Face Of The Day Featuring Estee Lauder Bronze Sands Palette

I recently picked up the Estee Lauder Bronze Sands eyeshadow palette, this is full of gorgeous colours for the summer. I never used to feel comfortable wearing colours like this as I felt the orange tones clashed with my hair but recently I have found that I can get them to work. I really liked the Mac Extra Dimension shadows I got and these shadows are the same formula. They are very metallic and very pigmented.

I used all the colours in the palette, the lighteset gold in the tear duct, darker gold on inner third, orange/bronze on rest of lid and dark brown blended through crease and on upper lashline. I then put the blue under the lower lashes. These colours blend so beautifully, I really do love this eyeshadow formula.

Products Used:
Face:
Misha M Perfect Cover BB Cream
Maybelline Mineral Concealer
Make Up Forever HD Powder
Nars Laguna Bronzer
Mac Rose Quartz MSF as blush
Eyes:
UDPP
Estee Lauder Bronze Sands Palette
Covergirl Lash Blast Mascara
Lips:
Mac Angel Lipstick

Face Of The Day Featuring Mac Dynamic Duo 3

I had two Debenhams gift cards burning a hole in my purse from my birthday back in March, they had a 10% off event online so I used them to buy some Mac! Can I just say how ridiculous Debenhams checkout is, I had 2 cards totalling £45 but you can only use one method of payment so if you are using a gift card you have to have enough on the card to cover the whole purchase. So in the end I had to place 2 separate orders (it was free delivery) which ultimately would cost Debenhams more! Anyway on to what I got, I picked out the Dynamic Duo 3 which is absolutely gorgeous, its a purple/taupe (veluxe pearl) and teal (matte). Both colours are nicely pigmented and although I wouldn't have thought of pairing them together they work really well.

Products Used:

Face:

Clarins Ever Matte Foundation

Maybelline Mineral Concealer

Make Up Forever HD Powder

Nars Orgasm Blush

Nars Laguna Bronzer

Eyes:

Urban Decay Primer Potion

Mac Dynamic Duo 3

Purple/Taupe on lid and crease

Teal on outer corners and under lower lashline

Mac Blitz & Glitz Fluidline on upper lashline

Covergirl Lashblast Mascara

Lips:

Mac Ravishing Lipstick

I have had a bit of a play with the layout of my blog and changed the header, would love to hear you feedback. I am stuck at home at the moment as I managed to step on a plug and cut my foot really badly so need to keep it bandaged, dry and elevated for 5 days, so am incredibly bored of the same four walls!

Face Of The Day Featuring Mac Impassioned

The sun finally shone at the weekend, you wouldn't know it now though, as I am sat here typing this there is a thunderstorm going on and huge hailstones are bouncing off my window! Anyway as it was a nice day I went for another neutral eye bright lip combo, this time with Mac Impassioned which is such a gorgeous summery colour. And I have to say it lasts incredibly, I didn't need to touch it up at all through the evening, even after eating and drinking. I actually had to remove it before going to bed! I am also trying out the Bourjois 123 foundation, I haven't made my mind up on it yet but when I do I will post a review.

Products Used:
Face:
Bourjois 1,2,3 Perfect Foundation
Maybelline Mineral Concealer
Illamasqua Hussy Cream Pigment as contour
Make Up Forever HD Powder
Illamasqua Morale Blush
MAC Redhead MSF as highlight
Eyes:
UDPP
Mac Aurora Pigment on lid and inner corners
Mac Satin Taupe on outer corners and crease
Mac Blanc Type as highlight
Mac Avenue Fluidline on upper lashline
Covergirl Lashblast Mascara
Lips:
Mac Impassioned Lipstick

I would love to know what your favourite bright summer lipstick is.

Face Of The Day Featuring Nars Nouveau Monde

I own quite a few Nars eyeshadows now, I love the duos as the colours always work so beautifully together. Nouveau Monde is one of my favourites, I picked it up last summer and it's one that I regularly reach for. If you like lilacs and greens then honestly you need to at least swatch this!

Products Used:
Face:
Clarins Ever Matte Foundation
Maybelline Mineral Concealer
Make Up Forever HD Powder
Nars Orgasm Blush
Eyes:
UDPP
Nars Nouveau Monde duo, lilac on lid and green in crease and under lower lashes
Mac Blanc Type as highlight
Mac Blitz & Glitz Fluidline
Covergirl Lashblast Mascara
Lips:
Mac Costa Chic Lipstick

Face Of The Day - L'Oreal Flashback Silver

This is another post that has been sat in my draft folder and I thought it was time it got published. I did this just after I bought the L'Oreal shadow and I still absolutely love it.

Products Used:

Face:

Bobbi Brown Corrector Light Bisque

Bourjois Healthy Mix Foundation

Illamasqua Hollow Cream Pigment as Contour

Make Up Forever HD Powder

Mac Sakura Mineralise Blush

Eyes:

L'Oreal Flashback Silver on lid, crease and under lower lashes

Mac Knight Divine lightly on the outer corners and crease

Mac Blitz & Glitz Fluidline on upper lashline

Covergirl Lashblast Mascara

Lips:

Mac Playtime Cremesheen Lipstick

Smokey Brown Face Of The Day

This is another post that has been sat in my draft folder since last year. I still love these colours though so thought I would post it now!

Products Used

Face:

Bobbi Brown Corrector Light Bisque

Illamasqua Skin Base Foundation

Illamasqua Cream Pigment Hollow as Contour

Make Up Forever HD Powder

Illamasqua Blusher in Excite

Eyes:

UDPP

Mac Style Snob on lid and under lower lashes

Mac Midnight Madness in crease and outer corner

Mac Carbon in outer v

Mac Graphic Brown Fluidline on upper lashline

Covergirl Lashblast Mascara

Lips:

Max Factor Lipstain forget the shade, sorry!

Nars Make Up Your Mind Eyes Set And Face Of The Day

I couldn't resist ordering the new book from Francois Nars, I ordered it from the Nars website and at the same time got a couple of the sets released with the book. The first one I wanted to show you is the Eyes set. In the box you get a 6 eyeshadow palette, mascara, travel size smudgeproof eye base and travel size make up remover.

Left to right: Abyssinia, Silk Road 2, Strada

Galapagos, Fuji, Brumes 2

All of the shades in the eyeshadow palette are new to me so I am looking forward to having a play with them! I am really looking forward to testing out the smudgeproof eyeshadow base, as much as I love my UDPP it can be a pain to blend shadows so will be testing this out to see how it compares.

Here is a quick face of the day I did using the palette

Products Used:

Face:

Bobbi Brown Corrector Light Bisque

Bourjois Healthy Mix Foundation

Illamasqua Cream Pigment in Hollow as contour

Stila Convertible Colour in Orchid as Blush

Make Up Forever HD Powder

Eyes:

Nars Smudgeproof Eyeshadow Base

Abyssinia in inner corners and as highlight

Silk Road 2 on lid

Galapagos on outer corners, crease and under lower lashes

Mac Blitz & Glitz Fluidline

Covergirl Lashblast Mascara

Lips:

Nars Roman Holiday Lipstick

First Impressions and Face Of The Day Using Nars Taiga

Taiga is a duo I have wanted for a long time and a bad day at work resulted in it finally coming home with me. I was really looking forward to using it as the colours are gorgeous but I have to say I was a bit disappointed. The duo is a light champagne paired with a pewter/green with gold sparkle. The champagne shade hardly showed up on me, I had to apply it wet to get any colour payoff at all. The other shade is decently pigmented. I haven't really experienced this with any other Nars eyeshadows. I am going to experiment a bit more with layering it and using different bases to see if I can get it to work. But anyway here is today's face.

You can see in the close up that even used wet the champagne shade doesn't really show up!

Products Used:
Face:

Bobbi Brown Corrector Light Bisque

Bourjois Healthy Mix Foundation

Make Up Forever HD Powder

Beauty UK Baked Blush in Baked Peach

Eyes:UDPP

Nars Taiga duo champagne on inner third, pewter/green on rest of the lid, crease and under lower lashes

Mac Blanc Type as highlight

Mac Black Line Pearlglide on upper lashline

Covergirl Lashblast Mascara

Lips:Poppy King for No7 Lipstick in Allure

Face Of The Day Featuring Nars Exotic Dance Duo

I had no intention of picking up Exotic Dance but I went into Space NK on Friday, swatched it and somehow it ended up coming home with me! Although these shades don't look that special in the pans I really don't think I own colours that are exactly like these. The white shade is very shimmery and can apply a bit patchy but if you pat the colour on you get a much more even application, you can get a bit of fallout with this shade so I prefer to do my eyes before foundation. The gold shade is very pigmented and applies true to colour in pretty much one swipe. This is a very wearable duo and I think I will get a lot of use from it.

Products Used:
Face:
Bobbi Brown Corrector Light Bisque
Bourjois Healthy Mix Foundation
Illamasqua Hollow Cream Pigment as contour
Make Up Forever HD Powder
Beauty UK Baked Peach Blush
Eyes:
UDPP
Nars Exotic Dance white shade on inner two thirds of lid, gold shade on outer corners and crease
Mac Blanc Type as highlight
Mac Blitz & Glitz Fluidline
Covergirl Lashblast Mascara
Lips:
Poppy King for No7 Lipstick in Intrigue

Face Of The Day Using Boots 17 and No7

On Wednesday it was me and my boyfriends first anniversary, we went out for a meal to celebrate. Mark really likes me wearing red lipsticks so I went for a brown smokey eye to compliment it. I am still absolutely loving the 17 Vintage palettes, they are such good quality eyeshadows. I think they have sold out now but you might still be able to find one somewhere.

 

Face:

Bobbi Brown Corrector Light Bisque

Make Up Forever HD Foundation

Shu Uemura Colourless Setting Powder

Illamasqua Hollow Cream Pigment as Contour

Illamasqua Hussy Blush

Mac Redhead MSF as Highlight

Eyes:

UDPP

17 Palette 1 on inner corners

2 on rest of lid and under lashline

3 on outer corners and crease

Mac Blitz & Glitz Fluidline on upper lashline

Illamasqua Glister over fluidline on upper lashline

Bare Minerals Flawless Definition Mascara

Lips:

No7 Poppy King Lipstick in History

 

I had a lovely day and I got a gorgeous necklace and earing set that I will take photos of at the weekend if the sun is out so I can show you them properly!

Face Of The Day using some unloved and new products

I have been pretty bad with my make up spending this month and that needs to stop for awhile so I decided that today I would go through my collection and use some things that have been neglected.
I ended up going for a smokey green look on my eyes and I got to test out Illamasqua's Hollow as a contour.

 

The contour was a bit more noticeable in person but as you can see in the picture above it's very subtle and blends really nicely, am very impressed with it!

Products Used:

Face:

Bobbi Brown Corrector Light Bisque

Make Up Forever HD Foundation

Shu Uemura Colorless Setting Powder

Illamasqua Hollow Cream Pigment to Contour

Mac Shell CCB to Highlight

Nars Torrid Blush

Eyes:UDPP

Mac Metal-X Cream Shadow in Verdigris all over lid, blended in crease and under lower lashes

Dark colour from Nars Rajasthan Duo on outer corners and blended in crease

Mac Dream Maker Eyeshadow on inner corners
Mac Blanc Type as Highlight

Mac Blitz & Glitz Fluidline on upper lashline

Bare Minerals Flawless Definition Mascara

Lips:
Mac Spice Lip Pencil

Mac Marquise D' Lipstick

I know a lot of people complain about the Metal-x shadows creasing but I didn't find that at all, I always put Urban Decay Primer Potion on first no matter what I use on my eyes so that probably helped.

I am not allowing myself to buy any make up for the rest of this month, hopefully this will give me a chance to re-discover some products in my stash!

Face Of The Day Using Mac Dalliance and Centre Stage

It was my boyfriends Dad's birthday on Thursday and I thought that was a perfect chance to try out the new additions I picked up from Mac's Peacocky collection. I really do love these eyeshadows and they work really well together.

 

Products Used:
Face:
Bobbi Brown Corrector Light Bisque
Illamasqua Concealer
Make Up Forever HD Foundation
Mac Studio Fix Powder
Mac Fleur Power Blush
Mac Taupe Contour
Mac Moon River as Highlight
Eyes:
UDPP
Mac Dalliance all over lid and under lower lashes
Mac Centre Stage on outer corners and crease
Mac Blanc Type as highlight
Mac Blitz & Glitz Fluidline on upper lashline
Stilla Topaz liner on waterline
Covergirl Lashblast Mascara
Lips:
Mac So Vain Kissable Lipcolour

Face of the day, another smokey look

I have been having a bit of an obsession with greens lately and so I finally got round to using the two Shu Uemura eyeshadows I picked up a couple of months ago. I was really pleased with the finished look. I also used two new Mac products, I got Studio Fix powder last week and so far I am really liking it. As much as I like the Make Up Forever HD powder in the flesh I hate the way it photographs. The other product was the Kissable Lipcolour in Flaunting It, this is such a gorgeous colour and I found that it lasted really well, the shine faded pretty quickly but the colour stayed for a good while. I am thinking about getting a back up!
Anyway onto the photos

 

Products Used

Face:

Bobbi Brown Corrector Light Bisque

Illamasqua Concealer

Make Up Forever HD Foundation

Mac Studio Fix Powder

Make Up Forever HD Blush 4

Mac Moon River Highlight

Mac Taupe Contour

Eyes:

UDPP

Shu Uemura ME Olive 471 on lid, crease and under lower lashes

Shu Uemura P Green 595 in outer corners and crease

Mac Blanc Type as highlight

Mac Blitz and Glitz on upper lashline and waterline

Covergirl Lashblast

Lips:

Mac Kissable Lipcolour Flaunting it

Face Of The Day Using Mac Club

I have been at home all week with a chest infection and I was getting stir crazy, still not feeling great but just needed to get out of the house so last night me and my boyfriend went out for something to eat.
I was catching up on blogs during the day and saw a post by Lipstick Rules on her love for Club eyeshadow, she linked to a Pixiwoo video where Nic did a Victoria Beckham inspired smokey eye using Club. To be honest this is one of the first Mac shadows I ever bought but I have never used it, I just admired it in the pan but never actually braved using it.
After watching the video I was inspired to give it ago! Obviously it doesn't look exactly like Nic's version but I still really like it! In the video Nic went very bronzed and wore a nude lip, I can't pull off that much bronzer and decided that I wanted to go all out and have a red lip too! So here is my take on the look.

All of these photos were taken with flash as there was no natural light by the time I took the photos!

Products Used:

Face:Make Up Forever HD Foundation

Bobbi Brown Corrector Light Bisque

Shu Uemura Colourless Setting Powder

Nars Laguna Bronzer

Illamasqua Hussy Blush

Nars Albatross Highlighter

Eyes:

UDPP

Mac Club Eyeshadow on lid and slightly above crease, winged out at the corners and carried on under the eye

Mac Black Tied on upper lashline and winged out and slightly blended on outer corners

Mac Blanc Type as Highlight

Mac Blacktrack Fluidline on upper and lower waterlines

Hard Candy 1,000 Lashes Mascara (Hated this, review to follow!)

Lips:

Mac Cherry Lipliner

Mac Cockney Lipstick

Face of the day, my current favourite!

I'm slowly working my way through all the looks I had photographed but not got round to posting over the last few months! This has become one of my favourite eye shadows combo's lately. Its subtle enough for the daytime but works well for the evenings too! Please ignore the state of my eyebrows, this was just before I got them threaded.

Products Used

Face:
Make Up Forever HD Foundation
Bobbi Brown Corrector Light Bisque
Make Up Forever HD Powder
Nars Laguna Bronzer
Nars Orgasm Blush
Eyes:
UDPP
MAC Vex On Lid
MAC Smoke & Diamonds on outer corners and crease
MAC Blanc Type as Highlight
MAC Black Russian Pearlglide on upper lashline
Covergirl Lashblast Mascara
Lips:
MAC Hot Gossip Lipstick

Mac Tartan Tale haul and face of the day

Hey!

Long time no post! Have had a bit of a mad year and blogging has kind of taken a back burner for awhile. Since I last posted I have completed a foundation course at The Academy Of Freelance Makeup and have got a couple of freelance jobs lined up for next year, fingers crossed it leads on to more.

Anyway on to the subject of this post!! MAC's winter collection "A Tartan Tale" was released in the UK last week and me and my friend headed into Selfridges to take a look. This year they are releasing the collection in two parts so I will be heading back when they bring out the mini pigment sets as there are a couple I want but from chapter 1 I picked up two pearlglide liners in Blackline and Black Swan and The Family Crest pigment.
Here is a quick face of the day I did using two of the new products, please ignore the eyebrows, they are in dire need of threading!

Products Used:

Face:

Revlon Colourstay Foundation

Bobbi Brown Corrector Light Bisque

Make Up Forever HD Powder

Nars Laguna Bronzer

Illamasqua Hussy Blush

Eyes:

UDPP

MAC Bare Study Paint Pot

MAC The Family Crest on lid,darkest on outer corner and blended across and lightly in the crease

MAC Quarry Eyeshadow blended in to crease

MAC Blanc Type as highlight

MAC Blackline Pearlglide on upper and lower lashline

Covergirl Lashblast Mascara

Lips:
Mac Hot Gossip Lipstick

I am absolutely in love with The Family Crest pigment, it isn't as dark as it looks when swatched and it makes a gorgeous shimmery smokey eye! Have you picked up anything from this collection, what have been your favourites?