200 blog posts!! This will be celebrated by a NOTD look!!

Hi all, well 200 posts, that's certainly an achievement for me! Some days I hardly find the time to blog, but I'm happy to know there are always people out there interested in what I am writing :)

For Christmas I got a few new bits of clothes - but no makeup and I haven't been buying any in the sales either - I've actually been super good. Hoping it means paying for the wedding will be a bit easier!!

Anyways, today I fancied a bit of gray...the weather hasn't been great! But then I felt it looked a bit sad and lonely so have divided my nail up diagonally with another silvery gray shade and separated it with a white line.
My pictures aren't great as I did my nails as quick as I could and the bottom layer wasn't quite dry enough for the "straight line using sellotape" trick. Nevermind, it's not something you notice up close as I don't know who would be getting that close to my nails in real life!!

Nail varnishes used:
No.7 Base Coat
Collection 2000 Hot Looks Fast Dry in Wham (27)
No.7 Stay Perfect Nail Colour in Night Silver (62)

P.s. if you have any ideas for me as to what posts I can do in 2012 please let me know - I am hoping to have a strong year of blogging and vlogging up ahead, and would really love to get my followers to 100 by the end of next year!! Thanks for reading xoxo

Christmas Stocking

Hi my lovelies, hope you all had a great Christmas!
My partner and I decided we wouldn't spend too much on each other this year as we are saving for our wedding. We therefore agreed to a £20 stocking budget, here's what I got:

I'm really excited to start reading Eat, Pray, Love and want to finish it before I see the film. I say this quite often when novels are turned into films, but it doesn't normally happen - I think it's only the Shopaholic series and  Harry Potter that I've read first...I even caved and watched Lovely Bones before reading the book. I used the hair glitter spray on Christmas day to give my hair a little bit more oompf, it was much better than I thought it would be - I thought it would look a bit tacky, but the glitter and sparkle was great!

I have tried the new MUA blush and my first impressions are good, I will do an MUA review series at some point because I have a variety of different products and shades. I also am intrigued to try the blue Collection 2000 mascara - I've wanted one for a while...it's a bit more daring than the usual black/brown shades I usually wear.

Anyway I'm really happy with my little gifts. Then I was pleasantly surprised when I got more :) I will tell you more tomorrow as it's quite late at the moment. What did you get for Christmas??

FOTD - Comfort Green

I feel like whenever I don't have much time to apply make up I go for green! I wonder why that is? I thought to myself - perhaps it's my comfort colour...do we have comfort colours where they will work for different moods?? Who knows...wonder what I'll have on tomorrow!

I used:

FACE

L'oreal True Match Foundation (W3) in Golden Beige

No.7 Perfect Light pressed Powder

No.7 Cheek Tint in Maple Silk

No.7 Mineral Perfection Blusher in Soft Damson

EYES

Urban Decay Eyeshadow Primer Potion

Fyrinnae Pixie Epoxy

MUA Shade #7 - crease

Collection 2000 Dazzle Me in Dreamland - all over eyelid

MUA Shade #6 - lower eye

Barry M Shimmering Eye Crayon #1 - highlight

L'oreal Volume Million Lashes Mascara in black

Rimmel Kohl Eye Pencil in black

LIPS

Avon Extreme Gloss Glazewear in Sand Shine

What item do you reach for when you don't have much time for make up??

Neon Blue & Yellow FOTD

Last night I attended a work leaving do with my partner and decided to do a bright, eye-catching (get it?) look! I wore black jeans, a black and white top, with a blue scarf and silver heels, silver headband and silver earrings - see a small pic below.

You'll have to excuse the little bit of eyeshadow that fell onto my nose that I clearly didn't notice until I finished taking pictures!!

I used:

FACE

No.7 Shine Free Primer
New ID I-Conceal in Medium
New ID I-Perfect in Vanilla
New ID I-Bronze in Rio
No.7 Cheek Tint in Maple Silk
New ID I-Glow in Ice Pop
New ID I-Shimmer in Sherbet

EYES

Urban Decay Eyeshadow Primer Potion
Fyrinnae Pixie Epoxy
Shiro Cosmetics in Squirtle - eyelid
Shiro Cosmetics in Pikachu - crease
Shiro Cosmetics in Hyper Beam - outer corner
Collection 2000 Extreme 24 Hour Felt Tip Liner in Purple - upper lashline
Rimmel Kohl Eye Pencil in Black - lower waterline
Barry M Shimmering Eye & Lip Crayon #1
Wet n Wild Mega Length Double Action Mascara in Black

LIPS

Avon Kiss n Shine Lipstick in Sequin

What do you think of this bright look? Something to get you noticed on a night out?

FOTD - Aromaleigh Day 6

This series of Aromaleigh looks seems to have gone by really quickly! Today I have a more neutral look, I am still dying to get an UD Naked palette, but haven't got the money at the moment! Although it's a neutral look it shows that they don't have to be boring and I really like the way it turned out, even if I wasn't so sure when I started adding my crease colour.

I used:

FACE

No.7 Shine Free Primer
New ID I-Conceal in Medium
L'oreal True Match Foundation in (W3) Golden Beige
New ID I-Bronze in Rio
New ID I-Glow in Ice Pop
New ID I-Shimmer in Sherbet

EYES

Urban Decay Eyeshadow Primer Potion
Fyrinnae Pixie Epoxy
Aromaleigh Victoria's Revenge in Infernal Chaos #31 - inner corner
Aromaleigh Hot In The City in Skyscraper - outer corner
Aromaleigh Hot In The City in Asphalt - crease
No.7 Exceptional Definition Mascara in Black
Rimmel Kohl Eye Pencil in Black - lower waterline
Collection 2000 Extreme 24 Hour Felt Tip Liner in Purple - upper lashline

LIPS

No.7 Wild Volume Lipstick in Toffee Apple
The Body Shop Nutmeg & Vanilla Lip Balm

What do you think? Do you like neutral looks too?

Bongo Beat Nails

When I first saw this shade of nail polish I thought it would be my dupe of Peacock Green by Models Own, to stop me buying it, but I ordered it yesterday - hopefully it will arrive soon. My partner said that Peacock green had slightly more blue in it...so if he says they are different colours I can definitely justify having both!!

Bongo Beat, with and without flash



Peacock Green

In the mean time I decided to use Bongo Beat for a nail design using my art deco stamps, as I have been wanting to do a 2 colour stamp for a while. This colour makes both black and white stand out so it was the perfect choice.

I thought I would do something a bit different so I've also used a silver glitter by art deco for my nail tips. What do you think??

August & September Favourites

I only just realised I had missed out my August Favourite so I'll do them both together as we're almost at the end of September now! Scary really, it's almost Christmas!!

AUGUST

Arguebly the best mascara I've ever used. I've found it made my eyelashes look a lot longer, and somehow that there were more of them!! Either that, or I'm rubbish at using normal mascara and this helped me apply because it actually says what you're supposed to use each of the three different parts of the wand for! The tip is for applying the mascara, one side is for making your lashes longer and the other side is for separating lashes!! Brilliant.

SEPTEMBER

These are my new favourite nail varnishes, £1.79 each or 3 for £5!! I actually purchased a purple shade first, but when I got it home I realised I already owned a very similar colour, so got the red shade instead! I am hoping to apply Bongo Beat today, I am soooooooo in love with it and it's one of the first shades I have seen that can work as a dupe for Models Own - Peacock Green (which I wanted as soon as I saw it on the website and still do!).

Anything you're loving at the moment? Please let me know! Thanks for reading! xx

Night Out Nails

I bought a few new nail varnishes the other day, only 3 for £5 in Superdrug - Collection 2000. I got Wham, Teeny Bikini and Bongo Beat. I liked the way wham and teeny bikini went together so decided to use an art deco stamp in black and white.

With flash

I really liked the colour of wham, but it required 3 coats to make it opaque. Shame it would use up a lot of nail varnish this way, but the overall finish was very satisfying. Sometimes the nail varnish can dry bubbly when you apply a few coats.

Without flash

The teeny bikini seemed to get better with more coats, I used three to match wham, but you could easily leave it with one coat.

The art deco went on very easily, it hardly even smudged when applying a top coat, which quite often happens.