E.O.T.D Pretty In Pink / plum

Yeah so maybe I like pink/Plum a bit much but , I liked this because its a bit more of a dramatic Night time pink eye. (lol pink eye i love south park too much) Please Click to see bigger picture Anyway , I used :

Eyeshadows :
Mac Pigment in Pink Opal for highlight and Inner corner
Body shop NEW Baked to last eye shadow in Quartz for the lid (review on this product coming soon)
Everyday Minerals eye shadow in Art girl (loveee) for the crease colour
And Clinique Cream eye shaper in starry plum as my Top liner

I left my lips neutral just with burt's bees radiance shimmer lip again

And MAC cremeblush in ladyblush on my cheeks.
Nyx Doll eye mascara.

All these products can be found at the following sites :-
Clinique liner
NYX mascara
Body Shop Shadows
MAC Pigment and Blush
Burtsbees lip shimmer

No7 Goodies and Promo at Boots just now :)

I ventured in to boots over the weekend to buy a few necessities. I never usually buy No7 but I was on the look out for an Eye cream because my Clinique All About Eyes ran out and I honestly couldn't be bothered trecking to my nearest department store to buy it. No7 also had a deal on that meant if you spent £22 or over on No7 you got a free gift , so i thought Why not!
I bought the eye cream and eye pencil below. I really like the cream as the blue gel side is to awaken the eyes (to be used during the day) and the cream is like a soothing moisturizer to be used at night. I'm not saying I wont go back to my Clinique BUT i do really like this and i love that it comes in a "day/night" cream. The gel side makes my eyes feel tight when i first apply it but then it soon wears off and they feel lovely and cool. The cream side leaves my eyes beautifully soft and soothed. It sells for around £17 I think , i went to check the site but its being updated just now ! Grrrr
Now the pencil is just LOVELY I actually bought this to make up the money to get the free gift but my mum has a wedding to go to next week and her outfit is exactly the same colour of jade green this pencil is, so really i bought it for her but there are pics below of me trying it out. It was £7.50 and so worth it, the colour is bright and it goes on super soft, me and my mum swatched it on the back of our hands and had even finished washing the dishes from dinner and the swatch was still there! It doesn't say its waterproof but it really has some staying power!

This was the little set of goodies i received it included :
No7 Lash 360
No7 Protect and perfect Beauty Serum

No7 Cleanse and Care eye make up remover
No7 Lipstick in Pink lemonade
No7 Protect and perfect Day cream
and No7 Stay Perfect eye mousse (in a slate grey)
(oh and it all came in a nice little bag)

Firstly the eye make up remover is great , I never use anything like this usually just simple facewipes , but I might have to check out the price of the full size product because i was very impressed! I have swapped in the Day cream with my Clinique Moisturizer and i have to say i like this also but i think it left me feeling a little greasy, funnily enough i like using this at night better even thought its a day cream because i think its just a bit rich for my skin, I probably wont purchase this but I do like it (might pass it on to my mum). The Beauty serum I'm in LOVE with, I don't know if its a primer? but you use it BEFORE using the day cream and i love the way it leaves my skin feeling Super super smooth! I will definitely be re purchasing this product.
The cosmetics are all nice too but please see below for swatches :)
Below is my EOTD using the No7 metallic eye pencil ... I really love this i might have to go inspect their other colours in the range. I am also wearing the Lash 360 in these photos , I'm kind of "meh" about this product, its nice but doesn't wow me .... and I'm not sure about the brush. Its shaped like a spiral so it has spaces? Yeah i don't get it , not bad but i wont buy again. Same goes for the eye mousse , i wasn't super impressed... it was just a metallic silvery grey .. nothing special. The lipstick is lovely , I thought it was going to be Really bright when i saw it in the tube but actually it goes on really sheer and is very moisturising. Very pretty pink and quite a natural pink i think.
Hope this helps guys :) thanks for reading XXX

30 Days Blog Tag :) (and other random things)

Ok so first things first I've been a bad blogger , i have had such a busy weekend and this is the first time I've had to sit down and actually get a post done , but I did go shopping the other day and bought lots of lovely things which over the next two days (my days off) I'm making a point of doing some new posts about. For now I'm catching up on my 30 days post Sooo I think I'm on
Day 5.... Favorite Quote
Truth is I believe my mum is the best and she always says "as long as your happy and healthy"
seems simple enough but its so so very true , Love you mum :) x

Day 6 .... Whatever tickles your fancy ..... Ok well I'm going to have a little rant / enquiry about sales assistants. I have worked in retail before, River Island Clothing store to be exact :P But never in a Drugstore/ make up / chemists / make up counter shop blah blah blah. I went in to boots the other day and had some questions hoping for advice, as you know I'm an avid Clinique user but i decided that i fancied buying an eye cream and I really couldn't be bothered trecking to my nearest department store for clinique , decided to venture in to my local Boots store. No7 is quite a mid range brand , they aren't cheap but not designer etc , I asked the girl as a Young 23 year old what would be more suitable ... and all she done was read the back of the box to me. I could have done that my bloody self! (this has happened to me more than once).
So I guess what my question is ... I watch so many you tube vids and read blogs from America where people talk about sales assistants being so helpful and even giving lots of samples to try more things. Is it just Britain where they are a bit useless? and do you need to know your local assistant to get these such samples... Its a pet peeve of mine .... views and opinions much appreciated :)

Day 7 ... Photo that makes you happy , I posted this pic on my very first Cornwall post but , i do love this picture and it does make me very happy , my wonderful boyfriend took this and , its just a lovely photo of us on holiday.
Day 8 ...... Photo that makes you sad /angry.
I think this is a very silly thing to ask , because obviously i don't hold on to photos that make me sad. I chose the photo below because my mum gave me these beautiful flowers on my birthday and I took this when they were dying ... I guess its a little melancholic. I think its beautiful.
Day 9 ...... A photo you took,
Again this was taken in Cornwall and i think its a Gorgeous picture ... I love that i caught the bird flying across too (and it kind of looks like a dolphin :P) Great place
oh well thats me , I promise better posts this week :) xxxxx

First Eye Of the day :)

Hello this is my first kind of "eye of the day" I'm just going to list the products I used , I eventually would hope to make some videos for you but I would like to wait until I get a good quality camera, (I'm not shy honest :P). Anyway i just wore this eye/s with jeans gladiator sandals and an over sized t-shirt (white with navy striped). Its not too over the top as I was only visiting the shops and taking things to the rubbish dump walking dogs etc. But I enjoy a little pop of colour. Obviously for a night out i Build on this.

1. E.l.f Concealer Pencil and Brush - £3.50 (review on this soon as I'm comparing it to my Benefit "it" stick at the moment) - Under my eye an on my lid

2. The Body Shop Eye shimmer in Blue - £6.00 (I bought this ages ago but they don't seem to have it online anymore so i don't know if its been discontinued :( i really hope not) This has a Dupe in the E.l.f Eye transformer palette. - Used this in the corner of my eye and blended in with the darker blue on the out side.

3. Nxy Single eyeshadow in Kiss in Casablanca -£3.25 from Lovemakeup.com. (reviewed this in another post) This is place on my outer corner top and bottom blended in to the pale blue of the body shop eye shimmer.

4. Collection 2000 Glam Crystal Dazzling Gel Liner - £2.99 from superdrug (2 for £5 at the moment) Used this to line my eyes.

5. Nyx Dolleye Volume mascara - £6.99 from Lovemakeup.com , Still loving this mascara , my clinique has not been touched for so long lol. (review in previous post)

Hope you like it XXXX

E.L.F Haul/ Review

Well Hello hello hello , I had a lovely package delivered this morning after a long long wait for new stock to be in , Here it is :) YEY.
Soooo I'm quite new to e.l.f and there are somethings I LOVE and other things I think .. hmmm yeah its £1.50 no biggy if i don't like it. Here goes :)

First up the FREE lipglosses I got because of the 50,000 facebook fans :) this was a nice bonus to my order :). I'm not a Massive lipgloss wearer I usually wear lipstick or a clear lip plumper/balm, so I'm not an expert on this :P. .... Because these were free I am happy with them but I wouldn't buy them alone. This is ONLY because I'm not fussed with lipgloss! I will now go into a bit of detail about them, the two glosses with colour (candlelight and Pink kiss) have a shimmer/pearl effect to them which I actually really like and even looking back on the photos now I think ... hmm maybe I'll become a lip gloss girl! they made my lips look Lovely.
The clear gloss (Angel) was actually the one that got me most excited when I swatched on my hand , it has lots of little holographic/purpley blue glitter fleks, when i moved my hand in the light it looked amazing! On my lips not as much , but I still really really like this one and I'm thinking I might use it over lipstick instead. All 3 smell like 5p bubblegum, which doesn't bother me but I know some ppl are really sensitive to smells especially that close under their nose, and they all have a really sweet taste which .. I thought was pretty nice. They were not too sticky but ... I Did feel them on there (which is usually why I don't bother with lipglosses.

So Great for a freebie, angel will def get used but ... wouldn't buy them.
Next Nail Polishes , I got Plum and Mod Mauve (which by the way I was waiting FOREVER to try !!!) Ok Plum , I like this a lot , in the photo below I have two coats on , its got a lovely shine , I LOVE the colour (this will get used a lot going in to winter) I use deep purples on my eyes alot too, yes for £1.50 this one is a BIG thumbs up. Only gripe... really stained my nails hard to get off but .... all dark nail polishes huh?
Ok Mod mauve ... after being so so excited to get this, I was a little disappointed but only for 1 reason. The consistency was very very thin , and as a light colour I needed to apply 3 coats (for photo below) In future I'd prob even apply a 4th. In saying this , I do LOVE the colour, it exactly the type of colour I'm obsessed with just now , these nude/taupe/mauve/ mushroomy colours :) LOVE it... again for £1.50 Thumbs up :) I also really love the little bottles /packaging e.l.f put their nail polishes in.
Ok I LOVE mascaras I'm a Mascara Junkie , its just my thing. So i bought e.l.f's Mineral Mascara which was actually in the Studio line instead of the mineral one ? Weird. Packaging .... I like it love the buffed black casing ... maybe would have liked a bit more info on the tube but that's just me. The brush is one of those silicone numbers :P a bit like lash blast?
What e.l.f say "Mineral Infused Mascara creates fuller, healthier looking lashes. It enhances lashes for a naturally thicker and more volumized look. The long-wear formula and unique silicone brush creates clump free and defined lashes that last all day."
Truth is it DOES make your lashes look lovely and long and totally clump free.... thicker? I'm not so sure about. In the photo below , i have one eye e.l.f and one with my beloved Clinique High impact (which i don't think gets enough credit). After applying I asked my mum ... "which eye looks better?" ..... she chose the clinique eye. We did both agree and they are equally lengthening but clinique just had the edge here. Again though at £3.50 for the e.l.f and £14.50 for clinique its a bit of a no brainer if your only starting out. I'm not totally writing this off , I WOULD buy this again and i do really like the product. Thumbs up :)
Ok This is the E.l.f Eyelid primer (from the normal £1.50 line) I bought this because my mum has never tried eye primer and was intrigued by my Too faced "shadow insurance" but she refuses to pay the price for it ... I told her why not try e.l.f Only £1.50 ill put it in my next order. Below is a swatch of the primer alone (you cant even see the too faced primer on my hand) and then both with urban decay shadow. I noticed that the E.l.f primer is paler , whiter than the Too faced, you can see this easily on my hand. When I applied the shadow ... I think the e.l.f makes it paler , but only SLIGHTLY and if you packed on the colour enough ... I don't think it would matter :) The e.l.f product is a thinner consistency but again £1.50 .... cant complain :)
TIP: when i got this the oils and the pigment had seemed to separate in the tube (dunno if I had a dodgey one) Make sure you give it a mix up first before applying.

Ok Next Up ......E.l.f Brush shampoo, Ive never used a brush shampoo before I've always just used a gentle Hair shampoo , like baby shampoo. I love the packaging of this product and it does the job its meant to ... there isnt much more I can say about this so there is a pic below :) This item is priced at £3.50 for 120ml. Very reasonable and even if you did want to go back to using baby shampoo..... keep the bottle and refill because its co cute/sleek. No perfume so no smell at all :)
I also got the E.l.f Mineral Face primer. I quite like the packaging , pretty sweet and sleek just wish the lid snapped on a bit tighter. I read another review on this product before receiving it in the, the reviewer had said " I didn't like the plastic casing , I hate when you think your getting glass and its plastic"
So I knew I wasn't getting glass BUT I have to agree , would be nicer in glass... then again that would cost more wouldn't it? compromises compromises.

I have also bought the GOSH one lately, I have compared it against that. In the photo below I applied E.l.f to one side and Gosh to the other , then applied my Clinique Gentle Light make up (foundation) all over my face.
I think to look at there's no noticeable difference but there was on applying the products, I found the gosh primer to be greasier than e.l.f. and took longer to soak in. Its now 5 hours later and when I touch my skin , the e.l.f side definitely feels smoother :) but again .. at a glance there's not much difference both do the job superbly and my foundation is still giving me the coverage I need. The main factor here is E.l.f primer is £6.00 and the GOSH primer is ...£13. You get 14ml of e.l.f product and 30ml of gosh. Sooo I'm kinda inbetween. I reckon i will try a few more Primers as I haven't found my Holy Grail yet But if i need to buy more I'll go for elf on this one.
(oh and excuse my eyebrows I'm waxing them at the weekend so they are rather fluffy atm).
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