Blog Sale

Here is my blog sale, if there is anything that tickles your pickle please comment below with the items that you would like and your email address and I will send you an invoice. Postage will be £2.20 regardless of how much you order. (Unless something small that will go as a large letter postage will be reduced) More will be added shortly as I have lots of nail polishes to add.

Rimmel Apocalips in Galaxy, Celestial and Apocaliptic. All swatched and Apocaliptic used once. £3.50 each

Barry M Shadow sticks, one brown and one black. Both swatched £1.50 each

Clinique Dramatically Different Moisurizing Loion 30ml £1.50

ELF HD Blush in Showstopper,one pump used -£2.00

ELF Blushed/Bronze used a few times - £1.25

Glow and Go Highlighter by Look, new and sealed - £3.50

Burts Bees Lip Shimmer in Watermelon new and sealed - £2.00, 17 Wild Metallics in Wild Purple used twice - £0.75

MUA Eye Primer x 2 new and boxed - £1 each

Nail polishes all used to do complete set of nails, £1 each

No7 Mini Beautifier, eyeshadows swatched - £2.50

Accessorize Eyeshadow Palette swatched - £1.50

Superdrug Vitamin E Radiance Moisture Cream, used once - £1

Topshop palette in Constallation, swatched - £5

New CID Highlighter in Marshmallow, swatched once - £5.00

NYX Jumbo Eye Crayon in Strawberry Milk, used couple of times £1.50, Urban Decay Eyeliner in Bourbon used a couple of times £2

As I said more will be added shortly but if there is anything you fancy please let me know in the comments below.

FOTD and mini review

I thought I would do a face of the day today, I also used a couple of news products for the first time so I thought I would also give my first impressions of them.

I'm off work today and just wanted a quiet relaxing day so I went for a really simple and natural look.
I'm currently having some issues with spots, and lots of them. My skin has always been quite good but recently I have been breaking out alot and I end up with clusters in one area of my face. They are currently quite enjoying living on my cheek. So brace yourselves for a close up photo of my spots to come.
Because of the spots I wanted to try a new foundation. I read some good reviews on the Vichy Dermablend Foundation, its supposed to be good at camouflaging problem skin such as acne scarring and dark circles so I thought it may cover my spots.

 This was £15.50 from Boots and I went for the shade 15 Opal as it was the lightest shade that they stocked in my Boots, they do some lighter shades but unfortunately they didn't have them. It matches my skin quite well after blending it out.

This is a before and after picture of my face. This is just the foundation on my skin. I think I was expecting a little too much out of this foundation and I was thinking it was just going to cover everything and make my skin flawless. It doesn't do that but it does cover up quite well, it doesn't really take away any of the redness of the spots and I did still need to use concealer to cover them up a little more.

Onto the FOTD, here is the finished look

Here is what I used

Vichy Dermablend Foundation

Mac Mineralize Skin Finish in Medium Plus

Mac Peony Petal Blush

Mac Mineralize Skin Finish in Lightscapade

Mac Cross Cultural Eyeshadow (eyebrows)

Bobbi Brown Navajo Eyeshadow (brow bone highlighter)

Mac Painterly Paint Pot (eye primer)

Urban Decay Skimp (all over the eye)

Urban Decay Spotlight (centre of eye)

Urban Decay Wreckage (outer corner and crease)

L'oreal Volume Million Lashes in extra black

Mac Rebel Lipstick (applied lightly with a brush)

Now onto a little review of the mascara. I have heard so many good reviews on this mascara but never got round to trying it so I picked it up yesterday to try out. 

 I wanted to love this mascara so much especially with it costing over £10. I have tried some of the Natural Collection at Boots mascaras for £1.99 and been in love so for almost £10 more I was expecting a lot. Did it deliver? I'm still undecided. It definitely separated my lashes and it did so very well but it didn't give me any added length or volume which I was hoping for. I did also find that it clumped a little on the second coat. I'll continue to use the mascara and hopefully I will find some way to make it work for me.

I hope you enjoyed my little combined FOTD and mini review today.

Don't forget to enter my giveaway to win a Mac lipstick of your choice!

First haul post

It was my birthday a couple of weeks ago and I had a bit of money left over so I popped into town after work to see what I could find. I'm really happy with my purchases and can't wait to try them all out this weekend.

First I went into Boots, I knew exactly what I wanted from there so I was really happy to see they had one left!

This is the Rimmel Scandaleyes Waterproof Kohl Kajal Eyeliner in nude. I used this today to line my waterline for a more natural looking alternative to white liner and I love this and it lasted all day, something that I very rarely find with high street brands. This is priced at £3.99 - bargain!

Boots currently have an offer on 3 for 2 on make up so not one to miss out on a bargain I picked up a couple of other products to take full advantage.

 These are the Barry M Hi Shine Gel Effect Nail Polishes, I think these I fairly new. I got them in Pomegranate (left) and Blackberry (right). These are really thick polishes, I tried them each out on one nail. The purple only needed one coat to be completely opaque but the pink would definitely need 2. They seemed to dry fairly quickly, however after coming out of the bath they both peeled off in one strip. I didn't put a base or top coat on as I was only testing the colour so this may help but I will be doing a full review of them shortly.
These were also priced at £3.99 so all three items came to a total of £7.98.

I then decided to take a trip into my local TK Maxx, I do love this shop and they sometimes have some real gems hidden but the beauty section in mine always has so many items that have been opened or smashed and its just really annoying. Having said that I did find some amazing (in my opinion) bargains that were in perfect condition.

First up I spotted these hidden right at the back of the shelf. It was a pack of 3 China Glaze nail crackles, they were £5.99. I've only ever tried the Barry M crackle polish and I wasn't overly impressed but I thought that with these being glitter and China Glaze they may be better.

As I was heading over to the till I spotted another shelf so went for a look and was really shocked to find it packed full of Urban Decay palettes for £12.99 each. I picked up this one as it had the most colours that I would actually use. Alot of the others had lots of greens and purples which I already have a lot of.

I love all these colours, this palette is called the Mariposa Palette and retailed for £26 so not bad at all for £12.99 I don't think.

The next item is the one that I was most excited about, I was actually looking at this online the other day but didn't order for whatever reason.

 I've wanted the Urban Decay liner in perversion for a while. Its supposed to the blackest black liner. The full size liner retails for £13 so I'm really happy to get 5 for less than the price of 1 full size to try. They are quite large for travel sizes (0.8g the Rimmel pencil is 1.2g) so I don't think I will even get through the travel sizes.

All in all I'm really impressed with my haul, I'm hopefully going back to TK Maxx this weekend to see if they have any other UD products in. I will be doing a full review of each item shortly.

Have you managed to bag any bargains from anywhere recently?