Rocking a Pop of Purple

 

 

 

It's that time where, as a beauty lover, you most probably got some new make up for Christmas and you just want to play with it all. My mum got me a set with all the Urban Decay 24/7 Eye Kohl Pencils in. I'm a huge fan of wearing kohl liner in all sorts of ways anyway but this made me want to experiment with all the different colours that you get in the pack. I was far too excited swatching them all on Christmas day.

 

 

 

Products used for the look:

 

L'Oreal True Match Foundation in D1/W1

Maybelline Matte Maker Powder

NARS Bronzer in Laguna

Natural Collection Blush in Sweet Cheeks

Anastasia Brow Wiz in Medium Brown

theBalm Mary Lou Manizer

Makeup Revolution Mattes Palette

Urban Decay 24/7 Glide on Pencil in Tornado

Maybelline Falsies Mascara (Waterproof)

Urban Decay Lipstick in Naked

Estee Lauder Lip Gloss in Pink Innocence

 

I kept the lid pretty neutral and just deepened up my crease a little with a soft brown and lined my upper lash line thinly with a dark brown. For the pop of purple, I took the kohl pencil in my waterline and smudged underneath my eye and blended out.

 

I love how this look turned out and proud of myself for trying colour!

 

P.S. This would totally look amazing on green eyes *heart emoji*

 

Paige xo

MUA Luxe Velvet Lip Laquers

 

Hi guys! I saw a fellow blogger talk about one of these a while back, and I was quite interested in picking them as they look like they could be a dupe for the Lime Crime Velvetines. I wouldn't be able to compare as I don't actually own any Lime Crime as its not available in the UK but I wanted to try them any how (one day I'll get my hands on them).

 

As you can see, I got colours Reckless & Kooky.

 

Reckless is a beautiful bright red, it actually looks a lot darker in the tube to how it comes out on the lips.

Kooky is a straight up purple. Not a light lilac nor a deep purple, a middle ground purple.

 

The formula is a matte, very fast drying, long lasting formula. At first I couldn't actually get these swatches off my hand, the only thing that did it was MAC Cleanse Off Oil, of course you think, great! I won't have to top up all day! However, I found that it was too matte that it was sticky and when I accidently rubbed my lips together (as you automatically do) it rubbed off parts of each lip which sucked.

 

 

(Reckless)

 

(Kooky)

 

Overall, for the price (£3.00) I think this is a product to check out, however, there are some issues with the staying power and it rubbing away. Saying that, I have yet to try it with lip balm or other products.

 

Have you tried these yet? What do you think?

 

Paige xo

 

My Christmas Party Makeup

 

 

Products Used:

 

Rimmel Stay Matte Primer

Rimmel Match Perfection Foundation

Maybelline Matte Maker Powder

Benefit Hoola Bronzer

Benefit Rockateur Blusher

theBalm Mary Lou Manizer

Anastasia Brow Wiz in Medium Brown

Mac 'All the Glitters' Eyeshadow

the Balm eyeshadow in 'Sexy'

the Balm eyeshadow in 'Sultry'

L'Oreal Super Liner

Maybelline Falsies Mascara Waterproof

Tanya Burr Bambi Lashes

Urban Decay Kohl Liner in Lush

Rimmel Apocolips in Meteoric Matte

 

It's that time, all the Christmas parties are starting! Mine is actually this Friday but I wanted to blog about what makeup I was going to wear but would not have the time nor the light to do it next Friday.

 

I went for a red lip and neutral eye as you can see. I love the lashes and the definition to the eyes.

 

 

Lid:

 

To create the eyes I took 'All that Glitters' all over the eyes then 'Sultry' in the crease buffed right out to the brow bone. I then used 'Sexy' (a beautiful dark red/purple) building up the colour and intensity in the crease. I tried to keep the inner corner and lid as light as possible by topping up with 'All that Glitters' to finish.

 

Lower Lash Line:

 

For the lower lash line I mixed 'Sultry' & 'Sexy' on a pencil brush and blended under the eye. To darken even more, I took some kohl along the lower lash line to blended out with the same pencil brush.

 

 

I hope you enjoy the festive period whatever you may be doing and enjoyed this look!

 

Paige xo

 

 

L'oreal Super Liner Review/Swatch

I'm by no means an expert at liner, in fact, it's one of things I kind of suck at. Give me a kohl liner to smudge any day. But there is something about have a nice clean, crisp liner look.

 

Because of my lack of skills I really struggle with finding a good liner that works for me. I've had a few on my list to test out, but came across this on Feel Unique and remember hearing A LOT of gurus and bloggers saying how good it was.

 

Boy they were not wrong. This makes my liner look pro, like legit. I actually stop and look at it in the mirror and say to myself 'did I really do that?'.

 

 

(L'Oreal Super Liner Black Lacquer Waterproof)

I'm obviously not good and swatching a straight line though...
 

 

The formula is super long lasting and has a shiny finish, which I'm not a huge fan of, but I can cope for now by using a matte black eyeshadow over top.

 

When I say long lasting, it withstands me rubbing my eyes all day from 7am - 6pm, not bad going!

 

 

 

 

I would totally recommend this product for beginners like me!

 

Have you tried it? What do you think?

 

Paige xo

The Lottery Wishlist

 

Christian Louboutins Bianca 140mm

 

I would LOVE to have some classic Louboutins that I could get a lot of use out of, I think they are such a basic but very beautiful shoe.

 

Mulberry Bayswater Double Zip Tote in Oak Natural Leather

 

I think a mulberry handbag is on every girls wishlist, they are absolutely stunning but will literally last you a lifetime. I love this brown leather but the oxblood range is also beautiful.

 

Charlotte Tilbury Lipstick Library

 

Oh my goodness, holy moly. I've been wanting to try the Charlotte Tilbury lipsticks for a long time but I can never choose which shade. So this is like a dream for me.....

 

Michael Kors Rose Gold Watch

 

This is something that's been on my list for what feels like a couple of years and when hunting for the above picture, I saw that The Watch Hut have it on sale.... EEEEEEK. Maybe next payday!?!

 

What is your lottery wishlist?

 

Paige xo

 

 

Empties #1

Soap & Glory Sugar Crush

 

I love this body scrub, this is my third one maybe? It's not a gentle scrub by any means but it smells amazing (brown sugar & lime), and really does get the job done. If you have fake tan to remove, this is the one. I've just been on holiday so I have a natural tan at the moment but all summer I used the St Moriz tan and after a week and its a bit touch and go (we've all been there) this scrub literally melts it. I think I'm going to try some of the body shop scrubs before I re-purchase, just to test the water!

 

Bed Head Headrush

 

I've finally finished this product after what feels like a lifetime. I did enjoy it, it smells lovely and works well to give your hair shine, but I just didn't end up reaching for it a lot. Personally, I like matte tussled hair!

 

VO5 Plump it up

 

I feel as if I can never not use this product again. I have long, fine hair and getting volume is a mission and a half. With this, I just spray into my roots on freshly washed and work in and it gives instant volume and texture. IT IS LIFE.

 

Maybelline Falsies Mascara

I've just finished another falsies, HOWEVER, I've recently discovered the waterproof version which holds a curl much better so think I will be opting for that in future!
 

Chanel Chance en Tendre Perfume

I've never been more sad to finish a product than I have with this. This is my all time favourite perfume but I now no longer have a back up which makes life hard. It's a beautiful scent, it's so fresh and lovely, it's hard to describe. I'm hoping this is under my tree this year, if not, hopefully I can get a bargain in the boxing day sale!

Paige xo



Taupe/Cranberry Eyes Makeup Look

Products Used:

Essence All About Matte Primer

Rimmel Match Perfection Foundation in 100

Collection Lasting Perfection Concealer in 1 Fair & 3 Medium Dark

Maybelline Matte Maker Powder

NARS Laguna Bronzer

theBalm Mary Lou Manizer

Benefit Rockateur Blush

Anastasia Brow Wiz

Maybelline Colour Tattoo in On and On Bronze

MAC Woodwinked Eyeshadow

MAC Cranberry Eyeshadow

Maybelline Gel Liner in Black

Maybelline Falsies Mascara Waterproof

Tanya Burr Eyelashes in Bambi

Avon Supershock Liner in Black

MAC Lipstick in Angel

Barry M Lipgloss in Coral

To create this look I wanted a flawless, contoured base. I used my concealer in a light and dark shade to conceal, highlight and contour my face. Of course I blended until my arm ached!

For the eyes I used the Colour Tattoo as a base and packed on woodwinked all over the lid. To add some warmth I took cranberry and blended from the outer corners inward.

Eyeliner, mascara and lashes later and the look ties together.

I used the black kohl and some cranberry shadow to smoke out the lower lashline.

I think this look is perfect for any Christmas or Festive parties, I'll be wearing something similar to my Christmas party.

I hope you like it!

Paige xo



Copper Eyes Makeup Look

Products Used:

 

L'Oreal True Match Foundation in W1

Maybelline Matte Maker Powder

NARS Laguna Bronzer

Anastasia Brow Wiz in Medium Brown

Makeup Revolution Iconic 3 Palette

Urban Decay Kohl Liner in Lush

Maybelline Falsies Mascara (Waterproof)

Revlon Kissable Lip Stain in Crush

 

 

For the eyes I used the 6th shade in the Makeup Revolution palette all over the lid an then took the matte brown shade to deepen up the crease. For the wing I took the off black shade with an angled brush and lightly created a small wing.

 

 

 

I hope you like this look! I'm constantly using copper/brown/red tone shades on my eyes as I have blue eyes and love to enhance them!

 

Also, please don't judge the bad close up ;)

 

Paige xo

 

 

P.S. here is a picture of me and my kitty, she intruded on me taking pictures (cough, SELIFES)

 



Top 5 Favourite Autumn Nail Polishes

Barry M - Berry Cosmo (Dark Purple)

Essence - Love Me, Cupcake (Purple Toned Grey)

Barry M - Treasure Chest (Foil Gold Glitter)

Nails Inc - Motcomb Street (Deep Navy Blue)

Essie - Style Hunter (Bright Pink Toned Red)

 

 

 

These are my current favourite nail polishes for Autumn. I love Autumn nail colours and  I love the deep vampy colours that you get to wear.

 

I'm really into putting the gold foil polish on one nail on each hand at the moment as a cute accent nail type of thing. It looks festive but not too much (considering it's still November).

 

I'm looking for some new Autumnal colours so let me know what your favourites are below!

 

Paige xo

Makeup Revolution Palettes

I recently ordered two palettes from Makeup Revolution, a brand that I have not heard a lot about before. I had heard good things about their palettes and looked online to find out that they are only £4.00 each! I will let the next few pictures do the talking.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Above Make Revolution Iconic 3 Palette

 

 

 

Above Makeup Revolution Essential Mattes Palette 

 

As you can see from the pictures, there are some beautiful shades and the shadows are highly pigmented. I find that with cheaper shadows you can swatch them and they are nicely pigmented but you go to blend and the shadow just disappears into thin air. Luckily, this isn't the case with these palettes. The shadows are lovely and buttery. Some of the shades are slightly powdery compared to my MAC shadows, but nothing you can't work with.

 

My favourite shade is the 6th shade in the Iconic 3 Palette, as you can see from the swatch, it's a beautiful shimmy gold/brown, very similar to MAC Amber Lights.

 

My local Superdrug don't stock this brand yet, so I ordered my online. Its free delivery over £10 which is amazing!

 

They do a Matte Brights Palette which looks like it has similar shades to the Urban Decay Electric Palette which is awesome!

 

Next on my list from this brand is the metal foil eye shadows which look like a dupe for the Stila ones.

 

Have you tried this brand? What do you think?

 

Paige xo



The Battle of Straight Lashes

My girls/guys who have straight or even pointing down lashes will understand the struggle. It's real.

You could get the mascara that everyone is raving about and be so disappointed. Or you could get the most expensive eyelash curlers then apply your mascara and it's back to the beginning.

This has been my battle since I started using makeup. It was the first thing I was aware of and it has annoyed me since. My lashes are average length and stubbornly straight.

I've recently discovered a combo that keeps my lashes curled and amazing ALL DAY. No joke.

I feel that both your eyelash curler AND mascara are very important. It wasn't until I was using any old curler and a good mascara and I switched to the old faithful and extremely raved about Shu Uemura Eye Lash Curler that I almost fell off my chair.

I'm currently using the Maybelline Rocket WATERPROOF Mascara (the waterproof part is important as the normal version doesn't do squat) but there are many mascaras out there that hold a curl wonderfully. This mascara is good and held a semi curl if I tortured my lashes with my drugstore curler but as soon as I switched to the Shu Uemura curler, everything changed. My lashes were super SUPER curled all day.

I did try using these curlers with a different volumizing mascara (L'Oreal Miss Manga) and my curl just limped after a minute.

Pictured is the result of using the Shu Uemura Curler & Maybelline Rocket Waterproof Mascara

I hoped you liked this post, please let me know of any products that I'd find useful!

Paige xo

Soft Christmas/Party Makeup Look

Products Used:

Maybelline Baby Skin Primer

Rimmel 25 Hour Nude Foundation

Maybelline Matte Maker Powder

Sleek Blush By 3 in Lace

NARS Laguna Bronzer

The Balm Mary Lou Manizer

Anastasia Brow Wiz in Medium Brown

The Balm Nude Tude Palette Shadow in Sultry & Seductive

Urban Decay 24/7 Liner in Lush

MUA Liquid Liner

Maybelline Rocket Mascara

Shu Uemura Lash Curlers

Bourjois Rouge Velvet in Hot Pepper

MAC Fix +

The holiday/party season is fast approaching and I am SO excited to play with makeup (GLITTER). I wanted to do a look that was kind of 'dipping your toes in' party makeup for any early parties or events you may have but you feel it's still a little to early to go the full hog.

1) To start this look off I primed my skin as always, use what works for you. I used a medium coverage foundation and used concealer on any problem skin. I powdered my T-Zone and spritzed some Fix+ to finish my base.

2) For my eyes I took 'Seductive' (shimmery brown) all over my lid and 'Sultry' (matte medium brown) in the crease and kept building up the colour until I was happy. I took 'Sultry' onto my lower lash lane and applied a dark brown kohl liner in my waterline & tightline.

3) To finish the eyes I applied a liquid liner and created a small flick (heads up, the MUA Liquid Liner is pants - however their eyeshadow palettes are awesome) and curled my lashes to death and applied lashings of mascara.

4) To finish the face I contoured lightly, filled in my brows, applied a touch of blush to the apples of my cheek and then the best bit, the lip colour! You need to build this but once it is one, its lovely and does not budge!

I hope you liked this post, if you did please click the heart!

What are your favourite party products? Please let me know in the comments, I'd love to know!

Paige xo

Anastisia Brow Wiz - Worth the Hype?

Anastasia Beverly Hills Brow Wiz in Medium Brown

I'm sure you've all heard about this product before. Anastasia Beverly Hills has been talked about everywhere lately, known mainly for their amazing brow products.

I've always loved my brows up until the past 6 months or so when I've attempted to fill them and look back at pictures and think 'oh goodness, what was I thinking'. Now I feel as if I've mastered my own brows, I can really appreciate how much it adds to shaping your face and tying it your make up.

I've only ever tried drugstore brow products before, like the Rimmel Brow Pencil or little brow palettes and used an angle brush to fill in my brows. Using a brow shadow espically, I found my brows used to turn into one big blob of brown, not cute.

I decided to just bite bullet and get the brow wiz. I was torn between that or the pomade but I've always got a long with pencil type products better so thought the brow wiz would be more suitable.

This product is REALLY worth the hype for me. At first I had to get used to it but after a couple of times of using it, I tried my old trusty Rimmel pencil and was disgusted and had to re-do my brows with the brow wiz. I took a before and after picture (below) which I thought might show how it works a lot better!

Have you tried this product yet? What do you think?

Paige xo

Zoeva Classic Eye Brush Set

 

When it comes to brushes, I'm a bit of an obsessive. I'm constantly on the hunt for new brushes to see if it does something magical to the way my makeup is applied. I also like to have plenty if I get lazy with brush cleaning day!

 

You've probably all heard of Zoeva brushes, I think every YouTube Beauty Guru uses them (for good reason). I wanted to try them a while back but they weren't available easily in the UK without a huge shipping cost. I was recently browsing Beauty Bay and saw that they have started stocking Zoeva!*cheers* This made me happy! Also that they have started stocking their makeup which I'm excited to try.

 

To start I purchased the eye brush set to dip my toes to see if I liked the brushes. You get 6 different eye brushes that all do different things. I'm really loving these, perfect for a beginner. You have a flat brush to apply a base colour to the lid, a fluffy brush to blend (which is very similar to the MAC 217 but a bit fluffier) and different brushes that you could use for liner, brows etc.

 

For the price, this is such good value for money. I think it was around the £33.00 mark but cannot remember exactly. Beauty Bay are currently out of stock but I've noticed they re-stock quite quickly (I don't stalk the website or anything...).

 

 

 

 

You also get a little brush bag which is cute and handy for travelling!

 

Set includes:

 

227 Luxe Soft Definer

322 Brow Line

317 Wing Liner

315 Fine Liner

234 Luxe Smoky Shader
231 Luxe Petit Crease

 

Avaliable at:

 

BeautyBay.com

 

Have you tried Zoeva Brushes yet? What do you think?

 

Paige xo

That Kylie Jenner Lip

So when I say 'that Kylie Jenner Lip' I think 99% of people will know what I'm talking about. It's been everywhere lately. I don't even know who Kylie Jenner is or what she does (maybe I've been living under a rock?) but I know all about her lips and her staple lip colour.

I'm loving the trend and think it's perfect for the Autumn season. When I get some time, I want to hunt down some new lip liners & lipsticks with a similar colour so please leave any recommendations below! I already have MAC Brave on my list, I've done some research and this looks like a lovely colour match.

Back on track, I did however come across a lipstick in my collection which has the same nude/brown/slightly pink tone but very muted. I love this colour and think it's such a nice wearable way of wearing this colour.

The lipstick in question is the 'Rimmel Moisture Renew Lipstick in Notting Hill Nude'. I've been a bad blogger and put a picture of the lipstick only below so you can see the colour in the bullet and packaging. I would usually swatch for you, but my hands are covered in mosquito bites from my recent trip and it's not pretty! 

Available in Superdrug, Boots & Feel Unique retailing for £6.49

Are you a fan of the Kylie Jenner Lip?

Paige xo

Current Beauty Wishlist

We all have them beauty items that we hear amazing things of but never get around to purchasing them? This is my current list!

 

Zoeva Brush Set

 

I've heard so many good things about the Zoeva brushes and REALLY want to get my hands on them. I remember looking for where I could get them a few months back and they didn't seem that accessible but I've recently discovered that BeautyBay now stock them!

 

Urban Decay Naked 3 Palette

 

I don't really need to say much about why I want this, once you start, you can't stop. I've got the Naked 1 & 2 so it would be rude not to add this to my collection. I also think out of all 3 palettes that I would use this the most.

 

NARS Sin Blush

 

This has been on my list for SO long I can't even remember. I think I remember Tanya Burr mentioning it in a tutorial a year or two ago and wanted it ever since. But now it's coming into Autumn I think it will be perfect & I have nothing like it in my collection.

 

Shu Uemura Eye Lash Curler

 

Again, not much to say really. We all know it's the best out there at the moment. I'm a huge eyelash curler so I don't know why I haven't got this yet!?

 

 

I'm off to Greece in a few days so I'm going to make it my mission to pick up some of these from the airport duty free if they are available!

 

What's on your current beauty wishlist? Do you want to try any of these items too?

 

Paige xo