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?

Illamasqua Art Of Darkness Collection & Nails Of The Week - Illamasqua Viridian

On Saturday I was one of the lucky bloggers that were invited to attend the launch of the new Illamasqua Art of Darkness Collection. The launch was held at the new Illamasqua store on Beak Street 3 days before the doors opened to the public so it was lovely to be one of the first to look round the shop! It was great to catch up with other bloggers that I haven't really seen since IMATS!

So onto the collection, I absolutely love the imagery used in this collection, I think its my favourite from Illamasqua so far.

The products available in this collection are:
Nail Varnish in Scarab (Deep Metallic Red) & Viridian (Deep Metallic Green)
Pure Pigments in Ore (Golden Bronze) & Alluvium (Golden Lilac Blue)
Powdered Metal in Ether (Pale Gold)
Liquid Metal in Stoic (Gleaming Emerald), Superior (Deep Lapis Lazuli) & Resolute (Rich Russet). These are also available in a 4 colour palette with Solstice.
Precision Ink in Alchemy (Spun Gold) & Abyss (Pure Black)
Intense Lipgloss in Hermetic (Deep Pearl Red)
Lipstick in Disciple (Matte Navy Blue)
Flase Eyelashes No 26 & 27

I absolutely love both the pigments available in this collection and will definately be picking them up.
As we were leaving we were given a goody bag and I received the Nail Varnish in Viridian and Lipgloss in Hermetic.






I put Viridian straight on my nails on Sunday and it's still going strong 4 days later.

With Flash

In Direct Sunlight

I am completely in love with this colour, it was the one thing from the collection I was desperate for so was really happy it was in my goody bag! Is there anything you will be picking up from this collection?

Nars Haul

Slowly starting to catch up all the posts I've been meaning to do for the last couple of months!
I am a sucker for Nars eyeshadow duo's and after a particularly bad day at work I headed into John Lewis and picked up Tzarine & Rajasthan eyeshadow duos and Palladium soft touch shadow pencil. The guy on the counter convinced me into letting him try a few things on me which resulted in me standing outside John Lewis with a tissue trying to rub it all off, I never have much luck with Nars counter staff! So anyway on to the swatches

Left to Right: Tzarine, Rajasthan, Blackened green from Rajasthan over Palladium, Palladium

I absolutely love Tzarine and have used it loads since I picked it up, it looks gorgeous with the champagne colour over the inner half of the lid and the darker colour blended on the rest of the lid and crease.

Did you pick up anything from this collection?

Nails Of The Week - OPI Catch Me In Your Net

First post in a long time!! I am going to be back to normal soon I promise!
This is OPI's Catch Me In Your Net which in the bottle looks like a beautiful blue with green sparkles. On the nails it's a bit odd. In some lights it looks a flat blue, in others the green sparkle shows through and in some lights it just looks green!
Here are a few pictures in different lighting conditions.

Direct Sunlight

Direct Sunlight (You can see the green shimmer more here)

In the shade, here it just looks green with shimmer.

I am really not sure how much I like this, it is pretty in some lights but not all the time and it really stained my nails and was a nightmare to remove. I think this one might be relegated to the back of the draw!

Mac In The Groove Haul

This is the first MAC collection I have been interested in for ages, I was really tempted to pick up a blush and MSF but in the end I settled for two of the eyeshadow trios.

I picked Togetherness and Calm, Cool & Collected.

Togetherness is a pale lavender, dark purple with blue shimmer and a shimmery grey.

Calm, Cool & Collected is a gorgeous trio of greens, I had no intention of buying this one but once I had swatched it I fell in love! It's a pale white/green, frosty mint green and a darker forest green.

Both of these trios are nicely pigmented and apply really nicely. Will post a face of the day using these in the next week! Did you pick up anything from this collection?

Nails Of The Week - OPI Funky Dunkey

My first nails of the week in a long time is one that I received as a gift from a friend. This is OPI's Funky Dunkey which came out as part of the Shrek Collection.
It's an absolutely gorgeous purple cream but its an absolute nightmare to photograph!
Neither of these photos are 100% true to colour. The first one is in natural light and makes it look a lot more blue than it does in reality.

The second is taken indoors with flash and this is more true to colour but still a tad lighter.

Wear on this was great, I had it on for 5 days and only had minor tip wear. I have been testing out the Sally Hansen quick dry top coat, will review it properly once I've given it a fair try!

Hope everyone is having a great week!

The American haul!

Hey!

I am so sorry that I have taken so long to post this, life has been kinda hectic since I got back from holiday! I promise that I will be back to my regular posting schedule by the end of this week!
Anyway lets get straight on to the good stuff, here are the goodies I brought back with me from the States!

The Nail Polish

 

Milani Holos, OPI Suedes and my first Essie's

Some MAC goodies from the CCO, Mineralise blush duo, Eyeshadow and Metal X cream shadow

 

Lots of Macara, Covergirl lipstains, Revlon lipstick, ELF lipstain and Jessie's Girl pigments

Kat Von D Sinner perfume, Korres set, Make Up Forever HD Blush, Laura Mercier Concealer and the freebies!

Just a quick overview of what I brought back, I will review the products properly once I have had a chance to use them all. If there is anything you would particularly like to see a review off please let me know!

Apologies and Excuses!!!

Firstly I want to apologise for the lack of posts over the last few weeks, things have been incredibly hectic and I just haven't been able to get online!
I am actually on holiday at the moment, I'm typing this from my friends house in San Diego!
Expect a big haul post when I get back and then hopefully service will return to normal!!

Beauty Blog Link Love - Sunday 25th April

Curious about the new Balanciaga Paris fragrance? So was Rae, over at theNotice -- but she's since quenched that curiosity. (And fallen in love while doing so!)

Beautyjunkielondon finds a perfect coral nail shade for spring, by Rimmel.



Sarah has found a new anti-aging moisturizer and eye cream and shockingly... they actually work!

It's a plane, no, it's a monster (well actually, yes), no -- it's just Jeweled Thumb's enormous coiffure! Be scared, be very scared.

Red lips are always high on The Lip Print's agenda - check out her latest obsession, Lipstick Queen Medieval.

Louise takes a look at the Guerlain Summer Limited Editions this week, and is surprised at what she sees.

Phyrra's Indie Spotlight for April is Glamour Doll Eyes. Find out all about Vee, the owner of GDE!

As Lime Crime's ultra bright lipsticks finally hit the UK high street, Lipglossiping puts them under the spotlight!



Krasey Beauty tours the exclusive Tokidoki collection for Sephora, and has the swatches to prove it!



Madame B Fatale shows you how to create an up-do suitable for day and night



Might as well face it -- Cindy from Prime Beauty is addicted to Dior .

Amy Antoinette tries epilating for the first time.

PinkSith talks taupe with MAC Greasepaint Stick in Dirty.


In the hunt for a wasabi green nail polish? Hell Candy Make Up discovered a new shade by Barry M. Like it or loathe it?


Yinnie reviews the unsuspecting formula that is the Estee Lauder Total Make-up Remover.




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