After 4 days of wearing JoMina, it was time for a change, and can I just say, after 4 days of non-stop using my hands in the form of; washing up, typing incessantly at the keyboard, and washing my ha...
I’ve been lusting after some Illamasqua polishes for a while now, but the price of £13.50 always made me hesitant to pick a few up – I have never spent over £10 for a single nail polish! However whil...
The past few days I’ve been going back to black, literally! I’ve been wearing black nail polish and loving it, I used to wear black on my nails when I was younger, but have neglected wearing it for q...
I’ve been hearing so many good things about Eco Tools brushes, and always see them whenever I’m in Boots so a few weeks ago I placed an online order for 3 brushes – the powder brush, the blush brush ...
My Sigma F80 and F82 brushes have been shedding horrifically lately, so much so that I got so irritated picking hairs out of my face and binned them both! I’ve re-ordered them both, but in the meanti...
Yes, I was incredibly fortunate to receive Chanel’s infamous cream bronzer for Christmas, believe it or not this baby has been on my wish list for months! Soleil Tan De Chanel, also known by it’s oth...
Very rarely does a product live up to such immense hype and rave reviews, but Dior’s Amber Diamond highlighter deserves every single bit of praise it has received. My first major splurge item of 2012...
I got creative earlier and decided to create a full on grey and black smokey eye with my MAC eye shadows I received for Christmas. This look is perfect for a night out, as the dark nights and artific...
Back when I first getting started into make up, I never realised the importance of having good quality eye and face brushes, and how essential they are if you want your make up to look as good as pos...
For Christmas I was very lucky and thankful to get the items I wanted from MAC, aside from the eye shadows, I got 2 brushes, a powder and 1 lipstick, all the things I’ve been lusting after for months...
I was rearranging my z-palettes the other night, and in the midst of sorting out my MAC eye shadows, which are 99% of my shadow collection, I made a mental list of which shadows are my absolute favou...
I think all of us at one point have had one of those pivotal moments where we have discovered a new technique that forever changed our beauty routine for the better. Mine has to be filling in my brow...
I was incredibly lucky for Christmas and got all of the eye shadows and other bits from MAC (will show in a separate post) that I wanted. I’ve been playing around with them for some time now and thou...
Oil-based removers for me, are an absolute necessity. Nothing else I have ever tried comes close to how quickly an oil-based remover can remove every single scrap of make up from my face, so when I w...
As the year is nearly drawing to a close, I thought I would include my 11 most-loved products for this year. It goes without saying that I utterly love using each and every one of them, they actually...
We all have those products we regret buying and spending a fair bit of money on, and unfortunately for me, this eye shadow duo from NARS is one of my biggest disappointments to date. I had lusted for...
I have been lusting after this eyeshadow duo for months now since it was featured on so many blogs, and to my great surprise, a very special someone bought it for me! Habanera consists of two eye sha...
Eyeliner, both liquid and pencil is an essential part of my daily routine. In all of the years I have been wearing make up, I haven’t gone a day without wearing it, because I love the way it defines ...
So the obsession with pink blush continues, and this blush from Illamasqua is an absolute beauty. I’ve always wanted to purchase a few pieces from Illamasqua, but for a neutral i.e. ‘safe’ lover of m...
This eye shadow from MAC is one of my new favourites. I’ve been wearing green, gold and khaki so much now that I felt I needed to get myself out of a rut! So I went to MAC the other day and decided t...
I always thought I was destined to spend the rest of my life wearing bronzer and peach blush but every once in a while comes a product that you fall in love with and changes your idea of what you tho...
I love NARS blushes, in terms of pigmentation and lasting power, quite frankly they are some of the best Ive ever used and I love treating myself to one of their blushes on occasion. Yes, at £20.50 t...
If you read my blog regularly, you’ll know that I am a HUGE fan of Sigma brushes, in particular the Sigmax HD trio of synthetic brushes. I use either the F80 or F82 nearly every single day to apply m...
I’m a huge lover of nail polish, but keeping the longevity of my nail polish for more than a day at least is something I have never been able to do. Typically, if I apply a nail polish, around 24 hou...
I was sorting through my Z-Palettes today (I keep the majority of my pan eyeshadows in them, so convenient!) and whilst looking through the shades I had, it occurred to me that I used to be such a ha...
Another lash post for you ladies! I’m so in love with buying and trying them, I don’t think I’ll stop until I’ve tried all the different brands! I’m especially interested in the Illasmasqua and Red C...
I was in Boots yesterday stocking up on my usual batch of Eylure’s 100 lashes, when I saw that they had a ‘buy one, get one half price offer’ on the lashes, so I thought I’d pick up a new pair to try...
So ladies, September has disappeared and we now welcome the month of October! I think this lovely little quote by Humbert Wolfe sums up the state of affairs perfectly; “Listen! The wind is rising, an...
Whenever I’m in Boots or Superdrug, I always have a browse at the Eylure stands and pick up a couple of lashes to try out. Last week I picked up the Naturalites ‘100’ and ‘101’ lashes. I’ve used both...
Im having such a rough time with my skin lately, Im not 100% sure what has brought on this change, but Ive got scabs, pimples and my whole skin feels red raw! Ive bought a new moisturiser and face wa...
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