I suck at blogs..

Ok, so i know i'm late at deciding this.. but i've told myself i am going to create a fresh new blog and i will update it every day (fingers crossed!) I want to have a strong work ethic.. & i think this will help me stay focused and learn to complete things..

Once i've created it, i will post a link on this page so ya'll know where to go from now on!

 x

January Update

Hello all!

I apologise, i've been such a bad blogger lately.. it's terrible. That does mean i can fill you in on all the gossip from whats happened in such a long time!

First of all, Christmas was great, and i hope everyone else's was too! The flu was going around that time, so most of my family had the sniffles until only a few weeks ago!
A few things i got for Christmas;
*Zebra hairdryer
*Zebra hairbrush
*MAC brush roll
*Urban Decay eyeshadows
*DKNY handbag
*Chanel phone case
*Year subscription to Vogue magazine
*Make-up trolley

I had a great New Years, i had a few friends round to play on the Wii and some silly drinking games. We had a good time.

January came, boyf's birthday, i decided to get him a mini fridge to go in his room, so he can fill it up with beer for when his friends come round. I was really happy with it, cost a lot, but he's worth it :)

This Saturday, I went to IMATS - International Makeup Artist Trade Show in London. I had a list ready the night before, and i knew exactly what stalls to go to first and what money to take!
I'd been looking at a few YouTube videos on palettes and what's the best way to go about them. I had a photoshoot the other day, used my new trolley and all my pigmented eyeshadows decided to break whilst in my car. So when i opened up my trolley ready to do my magic.. i was horrified!
I found some pretty cool palettes called Z Palettes, you can get them in Zebra, Pink, Black and Leopard print. They are fully magnetic and they can fit any size magnetic eyeshadow in them.
Unlike a MAC palette, you can only fit in 15? Eyeshadows and they all have to be a certain size to fit in them.
I got these -
2 of each. They are pretty heavy as the magnet is so strong in them, but overall it's a great product and i cannot stop touching them and looking at them. I want to buy more!

I also bought some Illamasqua blushes, the stall was selling 4 for £25 and the blushes alone were originally £15 EACH! So that there was a great bargain.

I also bought some new brushes for my own everyday make-up, i am just sick of using my brushes out of my kit and having to wash them every day so i can put them back into my brush roll.
So i decided the most sensible thing to do would be to purchase my own set.

They also had a stall called FERO where i purchased some eyeshadows for £2 each, they were the same shape as MAC and looked pretty nice to use. If they werent, i didn't lose much money! So i bought a few of them just to put in my new palettes to start them off until i burn and damage the rest of the eyeshadows i own so they can be nicely placed in the palette.

P.s - I believe the Z Palette holds up to 27/28 MAC eyeshadows, so if you have anything smaller than that, your a winner all around!
They were priced at £19.50 each but they also had 20% off at the stall. There is only 1 place in the UK that sell them.. but i'm not sure what the website is called. Just google it :)

OH! I've just painted my toenails! After almost 5 months of having them plain and boring.. They are now pretty in pink!

I will put photo's up soon! I promise that!

Focusing on my Facebook make-up page at the moment - check it out :)

Reviews?

Hi!
So, i've been reading some blogs lately and all the girlies have been doing reviews on some make-up products and even perfumes etc. I'm the sort of person who would love to review products (not for money, just the fact that I love trying out new products!) Especially around this time of year, it's always hard to buy gift sets and things for friends, because half the stuff I buy, I actually haven't even used myself so I never know if it's good or not.
As i'm a make-up artist too, I'm always looking for new products to use and add to my kit.

Here's my own collection of lipsticks.. :

I have a few MAC lipsticks in there - my favourite one so far is 'Creme Cup' it's the newest addition to my collection, it's a pale-ish pink and sort of shimmery. It's really neutral and suits most skin tones.
I also have Vaseline, which is a MUST have in all make-up kits!
I have recently purchased some lip glosses from the Superdrug collection MUA - Make-Up Academy just to try out. I haven't used them yet, only the clear one which was average. You really can't complain about a lipgloss that cost £1!

I would happily do a review on all my lipsticks if you wanted me to? Just let me know.

xx

The rest of yesterday..

So, I decided on what to wear yesterday.. I settled for the lace dress that I purchased from Select in town as an emergency outfit. I'm selling quite a few of my Topshop clothes etc on eBay at the moment and all funds are going towards my car. I paired the dress with a brown waist belt to make it look less oldy worldy..
I then wore black leggins with it and my beautiful Ugg boots that I got for my Birthday. It was quite cold, so I decided to put a long slouchy brown bardigan over the top and then put my hair up all messy etc. I think it went okay? I'm not really a fashionista, but I know that wearing colours like neon yellow, green and blue are definately wrong?

Please, excuse the crappiness of the picture quality and the tacky zebra print case for my iPhone. Like I said, I'm in desperate need of a new camera and a new laptop!

Cardigan - New look

Dress - Select

Belt - Primark

Leggins - Primark

Ring - Primark

It's so cold!

Good Morning/Afternoon, I've just come back from helping my 'Great Uncle' with bits and pieces with my Mum and the weather isn't too warm out there! I think the car said -2? It's ridiculous.
Anywhooo, Mum asked me to come with her today to my great uncle's to help put all of his postcards in a photo album. He has this memo board in his kitchen and he has 4 layers deep of postcards, since 2001! So i decided to buy him a photo album for this 90th Birthday, which has just gone and I said i'd put all of the old post cards in the album so he has room for new ones on his memo board. So today I finally done it for him, I must admit, I did enjoy it, and it was a huge success. So, i've now done a good deed today :)
Just had yummy cheese on toast, and i'm still cold from this morning, so i've decided to run myself a nice warm bath with a sneaky bubble bar and hopefully get a bit warmer.
Boyf is playing football.. God knows how that is even possible! The cat has his head on the radiator and he even has a coat on! So I dread to think what it's like running around an open field with shorts and t-shirt on. Brrrr.
I have to go to the job centre today.. ergh. & See if I can find any jobs available. It totally sucks not having a job, I need a car god damn it!

& Then hopefully I will see the boyf after and go back to watch some films in the warm!.. I'm not looking forward to the freezing cold walk. Maybe i'll get a taxi.

Still deciding on what to wear today, I'd like to be warm (obviously) yet up to date. If that makes any sense at all. I might wear the new lace dress I bought yesterday.. or perhaps the chocolate brown jumper. I haven't decided..

So anyway, I'm now off to run my bath! Sorry for the lack of photo's in this post. I'll make sure I have some for tomorrows!

xxx


P.s. I'd like a CANON or NIKON SLR camera ;)

It's Almost Xmas!

Over the past few days I have purchased a few naughty things.. but not all of these pictures are of what I purchased myself. The Topshop card and Ugg boot box ( obviously not just the box ) were given to me as gifts for my 19th Birthday.

I'm not sure if you can see the label of this AMAZING candle, but it's called Strawberry Tart and it smells delicious! It's just like a Yankee candle but only cost me £3. I can't remember where I bought this.. If i remember, i'll let you guys know, but i definately recommend this flavour if you can get it in any other candle.

Ok, so originally I bought 3 different bubble bars as Xmas presents but I smelt them in my room and I was soo tempted to use them.. so i did =) I can't remember the exact name of them but I know one was pink and white mixed into one, I think it was called The Comforter. I'm not too sure.

The other ones where The Gingerbread House and the other was baby pink with a flower in it? All I know is that it is suppose to smell like Custard Creams!

I popped into my local 'Select' shop in town.. Trust me, there is only 2 decent shops in my town. The other is New Look! Anyhow, Select have their own make-up and nail varnish range.. Which I never knew, so while the lady behind the desk was putting my looooooovely brown jumper in the bag, I spotted this peachy coloured nail varnish on the stand. So i decided to buy it. I think it was about £3 max. I've now got the varnish on, so i'll let you know if and when it chips!

Another item that I bought recently is this canvas photo, I think I bought it for about £10 in another local shop. I really like it, as my room is black and white it will fit in perfectly :)

Well, this isn't an OOTD, I just randomly took a photo before I just popped to Tesco's. I actually bought this jumper which is MENS! in Tesco's a few months back, just to lounge in. The 'Big Al's' written on the front amused me, so I had to get it :)

I think this was around £10.

99p Bows from another local shop. Started wrapping all of my Christmas presents last month. I think I have 2 or 3 more presents to wrap and 2 more to buy, and I will be officially finished! It pays off to be organised sometimes. Now I know how much money I have left to spend on myself, or put towards a car!

Ugg Ugg Ugg Ugg Ugg Ugg Ugg Ugg

Thursday the 2nd December was the day I received these bad boys! They are the shorter ones that go just above my ankle. They are in Chestnut and are from the USA, but here they are around £149?

Another gift from my birthday was a Topshop voucher/card. I absolutely cannot wait to spend it! & I wish I could spend it online, as my town doesn't have a Topshop :( BOOO.

Hey ho, I'll now have longer to decide what to spend it on, but i'll have to bring my boyfriend.. as he has a student card ;)

I also bought a black ruffled shrit thingy with golden spots to wear on christmas day tucked in with my black velvet shorts with gold buttons down the side.

I got a dark green scarf and mittens to match, and I also bought red mittens to wear with my red scarf that I got last year.

Oh and before I forget, I bought a clear nail varnish to put over the peachy one I bought today to make it shiney :)

Thanks for reading!

07.12.2010 - Update

So, I had the most amazing time in London for my 19th Birthday. We arrived at the Hilton Trafalgar around 4-5 checked out our rooms, which we were very pleased about! Unpacked and then got ready for the ICE BAR just off REGENT STREET I think..
It was sooo cold, I hadn't eaten all day and the only drink I had was alcoholic so I wasn't feeling too good when I was freezing cold and being shoved by strangers with very loud music. It was a disappointment and I wish that they hadn't let that many people in the tiny room all at once, but hey, at least I can now say that I have been there? Haha.
We were suppose to have 40 minutes in there, but as it was sooo cold we decided to leave after 30 minutes. We then walked FOREVER in my silly heels to find a McDonalds to sit and eat in to rest my feet. All 3 McDonalds that we tried were shut and we could only take out. Baring in mind that by now it was coming up to midnight!
We eventually found a restaurant around the next corner called Fridays? Or something like that. The food was sooo good - it was my first meal of the day, I would have eaten anything!
After the meal we headed back to the hotel and I ran to the bathroom to have a nice hot bath to soak my poor feet - this was around 3pm.
Eventually, I got to sleep around 4;30 and woke up at 9am ready to pack my bags and head for Oxford Street and Selfridges.
There were a LOT of people on the streets barging back and forth. Topshop, Miss Selfridges and Dorothy Perkins were closed due to protesters raging about the tax that the owner hadn't paid..
So that was kinda a dissapointment. Anyhow, he found a tiny mall, went upstairs to see KFC and Pizza Hut next to eachother, I decided to have Pizza Hut as my Birthday meal that day :)

Well anyhow.. instead of boring you, I will share some photo's with you :)

Thanks for reading!