Showing posts with label urban decay. Show all posts
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Friday, 20 January 2012

everyday products



My daily products... most of which, admittedly will be in my January Favourites post!


On my face, it's been rather natural - instead of heavy moisturizer in the morning, the Garnier BB Cream in Light has been everything I needed. It's lightweight, and adds a tiny pop of coverage, enough to make a good base for my foundation. The Vichy Dermablend in Opal is still my foundation of choice lately. It's high coverage, but still looks natural. I use the tiniest amount and it hides my dreaded redness (bane. of. my. life) and any blemishes I have. It's a great colour match for NC15 skin. As for blush, I can now afford to wear pink cheeks now my redness is hidden. The MAC Blush ombre in Azalea Blossom has just launched with the Daphne Guinness collection, but I believe it's a repromote. It's not terribly pigmented, which I'm  thankful for. It's a cool pink blending to a lavender, which looks beautiful on these cold winter days.


As for eyes, it's rather monotonous. As always, my Urban Decay Naked Palette is my daily eyeshadows of choice. A perfect collection of my typical colours (could kill for a lovely taupey purple though.. Naked2 is calling I think), especially Smog, which looks amazing smudged along the lash line as well as on the lid. For my eyebrows, I've kept it simple with the Rimmel Eyebrow Pencil in Dark Brown which just keeps my brows in place and adds a touch of definition without looking too stupid. Finally is a mascara I'm not going to talk too much about, as I'm going to write a review about it soon, but it's the YSL Volume Effect Faux Cills in Black. 


Cherry Carmex for those dry days as always! Quite a YSL feast here, first is the YSL Volupte Sheer Candy in No4, a gorgeous watermelon red/pink which looks amazing during the day and at night. To top it off during the day, I wear either of these two glosses, which are the YSL Gloss Pur's in no4 & no5. Love these - smell like watermelon, don't stick and lovely colour payoff. 

January favourites post and maybe video is on it's way! 

Thursday, 5 January 2012

christmas 2011

Better late than never I suppose. The following things are a mix of things that were given to me, and things I purchased with my Christmas money..

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Books:
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A post is coming up on the Gaga x Terry Richardson book, because I can’t write how much I love it in the same post as anything else... 
Two cook books. I’m really into cooking now, I have a thing for just losing myself with the outside world with a good trolley full from Tesco. I’ll review them soon and show you some things I’ve cooked from them when the time comes!

Make up & beauty;
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I didn’t mean to take two pictures of my YSL lipsticks and lip glosses, I think I kinda got into the moment hehe. My boyfriend got me the beautiful Naked palette, and I loveee it. I won’t do a seperate post on them but I can assure you, it will be featuring in my favourites I imagine.

This year was the YSL year, as you can see!
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I got 3 Volupte Sheer Candys (I’ve posted about one already, let me link you; volupte sheer candy post) which I adore. I’ve still to post about the other two but I imagine I’ll post about them in a FOTD. I got two Gloss Pur lipglosses, which are amazing! Pigmented but not too strong. I also got a blush in 3 Caramel, which is a beautiful pinky brown colour, which will look stunning come summer. Also I got a set with the YSL Top Secret eye makeup remover, with the Luxurious volume effect false lashes mascara.

For the first time in months, I also went to MAC..
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From the Daphne Guinness collection (which I was very excited for, along with the Iris Apfel collection) I got a blush ombre in Azalea Blossom, and a nail polish in Blueblood, which I’ve already posted on (blueblood post). To go with my beautiful new blush, a new blush brush was needed, which is where the 129 came from (129 post)

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My perfume I recieved this year was Armani Diamonds. It’s 30ml and I adore it. 

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Only the best sale come Boxing Day, I picked up a Christmas Candy box, which featured the products above. I also got a Magic Wand but I’ve used it already, sorry!

I’m so lucky to get/be able to buy these things and I am so grateful. Hope you all had a wonderful holiday!