Sorry Everyone!!

Crikey!

It's been a long time since I have had a chance to sit down and type some thoughts. Sorry people for the disappearance. I have been extremely busy with my photography work and continued work on the garden...

I have a few reviews thoughts and ideas coming soon so I'll be back this month (no more four month gaps I promise!!!).

See you all soon bloggers :)

K x

Soap & Glory!

Boots.com Haul

Back from visiting the folks, this box arrived while I was there! YAY! I ordered a load of Soap and Glory as they have 1/3 off in store and online at the minute.

• Flirtigo
• Mini Hand Food Hand Cream
• Super Eyes
• Clean On Me
• Easy Glistening Spray Moisturising Mist
  

I also bought:

• Glo - JLo
• Olay Daily Facials
• No 7 Bronzing Pearls (to fill up my existing pot)

Hello Kitty Haulage!

A pic of my most recent haul, photographed just after being eagerly ripped open this morning before work. It was like Christmas!!! :)

Here she is.... Hello Kitty!!!

This keyring is the favourite item from my most recent haul, and one that will hopefully still be around when the rest of my collection has been all used up!

I have been using popster TLC on my lips all evening and I am really liking the way it makes them feel. Love the colour (neon pink), it works really well with my skin tone and makes me look forward to summer! It looks kind of orangey in the pot, but on my lips it only shows a bright pink. Here are some pics in case you were wondering how it looks compared to pink fish...

'Popster' Tinted Lip Conditioner

Popster TLC (Thick on top, sheered out at the bottom)

My next on the list of fave items are the lippys. I am really liking the colour, again I think they will be fantastic this summer. Nice bright colours to make me look perky! Pics shown are both with and without flash. The non-flash versions are the truest colour match, I just put the flash ones on there to show the sparklies in 'Big Bow' :)

Big Bow, Glaze (L), Most Popular, Lustre (R) Swatches below...

Swatches of Most Popular (Top) and Big Bow (bottom)

The two pigments I purchased are at extreme opposites of the range! I haven't had chance to play with them yet, but I will be posting an update as soon as I can, I promise! ;)

Pigments are Deep Blue Green (Top) and Milk (Bottom)

Milk & Deep Blue Green

The last item from the Hello Kitty collection was a glitter liner in 'Her Glitz'. I have seen some amazing looks done with this product on other blogs and Tanya (of Tanyas247 fame! - Click here to see her do her stuff!) gave me a great tip to use it as an accent on top of eyeshadow, she says to do about three strokes and then rubbing it on to give an all over shimmer! Great tip! Even more ways to play with my new goodies! YAY! :)

Glitter Eye Liner 'Her Glitz'

Her Glitz

My last two purchases weren't from Hello Kitty, but still exciting! I got a Cremestick liner (which I think are permanent), and The Limited Edition Brush 214 from The Brunette, Blonde, Redhead Collection

Cremestick Liner in 'Sublime Culture'

Mac Limited Edition 214 Brush

Apologies for the lack of swatches with some of these, I am planning to get to it as soon as I have some decent daylight!

Bye for now! :)  xoxox

UPDATE!

Swatches done now!! :)

NARS Again via E-bay! :)

So I got a little more Nars! 

I was bored and wandering around e-bay last week, mostly looking at the MAC stuff when I came across a 'buy it now' 9947 palette :) It was a really good price for so many Nars eyeshadows, so I thought, why not?!

The Wonderful 9947 Palette

I am loving it so far from the swatches (below). Two beautiful highlight colours in Kilimanjaro I (a nice yellow golden white) and Himalayas (beautiful powder pink frost). Bohemian gold II looks to be everything I was hoping French Cuff from MAC was going to be (but sadly was not). All these colours I will wear!! 

Sorry the swatches are a bit wonky, I was trying to catch the sparkle properly!

(Top L to R) Kilimanjaro I, Bohemian Gold II, Surabaya II

Bottom (L to R) Himalayas, Ondine, Night Flight

I am looking forward to testing it out later!!

More Benefit!!

BENEFIT HAULAGE!

So, here are my latest Benefit purchases, inspired by my new found love for Dandelion! 

• Georgia
• Erase Paste
• Justine Case
  

Three New Lovelies!

First to Georgia! 

I admit I was a little worried that Georgia would make me appear orange, but again I should have more faith!

Georgia

It does exactly the same same thing as Dandelion, except with my skintone it makes me look more groomed, like I have wonderful smooth skin and is very glam. Dandelion gives me a healthy outdoor glow. Both Dandelion and Georgia are brilliant but for different looks.

So we come to the star, my new best friend, Erase Paste. I had been put off buying this product as the only people who seemed to be raving about how fabulous it was were people who actually worked for Benefit! Most other reviews gave this a thumbs down, I give it a massive thumbs up!

When I first tried it I was worried that it seemed to be 'sitting' on the skin under my eyes, but after 30 minutes or so, it had completely dissolved into my skin and merged with my foundation wonderfully!

No harsh dragging when applying, no cakeing under my inner eyes. FANTASTIC! I can heartily recommend this to people with super dry skin like me.

Erase Paste in Shade 02

Justine Case. The final piece of the haul. I wanted to get to try out the products in this but didn't want to shell out for the full size items...

I'll post an update as soon as I've had a good go with the products in here. I'm already thinking that some kinda gorgeous is not giving me enough coverage, but I'll persevere and let you know as soon as I have a good opinion to share.

More pretties to come soon! :) YAY!

More NARS!

So I went to meet an friend for coffee this morning. Unfortunately the Coffee shop we were in has a Space N.K. right next door! eeek! I think you can guess what happened next

I went in 'just to have a look' as I have previously only bought Nars from websites. I came away clutching the Brazil eyeshadow duo, and believe me,  I thought that was extremely restrained of me!!

I wanted something a little bit 'perkier' for spring summer and the hungry heart collection wasn't doing it for me.

The duo has a nice light auburn coppery gold paired with a bronzed rosy pink. I wanted something pink (ish), that didn't make my eyes look as if I had been crying for hours! See pics below:

NARS Brazil

NARS Brazil Swatch

Very pretty, I am off to experiment now. So Exciting getting new things!

Good News!!!

I AM A WINNER!!!

So Happy :) I am a subscriber to Sirvinya on youtube (if you haven't seen her vids, check her out HERE!

She did a look with products from Beauty Counter Direct and had a competition/ giveaway on her channel for a free Pout lipstick, and... well... I won one!!! WHOOP!

So happy I can't tell you! I never win anything, plus! I really like Pout, I have a couple of their brushes which are great. I bought my business partner a pout lipstick for Christmas and kind of wished that I had bought one for myself too, but, now I have one YAY!!!! 

I will post pics here when it arrives. Very Excited!!!!!

Whoohooo, more goodies!!

:)

My Wish List to Date

A few things I'm planning to purchase as soon as I have some spare cash (yeah, right! As soon as I get a new credit card more like!!):

When the Hello Kitty Collection Comes out in the UK:

Popster Tinted lip balm

Deep Blue Green Pigment

Liquid eyeliner Her Glitz 

Keychain with mirror

From Barry M:

No 3 Dazzle Dust

Bobbi Brown (need to check these out first as I'm not sure about my colouring with Bobbi):

Creamy concealer Kit

Corrector

Haul! NARS, Benefit + Freebies!

NARS Velvet Matte Lip Pencil 'Dolce Vita'

NARS Lip Pencil 'Rosebud'

Dolce Vita (Top) Rosebud (Bottom) 

Benefit Dandelion

This product does actually seem to do what it claims! I was walking out of the bathroom and caught myself in the mirror, I actually did a double take as I looked so healthy! Is if I had just come back from a brisk walk on a crisp Autumn day. Great! It's always good to know I didn't waste my money!

Unfortunately it's quite hard to get a swatch as it is such a sheer powder (which is, i suppose why it works so well!), here is my attempt below...

Benefit Dandelion (Top) NARS Silvana (Bottom)

NARS Blush 'Silvana'

NARS Silvana Blush is a really great colour, exactly what I was wanting. Something that goes on fairly sheer and gives a nice warm glow to the skin (kind of like a 'light' bronzer). It has a golden sheen and well worth looking at next time you're near a NARS stockist!

FREE STUFF!! :)

So, the company that I bought my Nars and Benefit from had a special offer on - A free goody bag when spending over £35. Below are the contents! 

Two Johnny Loves Rosie Hair Grips

A pair of Bloom eyelash curlers and a lip glaze in 'Lavish'

Rescue Beauty Lounge Make up wipe and Easy Streaks hair attachment

Hair Moisturising Serum and Skin Doctors Toner

All the freebies are great! I think it's always good to get some free stuff anyway :) I'll see how well the products work and post the results here soon.

     

The weather was very strange on New Years Day in Shropshire. Look at these frosted spiders webs! Wish I could find some glittery jewellery as intricate as this!