and it honestly really has dragged, but at least its got me blogging often!

Day 29 asks for a photo of someone I find attractive. Normally I would just immediately stick a picutre of David Beckham here and that would be done. But I already put him in a post of who was my first childhood crush. So someone I'm currently finding attractive...hmm.

Mr Ryan Reynolds is rather gorgeous I believe.

Hes the reaosn I watched The Proposal a million times last winter, and a very good advertisement for Huge Boss.

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30 Day Challenge: Day 28

Day 28 asks for a photo of what I ate today, which I think is a bit gross to take a photo of food for some reason. So in my own way heres what I've ate today, with the help of google images...



So theres what Ive eaten today so far and its now 6pm. Ive ate really bad today as Ive been at college from 9 until half 5. Tuesdays is always a rubbishy food day for me. Any tips on how I can eat healthier with only tiny breaks and lunch time for such a long day?

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30 Day Challenge: Day 27

Ive been slightly slack with my blog recently, so sorry wonderful followers! I've seen a number of bloggers apologising for blogging less recently so I'm glad its not just me that is very busy in the run up to the Christmas festivities. It really does'nt help that my lecturers have set loads of deadlines for this week, scrooges!

Anyhow, this post requests a picture of my favourite purse. I'm not at home with the favourite bag/purse that I own, so I've decided to find a picture of a bag I really love and want.

I know lots of people want this and I don't blame them, I am in love with this bag...

Ahh...the Mulberry Alexa satchel *swoon*. Somehow doubt I'll be the proud owner of this for a very long time, if ever with a price tag of £750. I'm on the hunt for something similar maybe from Topshop or somewhere that isnt a total copy, but is still similar, anyone seen one?

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30 Day Challenge: Day 26

I'm doing tomorrows post tonight, as I wont be able to have access to the internet tomorrow :(.
This challenge asks for someone I look up to, I thought about putting some celebrity that I really love like Beyonce, Rihanna or even Peter Kay or someone. Altohugh I do look up to them, its jsut because I like what they do, the people they are and thats about it really. Which is all fine and dandy.

But the people I really look up to the most are my parents *cheeseball*. Theyve both been through hell and back and although theyre divorced theyre all the happier for it which is better for everyone all round. I love them both to death and I really hope things are going to work out for what they want from their lives. I lvoe the partners theyre with now, and Ii see them as real good friends of mine which is lovely. Love you mammy and daddy :)

Mammy and Keith

Daddy and Sue
(Blue Border, why are you there?)

Bit of a random post I know but there you have it.

xoxo