My top 5 palettes

Hello my cupcakes,

I hope you're all doing ok, I had some bad news today so to cheer myself I wanted to come and blog, I hope you guys don't mind ;-)

I watched a YouTube video the other day about a ladies top five makeup eyeshadow palettes and I got to thinking about my favs so I decided to choose 5 of my own and thought I would talk about them today

So here goes.

Sleek original palette - this is always going to be my favourite palette. I'd be gutted if they ever stopped making them. It has a black for smoking out your eyes, it has an intense turquoise, my favourite purple of all time and a pink, a long with a couple of neutral shadows. The colours are exactly as you see in the pan very pigmented and last for ages.

Lets get a bit Naked with this stunning Urban Decay palette - I got this when it first came out, I think I wanted to fit in with the crowed. I liked it but it stayed in the cupboard it was just too pretty to touch. Last night before cleaning my brushes I decided I was going to do a look with it because I'm obsessed with smog. I can't remember exactly which colours I used but it turned out looking so beautiful. This palette just has everything you could possibly need, a black and brown eyeliner, a mixture of matte and shimmer shadows, darks and lights. You do get a bit of fallout with these shadows but for the beautiful looks you can create, I have wipes by my side to get rid of the excess.

Wet N Wild Pride palette - I'm just going to say about this palette. I do have a review on these palettes coming soon so I don't want to say much, but this really is one of my fav ever palettes. The green apple matte colour it's just die for.

MUA Starry Night - you can read my review here I like this palette for the soft eyeshadows and it has variety of colours from black to pink with whites. The shadows are so pigmented and I think you could create some super cute looks with this baby

And last but in no means least coastal Scents Winter Berry palette - this palette isn't for everybody, it's made up of pinks and purples but it's a seriously beautiful set of pinks and purples. I'm also going to be reviewing this and adding swatches so keep your eyes peeled for this :-)

What are you favourite palettes my loves?

Peace and Love

What couldn't you live without?

Hello my loves,

I hope you're all well and had a lovely weekend.

Laid in bed the other night daydreaming about makeup (yeah, as if I'm the only girl in the world who does that) I got to thinking "what would be 7 products I couldn't live without" if I could choose 7 makeup products that I had to use for the rest of my life what would they be? So here they are

Mac blacktrack fluidline, I could wear this with or without an eyeshadow. I love the classic winged eyeliner look that the gorgeous Audrey and Marilyn would always rock. Plus you can use it on your waterline so no pencil eyeliner.

Mascara maybelline falsies, I love this mascara and you can read why here.

My Sonia Kashuk bent eyeliner brush, the cat eyed looks you can create with this baby is unreal.

Mac 266 brush for the same reason as the Sonia Kashuk brush
 
A pot of Vaseline for my lips, no one wants dry lips and the pink one gives a cute pink glow to the lips.

I couldn't live without my favourite purple eyeshadow from my Sleek Original palette - I love this eyeshadow, it's so pretty and can be worn alone or with eyeliner. I also like to smoke it along my lower lash line

And one of my paint pots but I can't decide which, I love Coral crepe but I also love my Indianwood one. Ok, I'm changing it to 8 and I am having both lol.

So there we have it, I know people are probably thinking "what no foundation or blush" but in all honesty I don't like wearing foundation and blush, my skin feels like it can't breathe when I have foundation on. I have very pink cheeks anyhow so I don't need it. I'd  rather people see my skin and the natural flush of pink that I have!! What are the products you lovelies couldn't live without?

Peace and Love

Maybelline Falsies Mascara

Hello my loves,

Today I want to talk about the Maybelline Falsies mascara. I bought it quite a while ago in a 3 for 2 from Boots or Superdrug. I have long lashes anyway but I thought I'd give this a try, plus the packaging is purple. 

I'm going to have a little rant before I give my opinions on this mascara. When seeing a mascara on the TV or in magazines they always 'enhance the eyes in production' this really rattles my cage. If I want to buy a mascara I want to see the genuine results, I don't want to see something that has been "nipped and tucked" so much that the lashes don't even look real. I'm not naive enough to think that because this mascara looks good on someone else it will look the same on me, but can we not see what the mascara looks like with the extreme computer generatedness? Is that too much to ask? Rant over.

I tried this mascara for the first time and I did like it, I only have one dislike about it, the colour. When I buy a mascara that says 'black' I want it to be dark like black is, I don't want a faint watered down black. I like the concept of the 'falsies' mascara, not everyone has the opportunity to put actual false lashes on everyday but with this you can fake them. It does what It says on the tin which is "gives you fanned out lashes"

I like that the wand dips, it was a bit of a pain to get used to on my first attempt but I did like it. I'm not sure I used it right the way the first attempt but I'm going to carry on using it. The wand is more flexible than some mascaras (if you can see the little bendy part on the end) it means you get into all the little eyelashes you have towards the inner corner, which gives you the "falsie look".

I like the way it looks, because I was trying the mascara I didn't put on as many coats as I usually would but I like the end result. Because the brush is dipped it made it harder to apply on my bottom lashes because obviously they aren't as long as the top lashes.

Overall, I am very happy the mascara. It didn't irritate my eyes, it didn't clump when applying it and It was easy to remove. I love the packaging, although it is a little bulky. The brush is different but I love it.

Have any of you lovelies tried this mascara? I think when I've finished this mascara, I may try some of the other Maybelline mascaras. If you can give me any suggestions on good cheap mascaras I would be very grateful.

Peace and Love

My MUA Collection

Hello my loves,

Recently I jumped on the MUA (Make Up Academy) bandwagon, being a lover of cheaper makeup this seemed perfect. Just to clarify the eyshadows are £1, and you want me to turn that down? It can be tough buying good makeup when you are on a budget, when you find a brand that's cheap and offers good quality makeup it's best to grab it while you can. Which is exactly what I did, I kept taking advantage of Superdrugs free delivery and got a lot of the colours that I wanted, there is still some colours that I would like to get.

These are all of my single MUA eyeshadows, and my blusher.

I'm a big fan of these eyeshadows, I only have one eyeshadow that doesn't look like it does in the pan, which is the first of the three purples. I had to dig really hard to get a good swatch there. I find them really pigmented and so soft, there is a little fallout but for £1 I can't be to choosey right!

  

I look at these colours and I think wow, just wow. I have never seen pigmentation this good in any other other drugstore brand (well apart from Sleek) I am so impressed. I have a MAC eyeshadow that could be easily duped for the last blue. The blush, I'm not sure if it's a little bit to dark for my skin but I do like it and the blushes have great colour too that is when I have blended it out a little bit.

 Now onto the next big thing of the moment, the new palettes. When I heard about these guys I knew I needed them in my life. You get 12 beautiful colours for £4 I'd dread to think how much they would cost at mac. 

From L to R I have - Starry Night, Heaven and Earth, Glitterball and Poptastic

I'm going to be honest. I love these palettes, however, my least favourite is Glitter Ball, the glitter is chunky and you don't get very good pigmentation. Again I'm not complaining because they are £4 and I'm not saying I wouldn't use this palette, because it does have a couple of pretty colours. My favourite is Poptastic, the colours are so vibrant and I hardly even swiped the shadow to get what you see. However, the yellow shadows aren't all that great, which to me isn't a problem because I don't think I wear a yellow eyeshadow. I love the neutrals and the starry night palette but even they have a little bit of fallout. You get some really nice browns and the silvers in Starry Night are to die for.

Overall I am very happy with MUA products and I cannot wait to see what they come up with next. I want just one more of the palettes and then I'm done for the time being.

Peace and Love

It's all false

Hello cupcakes :-)

I hope you're all doing well.

I wanted to do a little haul, showing off my new eyelashes (that sounds so weird). I'd never given into the hype of false lashes, I thought they were  pointless but had to agree they did look pretty. For my birthday I took myself off for a makeover at MAC and decided to give lashes a go. I have to say I fell in love with them and ever since I've been craving them. It's strange because I have quite long lashes anyway, but I have longish hair and I want hair extensions so what's the difference right? Lol. My eyes and my lashes are my fav thing about myself, my eyes are super blue and my lashes are quite long, I have the eyes and lashes I'd look at someone and think 'You are a lucky cow' so to enhance what I have I thought I'd take the plunge and buy some.

Here they are in all of their glory, I'm going to review them properly in a couple of weeks.

My friend and I were talking about getting some cheap eyelashes from eBay to practice with and I saw these ones, I didn't really like that much and I have no desire to wear them outdoors but I figured for $1.99 inc shipping I should give them a try. They're hideous and the band looks like they're going to be uncomfortable to wear.

I like 2true makeup, it's good quality and cheap. Isn't the packaging just the cutest? I like black and pink together, I so hope I will like these because £1.99 for a pair of eyelashes is just what I need.

Superdrug have bought out a new line of false eyelashes and I could pass them up. They look very edgy and I cannot wait to try them. I like false lashes with a nice cat eyeliner this is what I am going to rock on my next night out. I'm hoping these guys will be a good dupe for the MAC lashes I got for my birthday.

I saw these guys in a recent Pixiwoo video and I had to have them. They're just the perfect lashes, edgy yet feminine.

Do you guys have any favourite lashes I need to try out?

Peace, love and falsies :-)

Unloved makeup

Hello my loves,

I hope you're all well :-)

You know when you get something new, but something about it just doesn't grab you? Maybe the formula, it's a little too runny etc but you want to make it work. Today I want to talk about two eyeliners I recently rediscovered. I used them once and I didn't like them, but instead of persevering with them I put them in my collection never to bother with again. I recently decided that I needed to sort myself out and tried them before I stuck them on my blogsale. In the end I decided not to sell them because I liked them.

MAC Superslick liquid eyeliner in Marked for glamour (the grey gunmental one) and Pure show is a yelow toned golden colour
 

My favourite is this one, it's such a beautiful colour. I've seen golden eyeliners before but never this gorgeous.

First of all, please ignore the eyebrows and the shape, I'm still a beginner here. I love the golden one it makes my eyes really pop

I think the initial thing that put me off was the brush, I hadn't practiced with these kind of brushes and to be fair, I'm better with my Sonia Kashuk brush or my 266 brush. I'm impatient when it comes to makeup, "if it doesn't work the first time it isn't ever going to work for me" that has been my motto recently but I've chilled out a little bit. 

The brushes are actually really good, they're soft enough so it won't cause discomfort when you're using it, but it's also hard enough to get a nice clean line, they have great colour payoff, most of the time with makeup it can start to look less pigmented after a few hours but not these, the colour you see on the brush is the colour you're going to see 6 hours later. They do not budge, which for most people is a good thing right? The only downside is you have to work quick with them, because they dry so quick and if you make the smallest of mistakes you have about 5seconds to clean it out. They stick to your eyelashes and won't come off. I would like to buy a backup but on eBay they're so expensive, if anyone knows of a dupe for them I'd be happy to give them a go.

I really should stop being so impatient, just because it doesn't like the first time doesn't mean I need to give up.

Have you guys rediscovered anything that you misplaced in your collection?

Peace, love and cupcakes