Hey guys, I bought some things from benefit just before christmas and have had this post in my drafts for a long time I've just been to tired to blog recently and I wasn't going to force myself to do it. I bought two box blushes and sun beam. I can thoroughly review these now to as i've had them so long. 

Here was the christmas packaging that they boxed the things up in. 

Sun beam, I'm still not sure if this product works for me as I'm so pale but it is a lovely product and looks great with the Dallas blush I bought. The woman who worked at the benefit counter tried these on me and although it looked strange and she put way to much on, (she only put these products on my face when I had no other makeup on) I did like these the best in comparison to when she paired high beam and Hervana on the other side of my face (It was a weird experience). 

I bought Dallas as I felt it worked as both a blush and a bronzer as it is a bronzy mauve type colour (hard to explain). I haven't used it that much as I've been using Hervana more as it is more of a spring colour. I am addicted to the smell of these blushes. They smell so good, in a musky powdery way which I suppose is apt seeing as they are powders. 

Hervana is probably now my favourite product that I picked up. I have been getting into blush recently and this is a perfect shade for spring. I also like the way that it is made up of four different colours so you could customise your colour.

swatch of all the products 

swatch with products blended out. 

Thanks for reading

Lauren :P

Hey guys,

I know I haven't posted in the longest time and I think in my last post I said I was going to be more consistent. This didn't work out as I have recently been struggling to be motivated to do anything. I'm finally on top of this and wanted to have a fun, sort of semi rant type post. I've never really blogged about my personal life before so here goes.

Ok, here goes. Since having dyed my hair turquoise strangers often have the urge to point this out to me, the most annoying being pointed at by people that just say "Your hair!". To be honest I just find this rude mainly due to the pointing it's like being made a spectacle of. You do also get the really cute small children pointing at you as well as they say "look mummy, she has green hair" which I just find sweet as they are innocent, unlike when adults do this.

The creepy incidents however are the ones that bother me. Lots of guys, see my hair as a talking point and have tried to hit on me because of it. Like today for incidence. I'm walking home with my shopping, probably red faced with no makeup on. When suddenly a guy out of nowhere approaches me exclaiming "I love your hair" me being one of the most socially awkward people, says "Thanks" which sounds strange and awkward anyway but is made even more embarrassing due to the fact I have a slight lisp. I then think to long about these things which leads to me writing them down.

The worst experience however was when I was again walking home with my shopping. A man maybe 10 years older then me wearing, looking pretty chavy approaches with the "oh wow your hair" speech. Then proceeds to follow me as I walk home asking if I have a boyfriend. Which I said in the hopes of making him leave me alone although I am single. Then asking if I wanted another one. Creepy right? Luckily he was only going to a bus stop and did not stalk me the whole way home. But If any guy is reading this don't do this it just comes of as creepy and makes me feel unsafe.

Anyway rant over. The majority of things people say about your hair if you do dye your own hair is very complimentary. But be warned you do get the couple weird experiences. It seems girls carrying home shopping is a massive turn on for some reason :)

Thanks for reading I plan to definitely get back into blogging soon.
Lauren

Hey guys, 

I recently picked up this palette on sale in boots just after christmas and decided to spend a couple weeks messing around with it before I shared it with you guys. This is a limited edition so If you want it I would pick it up soon yet I think it's gone back up to full price in boots. 

I really like the packaging. Yes It is very bulky with the usual chunky too faced book style packaging. This is my first too faced purchase and I was really impressed with this set. I looked to get the other limited edition I think it was called a few of my favourite things yet it was a debenhams exclusive and was unfortunately sold out.

I thought it was nice that they added some ideas for looks yet I don't think I will recreate any I just tend to play around with pallets experimenting until I find looks I really love to do.

The colours were stunning and even the matte shades were very impressive. On with the swatches, I did these in rows from left to right. 

 Here is Cookie dough, a matte light bronze brown, Cheers! a pink, champagne pearlescent shade, and prancer a metallic gold.

Next is sugar plum a purple glitter shade, then mulberry a matte mauve shade, then snow angel a matte white which is a great eyebrow highlight.

 Next is powdered sugar the only dud in the pallet a pinky white shade that barely shows up on my skin. Then comes too-too a glittery pink with yule log a brown shadow with gold glitter.

 Chestnut comes next which is a rich warm brown shade next to Twinkle my favourite colour in the palette, I wore this on new years and It stayed the whole night. Then a light blue shade, joy.

The last shades are spike the punch a peachy pink glittery shade with Chimney a smokey blue/ grey followed by coal the black.

This palette also comes with a full sized lashgasm mascara which has a small plastic wand. I like this mascara for a more natural look as it lengthens but doesn't add volume. Iv'e read lots of mixed reviews on this mascara with many preferring the new too faced better than sex mascara. Yet I am still pleased with this palette with the only downside being the powdered sugar shade.

This is no longer on the boots website yet still was In my local coventry boots yet I picked mine up when I was back in london at the westfield boots. It is still on the asos website http://www.asos.com/Too-Faced-Cosmetics/Too-Faced-Joy-To-The-Girls-Set/Prod/pgeproduct.aspx?iid=3570607

Hope you enjoyed.

Lauren

Hey guys,

Just before christmas I was doing some last minute shopping in boots while also trying to use some of my boots coupons. I saw this as I was at the checkout as well as another perfume which I'll save for another post. This was marked down to £23.99 for 50ml and as there wasn't a tester I took a gamble on it as I'd read that it had notes of jasmine in it which is a note all the perfumes I tend to like have in common. 

I've wanted a DKNY delicious perfume ever since the first adverts as I love the concept of the bottle and like the way the spritz works.

I'm so glad I took the chance on this as I love the scent. I also had a coupon for I think £5 of if I spent over £35 on perfume and a double points coupon. This along with my purchases from benefit (Post on these coming up) gave me £25 pounds worth of boots points. 

On the boots website it says this perfume has notes of:

Top: Pomelo, Ginger, Blackberry

Mid: Orchid, Jasmine, Iris.
Base: Amber, Incense, Vetiver.

It has a very musky dry down which I love and often If I spray this a little bit before bed I can still smell the musk in the morning, so am convinced that this is very long lasting.

This has currently gone up to full price (£31.99) in boots yet I'm sure If you shop around you could find It at an even better price than I did. I would suggest amazon or fragrance direct.

Hope you enjoy. I'm going to try and do a proper upload schedule this year as I annoy myself with my posting procrastination. As I have about 10 draft posts at the moment that are just waiting for swatch pics :/

Lauren 

Hey guys,

I know its been a while but I seem to get a blogging block when I'm not at uni. I just wanted to quickly share with you some of the things I bought in december.

Sleek face form Contouring and blush palette. This I've used a few times and really liked the blush but haven't really used the highlight or contour. 

I got a few more sleek palettes when the 3 for 2 offer was still on in superdrug. I haven't used these yet as the colours are more spring/ summer appropriate. Also I've been in love with my vice 2 palette and haven't been using much else. 

For Christmas I got a couple Z palettes to put my single shadows in. This one has all my MUA shades. I suggest getting the domed Z palette rather than just the large as I was given both and only 10/15 of the mua pans fit in the large and they all fit into the domed palette

I bought 3 of the maybelline limited edition Brocades collection in boots. These went on nicely yet as they took a lot of coats to become opaque they just seemed to peal of. I wore Woven Skyline the gray on new years eve and I lost two of the nails on the way to the party I was going to. It just seemed to ping of. Disappointing. 

I bought a couple more of the Rimmel Scandaleyes liners, in bright blue, nude and taupe as I had the silver and really liked it I thought I would give these a go. I've worn the nude on my waterline a couple times and it didn't smudge. 

I bought this by accident thinking I was repurchasing my usual Sun shimmer light matte bronzer. I accidentally picked up the light shimmer instead. I didn't really mind as I still have a lot of the matte one left as I was only buying it as it was on offer. I will give this a go but I tend not to like glitters face products.

I wanted to try this as the advert made this look really good. I like this but think a gold eyeliner would be better value for money as what you see in the lid is all the product you get. It is a really lovely gold but for £5.99 you could get a good gold eyeliner that has more product. 

 Iv'e also been wanting to try the color tatoo's for ages and bought these four to try our. I've used the pomegranate and the gold so far and really liked using them. The gold is a really great base for building a intense gold eye on top.

There was a 3 for 2 on maybelline so I picked up this pen style liquid liner. I love this as it is so easy to create a really fine line or a statement liner look with this. I've been using this more then my gel liner as it is a lot quicker to apply and I don't need to clean the brush immediately after doing my liner. Perfect for lazy makeup days.

Boots were giving this mascara free when you bought 2 things from collection. I kept this but the things I bought from collection were gifts. This tbh isn't a bad mascara If you want a more natural look as It gives length but not volume.

I will go back and do separate reviews of some of these products with swatches. But this is just a overview.

I hope you liked :P

Lauren