Hey guys,

I recently picked up this technic eyeshadow palette in a budget beauty shop near me. I had heard of this brand before but I had never bought any of their products. I got this for £1.99. They were also selling another pallet that kind of reminded me of the sunset palette from sleek, but I didn't fancy the colours in that one so only picked up this one.  

The palette is basically the same packaging as all the sleek palettes.

I was really surprised with how pigmented this turned out to be. All of these swatches were done with one swipe of the colour. I am in love with the olive green shade but haven't worn it on my eyes yet. I don't think it will go with my blue hair :P. I can't believe the colours are so good for something that was £1.99 it works out at about 17p per eyeshadow! If you see this product I would definitely recommend picking it up.   

Hey guys,

Iv'e bought so many new products to try recently and so thought instead of doing reviews I would do a whats in my makeup bag post as then I can show you all of the products I am currently using.

The majority of these things are going to be lipsticks as they are small enough to fit loads in and I don't bother carrying eyeshadows around with me as they are easy to break and I don't tend to need eyeshadow touch ups during the day.

I took these photos in categories starting from foundation to lip products. These are the products I am currently using for my face. My Maybelline dream fresh bb cream in light, is the only foundation type product I have ever got on with. As I am pale foundations are never light enough for me and I would end up taking them off as I felt orange in them. So for a long time I only wore powder on my face or nothing at all. I have always used the rimmel stay matte powder this is in shade 001 transparent. I have the maybelline fit me powder but don't think it is as good. I also have the fit me foundation in the lightest shade 115 which is ok for my face in the summer but not now in winter. I however am using the fit me concealer in 15 as it has decent coverage and actually matches my skin tone. Also in the picture is my bronzer which I've been using for ages and only just hit pan on, it is the rimmel sun shimmer bronzing compact powder in light matte. I only really use bronzer on my checks as I can never get blusher right I just think I look daft and end up taking it off lol.

Here are all the eye products that are currently in my bag apart from my white MUA eyeliner which was still at the bottom of my makeup bag when I photographed this. Starting on the left is the revlon Grow luscious plumping mascara which is my current favourite. Next is a rimmel black eyeliner then a silver rimmel eyeliner in front. Behind these are my pot of black gel eyeliner buy sleek called dominatrix plus my barry m gel eyeliner in no.3 I think its called Champaign which is a silvery gold colour which I love to wear especially as we get closer to christmas. Then I have a rimmel lose pigment in 012 velvet which is a dusky mauve colour which is pretty old and don't think is available anymore but I like to wear this in my crease. Then I have a eyeshadow brush a smudger and an eyelash curler

Next in my bag is a topshop lip liner in deception and then two of the new velvet lips in velveteen ribbon (red) and plush (purple) I'm not going to do swatches of the velvet lips as I am waiting to do a comparison post between these and the new MUA velvets. 

Next is all my rimmel lip products. I have two of the apocalips, in apocoliptic (pink) and eclipse (red) I then have two of the Colour Rush in 200 keep mauving  and 220 rumour has it. Then finally one of the new moisture renew lipsticks in 380 dark night water l-oops!

Next I have my real techniques detailer brush and two bourjois paris lipsticks in 14 pretty prune and 20 fuchsia graffiti. I like these as I can tell what colour they are in my makeup bag from the bottom of the tube instead of having to open them.

Then finally with lipsticks I have my maybelline in 630 velvet beige, a revlon matte shade in 003 mauve it over and finally my only mac lipstick media. 

Sorry about the focus of this photo but it shows swatches of all the lipsticks.Starting at the left is media which is out of focus, then mauve it over, velvet beige, fuchsia graffiti, pretty prune, dark night water l-oops!, apocaliptic which is a lot more pink/ fuchsia and not red at all irl. Then eclipse, rumour has it, keep mauving on then the topshop lin liner in deception.  

Then the final things in my bag are my compact mirror and lipbalm from garnier 

My makeup bag I think was £2.99 in the savers buy me and is a good shape to fit lots in yet not take up much room in my bag as I have a lot of stuff to carry in to uni daily and so is nice and compact. 

Hope you enjoy I will have reviews of some of these products up soon. Which products do you want reviewed first? 

Lauren 

Hey guys,

I've been on a real pallet buying frenzy at the moment and have got a lot more to show you coming soon. I really like sleek makeup and have owned the acid pallet for years. I also used to use their liquid eyeliner (which is my fav liquid liner) until I switched to using there gel liner when the liquid ran out. I've been wanting to get all the pallets for a while but decided to wait until superdrug was doing a 3 for 2 as it would save me a bit of money as sleek have gone up in price since I first bought the acid pallet.

Today I wanted to show you the original pallet as it is really good quality, super pigmented and cheap in comparison to buying single eyeshadows as you get twelve different shades for £7.99 which works out £0.66 ish per shadow. I also wanted to show you this one to start with as I've got 7 more sleek pallets to show you and felt I should start with the original :P

On with the swatches. (sorry about the quality I had to take these on my phone)

All the colours are super pigmented. Most are shimmer/ metallic apart from the black which is black which suits me fine as I'm not a massive fan of matte shades. This is without flash 

Same as above but with flash. Some colours took more than one swipe to build up the colour such as the darkest blue and the purple but other than that most are the result of one swipe. 

The pallet without flash. I love all the shades but my favourite are the two in the bottom right corner the gold and the olive green. All these colours are amazing for this season and could create really great daytime and party looks alike. 

The pallet with flash. All colours come out true to how they look in the pallet and are such good value for money. I really recommend this pallet and the older sleek pallets as some of the latest releases such as the vintage romance pallet are not as well pigmented. Also the black shades are a lot more true black in the older releases as they are more charcoal in the newer pallets. 

The closed front of this pallet with the sleek logo

The back of the packaging is good as it says the name of the pallet so you don't have to open all the pallets to find the one you were initially looking for.

Hope you enjoyed 

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Lauren

Hi guys,

Yes I've been buying again. I bought some revlon polishes as they have gotten good reviews and the bottles are very nice. I also thought i'd take advantage of them being £2 off in superdrug. They were £6.49 but at the moment they are £4.49. They are a bit more expensive than what I'd usually spend on polish but I fell in love with these colours and had to have them. I got (I think they are new releases) a gold/ silvery polish called rich, a dark purple called seductive, and a fuchsia glitter in black polish called scandalous.

Here come the swatches...

I tried to clean up my nails but the purple does stain a bit. The purple is my least favourite as it is very thin and takes about three coats to become opaque. I prefer the gold and the fuchsia glitter. 

Hope you enjoy,

Lauren :P

Hey guys,

I popped into superdrug again today and picked up the new colour from the normal barry M range, berry cosmo. I've seen a lot of posts about this recently and have seen a lot of bloggers combining it with the new barry M crystalglaze. I wanted to just do a quick post showing of this new colour that is so perfect for autumn. It is the perfect berry colour and is a sort of damson purple colour. It applies evenly in two coats and I was impressed with the formula as I usually am with Barry M products.

Now time for the swatches, please excuse the state of my cuticles lol :P

Hope you will love this colour as much as I do.

Lauren 

Hey again,

Recently I have really got into wearing lipstick and makeup in general. I have in the past been really terrible at applying makeup and went through awkward stages of eye makeup. I was quite into rock and so went through the whole two much eyeliner during my teens. Also I used to love this dark purple and lilac combo that would have been alright if I hadn't been about twelve and knew how to blend. Up until this year I would only maybe use a bit of powder during the day and use eyeshadow and lipstick when going out at night. I still most of the time forget to use mascara as I find applying it annoying and always manage to get some in my hair/ fringe. But I think I am somewhat better at it now. As they say practice makes perfect.

I have always found it really hard to find a foundation to suit my skin. The first foundation I bought was the Maybelline dream matte mouse which was god awful. I was quit young so probably bought the wrong shade as I tested it on my hand and not my face. Yet if I bothered to use it, I would always take it of as it made me orange, and as a goth kid that was not the desired look :P. I recently have been using the Maybelline  dream fresh bb as it is light and provides the right amount of cover my skin needs. I had also been using the fit me foundation also by Maybelline but I'm not sure if I like it anymore (I have the powder an concealer as well and these are both good).

I'm not a big fan of blush and currently don't own any but if I fancy wearing some I mix lipstick with my bb cream to create a liquid blush. I much prefer bronzer and use it to contour my face, I currently use the Rimmel sun shimmer light matte bronzer.

I am really into lipstick at the moment and splurged a couple weeks ago on a MAC lipstick (media, its a satin finish) which I love. This is a very sultry, sexy colour and is my perfect red lip.

Above are all the lipsticks I own apart from Media as It was in my bag. I have a few from Maybelline, pink pearl and velvet beige. Some from the natural collection (from boots), these are really cheap and are amazing quality, I have pink orchid and cherry red. I have a blue, black and pink from barry M and one from sleek that they don't do anymore claret and an accessorize purple, passionate.  

I haven't mentioned eyeshadow and with the amount I have It will probably have to be in a separate post. Also the shadow I use at the moment is from an ancient set that I found while packing for uni that was bought from argos years ago and so wont be of much use to anyone to see it.  

Hope you enjoyed this post, please comment and follow :P

Lauren 

Hey guys.
Just a quick couple of posts today as I feel I've neglected my blog this week as I've been finishing up my art foundation course. I also wanted to show you guys the new a-england polishes I bought which came today. I bought two colours from the Gothic Beauties collection, Ophelia and Tess D'urbervilles. These retail at £9 from the a-england website but at the moment they only ship to the UK. I also really want Lady of Shalott and Jane Eyre from this collection. Picture then I'll do a short review. (Just to let you know I bought these with my own money I'll state if in the future I've been sent products.)

Opheila

Based on the doomed character of Shakespeare's play "Hamlet", young Ophelia who is destined to be the bride of Hamlet, the rightful king of Denmark, is sent conflicting messages by him - a man she has become besotted with. Upon her father's death, she begins to spiral down into a deep madness, finally killing herself by drowning - but not before she takes the herb "rue", a well-known symbol of regret.

I really liked this colour although I was initially disappointed by both of these colours as I expected them to look more like they do in the bottle but when applied they are a lot darker. As I got used to the colour though I grew to love it as when your nails catch the light they truly sparkle. They remind be of China Glaze smoke and ashes and has a similar finish on the nail if you don't apply top coat. 

Tess d'Urbervilles

From Thomas Hardy's title character in "Tess d'Urbervilles: A Pure Woman Faithfully Presented (1891)", this is the story of a young rural woman whose life becomes torn apart by strict Victorian conventions when she becomes the focus of carnal attention by Alec d'Urberville - a man of self-imposed nobility and despicable morals. While Tess's heart is pure, her physical beauty makes her a target and thus dooms her to never finding inner peace due to the rigidly adhered-to womanly ideals she has to live up to. Imprisoned and sentenced to death for Alec's murder, she finds peace at last through death.

I don't usually buy many greens as it's usually not a colour that draws me, yet I was immediately draw to this one and I much prefer this to Ophelia. It was also a lot easier to photograph which is a plus. Both of these polishes though had a great formula and applied easily and with one coat, which I was very impresses with. These colours really do have a very Gothic feel to them. I don't think I will be wearing them often but think they would look great on a night out. 

Hope you enjoy 

Lauren 

Hey guys, Yesterday I attempted to do a glitter gradient as it was late and I was to tired for nail art. I really don't know if I like this as in general I'm not a massive fan of glitter in nail polish. It'd not bad for a first attempt but don't think I'll be trying this one again in a hurry.

To do this I started by painting my nails in Barry M jelly Plum, and then painted a layer of clear polish, any will do but I used Sally Hansen Hard as Nails. I then using a paint brush applied gold glitter powder to the tip of my nail and tapped the brush over the rest of my nail so little flecks of the gold were seen in the purple as well. I then applied two coats of fast dry top coat. 

Hope you enjoy

Lauren :P

Hi, I haven't had time to post in a couple days or do anything special with my nails :( and am really sad how much I missed doing it. However I have a week until my foundation is done and then have the whole summer to do nails. It's weird this is the longest I've gone without posting which isn't that long seeing as I posted Monday but I've had major withdrawal lol. Sorry for rambling on I try and keep the opening to my posts as short as possible as not to bore but anyway... so today I've kept it simple as I'm so tiered and did a simple butterfly print nail. Photos first then the tutorial like always.

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It's rainy again in London this week but the weather over the weekend was so good. I actually got a tan lol. So I planned to do nail art to go along with the sunny weather. These are super cute because of the little pink toe nail polish! Photos first then tutorial.

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Hi today I've created a design based on the game tetris. As a kid I was addicted to this game and even had it not just as a computer game but as a electronic board game lol. Pictures first then the tutorial.

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