Collection Shimmer Shades Blushalicious

BARGIN ALERT!!!!!! If you love a good money save then this is the perfect thing for you.
I was just shopping in Morrisons and as always i got attracted to makeup isle. Im never really looking for anything specific i just like to look when this spotted my eye. I love a good blush and with a price tag off £4.19 i couldn't resist.

The packaging is simple, a clear plastic shell so you can see whats inside it. The blush has 4 different shades in all matte. The swatch is when i mixed all the colours together, i think the pigmentation is really good for the price of the product.. This is how i have been wearing it all of the colours together but if you wanted to you could just chose one shade to wear. 

This has been a daily wear for the last month for me i think it gives you a really healthy glow. Perfect as the weather getting a little better out there this is 100% in my makeup bag for my holiday next month.

Have you picked up any good bargains recently?

PROFESSIONAL BEAUTY EXCEL 2014

So its drawing to the end of february, spring is on its way, new trends are coming in and its time for........ PROFESSIONAL BEAUTY LONDON *dances around excitedly*

For anyone who doesn't know what professional beauty is its a trade show in Excel London to launch the newest trends ideas and products in the nail, beauty and tanning industry at a lower cost. Lots of well known brands such as Elemis, Clarins, NSI, OPI, Orly, Fake Bake, HD brows and many more. 

I know that members of the public can go for a price but couldn't tell you how much I'm sure its around the £20 mark. Fortunately as I'm in the business i get to register for free tickets one for myself and one for a guest (i always take my mum)

Heres a few pictures so you can see what its like, they aren't great quality as it was so busy there wasn't enough time to stand and get a picture with out someone walking in front of the camera or barging you from behind ha.

Ive been to the show a couple of times before and mainly pick up bits for work like new acrylic coloured powders, brushes, paints etc its always really hard to choose when your there as there is so much choice but in the end i went for a mixed pack of gold/bronze glitter powders blue toned glitter powders and a pack of pink and mint pearlised powders, and i can't wait to be able to use them on some of my clients.

As you can see from the bottom photo Frankie Essex from TOWIE was there promoting her hair piece range, it was nice to see her actually demonstrating how to use her products as a lot of the time you get people from these reality shows just making general appearances at their stands. Aswel as Frankie Essex i also saw Amy Childs, Vicky from Geordie Shore and Jenna and Nicole from the Valleys. Im really not the stop and get a picture with them kind of person otherwise i would have had pictures to show you.

Along with shopping for nail stuff i noticed on the list of stands that was going to be there NYX was there now i was excited to go to this stand as I've never tried anything of theirs because as far as i knew you couldn't get NYX over here but my friend told me the other day the next actually stocks it. 

The stand was PACKED!!! I literally had to fight my way to look at colours and that resulted in just throwing at least 2 colours of everything in my basket and also meant i spent a lot more then i should have on makeup when i came to shop for work things *buts hands over face* but oh well life goes on right?! 

I will do a separate review on my purchases from NYX sometime this week with swatches (probably very poorly down) and opinions.

Overall i had a lovely day out with my mum and we stopped in oxford street topshop for a quick browse before we got the train home but thats a whole other blog post.

Did you go to Professional Beauty this weekend? Have you been in the past? Let me know.

Limecrime Poisonberry Lipstick

A girl can never have enough lipsticks in my opinion, i love them and I'm a girl who loves out there shades. I watch a lot of beauty bloggers on youtube like we all do and recently i was watching a love it or leave it video by Nicole Guerriero all on Lime Crime Lipsticks.

Its not a brand you can buy in the UK so i thought id have a look on ebay (its amazing what you can find on there) and i came across some Limecrime lipsticks and i picked up the shade "posionberry" for i think £22.00 which i think is quite expensive but as you can't get them in the UK i was prepared to pay that little bit extra.

Now firstly i have to say about the packaging as its my weakness, if anythings packaged beautifully i have to get it. The shape of the actual lipstick is the same kind of shape as the MAC ones that bullet like shape although they are slightly bigger then MAC ones. The colours of the packaging is a pinky/lilac with a silver metallic unicorn on one side and the words lime crime the other. It looks so pretty i just want to stare at it haha.

Limecrime lipsticks also resembles MAC lipsticks in its smell they smell almost identical. The colour i chose is called "posionberry" and its like a deep purple metallic i would describe it in MAC terms as  a satin finish not completely matte but not as creamy as an amplified finish. The colour goes on your lips lovely but you need a couple of layers to build the colour which think is a good thing as you don't always want to go for a really dark lip. The lipstick has an amazing staying power and doesn't go patchy of bitty like i find a lot of lipsticks on me go after a few hours at work and a couple of cups of tea, it just starts to fade colour a little but still looks beautiful.

 One of the things about lime crime lipsticks they are completely vegan friendly which appeals to a lot of people they also come in some very out there colours for if your feeling daring for example a mint green colour and a yellow one also some lovely light colours i have my eye on one called cosmo pop. Unfortunately for me I'm going to have to keep an eye on eBay to get my hands on one or wait till january when I'm hopefully going to new york (i think i may have to buy the whole collection while I'm there) 

Have you tried any lime crime lipsticks?

A Bittersweet Week

I no i haven't posted that much this week but thats because this week has seriously been like an emotional roller coaster for me and I've trying to been dealing with everything in my own way.

I started the week with having to say goodbye to a friend who i was good friends with at school, he got diagnosed with a rare form of cancer in 2012 and sadly last week he lost his battle at just 23. Its was such a surreal experience going to a funeral of someone so young and the amount of people that turned up was over whelming. It was bitter sweet seeing everyone from school who i hadn't seen in ages and I've decided i need to make more of an effort to see people from school and catch up as you never know whats just around the corner.

On a brighter side my friends Jade and Freddy welcomed their beautiful baby boy Noah into the world.. finally, he was a week late and weighed 7.1lbs. He is sooooo cute and was luckily enough to go round and see mum and baby yesterday and have cuddles with Noah.

Its been my weekend off work this weekend and mum suggest we go and have a mooch round Milton Keynes which only means one thing in my head... MAKEUP!!!! We don't have very good counters where i live so have to make the most of it when we go over to MK heres what i got.

Mac Fix + 

Mac Morange lipstick

Mac 217 blending brush

Mac Vanilla pigment

Bobbi Brown blondie pink lipstick - from the new uber pink collection

YSL Pure Chromatics quad in 19 and 20

The Bobbi Brown lipstick and the YSL pink toned quad is actually my mums but i thought they were so pretty i had to share them with you. I will do a review on my YSL quad when i have used it a bit and experimented a little. At first sight i love all of the things i got I'm interested in experimenting with pigments more and as I'm going to London on tuesday i may treat myself to some more.

Have you used of these things? Any tips on pigments? Let me know.

Tanya Burr Lipgloss

So one of big beauty bloggers Tanya Burr who i have read and watched for ages lipgloss and nail varnish range dropped last week on www.feelunique.com
I was just browsing the collection and a lipgloss just happened to fell in to my basket and checked itself out *hands cover face*

So Tanyas released a collection of 12 Lip glosses and 10 nail polishes all in lovely colours that she has created and named really cutely herself. Like an example a nail polish called "be bright, be happy" which is as you can tell a bright pink.

I went for a lipgloss as even though I'm a nail technition i rarely use normal polish and use more gel polishes. I had a tough time deciding what lipgloss to go for as swatches on a computer screen are never going to give you a really good idea of what they will look like in real life.

In the end i went for a colour called Smile, Dream, Sparkle which looks on the computer screen a darker pink with a glitter running though it i ordered it thursday evening and it came monday morning which i didn't think was to bad.

Packaging is lovely standard square lipgloss tube, transparent at the bottom so you can see the colour and a black lid. On top of the lip there is also a pink heart which is a cute touch. It has a nice applicator like a doe foot one but it more flat and when you turn it to side it looks like a fish ha, I'm describing it in my head but its not translating on the keyboard.

Right so let me tell you the smell of this is AMAZING!! Sometimes i can think that lip glosses can smell weird and a bit bland but this is like the best smelling lipgloss i have ever smelt in my life. The only way to describe this is strawberry haribo or strawberry starburst. Instead of putting it on my lips i could just smell it all day.
It goes on small and lovely and the glitter in it isn't grainy and you can't feel it on your lips which i think is a big plus as i hate it when you can feel the glitter in them. Its not to sticky but i think its hard for a lipgloss not to be

Next i no my swatch is poor (any tips on making them better gladly taken) but the only thing wrong in my opinion of the lipgloss is i wish it was more pigmented looking at the gloss in the tube i thought it was going to come out quite vibrant but as you can see from my swatch its quite a subtle pink, still lovely i was just hoping for a bit more pigment from the swatch but like i said earlier its hard choosing one when you've never seen an actual swatch.

Well Tanya Burr congratulations on your range I've been wearing my lipgloss all day and i love it, a big thumbs up from me.

Have you been tempted into buying anything from tanya's range? let me no what your thoughts on it are?

The Hunt Is On.. Rimmel Stay Matte

Im always on the hunt for the perfect base, i don't have a run to product in foundation and i normally have about 5 on the go that i like to swap and change between. So while browsing in boots the other day i picked up this Rimmel Stay Matte foundation. I like the idea of my face being quite matte on a night out as the lights and heat make your face glow within a matter of hours.

Rimmel stay matte is advertised as a liquid mousse foundation. I like the packaging all though its quite hard to get the right amount out, sometimes you don't get enough then try to get more and then get way to much. As you can see in the picture above it is quite thick in texture and i have paired it next to a normal liquid foundation so you can see the difference.
It feels quite nice as your applying to the skin lightweight and not to cakey and it defiantly makes you face have that matte look.
As for staying power i wasn't that impressed, i used this on a night out and had to reapply powder throughout the night and just generally to work and don't think it lasts long at all. It makes the skin look dry and patchy in areas after about 3 hours even when you don't suffer with dry skin (my skin is combination with oily t zone)
I remember when i used to buy dream matt mousse as a teenager (was the in thing back then) and it did the same thing back then on my skin so it might be just my skin that mousse type foundations don't get on with.

So i think i can check this foundation on my list of what not to use, do you have any foundations that you love and wouldn't use anything else? let me no the hunt is still on.

If i could only chose one.... Tag

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