'Acid eyes' using the Sleek Acid palette

Hey girls,
Haha I know 'Acid eyes' just sounds wrong! But I thought it was perhaps the best way to describe this crazy eye look that I came up with using the Acid palette!
As I only had one Sleek palette in my make-up collection, which is the 'Oh so special' palette (which I love using!)Yesterday I decided it was time to immerse myself fully into the world of Sleek and went to town to pick up a couple more.

Fortunately (for my boyfriend, who's debit card I used) Sleek palette's are pretty inexpensive because I showed little restraint and slammed 3 into my basket (Sunset, Acid, and Original) oops! My justification for this (to the boyf) was that it would cost nearly £400 for the same amount of eye shadows in MAC and he should think himself lucky that there isn't a store close to where we live, so I got off the hook. Phew. hehe ;)

Anyway enough of my wittering and onto the make-up.

Eeeeeeeek! How insanely bright are these colours?? I love this palette so much and had so much fun playing around with it last night. I love that it also includes more wearable shades, so that it isn't made redundant when you don't feel like sporting acid bright's!

I also made a video on my You Tube channel so if you are interested in this palette or how I did this look then pop on over :)

Do you own the Acid palette?

Blush crush #4

Afternoon pretty ladies!
My latest blush crush is Coralista from benefit, which I received as part payment for helping to promote the new benefit mascara in Boots a few weeks back now, I did a video on that over on my You Tube channel so if you are interested in what other goodies I got and what went on, here is the link to it (Video)

At first glance I thought that Coralista was too similar to NARS deep throat blush, which I already own and love to bits (blush crush #1) and wouldn't really be worth getting. However luckily I had Lisa with me who loves it and convinced me that I did in fact need it in my life.

Coralista is a stunning pale coral/pink with a subtle gold sheen, the way I think best describes it is, If NARS Deep throat and NARS Orgasm had a baby, then this would be it, although the gold sheen in Coralista is a lot less obnoxious which makes it more universally wearable than NARS Orgasm.

Besides the colour, what I really love about Coralista is how incredibly finely milled, pigmented, and soft in texture it is, which makes it apply like an absolute dream, so can be worn as a subtle wash of colour or can be very easily built up to get a much more intense colour payoff. I also love how you get a massive 12g of product, which means I wont be having to splash out £23.50 for another one any time soon, happy days.

Top Coralista swatched lightly,
Bottom swatch built up heavily.

Do you own this blush, or any other benefit boxed blushers

What do you think of them?

Ooh just a quick p.s, I was so chuffed to guest blog over at the lovely Kat's blog yesterday while she is on holiday. It's just another EOTD using the Sleek Oh so special palette but in case you wanted to see here's the link (Clickandmakeup) :)

xxx

ASOS Goodies! First impressions and swatches.

Evening lovelies :) 

I was kindly asked by the PR at ASOS if I would like some products to use in tutorials etc and of course accepted! So for the first time in what feels like forever, the postman actually knocked on my door this morning, I greeted him somewhat bedraggled and with last night's black eye liner smooshed around my face (this is a regular occurrence since I ran out of LE cleanse and polish!) and restraining myself from screeching in his face, took my little brown box of joy and tore into it faster than Charlie and Grandpa Joe with a Wonka bar!! (honestly, the lack of shopping just lately has sent me wappy!)

Inside the box was a Jemma Kidd Classic couture lip colour, Stila Perfect and correct foundation, and a NARS velvet matte lip pencil.eeeeeeeek!!
(please excuse the dodgy photo,the sun was so bright today!)

Stila Perfect & correct foundation
(Link)

You might already be aware that I am always looking for the next best thing when it comes to foundation, so when I opened this one and saw the unusual, funky helter-skelter style way that the foundation is presented in the transparent bottle I had to let out a bit of a squeal! There are a number of claims on the side of the box that made me extra excited to use this, like how it helps to control oil while still keeping skin hydrated, and is swirled with an advanced moisturising primer, something I have never seen before! Also this foundation does not contain an SPF so I am really looking forward to seeing how well it photographs.

There are 6 colours to choose from, my shade is medium, from swatching it I think the colour is too dark for my natural (NC20-25) skin tone but with some self tan I should think it will be just fine, also when blended it appeared a touch lighter. I will keep you posted on this one.

Jemma Kidd Classic couture lip colour
(Link)

This is the first Jemma Kidd product I have ever owned, I have to say, loving the packaging, bright pink box and a sleek black tube with hot pink print makes a (sad) package hoarder like me v.happy! The colour I received is 06 retro a deep warm brown shade, and not something that I would ever pick for myself, but it will come in handy I'm sure when creating Autumn make-up looks.The lipstick itself is highly pigmented, gives a gorgeous glossy finish (oh and it smells amazeee!)

NARS Velvet matte lip pencil (Bolero)
(Link)

To be honest anything that comes in a NARS box excites me! This bright almost neon peachy pink is gorgeous! I was going to pop up a lip swatch for this but my lips are so dry at the moment, that I know I will have to get the blistex and an old toothbrush on them before it's worth even attempting to wear anything matte.This was released as a limited edition colour for Summer but I just checked and you can still get it at asos.I can see me using this alot, so expect to see it on my face soon ;)  

xxx

Wearable bright Green/Yellow eye tutorial and exciting news!

Evening girlies,
I am a bit gutted that I missed out on the #bbloggers Twitter chat tonight (which was all about making tutorials), as I have just started doing tutorials on my You Tube channel and am sure I will have missed out on some amazing tips!!

So I missed the chat because I was having a total mare editing this video down to the 15minutes that You Tube allow, only to find a message congratulating me on my account being eligible for longer uploads, when I clicked the upload button grrrr!! haha sods law eh?

The image that I used for inspiration was taken from the ifabbo home page, an amazing bright colourful eye with glowing, healthy looking bronzed skin. I love it!

I hope you enjoy it guys :)

IN OTHER NEWS...

I was so excited last night to receive an email from a photographer that I worked with a few months ago telling me that two of the images from the shoot were featured on the Vogue italia website yesterday eek!

I feel like Carrie Bradshaw or something hehehe! I would sooooo spill at Vogue! 

xxx

F/EOTD and a chat x

Hey Girls, 

I thought that I would check in and have a little chat with you all :)

Today's make-up was inspired by a Demi Lovato look that I saw online a while ago, unfortunately I did it from memory without having the visual in front of me, and obviously I have a memory comparable to Dory the fish and the colours I used are pretty far off the mark...see...

I really am a moron sometimes! Oh well haha! 

You may have noticed that I have done away with the Ombre hair, it just felt wrong and in person the ginger tinge was really obvious, so much so that my parents took to calling me Ron Weasley,( they think they are soooo funny :-p) So my time of having "cool" hair is over waaaah! sad times.

I organised my make-up yesterday (finally) as it was in such a mess and it had been stressing me out (I like being organised). So while everything was all neat and tidy, I took the opportunity to film a room tour for my You Tube channel and so far the uploading has taken over 4 hours, I don't know what that is all about? I think it's because I filmed on my digital camera instead of the webcam or something. Oh GOD I just checked on it's progress and it is going to take another 934 minutes!!? As much as I love modern technology, sometimes it really pisses me off!

I know my latest post's have been very 'eye make-up' orientated and I hope you aren't getting sick of seeing up close pictures of my pupils! I have just been feeling really inspired and creative and enjoy posting make-up looks and things that inspire me, as its what Im really passionate about, I'm just a bit unsure of how to incorporate it into my blog without boring you all "/ If anyone has any suggestions I would be so grateful to hear them!! 

<3 xxx